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06/17/91 City Council Minutes378 A REGULAR MEETING OF THE KALISPELL CITY COUNCIL WAS HELD AT 7:00 P.M. MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1991, IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT CITY HALL. MAYOR RAUTHE PRESIDED. COUNCILMAN ATKINSON WAS ABSENT AND ALL OTHER COUNCILMEMBERS WERE PRESENT. Mayor Rauthe called the meeting to order and led the Pledge of Allegiance. CONSENT AGENDA Approve Minutes -May 20, 1991 June 3, 1991 Approve Claims per Payables Register Buck .moved the approval of the consent agenda. The motion was seconded and carried with a vote. ADDRESSING THE COUNCIL Chamber of Commence Nick Haren, Chamber of Commerce, invited everyone to the Chamber of Commerce Open House at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 18. There will be a ceremony just after 4:00 to connote the final payment on a $130,000 renovation of the old Depot Building. Tim Hill, 1206 6th Avenue West, thanked the City, the Human Resource Development Council and the Community Development Department for replacing the hot water heater in his home as it was on the verge of blowing up and could have been disastrous to his family. PUBLIC HEARING Discontinue a__portion of 5th Avenue East and a portion_ of the alley between 5th and 6th Avenue East Proponents Gayle Vidal, Hedges School principal, spoke in favor of the proposed street closure. She also referred to a petition from the School District requesting the street closure. Opponents Ruth Large, 845 5th Avenue East was not in opposition of the proposed closure but was concerned about the parking situation in front of her home. ORDINANCES & RESOLUTIONS Ordinance 1166-Administrative Code -First Reading Kennedy moved Ordinance 1166, an ordinance establishing an Administrative Code consistent with the Commission -Manager form of Government, repealing in its entirety Chapter 2, Kalispell City Code and establishing an effective date. The motion was seconded. There was discussion. Nystul moved Section 2.6 be amended to allow for the change of the meeting time and minor grammatical changes be permitted for second reading of the ordinance. The motion was seconded. With a vote the amendment carried. Upon roll call vote the resolution carried unanimously. Resolution 3991-Discontinue_ a portion of 5th Avenue East and a Portion of the alley between 5th and 6th Avenue East Moses moved Resolution 3991, a resolution to discontinue a portion of Fifth Avenue East and a portion of the alley between Fifth and Sixth Avenue, Block 206, as more particularly described in Exhibit ".A" attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference. The motion was seconded. 1 A r9 379 After discussion it was agreed that the city will work with the School District to make sure the 11 items discussed at the work session will be addressed. With a roll call vote the motion carried. Resolution 3992-Tattoo Parlor/Land Acauisition Granmo moved Resolution 3992, a resolution authorizing the purchase of Lots 11 and 12, of Block 47, Kalispell original from Robert Braig, for $52,500 and authorizing the city manager to accept said property on behalf of said city. The motion was seconded. Upon roll call vote the motion carried unanimously. This resolution was passed during the "Business from the Manager" portion of the meeting. BUSINESS FROM MAYOR & COUNCIL Proclamation -Amateur Radio Week Rauthe proclaimed June 16-23 as proclamation. Amateur Radio Week and read the Report from Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee on Hwv 93 Murray thanked the council, landscape architects Bruce Boody, Pat Thomas and Chris Moore and all others for working so hard to attempt to achieve the goal all are striving for. Marshall Murray gave a brief summary on the history of the committee's efforts. Marshall Murray and Mayor Rauthe met with The Highway Engineering Department and the Director of Highways of the State of Montana, John Rothwell on Friday, June 14, 1991 in Helena. North -The end result is that they will build a 5 lane highway from Grandview to the Whitefish River and no alterations. South - also will be a 5 lane highway. According to the environmental assessment, the first one in 1987, is they plan to let the contract north in 1994. And now it is going to be in 1992 assuming there isn't some litigation that stalls it. And we are not going to litigate this issue. We started out wanting a highway and wanting the improvement as we have told you and we want them as quickly as we possibly can get them and we tried to get the design modified a little so that our concept would be a little better in that respect. They will give us ,,some beautification along the entire highway. They did offer a separate bike path south of Balls Crossing to Somers and apparently that is to divide motorists from the bikers. We supported that group and if they want to do at least that we are not going to argue with them. So those are the items that we came up with in Helena with extreme disappointment. They did agree to do 2 things. Their design is predicated on a traffic count that is already out of date, even though they were not going to construct until 1994. Our growth is accelerating much more rapidly than they had anticipated. We asked them to get current on traffic counts and to see if that might -change their mind in any respect. We have also completed a considerable amount of research relative to traffic safety. All of us have doubted what we have been told. 380 We found a similar county in the state of Washington, Snohomish County, where a former landscape architect is now dealing with a similar situation for that county and he furnished us some information. It shows that in terms of motor vehicle miles that the concept that they propose in some areas would be 3 1/2 and in some areas 5 times as dangerous to a traveling motorist. Which did get their attention and they agreed to go to Washington and take a look. He anticipated there will be no change and they will continue with their accelerated program of building the 5 lane highway. Kennedy thanked the Transportation Committee for the money, efforts, energy and hard work put into this project. It was agreed that the City will send a letter to the Highway Department requesting they update their traffic counts and they review the safety issues. Rauthe thanked the committee for all the hours, sincerity and effort put into this project. BUSINESS FROM MANAGER Tattoo Parlor/Land Acquisition Granmo moved Resolution 3992, a resolution authorizing the purchase of Lots 11 and 12, of Block 47, Kalispell original from Robert Braig, for $52,500 and authorizing 'the city manager to accept said property on behalf of said city. The motion was seconded. There was discussion. With a roll call vote the motion carried unanimously. STAFF REPORTS Next Work Sessi6n-6/24/91-7:00 p.m. Next Regular Council Meeting-7/1/91-7:00 p.m. County Transit Planning Meeting-6/18/91-Whitefish Council Chambers-7:00 p.m. ADJOURN The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 p.m. r WA/ . FA e! 11 , 1, L01wrl"i? -Mayor ATTEST: Amy H. Robertson, Finance Director Debbie Liverman, Clerk of Council Approved as presented with requested changes July 1, 1991