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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1982-04-27 Council Minutes - Special MeetingCITY OF KENAI " 0d Gap" 4 �4,"„ I. 0. SOX MO KENAI, ALA$XA 99611 TELEPHONE 285 • 7"s NOTICE OF SPECIAL METING There will be a special -meeting of the Kenai City Council on Tuesday, April 27, 1962 at 6:00 PM at the City Mministration building. Subject will be: Candlelight &�Linwood, Paving, Water & Sewer Janet Whelan City Clerk J I 1 a - � i KENAI CITY COUNCIL, SPECIAL MEETING, MINUTES APRIL 27, 30, 1982, 7:00 PM KENAI PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING MAYOR VINCENT O'REILLY PRESIDING APRIL 27, 1.982 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE A. ROLL CALL Presents Ron Malston, Ray Measles, Dick Mueller, Tom Wagoner, John Wise, Vince O'Reilly, Betty Glick Absents None SUBJECTS Candlelight & Linwood, Paving, Water & Sewer Councilman Measles noted the title should be "Roads" instead of "Paving." Council agreed to the change. Mayor O'Reilly explained the motion voted at the April 21, 1982 meeting was the road project was cancelled and the entire project, including water & sewer, would be re -bid. An amendment was passed to delete the portion relating to Lawton to Fiddler to reduce the cost on the water & sewer portion. MOTIONS I Councilman Wise moved, seconded by Councilwoman Glick, to suspend the rules to allow discussion on the matter. i Motion passed, with Councilmen Measles, Mueller, Wise, Mayor O'Reilly, Councilwoman Glick voting yeas Councilmen Malston, Wagoner voting no. Councilman Wagoner said he had asked for the special ! meeting. He felt Council was making a mistake in handling this matter. They were talking $120,000 to cancel the project, plus another $10,000 to do all the engineering. For $91,000 we could solve the sanitation problems by running water from Kaknu. ' For one year we could leave the gravel cap on, do a little extra maintenance and do the water & sewer, with 8" of sand & gravel. Public Works Director Kornelis reviewed the water tests. They had 14 samples, they had not received the results yet. They will be returned 4-28-82. The lab had said so far there is no growth. They had 14 of the 17 homes available. Councilman Mueller asked if any chemical or mineral analysis had been ,So, done. Mr. Kornelis replied no, these are for sani- --faEron only. are $20 each. Who State asity They would not show arsenic and other minerals. Mayor O'Reilly reviewed the motions 1. Cancellation of the road contract. 2. $527,000 on water & sewer, totaling $800,000 for water & sewer and new road on Candlelight and Linwood. 3. Propose continuation of road contract, water & sewer into Candlelight & Linwood (that could be done this year) and leaving aside where the funds will come from. KENAI CITY COUNCIL AP.RIL 27, 1982 Page 2 PUBLIC COMMENTS 1. Frank Getty. He noted the City did not take a water sample from his bad well. Mayor O'Reilly noted some people want road, water & sewer; some want nothing; some want water only; some want sewer only. Councilman Wise asked, how deep an excavation are they making? Mr. Kornelis replied, M. 6� to 3 £t. Councilman Wise asked, how deep is the water is sewer? Mr. Kornelis replied, the sewer is 5 ft* and sloping. The water is 10 ft. The sand Will be re -used, just so they get the mud & silt out. Councilman Wagoner said, basically, they will have good soil to water & sewer line. Mayor O'Reilly asked, would the present contractor add on water & sewer to their present contract? Mr. Kornelis replied he would, but would want to negotiate. would object, we are addingSome contractors substantially to his contract. Frank Gett He has problem with water on his rental, t s worse than his own. He is having a well driller in 4-28-82 to start a well. He will have water in before the year is out. He didn't feel he was out of Place for asking for pure water. He thought the sewer went 12 £t. He will have to have a lift in his base- ment. The other day he pulled out his 2 assessment requests for his attorney to review. He will be bring_ ing them back. His interest was in developing his property to sell and move South. This has no bearing on the prk74ect. He will put water in his rental no matter what Council decides. Atty. Delahay said there was a time problem. There are 2 ways for assessment, one by petition and one by resolution of Council. The survey & report have been made, but the public hearing must be held. You must be to if YOU want cto have lantassessmentydistrict. from eerroerty owner d think it could be done without at least 45 more days.t Councilwoman Glick said she found it amazing they are have Just getting the information in the legal vein. They startedeinrearnestginhis for Feb., ittwasaturnedeov� They to P&Z. We decided to form an assessment district, that was not in conformance. In March the Admin- istration was asked to petition the people and this was done. The majority of the people wanted water & sewer, or one or the other. Council has madA a decision that did not set well with Administration, and has been snowballed with dilatory tactics. Council has made a decision based on inaccurate figures at a work session. The engineer estimate was not accurate. Now we are being told we have to go through a hoop and have a time crunch. Had we discussed this in Feb., these things would have been taken care of. She would object to just in water. She remembered what ha Putting If the People want a road we can doethat�n As to funds bei depleted of fund balances, we have suffi- cient balances in unappropriated fund balances. Councilman Wagoner said at the same time when we talk about using fund balances and capital reserve, this could have an effect on the mill rate, sales tax, etc. Councilman Wise asked, what do we do if we come in bad on this thing? Why did we not get at least one metal test done? The allegation was made that there was a problem. We hAye p history of arsenic in the area. He noted Mr. Williams had said he had copper and we did not test for it. Mr. Kornelis explained KENAI CITY COUNCIL APRIL 27, 1982 Page 3 at the last Council meeting Administration was directed to cancel the contract and go ahead with water. & sewer, When the special meeting was called, they started the tests. The metal tests will have to go to Anchorage and will take 2 or 3 weeks. Councilwoman Glick asked John Williams if he had tests done. 2. John Williams. He replied he had done tests, He added Fe -agreed with Councilwoman Glick re- garding the, time frame. This dates back to meetings in the old library building. He had his tests done for copper sulphate only, at the college. They may not be conclusive but did indicate 2 parts per million copper. There is an unacceptably high level of copper. He didn't know if they were run properly or not, but it should be checked. It can be a result of dissolving of the copper in the house itself. Testing minerals can take 3 weeks and be very costly, but some of these should be run. Perhaps the City should set aside funds to have tests in areas not served by City water. Those tests could guide Council as to where future water should be put. The City should install water mains, not sewer. Let's finish the road project and get it done. Councilwoman Glick said she had been told by some people they have fairly good water but they have greening that builds up in the tub. There may be other areas that are having problems. Mr. Kornelis explained the $91,000 we were talking about does not include Linwood south of Kaknu. It will be $89#000 to do Linwood south of Kaknu. Council- man Wagoner said if we do that we have expanded the contract where we cannot negotiate with the road contract. Mr. Kornelis said if we do all the water, it comes up close to $400,000. Councilman wagoner said we still don't know if we have contamination. The BOD's won't be in till 4-28-82. He is not in favor of putting in water till we know, then go to DEC and see if we can get funding and assessment districts. He asked, does there have to be 501 of the property owners for an assessment district? Atty. Delahay replied, yes, anyone protesting has to have official written protest. This is not in conformance with the ordinance. Anyone paying has to be in accordance with the ordinance. Councilman Wise said the ordinance also provides that Council by ordinance can overrule the wishes of property owners and set up assessment districts. We don't have that problem before us, the majority have asked for it. Mr. Kornelis said he could have the results by 4-28-82. The reason Mr. Getty's well wasn't tested is it did not show on the Borough list. T!'J1 MOTION: Councilman Measles moved, seconded by Councilwoman Glick, to recess till Friday, 4-28-82 at 6:00 PM and d, direct Administration to sample the rest of the wells first thing Friday morning and get one or two of the worst well samples to chemical labs for copper and arsenic: tests. 1= KENAI CITY COUWCIL APRIL 2i, 1992 Page 4 Public Works Director Kornelis said they cannot, get samples from some of the buildings. They have gone out 2 times now. He will hit the worst, Mr. Williams, Mr. Getty (rental) , Mr. M.acomsey, ea& Mr. ieethers. Councilman Measles said if there is in fact a health problem, we could go to DEC for an appropriation. This will solve the problem over where funds will come from. At the same time Council should take another look at Capital Improvement project. VOTES 3. Wayne McMillian. Council mentioned that some ;&-nted sewer, some water, some both, some neither. Better than 50% of those on Candlelight and Linwood signed the assessments. City Manager Brighton reviewed the figures. Of 22 on Candle- light, 12 were returned saying yes. Of 9 on Lin- wood, 5 were returned saying yes. There were no stipulations. 4. Judy Peters. She noted the City is talking about t e other end of Candlelight than her home. If Tha City takes care of the worst wells, where does that leave her? She doesn't understand why it would not be feasible to do the whole thing at once. Mayor O'Reilly explained $90,000 would be close to where we would have to re -bid the job. That would involve a different time cycle than we have now. Mrs. Peters asked, when -he job was bid out, was there not the thought that residents may have wanted water & sewer? Mayor O'Reilly said it was considered, but information Council received indicated there was no dem-ind for water & sewer. Since those meetings they have had input that they did want it. Now we have information that it may be contaminated. Councilman Mueller said the only other mineral we may have to check is lead, is there any problem with that? Councilman Measles said he didn't see any problem. Councilman Wise asked if we could defer action on the contract till next week. Mr. Kornelis replied the contractor keeps hanging tight. He is looking at receiving a good profit for no work all, but he is anxious to know. Motion passed with Councilman Wise voting no. RECESSs Meeting recessed at 7s15 PM, to resume April 30, 1982 at 600 PM in the City Administration building. Janet Whelan 1�"1 City Clerk