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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1989-10-04 Council Minutes:<<xtiifie�i• Be B. AGENDA KENAI - OCTOBER 4 REGULAR MEETING CITY COUNCIL A. CALL To ORDER . 1989 Pledge of Allegiance 2• Ro 1 Call 39 Agenda Approval 4 • Consent *'- *All itemsenda considered tc be rWith an routine asterisk*� are the Council and will be approved non-controversia There will be b 1 by items no Separate discussion of these which case the COuncil Item will beer s° re se Consent Agenda and conside removedfromsequence on the red in its Orders. agenda as part of the normal 5• Executive Session - A General SCHEDULED PUBLICAtty. Haggart COMMENT (30 Minutes) 19 Bob Williams Convention ' Kenai Bicentennial V 2• Larry Powers - Arctic•Wintisitors & ers - Request Games T,.delands quest for Appraisal Proposal U Update on PUBLIC HEARINGS Pl 1• Ordinance 1333.89 - a°t 4section 34 Amending Zoning Substitute Ord. 1333ire Map - Govt. 2• Ordinance 1341-89 - 89 Senior Citizen Increase Rev/A 3• Resolution 89_ Center Representative Travel - Lease - Schilling Award Airport Restaurant CON�lISSION CO ant & Bar MMITTEE REpORTS 1• Council on Aging 2. Airport Co 3• Economic Deion 4. Harbor commission Commission 5• Library Commission 6• Recreation Commission 7• Planning & Zonin 8 • Misc• Commission i omission MINUTES ittees 1. *Regular Meeting, Sept. p 20. 1989 1 KENAI CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING October 4, 1989 Kenai City Full Mayor John J. Williams Presiding A. CALL TO ORDER 1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Roll Call Present: Mayor Williams, Measles, McComsey, Monfor, O'Reilly, Smalley, Swarner Absent: None 3. Atxenda Approval a. Delete item B-2 b. Add item C-3 c. Add item D-4 d. Add item I-3 - Additional information e. Commission application from Christy B. Anderson for P&Z (no action) MOTION: Councilman McComsey moved approval of the amended agenda, seconded By Councilman Smalley VOTE: Motion passed by unanimous consent 4. Consent Agenda, MOTION: Councilman McComsey moved approval of the Consent Agenda, seconded by Councilman Smalley VOTE: Motion passed by unanimous consent S. Executive Session Mayor Williams requested that the Council consider an executive session, information and details of the executive session, if revealed in general conversation with public may be detrimental to the good and welfare of the city, would request the session attended by outside counsel, Mr. Haggart, City Manager Brighton. After completing that portion of the .executive session I would like to have you remain in session while we hear from in- house counsel Mr. Rogers. All these are legal matters if disclosed may, affect the financial matters of the city. MOTION: Councilman Measles moved, at Mayor's request for an executive session for the reasons stated, seconded by.Council.man McComsey KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 2 1 9 VOTE: Motion passed unanimously EXECUTIVE SESSION COMMENCED AT 7:10 P.M. COUNCIL RECONVENED AT 8:00 P.M. Mayor Williams: llI would like completed the executive tosession, tInform here were a general following directives have been three matters discusswe given . ed 1) The Council has directed Proceed with litigation Ration against Proceedings; 2) we have behalf of the litigation; have the our outside t the Inlet legal Woods firm Mr. Haggart to group ET AL in our directed the Cit ef of PoAttornelice proceed with the defense on City and the Chi In personnel matters now in 3) in the matter of the Burnett liti, City Attorney to proceed with filings of ration, Council has directs d th B. SCHEDULED PUBLIC COMMENT the pleadings recently receivee 1• Bob Williams Kenai Bicentennial Visitors & Arctic Winter Games pro Deal Conventio n Bureau - Bob Williams: I work for Of the Bicentennial Visitors h&vron USA in North Kenai I and x the Possibilityut in 1992. y of the Arctic am President Winter Games bein COnvention Bureau h want to talk I would like to e g held in the Kena involved in thii/Soldaona s. xplain how I and the Bureau have become Part of our mandate Bicentennial Celebration is 1 in use of the City bicentennial throw twofold. One is funds in promoting the a list of events that our locate and secondl to Promote Kenai and the enjoy. To that end We looked t scitizens and citizens ensn of t ple and have and for bringing people into the area al opportunities for both state ion the Arctic Winter G promotion I would like to announce that the Bureau Games is one. Chambers of Commerce w . along with the Kenai and 901 selected as the ere successful in having dotna Convention which e9 the sight forthe g the Kenai/Soldotna area annual conventiona Alaska Chamber brings about 400 in October Verf Coerce with them and a final p n the area. y Year. It We only have to work Juneau and beat theft b plan to have our bid acce accepted. out a budget I learned that the y e 2 to 1 vote. In speaking with ethemJun ed against and no more s y Were Quite upset. not havingeau folks, activities as an economic booster. legislators In October they look forward to Instead. That booster will be coming to outhese r area KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 3 More importantly it will mean that over the next two years, because we will be going to every Chamber over the state of Alaska, we' 11 be promoting the Kenai Bicentennial as part of the State Chamber convention in 1991. We think its a real coup. We will have more on this for you in the future. This was all due to the efforts of some people from Kenai and Soldotna wearing red underwear and big fish heads, that we were able to put on the appropriate bid and you will probably see more of those red underweared "Fish Heads" in the future. The expression, "Kenai Reds" is becoming.well known throughout the state and may very well develop as another theme of our Bicentennial. In the area of looking for more promotion, we explored the idea of putting A rc* : e - in the bid for the A.ati,e Winter Games as where you bring in about 1,000 athletes who participate in a number of events throughout a week-long period. Of course there are parents and visitors that come along with that. I regret to tell you that I have not been able to get enough budget information to feel comfortable to recommend that we move forward with this project. We have been working with the CIty of Fairbanks and their Visitor and Convention Bureau which has hosted it the last two times it has been held in Alaska. The first time the legislature made a grant of $750,000. The last time it was -held it was a $500,000 grant and the thing that we tried and have yet to figure out is who made up the $250,000 difference, if in fact, the event is posted for $750,000. Our estimate is its $1 million dollar event and before we felt comfortable with going to the cities and chambers with taking on an event of this size, we wanted to be able to define exactly what that budget will be. We've not done that to date so I'm not in a position to recommend that this would be something we would come to the city for funding for as yet. It is this kind of event that the City might begin to look to the future for because this represents an influx of dollars. The state is going to hold this event somewhere. Further it represents our area to other parts of Alaska and other parts of the northern hemisphere, in this case, Siberia, Greenland, and several provinces in Canada as a destination in the off-season. I think that is of tremendous value in terms of promoting our additional attraction outside of those days when our hotels and restaurants are full. This is one of the goals of the Bureau. As soon as I get more information on the budget I will be getting back to you. City Manager Brighton: Is the Bureau actively pursuing the Pioneers convention in 1990? Mr. Williams: Let me clarify our charge because I think there is some confusion. Our first and foremost activity is to promote the Bicentennial, plan the events, and have that come off as a successful celebration for the peoplo of this area and hopefully have something lasting for the City of Kenai. Secondarily to that we are looking for opportunities to promote that Bicentennial even to Alaskans where ever they are, whatever association. One of the best ways to do that is to bring in small groups that are going to be getting a sample of the area so that we can form an alliance with them. The Pioneers of Alaska and other groups will decide r KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 4 on their own that perhaps Kenai is a good place to hold a convention with some help from us. More importantly, once they have decided that Kenai is a good place to hold the convention, then our agency proposes to help them in every way to make that a successful event so people have this good feeling about the Kenai area, go home to their cities remembering that. Kenai is a good place to visit and that the bicentennial is coming and this should be a destination for them in 1991. City Manager Brighton: So the Pioneers do fit that criteria. Answer yes. Mayor Williams: Its our understanding that they have chosen the Kenai area for their convention and I think what we. want to hear is that yes, the Bureau is offering themselves to them. Mr. Williams: Keep in mind that because of our limited staffing, our main objective still remains the Bicentennial Celebration and we will not sacrifice any quality in that area. Our ability to help these organizations will be through helping them get organized. We certainly will not be able to offset their printing and other things that many.of these groups come to us and want us to do. Councilman Measles: Wasn't there a proposal in the Arctic Winter Games, a fairly good budget number? Answer yes. We had a budget of $1 million. We were using Fairbanks' experience. 1986.is when the state budget was trying to wind down. Again, that is when the budget was reduced to $5000000. If we got $500,000 from the state,.with the three full time staff people and the money we would have to expend because we would be required to provide housing, meals, and transportation for the athletes, it adds up to more than we could come up with. C. PUBLIC HEARINGS 1. Ordinance 1333-89: Amending Zoning Map - Govt. Lot 44, Sec. 34 - Ma ire MOTION: Councilman Measles moved adoption of Ordinance 1333-89, seconded by Councilwoman Monfor Mayor Williams asked Council to note Substitute C-1a. Councilman Measles asked for an explanation in-house of the two ordinances in order for the public to know. Councilman Smalley: I missed the last meeting in which this was heard. Mayor Williams called for Mr. Kevin Walker from the Planning & Zoning Commission. Mr. Walker: (Referring to the plat accompanying the Ordinance.) At the last meeting, we had agreed to recommend this to Council and suggested the addition of an easement per the staff recommendations. LJ 0 KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 5 City Attorney Rogers: One other thing, 1-a requires the filing of a plat, which was not available initially and Council felt that they should condition the ordinance on the filing of such plat. You will notice that that is the last language in the enacting section 1 of C-la of Ordinance 1333-89. Mayor Williams: I suggest we pull back just a moment and introduce'C-la instead of C-1 as the proper substitute. Mayor Williams called for public comments, there were none. MOTION: Councilman Measles moved to amend total for Ordinance 1333-89 ite Councilwoman Monfor. VOTE: Unanimous Consent m Ordinance 1333-89 by substitution in C-1a in the packet, seconded by J. Councilman Smalley: At the meeting I attended, some of the discussion that came up on this proposal was the fact that it was felt by some of the Commissioners that it is a spot zoning situation. Yes, there were other commercial entities in that given area, but the concern was that Swires Road was a nice dividing line between commercial and residential area. There was concern expressed over the road width .and turnoff going into the proposed development potentially causing problems during the day when school buses would be turning, stopping, and traffic backing up. The Comprehensive Plan that they are going through does reflect that the zoning along the Spur Highway in that area probably should go all commercial. Mayor Williams asked Councilman Smalley to repeat the statement. I believe that the Comprehensive Plan we have reflects that in the future consideration should be given to making changes. The problems that I have with it at this point is that it is spot zoning. I don't think that's necessarily in the best interest and best plan in planning for the city. Mayor Williams: The Planning Commission appears to have struggled long and hard with this issue if you note the minutes of July 22, 1989. In voting on the amendment that was offered, the amendment failed on a tie vote. In the vote of the main motion the motion failed on a vote of 4 to 2. We then proceed on to the minutes of September 27, 1989 and note that the vote on the motion passed unanimously, however, there were only four Commissioners present. My question of one of the Commissioners is whether or not the Commission felt comfortable with what had occurred. Councilman Smalley: When it came back to them, the question came up as to why this was being sent back and I explained that it was because of the plat. I mentioned that there was no discussion at this level. KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 40 1989 Page 6 Councilwoman Swarner: I also agree that it is spot.zoning and I. talked to several residents in this area and the principal of the school there and they are all opposed to the zoning change. VOTE: Councilman McComsey: Has this plat been to the Borough? Answer yes. I wanted to see if there was a water easement and the entrance to this lot. Councilman Smalley: I believe the water easement is off Swires. Mayor Williams: Council has no doubt noted that there are three letters from surrounding property owners opposing the rezoning of that area. Mayor Williams asked if any of the letters of protest had been withdrawn, answer from Councilman Smalley, to my knowledge, none were., Councilwoman O'Reilly: I think in view of the objections of a large significant number of neighbors with houses in that vicinity, and the fact that it is spot or strip zoning, I don't have any strong objections to that particular business that is proposed, but the idea of changing the zoning and what could follow, especially being in close proximity of the school, I'm going to vote against it. . Motion fails unanimously by roll call vote 2. Ordinance 1341-89: Increase Rev/Appns - Travel - Senior Citizen Center Representative - $1, ,102, MOTION: Councilwoman Monfor moved adoption of Ordinance 1341-89, seconded by Councilman Smalley VOTE: Mayor Williams called for comments from the public, there were none. Motion passed unanimously by roll call vote 3. Resolution 89-71: Award Airport Restaurant & Bar Lease - Schilling MOTION: Councilwoman Monfor moved for approval of Resolution 89-71, seconded by Councilman Smalley Mayor Williams called for comments from the public. Mayor Williams called attention to the additions to this item, material from the King Oscar Motel and'Mr. D's Restaurant. Glen Dobbe: I am half owner of King Oscar's. We were thinking about giving a bid proposal for the facilities at a previous time,. but due to - lack of interest ... We went out and looked at the facilities last .week and we read the article on Mr. Schilling's proposal on the facilities and discussed what we could bid and still make a profit. We came down Friday with a proposal that is slightly more than his offer and we feel that -it would be a good deal for the public and the airport people. r KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 7 The only problem that we could see is facilities to make their main living it might community be rather rough. add a facilityg However, ••• Since it was, seemed to us tobean good income and rather than a closed bid, we acted like it was a closed what we felt was what we could offer and m bid and eejustdoffered facility a success. make a profit on it and make the Our only good advantage beverages business and as deliveries are made they are is, Ring Oscar's does do lot of food, alcohol and We owe no bills to any vendors in the area. Paid as they leave. City Attorney Rogers: Councilwoman Swarner amendments to this. Por the council edification is going to make Mae Proposals, one of which n what we re into now are meeting, the other which you received through Mr. Schilling some written material, y°u�ve just received, an oral at Your last It is not a bid situation as such, plus well be a consideration for their enterprises, You• Your knowledge of the Individuals Price may V d is for rprises, as submitted to you in verbal Your consideration as well as an Presentations, of course the relative enterprises. Y. Personal knowledge g You have of In view of the fact that we have a Proposed + P posed draft lease s•.,,;; . � 3n your packet, I can only here today r King Oscars also inferentially that the secondProposal at was included although the lY wants to be accepted thatelease modifications that he addressed seed that• have Swarner, Mbeen incorporated as, that the document. I believe Councilwoman Swarner, wh P ted into that prior to this meeting is going to ask to amend o I have spoken to it speaks to that document as portions of the resolution so that Schillings so that the actual document can° be aPprovin proposal made by the 9• The propOB$j made didn't include thehboilerment Council is portion of the lea This wa late modified in the suggestionsY YOU are approving the lease form eas available to Mr. by Mr. Schilling. Schilling almost The documents were made he may want to address Unediately after the last meeting so Portions of that. Councilwoman Swarner: After, on the third lin Schilling, as, instead of e, after Louis and Theresa saying "as set forth in the attached draft then feting the rest and instead Paragraph. And then in the fourth sea that's in the first "September 20th, 1989 it Paragraph in the second line strike which would be in the best interest erestn of the stead ay "leases would be last • city", which should be•inethat Mayor Willis asked Councilwoman Swarner to Councilwoman Swarner: repeat the amendments. the Council of the Cit Okay, the third Paragraph should read " Y °f Kenai has determined that Louis and Theresa Schillings leases which would be in the best then in the following interest of the cit a words "their g paragraph, the second to the last line, delete And Proposal dated September 20, 1989", so it shouldhe read, KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 8 is"Theresa Schilling as described in the attached draft lease proposal". I'm sorry that should probably say leases proposal. City Attorney Rogers: "Draft lease proposals". Mayor Williams: The effect of all of these amendments then is to refer to the draft lease proposals rather than the dates as indicated in the resolution. MOTION AMENDMENT: Councilwoman Swarner moved that the third paragraph should read, "Whereas, the Council of the City of Kenai has determined that Louis and Theresa Schilling's leases which would be in the best interest of the city". And then in the following paragraph, the second to the last line, delete the words "their proposal dated September 20, 1989", so it should read, "Theresa Schilling as described in the attached draft lease proposals", seconded by Councilman McComsey. City Attorney Rogers: If I might, that also makes it generic so the Council can award to either one of the individuals under this resolution. VOTE: Motion passed with Unanimous Consent C: Mayor Williams: Incidently, as the 034 Attorney indicates, this could be generic and that the names Louis and Theresa Schilling could be struck. City Attorney Rogers: If you decide to go with the second proposal I may need to work on this. Because this presentation came up rather suddenly. Councilwoman Monfor: "I'm going to be up front. I'm planning on supporting the Schilling proposal. For months we've had bid opportunities out there and nobody took them and this isn't a slam on King Oscar's but, it was a very last minute thing and I'm sorry but I don't know you and the Schillings have been in the area for a long time and I think that they're going to give the City something that we're looking for in the way that they run the establishment and I'm basing a lot on the way I'm voting on that. They're going to run it the way that I would like to see it run. At least I anticipate that they are. So what I'm looking at is how Schilling would run the bar and restaurant. The only thing that I would like to see and I don't know if its possible, if it could also be four makers. And I don't know the reason for the May first " Gary Jenson: I work for Mr. Schilling. It was our intent to open the bar before May first and after further discussion we've also decided that probably the restaurant before that time. Councilwoman Monfor: And I'm sure a lot of it depends on what our construction time will be for finishing ... when? City Attorney Rogers: I don't think there's any problem ... in opening sooner situation, these are outside dates. And I'm sure we'll work with them, to get in sooner if that's their desire or if that's possible. KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 9 Councilman McComsey: Do the dollar figures have to be introduced into the ordinance too. City Attorney Rogers: You're incorporating the draft lease and that has 'all the dollar amounts in it. Councilman Measles: "The only comment I have., to reiterate Councilwoman Monfor's statement, I would like to see those facilities open as soon as possible as those facilities have been closed down too long.already." Mayor Williams: "What you have before you is an introduced resolution regarding leases to be awarded to Mr. & Mrs. Schilling and an additional proposal having been presented by Mr. D's, if you're ready for the vote, the vote would be to .... to City Attorney Rogers: By passing the resolution you will be making the award to Mr. Schilling. It VOTE: Motion passes Smalley - yes Swarner - yes Williams - no McComsey - yes Measles - yes Monfor - yes O'Reilly - yes COUNCIL RECESS D. COMMISSION/COMMITTEE REPORTS 1. Council on Aainc Councilwoman Swarner passed out a brochure from United Way and a copy of a slide of the Kenai Senior Services on the cover. The next meeting will be in approximately 2 weeks. 2. Airport Commission Councilwoman O'Reilly reported that the last meeting was September 28th. At that meeting the Commission accepted the resignation -of Chairman Tom Irwin and requested that he be kept on the Commission as' an Ad Hoc member. Mayor Williams explained the reasons for Mr. Irwin's decision, that being his involvement with the Air Guard. Council agreed to assigning Mr. Irwin to the Ad Hoc statue. 3. Economic Development Commis^, ion Mayor Williams reported that.the last meeting was September 21st. Mr. Barry Thomson is the new chairman.. The. next meeting will be October 12th. KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4,'1989 Page 10 Lf, 14aAP0�- a. Chairman Barry Eldridge reported that the last meeting was September., 25th and they did have a quorum.. Thanks to the Borough there is now a map for the buoys in the Kenai River and there is an ongoing need to review these permits. b. The Commission began work on a five year plan and they are in the minutes for your information. c. The. Harbor Commission agreed to meet on a quarterly basis with the Economic Development Commission, Chairman Eldridge will be the representative. d. The next meeting of the Commission will be October 23rd. 5. Library Councilwoman Monfor reported that there was not a quorum at the last meeting, however, the current goals and objectives are in the -packet for review. 6. Recreation Commission a. Councilman Smalley asked about the gate at oiler Park. Director. McGillivray answered, there is.a meeting in two weeks to discuss it. A letter has been sent that it was approved. Councilman. Smalley stated that it continues to be a "hot spot" to meet before and after school. There have been a couple of calls to the school and the police were called. b. There will be a meeting tomorrow at 5:30 P.M. with a representative from Triple Crown Sports. They are trying to set up a series of softball tournaments in the state. At this point they have 23 states that conducted tournaments with top teams from those states going to the national tournament in Steamboat Springs Colorado. This gentleman is -here to promote the tournament. They want to have__one in Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Kenai. They are talking about 40+ teams and has potential for more. The city's obligation is for providing the fields and maintenance which we do anyway. There would be a $2500 up -front fee and the meeting will be to discuss this fee also. City Manager Brighton: Where are those 40+ teams from? Director McGillivray answered that they are all Alaska teams. None are from outside. Then those teams from each state will go to national tournament. The teams that qualify to go get free lodging and in some. cases, transportation. Our teams probably would not receive travels funds but they would get the free lodging which is good when you're looking at four or five days. Added Item D,-2 a. Mayor Williams, asked to back up to the Airport Commission report to ask Manager Ernst about the reference on, page 6 of the minutes of the "L'eConte" at the airport.- Manager Ernst answered.that,.the reference was KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 11 to the "Connie", i.e. the old Constellation that was parked at the airport for several years. b. Councilman McComsey asked the status 'of, Ordinance 89 which was submitted regarding the name change of the,,Commission. Mayor Williams answered that it is up for introduction this evening. 7. Planning and Zoning Councilman Smalley stated that the minutes are in the packet and the Comprehensive Plan has been divided into teams for further review and drafting. The Chairman, Pat Nault has indicated that she will be leaving the area by December, and of course, Mr. Walker will be leaving also. Misc. Commissions/Committees None E. MINUTES 1. Regular Meeting of September 20, 1989 �T Approved by Consent Agenda F. CORRESPONDENCE 6. Railbelt_ Coalition Meeting Mayor Williams reported that these meetings have been held on a regular basis. What Mayor Jones is looking for is getting something together to go before the legislature this year. It is probable that the Railbelt Energy Fund is going to be broken up and that is the number one item for discussion. We - need to come up with what we would like to see happen and have it prepared for the meeting in Juneau in November. City Manager Brighton asked what the Coalition is. .Mayor Williams answered that it includes all Boroughs and communities who are touched by the rail. The rail runs through the Kenai Peninsula and. the City of Kenai was included as part of the route. City Manager Brighton. asked who represents the City of. Kenai. Mayor Williams answered that there is no official representative and it falls pretty much to the Borough Mayor. City Manager Brighton: If you want $6 million for congregate housing, this is the only place you may be able to find it and.you should have someone at this meeting. Councilwoman Swarner suggested the Mayor be representative. City Manager Brighton: if you think Fairbanks and Mat -Su won't try for all that money you will be wrong. Councilwoman O'Reilly: I agree, shouldn't we have a representative there? The Council agreed. Councilman. Mccomsey: The letter says to bring ordinances, we .should put that in the KENAI.CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 12 form of a resolution. Mayor Williams: I think what I need if Igo to that meeting, is a resolution from this Council advising that Railbelt Coalition that the City of Kenai wishes to participate in the amount of not less than $b million from that fund for congregate housing. We -need some other kinds of information or letters backing up our position plus something that very strongly indicates to them that we desire a share, in whatever is done with the fund. City Manager Brighton: We haven't been represented very well by the Kenai Peninsula Borough and if we don't take care of ourselves we aren't going to have anybody to blame but ourselves. Councilwoman Swarner: We could pass an ordinance at the next meeting. Perhaps both of you could go. Councilman Smalley: Perhaps you could take a second resolution suggesting that at least the City of Kenai would like, in addition to the congregate housing, take a look of the money that comes outBrightonofthat fun ��tPer capita basis. Mayor Williams and City Hanag appropriate ordinance for the next meeting. G. OLD BUSINESS 1. Kenai River Public Boat Launch At Council's request, the City Engineer prepared documents categorizing events leading up to this point. There has been a meeting set for October 12th at 9:30 A.M. and Council is invited. it is a sight visit and then review of the maps. Director Kornelis handed out. additional material and photos. Council was asked to keep in mind that this is not a set location, merely the best location identified thus far. There are several problems that need to be resolved including Corps permits, however, they have been identified and can be overcome. Mayor Williams asked Council to note the photos of the Cone property and to keep in mind that it has not been determined how much of the property will be involved in the project, however, it would probably be most of Tract A-1B excluding those subdivided lots. The project would include a double boat ramp, 2 1/2 acres for parking, and access.. A letter indicates Mr. Cone would be willing to donate half the gravel to build the road. The property is relatively inexpensive compared to some of the other river front properties. Several agencies have already indicated that a boat ramp of this type is desireable and this location is agreeable at this point. The process will be the determining factor. We still need to look into our ordinances governing RV parks, the bicentennial, and money to build such a park. From a tourist standpoint, one of our greatest assets is the Kenai River and access to that river is important. I estimate, from our figures and Mr. Cone's indication of value of that property, the project will exceed $400, 000 . It would appear that we may . be able . to get a grant of $200, 000 The main question before the Council is going to. be, are we willing to put forth the remaining $200,000 for the development of that project. I put together a small economic model that indicates the roll over in sales tax benefits for the City would probably return us $150,000 in about 3 to 0 KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 13 4 years. Mr. Cone has agreed to take the money over a period of time. We indicated at our last meeting that we move ahead with our site selection committee meeting and I would like comments from Council. Councilman McComsey: Can we buy the property. Mayor Williams: We've been reluctant to begin hard negotiations because the purchase of the property has to be tied directly to the permitting process. We cannot obligate ourselves to purchasing and he understands this. Councilman Smalley: I believe that you are not going to find property any cheaper. It is unfortunate that it is still going to be affected by the tide, but adjustments can be made. I think it's something we should seriously consider. City Manager Brighton: This is what you will be discussing October 12th. I would urge Council members to be there. Councilman McComsey: Is there a way to tie that property up pending the money coming through. He should have some sort of ... Mayor Williams: When we finally project we'll have to call Mr. Cone the land up until such time as the payments, with the caveat that if obligated to buy the land. decide that we are going to do this in to negotiate an agreement that ties permits are issued and we can make the the permits are not issued we are not Councilman Measles: Has the site visit been timed so that we will be looking at it at low tide? Director Kornelis: It will be a .6 tide. The only lower tide would have been at midnight. You can walk to the site with no problem, there is a trail through there. Councilwoman Swarner: I'm not sure I can make that meeting. Mayor Williams: I would ask Chairman Eldridge of the Harbor Commission, Mr. Walkers, and Director McGillivray to be there. H. NEW BUSINESS 1. Bills to be Paid, Bills to be Ratified MOTION: Councilwoman Monfor moved to pay the bills over $1,000, seconded by Councilman Smalley VOTE: Motion passed with Unanimous Consent 2. Requisitions Exceeding ,1,000 MOTION: Councilman Measles moved for approval, seconded by Councilman Smalley VOTE: Motion passed with Unanimous Consent KENA►I CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 14 3. Ordinance 1342-89: Amending KMC Title 19 - Recreation Commission to Parks & Recreat on Commission Consent Agenda Item . 4. Games of Chance & Skill - Kenait a Indian Tribe IRA Consent Agenda Item Mayor Williams: We are passing all applications for Games of Chance and Skill. From the tremendous amount of labor that the state is going -.to involve themselves in, I take the position that we should stay away from this issue until something is decided. City Manager Brighton: In relationship to that, if you haven't read the information about Games of Chance you should. The Borough's rules are going to be more stringent than the State's are going to be. The Borough is going to prohibit any operators from operating unless they are members of the organization itself. Which means there will be no more pull tabs in the grocery stores or bars. The Borough is also wrestling with the question of charging a sales tax on purchase of the pull tabs which is important because that is a substantial amount of money. You will need to stay in touch with the situation. Mayor Williams: If you would note page 2 of Info 12, the second paragraph details information concerning pull tab operations in bars on the Peninsula. We cannot involve ourselves in any kind of policing matters in this respect until the state moves ahead. I. ADMINISTRATION REPORTS 1. Mayor a) Regarding the caravans on FAA lands. We have discussed this before, however, no policy has ever been set on a permanent basis. We need to look at that from the standpoint that the bicentennial is hoping to utilize that parcel on a permanent basis. Can we work with the Chamber of Commerce to see that all major caravan groups locate to the.FAA grounds. How does Council feel about it and how does FAA feel about it. City Manager Brighton: What's happened in the past, if there were special . circumstances that precluded the caravan from being located at the Chamber building we had gone ahead and located them on the FAA grounds. Until such time as the FAA wants to become involved, we probably ought to leave that alone. Mayor Williams: Can we develop a policy of sort, make that a permanent application? City Manager .Brighton: I think that the more room to maneuver, the better off you are. If you lock yourselves in to certain places then you may preclude some activity from taking place. The way we've approached it at .this point, is our water & sewer crews who really KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 page 15 take care of these caravans, see to it they get water at whatever location. And I think you should leave it like it is and when the then reason we just move comes that we can no longer be at the Chamber cabin or some o them over to the FAA. Mayor Williams: Then I can tell the Chamber that 1 �d they t pexmiseionland with the caravans to feel free to contact City rect* and that park the caravans over there. City Manager Srig�h tit isr not understood is not something new. Mayor Williams. It seems clearly. b Regarding the Helicopter Cold Water Recovery Schoolt the Senate. t is still in In speaking the preconference committee, it has been passed by ate with the University Director, I indicated I worecaluld we did meeting pass watresolution a full packet of information. As YOU setting aside the ground. In the engineering of the facility, it may p out. The require some other things that the City can do to the 5 million facility is being funded at $3.6 million which is less furnishing somehof the sand which we have for. e hoped It may require the Ythe foundation, stockpiled from the float plane tfacilithere y be a couple buildingofpother things. I y for building the road, and perhaps may need some latitude in negotiating with the Universitythe entire some Of those things. I have suggested some space added to moveoffice from Soldotna to that facility. In order to complete that idea I may have to offer something else. Does Council see a problem with that. Councilman Smalley: Do the directors of Public Works or Airport see a problem? Mayor Williams: In discussions with the Finance being built Director and Director Kornelis, it is an airport related ac Y ith federal funds. but you City Manager Brighton: You are homefree with the University that goingeral cto oversee are not with the State agency or the it. We might be put in a position of having to subsidize nother federal agency building. We don't have to pay anything if it that is utilizing that real estate. Anyone else, we might have problems. Mayor Will iams: There may be something similar to what we doe with o Chamber such as subsidizing the rear tc the of the FAA where xwe wind up enter into a lease agreement si.mil maintaining the building. Councilwoman Swarner: What was the intendedr e of he s nd thwas as stockpiled at the float plane basin. Dire no particular use for it. It was just excess sand using that we stockpiled. it on ice Mayor Councilwoman Swann r: Were that there is $155an Williams answered t 000worth there. Manager Ernst: you are saying that there isn't going to be ut item wing with federal agencies building the federal project of iManager Brighton: To to take FAA approval to put the problem on the basis qualify my statement was that there wouldn't be any p of who pays. It will not require paving. . KENAI CITY COUNCIL October g, 1989 Page 16 Manager Ernst: I'm not sure how the FAA will look on the sand. If it is a project that they approve and it is a federal project they may Well, sk that we use the sand for the base. I don't know that, however, in the past if we used it off -site we would have to pay for it. Mayor Williams: In talking with the Finance Director and the Public Works' Director, I indicated that after I meet with Dr. Oramus I'll have a better idea of what we'll have to do. Then we will need to write a letter detailing all of these things out for the FAA. Manager Ernst: nd it will have to be consistent with the Airport Master Plan or an approved deviation. p Councilman McComsey: How far do water & sewer go, to the end of the road? Manager Ernst agreed. Mayor Williams: I think a potable well should be more than sufficient to handle that facility. They will need their own large well. Councilman Measles: Is the sewer getting awfully shallow at that point. City Manager Brighton: If we go in with sewer you're going to have to put in another lift station. Director Kornelis: We have a lift station out by the tower. Councilman Measles: Is that set deep enough that it could be extended out and still serve it. Director Kornelis: I doubt it because the water table is real high there.Williams:g Mayor Willi. There are a couple of engineering concerns, one is to get the pool Out of the ground other one is a mounted septic type systems and third, he c p ilid the of dumping a million gallons of water into what turns into Ryan's will help to flush it. Creek which Councilman McComsey: Could you dump that water into the creek if it's chlorinated. They will probably make you run it through the system. c) Mayor Williams will be traveling to the Alaska Conference of Mayors October 5th. He will be meeting with Ashley Reed in the morning. The Mayors meeting will be regarding the release of the $600,000 for the socio- economic study. It is CNRA money and it regards the economic of communities affected by the oil spill. impact study d) Regarding the resolution for the Island Borough has accepted that responsibilityhrough money, the Kodiak e) Student representatives for commissions and committee • a subcommittee to handle that. Councilman Smalleyreporteds, I assigned spoken with department heads and social studies teachers and they felt that students should be encouraged to come to meetings, pick u the stay for a certain amount of time to p Packets,. works instead of sending a specific student o representativehow city T e reason is, the more students that have the opportunity t be. o come the better it will Councilwoman Swarner and Councilman Smalley are the committee and will continue to work with the two commissions. .'�•� sir"� KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 17 f ) Several persons visited with the Governor and there was an indication from him that he would appreciate as much support as possible for his Education Endowment Fund. How do you feel about preparing a resolution along those lines. Council agreed. Administration to work with Mayor Williams in drafting the resolution in support of the Governore Constitutional Amendment Creating an Educational R,laiflAent Fund. City Manager Brighton: How much money and what is the end result. Mayor Williams answered, eventually around $lb billion. Councilwoman Monfor There is a pamphlet for more information. g) This Education Endowment Fund and the hoped for. Constitutional Amendment has passed the House on a vote of 31 - 8 and requires a 2/3 vote of the House. It goes to the Senate and work should be done this spring. h) Regarding landfill. In discussions with Borough representatives it was suggested that the City produce a resolution requesting the Kenai Peninsula Borough furnish us with a landfill of our own. Leading to perhaps leasing sitings for containers and locating a transfer site. We are not going to get a transfer site unless we take some positive steps and it seems to me we need to develop a resolution voicing our opinion directly to the entire Assembly. City Manager Brighton: We're in a real box. The Council hammered for three or four years to close this landfill, they got an extension on that landfill and we objected to the extension after they had gotten it. I've had some conversation with the Borough Mayor and he doesn't care whether we retain this one over here or not, because it would be like starting out new. He has to get a brand new permit and he has to line this one out here as he will have to line any new one. However, as soon as we sal we want them to furnish us some way to dispose of our waste, then the Assembly is going to come back to us and say the reason they're closing it down because we have leaned on them for four years to close that down. We are not in a very good negotiating position to take that approach. Mayor Williams: However, in our agreement in our letter that was developed with them, there was to be a transfer site. City Manager Brighton: There was no agreement for a transfer site. There was an allusion to the possibility of a transfer site. That's a lot different than a pre- arranged agreement. City Clerk to provide the letter for further discussion. i) I have another grant application from the Land and Water Resource Commission. If you recall the 50/50 grant we helped the Chamber develop of which we have not yet gotten the survey out. Director Kornelis: we are still working on it. Mayor Williams: The question is whether or not we want to take advantage of the L&WR grant program. The application and letter of intent must be in by October 18th. One area that I might suggest; we were looking at some kind of grant to put a viewing platform out on the bluff overlooking the mouth of the river. I would like direction from Council. 0 I KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 18 Councilwoman Monfor: Just by entering into, we don't even know if we'll get it. Mayor Williams: No, you take your application in and they take it before the Committee and we compete against the entire state. We'did get a $900000 grant last time for the Chamber boardwalk. Councilwoman Monfor: I think we should at least try for it. Is there any reason why we shouldn't. Except the fact that if we get it we have to put some money in. Mayor Williams: We would have to put up $90,000. City Manager Brighton: If you're talking about a viewing stand you have to identify the location of the site, and if you are not the owner of the site, then you have to prove ownership of the site .. it's not so simple as asking for $100,000. They want to know what the project is, if you own the real estate, and who the benefactors are going to be. We don't have any real estate at the mouth of the river where we could build a viewing stand that would be advantageous to people who want to watch the belugas come up the river. Mayor Williams: How did we wind up with the set of drawings for the viewing station that we got $90,000 for last year. Councilwoman Monfor: We determined that from the study we had done a number of years ago when the landscaping architect came up and developed the Old Towne plan. Mayor Williams: Was there any consideration given to land ownership. Councilwoman Monfor: Of course not, we weren't worried about that. Mayor Williams: Councilwoman Swarner, will you look into the donation of land in that area. Councilwoman Swarner: My name, I don't believe is on that list. If you would like to contact the parties involved, go for it. Councilwoman Monfor: We've got land. The Daubenspeck land. We can rethink our lookout spot. Over near the Senior Center. Mayor Williams: All right, we do have a location. Mayor Williams asked Director Kornelis to get together a letter of intent by October 18th. j) My final request is to consider some work sessions to finalize the Capital Improvements List and to plot the direction for the future including everything within the city. Councilwoman Monfor: We do need to talk about this list. I would like to see us wait, this year, just until after the October forecast comes out. Then we don't have to redo it. Mayor Williams: The Governor indicated he would have a handle on the, money about the middle of October. If I read between the lines he suggests that we be in touch with our legislative friends and him as close to that forecast as possible. Councilwoman Monfor: I will not be available from October 17th to October 30th. mayor Williams: As soon as we find out what the forecast is going to be, would Council have any objection to me or the Clerk getting on the phone and calling a meeting? Council agreed. 1 4- KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1959 Page 19 2. City Ma_ alter None 3. City Attorney None 4. City Clerk None 5. Finance Director The budget is in the packet. 6. Public Works a) Lawton Drive is paved. VIP is paved, and they've started the curb on Fathom and Toyon. We are having some problems with scheduling on the Airport jobs. The gym floor should be completed soon, the racquetball court floors are completed. We have started on the sewer treatment plant sludge pumping station, we poured the foundation today. Two DEC grant applications are in which are for Thompson Park and sewer treatment plant. is7. Airport Manager None J. DISCUSSION 1. Citizens None 2. Council a) Councilwoman Swarner: Today I passed out some information regrading evaluations for city attorney and city manager for the Juneau Borough. I received them the other day. I would like to see something scheduled for evaluations soon. b) Councilman McComsey: I received word today from Coastal Zone Management that the application for the fire ground is complete. They have a few exceptions for the university which I think are acceptable. They. are faxing them down to me tomorrow and I will pass it along to Representative Navarre. All the other organizations should probably go along with CZM. It has been a good three years. c) Councilman Smalley: This problem has been brought up before, but wouldn't it be nice to bring the rail from Moose Pass to Kenai, make a loop 0 KENAI CITY COUNCIL October 4, 1989 Page 20 and open up our port, increase our tourism,, and it would only run 52.miles of rail. it has some pretty nice possibilities. Mayor Williams will write Punk Turpin a letter, regarding the utter. d) Councilman Smalley: The dart has. been removed from ,the high school. K. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 10:10 P.M. Janet Ruotsala, CNC City Clerk J400 anet Loper Transcribing Secretary n APPROvo By COUNCIL OAfi COY CL�IK