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Home My WebLink About1965-12-15 Council MinutesIeA AGENDA CITY OF KENAT REWLAR ti';ETING OF THE CITY COU1401L 8:00 P.M. DBOMER 3,50 1965, A. ROLL CALL. D. PERSONS PRESENT SCHEDULED TO DEHEARDs 1. \ 2• 0. r MINUTES s Regular Meeting of Deaember 1, 1965. Dol CORRESPONDENCE. E. REPORTS: City Manager• �'2. City Attorney• 3.Mayor, City Clerk, Commissions) F. UNFINISHED IRTSI NHSS : 44* Receive Ordinance #92 (Eliminating Ad Valorem Tax on Personal Property within the City for City Purposes) for second ans final reading. ,2. Receive Grant Offer from HHFA for Terminal DuildlM financinC ,3. Disuse Rules and Regulations for Operation of Airport. �4. Discuss Rules and Regulations regarding possible sale of Lot i, Aleyeake Subdivision Part lie 5. Approve Oomprehensive plan from Alaska state IIousing Authority ( tentatively) and authorite correct resolution correcting supplemental payment. 6. 4. 0. NEW WSINESS t -r—'Lo , --scuss possible load requireme nts for 1966 for CUL,e-0wW'' �%2. Discuss creation of an Industrial Air Park.�� "*u3. Receive Ordinance No, 939 Repealing Ordinances creating Doak and Harbor Commissions. a, 4� ,rs H. PERSONS NOT SCHEDULED TO BE LARD: 1. to KI.NAI CITY couNC' MIMITFS 15 DI;CIiMDGR 1965 Roll Call: Members present - Chester Cone, Billy McCann, Gone Morin, Roger Meeks, Carl Seaman and Mayor Dye; Members absent - Bud Lofstedt. Also present: City Atty. .lames 11. wisher, City Manager 8111 Harrison, Plan- ning Commission members Catherine Plalone and Ruby Coyle . Minutes of the last meeting were approved with corrections. The City Manager reported: 1. Receipt of application for renewal of permit for Games of Chance $ Skill for the Kenai Library. McCann moved, Morin seconded, to approve the application of the Library for permit for games of chance and skill. Passed unanimously. 2. Displayed Union oil Cols. Plat of the gas field, showing boundaries. 3. Read letter from Atty. for Tyonek Indians expressing, interest in the City' bonding programs, etc. 4. Presented statement from Beck & Associates for latest audit, feasibility studies, etc, in the amount of $3,083.96, McCann moved, Morin seconded, to approve payment to Bock C Associates. Motion carried unanimously. S. Suggested the City might want to take 1/2 page ad in the Yearly Special Issue of the Daily Fairbanks Miner for $121.00. Seaman moved, Morin seconded, to buy 1/2 page ad . Carried unanimously. 6. Requested permission to allow City employees 24 Dec. a Holiday, since Christmas falls on Saturday this year. Cone Moved, Morin seconded, City employees should have Friday 24 Dec., 1965 off. Motion carried unanimously. 7. The City has received three estimates on the two lots adjacent to City Hall owned by Art Foss. The owner has rejected all three tentative offers. Harri- son kave,the three estimates as: $2506, $26609 $3488, and a fourth estimate just re- ceived $1782.25. 'It is not imperative the City own these lots; if an agreement cannot be reached, we will forget about it. 8. HHFA is awaiting the City's Capital improvements program before taking any action on our S applications for future projects. This will be on the Agenda at the next meeting, The Mayor cautioned about proper wording for CP Programs so it will not jeopardize the City's applications for monies for these projects. Since the PNA flight from Anchorage was postponed 'tit 9 p.m., Mr. Rankin of Chicago Pneumatic cancelled out and will meet with Council tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. in the City Manager's office. The Mayor reported: 1. Suggested a letter might be written to Union Oil asking for any engineer- ing data they have from their drilling and pipeline construction along Beaver Loop Road. Soil test information, etc, might be helpful to the Dept. of Ilwys, when they re-route the road by the Docks. Harrison will make this request of Union Oil. Dye also urged the City to obtain the necessary rights -of -way for this road change. 2. Inquired as to the status of the rights -of -way for the approach zones to the airstrip. A complete report is on file in the City offices. Harrison said most of this land is to be exchanged for lots in Beluga S/D. The Atty, requested an executive session for his report as it involves litigation. F-1: Second Reading of Ord. #92 exempting personal property from taxation for City Purposes. Since this ordinance was the result of requests from citizens, and orig- inated with them, Councilman Cone refuted the suggestion it was initiated by Council. The Mayor opened the session for public hearing; speakers from the floor were: For the ordinance - Jack Thompson, Stan Thompson, Helen Stetzer, Ruby Coyle, Waldo Coyle, and Ed Hollier. The latter objected to the raise in property taxes to offset the loss of revenue which would result from exempting personal property tax. Harrison explained, the three mill raise is not imperative - if the Citizens want a curtailment of services, then the tax can even be lowered. Also, the tax levy 1{ . iCouncil Minutes 15 pec 65 Pane two cannot possibly be decided now. Budget studies are a subject in themselves; it is just possible, and from the way things appear now, it will be necessary to have the throe mill raise if the present level of services is maintained. ) people in the audience were not in favor-ofthe (Ordinance: Al Hudson, Bob Beilafield and Phyllis Morin. The Attyo pointed out: the only way the Boro can exempt personal property tax is to base its tax structure on that of a first class City within the Boro. lie also pointed out, it is the non-resident who benefits from this exemption. Councilmen Seaman and Morin said most of thepeople who had talked with them were against elimination of the tax. Seaman moved, Morin seconded, to leave the City tax structure as it is. Roll call vote: For - Seaman; Nay - Cone, McCann, Meeks, Morin. McCann moved, Cone seconded, to adopt the Supplemental Ord. s92 on second reading. Roll call vote: Affirmative - Cone, McCann, Meeks; Nagative - Morin, Seaman. The Atty. advised three affirmative votes were not sufficient to pass an ordinance so Mayor Dye cast a "yes" vote. This ordinance becomes effective on 15 January, 1966. With consent of Council, the order of business was changed to accomodate the Alaska State Housing representatives arriving on the late PNA flight. Item F-S: Tom Smythe, Community Planner with ASHA, thanked the Council for the cooperation in working with them on this Planning. No one else has been so helpful. 11e stated the Planning workshop in Seattle had emphasized the fact there is 70% of the U.S. population living In Cities now, and it is estimated there will be 80% of the popolation living in Cities by 1980. Now is the time for Cities to start dealing with this problem - it cannot be ignored. He thinks Kenai will bear a good share of the influx of people in Alaska as this is the area that is develop- ing and that shows more potential for growth. Mr. Tolbert Elliott was introduced and said hethought Kenai was fortunate in having such good planners and in having the foresight to adopt Planning for the Future. The Kenai Comprehensive Plan was displayed atthe workshop in Seattle, and many people expressed interest in it. There were many who asked "Why such a large City area?" Elliott says this is a great advantage to a City - to have its bound- aries large enough to absorb future growth without the problems of annexation. The Attye says the City may accept the Comprehensive Plan by motion, and adopt it later by Ordinance as this deals with zoning. There was some discussion with ASHA about the Boro contracting with Cities to carry on Planning and Zoning. Elliott sees no problem as there are Bores which have contracted with AS11A for this service. However he will ask their staff Atty. to render an opinion on this. They also will solicit an opinion from the Atty. General's office. There was some discussion on the inclination of the Atty. Gen.'s office to be influenced by the Local Affairs Agency. Council told ASHA the City would be taking a stop backward to have the Boro take over the P r=, Z powers now without any administrative processes to follow. Merin moved, McCann seconded, to accept ASHA's Comprehensive Plan. Motion carried unanimously. Janet McCabe said she had enjiyed working with the City and this is more our own Plan than it is theirs. They just tried to put our thinking in a workable, feasible pattern. Item F-a: Grant offer from HHFA. This offer was outlined quite thoroughly and comprehensively by the City Manager. The restrictions placed on the City will not be remotely acceptable to FAA. the special funds required makes it administratively cumbersome; developement of the airport land would be hamostrung for years. With Council's consent, Harrison will direct a letter to HHFA protesting these restriction and urging immediate action as advertisement for bids has already been made, with the bid opening scheduled for 12 Jan, 1966. Council Minutes 15 Doc 65 Page three Item F-3: Rules and Regulations for Operation ofthe Airport as drafted by the former airport Commission. The City Mgr, said this was an excellent piece of work, quite detailed, and of value to a Commission in working out guidelines. Council fools these rules express the policy of. the City, but says the City Mgr. is to use them only as a guide, and should administer them as such. This led up to lease•,of lots in Small Aircraft Apron. : After considerable discussion and repitittun of what has been said in priormeetings it was decided the prospective lessees should be given an extension of time before beginning payment on an executed lease. Seaman moved, Cone seconded, If Lofstedt and Amundsen exercise their option on the Small Aircraft Apron, they had until 1 April, 1966, to start payments unless the lotis utilized prior to that time. If payment is not received by 1 April, 1966, the leases will be automatically cancelled. Motion passed unanimously by roll call vote. Bob Bielafeld requests he be exempt from paying the 24 per gal. tax on gas sold on the airport until the City enforces this ruling with other concessionaires. Union Oil pays the tax, Standard pays, but there are some filling from drums they haul in themselves. All flyers will be reminded the rules prohibit filling from drums or cans, and will be notified the City will enforce this regulation and will collect the tax. Item F-4: Rules and Regulations re sale of Lot nl, Aleyeska S/D. Sec. 6 was amended to add the sentence "Building shall be completed within three years." Seaman moved, Morin seconded, to adopt the rules and regulations regarding sale of Lot #1, Aleyeska S/D, Part II, with the changes in sec. 6 that building shall be completed within three years. Motion passed unanimously. Item G-2: Industrial Air Park. Prompted by requests from Hugh DeVille, the City Mgre has been working on plans for an Industrial Park to be submitted to FAA for subdividing. This involves an area of about SO acres and will be for industries related to the Airport operations. It will be bounded by buffer zones zoned for business. He has discussed this with Adams-Corthell-Lee, Wince and Associates representative, Alan Corthell. Council says go ahead --the sooner the better. Harrison is also working with "Corky" on clearing more land, cleaning up the berms, etc.; and learning the FAA has already allocated monies for the sea plane basin, he will combine the City's request, already made to the Legislature, for the State's share of the sea -plane costs, with a request for funds to extend the run -way another 1,0001. He will try to get this in the Legislative Budget for this year. Morin introduced Ord. #93, abolishing the Dock and Harbor Commissions. Morin moved, Cone seconded, to approve Ord. #93 for first reading. Motion passed unanimously. McCanw movedi.-ftrin secdaded, to accept and approve the Assignment of revenues to National Bank of Alaska, that might be generated by James G. Dye on the Dock. Motion carried unanimously, a copy of the assignment will be included in these minutes. Council adjourned at 12/30 for an executive session. 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