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HomeMy WebLinkAbout01 25 1994 CM15 COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES January 25, i99~ Minutes of regular meeting held at city municipal building, January 25, 1994. Present: Mayor John O. Cotant, Council members Steven M. England, W. Dean Wood, Marvin C. Gunter, Attorney Thomas J. Holmes, Public Works Director Steven M. Smart and City Clerk Ron C. Conlin. Councilman Leroy S. Quick was excused. Meeting was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Mayor Cotant. INVOCATION was given by Bishop Dennis Stoddard, 48th. Ward, Tyhe~ Stake, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Mayor Cotant asked for corrections or additions to regular meeting minutes of January 11, 1994. Councilman Wood moved to approve regular meeting minutes of January il, 1994 as read. Councilman England seconded. All council members present, voted in favor of motion. members voted in favor of motion. ORDINANCE - Adding Chapter 10.2Q, "Resident only parking permit areas" to the Chubbuck Municipal Code, designating portions of Victor Ave., Teton St. and Bonanza Ave. as permit only parking areas. City Clerk Conlin was directed to send residents across from Cotant Park a copy of the ordinance, inviting them to comment at tonight's Council Meeting. Mayor Cotant read the ordinance in full, for the second reading. Charles Myers, 4646 Teton expressed concern this ordinance might take care of problems in front of his home and homes facing the park, but, the ordinance will make people park further into the subdivision causing parking problems for residents not facing the park, can this ordinance include those people also. Mr. Myers asked if there can be more parking opened up to the south of the park. Councilman England suggested most of the problems are caused by people not wanting to walk any more than they have to. Councilman England stated the south end of the park is owned by the School District. 17 ORDINANCE - PARKING PERMIT - (cont.) David Robinson, 4654 Teton agreed people will not walk any further than they have to. Reed Morrison, 4708 Teton, felt a lot of the problem could be taken care of with more police in area, both daytime and night. There is considerable speeding in area. Mr. Morrison suggested a lot of parents take two cars, when they could car pool. City should check with Church, make sure it is okay for baseball and soccer people to park in their lot, if so, advise baseball and soccer officials, so they can advise parents, etc. After discussion, the Council decided to table the ordinance until the February 8, 1994 Council Meeting. ORDINANCE Amending Section 15.40.010, new commercial use of existing property; to clarify when the ordinance is effective and to further clarify said ordinance is not applicable to any transfer where the use of the property does not change. Attorney Holmes read ordinance in full for the second reading. Council decided to table the ordinance until the February 1994 Council Meeting, ORDINANCE #404 Amending Chapter 18.12.030 (I), of the Chubbuck Municipal Code to require paved driveway connecting the public right of way with any required off-street parking spaces, to require appropriate striping. Councilman England read Ordinance #404 in full for the 3rd. and final resding. Councilman England moved to adopt Ordinance #404 as read. Councilman Gunter seconded. Roll Call Vote: Quick, absent; England, yes; Wood, yes; Gunter, yes. ORDINANCE #405 - Amending Section 18.12.03 (L) to allow a Class III Production Building to be used as a production building sales office. Councilman Gunter read Ordinance #405 in full for the 3rd. and final reading. 19 ORDINANCE #405 - (cont.) Councilman Gunter moved to adopt Ordinance #405 as read. Councilman Wood seconded. Roll Call Vote: Quick, absent; England, yes; Wood, yes; Gunter, yes. ORDINANCE Amending temporary signs; signs. Chapter 15.24 to provide limitations to provide for a permit for temporary on Councilman Wood read ordinance in full for the second reading. Councilman England asked if home sale signs would be affected by this ordinance, if so can they be exempted. Political signs are not affected. Council decided to table the ordinance, until the February 8, 1994 Council Meeting. ORDINANCE #406 - An ordinance enacting a moratorium on permitted Industrial uses in any Industrial Land Use District lying within the area described as beginning at the north right of way of Interstate 15, then north parallel to and lying 800 feet either side of the railroad tracks to the northern most point of the City being south of Siphon Rd.; provided any such permitted industrial Uses within such area must apply for a conditional use permit. Attorney Holmes read Ordinance #406 in full for the first reading. Councilman England moved to dispense with the rule requiring Ordinance ~406 to be read on three separate days. Councilman Gunter seconded. Roll Call Vote: Quick, absent; England, yes; Wood, yes; Gunter, yes. Councilman Wood moved to adopt Ordinance #406 as read. Councilman England seconded. Roll Call Vote= Quick, absent; England, yes; Wood, yes; Gunter, yes. DAYCARE FACILITY APPLICATIONS H. Wayne Robinson, Mother Goose Pre-School & Daycare, 420 W. Chubbuck Rd. and Nelda Kugler, Just for Kids, 4801 Whitaker Rd. have applied for license to operate day care centers. Police Department suggested approval of licenses. DAYCARE PACILITY APPLICATIONS - (cont.) 21 Councilman Gunter moved to approve Day Care Facility Licenses to H. Wayne Robinson, Mother Goose Pre-School & Daycare, 420 W. Chubbuck Rd. and Nelda Kugler, Just for Kids at 4801 Whltaker Rd. Councilman Wood seconded. All council members present voted for motion. RESOLUTION #1-94 -SANITATION RATE INCREASE A resolution of the City, amending the rates to be charged by the City of garbage collection provided through the municipal sanitary service system. Councilman England moved to adopt Resolution #1-94 as presented. Councilman Wood seconded. All council members present voted in favor of motion. WATER RATES AND NEW PRODUCTION WELLS - PWD Smart presented spreadsheet analysis of the water rates and the cost of three test wells and two new production wells. a PWD Smart said three test wells are estimated at $59,000.00 each, the two production wells are estimated at $44,600.00 each, for a total of $504,000.00. The Judicial confirmation will be approx. $4,000.00, bond counsel is approx. $5,000.00 for a grand total of $516,000.00. PWD Smart said we have sufficient funding in other line items to use temporarily so we can get the test wells underway. PWD Smart suggested we go to Judicial confirmation and sell a bond for the total amount as soon as we possibly can. PWD Smart stated he computed the water rates using the budget, including the annual cost of well loan money, we should adjust our water rates to $9.5~ per month minimum, and $0.70 per thousand gallons. Stanley Jenkins, 6002 Eden asked why the City of Chubbuck~s Water, Sewer and Sanitation rates went from $23.80 to $38.60 in approx, seven years. Councilman England explained getting new computer models have made us realize we were not using accurate figures to establish rates. Discussion about Depreciation Funds accumulated for purchase of worn out equipment to operate the City. WATER RATES, TEST WELLS AND NEW PRODUCTION WELLS - (cont.) PW~ Smart stated he received the following professional services, for test wells quotes: CH2M HiLL KELLER ASSOCIATES 21,000.00 $ 21,000.00 PWD Smart stated professional services do not have to go out for bid. These people will put together the specifications so we can advertise the wells for bid. Considerable discussion about installation of a secondary water system in the City· PWD Smart stated if a secondary system is the way to go, we need to prepare standards, etc., then adopt an ordinance requiring new developments to install the secondary system. Councilman England moved to, I) Authorize Mayor Cotant to enter into contract with consultant. 2) Authorize Staff to get going on the Judicial Confirmation and Bond Counsel. 3) Authorize preparation of a resolution increasing water rates to be presented at the February 8, 1994 Council Meeting. Councilman Wood seconded. All council members present voted in favor of motion. GENERAL DISCUSSION PWD Smart stated he received the completed contracts from the State on Chubbuck Rd. & Hlilne Rd. intersection improvements, PWD Smart will send to consultant, the engineer will have 120 days to complete the engineering on the pro3ect. By fall, the pro3ect should be ready to go to contract. Charles Myers, 4646 Teton asked if street lights on Victor St. can be repaired, Mr. Myers was directed to report the address to City Office. Charles Myers, 4646 Teton complained about baseballs hitting his pickup on Teton, even though the backstop states "no one over the age of 12 can play on the field", teenagers and some adults do it anyway. City will put additional signs up on the field. CLAIMS - Computer print-out claims Council. 25 presented to Mayor Cotant and Councilman Wood moved to approve computer print-out claims as presented. Councilman Gunter seconded. All council members present voted in favor of motion. At 10:I7 p.m., Councilman England moved, Councilman Gunter seconded, with full council approval to adjourn meeting. ~ohn O. Cotant, Mayor Ron C. Conlin, City Clerk MEMORANDUM ~ ' ' TO: Mayo~, ~ity Council FROM: Steven M. Smart DATE: January 25, 1994 RE: Water rates and new production wells. I have prepared a spreadsheet analysis of the water rates and the cost of three test wells and two new production wells. The spreadsheet of the cost of wells is shown as Table 1. You can see that three test wells are estimated at $59~100.00 and two production wells are estimated at $44,600.00 for a total of $504,000.00. I have also estimated judicial confirmation at $7~000.00 and bond counsel at $5,000.00 for a grand total of $516,000.00. I have computed the annual cost for this capital improvement using an interest rate of 8% using a term length of 10, 15, 20 or 30 years. I used the 15 year term length for the remainder of the computations in the water rates. We have sufficient funding in other line items to use temporarily and get the test wells underway. We should go to judicial confirmation and sell a bond for the total amount as soon as we possibly can. You probably noticed in the latest City report that the legislature is considering eliminating judicial confirmation from the Idaho Code. Judicial confirmation is a legal process that cities can go through that would allow the judiciary to confirm that the proposed expenditure is ordinary and necessary for the operation of the enterprise system. Thus~ allowing the cities to go out and pledge revenues against a loan without having to have a bond election. I have computed the water rates using the budget without new production wells and find that we should charge $9.00 per month minimum plus $0.60 per thousand gallons. This is an increase of $0.10 per thousand gallons. When I include the annual cost of well loan money which I estimated at $61,000.00 we need to adjust our rates $9.50 per month minimum and $0.70 per thousand gallons. D!TY OF £:HUBBUCK NEW ~-~mr~.'~.~-'-n~.~ .~ I ~ COST ESTIM~,E SMS 1-19-94 WELLCOST TEST WELLS: DRILLING SAMPLING/TESTING: ABANDON: ENGINEERING; UNIT COST COST FOR THREE $1D,O00.O0 $S0,000.00 $Z,SOO.O0 $4,5E0.00 $i,000.00 S3,000.00 $21,600.00 $12,500.00 $59~100.00 PRODUCTION WELLS: DRILLING: PROPERTY: ENGINEERING; PUMP, MOTOR, BUILDING: UNII COST COST FOR TWO $90,000.00 $180,000.00 $4,000.00 SB,O00.O0 $16,200.00 ELECTRI $95,000.00 $i90,000.00 $25,000.00 $50,000.00 WATER RIGHT APPLICAT $200.00 $400.00 $214,200.00 $444,600.00 TOTAL ESTIMATED COST FOR 3 TEST WELLS AND TWO PRODUCTION WELLS; LOAN/BOND COSTS: JUDICIAL CONFIRMATION: BONO COUNSEL: TOTAL: $505,700.00 $7,000.00 $5,000.00 $515,700.00 ANNUAL COST OF WELL CONSTRUCTION COST: AT INTEREST RATE (APR, ~): TERM LENGTH (YEARS): 8.00 10 15 2O 3O $76,854.51 $60,249.00 $52,525.18 $45,808.31 [TY DF CHUBBUCK WATER RATES RNALYBIS ~E-EXIRR CAPACITY METHDD WORKSHEET - PAGE I DF 2 !i,KLi3 LINE ALLOCAT20N OF BUDGET EXPENSES *~$EXIRR CAPRCI~ ~ **'~CUSTO?~ER CD>TS~*~ TOiAL BASE MAXIMUM MRXTMUH METERS & BILLING COOl COST DAY HOUR SERVICES IDMiH./ACCTG/BILLG: $2~,B~4.00 $4B,500.00 $13,?00,00 $6,850,00 RAKOKiSS!o~/rBIDRAGE$1G2,1B~,O0 $40,53B,00 DISTRIBUTION $2B,550,00 $12,775.00 3OUIPMENT/VEH]CLES $70,575.00 $21,172.50 $1~5,462,5~ $3B,233,18 $35,017,00 $6,B$0,00 $16,215,20 $64,860,80 $40,53B.00 $12,T75.00 $45,B7~.75 $3,525.75 $570,371.00 $171,016.18 $16,215.20 $106,727.80 $254,649.29 $4L,762.53 :USTDMER CLASS UNITS DF SERVICE ALLOCATION ********************** *******************************************************_************************** ANNUAL AVERAGE PEAKIRG TOTAL EXTRA ~EAKING TOTAL EXTRA METERS & USE RAlE FACTOR CAPACIIY CAPACIlY FACTOR CAPACIIT CAPACITY SERVICES k ~al k 8pd k 8pd k ODd k ~pd k ODd ~ILLS O~STRIAL 0 1.00 TOTALS: 13 IETERED YATER ALLONEO PER MONI~ PER EDU!V. NETEP: TOTAL WATER ANNUAL USE lES8 ALLOWED WATER: UNIT COSTE OF SERVICE lOYAL BASE COST (~zzEXTRR GRPACITTz~z){~:~zE:UBTOP, EF; COSTSZ:zz) DIP, ECl MAX, DAY MAX, HSm'JP METERS ~ BiLLiNG & F~R~ PROTECT SERVICES COLLECTING SERY1CE DF SERVICE: 584394 2457 4970 2489 25256 units: k gal k gpd k gpd e~uiv.meters b~lls BUDGET EXPENSES: $570,~7i.00 $171.016.18 $I6,215.20 $106,727.80 $2&4,649,29 cost (S/unit): $0.4449 $6,5990 $2],47G0 $94,2745 $],6549 )ASE-EXTRA CAPACITY METHOD WORKSHEET - PAGE 2 OF 2 ~ESIGN OF ~IM]MUN MONTHLY COSlS CUSTOMER COSTS: MEIER SIZE - S/8 ~ &/i resid~ntiml i~LIHG & COL[ECIlH~ fflH. JSOHTHLY CHAP, GE: per month ............ per month 3LUMITRiC BASE AHD EXIRA CAPACITY COSTS: ~ COIT ~ $0.44 per kg!l $0.4~ per kgal-mo DAY EX CAP COST~ $6,6D per kgpd EX FACTOR i.~B per kg&l-mo !AX HR EX CAF: COST8 $2i,4B pmr kgpd EX CAP FACTOR 3.60 IOIAL ¥OLUMETRIC CHAR6E: $0.2i per kgs~-mo $0.6~ per kgal-mo METER SIZE MIHIMUM ~ONTHL¥ CHARGES BY ~ETER SIZE EQUZV FACTOR ~OHTHLY MONTHLY !OTAL MONTHL ALLOWED BY FLOW BASE ¢~AR~E B]~ING CHRG BASE CHARGE WATER 5/8x~/4, 3/4 1.000 ?.B6 1.65 g.51 4.00 I inch 1.667 1),10 1.65 1(.75 6,00 1.5 inch &.~22 25,31 1.65 26.97 12.00 2 inch B.OB& )~.g~ 1.65 41.5g ~0.00 ~ inch 10.77B 84.~1 1.65 8~,~ 4~.00 4 inch 1%778 139.67 1.65 141.)2 71.00 6 inch )6,111 28~.T0 .1.65 2BB,)5 144.00 8 inch 56,667 445.1~ 1,65 MEMORANDUM TO: Mayo~ Cotant, City Council FROM: Steven M. Smart January 21, 1994 DATE: RE: Sanitation rates. We have successfully converted to Snake River Sanitation for our commercial container refuse collection. I have analyzed the rates to determine what charges we should assess against the commercial customers. As >ou recall from our council discussion in November there is really no savings in expenses realized by this privatization. My final rate analysis shows that it is slightly more expensive. Snake River Sanitation (SRS) has determined their rates on a different basis than we. I have had to make some modifications in my own rate model to make everything work out. Our contract with SRS is strictly to provide containers and dump and haul solid waste from the containers to the landfill. We are still obligated to pay to the County $177,000.00 a year on the landfill construction as well as bill and collect and perform other sanitation services in the City. The City needs to charge the customers over and above the SRS charges in order to pay for those services. I have taken the sanitation budget and eliminated all expenses related to the commercial container aspect of the operation I have reduced the salaries by a proportional amount and eliminated every charge that we feel we can. You will see on he budget that I have indicated by each line item whether or not the line item should be included in the base cost, time cost, weight cost, etc. Figure 2 is the rate design work sheet for the sanitation department based on the budget shown in figure 1. You will see that I have separated out the landfill construction costs (177,060.00) and put it entirely into the weight portion. This fee, I feel, should be charged in proportion to the amount of the landfill used by the various customers. I have also separated out bags and the SRS collection charges and put them in separate items in the rate design work sheet. Since SRS uses different sized containers and dumps them once or twice a week I have chosen the common denominator of "cubic yards dumped" for the rate model. As shown in figure 2 the City will need to charge $2].40 per month per "cubic yard dumped" weekly plus a once a month charge of $4.00 to the commercial customers. Figure 3 is a table showing how the charges now compare to earlier charges when the City did both collection and hauling. The last column, column L, in figure 3 shows the difference in charges between when the City did all of the collection and hauling and the charges now under the private hauling contract and the rate model I have used to develop rates. Page 1 of 2 This rate analysis (Table 2) also shows that we need to charge our residential customers $12.80 per month. This is $0.20 Rreater than our current charge. I believe the change is a result of my handling of the bag cost. Earlier rate models included the bags in the weight portion and were distributed between both commercial and residential customers. Commercial customers would have carried about 42% of the cost of the bags, but I have now put the bags all in the responsibility of the bag customers. I have prepared a rate resolution adjusting sanitation rates by the amounts shown in this rate design model. If .~'ou have ant questions regarding this please feel free to contact me at the City offices. Page 2 of 2 ~ SMALL UTiLiTY SA~]IATIOM RATE BUDGET LIME TOTAL BASE TIME WEIGHi BAGS SAS COLLECT2 5 $ $ 5 $ CHARGE $ BASE CUSiDMER COSTS: TOTAL CUS!LKERb, NORTHLY SASE CHA~GE: PER CUSTOMER ~E..ZDE~.,IAL/uR~ CUSTONEF, COSi5: !00% OF TiME $: $55,056.00 57,5~ DE WEZGkT $: 5!07,458,87 BA~S ~: $S5,000,00 TOTAL: ko, OF RES/BAG CUSTO HOMTHLY RES/BAG CHaR 58,82 IOiAL RES,/BAG NORTHLY CHARGE: C:GM~ERC]AL COR,~IR~R COSTS: 0% OF TIME 5: 50,00 42,5% OF WEIGHT 5: 579,426,iS SRS COLLEOTIDR 5: TOTAL: CONTAINER VOLUME (CY ~?0 ,~R H~, CDHI, CHRG 521.3] PER CY CDNHEROZAL CONTA]MEF SERViCE MONTH? CHARGE: $2,.~. PER CY DUMPED $3.94 PER MONTH