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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1990-02-07 Council MinutesAGENDA KENAI CITY COUNCIL - REGULAR MEETING FEBRUARY 7, 1990 A. CALL TO ORDER 1. Pledge of Allegiance Boy Scout Troop #152 2. Roll Call 3. Agenda Approval 4. Consent Agenda *All items listed with an asterisk t*) 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 x;. which case the item will be removed tfrom th Consent Agenda and considered in isnormal sequence on the agenda as part of the General Orders. B. SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENT (10 Minutes) C. PUBLIC HEARINGS 1. Ordinance 135pu9biiC FinUsedin�ida gorCommercialt Required for Center 2. Ordinance 1354-90- Increasing Modelv/A$5n400 Display Case for Steelhead Platform 3. Resolution 90-04 - Setting Time and Place for Public Hearing - Assessment Rolls 4. Resolution 90-05 - Transfer of Funds - Legal Dept. - Laser Printer 5. *Renewal of Liquor License Eadies Frontier Club & Liquors 6. *Renewal of Liquor License - Casino Bar & Liquor Pizza Paradisos Windmill Restaurant 7. Renewal of Liquor License - Katmai Hotel Restaurant & Lounge The Rig.Bar D. COMMISSION/COMMITTEE REPORTS w 1. Council on Aging 2. Airport Commission 3. Economic Development Commission 4. Harbor Commission 5. Library Commission 6. Parks & Recreation Commission 7. Planning & Zoning Commission El C7 8. Misc. Commissions/Committees E. MINUTES �.. *Regular Meeting, Jan. 17, 1990 F. CORRESPONDENCE G. OLD BUSINESS H. NEW BUSINESS 1. Bills to be Paid, Bills to Ob0eRatified Exceeding $ ,0 2. Requisitions 1355-90 - Accepting Delegaat d Authority 3. *Ordinance Plan from Kenai Borough tC mprehensivee Land sePlan 4. Amendments to Kenai *Ordinance 1356-90 - Increasing Re//Appfrom Fund Senior United Citizen -Borough Special Revenue Way - $2,571.24 1357-90 - increasing Rev�epGrant Senior 5. *Ordinance Day Care Special Revenue Fund State 6. $4,644 *Ordinance 1358-90 - Increasing 2/OO�ns $96 Senior Center Dining Room Expansion 7. *Games of Chance & Ex Kenai Central 8. Land Discussion fill Project Launch Discussion - Proposed Beaver Loop Skill g. 10. Discussion - AmendmentsGames ofBoat I. ADMINISTRATION REPORTS 1. Mayor 2. City Manager 3. Attorney 4. City Clerk 5. Finance Director 6. Public Works Director 7. Airport Manager J. DISCUSSION 1. Citizens 2. Council K. ADJOURNMENT Boy scout -Troop #152 performed the flag ceremony. Myor.Williams presented.a check for.$300 for additional flags and a letter of appreciation from the. City. He also presented each boy with a City Bicentennial pin. _ A-2 Roll Call Present:- Linda Swarner, Kevin Walker, John Williams, f `.. Ray Measles, Chris Mar j O'Reilly, Hal .Monfor, Smalley Absent: None A-3 Agenda Approval Mayor Williams spoke. 1. Letters regarding EDA grant distributed this date, add under I-1, Mayor's Report. 2. There is a correction on item C-1, Ord. 1352-90. 3. Postpone item C-?, Liquor License Renewals for Katmai and The Rig. Add item-H-11, Customs Contract, distributed this date. ` MOTION: Councilman Smalley moved, seconded by Councilwoman Swarner, t pp o a rove the agenda as amended. Motion passed by unanimous consent. A-4 Consent Agenda Councilman Walker requested item H-f-be.removed from �= the Consent Agenda. Consent Agenda approved as amended by unanimous consent. B. SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENT None C. PUBLIC BEARING _ C-1 Ord.-1352-90 - Finding Airport Lands Not Required for Public Use - Fidalgo Commercial Center NOTION Councilwoman O'Reilly moved, seconded by Councilman Measles, to adopt the ordinance. There was no public comment. Councilwoman O'Reilly. Planning & Zoning Comm. passed the resolution in support of this at the January meeting. KENAI CITY COUNCIL - MINUTES FEBRUARY 7, 1990. PAGE 2 Clerk_ Ruotsala. In the first WHEREAS, the KtKC number should be 22.05.0100 MOTION, Amendment: . Councilman, Walker moved, seconded by Councilman u Measles, to amend the ordinance to correct the IKMC number to 22.a5.010. VOTE.,.. Amendment: Motion passed by unanimous consent. VOTE, Main Motion as Amended: Motion passed unanimously by roll call vote. C-2 Ord. 1354-90 - Increasing Rev/Appus - Display Case for Steelhead Platform Model - $5,400 MOTION: Councilman Smalley moved, -seconded by Councilman Measles, to adopt the ordinance. There was no public comment. Mayor Williams. What.is the time line on this? Airport Manager Ernst. Three weeks to get the materials, we will construct 3 sides of it, it will take 4 days to put it together. Motion passed unanimously by roll call vote. C-3 Res.. 90-04 - Setting Time & Place for Public Hearing - Assessment Rolls MOTION: Councilman Measles moved, seconded by Councilwoman O'Reilly, to adopt the resolution. There was no public comment. Motion passed by unanimous consent. C-4 Res. 90-05 - Transfer of Funds - Legal Dept. - Laser Printer MOTION:. Councilwoman Monfor moved, seconded by Councilman Smalley, to adopt the resolution. Where was no public comment. Motion passed by unanimous consent. C-5. Renewal of Liquor License Eadies Frontier Club & Liquors C-C Renewal. of Liquor License - Casino Bar & Liquor. Pizza Paradisos Approved by. -Consent Agenda. D. C.ObOMISSION/COMMITTEE REPORTS, D--1 Council on Aging KENAI CITY COUNCIL - MINUTES FEBRUARY 7, 1990 PAGE 3 Councilwoman Swarner. I delivered cookies to most of the %gislators:(Congregate Housing promotion) and left them with Capital Improvement Project brochures. D-2 Airport . Commmission Councilman Measles.; There was a meeting Jan. il, I did not attend. D-3 Economic Development Commission None D-4 Harbor Commission Councilman Walker. I was not at the last meeting. They finalized the 5 year plan and had a discussion regarding Doug Coughenower's.report. They will be working with Planning & Zoning on the Comprehensive Plan on Feb. 12. D-5. Library Cession Councilwoman Monfor. They met Feb. 6. Feb. 23 & 24 .they will have a book sale. D-6 Parks & Recreation Commission Recreation Assistant Musson. There was a meeting Jan. 23. Councilwoman Monfor. I had an inquiry regarding the hair dryers that used to be in the Rec Center. Could we have some -put in to dry hair? Mr. Musson replied he would check into it. D-7 Planning & Zoning Commission Councilman.Smalley. There was a.meeting Jan. 24. The new members were sworn in. The work session will be rescheduled.. D-8 Misc . Commm/Comm None E. MINIPM E-2 Regular Meeting,. Jan. 17, 1990 Approved by. Consent Agenda. F. CORRESPONDENCE None G.: OLD BUSINESS None H-. NEW BUSINESS H-1 Bills to be Paid, Bills to be Ratified MOTION: Councilwoman Monfor moved, seconded by Councilwoman Swarner, to approve the bills as submitted. Motion passed by unanimous consent. KRNAI CITY COUNCIL - MINUTES FEBRUARY 7, 1990.- PAGPS 4 H-2 Requisitions Exceeding $1,000 NOTION: Councilwoman Monfor moved seconded. by Councilwoman Swarner, to approve.the requisitions as submitted. Motion passed by unanimous consent. H-3 Ord. 1355-90 - Accepting Delegated Authority from Kenai Borough to Make Land Use Plan Amendments to Kenai Comprehensive Plan H-4 Ord. 1356-90 - Increasing Rev/Appns - Senior Citizen -Borough Special Revenue Fund - from United Way $2,571.24 H-5 Ord. 1357-90 - Increasing Rev/Appns - Senior Day Care Special Revenue Fund -State Grant - $4,644 Approved by Consent: Agenda. H-�6 Ord. 1358-90 increasing Rev/Appns -Senior Center k 9 Dining Room Expansion - $296,000 MOTION: Councilman Measles moved seconded by Councilwoman Swarner, to introduce the ordinance. Councilman Walker. (to Public Works Director Rornelis) At last meeting we asked for ball park figure of $250,000. Also if Davis/Bacon requirements would affect it. Did you check into this? Public Works Director Rornelis. It is State requirement. We tried to get it down as much as we could, but the Feb. 2 letter shows the contingency is down to $260,000, the overall project is $296,000. $22,700 from the seniors has reduced the size. We hired a professional estimator to make an estimate. We can cut further but in order to get to $250,000, it would be 16,000 to 17,000 sq. ft. City Manager Brighton. Regarding the $22,000, the letter from the seniors was $14,000. Mr. Rornelis. $14,000 from the Senior Connection, $5,000 from donations, etc. City Manager Brighton. The expansion will encroach into the conservation district. We will have to change the conservation district. Mr. Rornelis. There would have to be a zone change. Mayor Williams. Is this particular zone covered by a deed from the Federal Government that it be left in perpetuity or revert back to the government? Councilman Smalley. We had the same situation on the other side, the _ Y said it would not be a problem. Councilman Measles. Council established the conservation zone. Mayor Williams. What -is the capacity of this? Mr. Kornelis. It is almost double the size. Arch. Bill Kluge. it would add 100 more people. Motion passed by unanimous consent. Mayor.Williams. There will be a public hearing at the next meeting. H-8 Disc. - Landfill Project Mayor.Williams. I asked Councilwoman Monfor to attend the Borough meeting regarding the landfill. Councilwoman Monfor. They want to close our dump and • KENAI CITY COUNCIL - MINUTES FEBRUARY 7, 1990 PAGE 5 put in a transfer site to be operated by a private operator and we would pay for it. Then we would pay Borough taxes, pay for the Seward dump and pay for services. I asked for consideration of the 6,000 people of Kenai, if they would put a transfer site in after it is rezoned. They did not want to do this. They said we should take it to Nikiski or Soldotna. 30% of the population's garbage is picked up by Mr. Carter (Peninsula Sanitation). 70% of our people go to the dump on a regular basis. I asked for conversation to extend to June till their permit runs out; they said no. When you have no place to put your garbage, call the Borough Mayor. I have no solution. It is the Borough responsibility to rezone and have a transfer site there for Kenai people and outside residences. You will have to pay either if you take or if it is picked up. There are Assembly members that are very biased against the City. Mayor Williams. I attended the Borough meeting Feb. 6. Up for introduction was an ord. creating a transfer site and having a contractor haul from there to the Soldotna landfill. There is only one contractor on the Peninsula permitted by the State to haul the large green boxes. The other one can only haul the small ones. He will charge the Borough much money to haul the large ones. We anticipated the Kenai site would be a Borough operated transfer site. He will have the right to charge anyone who uses it. There were bad feelings last night. One person said the whole situation was created by the City because they requested it be closed. We accommodated the Borough to keep it open year after year. It had to be closed but we gave them one more year at $85,000 charge. The permit was a savings because it would cost the Borough $145,000 to move to Soldotna. This Assemblyman said it was Kenai's problem. I did not take hard exception because it was irrelevant. In order to have a transfer site, there must be rezoning. I was asked to speak regarding this. I said I could not give a definite time frame to have it rezoned. It would have to go to Planning & Zoning for review. If we do not allow the transfer site, the people will have to go to Nikiski or Soldotna. If we do have this, the people will have to pay 3 times for refuse. The people of Kenai should be concerned. We are the largest population in the Borough - 6,500 people. We are taxpayers of the Borough and we have.a right to be treated the same as the rest of the residents of the Borough. I would ask that people address the Borough people and attend the Planning & Zoning meeting regarding this. City Manager Brighton. Regarding charging people in Kenai. The Borough does not charge Seward people to haul to Soldotna, nor Nikiski people to haul to Soldotna. The only charge would be for Kenai. Councilman Smalley. Could we have a class action suit? Asst. Atty. Graves. There are 2 possibilities - one is a class action suit, the other is the City taking legal action against the Borough. I would suggest if Council wants to explore this, Atty. Rogers and I would review and submit a memo to Council regarding this. City Manager Brighton. I am more cautious regarding having people think we are going to sue. There is still room for negotiation before we play hard ball. if it comes to that point (we had to go to court to have the Borough accept the sludge. The Court ordered • RENAL CITY COUNCIL - MINUTES JrEBRUARY 7, 1990 PAGE 6 them to do it), it would be best to do this first. Councilman Smalley. I agree, but we could explore the potential. Councilman Walker. Also explore moving the transfer site away from this area. Planning & Zoning would review this also. That would alleviate neighborhood complaints. This is still residential, if we use it as a transfer site, it does not eliminate the problem. MOTION: Councilwoman Monfor moved, seconded by Councilwoman Swarner, for Administration (City Manager Brighton and Public Works Director Rornelis) to start a dialogue with the Borough and see if something can be worked out by June. Councilwoman Monfor. Have Administration come back to the Feb. 21 meeting with a report on their progress. Motion passed by unanimous consent. Mayor Williams. Planning & Zoning should be very wary of the plan when it comes across. Before any decision by Planning & Zoning, please bring it back to Council for review. Mayor Williams. Garbage in the Borough is not something that is just specific to our area. The entire U.S. is having problems with garbage. The National League of Cities has a great amount of concern regarding this. Whittier garbage .is loaded on a train at $700 per railroad car and taken to Anchorage. H-9 Disc. - Proposed Beaver Loop Boat Launch Mayor Williams. We were not able to bring the ordinance back to the table this evening, as there was no motion by Council. It is still tabled. I would ask that we be allowed to have public comment. The boat launch project was discussed by Councilwoman Swarner and me on RSRM on Feb. 6. We wanted to know the feelings of the public regarding the difference between value by the appraiser and the owner. There was very little public comment. One caller suggested taking by Eminent Domain. We have not pursued this because of public relations. The land has been offered for sale, the price has been set. Condemnation would merely bring us to agreement with the courts to decide. Councilman Walker. Regarding condemnation - If we entered into this and won a settlement, would we have to pay that price; and not have to pay the proposed price? Mayor Williams. Some have said we do not have the right to go the Corps of Engineers without ownibg it. We are doing this with the agreement of the owner. If we want to condemn, it would take years. Asst. Atty. Graves. There are 2 ways - one is the quick take (we did this with the airport float plane basin). Declare taking, the court gives you title, the remainder of litigation is with value. The other is the slow take. You take title at the end of the determination of value. I cannot give you a date, it would depend on whether the land owner opposed the taking. • K] KENAI CITY COUNCIL - MINUTES FEBRUARY 70 1990 PAGE 7 Mayor Williams. The problem with taking is if we condemn and take and do not get the permits, we would have to pay the court -set price and do not have the ability to use it.. Taking would have to be after permits were issued. Asst. Atty. Graves. We need to examine the Corps of Engineers regulations and get the options. Public Works Director Kornelis. I don't believe you would have to have ownership. The Corps of Engineers gives permits for buoys without permits. We could not do anything with it though. Councilman Smalley. Is ownership required for Dingall/Johnson funds? Mr. Kornelis. The use of funds is for use of the land, to provide access to rivers and lakes. We could get a grant and use more to buy land. Councilman Smalley. Because of concern of getting land that we could not use, the appraised value is higher. $13,000 per acre for wetlands is high price to pay. PUBLIC COMMENT: a. Chris Garcia, Box 203, Kenai. 1) I am not trying to speak bad of Council, but I think you should check the credentials of the appraiser. it seems he is trying to keep anything from happening in Kenai. 2) On Chester Cone's price ($13,000 per acre), that is a fair price. I own land in the area and i would laugh at you if you offered it. It is opening land up on the riverbank for fishing and development. People have to go to Soldotna to the boat launch. Cunningham Pk. is useless. I am in full support of paying C. Cone's price. It is a good deal all the way around. It is on the back water side. Cunningham Pk. is always being washed out. it is always full of vehicles. This would alleviate this. The bend in the river is useless land. It would make a nice recreation area for the City. Mayor Williams. You know where the land is? Mr. Garcia. Yes,.I think C. Cone is being more than fair. I understand your concern regarding public funds, but 1-defy anyone to find land at that price. b. Greg Daniels, 426 Rogers Rd., Kenai. I am a guide. I know quality of land but there are very few take-outs for boats in Kenai - Cunningham Pk., Big Eddy, Eagle Rock. You have to park up river and row down to be picked up down river. You would have a choice. If you are at Eagle Rock, there is no place to take out except Cunningham Pk. It is a dangerous situation there. Or 6 miles down river to take out at the City dock, it is very busy. Contingent on the Corps of Engineers permit, you should buy. It would expand City services and there would be financial gain. Customers would stay in motels, guides could encourage people to spend money and stay here. It would pull tourists to Kenai. I have to put in and take out in Soldotna with customers. It would encourage good jobs on.the facilities. Especially rest rooms, maintain them. Have someone there to take money for launching. It is about time Kenai got off their duff and did something on the Kenai River. O c. Willard Hann, Box 3434, Soldotna. I live in College Heights near Centennial Pk. During August through October, it is silver salmon season here. With the ramp I could launch here and keep clients here. Rooms and restaurant income would help the City. it would save me time and make clients more comfortable. Mayor Williams. What is your opinion on the value of the land? Mr. Hann. Further up river, Salamatof Natives are getting $50,000 an acre. This is cheap, even for wetlands. d. Jim Johnson, Box 3774, Soldotna, from Cook Inlet Professional Sports Fishing. There are 70 Kenai River guides, We polled the Board of Directors. They told me to tell you what we wanted. The lower river has problems with access. Most are zeroing in on Soldotna but fishing in Kenai. In excess of $30 Million is made on the Kenai River per year. Some of that could come to Kenai if you had better access, especially in August through October. I launch my boat at the City ramp, but there are tide problems. I would suggest another appraisal. I talked to Fish & Game regarding Dingall/Johnson money. About $8-$9 Million is available, $4 Million for sport enhancement. The lower river has poor access, bad rest rooms. Centennial Pk. does a good job with access and charges. This could be done the same way. Our organization would like to support this. e. Gary Foster, Kenai. The City has 12-1/2 miles of river that is going to waste, privately owned or no access. This is one of the few spots that can be placed. I hate to see the City condemn a person's land. He has worked hard for this. It is not a fair way for the City to get land. The Kenai River last year had 4 world record fish, that is very impressive. f. Jack Foster, Box 494, Soldotna. I own land on Beaver Loop Rd. A couple of years ago we proposed a boat launch at Anglers Acres. There was much debate because of people that would go on private property. We backed out. This would be a real advantage, people would not be on private property. Regarding the price, I am for paying C. Cone's price. That is wetlands. Moose Range Meadows, Salamatof are developed, at $55,000 acre cost. That is ditched around and drained off. The water table is 6 ft, deep, There will be restrictions but it will sell. C. Cone is an old timer and senior citizen, I think it is terrible to condemn it. g. Barbara Waters, 311 Kaknu, Kenai. We own a boat with too large a motor to put above the bridge. Would we be able to put the boat in if you do this? I would hate to see you close that area down to boats with large motors. We do all our fishing at the mouth of the river. Mayor .Williams. I don't believe the City has any designs on closing the lower area to any boats. It would be public use in perpetuity. Councilman Walker. I have had 20 phone calls from commercial fishermen complaining about heavy congestion during dip net season and the rest of the season at the boat :ramp we have. I cannot argue with them. The KENAI CITY COUNCIL - MINUTES FEBRUARY 7, 1990 PAGE 9 tides make a difference when you try to pull out. I have done it. This proposal, the price is not that steep. I would like to buy river frontage at.that price. Everyone says this is a lot of money but they would be willing to buy at that price. If we can buy it, we should. Councilwoman Monfor. I would be against condemnation. It has to be the last resort. 1) Ask for 2nd appraisal. 2) Take the ordinance off the table for the March 7 meeting, for more input. It is needed. It is time the City did something. If all goes well, would it be a reality this summer? Public Works Director Kornelis. With grant funds, it would be November before funds would be available. Councilwoman Monfor. It could be called Bicentennial Pk. Councilman Measles. There is no doubt the property is worthless without a permit. With a permit we do not know the worth but it is more than $180,000. Council needs to look at this not as the price of the land, but at the total project - is it worth $1/2 Million to the City? I think it is. At what point was it tabled? Mayor Williams. It was tabled at passage on Dec. 6. MOTION: Councilman Measles moved, seconded by Councilman Walker, to remove Ord. 1344-89 from the table and set at public hearing for Feb. 21, 1990. Councilwoman Monfor. Will we have a 2nd appraisal? City. Manager Brighton. I think it would be a waste of time and effort. The man has asked $1800,000 no matter what the appraisal is. Notion passed by unanimous consent. H-10 Disc. - Amendments - Games of Chance & Skill Mayor Williams. Does Council wish to discuss this? We have taken a hands -off position. Most of the communities have pull tab parlors, generally in malls. Most are really encouraging pull tabs. There are questions regarding sales tax. This material is regarding State regulations. The Lt. Governor refused to sign because he did not feel there was an emergency. City Manager Brighton. There are 2 issues. 1) Regulations, and 2) Taxation or no taxation. The regulations should remain at the Borough level. The City should become involved regarding taxation. On Feb. 6 the Borough meeting had ordinances regarding taxation. Mayor Williams. The City should follow the lead of the Borough. If we do not follow the Borough, we.will have a mess. City Manager Brighton. We should encourage the Borough in this. PUBLIC COMMENT: Barbara Water, 311 Kaknu, Kenai. Both ordinances at the Borough meeting.were.for introduction, both failed.- 1 suspect there will be more. No action by Council. B-11 Disc. - Customs Contract F.; • KENAI CITY COUNCIL - MINUTES FEBRUARY 7, 1990 PAGE 10 Mayor Williams. There has been much work on this at the federal, state and local level. City Manager Brighton. The letter to Don Gilman was distributed this date. Customs is now available. There was a question as to who would be responsible for running this. if it is established, Kenai will handle it. The airport is the qualifying factor. Concern is with the memo of agreement, we have to sign it. We have to provide space, reimburse all travel costs (to Homer, Seward, Nikiski, etc.), per diem, COLA, mileage, $73,000+ salary & amenities, relocation expenses, training expenses, vacation expenses, utilities, equipment & furniture, phone, computer, answering machine, communications machine, and software with installation & maintenance prior to signature. Councilwoman Swarner. I thought we were sharing. City Manager Brighton. We were, but we have to sign. Councilwoman O'Reilly. I think we have to work out a cost estimate. Finance Director Brown. The cities have put in $80,000, we have put in $15,000. Based on this agreement, we estimate putting another $60,000 on top of this. Councilwoman Monfor. It would not be a City employee. Finance Director Brown. The City has to set the rate, bill and collect. City Manager Brighton. The people were talking about a free zone area. To have this you need a customs agent. Valdez has a free trade zone and does not use it. Anchorage has one, Seward is "umbrellaed" under Anchorage. Councilwoman Monfor. When we talked about this, this was not what we envisioned. Who put this in? Mayor Williams. It was the opinion of EDD, it would relieve problems when we bring an agent down for ships and might bring additional people to the area. I don't think this is the case. Phillips comes under a new agreement, when shipping is similar over a long period of time, they do not need a customs agent. I talked to Unocal, they have an agent in Anchorage who handles the paperwork for them and sends a bill. What is there in this for us? I would like a rundown from EDD regarding revenues and if they are commensurate with costs. $150,000 to $175,000 cost is far more than EDD anticipated. (To Councilman Measles) How does Tesoro do it? Councilman Measles. The same as Unocal. They very seldom send an agent, an occasional spot check. I don't see any benefit. They can send district and regional representatives down for internal control verification and we pay for it. Councilwoman O'Reilly. Have we had any discussion with other communities? City Manager Brighton. No, we just received the memo this date. Airport Manager Ernst. Admin. Asst. Howard and I went to Anchorage on Jan. 31 regarding a leasing seminar. One of the topics was Wrangell. They had the same situation as ours. They had a mining operation in Canada and had to have an agent. He can demand from the City anything he needs or wants. Wrangell said we had better think about it. Councilman Walker. I would like to see some serious study. If we open up the coal fields across the Inlet, we may have to have one. Let's look at it first. There is a good chance of having this in the next 10 years. I do not support this much money. City Manager Brighton. Since there is coal going out of Seward, a customs agent is acting the same way with that as with Unocal and Tesoro. I don't think it would preclude coal across the Inlet. The legislation is new and will KENAI CITY COUNCIL - MINUTES FEB1tUARY 7 , 1990 PAGE.11 not-go-awayif you. want to reapply. Mayor Williams. Thisshould go to EDD for review. Council agr-eed.to the suggestion. I. ADMINISTRATION REPORTS I-.1 Mayor Mayor Williams spoke. a. The Governor's Education Endowment Fund. I did not see the Governor when I was in Juneau. I find the Endowment problem is divided between pro and. con. Con is about 72%. Not that they do not want it, but they do not want the Permanent Fund messed with. Rep. Boucher's report said 1) Don't mess with it, 2) Don't use the earnings for government expenses. If it is brought to a ballot, it will force the State to do a large educational project. People do not know how the Permanent Fund is handled. The Legislature is responsible for distribution of earned income. I would like to see it brought to a vote, but I think it would be defeated. I would like Council to tell me if we should have a resolution for a vote by State ballot. Councilwoman O'Reilly. I voted to have it on the ballot but I don't think it would pass. It is a Concept that will take time to be approved. Councilman Measles. If we support by resolution for a ballot, we would make points with the Governor and make 73% of the citizens mad. Let the Governor fight it. Councilman Walker. I talked to a lot of people regarding this. The resounding word was the City Council should leave this alone and let it die. Council took no action. b. I had a look at the Governor's Capital Project List. $380,000 is for the sewer treatment plant project here. In the same budget is $62 Million for UAF and UAA and $20 Million for Poker Flats barium missiles. I don't know how other legislators will receive it, but our legislators were not happy. $90,000 for the Homer Pratt Museum parking lot. Very few legislators are happy with the Governor's choices. I discussed our projects with legislators, none made it to the Governor. Over $12 Million is available for our highway project. I said that has been on the list for some time and is just moving up. C. Sen. Kerttula signed on with Sen. Fischer on the Congregate Housing bill. There was a question as to whether we would accept partial funding or put all funding into Congregate Housing pool. It was suggested we get 1/2 now and hope for continuous funding in the future. But next year is an election year. I said before they make any final decision regarding Kenai, please advise us early so Council can address this. I cannot tell you anything regarding capital funds on a positive note. XENAI CITY COUNCIL - MINUTES FEBRUARY 7, 1990; PAGE 12 I-2 City Manager City Manager Brighton spoke. a. We are on contract with C&RA regarding day care. $110,000 was allocated this year. The subcontractor (Womens Resource & Crisis Center) got an additional $41,000. We have always had a waiting list in Kenai for day care. b. Our legislators have wanted a picture of the City for some time. Through the generosity of the Council and Mayor Williams, they have received Pictures. c. The Fire Dept. received a letter of commendation. (Info 12) We do help each other. d. Councilwoman Swarner requested a list of property within the City that did not pay taxes. It is in the packet (Info 9). I-3 Attorney Asst. Atty. Graves reported, I have been corresponding .� with Cook Inlet Housing regarding the cooperative agreement. I have received material and have asked for changes in the agreement. They will get back to us after, they review. They have a deadline in mid -March for funding. They would like to discuss this at the Feb. 21 meeting. We are progressing. I-4 City clerk - None I-5 Finance Director None I-6 Public Works Director Public Works Director Kornelis spoke. a. There is a report on 3 projects in the packet (I-6). Kenai River Mouth Viewing Area, we are #7. If #6 is dropped (there is concern with that project), we will be moved up. Mayor Williams. Regarding the first 4 listed. The Lt. Governor said they will not use the same request format as before because the State offices knew how to fill out applications and of most of them. PP 1 b. Regarding the sewer treatment plant. I FAX'd information this date. I told them we would have an engineer on line by March 30. There will be j signs going up. They want 80, we hope to have about 10. Councilman Measles. Why are we out of compliance? Mr. Kornelis. We are not, this is for a new permit. The compliance order was for what would be in the permit. Signs were supposed to be every 75 ft. for a total of 3,000 ft. in front of the plant. Mayor Williams. This is a new addition to compliance. We have been in compliance for a long time. The idea of signs runs against my grain. How will they look to dip netters and others? There should be some manner in which we can attack this and issue a complaint. Councilman Measles. I agree, if we are not in �T RENAI CITY COUNCIL MINUTES FEBRUARY 7, 1990 PAGE 13 violation of the permit. Public Works Director Kornelis. They are putting a stipulation on us in order to get a new permit. We are going to have to.disinfect the effluent. A lot has to do with new laws. I think they are going to go along with this. We hope to change the wording of the signs and put them on telephone poles. Councilman Walker. I was under the impression that we were chlorinating the effluent. Mr. Kornelis replied no. Councilman Walker. Would it be expensive to do? Mr. Kornelis. That is one of the things we are talking about. But there has to be retention time for chlorine to work. Councilman Walker. Most of the sewage plants I have seen are running effluent through a tank system - a small tank through a chlorine -area to water. It is being tested on a daily basis and they do not have signs. Mr. Kornelis. The signs are just till we have modified them. Councilman Walker. If we do not have a problem, we should not have to. Mr. Kornelis. We do have a problem. City Manager Brighton. Putting up signs is a misnomer. "Contaminated" by what? That could mean anything. They should be specific as to what kind of contamination. Councilwoman O'Reilly. Are they specific as to size of letters? Mr. Kornelis. Yes, I crossed that out. This is not an agreement, this is a compliance order. c. Councilman Smalley. Through Public Works, comments should be passed to DOT P - the stop lights are in disrepair. They need hoods with the low sun. Mr. Kornelis. I will call. They have no bucket truck here. Councilwoman Swarner. When I visited Rep. Swackhammer, that was one of my concerns. I was told that 1/2 of his correspondence (received) is regarding DOT&PF and their relationship with Soldotna. He is aware of. this. I-7 Airport Manager Airport Manager Ernst spoke. a. There will be an Airport Comm. meeting Feb. 8. b. Admin. Asst. Howard and I attended a seminar on Jan. 30 & 31, it was very informative. The Wrangell incident (item H-11), free trade zones, security requirements & impact on leases, phasing out of -FAA stations, underground storage of tanks. We gave a presentation.at the meeting. J. DISCUSSION J-1 Citizens a. Barbara Waters, 311 Kaknu, Kenai. Regarding ambulance service (discussed at the Jan. 17 meeting). Council asked if we have auto insurance and homeowners insurance, I said yes. Mayor • Williams said they had ambulance service. I checked into this. My homeowners policy does not have myself or my family, it is liability only. on my auto insurance, we are only required to have liability insurance in Alaska. I would not be -_� dovered with our liability insurance. Anyone injured outside of my family or in another vehicle would be covered. The answer to both questions is no. We already discussed those without health insurance. Regarding senior citizens, Medicare and Medicaid cover. There is a $51 difference that they would have to pay.. I would not mind a �. mill increase to cover this. I would pay that as opposed to people paying an ambulance fee. Health Einsurance will cover $500 per year for ambulance. b. Barbara Waters, 311 Kaknu, Kenai. Regarding the boat launch proposal. The difference between C. Cone's asking price and $38,000 is $150,000. That would pay for a lot of EMT training. C. Clarence Ladd, Kenai. The Bicentennial is coming UP. There are many old buildings in old Town. There are 3 of them with windows and doors out of them. Spring is coming. The drifters will stay in them next Spring. On Main St. and Riverview Dr., I want to restore buildings there, but till that old building is gone, I don't want to. Is Council going to do anything? I would like to see them done before Bicentennial. Mayor Williams. Council should take a look at this area. we could • do an abatement on a small scale regarding this. d. Chris Garcia, Box 203, Kenai. Regarding street lights. I talked to the supt. this week and complained. We need Council to complain to Juneau. It is not the fault of the Soldotna man. It was contracted out to private people to take care of. The last time Anchorage people came down, they fixed one bulb and they charged overtime. At the present time he has 47 lights out and cannot get them down to fix them. You should tell Juneau that Anchorage people are not doing a good job. Mayor Williams. Public Works Director hornelis can get the information and I will send a letter to Juneau DOLT&PF, our legislators and the House Senate Transportation committees. J-2 Council a. Councilman Walker. I talked to Sen. Fischer regarding the National Guard Armory requiring special dispensation for functions that serve alcoholic beverages. The new policy restricts this. Sen. Fischer said anyone that wants to get special dispensation should get together and do at one time. b. Councilman Walker. Sen. Fischer and I talked regarding Congregate housing. It is his feeling that the legislators from this area are not being forceful regarding pushing this. He said now is the time to have them push this project. The word in Juneau is they are not pushing it. a. (contd) Mayor Williams. Regarding the armory use. The local commander has authority regarding this. It is not State policy. We could talk with the cormmander. If it does not come to pass, I will talk to General Schaeffer. Councilman walker. It will not be changed till we. have a new commander next year. KENAI CITY COUNCIL - MINUTES FEBRUARY 7, 1990 PAGE 15 b.(contd) Councilwoman Swarner. Regarding Congregate Housing. Rep. Leman is co-sponser in the House. Right now we have 2 Republicans in the Rouse. It is not looked,on.favorably. Sen. Kerttula and Sen. Fischer in the Senate. Sen. Kerttula wants hearings in his district.. c. Councilwoman Swarner. I visited with Tom Ackerly at Rep. Navarre's office. % d. Councilwoman Swarner. Regarding the tax list (info 9). I wanted property that Cook Inlet Housing was requesting. City Manager Brighton. We do not know. e. Councilwoman Swarner. Saturday at the Kenai Mall is the Chocolate Lovers Contest and Bake Sale for 4-H. f. Councilwoman Swarner. I would like Bicentennial pins for KCHS students in March for their trip to Eastern Europe. Councilman Smalley. The students are paying for the trip. Mayor Williams. Give them 100 round ones. We should order 1000 more. g. Councilwoman Monfor. I had the Russian teachers in Kenai. They thought it was like Magadan - the frozen river and the visit to the Church. Because it is our Bicentennial, they are planning to visit next summer. h. Councilwoman Monfor. Councilwoman Swarner and Mayor Williams did an excellent job on KSRM Feb. 6. i. Councilwoman Monfor. I spoke to a 4th grade class .` regarding government. I talked over one hour. Almost all were living in N. Kenai. They all use �.; City services. j. Councilwoman Monfor. Thanks to Public Works Director. Kornelis for widening our roads. The State has moved the snow on Spur after we contacted them. k. Councilman Measles. I will be not be at the Feb. 21 meeting. Mayor Williams. I will not be at the March 7 meeting. 1. Councilwoman O'Reilly. Any developments on the Fire Training School? Mayor Williams. I don't know. They will take another 90 day review for a closed area. If it delays 90 days, there will not be a Fire Training Ground this year. I have discussed it with legislators that if it fails, I would hope they will write a reappropriation bill to give to the City. m. Mayor Williams. Regarding Info 2 (Citizen's Advisory Committee for Cook Inlet oil Industry). Kodiak Borough had a resolution. Does Council want to have a resolution? Council took no action. n. Mayor Williams. Item I-6 (Public Works Status Report). He asked Council to review. 'AD BY COW a -al- 9DAwe". s