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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2004-09-01 Council MinutesI\ AGENDA KENAI CITY COUNCIL - REGULAR MEETING SEPTEMBER 1, 2004 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS htt www.ci.kenai.ak.us ITEM A: CALL TO ORDER 1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Roll Call 3. Agenda Approval 4. 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: SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENTS (10 minutes) 1. Mary Daly -- Kenai Peninsula Soccer Club ITEM C: UNSCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENTS (3 minutes) ITEM D: REPORTS OF KPB ASSEMBLY, LEGISLATORS AND COUNCILS ITEM E: REPORTS OF KENAI CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU BOARD AND KENAI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ITEM F: PUBLIC HEARINGS 1. Ordinance No. 2060-2004 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $533,333 for Airport Grants. a. Motion for Approval. b. Motion to Substitute: Ordinance No. 2060-2004 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $533,333 for Airport Grants. C. Consideration of Ordinance. 2. Ordinance No. 2061-2004 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $2,850 in the General Fund for Disc -Golf Materials and Equipment. 3. Ordinance No. 2062-2004 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $11,867 in the General Fund for Library Grants. 4. Resolution No. 2004-48 -- Approving a Contract to Quality Electric LLC for the Project Entitled Kenai Municipal Airport Gate Modifications - 2004 for the Total Amount of $472,637. ITEM G: 1. ITEM H: ITEM I: 1. 9 MINUTES *Regular Meeting of August 18, 2004. OLD BUSINESS NEW BUSINESS Bills to be Paid, Bills to be Ratified Purchase Orders Exceeding $2,500 3. *Ordinance No. 2063-2004 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $500 in the General Fund for a Grant for Police Training Equipment. 4. *Ordinance No. 2064-2004 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $368,945 for Airport Grants. 5. Discussion -- Snug Harbor Packing Company Cannery Equipment Request. 6. Discussion -- Dip Net Fishery Preliminary Report ITEM J: COMMISSION / COMMITTEE REPORTS 1. Council on Aging 2. Airport Commission 3. Harbor Commission 4. Library Commission 5. Parks & Recreation Commission 6. Planning 8v Zoning Commission 7. Miscellaneous Commissions and Committees a. Beautification Committee b. Alaska Municipal League Report C. Arctic Winter Games d. Stranded Gas Committee ITEM K: REPORT OF THE MAYOR ITEM L: ADMINISTRATION REPORTS 1. City Manager 2. Attorney 3. City Clerk ITEM M: DISCUSSION 1. Citizens (live minutes) 2. Council EXECUTIVE SESSION -- Personnel Issue. ITEM N: ADJOURNMENT KENAI CITY COUNCIL - REGULAR MEETING SEPTEMBER 1, 2004 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS htt www.cs.ken.ai.ak.u.s MAYOR JOHN J. WILLIAMS, PRESIDING MINUTES ITEM A: CALL TO ORDER Mayor Williams called the meeting to order at 7:00 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. Williams then asked for a moment of silence for Council Member Pat Porter's father who had passed away that morning. A-2. ROLL CALL Roll was taken by the Acting City Clerk. Present were: John J. Williams, Mayor James C. Bookey, III Linda Swarner Joe Moore Pat Porter Blaine Gilman Rick Ross A-3, AGENDA APPROVAL MOTION: Council Member Bookey MOVED for approval of both the regular agenda and the consent agenda, and Council Member Swarner SECONDED the motion. There were no objections. SO ORDERED. A-4. CONSENT AGENDA Approved with A-3, above. Mayor Williams called forward Kathy Watson who had been invited to attend the council meeting. Mayor Williams described the leather-bound document the Congressional Delegation Office had prepared, saying it was an excerpt from the Congressional Record during National Police Memorial Week in May 2004. Chief Kopp then presented the document to Kathy Watson with thanks and remembrances of late Officer John Watson. ITEM B: SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENTS KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING SEPTEMBER 1, 2004 PAGE 2 B-1, Mary Daly - Kenai Peninsula Soccer Club Mary Daly of 108 Deepwood Court, Kenai, spoke as President of the Kenai Peninsula Soccer Club. She thanked the City of Kenai for allowing the Club to temporarily use a portion of the old FAA tract as a soccer field. She provided a background of the Club and its development since 1999. Today, there are approximately 200 children from the Peninsula participating, she reported. Daly stated, with the growth of the soccer club, it was difficult to find enough field space. She asked Council's permission to expand the useable space on the FAA property until the City was ready to develop it. The Club would someday like to host the twin -city soccer tournaments in Kenai, she said. "This tournament draws teams from around the state to our beautiful city," Daly said, and the Club would like to expand the tournament to include international teams. Daly explained that 116 teams had participated in the tournament in Anchorage this year, which meant about 2000 players and their families for three days. She said she believed hosting these tournaments would help promote Kenai as a tourist destination. Porter asked Daly if she was aware of the Section 36 plans. Daly said the Club was aware of those plans and they were scheduled to meet with the Parks & Recreation Commission on September 2, 2004. Porter asked if the Club would be interested in volunteering to help develop Section 36; Daly answered they would. Williams stated the City had taken about 20 years to clear deeds and deal with contaminated soil to get the FAA field into City ownership. "I, for one, am not willing to allow that property to be given over to be used for anything until such time as the committee that has been working all year long on the development strategies has the time to present to the general public exactly what it is that they want to do." He commented further, Section 36 was being considered for development and it would be a proper place to put the soccer fields. Williams noted the KEDS committee (Kenai Economic Development Strategy) would be meeting in January and he felt a decision should not be made until after they have made their presentation. Gilman said he saw the situation as "win -win." The Club could use the FAA field until the City was ready to develop it further, he stated. Porter said she would like to see the Club talk with the Parks & Recreation Commission and maybe get the Section 36 plans moving. Ross said he agreed and thought the FAA field could be used in the meantime. ITEM C: UNSCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENTS -- None. ITEM D: REPORTS OF KPB ASSEMBLY, LEGISLATORS AND COUNCILS -- one. KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING SEPTEMBER 1, 2004 PAGE 3 ITEM E: REPORTS OF KENAI CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU BOARD AND KENAI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Porter reported the a KVCB meeting was scheduled in September. They were close to finding a new executive director, she reported. ITEM F: PUBLIC HEARINGS F-1. Ordinance No. 2060-2004 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $533,333 for Airport Grants. F-1 a. Motion for Approval. MOTION: Council Member Moore MOVED for adoption of Ordinance No. 2060-2004 and Council Member Swarner SECONDED the motion. There were no public comments. F- lb. Motion to Substitute: Ordinance No. 2060-2004 - Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $533,333 for Airport Grants, MOTION: Council Member Moore MOVED to replace Ordinance No. 2060-2004 with "Substitute Ordinance No. 2060-2004" and Council Member Swarner SECONDED the motion. There were no objections. SO ORDERED. c. Consideration of Ordinance. No further discussion. VOTE: Williams Yes Bookey Yes Swarner Yes Moore Yes Porter Yes Gilman Yes Ross Yes MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. F-2. Ordinance No. 2061-2004 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $2,850 in the General Fund for Disc -Golf Materials and Equipment. KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING SEPTEMBER 1, 2004 PAGE 4 MOTION: Council Member Bookey MOVED for adoption of Ordinance No. 2061-2004 and Council Member Swarner SECONDED the motion. There were no public comments. Moore asked if the course was in place and Frates reported, "It's getting close." VOTE: Williams Yes Bookey Yes Swarner Yes Moore Yes Porter Yes Gilman Yes Ross Yes MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. F-3. Ordinance No. 2062-2004 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $11,867 in the General Fund for Library Grants. MOTION: Council Member Porter MOVED for adoption of Ordinance No. 2062-2004 and Council Member Swarner SECONDED the motion. There were no public or council comments. VOTE: Williams Yes Bookey Yes Swarner Yes Moore Yes Porter Yes Gilman Yes Ross Yes MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. F-4, Resolution No. 2004-48 -- Approving a Contract to Quality Electric LLC for the Project Entitled Kenai Municipal Airport Gate Modifications - 2004 for the Total Amount of $472,637. MOTION: KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING SEPTEMBER 1, 2004 PAGE 5 Council Member Moore MOVED for approval of Resolution No. 2004-48 and asked for unanimous consent and Council Member Swarner SECONDED the motion. There were no public comments. Gilman questioned the engineer's estimate and Public Works Manager La Shot reported this was a specialty job. He said they were trying to cut some costs along the way, such as having the gates made locally. VOTE: There were no objections to UNANIMOUS CONSENT. SO ORDERED, ITEM G: MINUTES G-1. Regular Meeting of August 18, 2004 -- Approved by consent agenda. ITEM H: OLD BUSINESS -- None. ITEM I: NEW BUSINESS I-10 Bills to be Paid, Bills to be Ratified MOTION: Council Member Bookey MOVED to pay the bills and Council Member Swarner SECONDED the motion. There were no objections. SO ORDERED. I-2. Purchase Orders Exceeding $2,500 MOTION: Council Member Bookey MOVED to approve the substitute list of purchase orders exceeding $2,500 and Council Member Swarner SECONDED the motion. Moore asked why there was another modification to the airport terminal project and La Shot responded the project had expanded due to more money being available. The extra monies were for expansion of the project, he said, not problems with the project. VOTE: There were no objections. SO ORDERED. KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING SEPTEMBER 1, 2004 PAGE 6 I-3. Ordinance No. 2063-2004 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $500 in the General Fund for a Grant for Police Training Equipment. Introduced by consent agenda. I-4. Ordinance No. 2064-2004 -- Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $368,945 for Airport Grants. Introduced by consent agenda. I-5. Discussion -- Snug Harbor Packing Company Cannery Equipment Request. Williams pointed out the City Attorney's memo included in the packet. Discussion followed regarding how the City acquired the equipment and whether it should remain in storage, be put on loan for display, or whether the City should display it. Ross suggested Kenai Landing as a possible place for displaying the equipment and Williams volunteered to present the idea to the Kenai Landing owners. Administration was asked to write a letter to Snug Harbor, telling them Council had decided to keep the equipment for now. I-6. Discussion - Dip Net Fishery Preliminary Report. Williams began by stating how much work the Boys & Girls Club had done in helping with the dip net fishery during the summer. He said he had seen the Boys & Girls Club's presentation at Chamber and was impressed with it. He reported he had suggested to them they make the same presentation to the council before budget discussions. Swarner thanked the administration for the preliminary numbers in the packet but said she was hoping for more data on costs. She said she would like to see very accurate records kept of all the costs for the dip -netting program. Swarner also stated she had received complaints about trash pick-up this summer and she suggested it needed to be done more often on both beaches and at Erik Hansen Scout Park. Discussion ensued, and Chief Kopp stated an exhaustive report was being prepared and it would be in the next packet. He said it would include detailed reports from the Parks 8, Recreation Department, the Police Department and Public Works, as well as an overview of the entire program. It was discussed and agreed upon the City needed to communicate more information to the public about the costs of the dip net fishery because they were only seeing the amount taken in and were not getting the whole picture. \ KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING f SEPTEMBER 1, 2004 PAGE 7 Public Works Manager Kornelis reported the committee had met and compiled a list of ways to make improvements to the program for next year. He said season passes or punch cards were on that list. BREAK TAKEN: 8:10 P.M. BACK TO ORDER: 8:22 P.M. ITEM J: COMMISSION / COMMITTEE REPORTS J-1. Council on Aging -- Swarner reported the next meeting would be September 2 at 10:00 a.m. at the Senior Center. She suggested Linda Flowers be appointed to fill the vacancy on Council on Aging. Williams asked if there were any objections to appointing Linda Flowers. There were no objections. J-2. Airport Commission -- Council Member Moore reported the meeting summary was included in the packet and the next meeting was scheduled for September 9. He said he would be out of town and Council Member Bookey stated he would attend for Moore. J-3. Harbor Commission -- Council Member Bookey reported the September meeting had been cancelled due to the Labor Day holiday. J-4. Library Commission -- Council Member Gilman reported the September meeting had been cancelled. J-5. Parks & Recreation Commission -- Council Member Ross reported the Commission would meet on September 2. J-6. Planning & Zoning Commission -- Bookey reported the last meeting was cancelled due to no agenda items. J-7. Miscellaneous Commissions and Committees J-7a. Beautification Committee -- Swarner reported the next meeting would be on September 14, and there had been no August meeting. J-7b. Alaska Municipal League Report -- Swarner reported the Legislative Committee met and wrote some policy sections. She announced Williams had received an award. AML would meet in Fairbanks in November. J-7c. Arctic Winter Games -- Moore reported the agenda was in the packet. He said he would not be able to attend the September 9 meeting and Parks & Recreation Director Frates would attend for him. Moore reported a work session was held and he hoped the AWG and the City can "get on the same page" and move toward securing financing to prepare the facility. Snow reported Bill Popp had been in touch � KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING SEPTEMBER 1, 2004 PAGE 8 with her. Moore said the City needed to be very involved and know what was going on. The Games would require all available space in the City, Moore stated, including the schools, the Recreation Center, and the Boys & Girls Club. Also, he said, AWG was search for an accountant. J-7d. Stranded Gas Committee -- Council Member Ross reported the draft economic impact statement was done and available. He said it was based on the TAPS model, but the economic impact to Alaska would not be nearly what it was under TAPS. The total economic impact on Alaska per the draft statement was about $123 million, most of which would be along the pipeline route, he said. Ross referred Council to the committee's draft resolution (No. 2004-03) in the packet with the heading, "A resolution advising the State of Alaska to reinforce the requirements of the Stranded Gas Development Act to make natural gas available to meet in -state demand." He reviewed ideas discussed by the Committee and said there was nothing in the resolution disadvantageous to the City. Ross stated the City could make up their own resolution if they desired. Council directed Administration to put the committee's resolution on the next agenda for public hearing. ITEM K: REPORT OF THE MAYOR -- Williams reported the following items: • Prince William Sound Advisory Council: Invitation received to attend reception on September 16 at 5:00 p.m. at the Challenger Learning Center. • AML is asking for candidates for Community Awards of Excellence. He suggested the dip net fishing program or Boys 8. Girls Club program might be good entries. Council advised Williams to proceed. • Invitation to Vet. Center picnic on Saturday, September 25, 2004, from noon to 4:00 p.m. at National Guard armory. • Invitation to Frontier Community Service reception on September 9, 2004, at 9:00 a.m. at Erik Hansen Scout Park by International Fetal Alcohol Syndrome program. ITEM L: ADMINISTRATION REPORTS City Manager -- City Manager Snow reported the following: • The General Fund contingency report is in the packet. • The budget deficit prediction is in the packet. • A memo from Keith Kornelis about miscellaneous paving is in the packet. • Airport Manager Cronkhite researched the Medallion Foundation and Foundation representatives and Henry Knackstedt would like to address Council on September 15. • She and Cronkhite met with FedEx last week and Cronkhite was working with FedEx air keep to managers m operations them in Kenai. p g p KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING SEPTEMBE R 1, 2004 PAGE 9 • She followed up with Arctic Winter Games representatives about whether the grants discussed would be reimbursable. She is awaiting a response. • The evaluation figure for the Airport Operations Facility for Alaska Winter Games was being developed. Porter stated she was seeing the contingency fund drop quickly and suggested council needs to be very careful about spending that money. L-2. Attorney -- Attorney Graves reported the following: • On Monday, August 30 he sent in the annual PFD attachments to collect traffic fines in the amount of approximately $50,000. He noted, historically, collection runs 60-65%, but it may run lower this year. • The draft ordinance to amend the nominating petition procedures was included in the packet. Council directed the ordinance should move forward. L-3. City Clerk -- No report. � ITEM M• DISCUSSION M-1. Citizens -- None. M-29 Council Bookey -- No comments. Swarner -- She reported she visited with Senator Arliss Sturgulewski who sends her regards to the council. Moore -- Noted Redoubt street lights were out recently. Kornelis advised the Police Department does rounds and makes lists. He added, they were working with Kachemak Electric and the city only takes care of the metal poles. Bookey remarked there was a pole in the Visitors Center parking lot without a light on it. La Shot said the light was removed last year because of stress cracks and it will be replaced with the others this year. Porter -- Noted the following: • She requested an update on the Shawn Anderson installation agreement. Snow reported she had no new information. • She found a clock she was gathering information on. Gilman -- Noted the following: • He offered condolences to Porter. KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING SEPTEMBER 1, 2004 PAGE 10 • The Kenai school system had 313 more students enrolled this year. Ross -- Noted the following: • He will be out of town from September 9-19 and will miss the next council meeting but would be at the Planning 8v Zoning Commission meeting this month. EXECUTIVE SESSION -- Personnel issue. MOTION: Council Member Bookey MOVED for the council to convene in an executive session to discuss matters regarding a personnel issue and requested Council and Mayor begin the session, with the City Manager to follow, and possibly the City Attorney. Council Member Swarner SECONDED the motion. VOTE: There were no objections. SO ORDERED, RECESSED FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION: 9:21 P.M. BACK TO ORDER: 10:14 P.M. Council Member Bookey reported the council met with the City Manager and discussed a personnel issue. He said direction was given to the City Manager. ITEM N: ADJOURNMENT The meeting adjourned at 10 :15 p.m. Minutes transcribed and prepared by: ee�6 Sheryl Padilla, Acting City Clel4k*l