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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977-02-14 Committee of the Whole MinutesFebruary 14, 1977 CITY OF TUKWILA 7:30 P.M. COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING M I N U T E S ROLL CALL OF TRAYNOR, HILL, SAUL, MS. PESICKA, VAN DUSEN. COUNCIL MEMBERS 7"5 Ci ty Hall Council Chambers CALL TO ORDER Council President Hill called the Committee of the Whole Meeting to order. APPROVAL OF MINUTES MOVED BY TRAYNOR, SECONDED BY MS. PESICKA, THAT THE JANUARY 31, 1977 MINUTES OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING BE APPROVED AS PUBLISHED. CARRIED. DISCUSSION MOVED BY SAUL, SECONDED BY MS. PESICKA, THAT THE ORDER OF DISCUSSION ON THE AGENDA BE CHANGED SO ITEMS 8 AND 9 MIGHT BE DISCUSSED FIRST. CARRIED. Frank Todd Council President Hill asked Steve Hall, Director of Public Works, Sewer Connection if the sewer extension was in the Comprehensive Plan. Mr. Hall said it was. Councilman Van Dusen asked if anyone had inspected the property. Council President Hill said he and Councilman Van Dusen had done so and it looked pretty flat to him. Kjell Stoknes, Director of Community Development, said the map shows there are some areas in the property that are potentially unstable when developed. Council President Hill said before there are any buildings on the property there would have to be a soils report and tests for stability. Mr. Stoknes agreed that would be required. Councilman Traynor said he would like to ask the applicant if he planned to build homes on the property. Mr. Frank Todd, applicant, said he might build homes or townhouses. Council President Hill asked if there was a rezone request with the County would the City be allowed input. Mr. Stoknes said the City would be notified of the rezone request and they could submit recommendations. Councilman Van Dusen said the Comprehensive Plan established guidelines for the City to follow and plan for future development of the City. Councilman Pesicka asked if someone comes in and asks for sewer connection is it reasonable to turn it down because of a future zone request that might be made. Councilman Traynor said Mr. Todd might request a rezone stating he had just invested thousands of dollars in the sewer and now he wanted to build apartments on the property. He said the City is not obligated to sewer any property outside the City limits. Joanne Davis, audience, asked what the present zoning is on the property. Mr. Stoknes said it is R -1. Mayor Bauch said the way you control sewers is the way you control land use. Once a sewer is put in it is ready for development. It takes the land out of farming and commits the use of the land. Councilman Van Dusen said if septics are put in on the property then in a few years the City will come along and say sewers have to be put in. Council President Hill asked if Tukwila wants to sewer the area. He said he hated to see septic tanks put in when we are going to clean up the City. Mr. Stoknes said the point is does the Council want to use City services for property to become part of the City. You are extending the use of the City sewer to a property outside of the City. Do you want to use that as encouragement for annexation? You have to make policy decisions on this type of question. Do you want to make deci- sions right now when you are close to having a plan you want to adopt. Council President Hill said it did not work too well when we went out- side the City and formed an L.I.D. and then the annexation was turned down. MOVED BY SAUL, THAT THE COUNCIL CONSIDER THIS REQUEST AFTER THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS COMPLETED. MOTION FAILED FOR LACK OF A SECOND. Mr. Todd said in view of the fact that any request seemed to meet with disapproval he wished to withdraw his request. He stated he would like a letter of rejection. Council President Hill said he would send a letter and attach the Minutes of the Meeting. Review of Golf Kjell Stoknes, Director of Community Development, said the bond issue Course Proposals on the Foster Golf Course passed. He said the staff had mailed out Foster Golf proposals for an analysis of Foster Golf Course to four firms and had Course received reports from the firms. He said it turned out Mithun and Associates had submitted the low bid. He said each of the firms was made aware that the City wanted the cost breakdown on how they arrived at the cost. He said the recommendation they made is to give the building to Mithun and Associates and the landscaping to Chaffee Zumwalt, although Mithun would prefer not to have it broken up. He saic TUKWILA CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING Febraury 14, 1977 Page 2 DISCUSSION Contd. Review of Golf Course Proposals Foster Golf Course Contd. /7yG by separating the building and landscaping $173 would be saved. Mr. Bill Aliment, part owner of Foster Golf Course, said he did not believe the City should spend $8,000 for an analysis of Foster Golf Course. He said the Golf Course is operating now and we could supply information that is needed. He said they could lock it up one night and the City could take over the next day. He said he was afraid the City would end up spending $8,000 and get nothing but a ground plan to put on the wall. He said there is just maintenance required and now and again things need repair and upkeep. He said these are not monumental expen- ses. He said he knew the golf course and has offered his advice. He said he thought Mithun has the best proposal for the money but he did not think it necessary to spend that amount of money. Councilman Pesicka said she went on a tour of the golf course some time ago and it seemed there were areas that needed to be worked on. Mr. Bill Aliment said there are areas that require some work, they are trying to get it done. Mr. Aliment introduced some of the Board Members of the Golf Club. Mayor Bauch said there is no one in the City who has operated a golf course. He said when you do not know what you are purchasing you get recommendations from someone other than the seller. He said the City is trying to consider all angles, we want to know what we will have to do to make it an operating course. Mr. Stoknes said this is the reason staff mailed out the proposals and asked for costs by the item, then if we did not want one item it could be taken off. Councilman Van Dusen said the acquisition of the golf course was sold to the public as a recreation facility. He asked if it was going to be used as bike trails, long distance running, etc. Mr. Bill Aliment said the City would have to be careful about liabilities if the golf course is used for bike trails, or runners, as a traveling golf ball is dangerous. Council President Hill said it might be possible for the 18 holes to be realined and 5 acres for recreation be gained in that way. In changing the parking a possible 2 acres might be gained for a community center for activites for senior citizens and others. Mr. Ben Aliment, part owner of Foster Golf Course, said there are several possibilities for additional recreation. He said the clubhouse has about the same footage as the proposed City Hall. That would make a community center and a small clubhouse could be built. In that way 5 to 10 acres could be gained. MOVED BY TRAYNOR, SECONDED BY SAUL, THAT THE GOLF COURSE PROPOSALS FROM CONSULTANTS FOR ANALYSIS OF FOSTER GOLF COURSE BE ON THE AGENDA OF THE FEBRUARY 22, 1977 REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING. Mr. Stoknes said in considering the analysis of the Foster Golf Course consideration had not been given to other recreation at this time. He said he felt it is a business the City is buying and it has to be related to golf. He said he thought the other functions suggested should not interfere with the golf course. Mayor Bauch said the river banks could and should be developed for other things. Mr. Stoknes said his recommendation would be one step at a time get it going as a golf course and then see what is available. Mr. Bill Smith, audience, said the golf club dues are due the first of April and the members would like to know who is going to run the establishment. He said the men's group have a suggestion they would like to see the pros who are running it now take over and run it after it changes hands. Council President Hill said the City has never had a golf course and he did not know if the City would have to go out for a bid or not. Mr. Stoknes said there are some municipal courses who have a pro manager who gets a salary and percentage of the greens fee, some get percentage of greens fee only. He said it was not known if the restaurant is profitable enough to have it run separately. *CARRIED. RECESS MOVED BY SAUL, SECONDED BY MS. PESICKA, THAT THE COMMITTEE OF THE 8:40 P.M. -8:55 P.M. WHOLE MEETING RECESS FOR 15 MINUTES. CARRIED. The meeting was called back to order by Council President Hill with Council Members present as previously listed. MOVED BY TRAYNOR, SECONDED BY SAUL, THAT ITEM 10 OF THE AGENDA BE CONSIDERED AT THIS TIME. CARRIED. TUKWILA CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING February 14, 1977 Page 3 DISCUSSION Contd. Prop. Ord. Adoption of OMC Prop. Ord. Approp. Funds amending Ord. #1002 Prop. Ord. Establ. new land use appl. fee 71/7 Waiver from Res. #489, Boeing Engineers' Kjell Stoknes, Director of Community Development, pointed out the area Property involved on a wall map. He stated Mr. Thorpe of R. W. Thorpe Associates, in his letter of February 1, 1977 had requested a waiver to allow R -4 zoning on a 15 acre parcel located south of the Tukwila Elementary School between South 151st and South 153rd Streets, commonly referred to as the Boeing Engineers' property. The modified proposal is for multiple family development of 304 356 units. Varied densities are proposed: apartments (30 units /acre) on the south 6 -62 acres; townhouse /condominiums (16 20 units /acre) on the central 6 -62 acres; and duplex and triplex (8 10 units /acre) on the north 2 -22 acres. Mr. Stoknes said Staff has recommended denying the waiver request because the proposed rezone is inconsistent with the emerging Comprehensive Plan in that densities within this site will have a significant effect on future surrounding densities. He said the proposed action would necessitate a major alteration not only in policy but density gradation of residential development as well, the funda- mental concept of residential growth envisioned by the emerging plan. He said the Environmental Impact Statement for the new Comprehensive Plan has been distributed for comment and a Public Hearing before the Planning Commission is scheduled for March 24, 1977. Adoption of the Plan may not be far off. Mr. Bob Thorpe of R. W. Thorpe Associates presented drawings and maps of the proposed development, showing the varied densitites they were proposing. Councilman Traynor asked the acreage where Canyon Estates were built. Mr. Stoknes said it was about 10 acres and contained 186 units with a density of about 25 units per acre, La Vista has 36 units per acre, Graydon Smith has about 23 units per acre. MOVED BY TRAYNOR, SECONDED BY VAN DUSEN, THAT THE WAIVER REQUEST BE ON THE AGENDA OF THE FEBRUARY 22, 1977 REGULAR MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. CARRIED. Council President Hill said he had conveyed the request of the Council to the City Attorney and he had added an amendment. Councilman Traynor said he was not satisfied with the wording of Section 4 and 6, it did not specifically say when the Finance Director would begin, what his duties would be, or the fact that the office of treasurer was being phased out, what the duties of treasurer would be after the Finance Director was hired and until the elected term of office was over. He said the amendment still did not say what they wanted it to say. Council President Hill said the information he had given the City Attorney was that the Treasurer was to take care of investments after the Finance Director was hired in June and the Finance Director would take care of the rest of the finances of the City. He said the Council had discussed the fact that you cannot have two bosses, the Finance Director would have a conflict until the term of office was over. Councilman Van Dusen said it was his opinion that the Finance Director would have control of the two departments the City Clerk and the Treasurer; one will be for expenditures and one for revenues. The Finance Director will not just take over the duties of the Treasurer he will take over all finance of the City. Councilman Traynor said he would like the Council President to put the amendment down in writing and let the City Attorney put it into legal terms. MOVED BY TRAYNOR, SECONDED BY SAUL, THAT THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT PUTS THE AMENDMENT IN THE LANGUAGE HE SEES FIT THEN SUBMIT IT TO THE CITY ATTORNEY TO BE PUT INTO LEGAL LANGUAGE. CARRIED. Council President Hill said as soon as it is returned by the City Attorney it will be brought back to the Council for consideration. MOVED BY TRAYNOR, SECONDED BY VAN DUSEN, THAT THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING FUNDS AND AMENDING BUDGET ORDINANCE #1002 BE ON THE AGENDI OF THE FEBRUARY 22, 1977 REGULAR MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. CARRIED. MOVED BY TRAYNOR, SECONDED BY MS. PESICKA, THAT THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING NEW LAND USE APPLICATION FEES BE ON THE AGENDA OF THE FEBRUARY 22, 1977 REGULAR MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. CARRIED. TUKWILA CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING February 14, 1977 Page 4 DISCUSSION Contd. Prop. Res. Authorizing Mayor to renew agreement with RAYS Prop. Res. Authorizing Mayor to execute Deferred Compensation Plan Prop. Res. Author. Mayor to sign labor agreement between City Tukwila Police Guild Vacant Council Position Prop. Contract w /Seattle office of cable communication Animal Control Services Interlocal Agreement Special Meeting Prop. Re. Author. Mayor to enter a Dev. Agreement w /Monty R. Cooke Prop. Res. Author. Mayor to enter Deve. Agreement w /John C. Radovich Councilman Van Dusen said he had talked to quite a few people about services from RAYS and he had some good reports and some not so good. He said there are other services available through the County. Councilman Traynor asked if the breakdown report was all service to Tukwila people. Mayor Bauch said an audit was run last June and every case number had a Tukwila address there were four or five on the report for that month. Councilman Van Dusen said the Highline Youth Service Bureau is proved by the County. Mayor Bauch said the services provided by them are short term and there is no follow -up. Councilman Van Dusen said he thought they should look at the services that are available and see what services are offered. He said he thought they should have a representative from RAYS and one from Highline come to the Council and explain their services. Anne Altmayer, audience, asked how much was spent for RAYS last year. Council President Hill said it had cost about $4,600 for part of the year, and $6,000 has been budgeted for 1977. Council Presidnet Hill asked Councilman Van Dusen to make arrangements for representatives from RAYS and High line Youth Services to attend the Committee of the Whole Meeting on February 28, 1977 so they can present the services offered by each. Councilman Traynor said he was afraid all this would do is cost the City money. Councilman Van Dusen said it cannot cost the City money if the City Council does not let it. Council President Hill said right now we give 100% medical; before that 75% and before that 50% and before that we did not have it. He said right now it is employee paid only but at the time of the next negotiation it is going to be matching funds from the City. MOVED BY VAN DUSEN, SECONDED BY HILL, THAT THE PROPOSED RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA BE ON THE AGENDA OF THE FEBRUARY 22, 1977 REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING. CARRIED, WITH TRAYNOR VOTING NO. Council President Hill said the proposed resolution authorizing the Mayor to sign the labor agreement between the City and the Tukwila Police Guild would be on the agenda of the February 22, 1977 Regular Council Meeting. Council President Hill said he had received four letters of application for the vacant Council position. The letters were from L. C. Bohrer, John E. Richards, Anne Altmayer, and Leo J. Sowinski. He said the Council would interview each of the applicants on February 21, 1977 starting at 7:00 p.m. MOVED BY TRAYNOR, SECONDED BY SAUL, THAT THE PROPOSED RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH THE CITY OF SEATTLE TO PROVIDE CERTAIN SERVICES AS LISTED IN SECTION I OF THE CONTRACT CONCERNING COMMUNITY ANTENNA TELEVISION BE ON THE AGENDA OF THE FEBRUARY 22, 1977 REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING. CARRIED. Councilman Saul asked how the law was going to be enforced. Mayor Bauch stated by calling the animal control. They do not know if the animals are running loose if they are not called. MOVED BY TRAYNOR, SECONDED BY SAUL, THAT THE PROPOSED AGREEMENT BE ON THE AGENDA OF THE FEBRUARY 22, 1977 REGULAR MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. CARRIED. Mayor Bauch announced there would be a special meeting of the City Council on February 16, 1977 to consider plans for the new City Hall. Council President Hill said this proposed resolution would be on the agenda of the February 28, 1977 Committee of the Whole Meeting. Council President Hill said this proposed resolution would be on the agenda of the February 28, 1977 Committee of the Whole Meeting. TUKWILA CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING February 14, 1977 Page 5 Frank Kreider Electric Fence ADJOURNMENT 10:35 P.M. /7L/ Mr. Frank Kreider, audience, said he wanted to put up an electric fence and he wondered if he would need a permit, or if there was an ordinance that governs fences. Mayor Bauch said a letter had been received from Mr. Kreider and it had been referred to the City Attorney for reply. MOVED BY VAN DUSEN, SECONDED BY SAUL, THAT THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING ADJOURN. CARRIED. Norma Booher, Recording Secretary