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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1999-08-04 Council MinutesAGENDA KENAI CITY COUNCIL -REGULAR MEETING AUGUST 4, 1999 7:00 P.M. KENAI CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS http://www.ci.kenai.ak.us ITEM A: CALL TO ORDER 1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Roll Call 3. ELECTION OF VICE MAYOR 4. Agenda Approval 5. 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. Bill Popp/Julie Lipka -Alaska Challenger Learning Center of Alaska/Gold Shovel Presentation. ITEM C: PUBLIC HEARINGS 1. Ordinance No. 1834-99 - Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $214,159 for Street Improvement Grants. 2. Ordinance No. 1835-99 - Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $7,946 in the General Fund for Library Computer Equipment. 3. Ordinance No. 1837-99 - Appropriating a $1,500 Donation from the Kenai Elks Lodge #2425 for Recreational Equipment. 4. Resolution No. 99-47 - Supporting the Endeavors of the Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council (CIRCAC) to Encourage Those With the Ultimate Authority and Responsibility to Ensure that "Prevention of Oil Spills in Cook Inlet Become One of their Highest Priorities. 5. Resolution No. 99-48 - Transferring $10,000 in the Airport Land System Special Revenue Fund for Maintenance and Repair. -1- ITEM D: COMMISSION/ COMMITTEE REPORTS 1. Council on Aging 2. Airport Commission 3. Harbor Commission 4. Library Commission 5. Parks & Recreation Commission 6. Planning & Zoning Commission 7. Miscellaneous Commissions and Committees a. Beautification Committee b. Historic District Board C. Kenai Visitors & Convention Bureau Board d. Alaska Municipal League Report ITEM E: MINUTES 1. *Regular Meeting of July 21, 1999. ITEM F: CORRESPONDENCE ITEM G: OLD BUSINESS ITEM H: NEW BUSINESS 1. Bills to be Paid, Bills to be Ratified 2. Purchase Orders Exceeding $2,500 3. Approval - Assignment of Shore Fishery Lease/ADL 32885, Tract 7, Shore Fishery No. 71, T6 N, R 12 W, S.M. - From Lucas Family Partnership to Aurora Holdings & Investments, LLC. 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 EXECUTIVE SESSION - None Scheduled ITEM K: ADJOURNMENT -2- KENAI CITY COUNCIL -REGULAR MEETING AUGUST 4, 1999 ?: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 7:02 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. Present were: Bookey, Swarner, Bannock, Frazer and Williams. Absent was: Moore A-3. ELECTION OF VICE MAYOR MOTION: Councilman Bookey MOVED to nominate Councilwoman Linda Swarner, being the senior member of the council, as Vice Mayor. Councilman Frazer SECONDED the motion. No other nominations were stated and nominations were closed. VOTE: There were no objections. SO ORDERED. Williams confirmed Swarner was now Vice Mayor. A-4. AGENDA APPROVAL Mayor Williams requested the following changes to the agenda: ADD AT: I-1, Mayor's Report - 8 / 1 / 99 Alaska Flying Network Letter regarding personal property tax on aircraft. MOTION: KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES AUGUST 4, 1999 PAGE 2 Councilwoman Swarner MOVED for approval of the agenda as amended and Councilman Bookey SECONDED the motion. There were no objections. SO ORDERED. A-5. CONSENT AGENDA Williams noted he had no changes to the consent agenda. MOTION: Councilwoman Swarner MOVED to approve the consent agenda as presented and requested UNANIMOUS CONSENT. Councilman Frazer SECONDED the motion. There were no objections. SO ORDERED. ITEM B: SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENTS Bill Popp/Julie Lipka -Alaska Challenger Learning Center of Alaska/Gold Shovel Presentation. Heard after the public hearings due to Lipka's delayed arrival. Popp thanked council and the City of Kenai for their past and future support of the Challenger Learning Center project. He noted, the groundbreaking ceremony was very successful and thanked Lipka for her involvement in planning and coordinating the event. Popp presented one of the ceremonial gold shovels to the City of Kenai in recognition of its support. Popp reported an additional 20 shovels used for the groundbreaking had been donated to the Parks & Recreation Department. Williams added, those who had been and continue to work toward the completion of the Challenger project were a champion group who had been working hard raising money, working with contractors, etc. He reminded those present of the cornerstone setting ceremony to be held on August 14 at 1:00 p.m. ITEM C: PUBLIC HEARINGS C-1. Ordinance No. 1834-99 - Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $214,159 for Street Improvement Grants. MOTION: Councilwoman Swarner MOVED for approval of Ordinance No. 1834-99 and Councilman Frazer SECONDED the motion. There were no public comments. Williams reported he discussed the possibility of using a portion of the grant funds to complete the paving and storm drain work at KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES' AUGUST 4, 1999 PAGE 3 the Erik Hansen Scout Park area. He added, administration would like to do the planning and engineering over the winter in order to have the paving work underway by the middle of May. Williams requested council's approval of using some of the funds for this purpose. Councilman Bannock stated he thought the use of a portion of the funds for this purpose was very appropriate. He asked if there was -an estimate of the cost available. Public Works Manager Kornelis answered there was no estimate, but guessed it would cost approximately $20,000 to $30,000. A priority plan for paving projects will be developed. City Manager Ross explained this was the second appropriation of grant funds for street projects. Some of the first appropriation was used on the Crow Court paving project. When enough funds are accumulated to do several projects, a list of primary needs will be brought to council for their consideration. He added, the monies included in this ordinance had not been spent. Swarner noted the ordinance had no specific street projects listed in it and asked Attorney Graves if she could have a potential conflict. Graves answered, there are no restrictions on matching grants and determined there would be no conflict. Williams noted he wanted council's concurrence to do the paving at the Erik Hansen Scout Park in the spring. There were no comments or objections. VOTE: Booke Yes Swarner: Yes Moore: Absent Bannock: Yes Frazer: Yes Williams: Yes MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. C-2. Ordinance No. 1835-99 - Increasing Estimated Revenues and Appropriations by $7,946 in the General Find for Library Computer Equipment. MOTION: Councilman Bookey MOVED for approval of Ordinance No. 1835-99 and Councilwoman Swarner SECONDED the motion. There were no public or council comments. VOTE: Booke Yes Swarner: Yes Moore: Absent Bannock: Yes Frazer: Yes Williams: Yes KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES' AUGUST 4, 1999 PAGE 4 MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. C-3, Ordinance No. 1837-99 - Appropriating a $1,500 Donation from the Kenai Elks Lodge #2425 for Recreational Equipment. MOTION: Councilwoman Swarner MOVED for approval of Ordinance No 1837-99 and Councilman Bookey SECONDED the motion. There were no public or council comments. VOTE: Booke Yes Swarner: Yes Moore: Absent Bannock: Yes Frazer: Yes Williams: Yes MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. C-4. Resolution No. 99-47 - Supporting the Endeavors of the Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council (CIRCAC) to Encourage Those With the Ultimate Authority and Responsibility to Ensure that "Prevention of Oil Spills in Cook Inlet Become One of their Highest Priorities. MOTION: Councilwoman Swarner MOVED for approval of Resolution No. 99-47 and requested UNANIMOUS CONSENT. Councilman Frazer SECONDED the motion. There were no public comments. Williams noted the CIRCAC forum at which this resolution would be presented, was scheduled for September 10, 1999 in Homer. VOTE: There were no objections. SO ORDERED. C-5. Resolution No. 99-48 - Transferring $10,000 in the Airport Land System Special Revenue Fund for Maintenance and Repair. MOTION: Councilman Frazer MOVED for adoption of Resolution No. 99-48 and Councilman Bannock SECONDED the motion. There were no public or council comments. KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES' AUGUST 4, 1999 PAGE 5 VOTE: There were no objections. SO ORDERED. ITEM D. COMMIS ON /COMMITTEE REPORTS D-1. Council on Aging - Swarner reported a meeting would be held on August 26 at 10:00 a.m. at the Senior Center. D-2, Airport Commission - Bannock reported the next meeting would be held on August 12 at 7:00 p.m. D-3. Harbor Commission - Bookey reported the next meeting would be held on August 9, 1999 at 7:00 p.m. D-4. Library Commission - Library Director Jankowska reported a meeting was held on August 3. A report on the Library's summer activities was presented by Library staff. D-5. Parks & Recreation Commission - Frazer reported a meeting would be held at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers on August 5, 1999. D-6. Planning & Zoning Commission - Bannock reported the minutes of the July 14 meeting were included in the packet. Bannock also reported the Commission approved a sign permit and site survey at their July 28 meeting. D-7. Miscellaneous Commissions and Committees D-7-a. Beautification Committee - Swarner reported the next Committee meeting would be held on August 10 at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers. She also noted, the Committee members would be judging the Chamber of Commerce's beautification contest. D-7-b. Historic District Board - No report. D-7-c. Kenai Visitors & Convention Bureau Board - No report. D-7-d. Alaska Municipal League Report - Williams reported plans for the AML Conference to be held in Kenai/ Soldotna were proceeding. He noted, the Alaska Conference of Mayors would be meeting in Homer on August 30 and 31. He asked if there would be additional funds available in the Legislative budget to put toward the conference banquet. It was noted, $3,000 had been included in the Legislative budget for the conference reception to be held at the ARFF. Williams is to contact Mayors Lancaster and Navarre as to what they plan for the banquet and how they will be participating in regard to the event. KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES' AUGUST 4, 1999 PAGE 6 ITEM E: MINUTES E-1. Regular Meeting of July 21, 1999. ITEM F: CORRESPONDENCE - None. ITEM G: OLD BUSINESS - None. ITEM H: NEW BUSINESS H-1. Bills to be Paid, Bills to be Ratified MOTION: Councilman Bannock MOVED to pay the bills and Councilman Frazer SECONDED the motion. The interest rate for an investment listed was noted to be 6.03% and that it seemed to be a very good rate. Finance Director Semmens explained the transaction was different than what had been typical for the city in that an investment was sold at a small loss to achieve a higher gain. He explained, this was called active management instead of passive management. VOTE: There were no objections. SO ORDERED. H-2. Purchase Orders Exceeding $2,500 MOTION: Councilwoman Swarner MOVED for approval of the purchase orders exceeding $2,500 and Councilman Bookey SECONDED the motion. There were no objections. SO ORDERED, H-3. Approval - Assignment of Shore Fishery Lease/ADL 32885, Tract 7, Shore Fishery No. 71, T6N, R 12W, S.M. - From Lucas Family Partnership to Aurora Holdings 8. Investments, LLC. KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES' AUGUST 4, 1999 PAGE 7 Attorney Graves reported administration had no objections to the transfer. He noted, the code provided for such transfers with the approval of council who could not unreasonably deny the transfer. MOTION: Councilman Bookey MOVED for approval of the Assignment of Shore Fishery Lease, ADL 32885 and Councilwoman Swarner SECONDED the motion. There were no objections. SO ORDERED. ITEM I: I-1. Mayor ADMINISTRATION REPORTS a. Volcano Monitoring/ Challenger Center - Williams referred to the July 21, 1999 letter from Senator Stevens which was included in the packet. He noted the letter noted the bill in which funds had been included for the Challenger Center would be considered by his committee in the near future. Williams noted, he had forwarded letters to Senators Stevens and Murkowski and Congressman Young thanking them for their past support and requesting their continued support of the Challenger project. Referring to the first paragraph of the letter, Bookey questioned the reference to funding included in the Year 2000 Transportation bill and USGS budget for volcano monitoring. He stated it appeared (from the letter) the city requested the funding for the volcano monitoring and he was concerned that if the council went to Senator Stevens for funding for the coastal trail, Stevens would think funds were already given to the city for the volcano monitoring program and may not consider funding the coastal trail project. Williams stated he understood Bookey's concern and thought the funding for the volcano monitoring program was an overall appropriation to be made on behalf of the USGS, but the program would also serve the city. Bookey stated he wanted the city to have a fairly clean plate if it requests funds from the federal government. I-2. City Manager a. Airport Entrance Repairs - Ross reported council had requested the "restricted area" sign be removed and repairs to the north end entrance stairs be made at the airport terminal. He noted, repair of the stairs would probably take redesign and until the design and renovation is made, the entrance would be closed to the public, especially during the winter. KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES' AUGUST 4, 1999 PAGE 8 b. DEC Testing -Ross reported he would be meeting with DEC representatives to discuss further testing of environmental issues at the airport. He noted costs should not be extensive (approximately $10,000 to $25,000). C. Maintenance Facility - Ross noted the maintenance facility design and engineering had been on the council's priority list for some time. He believed the impetus for receiving the funds last year was the ARFF truck. Ross added, Airport Manager Cronkhite would be working with the FAA on the issue and there was a possibility airport matching funds could be proposed. He continued, administration was suggesting the design and engineering of the ARFF warm storage / maintenance facility be done knowing money for the construction was not available at this time. However, construction funding would be on the list for FAA funding. Ross added, more about this project would be brought to council at either the next August meeting or their first meeting in September. d. Street Address Project - Ross referred to a memorandum included in the packet regarding the street address project in progress with city staff. He noted, approximately 200 of 5,000 properties in Kenai had bad addresses. Some of those properties were unimproved or didn't use the street address for mailing. Ross added, major problems were not anticipated, however some property owners may have to make some address changes. It was thought council members may receive some telephone calls from concerned citizens. e. Dip Net Fishery -Ross reported a critique and revenue/expense report would be presented to council the first of September. f. Dairy Queen Property -Ross reported the Dairy Queen property sale closed. I-3. Attorney - No report. I-4. City Clerk a. Kenai Peninsula Youth Court, Inc. - Clerk Freas referred to the July 19, 1999 letter from Virginia Espenshade of the Kenai Peninsula Youth Court, Inc. included in the packet. She noted, in the letter, Espenshade requested disbursement of council's FY 2000 appropriation for the program. Freas noted, council had included $3,500 in its Legislative budget for this purpose. Council had no obj ections to proceeding with the disbursement. KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES' AUGUST 4, 1999 PAGE 9 b. Petition Packages - Freas reported eight petition packages had been taken out by individuals for the October 5, 1999 city election. She noted, four of the packages were for the two one-year seats and four for the two three-year seats. I-5, Finance Director - a. City Audit -- Semmens reported the auditors were working at city hall and would be there for about two weeks. He added, he hoped to have the statements to council within a month after the auditors completed their work. b. State Revenue Sharing Funds - Semmens also reported the revenue sharing monies had been received and it included money for the health facility. He added, an ordinance to appropriate the monies would be included in the next packet for introduction. I-6, Public Works a. Coastal Trail/ Bluff Restoration Project - Kornelis reported the first public hearing regarding the project would be held on August 24, 1999 in the council chambers and would begin at 7:00 p.m. b. Sewer Treatment Plant - Kornelis reported, the city would be receiving the SHARP award during the August 18 council meeting and that Commissioner Flannigan would attend the meeting to present the award. C. NPDS/Sewer Treatment Plant - Kornelis also reported the draft NDPS report for effluent had been received and it was looking very good. Public notices would be published by DEC as there was a 30-day comment period. I-7. Airport Manager - Airport Manager Cronkhite reported a contractor had been hired to clean the carpet in the airport terminal. She explained, the contractor felt 90% of the dirt and stains now in the carpet could be removed. The work will be done during the evening. When asked if the cleaning might delay the need to install new carpeting, Cronkhite stated, a delay would be considered if the cleaning is successful. ITEM J: DISCUSSION J-1, Citizens Jill Lipka 606 Salmo Circle, Kenai. Lipka reported she and her family walk the beach very often and noticed there was a lot of garbage and fish carcasses, etc. left on the beach from the dip net fishery. Lipka asked if it would be cleaned up as KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES AUGUST 4, 1999 PAGE 10 the smell was very offensive. Ross noted he would have someone investigate the problem. He added, it was normal to have wash-up of carcasses, etc. and that would continue for awhile. J-2. Council Bookey - No comments. Swarner -- a. Dip Net Season - Swarner asked if there had been a police officer walking the beach during the dip net season. Lt. Kohler answered yes. b. Airport Terminal Carpet - Swarner stated she was glad to hear the carpet would be cleaned. C. WRCC Run - Swarner reported there would be a lot of people from out of the area in Kenai for the WRCC run to begin at 10:00 a.m. on August 14. d. Election -- Thanked council for electing her Vice Mayor. Bannock - No comments. Frazer - No comments. Williams - a. Excavations - Williams reported three concrete foundations had been unearthed by someone expanding their operation close to the airport. He suggested the foundations could have been there since the late 1940's as he did not remember buildings having been there. He noted a gas line had also been placed to the foundations. Bookey stated the foundations had been placed there by Joe Ross who had planned to build a car wash on the property and then abandoned the project. b. Personal Property Tax/Aircraft - Williams referred to the letter from Charles Versaw of Alaska Flying Network, which was added to the agenda at the beginning of the meeting. He noted, Versaw requested the city consider an exemption to the payment of personal property tax on aircraft for their citizens. Discussion followed during which it was pointed out Soldotna and Homer had exempted the tax; Seward decided they would not exempt it; and Seldovia probably would not make the exemption. Bannock noted, a $100,000 exemption had been given for aircraft by the Borough, but boats and motor vehicles were not included in the exemption. Williams noted, the taxes collected were incidental to the costs of operation of the airport. He stated he was unsure of how he would respond to the letter. Bannock suggested Versaw be invited to the next Airport Commission meeting to discuss the matter further. EXECUTIVE SESSION - None Scheduled KENAI CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES' AUGUST 4, 1999 PAGE 11 ITEM K: ADJOURNMENT The meeting adjourned at approximately 8 : 03 p.m. Minutes transcribed and prepared by: Carol L. Freas, City Clerk APPROVED By C0U C C