HomeMy WebLinkAbout09 07 2016 CM Study SessionCITY OF CHUBBUCK
COUNCIL STUDY SESSION MINUTES
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 — 4:00PM
CALL TO ORDER: Mayor England
GENERAL BUSINESS:
1. Discuss process options to update the City's Comprehensive Plan.
Paul Andrus, City Planner reviewed with the council the current comprehensive plan and
the process the City went through to produce the plan that is currently being used.
Rodney Burch, Public Works Director, thinks the current plan is working, however,
would like the zoning designations looked at and would like to include a master
transportation element to the plan. Last year, the Land Use Commission felt that a total
redo was not needed and they have been reviewing one chapter at a time. Small changes
such as grammar and updating data have been made as well as adding elements that state
statute require. Rodney Burch ask the Council; does the council want to do more? What
do we want to include? What is the vision? Three possible suggestions —1. Finish the
Land Use review and take the revised plan to council with public hearings, 2. Hire a
consultant to help staff produce a plan. 3. Hire consultant to produce plan.
Councilmember Lewis doesn't want to rework a plan that is still working and is looking
to just update the items needed. Councilmember Evans does believe there can be some
improvements made to the plan. Councilmember Baumeister would like the forecasting
in the plan updated. Once the forecasting is updated we can see were adjustments would
be warranted. Mayor England suggested that the Council allow the Land Use
Development Commission to finish their work on the plan and then staff will let the
council review for further changes.
2. Discuss cash in lieu of park dedication.
Rodney Burch reviewed the option in the City ordinance that allows a developer to elect
to pay a fee rather than build a park in their development. Mr. Burch used the specific
example of Integrity Estates to show the Council what the cash in lieu of payment would
be and explained the conundrum the city faces. The conundrum being the City would
like to encourage bigger destination parks, but our current ordinance really encourages
small block type parks. Mr. Burch would like to rework the ordinance so that the City's
current vision of parks is what is actually encouraged. The Council would like this
change looked at as quickly as possible. Tom mentioned with this type of change an
impact study would have to be done. It would probably be spring before any ordinance
would be ready to pass.
3. Discuss City Health Insurance Benefits
Scott Gummersall, Human Resource Director, reviewed the current plan with regional
and national comparisons. Mr. Gummersall reviewed the current performance of the
plan. He wants to have a robust discussion as the renewal date for the City is October 1,
2016. Mr. Gummersall did question the City's participation in ELAP when he first
started working for the City but from a financial standpoint he does think it is doing what
they said it would. However, this process is making our employees nervous. The
employees do not like to be in this adversarial relationship with the hospital. Mr.
Gummersall is getting service complaints, from employees, about the administrator,
MBA. One example of a service problem is there is no way to inform the employee of
what doctors are in the approved system without calling MBA. MBA does not have a
great response rate on these calls. Mr. Gummersall would like to look at other changes
such as deductibles and maximum out of pocket. Mr. Gummersall believes the Council
will need to have some extra meetings to process the information on proposals and make
a decision.
4. Discuss parliamentary procedure.
It came to the Mayor's attention, when Mr. Armburster was in front of the Council that
the current procedure of the council has strayed from proper parliamentary procedure.
Mayor England believes the City's meetings could benefit from following a more formal
parliamentary procedure. The Mayor believes that this will help in making sure that
someone who does want to say something wont me missed and gives everyone an
opportunity to be heard.
ADJOURN: Mayor England adjourned the meeting.
Kevin Eng an Mayor Rich Morgan -City Clerk