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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1999-03-17 Council PacketKenai City Council Meet ing Packet March 17, 1999 ITEM A: , 2. 3. 4. AGENDA KENAI CITY COUNCIL- REGULAR MEETING MARCH 17, 1999 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS http- //www.ci.kenai.ak.us CALL TO ORDER Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call Agenda Approval Consent Agenda *All items listed with an asterisk (*) are considered to be routine and non-controversial by the Council and will be approved by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Council Member so requests, in which case the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda as part of the General Orders. ITEM B: ITEM C: . . e SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENTS (10 minutes) PUBLIC HEARINGS Ordinance No. 1813-99 -- Amending Title 4 of the Kenai Municipal Code, Entitled "Uniform Building Codes," to Adopt and Incorporate by Reference Thereto the 1997 Editions of the Uniform Building Code, the Unifom Building Security Code, the Uniform Code for Abatement of Dangerous Buildings, the Uniform Sign Code, the Unifom Mechanical Code, the Unifom Plumbing Code, and the 1999 National Electrical Code. Remove from table. Consideration of ordinance. Ordinance No. 1814-99 -- Appropriating $4,000 for Improvements at Cunningham Park. Motion for Introduction Motion for Second Reading (Requires a Unanimous Vote) Motion for Adoption Resolution No. 99-12 -- Transferring $1,750 in the Airport Land Special Revenue Fund for Increased Communication Costs. -1- , , Resolution No. 99-13 -- Approving a Contract to Peninsula Construction, Inc. for the Project Entitled Cunningham Park Habitat Restoration & Site Improvements for the Total Amount of $103,947.50 Which Includes Only the Basic Bid. Resolution No. 99-14-- Supporting S. 25, The Conservation and Reinvestment Act of 1999. ITEM D' , 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. COMMISSION/COMMITTEE REPORTS Council on Aging Airport Commission Harbor Commission Library Commission Parks & Recreation Com__rnission Plannin~ & Zonin§ Commission Miscellaneous Commissions and Committees a. Beautification Committee b. Historic District Board c. Kenai Visitors & Convention Bureau Board d. Alaska Municipal League Report ITEM E: .. , MINUT~ *Special Meeting of January 26, 1999. *Special Meeting of January 28, 1999. *Regular Meeting of March 3, 1999. ITEM F: _ CORRESPO~ENCE ITEM G: OLD BUSINESS ITEM H: , , , , NEW BU$INF~S Bills to be Paid, Bills to be Ratified Purchase Orders Exceeding $2,500 Approval -- Memorandum of Agreement Between the City of Kenai and the Alaska Challenger Center for Space Science Technology, Inc. Approval -- Assignment of Lease/Kenai Municipal Airport Restaurant from Don A. Middleton to Susan and Gary Schnelting. -2- , Discussion -- Kenai Coastal Trail Reconnaissance Study (Kenai Bluff Erosion Study) -- Nottingham, Peratrovich & Drage, Inc. ITEM I: ADMIKISTRATION REPORTS 1. Mayor 2. City Manager 3. Attorney 4. City Clerk 5. Finance Director 6. Public Works 7. Airport Manager ITEM J' DISCUSSION 1. Citizens (five minutes) 2. Council EXECUTIVE SESSION- None Scheduled ITEM K: ADJOURNMENT -3- MAYOR'S REPORT MARCH 17~ 1999 REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING SUBSTITUTE: SUBSTITUTE: ADD TO: ADD TO: CHANGES TO THE AGENDA C-2, Ordinance No. 1814-99 -- Appropriating $41,000 for Improvements at Cunningham Park C-4, Resolution No. 99-13 -- Approving a Contract to Peninsula Construction, Inc. for the Project Entitled Cunningham Park Habitat Restoration and Site Improvements for the Total Amount of $140,617.50 Which Includes the Basic Bid Plus Additive Alternates No. 3 and No. 4. I-2, City Manager's Report -- Public Opinion Survey 1-4, Clerk Report -- Memorandum regarding scheduling of Volunteer Appreciation Reception. REOUESTED BY: Administration Administration Administration Clerk CONSENT AGENDA No changes. MAYOR'S REPORT ~~~o~°~z< > w 0 > ~ ~z~ ~3~~~~© ~O~z Z 0 ~ O~o z ~~o~O ~~~Z~ ~<~~~~o~ ~3o ~~o~O < Suggested by: Building Offic___ CITY OF KENAI ORDINANCE NO. 1813-99 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, AI~SKA, AMENDING TITLE 4 OF' THE KENAI MUNICIPAL CODE, ENTITLED "UNIFORM BUILDING CODES," TO ADOPT AND INCORPORATE BY REFERENCE THEREIN THE 1997 EDITIONS OF THE UNIFORM BUILDING CODE, THE UNIFORM BUILDING SECURITY CODE, THE UNIFORM CODE FOR ABATEMENT OF DANGEROUS BUILDINGS, THE UNIFORM SIGN CODE, THE UNIFORM MECHANICAL CODE, THE UNIFORM PLUMBING CODE, AND THE 1999 NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE. WHEREAS, the City of Kenai has been operating on 1993 and 1994 building codes; and WHEREAS, the International Conference of Building Officials, the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, and the National Fire Protection Association have updated the codes promulgated by them; and WHEREAS, it would be most beneficial and in the best interest of the City if the latest codes were adopted; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA THAT the 1997 editions of the Uniform Building Code, the Uniform Building Security Code, the Uniform Code for Abatement of Dangerous Buildings, the Uniform Sign Code, the Uniform Mechanical Code, the Uniform Plumbing Code, and the 1999 National Electrical Code as amended by the City of Kenai, Alaska, are adopted by reference and incorporated in the Kenai Municipal Code, Title 4, as stated in Attachment "A." PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this 17th day of March, 1999. ATTEST: John J. Williams, Mayor Carol L. Freas, City Clerk Introduced: Adopted: Effective: February 17, 1999 March 17, 1999 April 3, 1999 TITLE 4 UNIFORM CODES Chapter 4.05 UNIFORM BUILDING CODES 4.05.010 Adoption. There is hereby adopted for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for the construction, alteration, removal, demolition, equipment, use and occupancy, location, and maintenance of buildings and structures, including permits and penalties, those certain bound volumes known as the "Uniform Building Code," [1994] 1.997 Edition, of the International Conference of Building Officials, including the appendices, except for such portions as are herein deleted, modified, or amended, and the same is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out verbatim herein. 4.05.025 Application for permit. Section 106.3.2 of the Uniform Building Code as adopted by this chapter is amended by adding the following: "As a requirement for obtaining a building permit for a new or enlarged structure the property owner is required to submit a site plan [STAMPED BY A STATE REGISTERED LAND SURVEYOR] which accurately shows by dimensions and to scale the location and outline of the proposed structure in relationship to the property lines, setbacks, and easements." If at initial building inspection for construction the site plan is not accurate or due to site conditions it cannot be ascertained if the vroposed buildine will be in compliance ..with the building setback requirements of the Kenai Planning and Zonine Code~ the administrative authority shah require the vermit holder to provide a state registered land surveyor's stamved site plan. 4.05.027 Permits issuance. Section 106.4.3 Validity of Permit of the Uniform Building Code as adopted by the chapter is amended by adding the following: "It is the property owner's responsibility to have the property comers physically located and marked [BY A STATE REGISTERED LAND SURVEYOR AND] to make sure that the structure is accurately placed on the site as per the submitted site plan." 4.05.030 Permit fees. The first paragraph of Section 107.2 of the Uniform Building Code adopted by this chapter is amended to read as follows' Attachment A Ordinance No. 1813-99 Page 1 of 4 "Section 107.2 Building Permit Fees. The fee for each building permit shall be paid to the City as set forth in Table No. 1-A of the Uniform Building Code, except that fees for [NEW] construction of Group R-3 and Group U-1 occupancies, or portions thereof as follows: (1) Group R-3 ...... $0.14 per square foot (2) Group U-1 ...... $0.07 per square foot" 4.05.031 Plan review fees. The last sentence of the first paragraph of Sectio~ 107.3 of the U_n_!form Bu!!dln? Code adopted by this chapter is amended to read as follows- "Said plan review fee shah be 65% of the b~ildi,~g pe ~rr~_it fee as shown__ in Table l- A for new commercial const_ruetion and 20% of the bn!!d!~g l~e ~rm__it fee charged in KMC 4.05.030 for new eor~struetio~ of Group R-3 and Group U-1 occupancies." 4.06.010 Adoption. There is hereby adopted for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for building security that certain code known as the "Uniform Building Security Code," [1994] ...1997 Edition, of the International Conference of Building Officials, except for such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified, or amended, and the same is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out verbatim herein. 4.10.010 Adoption. There is hereby adopted for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for the abatement of dilapidated, defective buildings which endanger life, health, property, and public safety, that certain code known as the "Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings," [1994] 1997 Edition, of the International Conference of Building Officials, except for such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified, or amended, and the same is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out verbatim herein. 4.15.010 Adoption. There is hereby adopted for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations to promote the development of better sign construction and to provide minimum standards to safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare, by regulating structural requirements for all signs and sign structures located outside of buildings, that certain code known as the "Uniform Sign Code," [1994] 1997 Edition, of the International Conference of Building Officials, except for such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified, or amended; and the same is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out verbatim herein. Attachment A Ordinance No. 1813-99 Page 2 of 4 4.20.010 Adoption. There is hereby adopted for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for the installation and maintenance of heating, ventilating, cooling, and refrigeration systems, that certain code known as the "Uniform Mechanical Code," [1994] 1997 Edition, of the International Conference of Building Officials, including the appendices, except for such portions as are hereafter deleted, modified, or amended; and the same is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out verbatim hereto. 4.20.030 Fees. Section 115.2 of the Mechanical Code adopted by this chapter is amended to read: "If a building permit is issued, these fees shall be considered as paid as a part of such permit fee. If no such building permit is issued, the fee shall be computed according to Section 107.2 of the [1994] 1997 Edition of the Uniform Building code." 4.25.010 Adoption. There is hereby adopted for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for the qualification of persons engaged in the business of plumbing and the installation, alteration, or repair of plumbing systems, that certain bound volume known as the ~Uniform Plumbing Code", [1994] 1997 Edition, of the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, including the appendices, except for such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified, or amended; and the same is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out verbatim herein. 4.25.020 Fees. Section 103.4.1 amended to read: Permit Fees of the Plumbing Code adopted by this chapter is "If a building permit is issued, these fees shall be considered as paid as a part of such permit fee. If no such building permit is issued, then the fee schedule shall be computed according to Section 107.2 of the [1994] 1997 Edition of the Unifom Building Code." 4.25.040 Plumbing material standards. Table 14-1 of the Plumbing Code, adopted by this chapter, is amended by deleting therefrom the following: (a) ~Homogenous bituminized fiber drain and sewer pipe.~ (b) "Polybutylene piping." Attachment A Ordinance No. 1813-99 Page 3 of 4 (c) "Polyethylene, Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene {ABS}, Chlorinated poly {vinyl chloride} {CPVC}, Poly ivinyl chloride} {PVC} used for building supply (water service lines} (installation}." 4.25.070 Protection of piping materials and structures. Section 313.0 of the Uniform Plumbing Code adopted by this chapter is amended to add the following: "313.9 Water service pipe shall have the thaw wire connected at the water main, and brought to the surface at the curb stop or other convenient location. Such wire shall not be smaller than 4/0 AWG.' 4.30.010 Adoption. There is hereby adopted for the purpose of establishing standards governing the installation of electrical equipment within or on public and private buildings and Premises, that certain code known as the "National Electrical Code," [1993] 1999 Edition, including the Uniform Administrative Code Provisions, except for such portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified, or amended; and the same is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out verbatim hereto. 4.30.060 Fees. Section 304(a) Permit fees of the Uniform Administrative Code provisions for the National Electrical Code adopted by this chapter is amended to read: "If a building permit is issued, these fees shall be considered as paid as a part of such .permit fee. If no such building permit is issued, the fee shall be computed according to Section 107.2 of the [1994] 1997 Edition of the Uniform Building Code." Attachment A Ordinance No. 1813-99 Page 4 of 4 SUBSTITU, ~ Suggested by: Administration City of Kenai ORDINANCE NO. 1814-99 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA APPROPRIATING $41,000 FOR IMPROVEMENTS AT CUNNINGHAM PARK. WHEREAS, previously passed Ordinance No. 1801-98 appropriated $100,000 for construction from the Kenai River Sportfishing, Inc. and $13,000 for Administration and Engineering from the City of Kenai; and, WHEREAS, bids on the project were higher than anticipated as shown in Resolution 99-13; and, WHEREAS, Kenai River Sportfishing, Inc. has authorized an additional $41,000 for funding the construction of this project; and, WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City of Kenai to accept this donation. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA that estimated revenues and appropriations be increased as follows: Cunningham Park Capital Proiect Fund Increase Estimated Revenues: Donations $41 ~000 Increase Appropriations: Construction $41,000 PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this 17th day of March, 1999. ATTEST: JOHN J. WILLIAMS, MAYOR Carol L. Freas, City Clerk Approved by Finance: Introduced: Adopted: Effective: March 17, 1999 March 17, 1999 March 17, 1999 1998 Honorary Go.Hosts Senator Ted Stevens United States Senate Tm K~u~ Rrvz~ Crmsxc A K~a Rn~ S~o~mm,~o AssocrmoN E~ RO. Box 1228 · 161 N. B~¥ · Stm'z 20.1 Sot.no~, Ane, s~.99669 907-2.62,-8588 * ~,AX 907-2,62-8,582 March 17, 1999 CI~Y OF KENAI Viii fill SJlI~JI~I~..~'.~'RKS DEPARTMENT U,S. M~il Governor Tony Knowics Starz of ,~laska Classi~ Chairman Allan l-Norville Exec, u~,¢ Director Mr. Kcith Komclis Public Works Managc, r City of Kenai 210 Fidalgo Avcnuc, Suit~ 200 Kenai, AK 99611-7794 Cunningham Park Habitat Restoration National Ad~sory Council Phil Dyskow President Yamaha Marine Croup Roben Edmund Pre, sid~nt Edmund Scien ~ic Gary Gie~ler Am~ark Dir~'t Dick Ladd Pre, sident Robison International Robert Malone Pre, sidenr Alyeska Pipe/me ~;erv/c~ Co. Dcar Keith: In accordance with our phone conversation today Kcnai River Sportfishing Association will fund a total of $141,000.00 Thc funds are to be used in accordance with the following schcdul¢: Basic Bid $103,947.50 AA No. 3 25,390.00 AA No. 4 11,280.00 AA No. 5 - Sign In an amount not to exceed 382.50 TOTAL $141,000.00 Thank you for your assistance in this project. Kenai River Sporffishing Association is looking forward to working with thc City of Kenai on this and future projects that will protect and restore the habitat of the Kenai River. Buddy Pta~ident AT~T Alascom Ken Thompson Pm~ident ARCO Alaska Sincerely, Allan J. No~fille Chairman Dennis Wheeler President Coeur, The Precmtu Metals Co. Suggested by: Administrat City of Kenai ORDINANCE NO. 1814-99 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASIC~ APPROPRIATING $4,000 FOR IMPROVEMENTS AT CUNNINGHAM PARK. WHEREAS, previously passed Ordinance No. 1801-98 appropriated $100,000 from the Kenai River Sportfishing Inc. and $13,000 from the City of Kenai; and, WHEREAS, bids on the project were higher than anticipated as shown in Resolution 99-13; and, WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City to appropriate the balance from the General Fund balance to complete the funding for the project. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA that estimated revenues and appropriations be increased as follows: General Fund Increase Estimated Revenues- Appropriation of fund balance $4,000 Increase Appropriations' Non-Departmental - Transfers Out $4.000 Cunningham Park Capital Proiect Fund Increase Estimated Revenues: Transfer from General Fund $4,000 Increase Appropriations' Construction $4,000 PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this 17t~ day of March, 1999. ATTEST' JOHN J. WILLIAMS, MAYOR Carol L. Freas, City Clerk Approved by Finance: ~-~ Introduced: March 17, 1999 Adopted: March 17, 1999 Effective' March 17, 1999 Suggested by: Administrati(, City of Kenai RESOLUTION NO. 99-12 A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA TRANSFERRING $1,750 IN THE AIRPORT LAND SPECIAL REVENUE FUND FOR INCREASED COMMUNICATION COSTS. WHEREAS, there has been an increase in office communications due to an increase in staff and services; and WHEREAS, money is available for transfer in the contingency account of the Airport Administration budget. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, that the following budget transfers be made: Airport Land Special Revenue Fund From: Administration - Contingency $1,750 To: Administration - Communications $1,750 PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this 17th day of March, 1999. ATTEST: JOHN J. WILLIAM S, MAYO R Carol L. Freas, City Clerk Approved by Finance: ~ (3/10/99) kl SUBSTITUTE CITY OF KENAI RESOLUTION NO. 99-13 Suggested by: Administration A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, APPROVING A CONTRACT TO PENINSULA CONSTRUCTION, INC. FOR THE PROJECT ENTITLED CUNNINGHAM PARK HABITAT RESTORATION & SITE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $140,617.50 WHICH INCLUDES THE BASIC BID PLUS ADDITIVE ALTERNATES NO. 3 AND NO. 4. WHEREAS, the following bids were received on March 11, 1999' BiDDER Peninsula Construction, Foster Construction Engineer's Estimate Inc. Basic Bid * 103,947.50 162,313.00 99,554.00 AA No. 1 16,002.50 20,559.00 19,225.00 AA No. 2 17,640.00 27,860.00 13,731.00 AA No. 3 * 25,390.00 52,100.00 24,020.00 AA No. 4 * 11,280.00 40,560.00 10,920.00 AA No. 5 2,500.00 2,400.00 1,500.00 Basic + All AA 176,760.00 305,792.00 168,950.00 WHEREAS, the following is an explanation of the Basic Bid and Additive Alternates' *Basic Bid- Bank & Slope Stabilization with Access to the River Additive Alternate No. 1 - Site Improvements Additive Alternate No. 2 - Additional Bank Improvements *Additive Alternate No. 3 - Additional Walkway & Stairs*Additive Alternate No. 4 - ADA Accessible Grating Additive Alternate No. 5 - Project Sign WHEREAS, the City of Kenai has contributed $12,000 for engineering and $1,000 for administration plus Kenai River Sportfishing, Inc. has contribUted $100,000 for construction by Ordinance No. 1801-98; and, WHEREAS, the additional funds of $41,000 is coming from the Kenai Sportfishing, Inc. and is being appropriated by Ordinance No. 1814-99; and, River WHEREAS, Peninsula Construction, Inc.'s bid is the lowest responsible bid and award to this bidder would be in the best interest of the City; and, WHEREAS, this resolution is contingent upon Kenai RiverSportfishing, Inc.' and, s approval; Resolution No. 99-13 Page 2 March 17, 1999 WHEREAS, the recommendation from the City Administration is to award the contract to Peninsula Construction, Inc. for the total cost of $140,617.50; and, WHEREAS, sufficient monies are appropriated. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, that the contract for the project entitled Cunningham Park Habitat Restoration and Site Improvements be awarded to Peninsula Construction, Inc. for the total amount of $140,617.50, which includes the basic bid plus Additive Alternates No. 3 and No. 4. PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this 17th day of March, 1999. AT'I~EST: JOHN J. WILLIAMS Carol L. Freas, City Cler~ Approved by Finance: CITY OF KENAI RESOLUTION NO. 99-13 Suggested by: Administration A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, APPROVING A CONTRACT TO PENINSULA CONSTRUCTION, INC. FOR THE PROJECT ENTITLED CUNNINGHAM PARK HABITAT RESTORATION & SITE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $103,947.50 WHICH INCLUDES ONLY THE BASIC IBID. WHEREAS, the following bids were received on March 11, 1999: BIDDER Peninsula Construction, Inc. 103,947.50 16,002.50 17,640.00 25,390.00 11,280.00 Basic Bid AA No. 1 AA No. 2 AA No. 3 AA No. 4 AA No. 5 Basic + All AA ;and, 2,500.00 176,760.00 Foster Construction Engineer's Estimate 162,313.00 99,554.00 20,559.00 19,225.00 27,860.00 13,731.00 52,100.00 24,020.00 40,560.00 10,920.00 2,400.00 1,500.00 305,792.00 168,950.00 WHEREAS, the following is an explanation of the Basic Bid and Additive Altemates: Basic Bid - Bank & Slope Stabilization with Access to the River Additive Alternate No. 1 - Site Improvements Additive Alternate No. 2 - Additional Bank Improvements Additive Alternate No. 3 - Additional Walkway & Stairs Additive Alternate No. 4 - ADA Accessible Grating Additive Alternate No. 5 - Project Sign WHEREAS, the City of Kenai has contributed $12,000 for engineering and $1,000 for administration plus Kenai River Sportfishing, Inc. has contributed $100,000 for construction by Ordinance No. 1801-98; and, WHEREAS, the additional funds of $4,000 is coming from the City of Kenai and is being appropriated by Ordinance No. 1814-99; and, WHEREAS, Peninsula Construction Inc.'s bid is the lowest responsible bid and award to this bidder would be in the best interest of the City; and, WHEREAS, this resolution is contingent upon Kenai RiverSportfishing, Inc.'s approval; and, Resolution No. 99-13 Page 2 March 17, 1999 WHEREAS, the recommendation from the City Administration is to award the contract to Peninsula Construction Inc. for the total cost of $103,947.50; and, WHEREAS, sufficient monies are appropriated. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, that the contract for the project entitled Cunningham Park Habitat Restoration and Site Improvements be awarded to Peninsula Construction, Inc. for the total amount of $103,947.50 which includes only the basic bid. PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this 17th day of March, 1999. ATTTEST: JOHN J. WILLIAMS Carol L. Freas, City Clerk,:. Approved by Finance: ~ Suggested by: Mayor Williams City of Kenai RESOLUTION NO. 99-14 A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA IN SUPPORT OF S. 25, THE CONSERVATION AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 1999. WHEREAS, when oil and gas are discovered and produced on federal lands in Alaska, the revenues are split 50-50 with the State, which assists in compensating for the associated impacts of development; and WHEREAS, when oil and gas are discovered and developed on federal lands underwater on the Outer Continental Shelf, this split of revenues does not apply; and WHEREAS, communities within the State where offshore development of oil and gas have accrued, have realized impacts on their infrastructure and transportation systems as a result of this development; and WHEREAS, the City of Kenai has been one of those cities that has been impacted by offshore development of oil and gas; and WHEREAS, the provisions of S. 25, the Conservation and Reinvestment Act of 1999, would compensate for that impact and provide funding for coastal erosion and conservation projects; and WHEREAS, the City of Kenai is in dire need of assistance in dealing with erosion of its coastline and protection of wetlands in the coastal area within its City limits. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, THAT IT SUPPORTS S. 25, THE CONSERVATION AND REI~ESTMENT ACT OF 1999. PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this 17TM day of 1999. ATTEST: JOHN J. WILLIAMS, MAYOR Carol L. Freas, City Clerk (3/12/99) Ich S. 25--THE CONSERVATION AND REINVESTMENT AC' Cosponsors' PROJECT: Landrieu, Murkowski, Breaux, Sessions, Cleland, Lott, J~-"-'------- Gregg, Mikulski, Cochran, Bond Bill diverts one-half of OCS revenues from the Federal treasury to coastal States and communities for coastal impact assistance; State park, recreation, and wildlife conservation programs; and Federal land acquisition; Money would not be subject to appropriation. Note: House bill to be introduced in the near future will be similar but not identical. Title I OCS Impact Assistance /PA"-" '~'/// .-- I~ II.t. toro · 27% of OCS revenues, $1.29 billion in FY97 distributed amongst 34 coastal states. Distribution formula based on production (50%), coastline miles (25%) and population (25%) with each to receive a minimum of ½ percent. States required to distribute 60% of the funds to local governments (counties, boroughs, parishes, villages, and tribal governments). Authorized uses of funds include: air and water quality, wetlands, coastal restoration, shoreline protection, infrastructure, public service needs and other costs associated with OCS related activities. Title 2 --- Land and Water Conservation Fund Amendments ,,~~_- ~z~ ,m,,z · 16% of OCS revenues, $768 m/ilion in FY97, distributed as follows: · 45% for Federal land acquisition ($345m/FY97); · 45% for the state-side matching grant program($345m/FY97); and · 10% for urban park and recreation programs ($77m/FY97). · Federal land purchases would be restricted_ to those authorized by an Act of Congress from willing sellers With t~wo-third~-Oof the money to be spent east of the 10ffh meridian; any acquisitions greater than $5 million would require the approval of the Senate and House authorizing and appropriations committees. Bill also makes amendments to the LWCF Act to improve the operation of the state-side matching grant program. Title 3 Wildlife Conservation Programs. /~~ _ ~l'/& · 7% of OCS revenues. $336 million in FY97, available to state fish and game departments for game and nongame conservation programs. · Moneys would be distributed through the Pittman-Robertson Fund. February. 12. 1999 Why did you introduce S. 25, the Conservation and Reinvestment Act of 19997 S. 25 is good for all states which support oil and gas development in Federal waters because it ensures that impacted states share in the financial benefits of such production. Alaska would receive more than $131 million for state and local conservation, recreation, and wildlife programs ~vith the State and local communities not the Federal government deciding how this money should be spent. Does S. 25 Affect Private Property Acquisitions? because there is Money for Federal Land No. S. 25 puts strong control on the use of these funds' The only property that could be acquired is that offered by willing sellers located within the boundaries of a Federal conservation unit established by an Act of Congress. No funds could be used to condemn property Two-thirds of the funds must be spent on land acquisition east of the 100th meridian (a line roughly through the Great Plains and the middle of Texas eastward). Acquisitions valued at greater than $5 million must be approved by the. Congress. There are several other proposed bills that would take away the opportunity for states to choose their own priorities, and which provide funds for acquiring private property with no strictures on the acquisition of that property. Does Title 3 of S. 25 codify the Teaming with Wildlife proposal? No. Teaming with Wildlife placed an excise tax on a variety of sporting goods and would have created a whole new administrative system for the funding of game and nongame programs by the states. ' , . Title 3 runs OCS revenues through an existing program-- Pittman-Robertson-- to provide money for State wildlife conservation programs including the · construction of rifle ranges; and · improving access to State hunting and fishing lands. -~ 0 ~ · KENAI AIRPORT COMMISSION FEBRUARY 11, 1999 Kenai City Council Chambers Tom Thibodeau, Chairman 7:00 P.M. ***AGENDA*** ITEM 1' CALl, TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL ITEM 2: AGENDA APPROVAL ITEM 3' APPROVAL OF MINUTES - January 14, 1999 ITEM 4: PERSONS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD ITEM 5' OLD BUSINESS ITEM NEW BUSINESS a, Discussion -- Assignment of Lease/Terminal Building Restaurant ITEM 7: AIRPORT MANAGER'S REPORT ITEM 8: COMMISSIONER COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS ITEM 9: PERSONS NOT SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD ITEM 10: , INFORMATION ITEMS b, Kenai City Council Meeting Action Agenda -- January 20 and February 3, 1999. 1/99 Kenai Municipal Airport Enplanement Report ITEM 11' ADJOURNMENT, ® e ® Se ® ® REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY OF KENAI AIRPORT COMMISSION FEBRUARY 11, 1999- 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY HALL CHAIRMAN THOMAS THIBODEAU, PRESIDING *** MINUTF~ *** CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL Chairman Thibodeau called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Members Present: Tom Thibodeau, Henry Knackstedt, James Bielefeld, Dan Van Zee, Ron Holloway, Lucy Lorenzen Members Absent: Bob Favretto Also Present: Airport Manager Steve Atha, Councilman Ray Measles, Contract Secretary Victoria Askin APPROVAL OF AGENDA KNACKSTEDT MOVED TO APPROVE THE AGENDA. MOTION SF.~ONDED BY HOLLOWAY. THE AGENDA WAS APPROVED AS WRITTEN. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Regular Meeting of January 14, 1999. KNACKSTEDT MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF JANUARY 14, 1999. MOTION SECONDED BY HOLLOWAY. MINUTF~ WERE APPROVED AS WRITTEN. PERSONS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD- None OLD BUSINESS- None NEW BUSINESS Discussion- Assignment of Lease/Terminal Building Restaurant. Airport Manager Atha reported the present operator of the airport restaurant, Ron Middleton, had given notice to terminate his lease. Gary and Susan Schnelting were working with Middleton and they reached an agreement for assumption of the lease. Atha noted, the Scheltings were present at the meeting to answer any questions. He added, the lease assumption would require council approval and was being brought before the Commission for its consideration and recommendation. Atha added, assumption of this lease is allowed with written approval of the Council and a AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING FEBRUARY ! 1, 1999 PAGE 1 formal motion would be needed to recommend the action occur. He noted, the lease would run for another two years. Thibodeau asked the Schneltings what their plans were for the restaurant. Schnelting replied, they really like the Kenai area and the only thing they see the restaurant really lacked was a small selection of food to choose from and nothing home-cooked. He explained, from his own experiences traveling, he thought it was important to get a good home-cooked meal. He noted Middleton focused his business on coffee sales and that was not their expertise. Thibodeau asked Schnelting if he had a background in the food and beverage service. Schnelting answered afl--natively and noted he and his parents owned and operated a bar/restaurant in Missouri. He added, Mrs. Schnelting had experience as well. Schnelting explained, they would offer a breakfast, lunch and dinner menu and they want to make it a family-type restaurant. Additionally, they are looking to the high school population for additional help as required. Van Zee stated he has watched the restaurant since 1991 and it has never succeeded. There are numerous reasons, i.e. very little time is required to be spent at the airpo~, flight schedules are close together, and one-hour advance check-in is not required. In his opinion, if the restaurant was going to make it at the airport, a reason needs to be found to entice people to come to the airport. Travelers are not going to support it; they don't have a reason to stay. He stated he has seen a coffee and doughnut shop and a full-service restaurant, and neither have succeeded. Mrs. Schnelting stated they felt targeting the community and then travelers would be the way to make the restaurant successful. They are investigating hosting "Jazz nights" and billing the restaurant as a place for farnflies to have a good home-cooked meal and relaxing evening. Van Zee stated he was aware the Council wants a restaurant in the airport and asked if there is anything the airport can do to entice people to the restaurant. Atha answered, the restaurant doesn't have a visual face to either the airport area or outside and management is looking at ways to market the restaurant and gift shop. One advantage the Kenai Airport has is no paid short-term parking. Administration is budgeting some money for advertising. Van Zee further noted the coffee specialty would have probably worked better somewhere else in the airport. AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING FEBRUARY 11, 1999 PAGE 2 Knackstedt asked if there was any property along Willow or Airport Way where a sign could be put up for the general public to see. Atha answered, he would ask and see if there was a place where signs could be put up away from the airport. Knackstedt went on to state he doesn't want to see signs plastered everywhere, but didn't see a problem with a tastefully done sign advertising what is at the airport. HOLLOWAY MOVED TO APPROVE THE ASSUMI~ION OF THE AIRPORT RESTAURANT LEASE BY MR. AND MRS. GARY SCH1TELTING. VA//ZEE SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION UI~ANIMOUSLY PASSED. AIRPORT MANAGER'S REPORT Airport Manager Atha reported they are putting together an advertising budget to include in next year's budget. Much of the population is not aware of what the airport has to offer. They are also looking to fly-in traffic. He added, he will be asking the Commission to brainstorm what can be done to attract businesses, interest, and possibly air service. Atha noted enplanements were down. He will be meeting with ERA to discuss the issue next week. He added, it was a difficult issue because one of the things Kenai enjoys is a lot of daily flights. Communities the size of Kenai around the U.S. don't have this number of flights. One of the problems is everyone wants to get on a jet but then the same number of seats are available but only on three flights per day. Businessmen can leave every hour and it is easy to make connections in Anchorage to get anywhere. ERA is acquiring some larger aircraft so the public will have to be aware of what could potentially be given up going to the larger planes. He stated he will be discussing with 'ERA their game plan, what their equipment acquisition schedule is, and what their plans are for the Kenai Peninsula. Atha reported they are meeting with the FAA next week on issues concerning firefighting which is a long-standing issue and involves fire trucks from the Willow Street station having to cross the street, enter through a gate and, by regulation, to the center point of the farthest runway. He added, presently they are just barely making response times. A minor problem, such as a frozen gate or a lot of vehicles in the area, can cause the response time to not be met, causing the FAA a great deal of concern. Knackstedt asked which gate they go through now. Atha answered they go right across the street from the Fire Department. Knackstedt stated if they go through the FBO gate, there is a second gate that is usually locked and suggested access needed to be more clearly defined to help with the response times. AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING FEBRUARY 11, 1999 PAGE 3 ® Thibodeau noted as the community grows, the police/fire station will potentially become too small and the fire station could potentially be put in the airport area. Atha answered, that was one of the solutions and the FAA will push for a dedicated fire station at the airport which will be very expensive. Thibodeau thought there would be a lot of advantages to a fire station that did both residential and the airport. He added, the fire fighters would stay actively trained and able to deal with an intense situation more calmly. Atha stated, he had seen it work with a fire station shared between the airport and the community, keeping costs down for both the community and airport. Atha reported moose are a bigger problem this year than in the past. Some of the backyard fencing had been damaged or taken down. Some residential buildings along Willow have enough gaps the moose are getting through. The issue will ultimately need to be addressed as traffic increases, not only keeping moose out, but people as well. Atha added, the Airport was submitting a snow removal equipment grant request. The federal funding this year was only for six months. New regulations require returning unused money at the end of the funded period. In years past, it could be carried over to the next year. The request must be done by March and is for a snow removal broom. Copies of the paperwork have already gone to FAA. The rest of the entitlement money available to the airport will be going to £mish off funding for the fire fighting school. There is still some money that has to come out of City coffers or will be reimbursed by this grant and deplete all the entitlement money for that six-month period. Holloway asked if the broom was a self-propelled unit. Atha answered it is self-propelled and could also be used as a blower. The equipment will be acquired through the state acquisition program, thus saving some money. Finally, Atha reported he had an APOA tape on local airports he received from Mayor Williams that he will show at the conclusion of the meeting to anyone interested in reviewing it. COMMISSIONERS' COMMENTS / QUESTIONS Commissioner Van Zee commended the Airport Administration on resolution of the snow removal problems in the rental car lots. Commissioner Knackstedt noted Kenai Aviation Services, not to be confused with Kenai Air, is on the foreclosure list for three different properties. He noted, it seemed they are on the list every year and wondered if administration was aware of it. Knackstedt added, they have until March 10 to become current. Atha stated he wasn't up to speed on the Alaska way but was aware Kenai Aviation Services was on the list. AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING FEBRUARY 11, 1999 PAGE 4 Commissioner Knackstedt asked about the airport regulations and their future revision and update. Atha stated they have started collectin§ formats and examples from other places. He added, he felt the regulations were an area in which the Commission should guide and give input. General discussion ensued regarding doing certain things differently and how best to address reviewing and changing the regulations. Consensus was reached to review a section or two per meeting and not try to take the whole thing on at once. 9. INFORMATION Kenai City Council Meeting Action Agendas -January 20 and February 3, 1999. 10. ADJOURNMENT HOLLAND MOVED TO ADJOURn. MOTION SECO~/DED BY KNACKSTEDT. MEETING ADJOURKED AT 7:41 P.M. Respect~lly submitted, Victoria Askin Contract Secretary AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING FEBRUARY 11, 1999 PAGE. 5 KENAI HARBOR COMMISSION MEETING MARCH 8, 1999 KENAI COUNCIL CHAMBERS 7:00 P.M. CHAIRMAN WILL JAIH~G AGENDA ITEM 1' CALL TO ORDER ~ ROLL CALL ITEM 2' AGENDA APPROVAL ITEM 3' APPROVAL OF MINUTES-- FEBRUARY 8, 1999. ITEM 4: PERSONS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD ITEM 5' REPORTS Director Dock Foreman ITEM 6' a, ITEM 7: OLD BUSINESS Discussion -- F/hal Plans & Specifications/Cunningham Park Discussion-- Bluff Erosion Study l~W BUSINESS ITEM 8: COMMISSIONERS' COMMENTS/(~UESTXONS ITEM 9: ,, a. INFORMATION Kenai City Council Action Agendas of February 3 and 17, 1999. Updated Harbor Commission Membership List ITEM 10: ADJOURNMENT REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY OF KENAI HARBOR COMMISSION MARCH 8, 1999- 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY HALL CHAIRMAN WILL JAHRIG, PRESIDING *** MINUTES *** ITEM 1' CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL Chairman Jahrig called the meeting to order at 7'00 p.m. Members Present: Wemer-Quade, Clay, Thompson (arrived 7'06 p.m.), Eldridge, Jahrig, McCune (arrived 7:11 p.m.), Spracher Members Absent: None Also Present: Councilman James Bookey, III, Public Works Manager Keith Komelis, Contract Secretary CaSandra Duniphin ITEM 2: ,, APPROVAL OF AGENDA WERNER-QUADE MOVED TO APPROVE THE AGENDA. MOTION SECONDED BY CLAY. THE AGENDA WAS APPROVED AS WRITTEN. ITEM 3: APPROVAL OF MINUTES Regular Meeting of February 8, 1999 JAHRIG MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTF~ OF FEBRUARY 8, 1999. MOTION WAS SECONDED BY ELDRIDGE. THE MINUTES WE~ APPROVED AS WRITTEN. ITEM 4: PERSONS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD - None Paul Dale, of Snug Harbor Seafoods: Dale requested to speak even though he was not scheduled. Dale suggested, for the new season, in order to increase the utility of the dock from Snug Harbor's perspective, it would be helpful if they could utilize the City crane on a warfage basis rather than the full-rate City employee basis. He added that it's not really a matter of money but more of getting the best use out of the crane. He stated, the employees there have to do a variety of tasks and when it's time to unload fish they see it as a full-time job. He added, it's KENAI HARBOR COMMISSION MEETING MARCH 8, 1999 PAGE 1 ITEM 5: be ITEM 6: ,, difficult for either of the dock staff to do that and take care of other problems that may be taking place. Dale stated, the Commission might want to consider offering it out to anyone to use on that same basis. Dale asked if there is any way to work out a fueling arrangement where they could fuel their boats, or subcontract a fueling job from the City to fuel theirs and other boats as well. It would be an increased service they could provide to their boats. He added 1998 was a pretty good year due to the Northern Geo extra warfage but he looked at the figures through March of this year and he would expect the City may have a $20,000 to $30,000 cash loss for 1999. He stated if there was some way to blend Snug Harbor's operation with some aspect of what the City does, they would be pleased to do it as it would reduce the losses the City is likely to experience over the next couple of years and they believed they would get more done at the dock. Eldridge asked what the difference was in what he was proposing. Dale stated their-lease warfage rate had been about $.04 or $.3% per pound. He estimated the difference would be approximately $.08. Eldridge stated he thought Dale was suggesting approximately half the charge and no City employees would be needed to operate it. Dale stated he thought it made sense for Snug Harbor to take on the responsibility of distributing the City's fuel. He also suggested one pump could be for credit card use. Eldridge stated he was not in favor of implementing a credit card pump or having Snug Harbor employees delivering the fuel. He stated he felt that is a City function. He asked if fuel could be sold to Snug Harbor boats for a bulk rate to provide fuel to their boats at a reasonable price. Eldridge added, he was also not in favor of having non-City personnel doing the actual fueling because of the risks and liability to the City. REPORTS Director's Report - None Dock Foreman - None OLD BUSINESS Cunningham Park- Final Plans/k Specifications Kenai Harbor Commission Meeting March 8, 1999 Page 2 Commission discussed final plans and specifications. Commission also discussed additive alternates to the plans which were agreed upon. It was noted, the Kenai River Sportsfishing Association will be donating $100,000 for the project. Award of the bid will go before council at their March 17 meeting. Also noted, the willow cuttings will have to be made before the project is started. be Bluff Erosion Study The Commission reviewed the Petratrovich, Nottingham & Drage report. Jahrig stated he did not believe the project could be completed for $5 million; perhaps $8 to $10 million. He recommended that finances be in order before proceeding. The Commission discussed the parldng area by the sewer plant and suggested that parking and access begin in Old Town Kenai and that a trail system be developed to give people access to the beach. Jahrig stated that most of the tourists in Kenai are walking tourists and access through Old Town would be utilized. Many different access points were discussed, including condemnation of properties and purchase of properties. It was stated that funding is actively being sought through a federal level. It was recommended the Meeks' crossing be improved and additional access from Mission Avenue and possibly Kenai Joe's be developed. The use of rock gate gabions was discussed for placement along the dunes. ITEM 7: NEW BUSINESS -- None ITEM 8: ., COMMISSIONERS' COMMENTS / (~UF~TIONS-- None ITEM 9: INFORMATION Kenai City Council Action Agendas of February 3 and 17, 1999 Updated Harbor Commission Membership List ITEM 10: ADJOURNMENT MEETING ADJOURNED 8:27 P.M. Respect~lly submitted, CaSandra Duniphin Contract Secretary Kenai Harbor Commission Meeting March 8, 1999 Page 3 KENAI LIBRARY COMMISSION KENAI COMMUNITY LIBRARY ACTIVITY ROOM MARCH 2, 1999 ~ 7:30 P.M. AGENDA ITEM 1' CALL TO ORDER/h ROLL CALL ITEM 2: AGENDA APPROVAL ITEM 3' APPROVAL OF MINUTES -- February 2, 1999 ITEM 4: PERSONS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD ITEM 5- REPORTS Director Friends of the Library Public Relations Committee ITEM ao ITEM 7: ITEM 8' OLD BUSINESS Library 50th Anniversary Report Expansion Needs Assessment Revisions Acceptance of Goals and Objectives NEW BUSINESS Library Commission Accomplishments New Library Director COMMISSIONERS= COMMENTS/(~UESTIONS ITEM INFORMATION Kenai City Council Action Agendas of February 3 and 17, 1999. ITEM 10: ADJOURNMENT LIBRARY COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING MARCH 2, 1999 - 7:30 P.M. KENAI CITY HALL BOB PETERS, CHAIR *** MIKUTES *** 1. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL Chairman Peters called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. Members Present: Bob Peters, Janet Brown, Vince O~eflly, Janice Rodes, Carol Brenckle, Melinda Harin§ Members Absent: Kathy Heus, Lorrene Forbes Also Present: Library Director Emily DeForest, Councilman Joe Moore, Contract Secretary Victoria Askin 2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA O'REILLY MOVED TO APPROVE THE AGENDA AS WRITTEN. BROWN SECONDED. THE AGENDA WAS APPROVED. ® APPROVAL OF MINUTES Regular Meeting of February 2, 1999 O'REILLY MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF FEBRUARY 2, 1999. MOTION SECONDED BY BRENCKLE. MINUTES WERE APPROVED AS WRITTEN. 4. PERSONS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD- None 5. REPORTS a. Director DeForest reported usage numbers were up as indicated in her monthly report. Also, a small celebration was held at the library to recognize Dr. Seuss's birthday. DeForest added, two of her staff would attend the OCLC cataloging training on March 22~d and 23rd and the other two staff members would attend the 24th and 25th. She noted, WLN merged with OCLC, making a much larger company. LIBRARY COMMISSION MEETING MARCH 2, 1999 PAGE 1 ® DeForest also reported, E-rate notification was received and advising the Library was awarded $7,946.00. She explained, the federal funding is based on children applying for free or reduced lunches in the schools. The award would cover exterior expenses of running lines for telephones and Intemet to the Library. The Kenai Peninsula Borough had 58%; 62% was required to qualify for a larger sum. Councilman Moore stated the local schools didn't get much funding either. One reason stated was many children qualified for free or reduced lunches but did not apply for them. This could have brought the percentage up to where it was needed to receive additional money. A short discussion was held regarding encouraging parents to sign up for the free or reduced lunches even though they didn't qualify, and explain the surcharge on the library phone bills pays for this funding and the award must be spent on communications of some type. Julie Niederhauser, a Kenai Library employee, recommended an amendment to the Intemet policy to request patrons using the Intemet to return it to the opening page upon completion of their use. Nothing serious had occurred that wasn't remedied quickly and easily; however, the potential exists. Consensus of the Commission is to have DeForest amend the policy. be Friends of the Library Brown reported the recent meeting was spent on final preparation for the upcoming 50th Anmversary party to be held March 7. The party will be held at the Library from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. c. Public Relations Committee O'Reilly reported he met with Manager Ross regarding placement of $25,000 in the City budget to be matched with what is raised by the Friends of the Library to conduct a public relations campaign for the coming year. Ross stated he would put it in the budget and notify the Commission of upcoming budget meetings so members can attend. A special Public Relations Committee meeting may be called to prepare for those meetings when notification occurs. OLD BUSINESS ,, Library 50ta Anniversary Report It was reported, George Smith and Ronnie Chapel would speak at the Anniversary party and Vice Mayor Measles would speak for Mayor Williams. Brenclde suggested video taping Eileen Bryson' Library Commission Meeting March 2, 1999 Page 2 ® ® and Carol Ford telling stories of the beginning of the library for historical purposes. Hating volunteered to videotape the party. be Expansion N~ds Assessment Revisions Forbes reported she was in charge of tallying the results of the assessment surveys. She noted, about 200 surveys were received and results should be completed by the next commission meeting. Acc~ptanc~ of Goals and Objectives A brief discussion was held regarding the Library Commission Goals and Objectives. BOWN MOVED TO ACCEPT THE UPDATED 1999 LIBRARY GOALS AND OBJECT~. HARING SECONDED. MOTION PASSED. NEW BUSINESS Library Commission Accomplishments DeForest stated the McNaughton books were very popular but difficult to fred because of their display in the carousels. She noted, she would be putting them on bookshelves for easier display. DeForest also reported Charles Bailey has been teaching Intemet classes at the Library. Members of the Commission agreed, a thank-you letter should be sent to Mr. Bailey for donating his time to conducting classes free of charge to library patrons. After a short discussion, the Commission agreed to add the Intemet workshops as an accomplishment to their list. BRENC~E MOVED TO APPROVE THE 1999 LIBRARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS AMENDED AND FORWARD TO THE KEN~ CITY COUNCIL. BROWN SECONDED. MOTION PASSED. be New Library Director DeForest reported the new librarian was approved by the Council and they allocated a moving allowance of up to $10,000. She will be arriving the last week of April. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS/(~UESTIONS Library Commission Meeting March 2, 1999 Page 3 Commissioner Brown encouraged everyone to attend the 50th Anniversary Party this Sunday. Commissioner O'Reilly asked Councilman Moore for his support of the Public Relations money requested in the budget. Moore pledged his support for the Library request and stated he thought it was worthwhile to get the activities at the library to the community. Councilman Moore reported Bill Frazer had been sworn in as the new council member, taking Hal Smalley's seat. Commissioner Peters reminded everyone to participate in the "Reading is Like Breathing" drive and that the deadline was in two weeks. Commissioner Haring reported she participated with the Kenai Mock Trial Team at the state Mock Trial Competition and Kenai placed third. 10. INFORMATION Kenai City Council Action Agendas of February 3 and 17, 1999. 11. ADJOURNMENT O'REILLY MOVED TO ADJOURN. MOTION SECONDED BY BROWN. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 8:30 P.M. Respectfully submitted, Victoria Askin Contract Secretary Library Commission Meeting March 2, 1999 Page 4 KENAI PARKS/h RECREATION COMMISSION AGENDA MARCH 4, 1999 CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS CHAHtMAN RICHARD HULTBERG ITEM 1- CALL TO ORDER/k ROLL CALL ITEM 2' AGENDA APPROVAL ITEM 3' APPROVAL OF MINUTES,,, - February 4, 199~ ITEM 4: PERSONS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD Bill Nelson of Wm. Nelson & Associates - Cunningham Park Improvements Peter Klauder of Klauder & Company Architects - Multi-Use Facility ITEM 5: OLD BUSINESS Kenai Nordic Trail Lighting ITEM 6: NEW BUSINESS ITEM 7: DIRECTOR'S REPORT City Greenhouse Operation Teen Center Painting Summer Hire Maintenance Jobs ITEM 8' Q~IONS ~ COMMENTS ITEM 9' . CORRESPONDENCE ITEM 10: PERSONS PRESENT NOT SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD ITEM 11: ~ORM~TIO .N Council Action Agendas of February 3 and 17, 1999 Beautification Committee Minutes of February 9, 1999. Updated Parks & Recreation Commission membership roster. Elk's State Hoop Shoot Contest Results ITEM 12' ADJOURNMENT KENAI PARKS/k RECREATION COMMISSION REGULAR. MEETING OF MARCH 4, 1999 - 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY HALL VICE-CHAIR DALE SANDAHL, PRESIDING *** MINUTES *** ITEM 1' CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL Vice-Chair Sandahl called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. Members Present: Matthew Peters, Tim Wismewski, Jack Castimore, Dale Sandahl Members Absent: Kelly Gifford, Ron Yamamoto, Richard Hultberg Also Present: Director Bob Frates, CaSandra Duniphin Contract Secretaries Victoria Askin and ITEM 2: APPROVAL OF AGENDA THE AGENDA WAS APPROVED AS WRITTEN. ITEM 3: APPROVAL OF MINUTES- February 4, 1999 MOTION: Commissioner Sandahl MOVED to approve the minutes of February 4, 1999. There were no objections, additions or corrections. MINUTES WERE APPROVED AS PRESENTED. ITEM 4. PERSONS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD a. Bin Nelson of Wm. Nelson/l~ Associates - Cunningham Park Improvements -- Parks Recreation Director Fratcs explained, the improvements plan had changed signiticanfly since it was first presented to the Commission. The Kenai River Classic has offered to donate $100,000 for the construction of the project and are now reviewing the amended drawings. Frates added, a pre-bid conference was held at 10:00 a.m., March 4 at which time eight or nine contractors picked up bids. He noted, improvements to the parking lot were not included in the bid documents and an additive alternate was included for the metal grate work. Administration hopes to have the bids opened and awarded by March 17 in order to obtain the willow cuttings for spring planting. Frates added, the park may need to be closed during construction and if so, he recommended notices be sent to the public as soon as possible. Nelson reviewed the plans with the Commission, noting the boat ramp would not be paved and the original handicap-accessible ramp did not meet the Borough requirements. The re-design allows for the pathway to wrap around the ramp area. Nelson also explained, there is an elevated pathway to be placed along the top of the bank for people who may want to watch and not fish. Nelson continued, due to budget restraints, he didn't think there would be enough money to include everything included in the plans, i.e. the parking lot improvements. He added, the present benches in the park would be removed. Nelson also explained planned bank restoration and the method to be used included placing root wads and brush layering. The newly sloped bank would be seeded with Alaskan wildflowers and Bering Hairgrass. A general discussion of the improvements followed. Concerned for liability to the city, Sandahl suggested the playground equipment be removed. Frates noted it had already been removed. Frates asked Nelson if he was comfortable with the July 1 completion date. Nelson answered yes and noted, the only item that could be a problem is receiving the steel. Discussion followed regarding closure of the park. It was noted there are those who fish hooligan from the park and that season is May 1-15. Nelson stated the work in the park would begin between April 15 and May 1. The whole bank would be excavated with large equipment in the area as well. Sandahl suggested the park should be closed except to the contractor and his equipment. Nelson noted, in the next addendum (to be sent out March 5), he would be giving contractors authorization to put up their own gate and signs if they felt it needed to be closed. MOTION: Sandahl MOVED to accept the recommendation to the proposal. Wismewski SECONDED the motion. There were no objections. b. Peter Klauder/M~ti-Use Facility -- Frates reported Klauder was unable to attend the meeting, however Nate Kiel had come to the meeting for Klauder. Kiel reviewed the plans for the multi-use facility with the Commission, noting they were working toward the construction of the Phase I portion of the facility. He noted, the land had been transferred from the Borough to the City and both the ice facility and the Challenger Center would be situated on the property. Kiel added, the facility was to be built in phases, however the plans included future additions. Kiel noted, the site work costs were estimated at. $250,000 (which included placing utilities, contingency, etc.). The Council and City Manager had hoped the cost to construct Phase I of the project could be kept at $800,000 or under. At this time, the estimated cost to build Phase I was $1 million. It is hoped the bids will come in under that amount. Kiel added, the user group wanted a bare-bones covered facility. KENAI PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING MARCH 4, 1999 PAGE 2 Kiel noted, a small amount of paving would be done for the handicap-pa_rking area. A general discussion of the project followed. Kiel reported the bid advertisement would begin on March 15 and a pre-bid conference was scheduled for the end of March. An ordinance was scheduled for introduction to appropriate funds for the site work on both the multi-use facility and Challenger Center project at the April 7 council meeting. The bid opening will be held on April 14, with site work to begin in May. Frates noted, it was the intention all along to have a facility that the Little League and Softball Association could use in April or May for batting practice. He asked, if hockey season ends in March, how long will the ice last. Kiel noted, the building was positioned on the site with an eastern exposure in order to get as little sunlight as possible. He added, it was suggested the city may be able to use their steamer along the trenches to help the thawing process. Discussion followed regarding the cost for both Phase I and II. Kiel noted, the architect estimated $3 million. Kiel also noted the site work bid included both the multi-use facility and Challenger site. It is hoped that one contractor will be able to build both facilities. ITEM 5: OLD BUSINESS a. Kenai Nordic Ski Trail Lighting -- Frates reminded the Commission, Dave Feeken spoke to them at their last meeting regarding lighting of the Kenai Nordic Ski Trails. He noted, he didn't think this project would occur overnight, but had done some checking with local electricians in regard to costs. He was told wiring could cost $1/foot, trenching at $2-$3/foot, plus materials, supplies, lighting, poles and transformers. He was told DOT may have some surplus poles and he was investigating that information. Frates continued, because the trail was 5K and depending on the price, the city may choose to light the trail in two phases. Frates added, he believed this would be a worthwhile project. ITEM 6' NEW BUSINESS-- None. ITEM 7: DIRECTOR'S REPORT a. City Greenhouse Operation -- Frates reported geraniums were planted March 1 and are now sprouting. Also, most of the seed orders were in and bulbs should arrive in another week. At the next Beautification meeting, they committee will talk about flower bed designs for the summer. KENAI PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING MARCH 4, 1999 PAGE 3 b. Teen Center Painting -- Frates reported quite a bit of painting had been done at the Center, using some students and community service workers. Also a contractor will be replacing linoleum flooring in the Center. c. Summer Hire Maintenance Jobs -- Frates reported the jobs were opened during the Christmas break and forty to fifty applications had already been received. The jobs will open again on March 15 and close toward the end of March. d. Dance Plans -- Frates also reported Scott Slavik had been working with the high school to hold a dance on March 13. The dance will be held after the regional basketball games were finished for the day and would be open to all high school aged youth. e. Kenai Nordic Ski Trails -- Frates reported there would be a skijoring race on the Kenai Nordic Trails on March 21 which would take approximately four hours. Also, he is organizing a Nordic ski race for March 27 to be sponsored by the Kenai Parks & Recreation Department. He added, the race was in conjunction with the Active Living Healthy Lifestyles Campaign of the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA). Because the NRPA teamed with Ben Gay, he has received cases of packets of Ben Gay to hand out, as well as several T-shirts. ITEM 8: COMI~SSIONERS' COMMENTS/(D~TIONS Commissioner Peters reported the high school had been sending students who had skipped school, etc. to the Teen Center to help paint. He added, he thought that was a really good idea. Frates stated, they appreciated the help. Commissioner Wisniewskt stated he wanted to support the findings of the conditions of the golf course. He added, it is a fabulous resource for the city and when he has stated concerns, they have been taken care of in a timely manner. Wismewski also reported he had gone skiing with a class of third-graders and their substitute teacher who was from Vermont. The teacher was very impressed with the trail and the maintenance there. Frates noted, the sld races on March 27 were being held to make up for those not held during the Peninsula Winter Games due to the cold. He added, he would be in touch with Wisniewski for his help, along with Dave Knutsen. Commissioner Sandahl reported he would be out-of-town in April and would miss the commission meeting. Peters reported he too may be absent from the next meeting. Wisniewski reported he would also be out-of-state and unable to attend the April meeting. Castimore stated he may also be out of town. KENAI PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING MARCH 4, 1999 PAGE 4 MOTION: Commissioner Castimore MOVED to request Council to set another date for the April meeting. Commissioner Peters SECONDED the motion. MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. Commissioner Castimore reported he had forwarded information to Frates to update the commission membership list. Councilman Frazer reported at the last council meeting, the Seagraves Pumper Engine was donated to the Fire Chiefs Association and be used at the fire training center. Also, council accepted the transfer of the property on which the multi-use facility and Challenger Center are to be constructed. Frazer added, an economic forum will be held at the Senior Center on March 13. The area legislators, as well as the City Council and Borough Mayor were involved. The forum was being held to discuss the budget problems and economic future for the state. Frazer added, from what he was hearing, he believed the multi-use facility bid would come in around $900,000 or less due to the favorable bid climate at this time. ITEM 9: CORRF~PO~ENCE-- None. ITEM 10' PERSONS PRE~ENT NOT SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD ITEM 11' INFORMATION Council Action Agendas of February 3 and 17, 1999 Beautification Committee Minutes of February 9, 1999. Updated Parks & Recreation Commission membership roster. Elk's State Hoop Shoot Contest Results ITEM 12: ADJOURNMENT MOTION: Commissioner Castimore MOVED to adjourn. Commissioner Peters SECONDED the motion. There were no objections. The meeting adjourned at 8:27 p.m. Minutes transcribed and prepared by: Carol L. Freas, City Clerk KEN~ PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING MARCH 4, 1999 PAGE 5 CITY OF KENAI MEMORANDUM 210 FIDALGO AVE., SUITE 200 KENAI, ALASKA 99611-7794 TELEPHONE 907-283-7535 FAX 907-283-3014 ~ 1992 TO' FROM. DATE' RE: Rick Ross, City Manager Mayor and Council Members Bob Frates, Parks & Recreation Director~y City of Kenai March 11, 1999 PARKS & RECREATION COMIN~S$ION APRIL MEETING At their regular meeting of March 4, 1999, the Parks & Recreation Commission members realized a number of the members would be out-of-town on April 1 (the scheduled date of the Parks & Recreation Commission meeting) and a quorum would not be available to hold the meeting. Because of the expected absences the Commission would like to change their April meeting date from April 1 to Thursday, April 15, 1999 at 7'00 p.m. in the council chambers. Does council have any objections to this change in the April meeting date? March 8, 1999 Kenai City Council City of Kenai After Prom Activities Committee Kenai Central High School 9583 Kenai Spur Highway Kenai, Alaska 99611 The Kenai Central High School ARer Prom Activities Committee is beginning its preparations for prom night. This year prom is to be held on Saturday, May 1. Our committee, w?hich consists of parents who are concerned for the safeW of their children, are tD4ng to put together a fun, sate, "all-night" pro~'am of activities to tbllow prom. In years past, the City of Kenai has been most generous in providing the Kenai Rec Center facilit3.? for the after prom activities. This facilit3? has been provided with no charge to the committee. VVe are requesting tim use of the Kenai Rec Center from 11 p.m. on May 1, through 4 a.m. on May 2. Once again tBr this year's after prom event we are asking the City Council to waive the fee for the use of the faciliw. Should you be x~411h~g to ~ant our member Debbie Sonberg at 283-5880 principal Hank Overmrf, at 283-7324. requests, please contact co~nmittee or our liaison at KCttS, assistant Thank you for your generous support! The After Prom ActMties Committee' Dave & MK Knudsen Dave & Ruth Haring Russell & Debbie Sonberg Ron & Pam lxzenby Tom & Mary Rhyner Dale & Lyn Eastlick GaD~ axed Pamela Hershberger CITY OF KENI 210 FIDALGO AVE., SUITE 200 KENAI, ALASKA 99611-7794 TELEPHONE 907-283-7535 FAX 907-283-3014 ~ 1992 MEMORANDUM TO' FROM' DATE: RE: Mayor and Council Members Carol L. Freas, City Clerk City of Kenai // March 12, 199j9 PLANNING & ZONING COM2~S$ION MEMBER APPI~CANT$ One position is still available on the Planning & Zoning Commission. Those applications remaining on file are: Vesta Leigh, ,Jill Lipka, Ossie Osborne, Mark Schrag, Karen Koester and Bernard Brown. All but Ms. Koester attended the work session held on November 25, 1998 when interviews for the Commission were held. Mr. Brown was interviewed as a candidate for the council seat recently filled by Mr. Frazer. Mr. Brown has stated his interest in the Commission position through his message of February 12, 1999 which is attached. clf Attachment Carol Freas From: Sent: To: Subject: Bernie Brown [bbrown@aspi.alaska.com] Friday, February 12, 1999 12:06 PM cfreas@ci.kenai.ak.us Planning and Zoning Commission ATT00000. htm Carol: Per your letter dated 2-8-99, I would like to be considered for the P&Z position. I would have talked to you earlier but I understood Mayor Williams' very pointed invitation to two council candidates at the 2-4-99 council meeting to apply and that he would be happy to appoint one of them to be exclusionary of everyone else. If this was his intention please let me know so I don't spend time on this matter and I will find another way to participate and contribute. Ill misunderstood then please by all means consider my interest. Bernie Brown KENAI BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE MARCH 9, 1999 *** 5:30 p.m.*** Kenai Council Chambers ***AGENDA*** ITEM 5: ITEM 6: a. ITEM 7: ITEM 8: ITEM 9: ITEM 10: ae ITEM 11' ITEM 1' CALL TO ORDER & ROLL CALL ITEM 2: AGENDA APPROVAL ITEM 3: ,,. APPROVAL OF MINUT~ -- FEBRUARY 9, 1999 ITEM 4: PERSONS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD a. Kathy Tart -- Kenai Visitors & Cultural Center Landscaping OLD BUSINESS Discussion-- Banners Discussion -- Fel-tiliz~g Program NEW BUSINESS Discussion -- Goals & Objectives/1999 DiScussion -- 1999 Theme Discussion-- Flower Brochure Discussion -- Flower Bed Design Work/Boxes & Circle Planters DIRECTOR'S REPORT Committee Chair Parks & Recreation Director Kenai City Council Liaison 0~IONS ~k COUNTS PERSONS PRESENT NOT SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD INFO~TION Council Action Agendas -- February 3 and 17, 1999. Parks & Recreation Commission Meeting Minutes of February 4, 1999. Central Peninsula Master Gardeners Meeting Notice Updated Beautification Committee Membership List ADJOURNMENT KENAI BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE MARCH 9, 1999 *** 5:30 p.m. KENAI COUNCIL CHAMBERS CHAIR MARiLYN DIM CK, PRESIDING ITEM 1' CML TO ORDER lg ROLL CALL Chair Dimmick called the meeting to order at approximately 5'36 p.m. as follows: Roll was taken Committee Present: Committee Absent: Dimrnick, Jung, Johnson, Hansen, and Brown. Rogers and Nord Also Present: Linda Overturf, Councilwoman Linda Swarner, Parks & Recreation Director Frates, and City Clerk Carol Freas. ITEM 2: AGENDA APPROVAL Member Hansen requested Chris Walker be added to Persons Scheduled to be Heard to discuss a Boy Scout merit badge proposed project. There were no other changes to the agenda and no objections to the amendment. The agenda was. approved as amended. ITEM 3- APPROVAL OF MINUTES, -- FEBRUARY 9, 1999 There were no changes to the minutes and they were approved as presented. ITEM 4: PERSONS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD a. Chris Walker -- Boy Scouts Project. Member Hansen introduced Walker, noting he is a Life Scout from Troop 367 in Kenai and is working toward his Eagle Scout. She noted Walker earned a garden and flowers merit badge as well as many others. Hansen noted she had spoken with Walker about the Erik Hansen Park and the possibility of his working with a group of volunteers to plant flowers, water and fertilize the grass and plants for the summer. Hansen added, Walker had discussed the project with Frates who thought it would be good for Walker to be involved in the planting of the seedlings, etc. Frates noted Walker had been the recipient of the Committee's Children Vegetable Garden award several years ago. Frates continued, he received a copy of the program summary Walker had submitted to the Boy Scouts main office in Anchorage. He added, he was looking forward to working with Walker on the project. Hansen noted, Walker was in the process of getting his project approved by the main office. She explained, Walker would be the organizer of the project and will oversee the others, but may need some help from the Commission from time to time. Swarner asked how his project would mix with the council's program for the park. Frates answered, Walker would use the landscape plan reviewed by council, but initially would help plant the seedlings for the beds and help with seeding at the greenhouse. He may also help with planting shrubbery and other materials at the park. Frates noted, safety issues were reviewed and included in Walker's program plan, i.e. work safety meetings, wearing gloves, safety glasses, etc. b. I~athy Tart -- Kenai Visitors & Cultural Center Landscaping. Tarr told the Committee they were her favorite committee in the city and thanked them for their work. She noted, they always have compliments from visitors regarding the flowers and how beautiful the city looks. Tarr reported she was attending the meeting to update the Committee of what changes would be taking place at the Visitors Center and other items of interest. She noted, a Gold Rush Interpretative Sign would be installed on the right side of the building. The landscaping plan was designed by a landscape architect. Landscaping is to include boulders, shrubbery, bench and the sign. All the cost will be borne by the state. Dimmick suggested forget-me-nots be included around the interpretative sign area and asked if the state was aware of whether that area would receive enough sun. Tarr stated she would check. Tarr asked the Committee to consider placing large ferns at the entryway of the Center in pots she had already purchased for this purpose. Tarr noted, at the Center, they had also discussed designing a small area in which to plant native Alaska plants for viewing. Tarr expressed her desire that the Committee consider the Center as one of their primary care-talcing projects for the summer. She noted, there were several of her employees who would help as much as possible with the watering and weeding. Tarr continued, they expected a large amount of visitors this summer. They have planned to hold three programs a week beginning in June. The programs will begin at 3:00 p.m. with science, art and Native history topics being discussed. The programs will run through August and will be free to the public. Tarr also reported the Permanent Fund Corporation Board would be meeting at the Center on June 16. It was suggested hanging baskets and other flowers could be placed in time for their visit. Tarr requested flowers in the planters be a mixture of those blooming early and later in the season. Tarr also reported a "Get to Know Kenai" reception will be held on April 29 at the Center. People working in Kenai that have a lot of contact with the public (gas station BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MARCH 9, 1999 PAGE 2 attendants, food servers, etc.) will be invited to attend. The program for the reception/breaMast will include information about what's going on in the city, what is available to visitors, etc. in an effort to better educate the locals and then the information may be passed on to visitors. Swarner noted Bema Pratt would be giving a presentation at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Building on March 25 at 7'00 p.m. Overturf suggested Tarr contact the Master Gardeners for help in developing the native plants area she discussed earlier. ITEM 5: OLD BUSINESS a. Discussion -- Banners. Brown reported she had started the work on the new banners and approximately half will be ready to steam by the weekend. She will also wash the present banners. Frates reported a request was made for the purchase of 15 additional banners in next year's budget. That request will be discussed during the budget sessions. Brown invited the committee members to help with the banners. b. Discussion -- Fertilizing Program. Frates noted the committee had briefly discussed this at their last meeting. He added, he would be changing fertilizer and would be using 22-11-11 as a study done by Tom Johns in 1992 found this fertilizer gave the best color and density. Frates also noted, the committee had discussed using Preen pre-emergent to help control chickweed. He reported, he had purchased four to five containers of it. Swarner suggested using the pre-emergent at the Erik Hansen Park to eliminate the chickweed before it had a good start. When asked if he considered an organic type of weed killer, Frates stated he had discussed both types with a representative of the Anchorage Beautification Department. He was told the Preen won't work as well the first year as it will the second year. In regard to the organic products, Anchorage had not had a lot of success with them. ITEM 6: NEW BUSINF~S a. Discussion -- Goals & Objectives/1999. Frates suggested the following items be included in the Committee's 1999 goals and objectives: . 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. New flowerbed at the Fire Station Rose bed at Left Hansen Memorial Park Beds and planters at Kenai Visitors Center Cemetery cleanup in May Children's Garden Contest Bernie Huss Trail Renovation Project BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MARCH 9, 1999 PAGE 3 It was suggested fliers be prepared and distributed to the Extension Office, Boy and Girl Scouts, KVCC, Library, and at the local schools in regard to the Children's Garden Contest. Frates suggested second and third grades at Sears Elementary be asked if they would like to help plant seeds to resurrect the flowerbeds at the entrance and exit of the Bernie Huss Trail. He suggested a volunteer from the Committee could work with several of the teachers to plant marigolds (because the seeds will be easy for the youngsters to work with). Dimmick volunteered to work with the teachers. Teachers to contact were Chris Green, Bobbie Baldwin, Eileen Bryson and Diane Porter. Dimmick suggested the Committee set a date for an orientation for weeding and planting volunteers and think about ways to get people involved. Overturf suggested distributing a flier at the Master Gardeners Seminar. The Committee was encouraged to bring more ideas to their next meeting at which time a date for the orientation would also be set. b. Discussion -- 1999 Theme. Frates asked the Committee bring ideas for a theme to their next meeting and they could then choose one for the summer's work. He suggested "Blooming for Pride" or "Blooming for Kenai." Dimmick suggested the Sears students also be asked for suggestions. c. Discussion -- Flower Brochure. Frates distributed a copy of last year's brochure and asked if the Committee had suggestions for changes. It was suggested the brochure list the locations where flowers have been planted for a quick reference. The Committee was asked to review the brochure further and bring additional ideas for changes to the next meeting at which time it would be finalized. d. Discussion -- Flower Bed Design Work/Boxes & Circle Planters. Frates requested the committee assign a subcommittee or have a work session prior to their next meeting in order to decide what plants will be included in the planters and boxes. He added, he wanted to know this information as soon as possible because these planters and boxes use a lot of flowers and he wants to separate the seedlings and tag them to better know what is left for other beds, etc. Overturf stated she understood they had decided to plant the boxes and circle planters the same as last year. They would, however, need to decide on flowers for the hanging baskets. It was decided to meet in a work session at 5'00 p.m. immediately prior to their next meeting to discuss the flowers for the hanging baskets. A general discussion followed regarding the flowers used in the C'.lrcle planters. Frates suggested the circle planters use big, bright, and bold flowers in the middle of the planters. He also stated the boxes need dependable and well-tried flowers. He noted, more soil would be added to the boxes this year as well. BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MARCH 9, 1999 PAGE 4 ITEM 7: DIRECTOR'S REPORT a. Committee Chair -- No report. b. Parks & Recreation Director -- Frates reported geraniums were planted and up and the bulbs had been received. Sue Wesley will be transplanting the geraniums. He has had volunteers from the high school helping. Frates also reported the achillea had also been planted. He will now wait until mid-March to complete the seeding and transplanting will be a busy time in April. c. Kenai City Council Liaison -- Swamer reported the council is waiting to receive the budget for their review. Also, Bill Frazer had been appointed as council member, filling the seat left available when Hal Smalley resigned. Swamer also reported she had been appointed as President Pro Tempore for part of the last council meeting because the Mayor had to leave the meeting and the Vice Mayor was not in attendance. Frates and Swarner also reported a Peninsula-wide economic forum was scheduled to be held at the Senior Center on Saturday from 9:30 to 4'00 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Swarner also welcomed Dorothy Jung as the Committee's newest member. ITEM 8' OUESTIONS/k COMMENTS,,-- None. ITEM 9' PERSONS PRESENT NOT SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD -- None. ITEM 10: IHFORMATION Council Action Agendas -- February 3 and 17, 1999. Parks & Recreation Commission Meeting Minutes of February 4, 1999. Central Peninsula Master Gardeners Meeting Notice Updated Beautification Committee Membership List ITEM 11' ADJOURNM~N? The meeting adjourned at approximately 7'00 p.m. Minutes transcribed and prepared by: Carol L. Freas, City Clerk BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MARCH 9, 1999 PAGE 5 ITEM A: AGENDA KENAI CITY COUNCIL-SPECIAL MEET~G JANUARY 26, 1999 7:00 .P.M. KENAI CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS http: //www.ci.kenai.ak.us CALL TO ORDER 1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Roll Call 3. Agenda Approval ITEM B: , NEW BUSINESS Council Position Candidate Interviews EXECUTIVE SESSION- None Scheduled ITEM C: ADJOURNMENT KENAI CITY COUNCIl,-SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS http: //www.ci.kenai.ak.us ITEM A: CALL TO ORDER Mayor Williams called the meeting to order at approximately 7: p.m. in the Council Chambers in the Kenai City Hall Building. A-X. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mayor Williams led those assembled in the Pledge of Allegiance. A-2. ROLL CALL Roll was taken by the City Clerk. Bannock and Williams. Present were: Bookey, Swarner, Moore, Measles, A-3o AGENDA APPROVAL Mayor Williams requested council add to their agenda packet the January 26, 1999 letter from David S. Landry who stated, due to family responsibilities, he was withdrawing from consideration of appointment to the available council seat. There being no objections to the agenda, Williams ordered the agenda was approved as submitted. Williams also noted there had been an article in the paper regarding a port project at Adak which was to include both air carriers and shipping. He added, the Native association who took over the island and were involved in the project had requested a study be done through funding from the Department of Transportation in regard to their entering into a world air freight business. ITEM B: NEW BUSINESS S-X. Council Position Candidate Interviews Williams noted the following candidates were present: Helen Donahue, Barry Eldridge, Mark Schrag, Jack Castimore, Bill Frazer and Bernard Brown. Williams noted, the Kenai Charter and Code direct the council to make an appointment to the council position left vacant by Hal Smalley, who was elected to the State Legislature. He added, the appointment will be to complete this year's portion of Smalley's term. In October, if so chosen, the appointee would have to run again for the remaining year of Smalley's term. If the person wishes to continue on the council, he would then have to run again at the end of the term, but this time it would be for a three- year term, thereby getting back into the normal rotation of the terms. It was also KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 2 pointed out, any of the candidates could also run for the other two three-year term positions that will be up for election in October or the one-year term position. Williams also noted, council had an opportunity to review the resumes submitted by the candidates. Upon consideration of the resumes and what is said during the interviews, council would make an appointment at the February 3, 1999 council meeting. Williams also invited the candidates to attend the special meeting scheduled for January 28 during which a mid-year budget review would take place. Measles suggested each candidate make an opening statement prior to the question and answer portion of the meeting. ttelen Don~h~e -- I'm Helen Dona_hue. I am currently employed at the Kenai Peninsula United Way in a part-time position. I chose to put my hat in the ring for this position because I've been in the community now for about seven and one-half years. I built, we built a home here and we lived here. We recently sold that house and are currently living in an apartment but there are some things happening in the community and the growth...I've watched Mayor Williams and this council do some wonderful progressive things in our community and I believe in progress and it interested me and it interested me to be a part of that and a part of that growth. So, when.the position came open, I debated it and thought about it and thought, well, you know, I could do this. I have a background in the legislative process. I know the legislative system. I retired from the Alaska State Legislature a couple of years ago and I know the community and I like the community. I lived in it and I want to be a part of it and where do you start? You start at your city council and that's why I wanted to do it and that was my reason for applying for the position or putting my name in for the position. I also bring to this a background in government, in the process and I think that's helpful and I felt that that could be a contributing factor to my apphcation when I applied for it. I have told my board of directors that I work for with United Way that I would be plopping my hat in so it was not surprise to them so, once I made that decision. I would entertain any questions you would have of me. Beyond that point, I would be glad to answer anything, but I think those were the things that I highlighted here. It's kind of tough when you're the fh'st one, cause all those guys get to say everything that I don't cover, you lmow, so put me on the end when you ask me some of your questions, would you? Okay, thank you very much. . Williams: Thank you Helen. Mark, your next. Mark Schrag -- Mark Schrag. I guess after the Planning & Zoning so you guys know pretty much about me. I will concur, I was going to try to make sure I got in the middle tonight. It was fun to be, it was good to be on the last person the last time. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 3 I guess I've sometimes asked myself why, why am I doing this. I need to spend the time and everything, but I guess over this last year or so, I've gotten kind of involved here and it just kind of keeps squeaking me along. So, that's kind of why I'm doing it. I guess what I think I have to offer is that I feel that I have a good analytical mind, pretty good basis in reality and also, some good people skills, which I feel that are important, especially as we, as the community, as it grows it kind of changes also. So, I'll just stop with that. Williams' Barry. Barry l~ldrldge -- I'm Barry Eldridge. I've been here in the community since 1985 and my wife and I live over in VIP Subdivision since that' time and have been very much interested in what's been going on within the community during that time period. I fairly soon thereafter got involved with the Harbor Commission and served on the Harbor Commission and still serve on the Harbor Commission and served as its chairman for about three years. My background was 27 years in the Coast Guard, mostly in management positions as commanding officer in various units and locations here in Alaska and the rest of the country. I have been involved in management probably since 1970 in very significant positions. I just wanted to contribute to the community. I have expressed an interest previously. I did run. In fact, I ran against Hal Smalley back in 1988 when he came and was elected to the council. Duane Bannock joined me in that race, but we didn't win. Hall did and then my, I didn't seem to have the time. I was gone a lot onboard vessels during the year and didn't have time to devote to council activities. But now that I have semi-retired I have the time available now to serve on the council and to meet the meeting dates and times that you have. I'm interested in seeing the City of Kenai continue to grow in the way that it has and I'd like to see more retain activity come back to the city. I'd like to see light industry developed within the city. I'd like to see the airport be even more of a centerpiece than it is and more activities taking place around that airport. So, there are a lot of things that I would like to see happen within the City of Kenai and I'd like to be involved in some of those decisions that the council makes. Williams: Thank you very much. Jack? Good to have you with us this evening. Jack Castimore-- Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to come. I've been in the community well over 20 years. When I first came here, back in the early 70's, the first thing I did was march right down to VIP and find myself a house and start KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 4 putting money back into the community and like John, I have quite a bit of real estate in the community. I don't think most people are aware of that, but the APOC filing would bring that out. My background is on the sheet in front of you. I've been involved in a lot of community activities during that time. I think the one thing I bring to you is history. I remember back in the old days when the pipe was laying on the ground down in Valdez. I remember when we sent our young people off to work up there just after they graduated from high school and when the pipeline was over with, they all came home and thought they were worth $10 and $20 and $30 an hour and they sat for two full years until reality hit them and they realized, yes they were going to have to go to work for $7 an hour. I remember those days. I remember the busts we went through. The boom of '85 of construction. The bust of '86. I remember those people walking out of here in late '86, the first part of '87, handing the keys to the bankers and off they went. Boy, if I had known then what I know now, I would have bought all those houses for 70 cents on the buck. But I remember those days well. So, I think I can bring history. I think history sometimes is important because some of the things that we have tried before, a newcomer won't be aware of the fact that we tried that and it didn't work. Or maybe the newcomer has a better slant on what we have tried before. Sometimes history is not a good thing. My concerns are the continuation of growth like its been. I like looking down the road to five years, knowing that the new learning center is going to be on line and that means more jobs and more people coming into the community. That hockey facility is going to be running which means in the wintertime, we can bring some of these activities into Kenai that are currently in Soldoma and it's overburdened by. That adds more jobs in the community for restaurants and for our hotel/motel industry. I look down the road and see the infrastructure of the new fire training facility really coming on line. It doesn't usually happen in a year or two because training and education take awhile, but I think that's an avenue. I also see some other things, like John's envisioned new things. Training is really lacking in the State of Alaska for Alaska kids. Today there is no vocational education in the state of Alaska. Kenai High School doesn't do it anymore, okay? The college out here has only a small portion of what it had back in the 70's. There may be an avenue in there for the community to open up more training like the fire training facility. And that adds a lot of jobs. I've got some ideas along the lines of that. ~ I am a fiscal conservative as a retired school teacher. Most school teachers, you think of them as saying, oh, there's those old democrat. Well folks, never been a democrat. Always been a fiscal conservative. I'm pro-growth. I like the idea of what has occurred to this community in the last 20 years especially with jobs. The empty buildings in town concern me. They concern me because I noticed in the budget, that 44% of the budget was, the revenue for the community, was based upon sales income and only 15% is based upon the household property taxes and business KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 5 property taxes. That says to me that those empty buildings, if they were used, they would create sales revenue and everyone right now is worrying about another bust coming. You hear that said quite a bit. If that's the case, then we're going to have to look and visualize how we're going to deal with that bust. So I think I can add that to the city council. Urn, I'll stop. Williams' Thank you very much. Bill? William R. Frazer -- Thanks John. I'm Bill Frazer, a local insurance broker. Over the years, I've spent many hours donating time, energy and money working with the various oil industry trade groups, chambers of commerce, and other recreational groups such as the Kenai Golf Association. I've decided to, I'd like to dedicate some time in a more official capacity such as serving on the city council. I've lived in Kenai since 1986 and life on the Kenai has been good, good to me. I'd like to give something back, if possible. In addition, I believe the City of Kenai is in excellent shape financially and has positioned itself very well from an infrastructure standpoint. This is a direct result of excellent planning by the past and present administrations and city councils. But, we're now facing some difficult and economic times over the next few years, especially with oil prices low and predictions for them to stay that way for perhaps several years. Critical decisions will have to be made in the near future in regard to revenues and expenditures. I want to be part of that process. My business experience has given me the ability to understand balancing a budget. also have excellent relationships with the Peninsula delegation to the Alaska Legislature, in addition to some Juneau lobbying experience with the Alaska Sport Industry Alliance. I believe that these relationships and experience could prove helpful in the painful budget process we're facing. Finally, I'm interested in seeing Kenai grow in a responsible and financially sensible way that it has over the past few years. Many important decisions will have to be made and I believe I can help in that process. Thank you. Williams' Thank you very much. Mr. Brown, you're on the end of the table. Bernard Brown -- Well, this is definitely a better end than the other one. Good evening. My name is Bernie Brown. My family and I moved here two and one-half years ago and the move, the move was precipitated by the career and this was the only area in Alaska, the only geographic part of Alaska I had not lived in so far. Since I've been here, since I've been here I involved myself with the Kachemak Bay Rotary Club;, I taught Kenai, I taught Little League (my son's baseball team) for a year here in Kenai; I was on the, was a director, one of the founding directors and the treasurer of the Kenai Peninsula House Association; and I also was just a participating member in the Kenai Peninsula Builders Association. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 6 When we moved here is was for the career, but just after we moved here, my family fell in love with the area. When the career, when the career came, the job said it was time to move to Anchorage to further your career, we sat down as a family and we decided that we wanted the qualities of life that were, that were here. We like to, we like the schools. There's a good quality of life conducive to families. The extra- curricular activities for the kids: the summer sporting events, the winter events, the whole family fishes. My son and I hunt. Since, since we're here, we decided that we didn't want to move back to Anchorage. So, to that end, I changed careers. I changed, I changed employers and since we're going to stay here, we decided that it was high time we started, I started to give a little bit more and throw my hat in so that I could help foster and encourage economic diversity and growth in the area. The challenges we face as a community are, are great. Low oil prices, low returns on fish. Stuff I saw banking in Bristol Bay, so I have some experience with economic downtums. I grew up in bush Alaska: real small rural communities. While airports were being built and fish hatcheries were being developed. And, because of this, I would bring a unique perspective to the council because of where I grew up. My background in banking: I spent six and one-half years with National Bank of Alaska in different jobs managing and as a commercial loan officer. I've dealt with several, quite a few of the local businesses, the business owners, in the Kenai and Soldotna and a lot of them in the Kenai area to help them develop. How to build their businesses bigger. How to, how to develop and grow in a community and now I'd like to be part of the regulatory process that helps to foster that. Thank you. Williams' Thank you very much. Now, you probably feel comfortable with some questions. I'd like to lead off with the very first question for everyone. We'll get a response from you and then we'll go ahead with the rest. Because this seat is an elected official seat, it's going to require filing your Conflict of Interest Statement with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. This statement will require you to divulge every bit of your financial transactions, including your wife's financial transactions and it will include, it will have to include every financial transaction, individually, exceeding $100 for the entire year. That counts all your retirement, your IRA's, anything. Do any of you have a problem with that, starting with Mr. Brown. Brown: As a conservative, I don't particularly care for that, but no, I have no problem. It's part of the job. Frazer: I don't have any problem with that at all. Castimore: Not at all. I've done it in the past. Eldridge' Yeah. I've done it in the past as well. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 7 Schrag: No problem. Donahue: No problem. Williams: Council? Councilman Bannock? Bannock: Just a technical point of clarification in regards to the election that will take place in October. Whomever is appointed to this chair beside me isn't automatically in line for the one-year seat, but rather the ballot will read that there will be two members elected for a three-year term.. There will be one person elected for a one-year term. There will be two of us on this council fight now that will be, that our seats will be up, but it's, the person who will be filling this seat won't automatically be in line for the one-year seat. Now, the person may choose to run for one of the three-year seats. The three-year seat will read that it will be, the top two finishers for the three-year two seats and the one top finisher for the one-year seat. Williams- I believe you're correct. I believe that, the city attorney can help us out here, but ff the person were to so designate themselves in this case, to the one-year seat, is that the permissible method by which we're going to operate, or could he come out, or could three candidates come out and say, "I want to run for the council" and the two highest get the three-year seats and the lowest get the one-year seat. Graves: No, no. There will be two different slots. There will be the three-year seats and there will be two of them and then there will be the one-year seat and you can file for either one. Williams' Either one. Bookey: Just so everyone understands, you're not restricted to running for just the one-year term. If you so choose to, you can run for the three-year term too, on that ballot and then you wouldn't run for the one-year. So, you can go on either side of that ticket. And anyone from the general public can come up and stand up for that one-year term. Williams: So, what would happen if no one fried for the one-year seat? Bannock: We'd been in the exact place we are right now. Williams' Councilwoman Swarner. Swarner: I have some questions here and some of them are similar to what we've been asked when we ran, by the newspaper and I'm sorry I forgot the newspaper column with the actual questions. But, I guess, one of the questions is pertaining to this election and I guess, I'd like to see us rotate so the same people aren't always first. So, Mark, you're first. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 8 Would you plan on running for an elected seat in October? Schrag: I don't have an answer at this point. I guess I would see once how, how things went. How it felt. So at this point, yeah, I don't have a yes or no. Eldridge: Yes, if appointed, I would plan to run for re-election in the fall. Castimore: I saw this as an interim seat and I don't have any plans at this point in time. I think that one of the concerns that some of you had was an individual getting a leg up on an outright competition for that seat. So, at the current time, no, I do not have any plans of running in the fall. Frazer: I'm interested really in serving more than just the next eight and one-half months to the general election. I don't really believe a new council person can be effective with only, for at least two or three months of serving before you actually become an effective member of the council. And, I don't really think whoever the council appoints would be much of a strongly entrenched incumbent with the short span of time until the October election, so I'm not sure that you'd really have a whole lot of advantage over somebody from the general public. Brown: I have considered running before. So, yes, I would, I would be so inclined to run again in October if I fit in the council and if it was the kind of work that I enjoyed. Williams: Councilman...oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Helen. I saw Jim raise his hand... Donahue: That's okay, that's okay. hear what they all said. I like being last this time. Give me a chance to At this time, I do not know if I would do that. I would assume I would. I'm assuming, should I be selected, I would do a job that I'd be very proud of and pleased with and I would take that responsibihty to run. But, I think it's a little, at this point, presumptuous to assume that we automatically do that and I would only file for the one-year seat at this point. Williams' Thank you. Now, Councilman Bookey. Bookey: Thank you. You all know that there was an election last October and Councilman Moore and myself ran and nobody ran and all of a sudden I have seven people from the public interested in an appointed seat. And, I'm curious to know why you didn't run and why you're interested, really now. It baffles me. Eldridge: My turn? Actually, I had very much considered running for a seat this fall, but since my wife and I were discussing, well maybe we'll take the car and drive out, down and visit some friends outside in the fall, I figured I couldn't really run for an KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 9 election and driving down the Alcan. it, I did not file for that reason. So, this particular year, although I did consider Castimore: I've run twice before, Jim. Each time I run fifteen or twenty people come out of the woodwork to run against me and as Duane can remember, the last time, there was a whole crowd and I came in third, which wasn't bad. I think it was like 30 points. It wasn't much. It was a large gathering. The second reason is, I'm recently retired and hopefully, in another couple of weeks, my house project for the last 18 months will be completed and I'll need something to keep myself busy. I wouldn't want my wife to think I was sitting around too much and this would fill that gap nicely and I certainly have the time I could spend with it. Frazer: I've thought about running in the past, but primarily time and other commitments from a business standpoint and personal standpoint, kept me from doing it. Actually, I've got the time now to do it. So that's the reason. Brown: This summer, with the bank I worked for, elected positions were a no-no. You couldn't set for an elected, you couldn't separate the person from the bank, so any position you took, you'd always alienate half of your customers. So, so the bank had a restriction on elected positions and I didn't, I didn't leave the bank until the middle of July, so by that time, it was too late and I had just switched careers and employers. So, it wasn't the right time to mount a campaign in the last two months. Donahue: This was a question that I was prepared and could have answered first. I, this was something that comes up and when you are a good councilman, as the two of you seem to have been, one of the things that you do when you enter a race as you all know in the political arena, is to win. When you are competing against people who are doing a good job, you're going to have a tough row. And, it's hard to get out there an campaign and to do that kind of thing and one of the concerns, and I've discussed this with Mayor Williams who had no competition also, he's doing a good job or the commUnity felt he was, and that's why there was no competition. When you're doing a good job or when there is someone there doing a good job that you appreciate, you don't file for office against them. I saw this as an opportunity for myself to fill a position, do that good job, and you bet I'll get elected when I run for that office and that's why I didn't file in October, or when the election was in October. Schrag: I guess I would pretty much agree with that. Also, in October yet, I was still, hadn't been around, hadn't been around that many meetings and everything, but also it had a lot to do with the fact that I wasn't unhappy with anybody running or was happy actually. And also, though, the incumbency thing is hard though. It's hard to beat. You need to have some name recognition and things like that and I just, I really don't have that and I had some people who offered to help me, but I wasn't sure if I had the energy and the time to do that. So... Williams' Next question. Councilman Moore? KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 10 Moore: Yeah. This is my, the beginning of my second term on this council and what I have been seeing, especially recently, is local businesses falling behind in sales tax payments, property tax payments, water and sewer bills. It's got me concerned and I would like to ask you if you have any ideas or solutions to alleviating the distress that our small businesses are going through in town. Castimore: Good question, Joe. For about a decade, I've been involved in computers and the intemet and way back in the 80s we did a lot of what's there today, but we did it as text fries. You would sit there with the University of California data or even books, for that matter, and they were all boring text files. Black and white. On the screen. I'm talking about his because of e-commerce. As we finished up December, the United States had businesses that were in the neighborhood of 2.4 billion dollars in e-commerce. E-commerce is the electronic way of doing business over the intemet. If I want some baseball tickets, I can get it there today. If I want cheap airline tickets, I can get them there today. There's a whole avenue of e-commerce that we are not looking at here in Alaska. An awful lot of it is less expensive. Some of the small businesses right now are allowed ten items on a catalog page for free at one of the malls out there on the intemet and there are three or four that I was talking to Marti Regan who just bought that little craft shop next to the old Kenai Supply. It's an excellent place to put e-commerce and some of these businesses, Joe, are going to have to go that way in order to pick avenues. Alaska is sitting in a unique place. We have all these craft materials here. All of the artwork that's here and no one is selling it. There's a company called e-Bay and if you watched its stock today, it went up 21 points today. Okay. If you watched e-Bay during the last 12 months, a dividend check that you had back in October would be worth $22,000 this afternoon. That fifteen hundred bucks just with e-Bay, e-Bay is a place where you take your merchandise, you take a photograph of it, put it in your scanner. You place it out there and people begin bidding on it. And I talked to a gentleman the other day who had a cap. An old World War II cap with all the pins on it from his uncle or grandfather -- one of the relatives, and he got more than $50 for every pin on that hat. He said, he thought the hat was going to be worth five bucks. Now, e-commerce is something of the future that some of our small businessmen here who have a lot of free time, because this time of year, January, February, March, as you well know, is a downtime in the retain industry. So, I perceive something along the line of e-commerce. A lot of these small people are going to need to be shown how to do it. A lot of people are going to have to visually see for the first time what e-commerce is all about, but I think once they see it, and they see the catalogs out there, and the tremendous success out there, five years ago Amazon- dot-com, it did not exist. If you're not aware of what it is, it's that giant bookstore located in Seattle that has over one million books on the shelf. It's a giant warehouse and from your computer, in two days, you'll have the latest book of whatever you KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 11 want. And me and a lot of other people around here have been buying from Amazon.com for quite awhile. Those kinds of e-commerce things can be developed here. It doesn't take a great deal of expertise because the software is getting simpler and simpler and simpler for people to use. So, that's an idea. Williams' Thank you. Bill. Frazer: That's a tough question. I was at the council meeting last Wednesday night and I remember the same discussion coming up and I don't recall that there were any answers that evening that either so I'm not sure that I can come up with one. I do recognize, from being in business here, that most of our economic wellbeing in this community, as well as others in our area and perhaps the whole state, and they probably primarily in the oil industry and number two, probably commercial fishing. And, in that light, we've got an area-wide lease sale coming up here, I believe, in the Spring sometime. We've got some pretty difficult decisions to be made by the Board of Fish regarding commercial fishing. I believe that we should probably promote and do all we can to enhance those lease sales and to encourage the Board of Fish to make their rulings in favor, at least in fairness to the commercial fishing industry and beyond that, I'm not sure what we all can do at this point in time. We don't control the price of oil. Williams: Thank you. Bernie. Brown: Councilman Moore, was your question, I don't think I understood, was your question, tax collections are slipping, businesses are paying them slower, or just overall sales taxes declining? Moore: No, we just got some delinquent taxpayers. Brown: Well, I have quite a history in collecting delinquencies and it's, it's not, it's not a nice situation. There's no easy way to call someone up and tell them that you owe me money. I need you to pay it. The easiest way I found to do deal with delinquency situations was to be apathetic to them, try to work with them, work out some kind of arrangement, and a lot of times, a lot of times, I've heard that sometimes the Borough isn't always real eager, you know, to bend the rules, they don't have the flexibility in the statutes and that to work with people to the degree that they need. When oil prices drop, when fishing returns are slow, people tend to keep their money close to them, Especially small businesses and utilize that money to try and grow the business and that you have to give something up and all too often, it's things like sales tax, utilities, things like that. So, the best way, the best way I know to get those back is to sit down, deal with the people, work out arrangements, bend the rules a little bit, and try and bring them to the table, let them offer solutions to the problem. Donahue: I was also at the meeting last Wednesday when this came up and at the time, I wondered, "how would I deal with that, what would I do." I think one of the KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 12 suggestions that I heard bouncing around was trying to work with the business to work out a compromise for, you know, part of the payment. The only concern that I would have with that if I sat on a council seat, would be the business that does pay. You've got to put yourself there if you've got the business that is making those payments and paying their taxes and doing it on time. Nobody wants to put a business out of business. Nobody wants to have that business leave our community. In the same token, you've got to try to work out a compromise with them for a payment plan. And when that payment plan's not met, there has to be a consequence for it. Ail of us have to do that and the council would have that ultimate, probably, responsibility for that business ff they lacked in the, working out a compromise. And, the other side of that coin is the business that does pay their taxes and does stay on top of it and does desperately try to make those payments. So, it is not an easy street. It's not one that you can just sit back and say, "yes, we'll work this out, we'll do this." But I do think there are ways to allow that business who has a huge summer income coming in to maybe defer some tax payment to that time, but not allow them to get so far behind that they'll never catch up. And, I think that would be where I would go with some of the compromise to try to allow them to be still staying in our community as a business. Schrag: I guess I would need to know, or I would explore, the reasons why the delinquency, what sort of, ascertain whether it was just bad business decisions or does it seem more sneaky or what, just to explore it just a little bit further. In general, and then I agree that you try and work with them some how because it's hard, once people get behind, even if they want to catch up, but it's something that takes some time, some work sometimes, but in general as far as, I guess, some of the projects that you've sponsored so far in this community are good. What we need to bring in more people or more money, new money, retail, help circulate and that helps create jobs. But ah, that just kind of helps circulates money and we also need to doing, find these projects that will bring in neTM money. And I think that, you know, that would help the rental situation, the restaurants...just get people here and get their money spent. Eldridge: I think that's a lot of the answer is to get Kenai as a destination. So many, so many of the tourists go cruising down the road and their destination is Homer or Soldotna and it's not Kenai for whatever reason. I was a little disappointed in our exploring of the convention center when that item came up, that we didn't look at some other avenues. The tax avenue was not a, the tax break avenue wasn't one that we could deal with, but there might have been other avenues that could have enticed them to do something here within the community. And, something like that does bring people to the community and it benefits all the businesses in the community. ~NAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 13 What can be done to attract more retail businesses here so that this becomes more of a shopping center rather than the shoppers all going over to Soldotna. I don't know. What we can do as a council though, what the businesses here can do to try to attract other businesses to locate here so that we can have a larger base of shoppers as well as a larger base of tourists. And the specific issue about the delinquencies with the sales tax, I think, you know, what the council decided was right. They, these people either have to work out a way of paying those off and have a payment plan that they keep up with, or unfortunately, we do lose those businesses. If they get in over their head, they're not going to be able to recover. Williams: Thank you. Councilwoman Swarner? Swarner' Well, the sales tax kind of hits a nerve with me. I would like to hear from you what you would tell the business person who is struggling, but is paying their property tax and their sales tax because the sales tax is collected from the consumer. It's not paid by the business person normally, unless it's included in the price. So, what are you going to tell the struggling business person who is current on their sales tax and he says, how come you're letting this guy off for not paying, you know, they haven't even fried a return, and you're letting them use your money and everybody else's money for them to go off on a trip here or here, and yes, they want to pay their bills, you know, other bills, but they're using the consumers' money to do that. So Bill, it's your turn. Frazer' Thank you. I deal with delinquent payments pretty much on a daily basis in my business and it's funny, it's the squeaky wheel that's always the one that gets the most attention. The good thing, you never even notice them because they're never in trouble. But insurance companies cancel policies if you don't pay within a certain period of time. You can also work out payment plans through them that maybe suits your budget a little bit better. I, I agree with another statement here, that I, I agree with how the council handled this last Wednesday night. I think that's the proper way. There really is nothing to say to the guy that's paying his bill and why you're giving an advantage to somebody that maybe is in the same business he's in, competing with him. And, you can't do that. You've got to follow, pretty much, the outline set out by the council last Wednesday. Williams: Bernie. Brown' You can't reward nonpayment. There has to be, there has to be definitive penalties for nonpayment but it, it's not quite the same as a small loan or insurance policy. We're talking about businesses that employ people. We're talking about businesses that sell goods and services that increase G&P of the entire area. So, Bill, Bill's exactly correct. In my old line of business, it's always the guy who wasn't paying who had my attention. Never the good guy. And we rewarded, we rewarded the ones that paid. We rewarded them with more money or meeting their needs. Those that, those that don't pay, there has to be, there has to be a consequence. There has to be a deadline. There has to be strict adherences, especially if they come KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 14 to the table and they say, this is what I can do, if they can't do that, then you have to shut them down. I've put people in business. I've taken people out of business. But, you never, you never want to close that door when you look at the greater good unless you absolutely have to and that's a matter if they do not participate on their end. Donahue: I would reiterate again. The businessman that pays doesn't get a benefit and they pay to struggle to do that. The person that doesn't and works out a compromise has an advantage. And, in that compromise, there has to be a deadline. There has to be timeframe. There has to be a setup policy and ff December 31 ~t comes along and that deadline has not been met, and that policy hasn't been followed, and that person has not paid, or that business has not paid their taxes and you've given them the consequences, it's with anything else you do, if they know what the consequences are, you as a council have to follow through with those consequences. Whether they're closing that business dOwn or making them pay or however it is. I maintain this tax thing is pretty unfair to the little guy that pays their taxes. It is not fair to them that the city council and the city carries those others for five months, six months, two months, three months, whatever it is. But, in the same token, we're trying to build an economy in their community, we're trying to build these businesses up and sometimes you have to give them the break. As a council, you have to say, okay, we see you're making this effort. But, I think it has to be very clear if the effort isn't made in the timeframe that this council sets, then these are the consequences of what will happen to your business and put it fight back in their ballpark and let them play that game and it could work. Schrag: We always tell our kids that the world isn't a fair place sometimes. I guess it reminds me, it makes me think a little about...I manage a bunch of rental properties and think about getting behind on rent and trying to catch up with that and how I deal with that if I cut my losses with somebody, whereas I know there are other people who are struggling and they pay their rent faithfully all the time. Particularly if I see this one person, you know, doing a lifestyle that I know I'm not crazy about, or someone who's making bad choices. So I think, yeah, a lot of it has to do again with exploring what are the reasons behind. Are they just abusing, not paying because they're abusing the system or something like that and then tend to be a little more harsh on that. If it's just something that it's a little bit more out of their control, then the other tenants, if they're aware of it, they're fairly understanding of that if I work with that person I think because sometimes they feel like, they know they might be in that situation too or so. But, so I guess, also with, if it's a rent analogy, for me, one of the things I · really have to be careful of on my part, and I don't know how that works as well with the city, but that I not get behind, is one of the biggest keys for me is that it's hard to catch up. It's real hard to catch up. So I have to, sometimes I'm busy and stuff like that and I'm no crazy about going confronting this person or something, but one thing that I have learned is that, I cannot put that off because it never gets better. You know, you have to stay on top of it. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 15 Eldridge- You know, the sales tax issue really is, the council decision was whether or not to file the letter of protest, is what I understand. The sales taxes and their collection is actually the Borough's responsibilities. They have procedures for handling that and if they don't pay, they do have procedures for going ahead and setting up a payment plan for them. So, as council, we'd not really have a, any measure to take in that place, except for filing a letter of protest, from what I understand anyhow, because we don't collect those taxes ourselves. But, you're right, it is a concern when people don't pay their taxes and others are paying and sometimes folks that don't pay get away with things and eventually, it catches up with them. Sometimes it's right away and other times it's later on down the line. We've seen a number of instances of that in the community, the Central Peninsula community. Williams: You're absolutely correct. That, that's a point to make on the sales taxes that it's kind of rhetorical to think that the council can do anything about the sales tax itself, except in the one area of liquor licenses. In the event that a liquor license is up for hearing before the board or renewal, that is the only time that the council really has the opportunity to reach in an grab hold of something. I've often thought about the issue of sales taxes and as Helen talked earlier, I think, the businesses out there that are not paying. Those that just aren't catching up and Linda brought it up, there's probably lots of small businesses out there that are not paying their share. And we're totally dependent upon the Borough to handle that end of it, collecting for us. Jack, did you get a chance to answer that question of taxes? Castimore: No, I didn't John, thank you for clarifying that reformation. I appreciate that. You know, we've been here before. Remember back in '86 when the Borough said to the young man who had the shoe store across the way and he was struggling? They walked in. They grabbed his merchandise one morning. Threw it into boxes and took it over to Soldotna and sold it for like 25 cents on the dollar. Williams' No, no. cents on a dollar. No, no. Correction. They took it to the armory and sold it for 25 Castimore' I could remember when, but I just remember...That was a lose, lose. We lost the business. We lost the jobs and we didn't get to recover the sales tax. Shortly thereafter, they began this process of closing down, a large gift shop, I better not mention names, a large gift shop over in Soldotna, went out of business owing the Borough $80,000, which was never recovered. I think you're in a very difficult place. Local jobs, local businesses. Do you go and take a look at the individual circumstances and work with that individual or not. You're between a rock and a hard place, aren't you. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 16 Williams' AU right, just to carry it a step further, I'm going to put Jack back on the hot seat again. Earlier you talked about the intemet and the effect it may have on the economy. You also noted, of course, that 45, roughly 44 or 45% of our entire budget is derived from sales tax. The federal government has a moratorium of collecting sales tax on all of our intemet sales for the next three years. ~Ve're not even good, according to the Borough, at collecting sales tax on catalog sales. When UPS came to town and set up shop, they anticipated using two trucks. That would be all the service that they could handle here. I understand they have six trucks now. Conservatively spealdng, we did a little, somewhere around $6 million in e- trade last year and it's anticipated we'll do $12 million this year. That sales tax loss that we cannot capture, is becoming a bigger and bigger part of our budget and will become a bigger and bigger part of our fiscal gap, if you will. How do we go about accommodating e-trade and yet run the government? Castimore: There's a couple of things John. You know, we're starting with jobs and we'll come back to what Joe asked about, how do you make these businesses survive. If they can't survive, they're gone. 'vVe've lost the tax base and the employment. In that house down by Ray down there, it's going to go up for sale. 'vVe have to put something there to make them survive first, don't we. If we provide them with a job that can get them through this hard time, expand their business so that they can pay their bills. Number one, you said something about UPS, that's a great example. When Amazon.corn started in Seattle, UPS's biggest, biggest company was a company called Microsoft. Their biggest company five years later, is a warehouse called Amazon.com. Now they're running a warehouse there strictly to sell e- commerce. UPS is their sole supplier. If there's a tax on UPS sales and they run semis, several of them, every day out of that warehouse, what would be the impact upon the City of Kenai if several semis a day was coming out of a warehouse here, locally, shipping UPS merchandise. Williams: Good answer. Anybody else have a good answer for that? Yeah, it's one of those situations that's got more facets to it than you can imagine. Questions from council, either individually or collectively. Councilwoman Swarner. Swamer: ~ell, this is one of those questions we were all asked when we run for election. How would you change the budget and do you have any personal interest in any department? Castimore' Positive or negative? Swamer: Either. Like, what would you cut and what would you increase. Williams: Let's start with Bill. It will make it more even that way. on down the line. Let's start with Bill. Just keep moving Frazer: I don't really have any items in the budget that are, particularly I have any interest in anyway or the other. And, I'm not sure at this point in time, I've looked KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 17 the budget over several times, of where you would cut and where you would add to it and so forth. I think that from my standpoint, it's a little premature to be making any defined statement on that. I, in regard to the budget though, I don't believe, at least for the next couple of years, we should be looking at a mill rate increase to support any additional items. We're perhaps facing a state income tax, if we can believe the newspapers and what's going on in Juneau, and that might be more than we can handle for the next couple of three years. But, before we, before we get into any of that, we need to look at our current spending and maybe some possible other avenues of revenue to support the budget. Brown: Since I wasn't involved in the budget process and I, I didn't get to see how, how budget decisions were determined, it's not fair for me to say, say I'd cut this or reduce that, or I'd increase this. So, with the additional taxes, it, it, it's fairly forgone that we're going, that the state of Alaska is going to have something. We're either going to have a state sales tax or we're going to have an income tax, or we're just going to live off our savings and hope that something better happens in the oil industry. We're a pretty, we're a pretty low-tax state. I don't care for taxes. I don't particularly like taxes, but I also like the services that are provided by the city and by the state. And, so until I, until I saw the process, and I saw the funding, I saw the funding methods and what could actually be cut. You get a budget too lean and then it's ineffective. Then it doesn't matter, then it doesn't matter what you cut anymore. You can cut it too deep or there might be places to cut from. Williams- Thank you. Donahue: I would like to think that the council has been fairly conservative and in knowing most of you I would guess that in previous budget processes. I would have, at this point, no place where I would know where to cut only because I'm not familiar enough with the process and the budget, actually. And, I'm satisfied with what I have seen this council approve in the past in budgets. I'm satisfied with where I've seen the dollars go in our corn__rnunity and the dollars that have been spent here. There's always that cut personnel, or cut graders or cut this person or that. I don't think that that's a fair way to go in a budget process. I think you have to look at the whole programs and everything that's there. So, at this point, Councilwoman SWarner, I couldn't give you an answer on where I would cut or what I would use as revenue sources. We all know it's out there and we just have to, as a council, you would have to make those decisions. Schrag: I would agree with that. I don't know of any, there's no particular area right now that I feel needs to be cut necessarily. I would just have to see the, maybe Thursday night would tell us more. The one thing that maybe a little irrelevant, but I was aware on Saturday when I drove around, that it was so sleek everyplace in Soldotna it was really slick at the intersections. Here in Kenai, it seemed like the sand truck had been around to a lot of the intersections, even back in our neighborhood, there and everything and I was really impressed with that. So, I don't KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 18 know if that's a function of having budgeted a little more for winter work or not for you guys, but anyway I was, I was glad to see that. That was nice on such a slick day. Eldridge: Yeah, I don't know of any particular area of cutting or of additional revenue. But, in seeing what the council has done over the past decade or more, I feel both the city council and the city administration have been very judicious in the way they used their funds and the way they leveraged their funds as well as leveraged the airport lands too. Go ahead and get additional improvements and infrastructure here in the community. Obviously it would be nice to attract more large businesses to bring in more sales tax and more property tax. That's something that I think still needs to be looked at and is being looked at some of the economic development people. Castimore: Linda, I think first in looking at the long term, you have to look at some of things that are recurring costs that perhaps the city can reduce. Years ago, we used to talk when we had much greater amount of municipal revenue sharing, was getting all the streets in town asphalted so you could reduce some of the maintenance so those crews didn't have to go out there and run a blade in the summertime across all those gravel areas such as where Barry and I'm building a new house in VIP. The one street gets a lot of the traffic that asphalt out there, but a lot of those others are maintenance, heavy with maintenance. Also, down in by Beaver Creek. That's a maintenance area there. So if we can get a way in which we can reduce that maintenance in the long term, then that cost would be reduced to the city and I think you've all talked about that many years in the past. That would be a way to streamline some of the budget aspects. I talked earlier about revenue. If we talk about costs, I don't see a revenue stream for the Visitors Center. Jim's not going to like this. I know you throw about $65,000 into the fee that's paid for them so you get a proper accounting financially. I know it's your building, so you have to maintain it, so that's about $45,000. There's a $65,800 that you pay there for a fee for operations of that and I think that you could look at that if it became a very hard time and you had to look at something in the budget. The maintenance you have to keep because it's your building and you want it to be kept up to grade. Somebody else operating your building, the first thing they're going to cut, is maintenance. You know that. Thank you. Williams: For a point of information, I was just looking at the general budget and our first projected tax increase comes in FY 2002, which is only a proposed budget out that far, We're looking at having to increase the mill rate by one mill and of course, that's predicated on things rocking along on a fairly even keel between now and then and it may not be worth a dam, that projection may not be worth a darn. But, at this point in time, we're hoping that things will work like that. Further questions? KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 19 Ail right, well, let's turn the table around a little and let's ask if we have any questions from the candidate back to the council. Let's start with Bernie on this end. Brown' How does the council view the economic outlook in the next two years for this area? Williams' I like to say, dij/~ vu, this is where I came in. I came in 1986 when everybody was going south. There were 30,000 people left Alaska. Eleven banks failed. We were in a disastrous situation. There has been some adjustments made to cushion us from that very type of disaster again, primarily in the banking industry and the state industry. However, you know, bloody Friday isn't here yet. It's going to be here next week. They're going to loose 1,000 jobs off the Slope before it's over. It's estimated about 300 of those are going to be from the Kenai Peninsula. Those 300 jobs are among some of the highest paying in our economy and we're going to have a lot of cars repossessed for one thing. It has me deeply concerned. Like I say, this is where I came in. We struggled for years to try to get ourselves back up on level ground. I don't think it was until about 1995 or 96 that our property values finally returned to what they were in 1986. It took ten years to get back. Now, while we probably won't get hit that hard, I am not optimistic about the next 12 to 18 months. I'm just not very optimistic. Brown: Do you see us losing the Alpine project? Williams: Let me say, that from what I know of the construction that's going on at Natchiq at the present time, those modules will be shipped from here, finished or not, they'll be taken to the North Slope. They'll be taken ashore and mothballed and that project will not become a reality for two to three years. Councilman Bookey. Bookey: Well, being the eternal optimist, I just cracked open another Mother Earth here last week for a new building. My wife says, what are we doing. I totally am committed to the City of Kenai. I grew up in this town. I came to Kenai when there was 700 people or 600, whatever. I am a firm believer that Kenai will be bigger and stronger 20 years from the day that we are sitting fight here. I don't think we have to get in a big panic over this oil, this program with the' oil. We went all through it in '86. There's going to be some losses. We're going to loose some businesses. There's no doubt. You have to, in Alaska, I've been in business on my own for 25 years. I've watched the highs and the lows and fortunately, I have a wife that keeps my check book in check and, but that's just part of being in business and I look that as the City of Kenai here sitting on council. We need to watch our budgets, but we're not going to disappear. We're not going to dry up. The Mayor kind of had me upset last week because he said we were going to be a dusty spot in the middle of the road again and I'm not convinced that that is in any way, shape or form ever going to happen. WilLiams' It wasn't said quite in that context. I said I'd hate to see us become... KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 20 Bookey: I'll retract. Williams' Councilwoman Swarner. Swarner: Okay, well I was first elected in 1987, the year after the Mayor and everybody runs when I run. Anyway, I too have grown up in Alaska and seen lots of ups and downs since prior to statehood. So, and we came here to Kenai when properW tax in the double digits and the Borough, so I have seen the ups and downs and I think the City of Kenai is on very good financial ground and we will survive and we do have good infrastructure and we have had a council that has worked together to keep costs down and I think that we work together well and we all have our favorite things that we would like to see, but we compromise too for the wellbeing of the citizens of Kenai and I'd like to see the population of Kenai increased too and more retail areas back in because one of my pet peeves is trying to buy a shovel on a Sunday in Kenai last fall and I couldn't buy one. So, it's kind of disheartening that way, but I think we will survive very well. Williams: Councilman Moore. Moore: I don't know. I don't have an answer one way or the other. I'm a little nervous about what's ahead. I've committed my office, which is now located in Soldotna, we're going to be expanding and putting a branch in Kenai this next fall. So, if that's any indication of my confidence in Kenai, I hope it is. Williams: Councilman Measles. Measles' I guess the ups and downs here, you have to take the bad with the good and in a state being as dependent as it is one source of revenue, as long as that continues to be, those peaks and valleys will always be there because the oil industry is notorious for that, always has been as far back as the oil industry goes in history. This area of the Kenai Peninsula and especially the City of Kenai is probably better equipped to handle those than any place else in the state of Alaska. Even the downturn in the early 80s, mid-80s that John referred to earlier, we didn't see the mass exodus of people from Kenai that Anchorage saw. Anchorage was hurt a lot worse in that time than we were, even though we got hurt. Our property values decreased. We were pinched, but not to the point of a lot of other areas in the state. I feel confident that the city will continue to grow. There will always be from time to time, some times not quite as good as other times. I won't say bad times. But not as good as others and we just have to deal with that and move on because things will recover and we'll be better off for it. Williams' Thank you. Councilman Bannock. Bannock: While I wasn't quite as, while I am not quite as crazy as Councilman Bookey to go build a building in the coldest week of the year, on the idea, I appreciate that he did do that. I think there are some things in Kenai that give us KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 21 automatic stability. There is some legitimacy to some of the accomplishments that the administration and this council and councils well before me have put into place that can kind of buffer that tide, if you will, a little bit. I too have lived in Kenai my entire life and I have seen, I have seen the consequences of $40 a barrel oil and I've seen the consequences of $10 a barrel of oil. As Mr. Measles is accurately alluded to, there we go. In the business that I'm in, you can track my business in revenue just like you can track the price of a barrel of oil. But, the City of Kenai has done some things that said, we don't have to necessarily ride that much of a roller coaster. Sure we're going to have the less than the greatest highs and not quite as the lowest valleys, but we've put things in like a thriving tourism industry that regardless of what the price of oil is for the most part, is going to come here. Our commercial fishermen are suffering miserably. It doesn't have anything to do with the price of oil. How can we, what can we do to help buffer that industry. What can we do to shore it up. On the Peninsula we see timber taking off that hasn't necessarily been here before. Within the city limits of the City of Kenai, of course, we have one of our jewels in the fire training center. That's a magnet. It is a magnet. If that facility were somewhere else in Alaska, that's where people would go. People aren't going to come to the fire training center because it's in Kenai, Alaska. They're going to come to Kenai, Alaska because the fire training center is there. We have an airport which is probably one of our most, it is clearly one of our most financial egg basket. How can we use that to our advantage. How can we capitalize on something that's already good and make it even better. When you put all of the assets of the City of Kenai and all of the things that are going for us, you put those in your asset column and then you line up the things that, quite frankly, we cannot control, the balance sheet pares out that we're doing okay and that we don't have to, we don't have to yell the sky is falling. If the sky was falling, we wouldn't see people still here. We would have, I don't predict that mass exodus that we saw in late 1986 and early 1987. So, sky falling? No. A little bit tougher? Yeah, probably. But, I think we put the things in place to help us get through that little storm. Williams: Thank you. There's no doubt about it, the City of Kenai itself and its treasury is fairly well buffered and can withstand the onslaught for awhile like members of the council have said. I think I may have overstated. I think what I was really pointing at was the foreseeable 18 months in the private sector. That's where it's really going to get tough. And another question? Who's next? I think Helen is next. Yes. Donahue: I need to know how many phone calls, you as council members, get at home and how many hours a week you would consider that you put into your council. Bookey: Well, it all depends on the issues. You know, if the MAPTS area is up in arms, we get a few. If they're not, it's quiet. Actually, in reality, I don't take a tremendous amount of calls. I'm out in the public a lot. I handle a lot of face-to-face conversations about the city and issues, but I, I would venture to say that I haven't KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 22 had a call in the last 45 days. Well, I take that back. Mr. Schrag did call me about a week ago, two weeks ago. So I take that back. But other than that, it's not a lot. And as far as time putting in for council, I, in the winter time, sometimes the city administration gets fired of seeing me, but in the summertime when I'm busy and trying to make a living, you know, you can balance it. It's not a thing that any hard core amount and I guess it's just up to yourself and what you want to put into it. Williams: Councilwoman Swarner. Swarner: Well, first of all, we do, as council members, are liaisons to the various commissions and committees, if those of you who are seeking this position don't know. Some of us serve on more than one commission or committee. I personally are liaison to the Beautification Committee and that meets ten months of the year and involved with that is not mandatory, but I am very active as a volunteer in the planting and the weeding of the city at the Leif Hansen Park and at the fire station. And the Council on Aging, probably that meeting, that group only meets probably only three or four times a year and those meetings are a couple of hours usually and like Beautification is a couple of hours. I too, usually do not get many phone calls except that I've had, when the snow was coming down and we weren't getting snow removal, I was getting phone calls and being stopped in the grocery store, that kind of thing. But, I think the more you're out in the public, you will be asked more questions too. So, and like this week, we've had, this week we had the two special meetings and so that seems like a lot of, you know, time involved, but usually with only the two meetings a month and then in non-budget times, but when we're working on the budget, then we can meet once a week for a couple of months. Or, if you're interviewing for a city manager or something like that, it gets more time consuming too. Williams' Thank you. Councilman Moore. Moore: Yeah. I don't really have anything to add regarding phone calls. I have the same experience here and I serve, in addition to the council meetings, I'm on three other commissions and committees that at various times each month. Williams' Councilman Measles. Measles: Yes, as Councilman Bookey said, the phone calls depend on the issue, but there's, I don't receive many phone calls. An occasional call or if there's a special issue up, there may be a flurry of three or four calls on a particular issue. Other time for the council, other than the meetings, which I've seen anywhere from 18 minutes to seven hours meeting nights. We haven't had one of those seven hour ones in a long time. And then, as Councilwoman Swarner indicated, the, we do also serve as ad hoc or liaison members of at least one or more commissions or committees in the city. There is some preparation time involved prior to council meetings to read your packet and make sure you understand the issues that are KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 23 going to be on the table for the meeting night. Budget time, there's, in addition to the budget sessions, there is time spent outside of those meetings individually, making sure we understand the budget and where we're going with it. But it's, it doesn't involve a great deal of your personal time. It normally doesn't, I have a full- time job, more than full-time most of the time, but it's not something that's overbearing or burdensome at all. Williams: Councilman Bannock. Bannock: I get a lot of phone calls. I think I get a lot. I don't get very many at home because I'm not at home very often. So, I get a lot of phone calls at work. But, I put that in the newspaper one time that it would be okay to call me at work. I loVe it when people call me. I don't even mind when they call me to chew me out. I really don't mind it a bit. Sometimes, sometimes I have to say, take a time out because I'm going to have to call you back because I do have a real job and sometimes if I have an owner over, standing over me needing something, I may have to put someone on the back burner for minute. As far as the time that I put into it, .it's kind of a sick answer sometimes. There was an elected official that went on the record as saying that politics was almost a hobby to him and I think that was perceived as a, as a smack or something slight. Well, as sick as it sounds, local politics is a hobby to me. I can remember the very night where I sat about where Mr. Castimore is as a little boy in a council meeting and I thought, this is cool. So, I like it. I don't hunt. I don't fish. I don't have a snow machine. I don't have boat. I don't have an airplane. I like city politics and I love the City of Kenai and I want to always do the very best that I can for it. So, if that means more time trying to figure out something in the code book or driving over and looking at a particular gravel .pit issue or something like that, I put as much time into as I possibly can. If I were to measure it in hours, I wouldn't even be able to guess that. But, maybe it's a sickness, but that's why I do it and why it takes up a lot of time. Schrag: I'll let you off the hook. Eldridge' When you mentioned you have a number of things that you worked on to bring people to the community; there's the court house and the fire training center and coming on line hopefully this year, the Challenger Center, what other issues, what other projects has the council been considering to make this City of Kenai, the most city of Alaska, we've been told by many tourists, to make it even more attractive and bring more folks into the city? Williams: Who wants to start? Councilman Moore. Moore' Yeah, I think the one thing, I had a question down here and it struck me when you said bring more people to the city and I had written a question of the dip net fishery... Eldridge: Not necessarily ...... to live and shop. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 24 Moore: All right. Thanks. Sure. I don't know, we've got the multi-use recreational facility that's coming up here. We've spent some money on design. I think that will be a real asset to this city as far as bringing people in during the winter months for activities there. Dip net fishery is not a bad thing, but we need to get control of it. If we can organize it as such that people leave some money here while they're here, I think that it can be positive. I guess I'll leave it at that. Williams: Councilman Bookey. Bookey: Well, we have a mayor on the other end of this counter that brings us more ideas, most of the time, than we can handle. So, we generally have our plates full. But, I guess from my standpoint of being in business and being business on my own for all the number of years that I've been here, taxation to me. As long as we maintain our tax levels and we don't escalate, I think that business can survive and continue to grow. There's not a whole lot of things that I want the government or the council to do for me and my business. You know, I can take care of that myself. Taxation would be the one that would hurt me probably the most. Williams: Councilman Bannock. Bannock: Just to follow up on that, we've all heard the phrase of the sure things of life are death and taxes and while some of the sure things that we should be able to provide through our administration and through our council is some consistencies. You shouldn't have to worry about your sales tax rate going, tripling, doubling. We shouldn't have to worry about our property taxes taking some massive departure from the norm. We shouldn't have to worry, I wonder if my roads are going to get plowed today. We shouldn't have to worry, I wonder if my water is going to be clean and safe. Those are the things that the City of Kenai, maybe it's boring, but because they're not, as we mentioned earlier, those aren't the squeaky-wheel items, we tend to sometimes take them for granted. I call that being in a very positive stable rut and sometimes those aren't bad things and there are some things that we have come to bank on within the City of Kenai that perhaps we take as for granted, because they're there, but if you can back up from that and say, what would be the alternative if we didn't know if our roads were going to get plowed or we didn't know what our water and sewer issue was going to be like or we didn't know if the fire department was going to be able to make it out on time, those are some of the things that the city has done an excellent job of building up and there are some things that we can count on in life, just like the death and taxes, but there are other things that the administration has done that have provided us with those chips in Kenai and I'm very, very proud of that. Williams' Councilman Measles? Measles: Maybe just to expand a little on the stable tax situation. The city started, a couple years ago I guess, when our budget is prepared, we do our annual budget for KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 25 the coming year, but we also do a five-year look forward and I believe that the projected tax increase that John mentioned is out there in 2002, I believe that was frrst projected two years ago in our budget process has been to look forward. So, contrary to the way the state operates and looking back, "Oh my gosh, we're out of money. We didn't budget enough. Or we didn't bring in enough to cover what we budgeted." We're attempting to look ahead so if there is something out there in the future, it's something that everybody knows about ahead of time, two or three or four years before it happens, rather than waking up some morning, the sky is falling and we've got to do something. I think, from a business standpoint in the City of Kenai, that stabilization of our tax structure here within the city that we have control of, I think that's a big plus for the City of Kenai. Williams- Thank you. Councilwoman Swarner. Swarner: Well, I'll agree with Councilman Bookey. We have a very visionary mayor who brings lots of things in and sometimes I know that I don't show my appreciation very much, but I do appreciate all his... Williams: I still love you Linda... Swarner: Yeah, thanks John. And, something for all of you to look forward to is two years ago we had an economic forum and we're going to be having another one in April and I would encourage all of you to participate. And, you know, that was a, even though being involved with business here in Kenai, it still was good for me to hear what other business people were saying and their frustrations and that kind of thing. And, I guess, one of the things that's exciting for bringing people to Kenm, I think, is next month, Jack, you kind of touched on the Visitors Center about money going, this is something that I think will bring some people back m, there is, if you're interested in quilts, but it's an art exhibit, there's quilting, a quilting exhibit from two quilters from Australia, I believe. And, you can go on the mtemet and see these, their quilts that they've already made. But, this is something, as a tourist attraction, in February for people to come to Kenai. And I know that they're people from Anchorage that came down to the quilt show in Soldotna last June. So, you know, if you keep working on the small things, they'll get bigger. Williams: Thank you. You're question more specifically was what are some of the other projects and things that are going on. The one that we did miss and didn't mention is that in a cooperative partnership between the Borough and the State, we'll be building a new Public Health Nurse facility. It's also to include an adjunct medical facility for day care/outpatient care. It's my understanding it's going to be in the neighborhood of about 16,000 square feet, be located fight here in town, we should be able to go to bid in the Spring. So that's going to be a nice little project. One, from the standpoint that it's going to bring some payroll in as far as contractors are concerned; two, it falls in line with the philosophy that the council has been following for some years now, and that is to make the City of Kenai a service center for people services. And, if you look around the way we've positioned the city, we KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 26 have of course, the transportation center of the Peninsula with the airport; we have the judicial center for the courthouse, judicial center of the Peninsula with the courthouse; we will have the Public Health Nurse facility and that portion of the medical community will be centered here in Kenai; and we're doing a lot with vocational training through the center here and also through the Economic Development District being located in Kenai; we have the Animal Control Shelter for better or worse, we absorb a tremendous impact of animals from the Borough, but again, it's a people-services thing; and we can't overlook the fact that the State has consolidated its offices with some 50 or 60 state employees right here in the City of Kenai. So, again, the way the city has positioned itself is, in my view, very, very good for the future. There is a little problem though that it relates to and it, it can be good or bad, and of course, I forgot to throw in the Senior Citizens' Center and the Visitors' Center too, because the Senior Citizens' Center is like a little factory. It's like a brand new payroll coming in over the wall every month and it's a nice clean industry to be in the senior citizens' business. But, one of the problems I see that's developed over the years is that the City of Kenai has spent, or had spent on its behalf, about $65 million in capital projects to support the community, the surrounding area, to create jobs and to help business grow and when we take a look at that and say, what has the return been by the other side, by the private sector, it's been very, very small. The City cannot continue to invest, cause to have invested by other government agencies on its behalf massives amount, massive amount of capital without finding it somewhat in the same position that a, that, you know, one-element economy city might fred itself because government, of course, has to be collectively looked as part of the economy. But, we have some of the best payroll jobs right here in Kenai, as a result of government spending. The Federal Aviation Administration, Homer Electric Association, all of them produce great jobs with good payroll. So, it still comes back to that issue of private sector. Can we, should we, how will we increase and encourage and enhance the private sector? Someone else now. Jack, your turn. Castimore' Ah, you've answered quite a bit of what I had in mind, John. Somehow thought someone up there would ask me this question. Where do you see the local economy, the City of Kenai, five years down the road? Williams: The most optimistic person in the room tonight is Jim, plant palm trees. Bookey: Yeah, that was Planning & Zoning requirement...Five years from today, I believe we're probably going to take a little slow down here. I mean, we did in '86 when the major programs took a dive and I think we're going to again. But, I don't think that it's going to be as hard. I, I'm very optimistic. We're plunging right ahead, personally. I, I'm not slowing down at all and, and I talked to a couple of other members of the community today and they both feel the same way and they're, you know, they've, they've got some ideas on the board. So, I think that it, you know, eighteen months to two years from now, we'll be right back to where we are today and going on down the road. Williams: Councilwoman Swarner. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 27 Swarner: Well, actually, Jack I had my question here and I didn't ask it, was how do you envision the City of Kenai in ten years, so yours is five years. Up until this past few months, I guess, and hearing more about the fish processors, I would hope that in the next, you know, five to ten years, that there'd be some more secondary processing of fish products instead of it all going to other communities and that we could do something, you know, with fish products. And, I guess I would also like to see the City of Kenai being known as customer-friendly so when you walked into City Hall for something, whether it's a building permit, paying your water and sewer bill, but that we were a great place to do business with and you weren't, you know, you didn't have all these hurdles thrown in front of you that you were happy to be here and you were happy to pay your bills. Williams: Councilman Moore? Moore: I don't have anything to add. Williams: No answer. CounCilman Measles? Measles' I don't have anything to add that hasn't been said. I'm optimistic about the future of the city. I think in five years we'll be in better position than we are today. Williams' Councilman Bannock? Bannock: I, I'd sure like it, I'd sure like to believe today that retail will be greater than it is today in five years. On the flip side of the, on the things that we can control from a council, I would expect that things would, perhaps, be even tighter than they are today. As we progress, we will do things better. We'll do things smarter and we will do things more efficiently. I think that's the nature of that. I can't guarantee that we would have more retail, because that certainly hasn't been our trend. But, I will do every, I will do everything I can do to see that that takes place and that's certainly my goal and my optimism, but I can't see, I cannot foresee a scenario that puts the City of Kenai in a worse position in any, whether it be financially, socially, or any of the factors that we consider on where it is that we want to live five years from now than it is today. Williams: Thank you. Frazer: Thank you. I kind of want to ask something of an economic nature, I think. I watched this airport expansion issue with great interest. It seems to me there might be a major economic boost there down the road that perhaps could even out some of these peaks and valleys created by the fishing industry and the oil industry and I'm just curious in a very general sense in what the council sees as the potential for this project, given environmental and living quality issues being satisfied. I'm not looking for a definitive answer, maybe, perhaps maybe the mayor would prefer to answer something like that. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 28 Williams: Well, having given my report earher about the Adak project, you know, when we went into this whole thing, we realized that we were in a major state of flux with air transportation throughout the state. I've visited Fairbanks, Anchorage, both with regards to the freight issue. A lot of it is governed by who out there is interested in coming here to use it and that we don't know. At this point in time, we're continuing to move ahead on a much slower basis and more low-key review of that whole program. The Economic Development District is hopeful of obtaining a major grant from the state Department of Transportation in which to be able to review all of the state airports on the Kenai Peninsula and see what their function is going to be and well they're operating and in the direction they might move over the next few years. The City of Kenai has agreed to join, we haven't actually signed any agreements or made it official yet, but we agreed that we shall explore and perhaps join, would be better wording, that effort in the study in order to garner more information about our own system. Because, as a city airport, we're not included in the state grant to do the state-owned airports. So, we're going to know some answers when that study comes out, although, you know, at this point in time, it looks like we're a little bit behind the curve, if it's anything we really want to go and do. Adak is already laying out, laying up their money in advertising their RFPs and have had great numbers of meetings around the state with the northern ports group and so forth. So, we're just moving slowly into the development of the big unit to see if it's even viable. On the other hand, one thing that we're really trying to do is bring this airport alive that we have here with regards to any number of small businesses who might locate along the airport. To those ends, that video tape that we were watching the other evening, I had Steve Atha, our Airport Manager and a couple of the council members and I reviewed about a 20 minute video tape on general aviation and small airports. We're closing hundreds of general aviation airports across the nation every year. But those that are remaining and those that are staying in business that cater to the small aircraft are coming along on a whole brand new tract and that is, trying to attract businesses who by their very nature, find that they can expand beyond just there geographical limit by being close to an airport. And, as we sat there and watched that video tape, I envisioned several of the small companies, service companies here in Kenai, who could expand tremendously by locating at the airport. Be more efficient in their operation, more efficient in their expansion. One of them that came to mind is Fire Control Services. If they were located at the airport instead of out north, they could address issues in Seldovia and Port Graham much quicker. They could, you know, if traffic warranted the movement between here and there and Homer, Kodiak. So, I think over the next few years you'll see us continue to push in that direction to try to find businesses that are compatible with air traffic and can expand their own facility when shown that their geographical limits can be expanded. So... the airport. ~NAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 29 All fight. Did we get through everybody? Everybody had a question for the council. Council, do want to take a short break? Let's take a short break fight now. BREAK TAKEN: 8:45 P.M. BACK TO ORDER: 8:55 P.M. Williams: Okay, we'll come back on the record again. It's pulling up towards nme o'clock, so what I'd like to do is, we're going to take just a moment. There are some people from the general public that may like to ask a particular question, so we're going to do that one time. Then we're going to come back and have a one-time wrap- up comment from the candidates and if there are some council people then who would like to make a final announcement or final word.., so, we'll just kind of wrap it up with that and we'll hear a final comment from each of you before we close so that if there's anything you've left out or like us to know, we'll have. All right, with that, is there someone from the general public? Anyone from the general public who wishes to make some comments or questions toward the candidates or council? Yes, if you come up, please use Councilman Bookey's microphone since the rest are...give your name and address for the record. Jill Lipka: And I'm Jill Lipka and 1606 Salmo Circle in Kenai. I hadn't planned on asking a question, but this kind of popped up in my mind. I wondered in a calendar' year of 1998, how many council meetings or Harbor Commission, Planning & Zoning, have you attended and that's, that's my question. Donahue: My council meetings that I have attended have been four, I believe, maybe five, but four and two of those were on behalf of Kenai Peninsula United Way. Schrag: I don't know the exact number. There' s been quite a few. Eldridge: I think last year I only attended a couple council meetings, but I have attended the Harbor Commission meetings on a fairly regular basis. Kept fairly current during the year for the Harbor Commission. Castimore: In the past, I was on the Planning & Zoning Commission for quite a few years in the 1980's. Currently, I've been on the Parks & Rec because I like green grass and how beautiful the community is. We, we meet, at least once a month for that. You know, if you're doing a committee activity in the community, you don't just meet once a month. You go to visit those offices, you run upstairs to talk to someone, so I think that if you're truly involved in it, you may sit and talk to John or, or someone else on the council, in the community at length. I can remember about 45 minutes recently in Carrs Grocery Store talking to John about things. So... Frazer: I think, I'm not real clear on this. I know I've been at least two and possibly three or four council meetings this past year. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 30 Brown' My main focus was Chamber of Commerce and professional organizations. So, I probably did about two dozen of those over the last year. I haven't been to any city council. I did, I did attend two borough meetings on issues that, that interested me. Williams: Is there anyone else from the general public who wanted to ask a question? Yes? Bob Peters: My name is Bob Peters and I live in Old Town, Kenai and I'm surprised that Mr. Bannock or Mr. Bookey didn't bring this up when they were, they were asking about projects and the future projects. I was thinking about the library addition and even though they're have been two bond issues for that has failed, because I feel as though that the public didn't want to fund it through that way, the Library Commission has found a need for a library addition through a needs assessment study that was, I guess, was three years ago or so. I was wondering how the prospective council people felt about this if they felt that we did actually did need a library addition and if they did, how would they suggest that we fund that. Donahue: I'll start. I don't have any problems with that. I voted for the library bond issue when it came up because I felt the need for expansion of our library. If the community continues to grow as it has been, our library's got to grow with it. I'm not .sure that some changes couldn't be done over at the library. I haven't spent a lot of time over there, but that would be something that I would like to see investigated as a prospective council member. Possibly some rearrangement inside. I don't know. I haven't spent time looking at that, but that would be one of the recommendations that I would suggest. As far as funding, there, the fundraismg efforts that go on for the library I have been very supportive of. I've gone to all of your functions. They fred me for tickets for everything. I'm one of those people that no matter what, they find me to buy tickets. I don't have a suggestion. I'll be honest. I don't have a up-front suggestion on how to get funding for that library. I know there's probably some out there. Grants. There's got to be some way to do that and work on it. It'd certainly be worth investigating and I'd certainly be interested in helping with something like that. Schrag: I think the library is another one of the jewels in the crown, we use that term quite a bit. It's a good facility. I think it's used quite a bit. I did vote for, for the bond issue, however I think one of the problems was that it was brought up too soon, because I felt a little bit dinged by that too that, you know, the election just before that it had been voted down and so I felt like that was a little bit too soon to bring it back up again. It maybe needed a little bit more time to be sold. I think there was maybe some reaction just on that, on that level. So, I like the idea of people who are Friends of the Library and the people who support it. You know, whether it's library or whether it's sports center, or anything else, doing all they can KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 31 do, but I guess I would also, it'd be nice if the city could £md a way to help out on that, or at least whether encouragement or indirect means. And, I'm not quite sure either what that, what that'd be. Eldridge: Yeah, I'd have to agree we do have an excellent facility there at the Kenai Library. And I think that, the voters did vote it down a couple of times and I think that perhaps the size of the proposed expansion of the facility may have been the reason for some of those negative votes and personally I have not seen the needs study or have not reviewed that, so I would have to review that and, and see what the specific needs are that are addressed and confwm that it takes that size of an expansion to accommodate the needs for this community and the surrounding area. As far as funding it, I don't know what the means is for funding it. Unless we can come up with a facility that we can convince the taxpayers that they need to vote to float a bond issue on it. Castimore: Thank you Bob. I'm impressed.with the 92,000 people who walk through the doors of our library last year. Voice: There were over 100,000 last year, Jack... Castimore' Oh well, that's great. With that, I'm obviously a reader, and supporter and have a print on the wall that we won one of your raffles' ' Guttenberg Press put on line Promo.com which has 1,600 books on line. The Guttenberg people, you see their name on Public Television, PBS, all the time. They have funds. But I look back to what they did out in Nome about 1906, whatever it was. Carnegie Foundation built libraries all over our area. There's one over in the Yukon Temtory, there's another one in Nome. I would think that the people like Carnegie Foundation and the Guttenberg Press that are out there trying to promote libraries and reading, would be a good avenue to begin with. Frazer: Thank you. I, I haven't reviewed the study on the hbrary either, but based on the public votes on the bond issue or on the issue in the past, obviously the size of the project has some affect. I, I guess I would like to see, if we're going to put an addition on, some other avenues are explored for funding. I'm not sure if it's possible, but perhaps we could sell off some of the city's undeveloped assets much like the proposal is for the skating rink. In return, have a, wind up with a developed asset, rm not sure whether that's feasible or not, but certainly would like to see that explored before we dipped into tax dollars at this point in time. Brown: Well Bob, I do support the library expansion very much. Both my, both my children use the library as a regular resource for their school work and one of their complaints, there isn't enough computer time and they, the resource books that they need aren't always there. The selection isn't always there and so I, I very much do support the library expansion. But, as a taxpayer for something like that, I like to, I like to see a lot of private and a lot of corporate donations brought in that base, kind of a, kind of a two or three tiered funding rather that as a library cause the library, ~NAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 32 the library benefits everyone in the commumty, the overall community rather than just a straight tax base. I'd really to see some, some bigger corporate sponsors. Peters: Well, thank you all... Williams: All right. We'll start wrapping it up here now. I think we'll just have a closing comment from each of you and possibly there's a comment or two from council that wants to be made and see if we can cover, we pretty well covered the territory. In this kind of business, you never it, let me tell you. It's a brand new every day. Where do we want to start? Donahue: I can start John. I started before, I can start again. I don't mind. I don't mind when I get to finish it up. It's that starting-starting that was so bad. Most of you know me. I'm Helen Donahue. I'm very interested in serving on the city council in Kenai. I don't have a lot of baggage with me or anything like that, so I'm not carrying a lot of that kind of thing. I like the political process. I've always liked it. I've enjoyed being involved with it. The reason I sought the job was for that and the fact that I felt that I could contribute to my community. That I could give something back to them. The community's been good to my husband and I both. We've enjoyed being here and this is my opportunity to say, hey, I'm here and open to the public. I believe in the public forum. I believe in the public responding to our, us as a council or to the people that are on the council and I think that's really important. And, I'm open to suggestions. I listen to people. I'm a good listener and I think that I could serve you very well as a partner in your council, being a council member, and also work with the mayor and the city administration. So, with that, I'd appreciate any support I could get from the council. Thank you. Williams: Thank you. Let me say directly to all of you too. We really appreciate your taking the time to come down. Thank you very much Helen for making your presence before us this evening. Mark. Schrag: I may have baggage. I feel like I'm a good baggage, I'd like to think I'm a good baggage handler. I just, I guess I see times changing. We've talked, you know, we've talked a lot of ecom, and things like that and I just, I do think we're going to have to be thinking in those realms. It seems like in this area we're changing away from an industrial base and in some ways we are positioned because we are, it's a wonderful place to five, you know. If we can have the jobs here, people would love to live here, would choose to live here and I would love to see it, you know, that kind of, that person who's here because they want to live here and because they have a job that they can, that they can stay here as opposed to somebody who is just here for a job or something like that. And so, hoping that we can continue to develop the city along those lines, it makes it a really good place to live and includes jobs and includes a good quality of life. Thanks. Williams: Thank you very much Mark. And again, thank for coming this evening. Barry. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 33 Eldridge: Yeah, I've here, like I said, moved here back in 85 and have been involved in the community since that time doing a number of things. I mentioned earlier that I fairly quickly got on the Harbor Commission and got involved with that. And I also got very much involved with Habitat for Humanity in getting that organization going and so far we built about half a dozen houses out here in the area. Active in Rotary and Chamber. Volunteer for Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Committee. Very much interested in what is going on in the community and within the volunteer groups as well as what the city is doing. I've been very impressed, really. Truly, with what the city council and the city administration has done over these, over these years. You've, you know, you've kept a fairly tight budget. You've gone ahead and provided the services that are needed in the community and you've pretty much have been listening to the, to your constituents and responding to their needs. But, running the city is kind of like running a business. You have a city manager, but also you as a council have to make a lot of business decisions. I feel that I have a talent in that area and I have a real concern and a real interest in the community. And, I would like very much like to join you and serve on the council and serve this community and give back to it a little bit more for what its given to me. Williams: Thank you. Thank you, Barry. Jack. Wrap up time. Also to you, thank you for coming down. Castimore- It seems like I talked a lot tonight. Thank you for allowing this body to come here and feel so relaxed. I don't know about the rest of the people, but I feel very comfortable with the kinds of questions that you've asked and, and the language in which you've asked them. I've been a part of the community for 20 years. An awful lot of the young people that I've had to deal with during that 20 years are now a part of the community having businesses like Randy's Glass. I can remember saying to him, you don't want to work in Carrs Grocery Store. Let's get you out here and get you a trade. And he said to me, oh, I hate this guy out here, and I said, you've got to stick it out Randy. You're going to have a business down the road. But I see it. I see some day when you're going to go borrow that $150,000. Sure enough, he did. I remember Robert Peterkin. Remember Robert Peterkin? Oh, we had a hard time getting him through school. We had lots of talks. Lots of talks. Have you seen his fmancials? What a wonderful asset to the Kenai Peninsula and young man he's finally turned out to be. I've got history, I think is where I'm going to take this. A lot of those young people out there, they were not college bound. They were vocational kids. And, you know, I see an awful lot of the vocational area being ignored. This training center five years from now is going to be a wonderful thing. We need to take that and go the next step. There needs to be other things. There's a lot of vocational areas totally ignored in the state of Alaska that are just wonderful things that ought to be in the City of Kenai. So, if you put me on the council, I'll tell you more about them. Thank you very much. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 34 Frazer: I appreciate the opportunity to appear before the council. As I said before, life on the Kenai has been very good to me the last 13 years, rve also said I believe my experience in the business community would help me be very effective in the upcoming budget process and other issues that are facing the city and I'd really welcome the opportunity to serve on the Kenai City Council. Thank you. Williams- Thank you very much and thank you for coming down. Bernie. Brown: Well, I'd also like to thank the council for inviting all of us here to listen to us. I, if brought on the council, I wouldn't bring any direct legislative experience. My father was mayor of Cold Bay when, when the city incorporated a good long time ago and he served there for a while. Both my parents were very involved with state level politics and funding in Juneau, so I've been exposed to the process a good part of the time, but I was hunting and fishing. What I do bring is a diverse experience base and skills that, that I believe can contribute to the process. I want to see, I want to see the Kenai and the entire peninsula area prosper of the years and I'd like to be part of that process. Thank you. Williams: Thank you very much. We'll return to council for just a brief few comments. Councilman Bookey had something he wanted to bring up. Bookey: No, rd just like to thank each and everyone of you for taking the time out of your life. I would have much rather seen you on the election with us in October, but I'm glad that you're here tonight. I guess this is going to be for me the hardest decision that I will make so far in the seven years that I've been on council because I'm making this for 7,000 people and I, it's going, it's going to, I've got some really good candidates in front of me, but it's going to be one of my hardest decisions that I will make probably in the full time that I'll be on council. So, I'm taking this really, really serious and I, I, you know, I think each and everyone of us feel that basic same way. The one thing that I would like to express to the applicants tonight is that as one of the things that I have probably learned as sitting on council was that you're going to have to make, whoever this is becomes the new council member, is going to have to make some hard decisions and not always are you going to win. Sometimes you're going to lose. And I have learned that sitting on this organization down here. But we always leave here. John and I will banter back and forth or Raymond or whoever, whichever one of us it is. When the council finally makes a decision and becomes, whether it's five to four, or sometimes I'm sitting down here with my notes here and it's six to one, we all walk out here and when we're in the grocery store the next time, we always talk to each other. We don't skirt or out-skirt each other and that's really a good feeling to be able to sit here and work with that. And so, you know, I really do appreciate that and I think you will too, whoever that person is. Thank you. Williams' Thank you Jim. KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 35 Swarner: Well, I'd like to thank everybody to come to, but I can count better than Jim can because it's five to two. We have only seven voting members and you have to always count to four if you want something to pass. And I guess this, this, I will agree with Jim that this is one of the hardest decisions that I too will have faced since first being elected in '87 because we are voting for, for all those constituents out there. And, and that is, I was going to bring this up earlier and I forgot, but that, one of the hardest things as a council person is making a decision like this and also having to tell people no for something that, you know, that you're friends with and that you see all the time and an old issue that rll bring up is the paving of the mayor's street. But... Williams- I ran on that... Swarner: I know you did, but that was, that was a very hard decision when that, when the vote came. You know, whether that they should have assessments or not and it affected businesses that I was involved with too. So, you know, you have to also think of it may how, you know, what you voted for the night before could affect the business that you're involved with in the weeks to come. Williams' Councilman Moore. Moore: Yeah, thanks for coming. I look forward to Friday. I hear you guys are going to be on the radio. Friday afternoon. I'll look forward to listening to that if I can't be there. I also am going to give this very serious thought and I'm going to encourage or seek out public input on you people. I'm going to ask people if they know you, because I think it's important that they have input on my decision. It's not just mine. It's theirs. So, I will be asking questions. Williams' Thank you. Councilman Measles. Measles: Yeah again, I certainly appreciate all of you coming down tonight and more than that, you're interested in this position. It's really nice to see six, what I consider, well-qualified people all seeking this position. It is going to be a tough decision to select one of the six of you. I would hope to see all six of those faces and names on the next, on the ballot for the next couple of years and start getting some of us old timers out of here. Williams: Thank you Councilman Measles. Counciknan Bannock. Bannock: I can only echo the accolades. I appreciate community involvement and I appreciate the people wanting to get involved. If I didn't know the majority of you as well as I do, perhaps it would be easier. But, I do know most of you quite well and I know the positives that you can bring. I'm sorry Mr. Brown that I don't know you as well as I know some of the others. Mr. Frazer, we've had a lot of good political talks. Jack Castimore, I recognize the talents that you've brought to us at Parks & KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 36 Recreation. Mr. Eldridge, I appreciate what you've done in the Rotary Club and how we've gotten to know each other there. Mr. Schrag, although you and I have a lot of political differences, I love the fact that you've attended more meetings probably than anyone other than Mr. Peters. Mrs. Donahue, I've gotten to know you through the United Way and the talent and the energy that you bring in there. So, while it is going to be a difficult decision for the council to land one of you, the rest of the citizens of the City of Kenai need to rest assured, that we're in a win/win situation and we couldn't pick a loser here if our lives depended on it. So, congratulations on each and every one of you. And, as Mr. Moore, Mr. Moore tried to steal my thunder for Life on the Kenai Live, I do hope to see each and every one of you there, Friday at one o'clock and I've given your, your bios to the host, Merrill Sikorski to go over and he is, as we speak, developing his own set of questions. And so I look forward to seeing you there and again, thanks for coming tonight. Williams: I'm just going to briefly confer with the Clerk and then we'll finish up... Okay, we'll come back on the record and again in closing, let me say that each and every one of you have, have endured the questions of the council and the general public and come through with flying colors and are to be commended. It's a lot of fund getting involved in city government. I've been involved in government one way or another almost since I can remember, I think. Well, since I can remember ............ I've been very deeply involved in Alaskan politics for 35 years or more and I've always found city government, local government, the best of all when it comes to working, you know, the political picture. Because this is where it all starts, right here. Right here at the grass roots. So, you're going to have fun, whoever it is. Believe me. With that, let me lay a little of the rule how we'll proceed from here. This council will make a determination and there will be a nomination and a vote for the candidate on the third of February. That will be the night that we make the final decision. There'll be a vote to confn'rn. The swearing in of that candidate will then take place the following meeting on the 17th. So we'll run it kind of like you do a regular election -- you're elected, then the vote has to be confuxued and the swearing in takes place. So, by the third we'll all know who you are and by the 17~ you'll be on the, officially on the, on the council. Now, between the third and 17~, I will personally find time, as will the administration, to tour you through the various aspects of the government here. Physical aspects of the city as well. Other council members may want to join with us and we'll see how things go so that on the night of the 17th when you come on board, you'll be prepared to make those hard decisions. End of Verbatim. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Measles encouraged council not to drop the airport expansion issue as he believed there continued to be a window of opportunity for the city to be pro-active in KENAI CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 26, 1999 PAGE 37 investigating the feasibility of the project. Measles added, the fuel-to-cargo ratio that makes Anchorage so attractive would also be considered in the decision to use Adak as a cargo destination. EXECUTIVE ~F.~SION- None Scheduled ITEM C: ADJOURNMENT The meeting adjourned at approximately 9:45 p.m. Minutes transcribed and prepared by: Carol L. Freas, City Clerk ITEM A: AGENDA KENAI CITY COUNCIL-SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 28, 1999 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS http: //www.ci.kenai.ak.us CALL TO ORDER 1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Roll Call 3. Agenda Approval ITEM B: NEW BUSINESS . Mid-Year Financial Report EXECUT~ SESSION- None Scheduled ITEM C: ADJOURNMENT KENAI CITY COUNCIL-SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 28, 1999 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS http' //www. ci.kenai.ak.us MAYOR JOHN J. WILLIAMS, PRESIDING ITEM A: CALL TO ORDER Mayor Williams called the meeting to order at approximately 7'01 p.m. in the Council Chambers in the Kenai City Hall Building. A-X. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mayor Williams led those assembled in the Pledge of Allegiance. A-2. ROLL CALL Roll was taken by the City Clerk. Williams and Bookey. Present were' Swarner, Moore, Measles, Bannock, A-3o AGENDA APPROVAL Mayor Williams reported he had no changes to the agenda. With no changes to the agenda, the agenda was approved as presented. ITEM B' NEW BUSINESS B-.X. Mid-Year Financial Report City Manager Ross explained Finance Director Semmens would be giving an overview of the present budget and items that have been added to the budget since its approval. After that, a brief overview of how administration would be approaching this year's budget based on information in hand. Semmens distributed budget projections, increases, future impacts on the fund balance and boating facility operating budget information sheets. Assessed Value: Semmens noted there was.approximately $5 million above the assessed value projected. In looking at the rates of revenue collection, he reduced $6,500 from the property tax revenue estimates attributed to penalty collection rates. He noted, he had only third quarter {ending September 30, 1998) information which indicated a decrease of 1.55%. With only that information, Semmens continued, he did not feel comfortable changing the sales tax numbers. In reviewing the calendar sales tax information, he predicted the sales tax revenue would be fiat {within 1%). KENAI COUNCIL MEETING SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 28, 1999 PAGE 2 Safe Communities Funds {Municipal Assistance/Revenue Sharing}: Semmens noted, Safe Communities funds to be received would be $176,000 (down from $179,000). He drew attention to Fish Tax income from the state. He noted, every year he asks Department of Fish & Game what the value of the previous years' catch was compared to the present year (1997 v. 1998). Semmens continued, last year he was told to figure on a 40% deduction. However in speatdng with them recently, he was told the 1997 value of the Cook Inlet catch was $32.4 rn~ll~on and the 1998 value was $9.6 m~ll~on. Due to this information, he reduced fish tax revenue to 30% of the 1998 figure -- a fairly substantial decline in the projected revenues. Interest Rates: Semmens noted, interest rates had declined but are not projected to continue. He did not change the estimate for interest because a little more is being invested than what he based his projections on last year. He continued, last year he started out with $6.5 million estimated and presently is still the same. The transfers are not changed and the total revenue was at $7.38 milhon. Expenditures: Semmens noted, the budget at the beginning of the year was $7,982,999. Items increasing the fund balance appropriations were purchase orders, the gas line to Five Irons Subdivision, Cunningham Park improvements, legislative salary increases, multi-purpose facility design and the Crow Court project. Semmens added, appropriations due to increases in revenue were a donation from the Kenai Elks Lodge and a library assistance grant. The total of these increased the budget by $312,674. At this time, the budget total was at $8,295,673. Semmens added, if the revenues come in as projected and all of the appropriation was spent, there would be a deficit of $911,712. Because not all the funds appropriated are spent, adm__i~s~a~on projected the actual deficit to be between $153,000 and $552,000, which includes monies that will not be spent and encumbrances that roll over to the next year. When the budget was developed, the lapse was projected at five percent. Semmens added, he estimated the total lapse and end of year encumbrances would be 94%, or approximately $200,000. Known Future General Fund Impacts on Fund Balance: Semmens listed Etolin Subdivision for the health center (purchase from Airport Lands), South Spruce parking (will be split 50/50 with water/sewer fund), FY 99 Municipal Grant Match ($73,000 for city's match), transfer to Dock Fund (fund will be short of cash and will need cash in order to operate), multi-purpose facility (budget for the facility is $900,000 and offset from land sales is to approximately $700,000), Erik Hansen Scout Park ($20,000 to finish the project) as known items to affect the fund balance. These costs represented $1.292 million to come out of the available fund balance of $7.2 million. Semmens added, from an interest standpoint, the city is in good shape in regard to the multi-purpose facility and sale of Five Irons Subdivision lands. However, he wanted council to understand that once the $900,000 is out of the General Fund balance, it will never be available for appropriation. Semmens added, the proceeds KENAI COUNCIL MEETING SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 28, 1999 PAGE 3 from the land sale are required to be deposited in a general land trust fund from which the interest may be spent by the General Fund. Ross noted, $304,000 had been received from the lots already sold, representing nine of the 13 lots. He added, the rest of the estimate represented at what they believed Block 3 would sell. Bannock asked if council had fooled itself to think the sale of the Five Irons lots would fund the construction of the multi-purpose facility. Ross explained, he remembered indicating to council in prior discussions, that it would be a wash because the interest from the land trust is available to the General Fund. However, since the interest earned goes to the General Fund and as far as a revenue source, it was a wash. Williams stated he didn't think that was a problem because the'land trust was created by code and it gives an opportunity to assure the safety of the capital of that return until it is absolutely needed, which would require a change in the code. Williams asked if the Etolin Subdivision property had been appraised recently. Ross noted, it was the actual appraised value and FAA had accepted it and given the approval to proceed. Ross noted, the appraisal on the property where the multi- purpose facility and Challenger Center would be built was $75,000. Ross reported, administration was delaying the purchase of the Etolin property until approximately 30 days prior to needing it in order to continue earning interest on the General Fund monies. Ross added, at this time the Health Center project funding is being reworked in the Legislature in an attempt to make it a direct grant to bypass some of the red tape involved with DOT facilities. If that cannot be done, they will work with the red tape and go with it. At this time, they didn't anticipate any problems. Ross continued, it was not planned to begin construction this year, but it could go to bid this fall and get a better bid environment or go to bid next spring. He added, he didn't beheve it would significantly delay the project. Boating Facility: Semmens explained a $75,000 transfer to the Dock Fund would be needed because the facility loses money every year. Initially, it was projected $90,000 would have to be taken from retained eamings this year, but due to petroleum sales, a reduction of $77,000 would be made. Also' the Fund was running out of cash this year and he had projected a $75,000 deficit. Semmens recommended to wait until the Fiscal 99 financial statement comes out with the exact amount of negative cash and then bring an ordinance forward to move cash to the Dock Fund. This could be done each year. Semmens noted, in the past council had discussed making this Fund from an enterprise fund (recording depreciation expense) to either a special revenue fund (not recognizing depreciation) or placing it into the General Fund. He continued, council had also talked about privatizing the dock in the future and if that is done, it would be best to have it as an enterprise fund at that time. He recommended transferring cash as needed to the fund. KENAI COUNCIL MEETING SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 28, 1999 PAGE 4 Williams asked what portion of the net income (loss) was cash and depreciation. Semmens stated, the non-cash portion of the $77,000 was $26,000. Semmens also noted the two largest line items in expense were salaries and fuel. W/Il/ams asked what the ramifications of going private would be to the city. Semmens answered, the city would have to continue maintaining the facility, but would get away from salary expenses and perhaps fuel. Water/Sewer Funds: Semmens reported these funds were in good shape and should end the year w/th a slight deficit due to taking funds from it to match grants for water main loops. Airport Fund: Semmens reported this fund would end the year in good shape and was projecting a $40,000 surplus. Airport Terminal: Semmens reported he was projecting a $108,000 contribution to retained earnings. Congregate Housing: Semmens reported he was projecting a $67,000 contribution to retained earnings. He noted the senior funds, which are primarily grant funded, would be turning out basically even, although a small amount of money was appropriated for a van. He also projected retained earnings on the housing facility at $483,000. Ross stated, in next year's budget, he anticipated projecting revenues as flat. Department heads are working on a maintenance budget. They will not be adding any new capital projects for next year's list, but won't short-circuit the ones already being developed. Because council set up an Equipment Reserve Fund, building maintenance schedule, and future city version of a STIP list, he felt the revenue downturn blow to the city would be softened. He noted, next year's budget would show a deficit, but there will be a five-year projection to know what the fund balance will be, what the projected tax rate in the future may be, etc. Semmens noted the only items purchased from the Equipment Reserve Fund were a sweeper from the Airport Fund and a fire engine. Ross noted the next major purchase wasn't expected until 2002, but the Equipment Reserve Fund will carry it. A general discussion followed regarding expected layoffs from the oil and gas industry which would affect the Kenai Peninsula. Williams noted the Governor had called a meeting of the Alaska Conference of Mayors for February 9 to discuss the state shortfall and what might be done. EXECUTIVE SESSION- None Scheduled KEN~ COUNCIL MEETING SPECIAL MEETING JANUARY 28, 1999 PAGE 5 ITEM C: ADJOURNMENT The' meeting adjourned at approximately 7:55 p.m. Minutes transcribed and prepared by: Carol L. Freas, City Clerk ITEM A: , 2. 3. 4. AGENDA KENAI CITY COUNCIL- REGULAR MEETING MARCH 3, 1999 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS http: //www.ci.kenai.ak.us CALL TO ORDER Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call Agenda Approval Consent Agenda *All items listed with an asterisk (*) are considered to be routine and non-controversial by the Council and will be approved by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Council Member so requests, in which case the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered in its normal sequence on the agenda as part of the General Orders. ITEM B' le Mayor a. b. Ce SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENTS (10 minutes) John Williams- Property tax payers Borough Economic Outlook Forum - Dwindling City Tax Base Kustaten Ridge Project Washington, D.C. trip Representative Smalley's meeting of Monday, March 1 Old City Video Administrative Exemption to Setback Requirements ITEM C: , e PUBLIC HEARINGS Ordinance No. 1812-99 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $750 in the Council on Aging Borough Special Revenue Fund. Ordinance No. 1813-99 -- Amending Title 4 of the Kenai Mumcipal Code Entitled, "Uniform Building Codes," to Adopt and Incorporate by Reference Therein the 1997 Editions of the Uniform Building Code, the Uniform Building Security Code, the Uniform Code for Abatement of Dangerous Buildings, the Uniform Sign Code, the Uniform Mechanical Code, the Uniform Plumbing Code, and the 1999 National Electrical Code. -l- . , . Resolution No. 98-84-- Declaring the Following Engine Surplus and Donating it to the Kenai Peninsula Fire Chiefs Association. {Postponed on 12/2/98 to Time Certain on 3/3/99.) Resolution No. 99-10 -- Adopting a Flexible Benefits Plan. Resolution No. 99-11 -- Accepting Conveyance of a 9.64+ Acre Parcel Next to Kenai Central High School from the Kenai Peninsula Borough. ITEM D: . 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. ITEM E: o COMMISSION/COMMITTEE REPORTS Council on Aging Airport Commission Harbor Commission Library Commission Parks & Recreation Commission Planning & Zoning Commission Miscellaneous Commissions and Committees a. Beautification Committee b. Historic District Board c. Kenai Visitors as Convention Bureau Board d. Alaska Municipal League Report MINUT~ *Regular Meeting of February 17, 1999. ITEM F: CORRESPONDENCE ITEM G: OLD BUSINESS ITEM H: . 0 NEW BUSINESS Bills to be Paid, Bills to be Ratified Purchase Orders Exceeding $2,500 -2- ITEM I: ADMINISTRATION REPORTS 1. Mayor 2. City Manager 3. Attorney 4. City Clerk 5. Finance Director 6. Public Works 7. Airport Manager ITEM J: DISCUSSION 1. Citizens (five minutes) 2. Council RXECUTIVE SESSION- None Scheduled ITEM K: ADJOURNMENT -3- KENAI CITY COUNCIL- REGULAR MEETING MINUT~ MARCH 3, 1999 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS http' //ww .ci.kenai,.ak.us MAYOR JOHN J. WILLIAMS, PRF~IDING ITEM A: CALL TO ORDER Mayor Williams called the meeting to order at approximately 7:01 p.m. in the Council Chambers in the Kenai City Hall Building. A-1. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mayor Williams led those assembled in the Pledge of Allegiance. A-2. ROLL CALL Roll was taken by the City Clerk. Swarner and Moore. Present were' Bannock, Frazer, Williams, Bookey, Absent was: Measles. A-3o AGENDA APPROVAL Mayor Williams requested the following change to the agenda: ADD TO' C-3, Resolution No. 98-84-- 3/1/99 letter from Anchor Point Fire & Emergency Service Area reaffirming their interest in obtaining the 1971 Seagraves Pumper. MOTION: Councilman Bookey MOVED to table Ordinance No. 1813-99 in order to have a full council and the Building Inspector present to discuss the item as it will be a major discussion; move Resolution No. 98-84 regarding the donation of the Seagraves engine to the beginning of the agenda; and, move the Mayors Report to the beginning of the meeting. Councilwoman Swarner S~ONDED the motion. There were no objections. SO ORDERED. A-4. CONSENT AGENDA Mayor Williams reported he had no changes to the consent agenda. MOTION: Councilwoman Swarner MOVED for approve of the consent agenda as presented and Councilman Bookey SECONDED the motion. There were no objections. SO ORDERED. KENAI COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 3, 1999 PAGE 2 ITEM B: ,, SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENTS I- 1. Mayors Report a. Property tax payers -- Williams requested the list of property tax payers used for the city's last Economic Forum to be forwarded to the Borough Mayor for possible use for the upcoming Borough Economic Outlook Forum. b. Borough quarterly Report -- Williams referred to the Kenai Peninsula Quarterly Report which was included with the council's packet. Williams also referred to the article included in the packet and noted, the principal property tax payers in the city were listed. He noted, Wards Cove Packing, Salamatof Seafoods, Inlet Fisheries and Chemer & Chemer were four of the top ten. Of those, two have closed which represents nearly $7 million in tax base. c. Borough Economic Outlook Forum -- Williams reported the Forum had been scheduled for March 13 and would be held at the Kenai Senior Center. Additional information will be forthcoming from the Borough. He added, the Forum will be discussing the state economic position add not just the city's. After the Borough's forum is held, the council may consider whether to hold a city-wide forum. d. Dwindling City Tax Base -- Discussed at Borough Quarterly Report. e. Kustaten Ridge Project -- Williams reported he met with Jim Elson, Mayor Navarre, Representative Smalley and Jim Wilkinson re§ardin§ this project. It is movin§ ahead. He added, the state was reviewin§ the process of transfemn§ the land to the Borou§h. After that, many a~reements will be required between the Borou~ and Salamatof Native Association in order to open the area. Williams added, during his trip to Washington, DC, he would be speaking with Senator Murkowski's staff regarding the OCS bill to determine whether some of those funds may be available for the Kustaten project, as well as for the city bluff erosion concerns. f. Washington, D.C. Trip -- Williams reported, during his trip to Washington, he would also be discussing with Congressman Young, his commitment to put some funds into the fire training facility primarily for a warehouse. Also, funding requests for the Challenger Learning Center project will be discussed. g. City Video -- Williams requested council to give some direction to Clerk Freas as to the amount of funds to be included in the Legislative budget to either develop a new city video or update the existing video. Williams added, council should also give some thought to whether they would like to develop videos or CD-roms. Also, council should give some indication as to funding for advertising the city as discussed in a prior meeting. KENAI COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 3, 1999 PAGE 3 h. Administrative Exemption to Setback Requirements -- Williams noted, Ordinance No. 1813-99 had been tabled. He noted, an ordinance failed a few months prior havin§ to do with an exemption for variances. Williams reported, he had requested administration to draft an ordinance to allow for administrative exemption for setback requirements. Hc noted, he had received a complaint from a person who had to return to the Plannin§ & Zonin§ Commission for an encroachment after already rcceivin§ a variance from the Commission. To do this will cost an additional fee and could slow thc process of closin§ on the property. Williams added, because there are times there are minimal encroachments that could be handled administratively, he had requested administration develop an ordinance to give administrative authority to waive any encroachment up to a maximum of 12" overall. Councilman Bannock stated he would support the suggestion in theory, but requested the proposed document begin at the Planning & Zoning Commission for their recommendations or amendments because it had been discussed at length by the Commission in the past and because it would mean a change to Title 14. Swarner requested to have a history of encroachments attached to the proposed ordinance, noting sizes of encroachments, how many below 12", etc. since the late 1980's. Williams noted he has an encroachment on his property which he discovered when he applied for a building permit for an addition to his home. After having a survey of his property taken, it was a discovered his garage is encroaching by three inches. ITEM C: PUBLIC HEARINGS C-3o Resolution No. 98-84 -- Declaring the Following Engine Surplus and Donating it to the Kenai Peninsula Fire Chiefs Association. (Postponed on 12/2/98 to Time Certain on 3/3/99.) (Moved during Agenda Approval). MOTION: Councilwoman Swarner MOVED for adoption of Resolution No. 98-84 and Councilman Bannock SF~ONDED the motion. There were no public comments. Councilman Bookey stated he had requested this resolution be tabled in order to acquire additional information on the engine. Since then, he added, he did further research and reported he would concur with Chief Elson and City Manager Ross that the truck should not go back into the community as a first-respond truck. Bookey added, he would support the motion to donate the truck to the Kenai Peninsula Fire Chiefs Association and wish them luck. KENAI COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 3, 1999 PAGE 4 Councilman Moore asked what restrictions would be placed on the truck if it goes to the Association as far as use and location were involved. City Manager Ross answered, the letter from the Fire Chiefs Association did not indicate they were anticipating any restrictions. He added, the council, in their prior discussions, had not indicated any restrictions. Administration did not envision placing any restrictions. Ross continued, .this would be a donation to the Fire Chiefs Association. Chief Elson reported, the discussion at the last meeting of the Fire Chiefs Association was that the Association would in turn, pending insurance and maintenance coverage, house the vehicle at the PRISM to be used for training purposes. Dave Burnett -- 1506 Barabara Drive, Kenai, and is also the Director of the Pacific Institute of Safety & Management (PRISM} and representing Engineering Support, Inc. {ESI) who are currently managing the PRISM facility. Bumett explained, the truck, by donating it to the Fire Chiefs Association, would be housed at the fire tra/ning center and used for training. Bumett encouraged council to reconsider and bring the truck back to the City of Kenai, keep the city's logos on the truck, and take the advertisement from the truck for the facility. He added, the maintenance which the truck will incur may be up to $2,000 that he believed ESI would be willing to pay for on a regular basis. However, if the maintenance costs go over $2,000, he suggested the truck could come back to council and council could donate the truck to another entity, sell it, or repair it and put it back into service. Bumett noted, the truck was not reliable for emergency response or for fire calls, but it was a situation where the vehicle could be used and when it no longer serves the needs, it could be sold to another entity and that entity could insure it and carry the vehicle and do the maintenance on the vehicle. Bumett added, the truck did not serve his needs when he was the Fire Chief and he encouraged council to replace the vehicle because it was not reliable. However, he was now encouraging council to consider the use the vehicle could have at the fire training center with the amount of people who will be trained at the facility. He added, the City of Kenai will be included in the advertising of the training center if the city's logos on the vehicle. He requested council to reconsider and maintain the vehicle through the city instead of the Chiefs Association because the Association's logos would be placed on the vehicle and the city's removed. There were no changes to the resolution. VOTE: There were no objections to the resolution. SO ORDERED. Mayor Williams requested a motion to appoint a President Pro Tempore be made because he had to leave the meeting (traveling to Washington, DC). KENAI COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 3, 1999 PAGE 5 MOTION: Councilman Bookey stated that due to the early dismissal of the mayor and absence of Vice Mayor Measles, he MOVED to appoint Councilwoman Swarner as Chair Pro Tempore for the remaining March 3, 1999 meeting. Councilman Moore SECOI~IDED the motion. There were no objections. SO ORDERED. Mayor Williams left the meeting. BREAK TAKEN: 7:20 P.M. BACK TO ORDER: 7:26 P.M. C-1o Ordinance No. 1812-99 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $750 in the Council on Aging Borough Special Revenue Fund. MOTION: Councilman Moore MOVED to adopt Ordinance No. 1812-99 and Councilman Bannock SF.~OI~ED the motion. There were no public or council comments. VOTE: Bannock: Yes Bookey: Yes Measles: Absent Frazer: Yes Williams: Absent Swarner: Yes Moore' Yes MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. Ordinance No. 1813-99 -- Amending Title 4 of the Kenai Municipal Code Entitled, "Uniform Building Codes," to Adopt and Incorporate by Reference Therein the 1997 Editions of the Uniform Building Code, the Uniform Building Security Code, the Uniform Code for Abatement of Dangerous Buildings, the Uniform Sign Code, the Uniform Mechanical Code, the Uniform Plumbing Code, and the 1999 National Electrical Code. Tabled to March 17, 1999 council meeting (at agenda approval). C-4o Resolution No. 99-10 -- Adopting a Flexible Benefits Plan. MOTION: KENAI COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 3, 1999 PAGE 6 Councilman Bookey MOVED for approval of Resolution No. 99-10 and Councilman Moore SECONDED the motion. There were no public comments. Bookey asked if administration approved of the plan. Finance Director Semmens explained, this would be supplemental insurance for the employees. The request was forwarded from the committee of employees who are researching insurance programs. Semmens added, there would be no cost to the city for this AFLAC insurance program. Payment from the employees will be by payroll deduction. VOTE: There were no objections. SO ORDERED. C-5o Resolution No. 99-11 -- Accepting Conveyance of a 9.64+ Acre Parcel Next to Kenai Central High School from the Kenai Peninsula Borough. MOTION: Councilman Bannock MOVED for approval of Resolution No. 99-11 and Councilman Bookey SECONDED the motion. There were no public or council comments. VOTE: There were no objections to UNAN~OUS CONSENT. SO ORDERED. ITEM D' COMMISSION ! COMMITTEE REPORTS D-1. Council on Aging -- Swarner noted a City Appreciation Breakfast would be held at the Senior Center on March 23 and offered by the Senior Connection. 9-2. Airport Commission-- No report. D-3. Harbor Commission -- Bookey reported the next meeting was scheduled for March 8, 1999. D-4. Library Commission -- Moore reminded council and audience of the celebration of the 50~ Anniversary of the Library scheduled for Sunday, March 7, 1999 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. He added, the program was to start at 2:00 p.m. and Alan Poynor would be the Master of Ceremonies. Moore also reported the Writers' Night was scheduled for Thursday, March 4 a the KVCC. KENAI COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 3, 1999 PAGE 7 D-5. Parks/k Recreation Commission -- Councilman Frazer reported the meetin§ was scheduled for March 4 at 7:00 p.m. in the council chambers. D-6. Planning/k Zoning Commission -- Bannock reported the meeting minutes were included in the packet. He noted, the debate on Resolution No. PZ99- 06, an application for a conditional use perm/t for a storage yard, was continued to the March 10, 1999 Commission meeting due to the illness of the applicant. Bannock added, this was a very interesting item as the property had specific zoning, specific characteristics (surrounded by gravel pits), and because there is an activity going on there that has no conditional use permit. He added, there were a lot of factors that will go into the Commission's decision. Bannock suggested council members attend the March 10 Commission meeting to listen in on the public hearing for this item because it would be very interesting. Bannock distributed pictures of the area for council to review and noted items in the photograph were items that used to be stored on the property where the new court house was constructed. D-7. Miscellaneous Commissions and Committees D-7a. Beautification Committee -- Swarner reported the Committee meeting was scheduled for Tuesday, March 9 at 5:30 p.m. Parks & Recreation Director Frates reported there were flowers sprouting in the greenhouse. D-'Fo. Historic District Board -- Moore reported the next meeting was scheduled for the third Monday in June. D-7c. Kenai Visitors/k Convention Bureau Board-- No report. D-7d. Alaska Municipal League Report -- No report. ITEM E: MINUTES E-Xo agenda. Regular Meeting of February 17, 1999 -- Approved by consent ITEM F: CORRESPONDENCE-- None. ITEM G: OLD BUSINESS-- None. ITEM H: H-Xo NEW BUSINESS Bills to be Paid, Bills to be Ratified KENAI COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 3, 1999 PAGE 8 MOTION: Councilman Bookey MOVED to pay the bills and Councilman Moore SECONDED the motion. There were no objections. SO ORDERED. Purchase Orders Excee~g $2,500 MOTION: Councilman Bookey MOVED for approval of the purchase orders exceeding $2,500 and Councilman Bannock SECONDED the motion and requested UNANIMOUS CONSENT. There were no objections. SO ORDERED. ITEM I: ADMINISTRATION REPORTS I-1o Mayor-- Heard at the beginnEg of the meeting. I-2. City Manager -- Ross reported he would have a memorandum included in the next council meeting packet with more detail of actions taken by the Board of Fisheries meetings he attended during the last week. He added, he planned on incorporating information from Fish & Game and UCIDA in his report when it became available. Until then, he briefly reported on the meetings stating there were a lot of complex issues discussed and meetings were held for two weeks from early morning to late at night. Ross added, attending the meetings was an education. The commercial fishing industry, semetters and drifters, commercial sport industry (guides) and Northern District Commercial (who did not have the same interests as the local commercial fishery and who were more allied with guides from the Matanuska- Susima area and promoted those interested which were adverse to the central district)were all represented at the meetings. Ross continued, representatives from the personal use fishery and those who gill net at Kasilof were active. Additionally, a sport and recreational users (basically unorganized) were also represented. These people had stated their concern that they were basically being pushed out of the fiver due to the river's use by the guides. Ross added, he believed the sport and recreational user group would become more active. Additionally, habitat issues were represented during committee meetings, and information was used from the Boat Wake Study developed by the Kenai River Special Management Advisory (KRSMA) Board which Councilman Moore had been involved in during his term on the KRSMA Board. Ross continued, representing the City of Kenai, he promoted the economic interest of the city was in the vitality of both the commercial fishing industry and commercial sport industry. He requested the Board stay with the present management and not make major decisions during a downturn. Also, he supported the present situation KENAI COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 3, 1999 PAGE 9 of status quo and asked that no more fish be introduced into the river to impact the city further with personal use until there had been an opportunity (with their assistance) in dealing with the south shore access problem. Ross noted, not much progress was made with that except that Fish & Game Habitat agreeing through Lance Trasky to review the situation before and after the season and then make an assessment. Ross also explained, to be effective this year, the personal use fishery will no longer be allowed to a line drawn from Main Street to the water all the way up fiver to the Kenai Boat Dock in order to better protect the city's north shore bluffs. (There would be a walking distance from the turnaround down to the water.) Ross stated he did not want to try to describe to council actions taken with the commercial fishery issues until he receives the information from Fish & Game and UCIDA, etc. He added, he believed there was a growing voice for the people in the community and other southcentral individuals which the guide industry will have to answer. The groups' comments were heard by the Board that there is a lack of equity as far as the fishery during July as it is almost a non-resident fishery due to the intense guiding and congestion on the river. Ross continued, as of 2000, the guide industry will have to drop one passenger from their boats as well as several other changes. In addition, by October, 1999, the guides' association will have to work with Fish & Game and meet with the Board of Fisheries' October meeting in regard to a management plan to district the guides. Ross explained, preliminarily discussed was making four zones on the Kenai River, the Kasilof River, and six zones at Deep Creek. The guides would be allowed only to guide in two of the zones. Ross added, he believed this would be expanded upon at the next Board meeting, i.e. a way to balance the economic interests of a non- resident fishery and resident fishing. The question would be whether it is desired to turn the July king fishing season into an economic fishery for the commercial sport industry only. Ross added, on the whole, he learned a lot and hoped over the next year or two, he will be able to put some of that knowledge into better use. Ross noted, he appreciated participating on the city's behalf. Attorney-- No report. I-4. City Clerk -- Reminded council their Conflict of Interest forms were due on March 15, 1999. Finance Director-- No report. 1-6. Public Works -- Public Works Manager Komelis had no report. Public Works Manager La Shot reported an ad will be placed in the paper to advertise the bid for multi-purpose facility and Challenger Center site work and buildings on KENAI COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 3, 1999 PAGE 10 March 15. Also, at a future meeting, a Memorandum of Agreement will be included in council's packet to define the relationship between the city and Challenger for their review and approval. Swarner asked if the city had been having as much trouble with frozen water and sewer lines as was being had in Soldoma. Komelis answered, he knew.of approximately seven frozen service lines. He added, a main sewer line on Mission Street also froze which was attributed to the recent work done there by the State (construction material could have been left in the line). Komelis also reported the bid date for the Cunnmgham Park project was set for March 11. He added, the bid award should come to council at their March 17 meeting. I-7o Airport Manager-- No report. ITEM J: DISCUSSION ! J-1. Citizens Debby Sonberg -- 410 Cinderella Street, Kenai. Sonberg reported her daughter was involved in the job shadowing effort which had recently taken place. Her daughter was one of several who were at City Hall in the Finance Department for the day. Sonberg complimented the city and the Finance Department for their involvement and added, her daughter was very enthusiastic about the time she spent and found it to be very interesting. J-2. Council Bookey-- No comments. Moore -- Commended Ross for his representation of the city at the Board of Fisheries meeting. He noted, Ross' participation was well-received by most of the user groups. Moore also reported there had been 52 drift permits that went up for sale during the last week. Bannock-- Requested Komelis to encourage the State to clean the sidewalks again. Frazer-- No comments. Swarner-- Thanked Ross for attending the Board of Fisheries meetings. She added, she heard many good comments and appreciated his being there representing the city. KENAI COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MARCH 3, 1999 PAGE 11 EXECUTIVE SESSION- None Scheduled ITEM K: ADJOURKMENT The meeting adjourned at approximately 7'50 p.m. Minutes transcribed and prepared by: Carol L. Freas, City Clerk 0 o7: · z ~ ~ ~ 0 0 0 0 0 z z 0 r~ ~ uJ ~- ~ n z ,,, o~ W 0 w 0 c~ · 0 :::) LU 0 0 n,' n,' 0 LIJ LIJ 0 0 LIJ LLI --r o o z o o o o 1:3 Z Z 0 o z 1- o LU z -- I-- UJ n,,' I-- z 0 o -- o oO zO :d-u w uJ uJ I- 0 0 CI MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF KENAI AND THE ALASKA CHALLENGER CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY, INC. WHEREAS, the City of Kenai (City) and the Alaska Challenger Cemer for Space Science Technology, Inc. (Challenger) desire to cooperate in the construction of the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska (Center) and the Multipurpose Recreational Facility (Facility); and WHEREAS, the City and Challenger desire to define the roles and obligations of the parties regarding the construction of the Cemer and the Facility. NOW, THEREFORE, the City of Kenai and the Alaska Challenger Center for Space Science Technology, Inc. agree as follows: o The City agrees to site the Center on the City property located on that portion of the Wl/2SWl/4SE1/4 of Section 33, lying south of the Kenai Spur Highway R.O.W. within T6N., Seward Meridian, Alaska, containing 9.64 acres, more or less adjacent to Kenai Central High School. KPB Tax Parcel No. 045-010-06. A lease for this site describing the terms and portion of the property to be provided will be determined by all parties before construction commences. . The Challenger and the City agree to concurrently put out to bid the site and construction contracts for the Cemer and the Facility. The City shall administer the distribution of the bid documents for both comracts and shall administer all pre-bid conferences and bid openings. Architects for both parties shall be responsible for all clarifications and responses to bidder's questions regarding the plans for the Center and the Facility during the bidding process. o The City shall administer the site preparation comract for the Center and the Facility. The Challenger and the City shall, independent of each other, administer the building construction contracts for the Cemer and Facility. The City agrees to provide all inspections and permits to the Challenger with out charge or fee. . The Challenger shall be financially responsible for all costs directly related to the construction of the Center. The City shall be financially responsible for all costs directly related to the construction of the Facility. The City and Challenger agree to share the costs of any site development at a rate to be determined by the parties. The City will bill Challenger the pro rata share of each comractor's pay estimate as they become due for site construction. 5. The City and the Challenger agree to continue to work together through the construction of both the Center and Facility. The Joint Construction committee shall Memorandum of Agreement Page lof2 continue to administer the construction of the Center to its completion with the cominued participation of the designated representatives of the City and the Challenger. Dated this day of ,1999. CITY OF KENAI ALASKA CHALLENGER CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY, INC. By: By: Richard A. Ross City Manager Mike Tarr, President Board of Directors Memorandum of Agreement Page 2 of 2 KENAI MUNICIPAL AIRI 305N. WILLOVV~.~~ KENAI, ALASt~ 88811 TELER-iC:)NE ~-~~1 FAX N/ mo Tm Rick Ross Y" From= Steve Atha~~--~,u,. ~ 03/05/99 Restaurant Lease Don Middleton and The Schneltings have properly executed the restaurant lease assignment request form. The Schneltings have obtained a notice of coverage effective Apdl 1, 1999 from Last Frontier Insurance Cache. The Schneltings want to begin sewing the public as soon as the Council approves the assignment. No secudty interest exists so Mr. Middleton will have no further connection, finandally or operationally, with the restaurant. The Airport Commission has met with the Schneltings and voted unanimously to recommend City Coun~l approval. The 8chneltings seem genuinely exdtc~l about t~inning seatico. It is my understanding that the lease assignment approval form should be executed following Council action. March 3, 1999 City o f Kenai To Whom It May Concern: On February 17, 1999, my wife and I attended the Airport Council Meeting and explained our intentions concerning the Cafe at the Kenai Airport. After a short meeting the Council Members voted in favor of allowing my wife and myself to take over the rest of Don Middletons lease on the space. We are prepared to take over the lease on April 1, 1999. We also acquired Workers Compensation, General Liability, and Property Insurance conformation. The Insurance will be fully affective April 1, 1999, upon signing the lease. We are looking forward to service our community, as well as the visitors to the Kenai Peninsula area. Thank you, - · Gary E. Schneltin/g r. ASSIGNMENT OF LEASE , This assignment is entered into between DON A. MIDDLETON, (Assignor) whose address is P.O. 752, Cooper Landing, Alaska 99572 and SUSAN and GARY SCHNELTING, 815 Auk Street, Apt. D-S, Kenai, Alaska 99611 {Assignee). Assignor does hereby assign and transfer all of his interest in the leasehold estate as evidenced by that certain Lease Agreement with the CITY OF KENAI as Lessor, recorded February 14, 1997, at Book $01, Page 027, Kenai Recording District, and covering the following-described property: The premises known as the restaurant area of the Kenai Municipal Airport Terminal within the Northwest Quarter (NW V4) of the Southeast Quarter (SE V4), Section 32, Township 6 North, Range 11 West, Seward Meridian. to Assignee to have and to hold the same from the date hereof, for and during all of the remainder yet to come of the term of said Lease Agreement. Assignee agrees to comply fully with all the terms and provisions of the Lease, and to hold the Assignor harmless from any liability arising thereunder. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said Assignor has hereunto set his hand and seal this ~~-day of ~'~~ro~K_~ , 1999. ASSIGNOR: By: Don A. Middleton Assignment of Lease- Page 1 of 2 ASSIGNEE: By: By: Schnelting O STATE O F ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT ) )ss ) THIS IS, TO CERTIFY that on this ~ day of ~ 1999, ~/~..~~~~'~ , being personallY known to me or having produced satisfactory evidence of identification, appeared before me and acknowledged the voluntary and authorized 'execution of the foregoing instrument. Nota~ Public for ~ My Commission Expires: .--~//~~~ STATE O F ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT ) )ss ) THI~ IS TO CERTIFY that on this J~%"day of ~.~~, 1999, /~--~~&c/7~/t.,~, being personally known to me or having produced satisfacC, ory evidence gf identification, appeared before me and acknowledged the voluntary and authorized execution of the foregoing instrument. Not~ Public for ~ My Commission Expires' STATE O F ALAStC& THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT ) )ss ) THIS IS TO CERTIFY that on this ~7~day of ~ .f~'g'~.~/~n ~ , being personally known to me or having produced ~atist~actory'evidenc~of identification, appeared before me and acknowledged the voluntary and authorized execution of the foregoing instrument. for My Commission Expires' q2///'d/~2~ 0 Assignment of Lease - Page 2 of 2 CITY OF KENA 210 FIDALGO AVE., SUITE 200 KENAI, ALASKA 99611-7794 TELEPHONE 907-283-7535 FAX 907-283-3014 ~ 1992 Memorandum Date: To: From: March 10, 1999 Mayor and Council Richard A. Ross, City Manager /~~ Kenai Coastal Trail Reconnaissance Study Attached are copies of portions of the referenced study submitted by Dennis Nottingham, P.E. The study has been presented to the Harbor Commission and reviewed by them. Their questions and concerns have been noted. It is requested that if you have any questions and concerns we receive them in the next week. Mr. Komelis will be meeting with Mr. Nottingham later this month to review the study, our questions and concerns. Among these are the need to slope some of the bluffs, which was not included in this project; trail elevations that may be low in places based on wave height at high tides; and projected costs that are lower than anticipated. Mr. Komelis will also be meeting with Senator Murkowski's staff in Anchorage to explore acceptability of this project for'OSC funding if that source becomes available. Attachments 1506 West 36th Avenue · Anchorage, Alaska 99503 · 907-561-1011 · Fax 907-563-4220 March 3, 1999 PN&D 981 O3 Keith Kornelis Public Works Manager City of Kenai 210 Fidaigo Ave., Suite 200 Kenai, Alaska 99611-7794 Re: Kenai Coastal Trail Dear Mr. Kornelis: This submittal is our final report for the proposed Kenai Coastal Trail reconnaissance level study. During the study phase numerous people were contacted for input, on-site surveys performed, and various options examined for erosion control. The submitted plan represents the most economical solution meeting the desires of reviewers. Erosion control methods examined included armor and steel structures. As found on past studies, armor is about one-half the cost of the structural solution, thus costs have been based on the least cost armor solution. The best apparent plan includes two parking lots, about 1.7 miles of trail and one strand bridge. All grades are ADA accessible except the Spur Trail has grades of about 7.5%, which are greater than the 5.0% ADA maximum. The plan is multi-purpose with something for about everyone including: 1. Looping trails to existing sidewalks, roads, or trail systems. 2. ADA access over the majority of the system and to certain beach areas. 3. Fishing and beach access along the Kenai River. 4. Erosion control for bluff properties. 5. Estuary and wildlife viewing points with information centers. 6. Coastal trail experience. 7. Fishing fleet viewing. Although not studied in detail, much of the trail crosses private land in an eroded state. The numerous lots that will be impacted will require in depth right-of-way work. However, erosion control improvements should offer betterment to most of these properties. Without right-of-way costs included, we estimate the total project cost at about $5 million (see attached estimate). To finance this amount, Paul Fuhs investigated numerous funding options. attached also. His report is Keith Kornetis March 2, 1999 Page 2 We hope this brief study and report will be adequate for your needs. questions please call at your convenience. Should you have Sincerely, PERATROV~CH, NOTTINGHAM & DRAGE, Dennis N°tting~-~am, P-~". - President DN/rk INC. 4-~._Peratrovich, Nottingham & Drage, Inc. . Engineering Consultants KENAi COASTAL TRAIL COST ESTIMATE ITEM QUANTITY Parking 3 acres Trails Armored Trail Strand Bridge Drainage, Landscaping & Miscellaneous 4200 L.F. 4600 L.F. 1 each All , Construction Cost 25% Administration, Engineering & Contingency PROJECT TOTAL COST ($Million) , ,, 0.3 0.2 2.7 0.3 0.5 $4.0 1.0 $5.0 Million Note' Right-of-way costs are not included. Peratrovich, Nottingham & Drage, Inc. Engineering Consultants 217 Second Street, Suite 200 · Juneau, Alaska 99801 · Tel (907)586-1325, Fax (uu/)-,+,.,,,-,.,-,,,.. March 8, 1999 Mayor Mike Navarre Kenai Peninsula Borough 144 North Binkley Street Soldotna, AK 99669 Mayor Ken Lancaster City of Soldotna 177 North Birch Street Soldotna, AK 99669 Mayor John Williams City of Kenai 210 Fidalgo Avenue, Ste. 200 Kenai, AK 99611 Dear Mayors' The Alaska Municipal League is pleased to be holding its 49th Annual Local Government Conference Week in Kenai/Soldotna on November 5-9,1999. It is important that we tie down arrangements ahead of time, so I am writing now to clarify the responsibilities of the host municipality. I will also be sending this letter to the other mayors in borough. I understand that Justine from the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce has been appointed the conference liaison to work directly with me on conference planning and operation. The liaison needs to be authorized to act on behalf of both the cities and the borough and to make day-to- day decisions involving municipal resources, arrangements for the host city reception, and the provision of equipment and staff for conference operation. I have spoken to Justine on several occasions and look forward to working with her. · For your information, I have attached a copy of the list entitled "Host Requirements for the Alaska Municipal League Annual Conference" which outlines what the host municipality is expected to provide. More details are listed below to help assist the League with this major undertaking. o Membership - The cities and borough are members in good standing. e Facilities - Although the Local Government Conference itself is November 7-9, associated activities and meetings (association meetings, training sessions, Board and Member of the National League of Cities and the National Association of Counties Host Municipality Letter Page 2 o . o , AML/JIA meetings, etc.) will occur on Friday, November 5, and Saturday, November 6. Facilities needed for this period include hotel rooms, meeting rooms, and support services. See specifics below. To avoid confusion and conflicts, all requests for meeting rooms, function scheduling, etc., must come through the League. Hotel Rooms - We estimate a need for at least 400 hotel rooms. I will need a list of available hotel rooms and what they will charge per night so I can list them in the registration packet. Delegates will be required to make their own reservations. Meeting Space - The meeting, banquet, and exhibit space, including tables, chairs, podiums, and sound systems, are to be provided "at no cost to the League," and the Municipality will be required to cover the costs of these items, should there be any extra charges. I understand the Central Peninsula Sports Center has been reserved from November 5-9,1999. Transportation - Delegates will probably arrive via air and by car. Most people will arrive on the Peninsula on Saturday, November 6, and will depart on Tuesday, November 9. Other host municipalities have arranged for local hosts to meet delegates at the airport with intbrmation and bus transportation from the airport to hotels as a courtesy to delegates. While this is not a requirement of the League, you may want to consider offering this service, as many attendees may be unfamiliar with the area. Second, the host municipality is required to provide transportation from the hotels to the conference sessions. For this conference, with no central conference hotel, developing a transportation plan is very important to ensure that all delegates have access to conference events. We will need copies of the schedule for transportation to post at the hotels and to put in the delegate packets. Staff Requirements ae Packet Stuffing: The host municipality is responsible for providing 2-3 people to stuff packets Friday afternoon, November 5 (we will provide the packets). Included in the packets will be the AML program and other conference materials, as well as whatever material you wish to include. My suggestion is that we have maps, tourist information, etc. available at a table in the registration area rather than stuffing them into every packet. b~ Registration: The host municipality is responsible for providing one person to work with AML staff at the registration desk from Saturday, November 6, through noon on Tuesday, November 9. The same person should be assigned for the entire time to ensure continuity in conference operations. Host Municipality Letter Page 3 Co Policy Statement & Resolution Preparation: The host municipality will need to provide a staff person to help type and copy the policy statement and resolutions. This is a major work responsibility and critical to good policy development and the success of the conference. The draft policy statement will be available in October. A staff person will be needed to incorporate changes made during the policy sections and the resolutions committee meeting. We will be reprinting only those pages with changes (rather than the entire document) and a summary page to be handed out at the Tuesday business meeting. We will work closely with the staff assigned to this project to work out these details. The resolutions and policy statement changes must be finalized Monday evening and 150 copies of the changes must be printed and ready for distribution by 8'00 a.m. on Tuesday prior to the business meeting. The cost of priming these documents is your responsibility. o Equipment- We will need: bo At a minimum, one IBM-compatible computer (with Word 7.0) with a laser printer. These will be used in the on-site staff and delegate office. One copy machine with legal-size and letter-size paper trays with automatic feed, duplexing and collating capabilities. You may recall that we make many copies, so this machine must be able to stand up to constant use. Co Three portable tape recorders. de Two portable bulletin boards to be used for announcemems and messages. eo Telephones for the registration area and for the office area. Other municipalities were able to get the local phone company to donate cell phones, which would work very well in the sports center. Overhead projectors, power point projector, screens, VCRs with monitors, and flip charts. go Sound systems for meeting rooms that will need them to allow full participation by delegates. We must have all equipment in place and in operating condition by noon on Friday, November 5. In past years, IBM, Xerox, and/or an office supply store have loaned office equipment in exchange for publicity, in the program. Host Municipality Letter Page 4 , Ceremonies and Entertainment ae Flag Ceremony: A flag ceremony for the opening session will be on Sunday, November 7, at 10:00 a.m. The host municipality is responsible for arranging this in time for it to be listed in the program. In previous years, the host community has added some special touches to the opening ceremony, such as local high school bands, native dance groups, etc. Feel free to offer suggestions to help make the opening ceremony exciting and fun for the delegates and to show off local talent. o 10. 11. b, Invocations: People to give invocations at the opening ceremony and meal functions, including opening on Sunday, November 7, at 10:00 a.m. and luncheons on Monday, November 8, and Tuesday, November 9. You will be responsible for arranging this in time for their names to be listed in the program. Ce Entertainment: Various functions (including musicians, bands, dancers, thespians, etc.). AML will handle booking the entertainment, but help and suggestions of local talent are welcomed. de Special Events: We will hold our annual business meeting on Tuesday moming, November 9. We will then schedule our AML Board and Legislative Committee meetings for Tuesday afternoon. We will hold the Awards Banquet on Monday evening. We can discuss this later in more detail. Conference Program - The host municipality is responsible for printing the conference program. Some municipalities have obtained sponsors to help defray this cost. It is your choice, as are the design of the cover, paper stock, color, etc. We will provide the program text and will need at least 400 copies of the program. We will also need 300-400 mini-programs (just a schedule, with no details) printed and made available at the hotels for those attending pre-conference activities. These are very useful for distribution at the airport and hotels. We provide the text for the mini- program. Photos of the Kenai Peninsula- We will need promotional pictures of the community to use in The Touchstone (AML monthly newsletter) and other conference advertising for our July issue. Promotional Sto~ - We will need a promotional story on Kenai Peninsula for publication in The Touchstone in August. Host Municipality Letter Page 5 12. Welcoming Recepti0n - The host municipality is responsible for sponsoring a welcoming reception for approximately 350-400 delegates, traditionally on the opening night (Sunday). Location, food, beverages, and entertainment are all your choice. I hope this helps as far as what is expected of the host municipality. I will plan a trip to Kenai/Soldoma to meet with Justine and any other interested within the next few months to see the accommodations and meeting rooms. We look forward to working with you to make the 49th Annual AML Local Government Conference a memorable one for our members. Please call me if you have any questions. r.~jncerely, Director of Member Services and Conference Coordinator cci Justine, Soldotna Chamber of Commerce , c:\jk\conf.99khostltr.doc , . . . . . . . 10. 11. ALASKA MUNICIPAL LEAGUE ANNUAL CONFERENCE HOST REQUIREMENTS The host municipality must be a member in good standing of the League (dues paid). Facilities necessary for hosting the conference and pre-conference activities must be available from Sunday to Sunday during the second full week in November. The host municipality must have a minimum of 400 hotel rooms (75 doubles) within walking distance of the conference meeting rooms, or the host must provide adequate and reasonable free transit service from area hotels to the conference meeting rooms during the conference, including all pre-conference activities (see #2). Meeting space must be available, at no cost to the League, for a minimum of 450 delegates during general sessions and meals. In addition, individual meeting rooms for up to ten simultaneous meetings, ranging in size from 15 to 200 delegates, must be available during the conference week. On-site office space shall also be provided for League staff. The host municipality must provide exhibit space and a reasonable amount of equipment, e.g., table and chairs, power, etc., for both the meeting and exhibit spaces. Banquet facilities must be available to accommodate 450 guests. The host municipality must supply local staff, telephones, copiers, equipment, and supplies to assist the AML staff in carrying out the various functions of a successful conference (registration, packet assembly, word processing, copying, and workshop presentations, etc.). The host city is responsible for preparing conference programs and mini-programs prior to the conference and, during the conference, for preparing the annual business meeting material, specifically the policy statement and resolutions (this requires evening and weekend access to word processing equipment and a large-volume copier, as well as staff). The host municipality must appoint a staff person as a liaison between the League and the host municipality. This person will assist the AML staff with conference planning and during the conference. The host municipality is responsible for hosting one evening reception for conference delegates. The host municipality is responsible for obtaining local materials for the conference packet (local maps, events calendars, brochures, general information, small gift, etc.) if it wants to provide these to delegates. (Approved by the AML Board, April 30, 1992) c:/jk/conf. 9 8~ho streq MEMORANDUM TO:~.a/ Mayor John Williams and the Kenai City Council FROM:~ iff'~ Cary IL Graves, City Attorney DATE: March 12, 1999 RE: Ordinances for administrative exemptions for encroachments and setbacks The ordinances to allow administrative exemptions up to a total of twelve (12) inches for encroachments and setbacks will be before the Planning & Zoning Commission during its March 24~ meeting for review. They will be submitted to council for introduction with the commission's comments for the council meeting of April 7, 1999. INFORMATION ITEMS KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING MARCH 17, 1999 o 3 / 3 / 99 Kenai City Council Meeting "To Do" List. . 3 / 2 / 99 Kenai Alternative High School thank-you note. o 3 / 3 / 99 Peninsula Winter Games thank-you letter. , 3 / 2 / 99 Tustumena 200 Sled Dog Race thank-you letter. o 3/4/99 Paul Dale, Snug Harbor Seafoods, Inc. letter thanking RR for his involvement in the recent Board of Fisheries meetings. , 3 / 9 / 99 Public Works Department, Project Status Report. o 2/99 Kenai Fire Department, Consolidated Monthly Report. , 3/18/99 Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board meeting agenda and minutes of 2/11 /99 meeting. o 3/99 Greater Soldoma Chamber of Commerce, Your Chamber Today. KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING MARCH 3, 1999 "TO DO" LIST Admin -- Prepare an ordinance regarding Administrative Exemption to Setback Requirements and include with the ordinance a history of encroachments and their size since the late 1980's. Forward the ordinance to the Planning & Zoning CommiSsion for their review, comments and possible amendments prior to forwarding it to council. Encourage the State to clean the sidewalks again. P. O. Box 2655 Soldotna, Alaska 99669 Phone: (907) 398-2329 Fax: (907) 260-2605 March 3, 1999 Mayor John Williams and Members of the Kenai City Council 210 Fidalgo Suite 200 Kenai, AK 99611 Dear Mayor Williams and Members of the Kenai City Council' Thank you very much for the City of Kenai's generous contribution to the 1999 Peninsula Winter Games. We really appreciate the City of Kenai sponsoring one of the children who rode with mushers at the ceremonial start of the Tustumena 200. The kids had a wonderful time. The City of Kenai's kind support helped make the 1999 Winter Games the best ever, with 25 different activities for Alaskan youth and adults. Thanks again for the City's contribution to the Peninsula Winter Games. Sincerely, Executive Director Peninsula Winter Games, Inc. 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'.. :~,.. :....: · ;~....:.-..,~..'~ :..-.';.: ;: '.~: .~: ..:- Race .Marshall -'... ..... :.:.:.:.:.. ...... :.:.:.:.:.. ...... ...... . .......... ............ .::ii:..:!!~i!!:' ,:::!:i:.::!." .:.::.:.:.:.:.:.... .:.:.:. ..3:::: '"" .... " ..:.::.. ...z:::.'.' ....... Date Ta~stumena 200 Sled Dog Race Box 220 ° Kasilof, Alask~a 99610 ctt boF Seafoods, Inc. Box 701 March 4, 1999 City of Kenai Mayor and Councilmembers Kenai, Alaska 99611 907-283-6122 Fax 907-283-6127 Please accept our sincerest thanks and gratitude for your resolution and involvemem in .the recent board of'Fisheries hearings. Mr. Ross was a fireless and exceptionally effective represemative for both the City and our industry, we also noticed Mr. Moore and Mrs. Swamer in attendance. We believe the board is genuinely interested in the involvement of affected communities in its efforts to resolve allocation conflicts, your assistance and willingness to participate was certainly noticed and appreciated by the board. In my opinion, while acknowledging that central district commercial fishers did lose some additional time, it is important to focus on the overall impact of this boards actions. The board covered Cook Inlet issues with unprecedented thoroughness and completeness. While clearly not a board friendly to commercial fishers, its overall conclusions, especially concerning allocation, seem to reaffirm the priority of high sustained yield and commercial allocation of Kenai river sockeye salmon. If this was the "showdown" meeting, then I think we have a viable economic future, thanks again for all your help in securing that furore. Best regards, Preject status Report A=Active NC=Non-Construction F=Future STIP=State Trans. Imp. KK - Keith Kornelis JL- Jack La Shot RS - Robert Springer MK- Madlyn Kebschull Jet- Jan Taylor A/NC/F/ CItyCootaOt ProJoot aamo SW A JL Alaska Regional Fire Training Facility, ARFF Building occupied... Training sessions taking place... Props completed... Remaining site work items to be completed in the Spring... Contract amendment to M-M and change order forthcoming. A KK Bluff Erosion P/N doing study... Harbor & Council evaluating report & cost estimate. A JL/RS Challenger Learning Center Bid schedule: Sitework ad 3/15, Bid 4/14 .... Building ad 3/29, Bid 4/28. A MK Comprehensive Plan $60,000 appropriated in Capital Project Fund. A JL Contaminated Soils- Shop A KK Crow Court Kent & Sullivan preparing reports. Engineering stage. , A KK Cunningham Park Engineering design complete...Bid 3/11/99. A JL K.M.A. Taxiway "C" Extension North Project complete...Close out Change Order $15,305.05 credit. ALP work in progress. A KK Mission Bluff W & S Relocation Locating manhole elevations. A JL Multi-Purpose Facility Waiting for site to be transferred to City ownership. ...Preliminary plans have been reviewed...See Challenger bid schedule. A JL Multi-Purpose/Challenger Site Work A KK S. Spruce Beach Parking Site Work ad 3/15/99...Bid opening 4/14/99. Corps permit process complete...No funding appropriated as yet...Preparing bid specifications. A KK Tuesday, March 09, 1999 STP Expansion/Planning Have received DEC Grant... Start late this summer. Page I of 2 A/aC/F/ City Coataet Sll~ II ^ JL Underground Storage Tank- Airport Status Tank pull complete...Approximately 300 yds. of soil stockpiled for future cleanup. Draft report has been submitted to DEC...They are requiring additional work...Pete Campbell will estimate cost for additional work. A KK WH I & 2 and Pumphouse Modifications Engineering design is ongoing. Received ADEC grant for additional funding. a KK WH 4 Received ADEC grant funding...Waiting for Borough on land ownership, Swires & Lawton. F JL City Maintenance Facility Schematic design complete...awaiting funding. F JL New Kenai Health Center Waiting for Borough and State to reach memorandum of agreement... Design RFP°s are ready. F KK South Side Kenai River Road and Parking For Southside dip netters...Submitted grant application for Exxon Valdez Funds...EVOS Commission did not select project for funding. EVOS director suggests a study. F MK Title 14 Review Revisions pending funding. F KK NC JL/RS Water Quality/Quantity Development Program ADA City Building Study Waterline loops only remaining project. Several items underway...Hardware & doors at vadous facilities...Making one bathroom at the Library ADA accessible. STIP KK DOT- Bddge Access Pathway Pathway along Bridge Access Road from K-Beach to Spur 3.3 miles...Design FFY 00 at $250,000...ROW FFY 00 at $100,000... Constr. FFY 01 at $1,400,000. STIP KK DOT- Forest Drive DOT in design stage .... Design ongoing. Construction maybe FFY 99...Completed the first plans-in-hand review. STIP KK DOT- Unity Trail Pathway Pathway along Kenai Spur from MP 2.8 to 8.1. Design FFY 00 at $200,000...ROW FFY 00 at $100,000...Const. FFY 01 at $1,700,000. Tuesday, March 09, 1999 Page 2 of 2 KENA! FIRE DEPARTMENT CONSOLIDATED MONTHLY REPORT CLASSIFICATION OF ALARMS Month' February 1999 lmrpor~.. IStructural , I~l Jt Rt Jildinn-.~ Or, ,,-,I,-, ,,-~.- ~_ r,,", ,', ,-, i i i i i i Irorest . IDumpsters IV~.hi¢.~..'.. ' ' ......... , ,,,, , !"' ~'"'=' "'"'"" "'""'~' i~iarm Maifunct'ion. IGood Intent , ,, , I R~..~¢.~ ~¢. A.~.~t .............. , ,, ;;. ,, I~SCe~mneous.. ., 91, 21 i~t .... ....... i , , i 1 1 0 0 1.0 4~ ITOT,4, I, FI~F, ~ i,A RMSI i I , . ,,._ i i .,I.. --3si "- 341 ' i i i I i i I · I i 61' ' '?~lm i i! ' 69 '! ii i iiii i ii 46 I' ' '~d ij .... i i ii~ Ii i i I ii _ i~ i i m i i I ii in ITOTAL ALARMS ' i~11 B i i I I I IIII I L_I !1 I ' 't1~ ! liVi°biie HOme IVehicle IMnfnr ~/~¢~1 .... m , i i i ii mi ~ , d I m m II I I , I m I I ii I ii mi i i iF , .... ,pvd'n j .... ¢,z.v, vwud"~n N,-,,',' 'i'j ~Ul ,..~u I $1,5001 $2,7001 .~ni ' .~hi i i i II $4,6001 ioiREC~' J~il~ ILoss' I S6.20o m s4.15o I - · m mill II I~ i - J i iii, r~l O'J' $1.600 j' ~;~2'700 i · II · i i~ml , ,, ' ,' , . .. J mm .... ~ i o,3so' i "ill -1- KENAI FIRE DEPARTMENT CONSOLIDATED MONTHLY REPORT CAUSES OF FIRES Month: February 1999 ILl IIIIIII I I -ru,~ I , ^o'rv~^~ IMONTHI TO DATE I I k...~, I ~T.n~ I I "~"'" ! '-'"" '-"',~'" I _1 II I I__ I I I I i,/ I ll/l IIIIII I~y~,~l, ~U~,~Lf i-lU~ I~a~ i~ · i ~l Il I I I I Defective Heaters I bom. oustibie~ Near ~eaters I~T" ~'v":a, r,~l,,~ i I~t ~ !Oil burners/Furnaces . I_ luareiess Smoking . . I~l II1~1 ~1 I ~1~1 I I~1~1 I~a , ,, , , , ,,,,, I De~ecfive Elemdcal ~irino Ill , I , I I I I~ppiian~s & ~mors~Eiec. I i I]llJ ! I ,II I i _ i i il i, i i i l ol i Ul nl - I ' ol i i II ¥ ~ Il Il I11 I I , ol o ol II I I I I II TH' o v,= ^ o I TO DATE I I · VIII, II I I ~ I · "--~~ Ir Il:Il ! Il I ll:llJl?', i 'iIHUIU'~, i I l I~.nnkinn Annlinne.~ IRekindle I_' 15Pomaneous ignjdpn .. i i I . .... ~ ...... ,~:l i' ....... ~/ ii Ilncendia~ I' ............ I~lSC. Kno~ Causes .... I~ .... :_: .... flY: .... I ...... I ...... n l .~n nni ,'"' I ..... ~1 .... .~n nn I ' ~ll~ ~lll~ ~l' '~111' I I I I $o. oo I 11 , , $o,.oo I q~V.V~J .~n nn l l $o. oo I I $o. ool , ,pv. vv Il .~n nn I $0.00 I i Il I ll I III $01~ O0I .~n nn I ~ il i ~11~ I ' l $o. oo I Il I Il $o. ool ! I I ~I~. V~ I " .,,n nn I $o.oo I Ill I ,I i $0'00 J , ,,I iI '! ol _1 Ul ,,1 ~l, nl -I oI ol ,,I -I OI _ I ' Ul ,,I "t °I ~,1 -' ! II I .~n tqFi I $o. oo I Il I l $o. ooI .~n nn I ~'-;-- I .I -2- KENAI FIRE DEPARTMENT CONSOLIDATED MONTHLY REPORT CALLS BY DAY OF WEEK Month' February 1999 Il ' ' II SUN. II i' .....~ i' I ~1 · ~, , ,, MON. II TUES. II , , ,,, ,, , , I ! '~ol '~51 WED. II THURS. II 141 121 a , , , , , , i FRI. SAT. II , ,,, TOTAL II ! CALLS BY TIME OF DAY Month' February 1999 II oooo I! oloo II 0200 0300 !1 0400 II OSO0 0600 o?oo !! 131 21 ~ , ,1 i , 31 31 ~01 i , 1_ l, 51 41 OI TOTAL CALLS 8i I iii -3- KENAI FIRE DEPARTMENT CONSOLIDATED MONTHLY REPORT OCCUPANCY TYPE Month: February 1999 l II _ri i~l i i i .r~...IS YEAR Th. .. DATE I LAST Y~.A.R T'n. _ D.~TE I,~,o~ ~ ~,~=o ~ *, ~oo I ,,,o~ ~,~=o ~ ~,~oo I !,,~o,-. I ' ,,,,..o I , ,_,.,~,o I ,~,o,-. I ' "'"'"' I ii ii - ii i i iiii i i i i i II'~[IHi i(: ' ' "' '~' ..... G~v. uilil_f~el~[, ' , ;,, A, .... .... Iutate Government ! u ! IFederal Government I 0 1 ISchO'ol~' ' I 01 I Prc,-.qr, hnni. I n l ,, I i.,,,,,in;, '" I ~I"' r~l ....$Annl 'nl ' n l ' ' ennnl , ~ ,-.,_.._,-,, ,' ',,; I ,, I ~ I ~ .... ' I-",v,°."t'~='''"''"'''''' , . I "1~ ~,' I , ~....~.'"'""" I.~ "1.. , , "1., ~ .. .. .. ~ ..'"'" "" I..~ luweulngs , I U l '~1 ~'°,°°u-uul U l '~ I~zu, uuu.uul l Stores/Dwellings I IFourPlex's I O I O I $0.001 '01 01 $0.001 ii r~.~.,~AN,; !Li:: - ,.. . ., , , , . I -: i~.,. i i i IO~ice Building. ISmall R~tail Stores I 7 0 $01¢~'i 0 ' '0 $0.00 I l e, t ur nt/8 r ,,'' ' '1 '4d ' $o.ool 'o' ' '$O. oo ~Larg~ $in~l~.M~mami!~ , .' ! .. '.' 0 $0~0 '0 ' ' 0" $0,~0~ ' "" I 0 ' "nn _ ...., ~, Malls 2 0 ' ~,,,' eu.00 u 0 eu. uut Lodges .... . 0 ' 0 $0.00 ' 0 '0 .... $0.. 00.[. II I¥1~1.~11 F C:~UI II~.~:::ltlUH 1 ~ "~ ~'~ Misc. Manufacture 0 0 0 0 I Lumber Yards 6 0 0 0 ir Gara es 4 0 $0. 0 0 ._. ann~.rs . ,,. .~ . II ,-, , ' ' ';,,~ ,A~, II U l ,u. uuI oI $O.oo I o ~o~00 ~ n l ~d n~l · n~n I ',o.o0i Chemical works'" "' "" 0 .... O ''$0.00 0 ...... 0 "" $i3.'00"t Pe~roleium Pia'nis .... o ....o '" $0.o0 ' o '" 0 .... $0.o0 Wharf"PropertieS.. ' .... 0' ' 0' ' $01'00 "b '0 "$i3100 Fish Processing ........ 0 ..... 0' ' ' $0.00 0 ' 0 ....... $0.00 Refineries ....... d ' '~0 ' $0.00 '" 0 "0 ' $0.00 Misc, ~{ructures .. ' ' "0 o,' ,:. '" $o. oo 'o o ' $o.oO- -4- KENAI FIRE DEPARTMENT CONSOLIDATED MONTHLY REPORT BUREAU OF FIRE PREVENTION Month: February 1999 THIS MONTH iLAsT ~HIS MON'~~'LAsT yEA~I THIS YEAR MONTH ILAST YEAR~, TO DATE TO DATE 1iPreventi°n,Activities'' ' "'" , ' ' ,,, ', , ,,, ,, , ' .. ,'" I Inspection Letiers , . 5 20 . , .0 0 30 Inspections 21 15 3 ,, , 4 57 Re-inspections 0 4 0 0 4 :Violations Noted 7 20 ' " 5 '" 8 34 Notice of Violations Issued 4 9 I 2 17 i i ii :Vi°lations Corrected 13 20 5 5 46 , ,1,,, , i , , 1, , ~ i Extensions Granted 0 2 0 0 2 EXtensions Denied 0 0 0 0 0 , plan Reviews 0 2 1 2 i ii iii i i i , Fire Drills Supervised , 0 ,,0 ...... 0 , 0 0 Fire Prevention Classes 0 3 6 15 3 TOtal Ciass Audience. ' ' 0 ' 52 '45 " ' :160 52 i i i i Ill iii ! i i i i i i Station Tours 4 0 2 6 8 ~ , Total Tour Audience 0 0 15 52 0 iii i ii i J i i i i i~1 i 1, i i Burning Permits is,sued ,. 2 1 10 16 ,, 5 Land Clearin.[t Permits 0...... 0 ., 0 . ,0 , 0 Court Actions Instituted 0 0 0 0 0 Arrest (Resulted From,), 0 , 0 .... 0 .... 0 , , 0 Convictions 0 0 0 0 0 i i i i i i ~ i i Complaints ReCieved I 2 , 3 ,. ,3 4 Complaints Acted. ,On ..1 2 . 3 3. .4. Fire Watches Ordered 3 1 0 0 4 IIn'vestigati°ns ' "".. ,', , ' , ~, ," ,, , ." ',, , 't Accidental Fires 1 0 0 2 2 i ~1 , , i i i i , ,,1 Natural Fires 0 0 0 , , , , InCendiary Fires , 0 .~ 0 1 . ,. 1 ., 0 Undetermined Fires 0 0 0 ,, , ,, , , , i ' ii i i ' ' , i i i ii , , ii ,1 i i i I ,ureau's Man Hours ' , ! ~ ii i ~ i i i ! i i i i i i i ii Total Man Hrs. Inspections .... 3-i' 30 4 6 92 T°tal Man Hrs. Public Ed. 28 ,.20' 40 , .,66 . 76 Total Man Hrs. Investi[lation 4 0 1 ,11 , , 8 Total Man Hrs. Plan Reviev~ 1 4 1 3 6 , i i i i i KENAI FIRE DEPARTMENT CONSOLIDATED MONTHLY REPORT DIVISION OF TRAINING MONTH' February 1999 i1-HIS] LAS1- ~HIS MONT~ LAST YEARI THIS YEAR I MONTqMONT~ LAST YEARI TO DATE TO DATE PhysicaI Fitness ', " ........ 48 51.5 96 179 ' 99.5 Area Familiarization, 20 32 26 43.5 "52 Fire Fighter Safety , 5 0 14 23.5 ' 5 Officer Trainin[l 13.5 14.5 7 33.5 ' 28 Apparatus 113.5 105.5 98 217.5 219 Operating Apparatus 67.5 74.5 52 ' ' 120.5 ' 142 Portable Fire Extinguishers ,0..5 9 1.5 2 ' 9.5 F°rcible Ent~ 1.5 8.5 . 11 12 10 Ropes & Knots 0 0 9 , 14 0 Ladders 3 0 1~2.5 19.5 3 Hose Maintenance ' 12.5 i 0 '12.5 41 22.5 Hose Lays 26 16.5 19 31.5 42.5 Salvage & Overhaul 18 8 9 30 '26 Fir~streams 15 ~ 5 13.5 24.5 ' 30 Hydraulics , 9.5 12.5 9.5 17 22 Water Suppl¥'s 24.5 36.5 26.5 38.5 61 Ventilation 0.5 1 22 30 1.5 Breathing'Apparatus 11 '4.5 9 15'.5 15.5 Rescue Operations ... 6 15 21 23.5 21 Fire Prevention/Ar~on ..... 12 19 44 61 31 Pre - Fire Planning, ., 3 '16.5 . 5 5 19.5 Sprinkler Systems , ,. 0 2 , 0 8 2 Fire Tactics & Str,a, teg¥ 6.5 3.5 19 33 ' 10 Hazardous Materials 10.5 '9' 4 12 i9.5 Confined Space Entry 0 0 ' ~ 7 0 Multi - ComDan¥ Drills, 14 0 , ,20 20 14 Formal Schools 0 0 0 8 0 LiVe, Fire Operations, ,, ' "8 9.5 , 20 43.5 17.5 Total Class HoUrs 36 4 40 88.5 '40 Total Field Hours' 41315 470 548 1025.5 ' 883.5 I/u i AL CLA,~/F/P_.Lu ! 449.5 4741 sea! ! s23.sl -6- KENAI FIRE DEPARTMENT CONSOLIDATED MONTHLY REPORT DIVISION OF TRAINING MONTH- February 1999 THIS MONTH i i LAST ~I-HIS MONTi-~L~§T yEA~THIS YEAR~ MONTH lEAST YEARI TO DATEI TO DATEI ! ~M3 ~Ul=tJ~'t'; i~ " ', , Anatomy & Patient Assesment 21 45 , 44 101.5 .... , ,' '66 Tria[le 0 2.5 0 0.5 2.5 Chest Injuries 0 1.5 0 0 1.5 Sh'ock & I.V. Therapy 13.5 19 45' 73 32.5 Hemorrhage Control '0 4.5 1 6.5 4.5' Basic Lifo Support . i 1.5 18 14 29.5 29.5 Fractures & Dislocations 0 0 3 16 0 Head & Neck Injuries 2.5 , 8.5 , 4.5 ' 14.5 '11 'Abdominal & Genital Systems 2 1 0.5 1.5 3 CardiaC/^rrhy/Strokes ,1:5 . 6 5.5 32 '7.5 Respiratory Systems 3.5 .,,10:5 13 24 14 Airway Management , 17.5 24.5 31 61.5 ,, 42 Childbirth 1.5 0 0 6 1.5 Pati0nt Handling . 22 , 43 " ' ~25.5,, 70.5 ' 65 Heat & Cold Injuries 2 0 0 4.5 2 Radiation & Electrical Iniuries 0 0 ,.' 0 0 0 Poison & Allergies 5 . 0 1.5 , ,4.5 5 Pediatrics 0 1 0 1 1 P~armocolog¥ 6 , 0 .~4 19.5, .6 Advanced Life Support 0 0 0 0 0 Diabetes 0 " 2.~' 0 0 2.5 Quality Assurance , 16 .... 7' ' . ' ~, 1' 9.5 17 Driving ,~2, , 20 , 10 30.5 32 Medical/Legal Terminolig¥ 8 0 7 24 8 Rules & Responsibilities . 2 .... 0 . 2 , , 11 .2 EMs System & ,Communication~ 0 "0 ', 6 21 , 0 Mast Pants 0 0 0 0 0 , , , Alcohol &DrugAbuse ,5 ,1 0 . 2 6 Behavioral Emer[lencies 2 7'5 2 2.5 9.5 Infectous Disease Control 10 16 15.5 36.5 26 Total Class Hours 21 lz~.5 ' 65 i 26 35.5 , TOtal Field Hours 138.5 226.5 184 487.5 365 ITOTAL CLASS/FIELD 1 9.5'1 "' 4il 249l 613-5 1 40°-5 ! -7- KENAI FIRE DEPARTMENT CONSOLIDATED MONTHLY REPORT DIVISION OF TRAINING MONTH: February 1999 I'THIS! LAST' ~HI~ MONT~ LAST YEAR M,O, NT~MONT~ LAST YEAR!, TO DATE THIS YEAR TO DATE I/~<~r :3UiSJ~J i ~ .... ' ' , Airport. Familiarization 10.5 .... 7 . 5.5 . '5.5 17.5 Aircraft Familiarization 0 0 0 0 0 Fire FighterSafoty ..... 4 0 . .2 2 .. 4 Emergency CommuniCations 1 2 2 ,, 2 , 3 Hose, Nozzle, Turret Operation,, 3 15 6 12 18 Agent Applications .... 3 10 2 8 13 , Aircraft Evacuation 0 0 0 0 0 FireFightincgOper, ations .... ,',',' , 2 ' 12 , 6 6 '" 14 Structural Adaptation 2 0 0 0 2 ~ , Car~o,, Hazards . . 0 0 .. 0 0 0 Airport Emergency Plan 0 0 ,0 ' '0 ' 0 Hazardous Materials 0 0 0 0 0 , Alerts I, II, III ., 0 2 0 0 2 MUlti- Company Drills , 0 21 0 0 2;I Formal Schools . . 0 0 0 0 0 Total Class Hours 0 0 0 0 0 Total Field Hours 25.5 09 23.5 35.5 94.5 I'°tal Ct,ass/l~ield "i 25-51 691 23-51 35-51 -8- KENAI RIVER ~Special Management Area "Working together_for the river" * * *Mee ting Agenda* * * Thursday, March 18, 1999 7:00 p.m. Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association Building I. CALL TO ORDER A. Roll Call. B. Approval of 2/11/99 minutes C. Agenda Changes and Approval I I. PUBLIC COMMENT III. NEW BUSINESS A. Summary of Recent Board of Fish Decisions - Dave Athons, ADF&G IV. OLD BUSINESS A. Commercial Use Committee Report; Discussion of Board of Fish Mandate to Address Guide Issues, Discussion of Rental Boats - Jeff King B. Permit Committee Report - Suzanne Fisler C. Legislative Committee Report - Ken Lancaster D. Borough Committee Report - Tim Navarre E. Water Quality Framework Committee Report - Les Bucb_holz v. PUBLIC COMMENT VI. ADJO~ A. Board Comments B. Date/Agenda of Next Meeting. NOTE: Tentative Agenda only. Please contact Ted Wellman or Chris Degernes before 4pm on March 16 to make changes or additions to this agenda. Also Note: Location at CIAA this month. Kenai Area Office, Box 1247, Soldotna, AK 99669, Soldotna 262-5581 Kenai Peninsula Borough, Box 850, Soidotna, AK 99669, Soldotna 262-4441 Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, Department of Natural Resources, in cooperation with the Kenai Peninsula Borough, KENAI RIVER SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREA ADVISORY BOARD Thursday, February 11, 1999 Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Chambers ge CALL TO ORDER A. Roll Call' Present: Jeff King, Ted Wellman, Jim H. Richardson, Peggy Mullen, Vince O'Reilly, Mark Chase, Bill Shuster, Lance Trasky, · Rick Ross, Les Buchholz, Chris Degemes Absent: Brannon Ames, Ann Whitmore-Painter, Tim Navarre, Ken Lancaster Bo Approval of 1/14/99 Minutes: Hearing no objections, the minutes were approved as submitted. Ce Agenda.Changes and Approval: Degemes desired to add discussion regarding the Cooper Lake Amendment #2 under Old Business. The agenda was then approved as amended. II. PUBLIC COMMENT - None III. NEW BUSINESS me Easement Request Through KRSMA Lands - Suzanne Fisler Fisler pointed out where the easement was located. She stated Mr. Jefferson applied for a 60-ft. right-of-way in 1984 because he wanted to have legal access to his property. At that time it was declined, however, he was allowed to continue to use the dirt lane into his residence. In 1994, Ciechanski was realigned when Enstar ran a gas utility line down it. Again, Mr. Jefferson applied for a 60-ft. right-of-way. He was allowed a utility easement but not a 60-ft. easement. Now Mr. Jefferson has brought in an As-Built Survey of the driveway and is asking for a public easement of the road as it exists today, not 60 feet. It would be a public road up until it crosses into his private property. Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board February 11, 1999 Pagel Fisler stated that the Department has the authority to grant public easements or roads across our property. It is the desire to do that with the understanding that it is a public roadway to that point. The parcel is not used by the public as it is primarily wetlands. Development of the area is not anticipated and there is no river destination. She asked the Board to approve the idea of the proposed easement. At this time Mr. Jefferson is unable to secure financing to do improvements or sell the real estate without dedicated access. MOTION: JIM H. RICHARDSON MOVED TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED EASEMENT. DEGERNES SECONDED. VOTE ON MOTION TO APPROVE EASEMENT: MOTION PASSED: UNANIMOUS WITHOUT OBJECTION IV. OLD BUSINESS mo Boat Wake Impact Study Proposal - Joe Dorava, USGS Joe Dorava described the proposed study plan to evaluate boat wake causes on the Kenai River. He has been working with the Corps of Engineers and a committee from the Board on this and wanted to let the board know what is to be proposed. Many agencies will cooperate in the project through local and federal funding. One way that streambanks erode is through wakes generated by passing boats. The study will look at the effects of passenger loading, horsepower, boat hull design, hull lengths and weights, etc. The results of the study should help agencies with their management strategies. He explained the layout and the different tests that would be run on a lake. He also explained the instruments that would be used to measure the boat wakes. King questioned how the study would consider the differences in wakes generated in deep versus shallow water. Dorava explained that the depth of the water was going to be considered. The study will mostly be concerned with the shallow areas next to the bank because in deeper water a lot of the energy is dissipated downward and not toward the bank. Dorava stated the study would test many of the types of boats used on the river although not all of the varieties of boats will be a part of the study. The most popular of the broad categories of boats will be represented. Dorava stated he has been unable to find any similar studies. He has contacted libraries and manufacturers and has been unable to find any published literature on boat wake studies. Dorava stated that geotechnical information will be available in the study and will take into account the different types of soils on the riverbanks. It was noted that in the '96 erosion study Kenai Ri'ver Special Management Area Advisory Board February 11, 1999 Page 2 certain spots that were highly susceptible to erosion were chosen, but there were soil types not represented in that study. That is one reason further tests are needed. Dorava stated that tests will be done in both a lake as well as on the river. The lake will be used to reduce the possibility of variables affecting the wake production, while tests done in the river will hopefully corroborate the results found in the lake. Approximately 410 tests will be done on the lake and 200 on the river. Dorava asked the board not to worry too much right now about the cost of the study as cost sharing with various agencies will occur. After support of the study is insured a selection process will help correlate the available funding with the study priorities. Dorava stated he would like to do the testing the week of June 30 or the week of July 5. He would plan to have a preliminary draft report 90 days after the testing. A public draft should be available by January, 2000 with a published report by September, 2000. MOTION: CHASE MOVED TO PROVIDE A LETTER OF SUPPORT OF THE STUDY PLAN AS PRESENTED, WITH THE LETTER SENT TO THE AGENCIES INVOLVED. TRASKY SECONDED. Wellman noted that there is a proponent in the study that calls for a management committee, of which a member of this board will serve as an overseer of the study. Trasky supports the plan and liked the idea of three components within the study. He further stated that Representative Young would need a letter stating that the study has merit, with a request from the board that the funding should be reinstated in the COE's budget. Fish & Game is also writing a letter supporting the study plan. VOTE ON MOTION TO PROVIDE LETTER OF SUPPORT- MOTION PASSED' UNANIMOUS WITHOUT OBJECTION Be Proposed Stares Letter to Board of Fish, Re' Boat Wake Study Wellman explained the origin and purpose of the proposed letter to the Board of Fish. The boat wake draft study plan that was just supported was identified in the Comp Plan because it was felt that the 1996 Boat Wake Erosion Study was not sufficient in order to propose regulations on boating use. The proposed boat wake study will likely be discussed at the upcoming Board of Fish meetings. Wellman felt our board should point out that it is not our intent for the study to be an advocacy document toward any particular position, but merely an objective scientific study. He didn't want our board or the study to be in the middle of a political fight over fish allocation. Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board February I1, 1999 Page3 MOTION: VINCE O'REILLY MOVED TO SEND THE LETTER TO THE BOARD OF FISH. PEGGY MULLEN SECONDED. VOTE ON MOTION TO SEND LETTER: MOTION PASSED' UNANIMOUS WITHOUT OBJECTION There was discussion that every member of the Board of Fish and the Commissioner of Fish & Game will receive the letter. Ce Commercial Use Committee Report- Jeff King King reported that there was no committee meeting last month. All of the orientation programs have been set up, and a letter sent to all of the guides informing them of the programs. A few letters have come back as undeliverable, but Fisler stated she notified the companies the guides worked for and advised them to let their employees know about the programs. Just in case a guide cannot legitimately attend one of the programs, the first orientation program will be video taped. There will be a $75/per person fee to view the video in lieu of attending one of the three sessions. D. C0.0per Lake Amendment #2 Chairman Wellman passed the gavel to Richardson as he has a conflict of interest in this matter. Degemes stated a memorandum was received from Jim A. Richardson, representing the Fish for Cooper Creek Coalition, asking the Board to take action on a couple of items. Last month Chugach Electric Assoc. briefed the board regarding two amendment proposals. At this time it is the second amendment to replace the turbines in the power plant that is the issue with the Coalition. The Coalition asked that we request intervener status on the second amendment. The Board has already applied as interveners regarding the first amendment. Also, they requested that the Board respond by the March 1 deadline regarding the application. Degemes believed the Board needed to think about what affects this action might have in 2002 when Chugach starts the relicensing process. Also, the Board needs to consider how increasing the efficiency of the turbines might affect the need to maximize the amount of water going through the turbines. It might affect the ability to allocate future water into Cooper Creek during the relicensing process. Trasky believed those questions were asked but no answers were given. Ross understood that the relicensing is due in 2007, however, the process starts in 2002. Richardson stated the 1 st amendment was to raise the height of the dam, the 2nd amendment was to replace the turbines to increase their efficiency, and then the 50-year permit will come up in 2007 but they will have a five year lead in time. One way to address these issues is separately. It is felt Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board February 11, 1999 Page 4 that the capital investment spent on the first two issues may prejudice FERC's decision on the relicensing permit. Richardson stated that being an intervener just gives us an opportunity to comment. It doesn't prejudice us as to which stand would be taken. Fisler confirmed that it keeps one in the loop for correspondence. Trasky stated ADF&G is an intervener. They don't object to the two amendments, but they want to make sure that the mitigation from the 1959 permit takes place. The turbines have not been designed so that spilling water could be an option. Fisler stated the Board would be the intervener, not the Department of Natural Resources. She stated that there was no land managed by DNR around lake when the issues first surfaced. Since that time some land on the lake has been transferred to DNR. The department has notified FERC that we are now land managers and have some concerns but DNR has not filed for intervener stares on it. MOTION: DEGERNES MOVED TO SEPARATE THE ISSUES (INTERVENER STATUS VERSUS THE AMENDMENT-tt2 COMMENTS) AND TO SEND A LETTER TO FERC ASKING TO BE CONSIDE~D AS AN INTERVENER ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT PROCESS. TRASKY SECONDED. Ross asked about what options were available to the Board. Richardson stated there were three: 1) Do nothing, 2) Take out the dam, or 3) Some sort of mitigation to provide fish back into the stream. Richardson then noted that the options were not at issue with this motion, but that the motion would only give the Board a right to comment on Amendment #2. Ross felt that the mission of KRSMA was not to determine what kind of turbine goes into the dam's operations. He saw no need for intervener status on this amendment. Degemes stated the efficiency of the turbine may or may not be a concern, she just didn't want the capital outlay for the improvement to be used as leverage for permits or licensing in the furore. She felt it would be better to consider everything on the table at once. Shuster stated he was informed by Chugach that the investment could be amortized prior to 2007. USFS has applied for intervener status. What they want to see is some demonstration that the amortization will take place so that the investment is a moot point in 2007. Ross stated he would vote against the motion because the second amendment seems to refer to the business operation efficiency. He did not understand why the Board would want to get into discussion regarding the efficiency of turbines. Mullen saw intervener status as a way to participate in the discussion. She didn't want to close the option by not applying as an intervener. Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board February 11, 1999 Page5 Richardson reminded everyone that the motion was just about applying for intervener status, not the merits of any comments. He noted that the Comp Plan does call for restoration measures for Cooper Creek; the Board does have guidance to act in regard to Cooper Creek. Being an intervener allows us to ask questions if need be. VOTE ON MOTION TO SEPARATE ISSUES AND APPLY FOR INTERVENER STATUS: Yes: No: Abstain: Wellman King, Richardson, Mullen, O'Reilly, Chase, Shuster, Trasky, Buchholz, Degernes Ross MOTION PASSED: 9 Yes, 1 No, 1 Abstain Richardson stated the second request from the Coalition was to act and make comments by March 1. MOTION: TRASKY MADE A MOTION TO ACT AND MAKE COMMENTS. DEGERNES SECONDED. Richardson asked for comments. Trasky wanted it to be made known that the improvement and efficiency of the dam not be used during the relicensing process. He also desired that the turbines not be designed in a way that precludes spilling any future water into Cooper Creek. The turbines should not be designed to use 100% of the water. Shuster agreed that any improvements on the dam or turbines should not designed in such a way to preclude oppommities to release water down Cooper Creek. Mullen noted that it is the Board's long-term goal to increase fishery habitat within the Cooper Creek drainage. VOTE ON MOTION TO MAKE COMMENTS: Yes- King, Richardson, Mullen, O'Reilly, Chase, Trasky, Buchholz, Degernes No: Ross Abstain: Wellman, Shuster MOTION PASSED: 8 Yes, 1 No, 2 Abstain Fisler stated she will write the letter. Richardson retumed the gavel to Wellman. Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board February 11, 1999 Page 6 Eo Borough Committee Report- Degemes reported that Navarre was successful in getting the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly to pass a resolution to support the KRSMA land additions. It passed 7 to 2, with Grace Merkes and Paul Fischer opposing. Shuster stated a letter of appreciation would be in order. F, Water Quality Framework Committee Report - Les Buchholz Buchholz reported that The Nature Conservancy will be meeting next week and will be looking at the Framework document. They will be circulating the document among the agencies and getting endorsements from them. Vo Go Permit Committee Report- Suzanne Fisler Parks has submitted comments on the Quartz Creek highway improvements. They have agreed with COE that Nationwide 23 would be appropriate with stipulations. Some of the stipulations include: all unusable materials pulled out of the road will be stored along the Sterling Highway and not at the Quartz Creek site, discharge water will flow into the wetland areas and not the streams, blasting activities will be avoided during eagle nesting periods, oversized culverts will be installed in all the fish streams (not just anadromous streams), the material site will have a 750 ft. buffer from Quartz Creek and a 300 ft. buffer from the centerline of the highway, any asphalt plants will be placed in a staging area and any area that holds asphalt will be lined and then burned, all the overburden fi'om the site will be set aside and used to restore and revegetate the area. Fisler further reported that Nationwide 12 has been worked out where residential and subdivision installations may now occur without an individual permit as long as certain size vaults and techniques are used. Fisler announced they received notification from DGC that Pat Carter has withdrawn his project proposal to build his road through .the wetlands. (EVOS has recently purchased this property from Carter.) PUBLIC COMMENT - None VI. VI. ADJOURNMENT mo Board Comments' Trasky stated he will prepare the letters on the boat wake support tomorrow. Degemes stated she will continue to advocate for new board members to fill the vacancies. Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board February 11, 1999 Page7 Be Mullen wanted to make sure that during the Quartz Creek road work this summer, the culverts are properly located and hoped that a biologist will be on site during the process. Chase reflected upon the missed opportunities through the American Heritage Rivers that may have provided funding for studies such as the boat wake study. Date/Agenda of Next Meeting' The next meeting will be March 18, 1999, at 7:00 p.m., at Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association's conference room. The meeting was adjourned at 9:40 p.m. Respectfully submitted; Earlene Reed, Recording Secretary For the Division of Parks & Outdoor Recreation Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board February 11, 1999 Page 8 We keep you informed Business News Political Events Community Issues Volume 12 ............. Issue 3 Y.O~~ A monthly pubt" C'HAMBER prod,,cerJ _, Greater $oidotna .. TODAi Chamber e Commerce 999 / 8TH ANNUAL St. PATRICK'S DAY CELEBP. A~~( The Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade line-up will begin at 4:00 at the Bailey's Furniture soon as everyone has assembled, will follow the Spur Highway to the "¥". At 6'00 PM the celebration continues at the Central Peninsula Sports Center with a no-host bar and a "'"".L.,.L,I~ traditional Irish dinner, cooked up by the Soldotna Senior Center and served by Skyview High School's Mock Trial Group, and the Swing Choir. You will definitely want to stick around for the "Irish Auction", (that's where some of the items will be auctioned the traditional way, and some items will be auctioned for dollar bills). There have already been some great items donated, so you'll want to come ready to bid. For the GRAND FINALE, at approximately 9:00 PM, Fire Art by Griz will wow us with another FANTASTIC FIREWORKS SHOW! Once again, this year's show promises to be bigger and better than the year before. WHAT'S A LUCKY BUCK? A fortunate deer? 1~o... Lucky Bucks are green merchant coupons that vaguely resemble a dollar bill with a local Irishman's smihng face on the front. On the back are a variety of merchant discounts and bargains. These will be passed out during the parade on March 17th. There will also be entertainment throughout the evening and a no-host bar. Proceeds from the St. Patrick's Day Celebration will support the Merchant's Committee fund which sponsors such programs as Free Skate Days, Employee of the Month Program, Community Spring Clean Up, the Scholarship Fund, the Pop Drop and the St. Patrick's Day Fireworks. 4:00 PM: PAP. AbE LI:NE-UP: BA]:LEY'5 FURN]:TURE PARK:I:N~ LOT 6:00 PM: D:r. NNER/ENTERT'A'rNMENT/AUCTZON/NO- HOST BAR' CENTRAL PENINSULA SPORTS CENTER $9 ADULTS, .$5 CH]:LDREN UNDER 1;2 9:00 PM: f[ FIREWORKS - SOLDOTNA L.ZTTLE LEAGUE FIELD Thanks again, MACtell We would like to express our gratitude to MACtel Cellular for once again providing a phone with cellular service to the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce. Without this kind of support from the community and the membership the Chamber could not Survive. Clearly the best. THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS ~ENEWED THEIR MEMBERSHIP DURING THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY Accommodations and Tours Alaskan Style AFLAC- Braunberger Insurance Alaska Flagg's Kenai Charters Alaska Municipal League Alaska Sunrise Fishing Adventures Alaska Trading Company Alaskan Adventure Charters Blakeley's Auction Bayview Inn Center for Alaska Coastal Studies Dan's Alaskan Sportfishing Ventures Frames & Things Gallery West Frontier Business Machines GCl Communications Cliff Haas GRI-CR! Horn Mountain Wilderness Lodge The Fitness Place Hardy's Alaskan Adventures Holly House B & B Mark Hutton, Certified Roller K-Beach Stor Mor KDLL 91.9 Pickle Hill Broadcasting Kenai Peninsula Food Bank Kenai Peninsula Hockey Assoc. Martin's Fishing Guide Service Moose Hollow B & B N.B.A. Mortgage Loan New Frontier Vo-Tech Print Works R.J.'s Tool Sharpening Richards Veterinary Clinic Sadler's Home Furnishings Salmon Herder Charters Skyline B & B The Towing Company Zeny's Design Hair Studio THi~NI{ I'OU FOlt IrOUR ~"ONT!NUED,~ SUPPORT Get ell of those St. Patrick's bay celebrators in to you~ business. For only $25 you ~et 2D "Lucky leprechaun ~oll~r~" A.~.A. "Lucky ~ucks" ,h~t you can put you~ ,p~ci~l me~chant promotion on the back. Th~e coupon~ ~ill be p~,~ed out du~in~ the St. Patrick's bay Pcrade. GREAT EXPOSURE FOR YOUR BUSZNE551 UPCOMING CHAMBER MIXERS If you haven't attended one of the recent After Hours, Chamber Mixers, you are missing out. On the 18th, we got to tour the new Alaska USA Federal Credit Union and meet the fine folks that run it. Attendees were treated to hors d'oeuvres, good company and a few lucky people even won door prizes. So mark your calendars and plan on attending a future After Hours event. March 18: Open April 15: Soldotna Animal Hospital May 20: Blue Moose Lakeside Lodge June 17: Kachemak Heritage Land Trust July: No After Hours August 19: Open September 16: ERA Aviation October 21: Open November 18: Open December: No After Hours WE HAVEN'T NAMED IT YET, BUT... It's still in the works. The Relay Race committee continues to meet and plan for the big day, June 5th. The race will be a combination Relay, Marathon and Wheelchair Race, and the proceeds from it will build an athletic scholarship fund. If you are interested in helping with this project, the next meeting will be held on March 5, at noon, at the Riverside House. STUDENTS HONORED The February Students of the Month were Erik Lemon of Soldotna Middle School, TJ Luckman of Soldotna High School and Heather Madden of Skyview High School. The Soldotna Chamber feels that these exceptional young people deserve special recognition. On the thir luncheon of the month they are presented with a certificate and a meal. We would like to thank Bank of America for sponsoring the Soidotna Chamber Student of the Month Program. WELCOME NEW MEMBERS! Action Outfitters Donnie Polzin 34260 Frontage Rd. Soldotna, AK 99669 262-2240 Aprils Cozy Cabins April Williams 37623 Mackey Lake Road Soldotna, AK 99669 262-4168 Blood Bank of Alaska, Kenai Peninsula Center Suzie Kendrick 44539 Sterling Hwy., Ste. 212 260-5937 Christy Lowe PO Box 74 Kula-Maui, H! 96790 Klauder & Co. ArChitects Peter Klauder 455 N. Forest Kenai, AK 99661 283-1919 Moose Meadow Cabins Jeff Leadens PO Box 3038 Soldotna, AK 99669 260-4863 "Tourism Concepts" Advertising Sales Rep. for the Milepost Marion Nelson PO Box 1535 Kenai, AK 99611 283-4632 Toutonghi Speech Language Cognitive Assessment Mary J. Toutonghi II I! !1 Soldotna,AK 99669 I ', STUDENTS SHOWCASE WORK Inside this issue you will find some wonderfully creative submissions from Noreen Sullivan's Desktop Publishing class at SoHi, CHECK IT OUT! THE NEXT MRS. USA COULD BE FROM SOLDOTNA Christy Landess of Soldotna was crowned Mrs. Alaska 1999 at the Mrs. USA pageant on February 2. Christy is a student at KPC seeking a degree in the medical field. She is married to Jim Landess and together they have three sons. In July Christy will travel to Las Vegas to compete for the title of Mrs. USA. Family values and community involvement are emphasized within the pageant. Christy could use some help with travel expenses, entry fees and other expenses and is seeking support from local businesses, if anyone would like to assist Christy in her endeavor to represent Soldotna and Alaska, you can contact her at 262-5161 or via e-mail at landess@ptialaska.net. GOOD LUCK CHRISTY! CORPORATE EXPRESS HAS LOCAL OFFICE You can now find your local Corporate Express representative, Rebecca Godek in her new office in the Freedom Realty building. Rebecca stands ready to offer you personalized service and you can call her at 262-5660 or fax her at 262-6602. Quick Books Classes Obendorf, Tuter, Moore & Lambe will be presenting classes on Quick Books at New Frontier Vo-Tech beginning March 22nd. The classes will be held one evening a week and will last for 7 weeks. For mom information, call Cinde Wagnor at 262-9123. SIGN UP BY MARCH 10TH & RECEIVE A BIG DISCOUNT Class space is limited THE PENINSULA ART' GUILD PRESENTS OPEN SHOW Open to all artists on the Kenai Peninsula doing original work in all media. Entry dates are April 1-3, 1999 from 10 AM to 4 PM at the Kenai Fine Arts Center, 816 Cook Ave. in Kenai. There is a $3 entry fee and Awards will be presented at a reception at 7 PM on April 30th. For additional information, you can call 283-7040. CHECK OUT THE NEW MACHINES! Stop by the Central Peninsula Sports Center on March 18th to see the new Snow Machines that Arctic Cat has to offer and on the 19th Polaris will be showing off their goods. There is no admission fee and both shows will be open from 4- 9 PM. MARCH cHAMBER LUNCHEON CALENDAR March 2 David Karp, Alaska Tourism Marketing Council March 9 Harry Lockwood, Employment Counselor-Job Service, Employment Law March 16 Peggy Moore, Kenai Peninsula Food Bank, organization overview March 23 Faron Owen, Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing Council March 30 Dr. Tom Hathaway, Executive Director, Blood Bank of Alaska City of Kenai Mayor John Williams 210 Fidalgo Ave, Kenai, AK 99611 BULK RATE U.S. Postage PAID Permit No 5 Soldotna, AK 99669 Printed courtesy of The Copyworks, 405 Overland Street, Suite #102, Kenai Alaska 99669, 283-6503 President Past President President Elect Vice President Sec./Treas. 1999 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Norman Blakeley Alaska Trading Company 262-6100 Mike Sweeney Sweeney's Clothing 262-5916 Dan Mortenson Four D Carpet One 262-9181 Terry Covai K-WAVE/KPEN/KGTL Radio 283-7423 Richard Brown Soldotna Historical Society 262-9322 Jocelyn Coghill Peninsula Clarion 283-7551 Sammie Cole SouthCentrai Title 262-4494 Mike Frost 1st National Bank of Anchorage 260-6000 Paul Gray Gray Video Publishing 262-9008 Mark Gregory KPB Small Business Development Center 283-3335 Kurt Olson Kenai Chrysler Center 283-3949 Diana Spann MACtel Cellular Systems 262-3500 Executive Director Visitor Services Member Services Store Manager Justine Polzin Kimberley Bumgarner Randi Smith Rebecca Hanson Diane Fielden Soldotna Chamber ...................... 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