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MEETINGS: Audio and Summary - July 13, 2005
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COUNCIL MEETING:
Meeting start, changes to Agenda and public comment (0.7 mb, 3:51 min.)
Changes to Agenda: Tolson adds Derek Boyd's excused absence to Consent agenda; removes Res. 05-18 6-yr. Street Plan, pending continued hearing on 8/27; moved published 6:50 exec. session to be held at the end of the council meeting.
Public Comment: Vicky MacIntire commending the Sultan PD for clearing out drug house on 3rd street where she, Bruce Champeaux and former councilman Perry McPherson and former Mayor C. H. Rowe live.
Councilmember and Mayor Tolson Comments (1.2 mb; 7:08 min.)
- Kristina Blair: Confused about Wild Sky date; Tolson states Larsen's office did not have on their calendar, plus Gold Bar now wishes to participate.
- Jim Flower: Great Shindig; comments on Bruce Champeaux's during-Shindig wedding; states Sultan is a GREAT place to live; relates story about his visit to Sam's Saw Shop.
- John SEehuus: Thanks to Sultan PD for clearing out drug house on 3rd; thanks to Chamber and City staff for a well-run Shindig, perhaps the best ever.
- Dusty Boucher: No comment
- Rob Criswell: Thanks to (someone; could not catch the name of the person) for picking up garbage.
- Bruce Champeaux: Echoes Seehuus' comments re Shindig
- Mayor Tolson: Thanks to all for Shindig efforts and to Centennial Committe
STAFF REPORTS
- Sultan PD, Chief Fred Walser (0.8 mb, 4:32 min.): Mentions Shindig was quietest in years and thanked the Chamber of Commerce for payment of Police Overtime on Shindig's Saturday. Gave a summary of a pre-planned high-speed (some members traveling 50 mph) road race that occurred through Sultan and the necessity of Sultan's motorcycles to curtail movements ("If not for the motorcycles, we would not have caught them."). Summarized Officer Marshall's schooling of 14 people in Sultan's Citizen Academy to train them to handle WMD or other emergency events.
- Sultan Police Officer Marshall gave a summary (1.3 mb, 7:21 min) of the training and presented certificates of completion/diplomas to citizens; photo-op that lasted almost three minutes, was deleted from this audio file.
- Public Works, Connie Dunn (0.6 mb, 3:29 min.): Gave update on 5th Street signal project (traffic signalization poles will not be delivered until September). Gave update of the First Street paving/sidewalk project; the final asphalt layer will not be laid until sidewalks are in. Reiterated that Rabanco picks upon MONDAY and works on Monday holidays, like the 4th. People are getting confused as to pick-up day.
- Finance Report, Clerk-Treasurer Laura Koenig (0.4 mb, 2:02 min.): Distributed two 2nd quarter financial reports.
(Consent agenda is included in above Finance report audio file.)
ACTION AGENDA
Resolution 05-19 Banking Options (0.5 mb, 2:50 min) - Approval to switch to Coastal Community Bank from B of A); all ayes.
Resolution 05-15 Salmon Recovery Plan adoption (1.6 mb, 9:16 min): Blair gave summary; comments and discussion by Flower and Criswell) - Blair, Flower, Seehuus and Boucher, aye; Criswell and Champeaux, nay.
Ordinance 885-05 Street Vacation (Near Sno-Country Ford) (2.0 mb, 11:21 min.) - In the absense of Rick Cisar, City Attorney Thom Graafstra gave the staff report. At request of Mayor Tolson, Laura Koenig confirmed that since 2002, no sales taxes have been received from NextCar and that no taxes have been received from SnoCountry Ford, which will be closing. Kristina Blair ran a cost comp on this property and feels $7/sf is a fair price. All ayes.
Resolution 05-17 Facts and Findings of Timber Ridge Preliminary Plat (0.9 mb, 5:22 min.) - Attorney Thom Graafstra gave summary of resolution; all ayes. (Kristina BLair requested that staff/Planning Commission look at 16.80.100 to clarify what "innovative design" means.)
Set Hearing Date for Barclays North/Van Wyngarden LLC 60-acre annexation petition (located at northwest corner of 132nd St. S.E. & Sultan Basin Road) This file is in three parts, as noted below.
- Part 1: (1.7 mb, approx. 9-10 min.): Because there are three property owners that may/will be brought into the City limits "kicking and screaming", Mayor Tolson allowed an open discussion between council and the affected property owners. One woman had heard that her property would be taken; another had heard that their jointly-owned road would be usurped by the development. Val Peck, who made most of the comments for the property owners, mentioned the new, increased and over-blown County assessments that have allowed Barclays to file an annexation petition that does not require approval from the three property owners opposed to the annexation. Justifiable concerns were raised that the stated and planned 200-home development that would result from this annexation would max out city services, especiall sewer, and that no thought has been given regarding the future capacity of the Sultan Basin Road.
- Part 2 (1.7 mb; 9:55 min.): Fears excpressed that "another Eagle Ridge" would be built, i.e., codes wuolkd not be followed during construction, to which Mayor Tolson promised that "All building codds will be adhered to."
- Part 3 (2.0 mb; 11:53 min.): At the request and urging of Councilman Boucher, Donnie Belk from Barclays North came to the podium to assure all that no one's property would be "taken." His/Barclays' stated intention is to hld a neighborhood meeting before the scheduled August 10th Council meeting at which this annexation petition will either be accepted by the City or rejected. Dusty Boucher questioned Tolson as tothe purpose of the 8/10th petition meeting, insinuating that the requirements of that meeting had already been met through the public comments made tonight. Tolson stated the certainty that the property would eventually be developed, no matter what action the council takes during their 8/10 meeting. Councilman Boucher offered effusive praise and thanks to Donnie Belk and Barclays North. (This is certainly a sudden turn-about for Mr. Boucher and runs contrary to his vocal criticism of Barclays' actions last year, when the Councilman was just a high school teacher rather than a new real estate broker.) VAL PECK and CHEREE VIXIE, potential annexees, pointed out the City's responsibilities related to ensuring proper infrastructure was in place and financially supportable, to which Mayor Tolson assured them that the recent fee increases to the sewer and water capital facilities charges and monthly user sewer rates have assured that funding for the necessary/needed infrastructure will be adequately covered. (Mayor Tolson is, as are all Sultan Councilmembers, confused. The recently-adjusted rates and new revenues do not even cover the historicand real costs of the sewer improvements made several years ago, much less necessary improvements to Sultan's sewer capacity.)
DISCUSSION AGENDA
City Staff Organizational Review - Prothman Proposal for assess and review staff, job descriptions, duties, etc. (In two parts: Part 1 is 1.4 mb, 8:40 min.; Part 2 is 1.4 mb and 8:37 min.)
Citywide Survey/Monument Clarification (1.1 mb; 6:46 min)- Several and ongoing property disputes begs the question of how to "fix" the situation. City Attorney Graafstra indicated that the City has no jurisidction in this area and it would be a real hornet's nest (my words, not his) to attempt to accomplish it. Virtually every new development, BLA, short plat or other land use action seems to raise problems and challenges due to these incorrect survey markers.