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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983-07-05 Regular MinutesJuly 5, 1983 7:00 P.M. FLAG SALUTE AND CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL OF COUNCIL MEMBERS OFFICIALS IN ATTENDANCE REPORTS Mayor Council Members Attorney SPEAKER Jim Strunk, Risk Manager for Puget Sound Cities In- surance Authority TUKWILA CITY COUNCIL Regular Meeting M I N U T E S Tukwila City Hall Council Chambers Mayor Van Dusen led the Pledge of Allegiance and called the regular meeting of the Tukwila City Council to order. GEORGE D. HILL, LIONEL C. BOHRER, MABEL J. HARRIS, Council President, DORIS E. PHELPS, EDGAR D. BAUCH, WENDY A. MORGAN. JEFF WISHKO, Deputy City Attorney; MAXINE ANDERSON, City Clerk; BYRON SNEVA, Public Works Director; DON WILLIAMS, Recreation Director, SHARON WYLIE, Personnel Manager. 3q Mayor Van Dusen noted that he has received a letter from the State Jail Commission notifying him that the City of Tukwila Police holding facility is in full compliance with the regulations. Councilman Bauch said the Fire Department had two calls for brush fires on his street over the weekend and they did a good job. Jeff Wishko, Deputy City Attorney, reported on the current status of the Allenbach lawsuit. A settlement conference was held in the Court of Appeals. Dr. Allenbach agreed to a stay of the proceedings in his appeal on the zoning code case pending the determination by the Supreme Court on the case involving the building permit application. This will save the City considerable attorney fees. He reported further on the new traffic in- fraction law that makes it illegal to have an open bottle con- taining an alcoholic beverage in a moving vehicle. This law has not been adopted in Tukwila, therefore, the Police cannot enforce this law until Council determines whether they want to adopt it. Councilman Bohrer said he attended a meeting of the Sea -Tac Noise Remedy Update Study Technical Working Committee on June 29, 1983. The committee had reviewed a number of draft working statements that will eventually be in the final documents. Com- ments he made to the committee were: (1) Tukwila should be in- cluded in the study area; and (2) A noise monitor should be in- stalled on the east side of the airport. The noise Tukwila is receiving is unmonitored at the present. Councilman Phelps reported that Tukwila's comments on the draft plan of South Valley Highway and Street Corridors were presented to the Council of Governments Transportation Committee along with those of other cities. Mr. Strunk, Risk Manager for the Puget Sound Cities Insurance Authority, explained that they are a municipal pool in Washington State. He explained the general concept behind municipal insurance pooling. Several years ago, a number of cities got together and decided to implement an insurance pool. The pool is an attempt to take an area that has been handled by insurance companies and manage the financial resources internally in a management or organizational setting. They have had enough success with the idea in the first three years that they have decided to open up the pool for membership. The pool is a financing mechanism. It allows small cities the chance to secure the type of insurance coverage they need on an annual basis. They have nine cities involved. It allows them to get broader coverage with higher quality companies; allows them to get better price stability; and allows them to purchase professional services if necessary. The overall concept of the pool, aside from the revenue and expenditure component, is a risk sharing component. The nine cities that participate share,on a pro -rata basis, the admini- strative costs, the excess insurance cost, and also share the amount of their losses between a basis deductible level of TUKWILA CITY COUNCIL, REGULAR MEETING July 5, 1983 Page 2 SPEAKER Continued Jim Strunk, Risk Manager, PSCIA (cont.) CONSENT AGENDA Discussion on p. 4 Discussion on p. 4 OLD BUSINESS Resolution #873 Enacting a Comp. Water Plan $10,000 to $25,000 up to $100,000. They had to build up their asset basis so each City contributed the amount of its 1980 premium for the first three years. The requirement for new members will be the same. They will be asked to contribute the amount of their 1983 premium for a period of three years. They have set up an application process for new cities. Each city will be evaluated and the initial fee will be $3,000. a. Approval of Minutes: June 20, 1983, Regular Meeting June 27, 1983, Special Meeting b. Approval of Vouchers Claims Fund Vouchers #15180 #15269 Current Fund $31,832.90 Golf Course Spec. Rev. 1,309.65 Street Fund 6,462.04 Federal Shared Rev. 1,475.25 Water Fund 15,962.54 Sewer Fund 3,672.17 Fireman's Pension 486.30 $61,200.85 c. Salary adjustment for Administrative Assistant Position. d. Approve consultant selection (Horton Dennis Assoc.) for Interurban right -of -way land survey. MOVED BY HILL, SECONDED BY PHELPS, THAT THE CONSENT AGENDA BE APPROVED AS SUBMITTED.* Councilman Bohrer asked to have items 7a, June 20, 1983, Regular Minutes, and 7c, Salary adjustment for Administrative Assistant Posiiton removed from the Consent Agenda. *MOTION CARRIED. MOVED BY HARRIS, SECONDED BY HILL, THAT THE PROPOSED RESOLUTION BE READ BY TITLE ONLY. MOTION CARRIED. Jeff Wishko, Deputy City Attorney, read a resolution of the City of Tukwila, Washington, enacting a Comprehensive Water Plan. MOVED BY HARRIS, SECONDED BY HILL, THAT RESOLUTION NO. 873 BE ADOPTED AS READ.* Councilman Bohrer commented on the memo to Council concerning the proposed Comprehensive Water Plan. The plan before Council is needlessly expensive and does not provide the best service that the City could in such a plan. He listed his priorities in the memo. The main one is to give protection to the resi- dents and second is to provide an efficient water system at the lowest feasible cost. This can be done better by emphasizing supply source -this is wells within the City instead of em- phasizing a system based on storage of water. The proposed approach would let the City have five wells on stream in the latter part of this decade. The approach recommended in the plan would put one well on stream this decade with no coherent program to look at supply alternatives until some time later. The process would be to conduct an exploration at a specific site for a well. This is estimated to be $4,500. If we can produce water, two or three wells are adequate to provide enough water for a normal day. Four to seven wells would be required to provide water on a heavy use day. TUKWILA CITY COUNCIL, REGULAR MEETING July 5, 1983 Page 3 OLD BUSINESS Resolution #873 Enacting a Comp. Water Plan (cont.) NEW BUSINESS Ordinance #1292 Appropriating un- anticipated funds for the completion of a Park Open Space Plan 8:30 P.M. 8 :40 P.M. Councilman Bohrer said there is nothing in the plan that says the City is really going to study supply alternatives. It does not represent what the City should be doing. The pro- posal in his memorandum would change two major sections in the plan. Phase I improvements, Item 1, on Page II -III would be changed to make a 2 million gallon reservoir on the west hill and Item 5 changed to include the budget for a total of 5 wells instead of one. MOVED BY BOHRER, SECONDED BY HARRIS, TO AMEND THE DOCUMENT, COMPREHENSIVE WATER PLAN, DATED MARCH, 1982, TO ADD THE CONTENTS OF HIS MEMORANDUM DATED JULY 5, 1983, ON THE SUBJECT OF COMPREHENSIVE WATER PLAN, MARCH, 1982, (DRAFT) AND TO MAKE THE STUDY OF THE FEASIBILITY OF SUPPLYING WELLS AN EARLY ITEM IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PLAN. Councilman Phelps asked if the motion included the memorandum as an alternative. Councilman Bohrer said it did. He said he would like to see, as an addition, an alternative to the table on Page II -III shown. *MOTION CARRIED. MOVED BY PHELPS, SECONDED BY BAUCH, THAT "PLANNING DIRECTOR" BE INSERTED IN PARAGRAPH NO. 3. MOTION CARRIED. MOVED BY BOHRER, SECONDED BY PHELPS, THAT SECTION 3 BE AMENDED TO READ, "THE PLANNING DIRECTOR OF THE CITY SHOULD PREPARE A FORM DECLARATION OF SIGNIFICANCE /NON- SIGNIFICANCE MOTION CARRIED. *MOTION CARRIED. Council President Harris said the Chamber wanted a definition of "redevelopment" included. Mayor Van Dusen said he would have the Planning Director define it and bring it back to the Committee of the Whole MOVED BY HARRIS, SECONDED BY HILL, THAT THE ORDINANCE BE READ BY TITLE ONLY. MOTION CARRIED. Deputy Attorney Wishko read an ordinance appropriating unanti- cipated funds for completion of a Park and Open Space Plan and a Capital Improvement Project Plan for Foster Golf Links and amending the 1983 budget as adopted by Ord. 1285. MOVED BY HARRIS, SECONDED BY PHELPS THAT ORDINANCE NO. 1292 BE ADOPTED AS READ.* Councilman Morgan asked to see the scope of work for this project. Council recessed for five minutes to allow time to review the document. COUNCILMAN DUFFIE ARRIVED AT THE MEETING. Mayor Van Dusen called the Regular Meeting back to order with all Council Members present. *MOTION CARRIED WITH BAUCH VOTING NO. Mr. Williams explained that some of the fundswill come from unal- located 1983 Block Grant monies and from funds previously allocated for the Upper Foster Park Project. TUKWILA CITY COUNCIL, REGULAR MEETING July 5, 1983 Page 4 NEW BUSINESS Cont. Ordinance #1292 (cont.) Ordinance #1293 Requesting King County to call for an election for annexation of Allentown Naming the Old City Hall Park June 20, 1983 Minutes Salary Adjustment for Admin. Assist. MOVED BY HARRIS, SECONDED BY HILL, THAT COUNCIL APPROVE THE USE OF $1,129 IN UNALLOCATED 1983 TUKWILA POPULATION BLOCK GRANT FUNDS AND THE USE OF PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED $1,283 IN BLOCK GRANT FUNDS THAT WERE APPROPRIATED FOR THE UPPER FOSTER PARK PROJECT FOR THE PARK AND OPEN SPACE PLAN. MOTION CARRIED WITH BAUCH VOTING NO. MOVED BY HARRIS, SECONDED BY DUFFIE, THAT THE PROPOSED ORDI- NANCE BE READ BY TITLE ONLY. MOTION CARRIED. Deputy Attorney Wishko read an ordinance requesting King County to call for an election for annexation of certain territory contiguous to the City of Tukwila (commonly known as "Allentown providing for assumption by said territory of City bonded indebtedness and zoning said territory and declaring an emergency. MOVED BY HARRIS, SECONDED BY HILL, THAT ORDINANCE NO. 1293 BE ADOPTED AS READ.* MOVED BY BAUCH, SECONDED BY DUFFIE, THAT THE ORDINANCE BE ADOPTED DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. MOTION CARRIED. MOVED BY BOHRER, SECONDED BY MORGAN, THAT SECTION 2 BE AMENDED TO INSERT THE DATE SEPTEMBER 20. MOTION CARRIED. *MOTION CARRIED AS AMENDED. Councilman Morgan suggested the Mayor or his designee contact the County Council and follow up on this. Council President Harris offered to go to the meeting when it is on the agenda. Councilman Bauch noted that the policy issues that were asked by the people in the area still have to be addressed. Councilman Morgan said that policy issues are on the agenda for the next Community Affairs Committee. MOVED BY MORGAN, SECONDED BY HARRIS, THAT THE PARK SURROUNDING OLD CITY HALL BE NAMED "HAZELNUT PARK" AND THAT THE CHILDREN'S PLAY AREA WITHIN THE PARK BE NAMED FOR RUDOLF AND MARCELLE REGEL ON BEHALF OF THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMUNITY. MOTION CARRIED. Budget Motion MOVED BY MORGAN, SECONDED BY PHELPS, THAT COUNCIL APPROVE No. 83 -07 BUDGET TRANSFER MOTION NO. 83 -07 IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,500 Approval to pur- TO PURCHASE A COPY MACHINE FOR THE COMMUNITY CENTER. MOTION chase copy machine CARRIED WITH BAUCH AND HILL VOTING NO. for the CommunityCtr. Councilman Bohrer noted on page 3 of the minutes, near the bottom, a statement made by Councilman Hill. He said it should be amended to include both of their names. Councilman Hill asked to have it verbatim. MOVED BY BOHRER, SECONDED BY HILL, TO HAVE THE MINUTES VERBATIM AFTER THE MOTION CONCERNING MAINTENANCE AND SANDING ADDED TO THE JUNE 20, 1983, MINUTES. MOTION CARRIED WITH DUFFIE ABSTAINING. Councilman Bohrer said he asked to have this item on the agenda so Council would have the opportunity to discuss it. He said he had a number of questions on the duties and intent for the use of this person. He asked the Mayor to review how he sees the duties of the person and for what period of time he is asking for the position. Mayor Van Dusen said he is asking for the position to be filled from now until the end of the year. The demands for his time, on his job at the Doubletree, are increasing. It concerns him about the items being set aside. His proposal TUKWILA CITY COUNCIL, REGULAR MEETING July 5, 1983 Page 5 NEW BUSINESS Cont. Salary Adjustment for Admin. Assist. (cont.) EXECUTIVE SESSION 9:30 p.m. 10 :10 p.m. Budget Transfer Motion #83-08- Salary for Admin. Assist. position MISCELLANEOUS Insurance Matter ADJOURNMENT 10 :25 P.M. is to make a slight change in the administration. Mr. Dibble will report to him. He will help the Department Heads with the decisions and speak for the Mayor. He will work about 25 hours per week. Mr. Dibble has a wide range of experience. Councilman Bohrer asked if Mr. Dibble's tasks would be pri- marily administrative /personnel. Mr. Dibble said 25% to 30% would be personnel. Councilman Bohrer commented that at $29.00 per hour, the $10,000 will be gone by the end of October. MOVED BY BOHRER, SECONDED BY HARRIS, THAT COUNCIL GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS THIS PERSONNEL ITEM. MOTION CARRIED. MOVED BY BOHRER, SECONDED BY HARRIS, THAT THE EXECUTIVE SESSION ALSO HANDLE A LEGAL MATTER RELATED TO ONE OF THE LAWSUITS. MOTION CARRIED. Mayor Van Dusen called the regular meeting back to order. MOVED BY HILL, SECONDED BY PHELPS, THAT COUNCIL APPROVE BUDGET TRANSFER MOTION NO. 83 -08.* ROLL CALL VOTE: HILL Yes BOHRER No, I think the City needs professional help. We are making this decision for the wrong reason and in the wrong way. HARRIS No, I don't think there is enough money. We will not get enough time out of him to make it worthwhile. PHELPS Yes DUFFIE Yes BAUCH Yes MORGAN No, I have not seen a scope of work which spells out exactly what products will be produced and what percentage of time will be spent on various func- tions assigned by the Mayor *MOTION CARRIED: 4 Yes; 3 No. MOVED BY BAUCH, SECONDED BY PHELPS, THAT THE INSURANCE MATTER PRESENTED TO COUNCIL THIS EVENING BE CONSIDERED AT THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.* Councilman Phelps commented that this analysis does not commit Council to proceed if it looks like there will be no savings. *MOTION CARRIED. MOVED BY HILL, SECONDED BY PHELPS, THAT THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE TUKWILA CITY COUNCIL ADJOURN. MOTION CARRIED. 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