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Home My WebLink About1992-03-16 Regular MinutesMarch 16, 1992 7:00 p.m. CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL OFFICIALS SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS CITIZENS COMMENTS CONSENT AGENDA Ord. #1621 Moved to Old Bus. Moved to Old Bus. Moved to Old Bus. Moved to Old Bus. OLD BUSINESS Ordinance Establishing a Human Services Advisory Board (Item 6d from Consent Agenda) Ord. #1622 g. TUKWILA CITY COUNCIL MINUTES Tukwila City Hall Council Chambers Mayor Rants called the Regular Meeting of the Tukwila City Council to order and led the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance. JOE DUFFIE; JOAN HERNANDEZ; ALLAN EKBERG, Council President; DENNIS ROBERTSON; CHARLES SIMPSON; STEVE LAWRENCE, STEVE MULLET. MIKE KENYON, City Attorney; JOHN McFARLAND, City Administrator; ROSS EARNST, Public Works Director; KEITH HAINES, Assistant Chief of Police; RON WALDNER, Chief of Police. Mayor Rants read and presented proclamations to officers Tom Kilburg and Bob Abbott expressing the City's appreciation for their twenty years of service and commitment to the City of Tukwila and the Tukwila Police Department. Elizabeth Springer, 13325 Macadam Road So., requested Council seek residents' input on projects such as the pedestrian path on the Interurban Trail. Councilmember Robertson requested Items 6d, 6e, 6f, and 6g be withdrawn from the Consent Agenda and discussed under Old Business. a. Approval of Minutes: 2/18/92 and 3/2/92 b. Approval of Vouchers General Fund $78,220.06 City Street 127,542.57 Arterial Street 55,000.10 Land Acq., Building, Dev. 34,530.12 General Government Improvements (303) 55,594.42 Water Fund 640.40 Sewer Fund 3,515.16 Water /Sewer Construction 1,041.83 Foster Golf Course 13,411.81 Surface Water (412) 1,478.95 Equipment Rental 13,986.26 Firemen's Pension 3.532.68 TOTAL $388,494.36 c. An ordinance establishing Drug -free Zones in the City. d. An ordinance establishing the Human Services Advisory Board. e. Authorize Mayor to execute agreement with Horton Dennis Associates in the amount of $208,600 for Interurban Trail Project No. 92 -PK1. f. Authorize Mayor to execute developer's agreement with Gencor Development Inc. for North Hills Office development. Authorize Mayor to execute agreement with Gardner Consultants, Inc. in the amount of $30,000 for southeast CBD drain basin study. MOVED BY DUFFIE, SECONDED BY ROBERTSON TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS AMENDED. MOTION CARRIED. MOVED BY ROBERTSON, SECONDED BY LAWRENCE TO AMEND SECTION 2.34.050 TO ADD THE WORDS "AND CITY COUNCIL" IN THE FOURTH LINE FOLLOWING THE WORD "MAYOR MOTION CARRIED. Tukwila City Council Regular Meeting March 16, 1992 Page 2 Old Business (con't) Ord. #1622 Authorize Contract for Design of Interurban Trail Project (Item 6e from Consent Agenda) North Hills Office Developer's Agreement (Item 6f from Consent Agenda) CBD Drain Basin Study (Item 6g from Consent Agenda) MOVED BY ROBERTSON, SECONDED BY LAWRENCE, THAT THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE BE READ BY TITLE ONLY. MOTION CARRIED. City Attorney Mike Kenyon read an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Tukwila, Washington, adding a new Chapter 2.34 to the Tukwila Municipal Code to create a Human Services Advisory Board, prescribing the terms of office, and setting forth the duties and powers of said Board. MOVED BY DUFFIE, SECONDED BY ROBERTSON THAT ORDINANCE NO. 1622 BE ADOPTED AS READ. MOTION CARRIED. Councilmember Robertson voiced his concern over the high cost of the Interurban trail design project. Councilmember Lawrence explained that the bridge issue, water and wetland issues make the design more complicated than a normal trail. Mayor Rants added that although he was not comfortable with the cost, the project involves a major portion of the trail and will require quite a lot of work. Public Works Director Ross Earnst explained that funding for this project will come from a grant from open space bond issue monies. MOVED BY ROBERTSON, SECONDED BY SIMPSON, TO AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR TO SIGN A CONTRACT WITH HORTON DENNIS AND ASSOCIATES TO PERFORM PLANNING AND DESIGN SERVICES FOR THE INTERURBAN TRAIL NOT TO EXCEED $208,600. MOTION CARRIED. Councilmember Robertson questioned some of the contract language and stated he continued to be bothered by the entire project because of the dangerous intersection in the area. Public Works Director Ross Earnst explained the calculations of the ADT (average daily total); however, there remained a question regarding the time period of those calculations. The contract states that after the first year, the traffic count would be done at the "City engineer's discretion Robertson recommended the contract not be authorized until the frequency of the traffic count is decided. City Attorney Mike Kenyon suggested the following language be inserted on page 29, line 5, after the phrase "monitoring of ADT peaks "on 7 day cycles, which cycle to be selected by the City on a quarterly basis; the 7 day cycle is to be selected by the City MOVED BY ROBERTSON, SECONDED BY LAWRENCE, TO APPROVE THE DEVELOPER'S AGREEMENT WITH GENCOR DEVELOPMENT, INC. FOR THE NORTH HILLS OFFICE DEVELOPMENT AS AMENDED. MOTION CARRIED. Councilmember Robertson questioned the City paying to have a drainage study done on raw land so that someone could develop the property. Ross Earnst explained that the developer will also pay a portion of the costs. The southern part of the system used to be in the City of Renton. The area east of the West Valley Highway was originally designed and included in the Springbrook Channel. Tukwila is trying to determine what is currently in the system and what needs to be added to get the drainage from the area to the Springbrook Channel. MOVED BY ROBERTSON, SECONDED BY LAWRENCE, TO AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH GARDNER CONSULTANTS, INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $30,000 TO BEGIN THE CBD DRAIN BASIN STUDY. MOTION CARRIED. Councilmember Robertson requested that if the City shares costs in other projects in the future, those costs be broken out in detail. Tukwila City Council Regular Meeting March 16, 1992 Page 3 NEW BUSINESS Revised Green River Basin Program Interlocal Agreement Staff Ross Earnst gave a brief overview of the program and the revised agreement which represents an updating of the understanding for maintenance of the levee along the Green river and for an east bank levee improvement south of I -405 by the year 2000. MOVED BY SIMPSON, SECONDED BY DUFFIE, TO APPROVE THE REVISED GREEN RIVER BASIN PROGRAM INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. MOTION CARRIED. Councilmember Lawrence recommended that the issue be revisited later this year so that Council can consider whether they want Tukwila's share of the funding for dikes to come from the surface water utility. REPORTS Mayor Rants asked Council to consider reinstating a Spring Cleanup Mayor for Tukwila residents to go along with the wood chipping program and recycling education. Council agreed to discuss this issue at the COW on March 23. Council Councilmember Duffle thanked the City for the opportunity to attend the National League of Cities national conference in Washington D.C. last week. Duffle will sit as a member of the Human Development Committee. Councilmember Hernandez announced she would be absent from next week's COW and suggested that if Council decides to support a Spring/Fall cleanup, dump passes be offered to those residents who participate in curbside recycling. After thanking Council for sending him to the National League of Cities conference, Councilmember Robertson spoke briefly about the sessions he attended. Robertson also sought consensus from the council to ask Mayor Rants and Council President Ekberg to write or call Governor Gardner requesting he not sign the Growth Management Act Amendment which would exclude all large industrial developments from having to be within an urban area. Mayor Rants stated he would pursue the issue. Councilmember Simpson reported he attended the annual Human Services Roundtable retreat on March 12th. Future projects of HSRT include: examining services to abused children, promoting diversities within schools and city governments and participation of all King County cities in this effort. Councilmember Lawrence reported his attendance at a Third Runway Coalition meeting and distributed information from the meeting. City Administrator John McFarland reported a request from a Boulevard Park coalition group for city representation at a neighborhood meeting at the Rainier Community Club at 7 p.m. on April 15th where they will be discussing annexation options. Councilmember Robertson noted the Community Affairs Parks Committee had discussed this issue and determined the need to develop a schedule to look at annexation policies and boundaries. He asked for a report from the administration on potential annexations and annexation activities. Mayor Rants responded that at the present time there are no annexation requests. Council President Ekberg forwarded the annexation issue to next week's Community Affairs Parks Committee. EXECUTIVE SESSION MOVED BY DUFFIE, SECONDED BY LAWRENCE, TO ADJOURN 8:27 p.m. TO EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR 45 MINUTES TO DISCUSS LABOR MATT ERS. MOTION CARRIED. Executive Session Extended Council announced the extension of Executive Session for an additional 30 minutes. c ADJOURNMENT TIE MEETING BE ADJOURNED. MOTION THAT ON CARRIED. 9:5U p.m. Jo ri W. Rants, May, Jane E. Cantu, City Clerk