09/29/1999 Minutes
CITY OF YELM
CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
SEPTEMBER 29, 1999,7:30 P.M.
YELM CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1. Mayor Wolf called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. All present joined in the flag'salute
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Council present Don Miller, Martha Parsons, Glen Cunningham and Adam Rivas.
CounCibriember Curry was excused. .
. Guests: David Thompson, Preston, Gates & Ellis; Nancy Peterson and Harold Robertson,
. TRPC; Gal)' Kurger, Department of Ecology; Ken Bragg, John Dotson, Bob ?/Benum, Tom
. Skillings, and John Thompson .
Staff: Shelly Badger, Ken Garmann, and Agnes Bennick
Agenda Approval. Mayor Wolfpointed out that ag~da item 7, Nancy Peterson and Harold
Robertson would be at 8 p.m.
MOTION BY MARTHA PARSONS, SECONDED BY ADAM RIVAS APPROVING THE
AGENDA AS PRINTED. CARRIED.
Minutes Approval.
MOTION BY MARTHA PARSONS, SECONDED BY ADAM RIVAS ApPROVING THE
MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1999 WITH A CORRECTIONTO lTEM 9. b, MOVING A
STAFF REPORT TO THE FIRST MEETING IN OCTOBER. CARRIED:
Voucher Approval.
MOTION BY GLEN CUNNINGHAM, SECONDED. BY MARTHA PARSONS
. APPROVING PAYMENT Of CHECKS 11463 -11525, (TOTALING $224,164.62).
CARRIED.
Payroll Approval.
MOTION BY MARTHA P ARSONS,'SECONDED BY ADAM RIVAS APPROVING THE
SEPTEMBER 1999 PRELIMINARY PAYROLL. CARRIED.
. . .PublicComment/Questions. None
Thurston Regional Planning Council Annual Update - As the presenters had not arrived,
business moved forward to agenda item 9 and then to Item 8.
Mayor Wolf introduced Nancy Peterson, TRPC Chairman and Lacey Mayor, and Harold
Robertson, TRPC Executive Director. Peterson explained that Thurston Regional Planning
Council is a 15 member intergovernmental council with representatives from Thurston County,
all of the Cities and towns in Thurston County, the port, Inter City Transit, several school
districts, the Nisqually Tribe, and Timberland Regional Library. TRPC deals with data and
foreca?ting, mainly with transportation issues, growth management and environmental issues
, that are countywide in scope. Councilmember Rivas is the ViCe-Chair and Yelm's
representative and Councilmember Cunningham serves on the Transportation Policy Board,
which makes recommendations to the CounciL .
The focus this year has been transportation fmancing. How to pay for the regional
'. transportation plan that was adopted? There isn't enough money to do all ~he projects TRPC
believes need to be done in this region in the next 20 years. TRPC has been working with a
consultant, educating themselves where we get money now, how we currently finance projects,
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the full plml. A meeting to discuss these issues is planned for 6:30 p.m., ThUrsday, October,
21 st at the Lacey Community Center. TRPC will present the information they learned about
, financing- and, begin discussing what-the jurisdictions might be comfortable going to the public
with to begin discussions about funding the transportation plan shortfall. Following that there
will be some public forums to talk about what the situation looks like and available options.
Part of TRPC's role is distributing funds and Yelm was really fortunate this year. In the rural '
supp'ort program~ which is a federal transportation fund, $26,000 was awarded to Yelm for
road maintenance over the next 4 years. In the Surface Transportation Program (STP)Yelm
received $340,000for acquisition of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Rail Line; $478,000 for
East Yelm Ave. safety improvements and $40,000 for the Y-2N-3 Corridor Environmental '
Study. Thurston County was awarded a $179,000 enhancement grant that goes to the YeIni to
Tenino Trail that also benefits this area. Peterson congratulared Yelm staff on their success.
TRPC received a $300,000 appropriation from the iegislature for a study ofthe Freight Access
to Rail to look at the feasibility of expanding freight rail service from Tacom<! to Chehalis.
They hope the study will show that this is feasible and that it will ease up traffic on 1-5 by
removing a lot of the trucks and allowing 1-5 to handle a lot more traffic then it is doing
currently. They will also be looking at the possibility of extending Sound Transit's commuter
rail from Lakewood to Olympia.
Last year a great deal of time was spent on an economic assessment. Three issues were
,identified. 1) working to identify the economic comparative advantages in Thurston Co. and
how to take advantage of that when looking at diversifying the economy and bringingjobs to
Thurston Co. 2) preparing a fiscal impact model to look at the costs and benefits of economic
development on the community and 3) how to pull together an overall community vision.
Jurisdictions will be asked to use planning commissions to perform this task
Other TRPC projects were a population-employment-forecast totals and will approve the
breakdown of those totals into the smaller areas, tracking and reporting on buildable lands
under the Growth Management Act based on this '98 legislation. This year they are prioritizing
, . grant applications for Centennial Clean Water Fund Grants for Department of Ecology.
Mayor Wolfthanked Mayor Peterson and Harold Robertson. Councilmember Rivas also
expressed his appreciation.
Harold Robertson distributed new brochures concerning functions and their availability to
provide contract services. '
8. Public Hearing - Local Improvement District Final Assessment. Mayor Wolf opened th,e
public hearing at 7:40 p.m. and announced the time, place, date and hearing purpose. Mayor
Wolf explained the ground rules for the hearing. According to law there are only certain
speakers who can have the floor. Mayor Wolf called for the staff report. Shelly Badger
reported that following a meeting with local property owners expressing a desire to form a .
local improvement district to purchase future capacity in the new water reuse ^facility,
Resolution No. 376, the intent to form a Local Improvement District (LID), was adopted in'
September of 1997. The resolution directed staff to mail preliminary assessment letter to
people within the designated LID boundaries. First contact was by letter with a response card
enclosed. The letter explained the program and requested response using the post card to
express interest in a base assessment of 1 unit per acre, or to request additional supplemental
hookups up to, the number needfrl to provide for the maximum build out of the property.
A preliminary assessment roll was created from the responses. Letters were again sent out in
. October of 1997 asking property owners to attend a public hearing the end of October of 1997,
at the DCBO. Adjustments were made to the assessment roll at that meeting, provided that the
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boundaries remained logical. At that meeting councii adopted an -ordinance forming the LID . '
arid staff securoo interim fmancing and the construction project was undertaken. The purpose
tonight is to fmalize and confmn the LID #1 Assessment Roll and move into a payment period.
If the assessment roll is approved tonight, the City enters into a 30-day prepayment period
starting October i and ending November 1, during which property owners can pay a portion,
or all of their assessment with no interest. After that period, the first payment on any
remaining assessment would become due October 15,2000, and would be used to pay the
bondholders. .
David Thompson, Bond Counsel, Preston Gates & ElliS, explained that the purpose of
tonight's meeting is to hear any protests received from owners within the LID. ,The rules for
an Assessment Roll Hearing under state law permit only those submitting a wntten'protest,
prior to or' at the meetmg to speak during the hearing. Issues properly before council are
. proteSts related to whether property owners receive a special benefit from the improvements
and whether their assessment is proportional to the assessments on other properties within the
LID. \\!hether a parcel should or should not be included in the LID is not relevant at this time.
What is t:elevant is any objection someone may have to the assessment (amount). After
hearing objections, the hearing will be closed and council will consider the protests. If an
assessment is lowered, the $2 million ordinance amount can be changed. If any assessment is
raised, notice must be given to the property owners and another public hearing would be
required. '
Shelly Badger reported that objections received yesterday and today are from Johll Dotson
Fiona Thong, and Irving Stemoff. The City has a written response iridicating a desire to be '
included 'in the LID from all three. However, the Dotson property was assessed ill the
preliminary roll for 1 base ERU and 3 supplemental (volUntary) units. The city has no record
of how the extra 3 supplemental units were added.
Mayor Wolf called for public comments.
John Dotson - Indicated that he has no record of responding to the LID proposal for the 4
ERUs reflected in his assessment. Dotson has no intent of dividing his property in the near
future.
Bob ?/BenUm - At the time ofthe LID formation, hdpartner were planning to develop property
and they have been assessed for 108 ERU s. They have since become aware of the Y - 2/Y - 3
corridor study that when finally adopted will go right through the middle of his property
resulting in a large part of the property being unusable. He is protesting the number of ERU s
and requesting that that number be adjusted to apply only to the useable prop~y.
Being no addi~ional audience comment, Mayor Wolf called for Council questions/comments.
Councilmember Miller commented that Mr. ? /Benum 'seemed to have more information about
Y-2/Y -3 than Council does. Mayor Wolf added that Y-2/Y-3 has not been adopted or
presented to Council yet.
/Benum responded that the corridor as proposed/recommended is going right through the
middle of his/partners property. Badger indicated that that is correct as shown on the
preliminary map that is going through the environmental assessment stage in preparation for,
the October 20th public hearing. She pointed out that the project is not far enough along to '
_ know the footage of the area, but it will reduce the amount of property available.
Councilmember Miller - is there some benefit in joining the LID now, rather than later?
Badger responded that yes, to some there is depending upon who you speak to. The LID
allows the purchase of capacity dedicated to a specific site and paid over time at a lesser rate
than, if they weren't in the LID . It also guarantees capacity for that land.
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Councilmember Miller ~ if /Benum decides in the future that he wants to develop that
property ERU s may not be available, or the price may have increased, or development prices
may have gone up? -Badger indicated that all those were possibilities, depending on the time
the property was developed. In the next two years probably not, further out it is possible that
there would be no capacity remaining and he couldn't develop the propertY.
. Councilmember Parsons - are you asking to have alII 08 taken out or reduced? /Benum - (m
asking that they be reduced to an appropriate number should the Y - 2N - 3 corridor be adopted
in that locatiop.. Parsons - what do you consider the appropriate number? /Benum - that's a
good question, what do you consider the appropriate time for Y -2N -3 to come through?
Response two to three or four years or longer. /Benum - the development choice would have
been to do a single-family subdivision, we recently adopted a 26-10t plat off of Rhoton and
Canal. The choice (made is) that the utilities being held to one side because there may be a ,
swath of that development that would be lost, if the corridor was adopted in that location and a
portion of that property would be involved in an eminent domain issue. All I'm asking is for
some consideration regarding the number of ERU s assessoo verses what can be used. I don't
know what that timing is. .
Badger - we have two options: If we roouce anyone's assessment and spread it amongst the .
otlier LID participants we're then in a situation where we send out new final assessment letters
and have another public hearing. We have a tight timeline because inferim fmancing notes are
due December 1. .
Councilmember Rivas - requested Mr. Thompson's opinion. Thomoson-.what Shelly said is
correc~ if you want to reduce the assessment of this property, you can either absorb the cost or
spread it against the other properties. Spreading it against the other properties would require
another public hearing. I don't know how much went beyond the basic ERUs and what was
voluntary. Badger - the base assessment was 1 ERU per each of the 27 acres, the actual
assessmentis for 108 ERUs. The maximum number of build out ERUs were requestoo.
Thompson - presumably if this is a value property has it will be compensatoo if a portion of the
property is taken by eminent domain if that is ultimately chosen as the bypass route. Council
has no way to know that at this point, so it is really a policy decision. Do you want to absorb
the cost yourself reducing this assessment or stay with what the property owner requested?
Badger - in an eminent domain or right-of-way purchase negotiation could or woUld the LID
assessment be taken into consideration? Thompson - it would have to be, it's added
. considerable value to this property, so that would be a compensable portion of that part of the
property that's been taken. How much that would be, or it would exactly equal the. value to the
property owner I can't guarantee in any way, but I can't imagine that that would not be a
considerable value added to the property. .
Mayor Wolf - I would like Shelly to reaffirm the fact that we are on a timeline, that if Council
did chose to reduce this number then we would have to go back and do a reassessment which
would raise everybody else's amount, and that there is no way for the City to absorb this cost.
Councilmember Parsons - we have no way of knowing at this time if the ERU s will be
compensated in the event of eminent domain. Wolf - the attorney's opinion was that it would
have to be:compensated, because it adds to the value ofthe property.
Councilmember Miller -have all the objections been taken out except this gentleman's?
Badger - that occurred in the sUIWller of 1997. Miller - if we approve this gentleman's
request, is that the only one we have to approve? Parsons - ifhe will be compensated under
eminent domain, why would we approve it? Rivas - there are more. Miller - how many more
do we have? Badger - Rothwell (packet) and the ones I went over tonight from Mr. Dotson.
Miller - Does that mean that we would have to go back and reassess anyway or am I missing
. something? Rivas ~ I'mnot sure I'm following either. What are the requests of each of them, I
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gather there are 4 objections then? Badger - five including Mr. ?/Benum.
Reduction requests were received from Rothwell, Dotson,Thong, Stemoff, ?/Benum.
Dotson's reduction was front 3 supplemental ERUs for which no request was found. All the
others requested base/supplemental ERU s.
Mayor W ()If 'again called for audience comment as additional people had arrived. The
gentleman calltrl upon had not submitted a written request.
Mayor Wolfc1osed the hearing at 8:18 p.m.
" Councilmember Parsons - the oUly thing I think we can honestly do, since we have no record
of John Dotson's three is to dismiss those. Rivas - the others were fair'assessments.
MOTION BY ADAM RIVAS, SECONDED BY MARTHA PARSONS DISMISSING THE
THREE SUPPLEMENT A..L UNITS TO JOHN DOTSON., CARRIED.
Ordinance No. 674. - The ordinance amount will have to be reduced by the amount of the
dismissed assessments.
MOTION BY ADAM RIVAS, SECONDED BY MARTHA PARSONS ADOPTING
ORDINANCE NO. 674 WITH THE $2 MILLION BOND AMOUNT REDUCED BY
REMOVING THREE ERUs (DOTSON/ MILL ROAD/$5,469.45) TO $1,994,530.55.
CARRIED. "
,Public Hearing - Adoption of Flood Insurance Study and Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM).
Mayor Wolf opened the public hearing at 7:36 p.m. and announced that the time, date. place
and purpose of the hearing and that it would be followed by council action in the form,of
Ordinance No. 673. Shelly Badger explained that this is the formal adoption of the new flood
insurance study and rate map. The map is in effect at this time as far as FEMA is concerned.
Adoption of Ordinance 673 will formalize acceptance and allow continued participation in the
flood insurance program.
Being no audience comment or Council questions, Mayor Wolf closed the hearing at 7:38p.m.
a. Ordinance No. 673
MOTION BY ADAM RIVAS, SECONDED BY MARTHA PARSONS ADOPTING
ORDINANCE NO. 673, THE FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY AND FLOOD INSURANCE
RATE MAP. CARRIED '
New Business
District Court Services Contract - Shelly Badger explained that this is a three-year contract for
court services for jury trials. Filing fees are increasing ($49) from $153 to $202. The daily fee
dropped ($26) from $287 to $261. The figures are based on a detaile4 study.
MOTION BY MARTHA PARSONS, SECONDED BY GLEN CUNNINGHAM ADOPTING
THE DISrRICT COURT SERVICES CONTRACT. CARRIED.
Old Business:
Library Report/(Draft) Resolution 338. Mayor Wolf requested that no action be taken until
there is a full council and the report is back from the Library Board and Friends o"fihe Library
and asked for comment on the draft resolution.
Councilman Cunningham asked if Ken Bragg had been confirmed. Bragg respondoo that he
hopes he will be, but that the county commissioners from all five counties have to concur with
the appo"intment to the Timberland Regional Library Board. Thurston County has two
representatives on the Libraryboard, one is an at-large that represents all of the cOlUlties,
Braag is being considered for the position that represents only Thurston County. Braag
, pledged a responsibility that he feels to assist all of the cities, particularly in Thurston County,
to carry out the position in Yelm' s resolution which he hopes Council will adopt because he
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believes it is the only way to get a fair policy in respect to .the construction of library buildings '.
for both cities and the llilinCQrpQrated areas. He alSQ hQpes t.o establish a line of
cQmmunicatiQn between TRPC and the IQcallibrary bQards.
Councilmember Cunningham felt that the resQlution seemed stronglywQrded, almost like we
were declaring war .on Timberland. He asked Braag how he felt. Bragg responded that he
supposes YQU CQuld get that reactiQn, but that these are the essence .of the issues that affect
ThurstQn CQunty and that under present PQlicies they have never built a library in Thurston
County and they have never financed a library in a city. SQme .of the PQlicies in the resQlutiQn
address a majQr change that needs to be made and it's hard tQ hide thQse things with nice .
language and that he doesn't think the resolutiQn is worded in such a way that it's offense, but
. it does clearly state the basic issues invQlved.
CQuncilniembers questiQned why it was put in resQlutiQn fQnnat. MaYQr WolfresPQnded that
Mr. Braag stated that he WQuld prefer resQlutiQn form and that CQuncil asked stafftQ prepare a
draft resQlution. MaYQr WQlf advised that CQuncil CQuld take the draft resolutiQn hQme to
examine .or instruct staff tQ put it in letter fo~. .
CQuncilmember Cunninghanl expressed reluctance tQ be the first city to approve such a
resQlutiQn. Braag responded that he had met with the mayor .of Olympia, and the person
running for election, both recommended that Bragg CDme befDre their council tQ present this
PQsitiQn. Yehn is the city, doclared by Timberland tQ have the greatest need and highest
priQrityfQr building .of all the five cQunties, Olympia is secQnd, SQ it isn't .out .of place fQr YQU
tD take the lead. Mr. HQDper was the fIrst tQ recQgnize the unfairness .of the system.
Mayor WDlf clarified that the questiDn is really the fDrm the dDcument shDuld take.
CDuncilmember ParSQllS added that maybe the infQrmatiQn shQuld be sent in a letter.
. CQuncilmember Rivas expressed that perhaps if we haven't sent this informatiDn in a letter,
. that WQuld be the first and best starting place. CQuncilmember Miller thQught that mQre
weight was being put .on a resDlutiQn than he puts .on .one, and that we're nDt demanding
anything, but urging TRLB tQ take a IQQk at these problems and he dQesn't see any problem.
ParSDns - I persQnally WQuld like tQ see it as a letter instead .of a resQlutiDn. MaYDr WQlf - it's
!lQt tD be .officially vQted .on until the next meeting, SQ WQuld we like stafftQ prepare it in letter
fQrm. Miller - have we heard frDm the library bQard? WDlf - they haven't had a meeting,
that's why we're waiting fQr the next meeting. Miller - I dQn'thave any DbjectiQns tQ either
form.
CDnsensus was that staff shQuld prepare a letter incorpQrating the saDIe basic things. Rivas-
can use almost the same wQrds, jut take .out the whereas' MaYDr WDIf requested that perhaps it
eQuId be a little less stem. Mr. Braag was thanked.
b. . Impact/DevelQpment Fee C.omparisQn. MaYQr WQlf stated that an.other letter had been
received c.oncerning impact fees and that Cathie Carls.on would present a comparisQn .of .other
jurisdicti.ons .of .our size and in .our IQcality at the next meeting.
C.ouncil tQQk a 5 minute break from 8:55 - 9:00 p.m. t.o allQw staff time tD set up equipment'
c. StQrmwater Rate Structure DiscussiQn. Ken Garmann intrQduced Gary Kruger, Department .of
ECQIQgy StQrm Water Program. Kruger addressed the variQUS QptiQns available f.or funding a
stQrm water program including the general fund,grants/IQans, .other utilities and stQrm water
utility. He PQinted .out that this is n.ot a tax, but a service fee. Establishing a stQnn water
utility has a legal basis.. ..other utilities. The advantages .of having a st.orm water utility include
dependable fmancing, Funds WQuld be used .only f.or st.orm water, they cQuldn't be used f.or
anything else. Typical services include inspectiQn, maintenance, rePair, studies, and capital
improvements. Fairness is essential tQ successful stDrm water utility. Sample per capita rates
rangoo frDm $12 tQ $214.
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Councilmember Rivas questioned recovery of costs for storm water from state highways.
Kruger responded that while it is legally possible, the record keeping required would be so
cumbersome that you probably wouldn't want to do it.
Councilmember Cunningham asked I he built a 50-unit complex, and take care of every bit of
the storm water that ever falls on it, would I still have to pay you to manage my storm water.
Kruger responded that he didn't think that you could build a 50':unit complex in Yelm that
would hold that much water. Garmann added that while each site may be required to handle
stom1 water, as a city we are also required to do monitoring and to assist homeowners and
deve~opers and it involves costs. .
A gentleman (Lee Adams?) stated that his property handles stomI water and he shouldn't have
to pay more. Kruger responded that most jurisdictions take the position that once the water
leaves your property it's the city's responsibility and that as a citizen you have responsibility
for not only your own property but for the common publicly owned property.
Councilmember'Miller - said that as he remembered, whe~ he applied for a building permit
that would remove that much ability of the ground to absorb the water plus I was collecting it
in the gutters and running it off and so that would contribute to the storm water because of the
ground that I had covered. Is that the theory? Kruger respond<Xl affirmatively.
, Couricilmember Cunningham - It looks like if all the monies come in and we ftx things; it
looks like Yelm ditch (Creek) will be taken care of in a couple of years once we get this thing
going. Shelly Badger added that the amount of money generated by a storm water utility
wouldn't be enough to ftx Yelm Creek's problems. Councilmember Rivas added that he views'
this as not for today or even 5 years from now but for what's going to take place in 15 - 20
years. So if we start collecting these funds today, so we can property address the changes in
our city in the future.
Councilmember Cunningham - stated that he was pretty sure he wants to volunteer to inspect
all the swales. Councilmember Miller - how about mowing them? Crumingham - yes, I'll
mow and inspect them. Cunn:ii1gham - we talked about drive by, about how much time will it
take to go by and look at some of these swales; you can pretty much drive down some of our
streets and look at our storm water facilities. Rivas - I guess that's why I look at it for
somewhere in the future instead of short-term. Garmann added that there is more to it than just
the swales. The swales are the treatment part, there is also the gallery and water quality
monitoring which is more time consuming. Also the city has moved away from swales in
subdivisions.
Ken Garmann presented an area wide storm water rate chart and possible rates along with the
. amount of revenue possible. Methodology for establishing an Equivalent Residential Unit
(ERU) and a formula for determining rates for commercial/industrial property. Discussion
followed concerning the Safeway system and that it's useful life is maybe 20 years. In 20
years it may be necessary to replace galleries, and things like that, so the City will have an
ongoing cost to service that property owner. Councilmember Miller asked about the .
engineering. Garmann explained that most of the commercial systems because of our soils
treat the storm water on site. Parsons - asked about periodic cleaning of tanks. So even
though all these properties are required to maintain their own systems, they can still look to the
City for assistance with their systems if their system fails or fails to meet water quality
standards. Rivas -,- we can't ask them to bring their system up to date? Garmann responded
that our assistance would be technical assistance, policing, testing. Rivas - no hard hats and
shovels? Garmann -no, we wouldn't be doing any work on those systems.
Badger added that the crux ofthe whole storm water issue is we as a community and a city are
responsible for proper storm water management within our city. And if it takes to achieve that
goal, inspections and education and enforcement, that's what it takes, because Ecology has to
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meet federal requirements and is looking to us to enforce our own situation.
Minimum staffmg requirements were estimated at a 1S time person. Duties would include
water quality testing, monitoring, public education programs, Yelm Creek program, and
maintenance progranls for the City's systems. Possible method~ of collection were as part of
the existing utility bill or through Thurston County property tax statements. Rivas-
questioned the rates and that it is easier to reduce the fees than to increase them, without this
arm we won't be able to provide enforcement. Wolf-questioned using the sameformulas for ,
. assessing existing sites not meeting current storm water standards, and newer sites that meet
higher standards. Rivas - is this an example where one would be charged a higher or heavier
or extreme base rate. Badger - do some communities give a credit for facilities meeting'
standards? Yes. ,Miller - Bennick provided information on the impacts for the , .
administration of the billing portion and the appropriateness of storm water utility charges
being bill going to renters, partial payment distribution, and penalty distribution.
Councilmember Rivas questioned the cost involved in' having Thurston County do the billing.
Mayor .wolf requested th~t staff find out.
Mayor Wolf inquired about the kinds of equipment needed. Garmann responded office
equipment, computer, desk, etc. Councilmember Miller asked if the sewer department could
do the testing? Garmann will check that out.
When asked if this would be done before January 1, Garmann responded that' he would like to
have everything in place by then. Councilmember Parsons asked ifthis required a public
hearing. Past practices have been to hold a public hearing whenever utility rates are increased, ,
but this is a new. Councilmember Cunningham wondered if we are creating a whole new '
bureaucracy. Bennick added that a program to gather public support wo~d be beneficial.
Badger added that an outreach effort hasn't been made and that unfortunately, the newspaper
hasn't covered the issue which has been before council in some form for the last 3 or 4
seSSIOns.
Badger also suggested some sort of flyer or letter going out to landowners explaining the
program, what it's for, possible rates and when the hearings will take place. Badger added that
we couldn'tbe specific enough in the information until we have one more council meeting to
fine tune the rates, etc. Mayor Wolf asked that a recommendation in terms of numbers be
presented at the next meeting. Garmann indicated he would do that and answer some
questions and have some analysis. It was determined that there was still time to schedule a
public hearing this year.
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Coullcilmember Rivas - you work out those numbers so that we're not tying our hands and
were also able to identify people.that are participating vs. people that aren't interested, and that
he feels this is an important program and that we're on the right track. Councilmember Miller,
. inquired if this was only for the city limits? Response was that we probably coul~n't legally
extend this into the Urban Growth Area. . .
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Budget Planning Calendar. Calendar was provided at the last meeting. Staff s preference was ~
that possible meetings be scheduled and cancelled If not needed. Rivas indicated that he might
have a conflict with the first meeting due to school levy committee business. . ,
MOTION BY ADAM RIY AS, SECONDED BY GLEN CUNNINGHAM APPROVING THE
BUDGET WORK SESSION DATES: OCTOBER 5, 12, 19,26 AND NOVEMBER 2, 9, 16.
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November Council Meeting Date Changes due to the 'Thanksgiving holiday. Traditionally we
move the Wednesday meeting to Tuesday. Badger added that we.might also need a special
meeting to finalize the LID and pay off the Bond Anticipation Note. 'DiSCUSSIon determined
that this might become part of one of the budget work sessions.
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MOTION BY GLEN CUNNINGHAM, SECONDED BY MARTHA PARSONS THAT THE
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 COUNCIL MEETING BE RESCHEDULED TO
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23. CARRIED.
Reports
City Council Liaison Reports
City Hall- Agnes Bennick reported that the front office vacancy has be~ filled.
Court - a written report was provided. Badger added that Judge Meyer is getting married and
that a card is being circulated.
Pu\)lic Works.- CouncihnemberMiller spoke about Cochrane Park and that everything else is
moving along. Gannann reported on the Edwards Street opening and a bid opening on Friday
for the completion of the CDBG grant for corrosion control.
Park/Park Use Requests - Councilmember Parsons there were no park use requests.
Police'- Comicilmember Cunningham stated that a written report was provided. Hereported
on, the multi-jurisdIctional sting operation. The police department also found the individuals
responsible for recent robberies. He praised the job being done by the 'police department.
Planning - Councilmember Cunningham attended the last meeting where the commission
approved an oil change station and an espresso standat the comer of Grove Rd & SR507.
Mayor's Report -
1) Mayor Wolf spoke about the newspaper arti~le reporting that some casinos are not paying
their full freight in taxes, the exceptions are the Tulalips and Nisquallys. She requested
,staff to send a letter.
2) Mayor Wolf read and requested approval to sign a proclamation.
Activities included the Audit Exit, Chamber of Commerce, Senior Center 25th Anniversary,
Yelm Creek Consultants Selection, Puyallup Fair, YCS Key Communicators, Edwards Street
opening, EDe, and police briefing.
A letter was received from Olympic Pipeline Co.' outlining animmediate action plan. The
president of Olympic Pipeline will be in Olympia next Tuesday and Ken an Mayor Wolf will
, attend a meeting with him, the county commissioners and Mayor Elliot from Rainiet.
Mayor Wolf reported on an article in A WCs Welmess Works written by Dana about the fitness
challenge between the City and Yelm Telephone. '
Diane Oberquell's appointment as vice-chair to the Juvenile Justice Subcommittee of the
, National Association of Counties' Justice and Public Safety Steering Committee. A letter was
requested.
MOTION BY ADAM RIVAS, SECONDEP BY MARTHA PARSONS AUTHOIZING THE ,
MAYOR TO SIGN THE MONTH OF THE YOUNG ADOLESCENT PROCLAMATION.
CARRIED. Opposed: Councilmember Miller.
Council Report - Council member Cmmingham reported on the school levy auction .raising
$8,900.
Correspondence was reviewed.
Adjourn: 10:30 p.m.
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