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CITY OF YELM
CITY COUNCIL MINUTES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1993, 7:30 PM
CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
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1. The meeting was called to order at 7:30 pm by Mayor_RobErt Sanders.
All present joined in the flag salute.
2. Council present: Don Miller, Martha Parsons, Arnold Drogseth, Amos
Lawton and Kathy Wolf. Visitors: Erling Birkland, Jane Wood, Vickie
Hare, E.J. Curry and Jack Peugh. Staff Present: Shelly Badger,
Glenn Dunnam, Leo Porter, Adam Wood and Agnes Colombo.
3. Agenda additions/deletions.
93-1 MOTION BY DON MILLER, SECONDED MARTHA PARSONS TO APPROVE THE AGENDA
AS AMENDED TO-INCLUDE ITEM 5A, YELM POLICE DEPARTMENT. MOTION
CARRIED.
4. Minutes of December 9 and 16, 1992.
93-2 MOTION BY MARTHA PARSONS, SECONDED BY KATHY WOLF APPROVING MINUTES
OF DECEMBER 9 AND 16, 1992, AS WRITTEN. MOTION CARRIED.
5. Approval of vouchers.
93-3 MOTION BY MARTHA PARSONS, SECONDED BY ARNOLD DROGSETH APPROVIN
VOUCHERS NUMBERED 12141 THROUGH 12250. MOTION CARRIED.
5A. Chief Glenn Dunnam introduced new officer Adam Wood and his wife
Jane.
6. Dr. Greg Kirsch, Deputy Superintendent and Ed Pitts, Business
Director, addressed the Council on the upcoming Yelm Community
Schools Bond Issue. Dr. Kirsch explained that the last bond failed
by a very small margin. A video addressing the construction
shortfall in state schools was shown. State matching funds are
-available only after the district reaches a specified number of
students. This creates a construction lag of several years resulting
in continuous overcrowding and the use of portable buildings to
accommodate students. Portables are a very expensive temporary
measure as the money comes completely from district funds as no
matching funds are available for portables . The district hopes to get
ahead of the curve and build to meet projections then apply for
available matching funds.
Additional uses for the requested bond funding are: modernization
of McKenna School, expansion and landscaping the new Mill Road
School, addressing safety issues and repairs at other schools in the
district and to upgrading technology in the district's schools.
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When questioned by Councilman
district is looking toward the
year round school schedule.
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Miller, Dr. Kirsch indicated that the
possibility of eventually going to a
7. NEW BUSINESS: -
93-4 a. MOTION BY DON MILLER, SECONDED BY KATHY WOLF TO,PASS CRIMINAL
JUSTICE RESOLUTION #275. MOTION CARRIED.
93-5 ,. b. MOTION HY KATHY WOLF, SECONDED BY ARNOLD DROGSETH TO APPROVE THE
1993 CITY OF OLYMPIA JAIL CONTRACT. MOTION CARRIED.
c. Members agreed to a special meeting at 4:30 pm, on Wednesday,
January 20, 1993, to complete the City Hall Addition FmHA Bond.
93-6 ~~ d. MOTION BY AMOS LAWTON, SECONDED SY MARTHA PARSONS TO HAVE KATHY
WOLF ACT AS MAYOR PRO-TEMPORE DURING 1993. MOTION CARRIED.
e. All Council members agreed to continue as liaison to the same
departments as in 1992. Kathy Wolf - City Hall, Amos Lawton -Public
Works, Don Miller - Sewer, Martha Parsons - Parks and Arnold Drogseth
- Police & Court.
•8: OLD BUSINESS: --
3-7 a. MOTION BY KATHY WOLF, SECONDED BY AMOS LAWTON TO TABLE THE
TOMKINS CORPORATION, PAYOFF REQUEST TO JANUARY 27, 1993. MOTION
CARRIED. City staff was requested to investigate the possibility
negotiating payment beyond the contract requirement.-
• b. Councilman Miller and Shelly Badger explained that they didn't
• ~- want Mr. Peugh and Mr. Birkland held up any longer as the
Transportation Plan location of the Y2 alternative was not firm at
this time and that the actual road location could be determined when
and if the road was funded. ._. _ .
93-8 MOTION BY KATHY WOLF, SECONDED BY DON MILLER, APPROVING THE
PEUGH/BIRKLAND REZONE REQUESTS (ZON8067-TO MULTI-FAMILY ,and ZON8068
TO COMMERCIAL). MOTION CARRIED. _--
93-9 - c. MOTION BY MARTHA PARSONS, SECONDED BY KATHY WOLF TO APPROVE THE
'. WASHINGTON COURT (JONES ST) VACATION (VCT8075) REDUCING THE 60 FOOT
RIGHT-OF-WAY TO 40 FOOT ON THE STREET, BUT NO CHANGE TO THE CUL-DE-
SAC. MOTION CARRIED.
9:` REPORTS:
a. No Planning Commission report was given.
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b. Yelm Parks Advisory Committee 1/12/93 meeting. Amos Laws ~l
estimated that approximately two loads of wood, with an e'stimat__,'
value of $1800.00, will be thinned out of Cochrane Park.
93-10 MOTION BY KATHY .WOLF, SECONDED AMOS LAWTON THAT MONEY FROM THE SALE
OF TIMBER THINNED FROM COCHRANE PARK BE ALLOCATED FOR PARK PROJECTS.
MOTION CARRIED. - - ,
c. Council members were advised that the Historic Commission is
planning to change their meeting date from the second Tuesday~to the
third Wednesday of each month. Members are looking into a monthly
newspaper column featuring a building from the Yelm .Historic
Inventory and want to compile information contained"in past Historic
Inventories into a book that would be suitable to distribute to
schools and the public. ~~ -
d. Shelly gave the sewer report. Twelve bids had been received,
all amounts were fairly close to each other. The apparent low bid
came in under the engineers estimate of $1,806,000. ~:
1. $1,751,000 - Red Samm Construction, Inc.
2. $1,781,000 - McClure & Sons, Inc.
3. $1,839,945 - Pease & Sons, Inc.
Figures submitted will be reviewed by project engineers to determine
responsibility of the bid.
e. Yelm Municipal Court activity for.December showed: 186~tickE;
processed - 62 criminal citations and 124 infractions.
Council adjourned at 8:35 pm on a motion by Martha Parsons, seconded
by Kathy Wolf.
ATTEST:
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Agnes P. Colombo
City Clerk
Robert A. Sanders
Mayor
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