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19760210 City Council MinutesMOTION: Commission as the proposal changes the easements. COUNCILMAN GELLERT MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CARNS THAT THIS ITEM BE RETURNED TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO CONSIDER ACCESS TO PROPERTIES TO THE SOUTH AND EAST. Mr. Wallace said that it has to be posted and published, so that residents in the area can come down and look at the maps to see where the proposed access will be. FOLLOWING SOME DISCUSSION, THE MOTION CARRIED. ACCEPTANCE OF PHASE III WATER MAINS & APPURTENANCES - DIORIO CONSTRUCTION CO. - TO ESTABLISH 30 DAY LIEN PERIOD. The City Engineer recommended acceptance.of the Phase III Water Mains and Appurtenances by DiOrio Construction Company and establishing the lien period. Councilman Gellert said that someone has torn up Meadowdale Beach Road and wondered if DiOrio had anything to do with it. Mr. Larson said MOTION: that he would check into it, but that it had nothing to do with this project. COUNCILMAN CLEMENT MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GOULD TO ACCEPT THE PHASE III WATER MAINS AND kPPURTENANCES AND ES- TABLISH THE 30-DAY LIEN PERIOD. MOTION CARRIED. SET DATE FOR HEARING ON P.C. RESOLUTION #496, RECOMMENDING CONTRACT REZONE FROM RS-6 TO RML AT 510 HOLLY DRIVE - (UNWIN) MOTIN: COUNCILMAN NORDQUIST MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GELLERT TO PLACE THIS ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA FOR FEBRUARY 24TH. MOTION CARRIED. PROPOSED RESOLUTION, STATING INTENTION TO APPLY FOR FUNDS FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Mr. Whaley reported that this is a resolution stating the intention of the City to apply to the United States Department of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation, for an operating assistance grant for continuation of public transit for 1976 to service the citizens of Edmonds. Following some discussion, MOTION: COUNCILMAN CLEMENT MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GELLERT TO PASS RESOLUTION #355• MOTION CARRIED. • The Mayor's Administrative Assistant announced that the Chamber of Commerce will have a luncheon meeting at the Holiday Inn on February 27th. Part of the discussion will be public transportation. CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES 1 • 1 Council acknowledged receipt of a Claim for Damages from Solange French. This was referred to the City Clerk for processing. There being no further business to come before council, the meeting adjourned at 10:30 P.M. ity2ro_JL�-rn ` H. H. HARRISON, Mayor February 10, 1976 (Work Meeting) ROLL CALL The regular.work meeting of the EdmondsCity Council was called to order by Mayor Harve Harrison at 7:30 P.M. in the Council Chambers of the Edmonds Civic Center. All council members were present. APPROVAL OF MINUTES The minutes of the meeting of February 3rd had been posted, mailed anddistributed. The minutes were approved as written. However, at a later time in the meeting Councilman Carns noted that on page 3, 4th paragraph, first line "parking study" should be changed to read "traffic count -",study". On page 4, 2nd paragraph, 4th line, after 1150%", "penalty" should be added. The minutes were then approved as amended. COUNCIL PARTICIPATION Councilman Gellert mentioned that the work meeting agendas were starting to•get full again, and that he thought it had been council policy to have nothing on these agendas unless it was planned at least a week ahead of time, or moved by the council. He said that he would like to avoid placing housekeeping items on the work meeting agendas. Councilman Gellert said that it has his understanding Keith Goldsmith had planned to send a letter of resignation from the Amenities Design Board to the Mayor. However, the Mayor said that he has not received such a letter. Councilman Gellert indicated that he had talked to Mr. Goldsmith and asked him to postpone such action until a joint meeting with the council and the Amenities Design Board MOTION: could be sbheduled, so that these two bodies could discuss matters of mutual concern. COUNCILMAN GELLERT THENNMOVED,-SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CARNS TO SCHEDULE A JOINT MEETING WITH THE COUNCIL AND AMENITIES DESIGN BOARD FOR THE WORK MEETING OF APRIL 13TH. Councilman Carns noted that he had attended the last Board meeting and had talked to some of the members of the Board, and that they do wish some clarification on several issues. THE MOTION WAS THEN CARRIED. Councilman Gellert said that he would like to have the Mayor ask Mr. Goldsmith to reconsider until after this meeting. Councilman Gould said that S6nate Bill #3274, sponsored by Senator Wahlgren, is beSbre the Legislature now. He said that this bill would allow municipal corporations to get funds from the Motor Vehicle Fund if the funds would be used in the construction of a facility which would be used in whole or in part for off-street parking in the immediate vicinity of an existing or a planned ferry terminal. He thought that the city should look at this bill carefully, if any plans are being made to improve the parking relative to the Trident project. Councilman Gould said that now i9ould be the time to contact our rep- resentativesif we wish to support this bill. He presented two copies of the bill to the Mayor. The 386 bill was read.by Councilman Gould. COUNCILMAN GELLERT MOVED TO AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR TO COMMUNICATE WITH OUR REPRESENTATIVES AND HOUSE LEADERS AS HE SEES FIT INDICATING THE COUNCIL'S ENDORSEMENT OF S.B. #3274 AND ALSO THE FIRST DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES. COUNCILMAN GOULD SECONDED AND THE MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. Councilman Anderson said that it has been suggested that the city staff, Mayor and council get together for an informal luncheon. He said that he would arrange this ifdesired. This would have to be done with enough notice sothat it could be published as a public meeting. Councilman Gould said that he would be in favor and Councilman Gellert said that he would enjoy this, but that it would have to be in March as he would not be available until then. Councilman Anderson said that he would assume that there was a consensus and would proceed'on that basis. Mayor Harrison said that because of the number of people in the audience on Item #7, he felt it appro- priate to move this item to #6 on the agenda. Councilman Anderan moved, seconded by Councilman Carns to move Item #7 to Item #6. Carried. KEN NEWERF, SNOHOMISH COUNTY ECONOMIC (DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION, TO SPEAK TO COUNCIL Councilman Gellert introduced Ken Newerf who has been heading the Snohomish County Economic Development Commission for the past five years, saying that they have not only been encouraging business in the Snohomish County Area, but in securing cooperation between the County and other governmental agencies. Mr. Newerf reviewed the history of the organization indicating that it was formed in 1957 under the. name of Snohomish County Industrial Bureau, Inc. and in 1965 tithe corporate name was changed to the Snohomish County Economic Development Council, Inc. Their goal is to create new jobs and economic stability in the County and that they are a nonprofit, private, service corporation. He said that their Board of Directors is comprised of representatives from the local public sector, business and labor. They have a full-time staff consisting of a.Director, Marketing Assistant, Research Assistant • and an Administrative Assistant. The organization offers services consisting of industrial siting services; economic and demographic information on the.County and the region; assistance with govern- mental regulations; financial referral assistance and management referral assistance. Copies of a (fact sheet and other material were presented to the city. Mr. Newerf said that they feel that the effort that they try to bring to the municipalities at the membership fee (approx. $300.00) is much more reasonable than the cities themselves could expect to spend to undertake some of this work themselves. This would be a.very nominal sum, he felt, for the amount of help that they hope to be able to given Mr. Newerf was thanked for his presentation. DISCUSSION ON MAYOR'S PROPOSAL FOR SENIOR CENTER PROJECT, AND ALSO ARCHITECT'S DRAWINGS. Mayor Harrison said that he recently wrote a letter to the.City Council asking them to review the direction that the City is,going in the development of the Senior Citizen Facilities on the waters front. He then read the letter he wm to which indicated that he felt it was not advisable to renovat the two old buildings, but would rather peplace them withaa new -three-story building in order to bette take advantage of the site. He said that he had obtained a key to the buildings and that all council members had the opportunity to look at the site. He had also asked for comments from members of the Amenities Design Board. Margaret Bernhoft had indicated that she was in favor of a new building and Don Westlin felt that no amount of remodeling could remedy the situation, and thought that it would be a poor investment and a new design concept would be in order. The Mayor also read a letter from Don Nelson of the Ebb Tide Apattments favoring construction of a new building, also stating that they would be willing to participate in a green belt between their building and the new -senior center buiNing. Mayor Harrison said that he had received many communications indicating concern with regard to four points (1) that the seniors would be losing their home permanently; (2)'that they would have no place while construction was taking place; (3) that their programs would be interrupted and (4) that the City would not be able to fund the project. The Mayor noted that on October 21, 1975 the Council passed Resolution #342 establishing 220 Railroad Avenue as the permanent home for the Senior Citizen Center. He said that on point #2, the City has two suplus schools at its disposal. He said that a better solution would be to build a new building where the geodesic dome used to be and not touch the ex- • isting building until the senior citizens have entirely moved out. He said that building a new building alongside the old mill building would also.eliminate their third concern of not having the programs interrupted by taking temporary quarters somewhere else. He said that as far as the fourth item is concerned - it appears that there is exactly $2009000 available to convert approximately 109000 square feet of the old block building to usable space. It also appears that the City can spend that money on a new building. He said that assuming that a new building would cost 930.00 per square foot, it would cost $3009000 to construct the same amount.of space, so that he would have to concede that a new building cannot compete in price with "warehouse" space. His proposal was to design a new building of a size to meet all the needs of the Center on three floors, irith a total of 249000 sq ft and to build only one floor at this time. As funds become available a second story and an elevator could be added and later the third story. Councilman Herb felt that it was not a good idea to change directions now. Councilman Gellert felt that the architect should comment at this time. Harry Nelson presented the plans for the renovation of -the buildings and some renderings of the proposed exterior finish. Nr. Nelson commented that the building has not settled and appears to have a sound foundation. Jane Jones and Harry Sherman explained some of the history of the renovation work that has been done and indicated that the sentiment of the senior citizens is to continue with the work. Larry Bailey, local architect, and member of the Park Board, felt that restoration of these buildings is. not warranted and that they do not have'any aesthetic value..There was further discussion on the structural soundness of the buildingd, with Sally Wren commenting that at the time they got their last grant there were inspectors going over the whole place and that she felt that they would not have gotten the money if the buildings were not sound.- Fremont Case and several other -individuals including Leo Gese, indicated the sedire on the part of the senior citizens to continue with their MOTION: project. COUNCILMAN CLEMENT MOVED, SECONDED BY.COUNCILMAN NORDQUIST THAT THIS COUNCIL REAFFIRM ITS DEDICATION TO PLANS FOR THE SENIOR CENTER; ACCEPT THE CURRENT HUD GRANT FOR ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE, PURSUE WITH DILIGENCE THE HUD FUNDS OF $87,500 ALREADY REQUESTED FOR 1976 HUD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT, AND BEGIN TO PLAN NOW FOR URBAN PARK DEVELOPMENT OF THE EAST SIDE OF THE PROPERTY FOR 1977. 0 LJ 387 Councilman Gellert said that he would like to pursue definite plans as to what the project is to look like. Councilman Nordquist said that five years ago he seconded -a motion to go ahead with this project,.and that he would now like to say "Let's keep on going". Councilman -Clement felt that if aesthetics is the problem, this could be taken care of with the development of the urban parka He said it would also provide a very nice outdoor recreatbn area. M.A.A. Ron Whaley noted that there is $24,000 in the 1976 budget for parking improvements and boardwalk and there was an- other $5,000 for landscaping. Councilman Gould felt that a portion of the $181,000 could be used for some minor dressing up on the exterior of the wood building. THE MOTION WAS THEN VOTED UPON AND CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. Mayor Harrison said that there had been some question in his mind as to whether the City was going in the right direction, but that he would yield to the wishes of the Council and the Senior Citizens and proceed with'the renovation. Mayor Harrison said that there is a vacancy on the Building Committee for the Senior Center and he asked Councilman Gellert to sit on this Committee with Councilman Nordquist. Councilman Gellert accepted. Mayor Harrison said that they are in the process of filling out the needs for the City to go to the HUD Block Grant, and he asked if the Council would like to submit some alternatives in the presentation. The Mayor said that perhaps the South County Cultural Center and pathways for school children should be alternatives. There was general discussion of various alternatives with Councilman Gellert bringing up the need for playfields for the soccer programs which are becoming increasingly more popular. Discussion followed on the costs involved for fixing up the Junior High Playfield and Stadium. There was a consensus that the alternative --,should cover the Boys Club, playfield, Junior High and walkways. AUTHORIZATION TO ACCEPT BID ON STREET SLEEPING Herb Gilbo, Director of Public forks, called council attention to the written report on this item. • He said that there was a bid opening for the joint City of Lynnwood and City of Edmonds Street Sweeping held at the City.of Lynnwood at 2 P.M. on January 27, 1976. Only one bid was received from Northern Lights and Equipment Corporation of Renton. He said that there were four alternates on the Edmonds bid varying the frequency of sweeping. There were summarized in tha:: attachment. Our estimate of $1,998 per month, based on contractors' estimates if individual City sweeping was considerably higher than the actual bid. He said that the reason for the combined proposal was to eliminate contractor travel time and assure a full week's sweeping. This would result in additional time`for sweeping coverage and/or a reduced charge to the Cities. It was indicated that a 5.3% re- duction is attainable by accepting the combined bid in lieu of the individual bid. The bid also indicated an option available to the Cities of dropping the Performance'Bond requirement which would result in a new savings of 3%. Mr. Gilbo said that following investigation of the con- tractor's qualifications and discussion and concurrence with both City Attorneys, he would recommend elimination of this requirement. Washington State Sales Tax was not included'in the bid, as this has been exempted by a Department of Revenue ruling.. Mr. Gilbo recommended acceptance of the Comtined MOTION: Proposal #1 in the amount of $1,546.02 per month. COUNCILMAN ANDERSON MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GOULD, FOR THE ACCEPTANCE -OF COMBINED PROPOSAL #1 OF NORTHERN LIGHTS EQUIPMENT CORPORATION FOR THE COMBINED 1976 STREET SWEEPING WITH LYNNWOOD, INCLUDING THE DROPPING OF THE PERFORMANCE BOND REQUIREMENT. MOTION CARRIED. Councilman Clement felt that the Council should be aware of what will happen to the $4,000 saved by accepting this pr9posal. .Mayor Harrison said that it might be nice to have it as cash MOTION: on hand. Councilman Gould also felt that he would like to know what happens to the money. COUNCILMAN CLEMENT MOVED FOR A REPORT BACK TO THE COUNCIL ON THE 9TH OF MARCH ON THE PROPOSED $4,000,SAVINGS IN THE STREET FUND FROM THE STREET SLEEPING PROPOSAL. COUNCILMAN ANDERSON SECONDED AND THE MOTION CARRIED. DISCUSSION OF ALLEY VACATIONS IN OLD DOWNTOWN PLAT OF EDMONDS City Engineer, Leif Larson, said that alley vacations in the old downtown Plat of Edmonds have been discouraged in the past by previous Councils. This was due to the fact that the final development of the downtown area is not firm. Mr. Larson requested an indication from the Council as to'their feelings • in the matter with several suggestions offered. He wished -to know if they want to reaffirm the policy; refer the matter to the Planning Commission and staff for re-evaluation and report to the Council or consider individual requests for vacation on their own merits. Mr. Larson suggested that individuals be allowed to submit the vacation requests and that they be evaluated through the procedure which the Council has already established of going through the staff and the Planning Commission and a report MOTION: back to the Council. COUNCILMAN NORDQUIST MOVED TO ACCEPT THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE CITY ENGINEER. COUNCILMAN CARNS SECONDED AND THE MOTION CARRIED. Councilman Gellert said that when the Council con- siders these mquests, they should think far into the future and consider whether we will need that alley and whether it would be a benefit to the City as a whole to vacate it. DISCUSSION ON CATERPILLAR -ORDINANCE Mr. Whaley said that last Fall at the urging of Councilman Clement, it was suggested that the staff come up with an ordinance for the control of caterpillars. Council had received a memo from the Director of Public Works along with the present and a proposed ordinance. Mr. Whaley said that it has been the opinion of the staff that from a public relations standpoint, the City might be a hero to one faction and a public enemy to others. It was also pointed out that the budget impact may be significant. Mr. Whaley said that one of the things they would like to see is a revision to the old Nuisance Ordinance. Mr. Whaley said that the staff would probably come back with this. There was MOTION: a brief discussion. (COUNCILMAN ANDERSON MOVED; -SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CLEMENT TO PUT ON THE MARCH 2ND AGENDA, PROPOSED REVISIONS IN THE NEUSANCE ORDINANCE. MOTION CARRIED. Councilman Herb said that retaining the one paragraph 3.12.020 could take care of it, and then repealing the rest, except for the last provision on the penalties. REPORT ON SMOKE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR CIVIC CENTER COMPLEX Fire Chief Jack Cooper said that this was brought up as a result of the number of fires which occured in libraries throughout the County, particularly the total loss of one down in Federal Flay when a fire broke out in a book drop. This brought about a request by our library to look into an alarm system. 388 Chief Cooper had forwarded to the Council a copy of Assistant Chief Klein's report to him in this regard containing information on costs. Chief Cooper had a latter attached which addressed the cost of phone lines from the Civic Center to SnoCom. The base rate for this would be $15.00 per month or more. He said that in talking to the Simplex Company they stated that the cost of install- ation is usually 1-1/4 times the cost of the equipment. There was general discussion, with the use of a metal -box being used for a book drop being proposed by Councilman Cams. Chief Cooper said that he has not checked with the insurance company as to whether there would be a reduction in the rate for installation of a detection system. He will check into this and he was also asked to get the figures on the man hours for installation and the monthly cost of leased phone lines, and also the MOTION: cost of a metal box for a book drop. COUNCILMAN ANDERSON MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN CARNS TO HAVE A REPORT BACK FROM CHIEF COOPER ON THE ABOVE ITEMS AT THE MEETING OF FEBRUARY 24TH. CARRIED. SET DATE FOR HEARING ON P.C. RESOLUTION #494, TO REMOVE EXCAVATIONS AND LANDFILLS FROM THE TABLE OF USES REQUIRING CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS. MOTION: Following some discussion, COUNCILMAN NORDQUIST MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN ANDERSON TO PLACE THIS ITEM ON THE AGENDA FOR MARCH 2ND. MOTION CARRIED WITH._COUNCILMAN GOULD.VOTING "NO". REVIEW OF PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO PROHIBIT BODY -STUDIOS Councilman Gould said that he had read through -the material from the attorney and the ordinance from Seattle and felt that it was the kind of thing that he has been looking for. Councilman Anderson agreed. The attorney said that he would workit into our ordinance. COUNCILMAN ANDERSON MOVED TO INSTRUCT THE ATTORNEY TO REVISE THE ORDINANCE REGARDING BODY STUDIOS AND THAT THIS BE ON THE AGENDA FOR FEBRUARY 17TH. COUNCILMAN CARNS SECONDED AND THE MOTION CARRIED. CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES Council acknowledged receipt of a Claim for Damages from Mrs. Ben Howard. This was referred to • the City Clerk for processing. The Council then recessed for a brief executive session for the purpose of discussing union nego- tiations. The meeting was reconvened at 11:20 P.M. COUNCILMAN NORDQUIST MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN GELLERT TO RETIFY THE CONTRACT FOR PUBLIC WORKS AS PRESENTED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY, WITH A CHANGE ON PAGE 11 FROM "MONTHLY" TO "ANNUAL". MOTION CARRIED. The meeting was then adjourned. Jt'15�1 IRENE VARNEY MORAN, ity Clerk . H. HARRISON, Mayor . FEBRUARY 24, 1976 ROLL CALL The regular meeting of the Edmonds City Council was called to order at 7:30 P.M_ by Mayor Harve Harrison in the Council Chambers at the Edmonds Civic Center: All council members were present, except Clement, who had given notice that he would not be present. APPROVAL OF MINUTES The minutes of the meeting of February 17th had been posted, mailed and distributed. There were no omissions, nor corrections and the minutes were approved as written. COUNCIL PARTICIPATION Councilman Carns mentioned that council members can avail themselves of insurance benefits avail - MOTION: able to other employees of the city and that this can be funded from the contingency fund. He put this in the form of a motion. Councilman Gellert .wondered if this would be worth all the administra- tive effort. Councilman Nordquist_seconded-`the-motion. .�-M.A.:A. Ron Whaley.n6tdd-_that.this is avail- able49 council members if they wish, and then advised council of the costs for the coverage. Council- man Gould -'said that he would not participate as he has other insurance, but'.tlat he felt it should be available to other members who do not have this type of coverage. Councilman Herb,spoke in favor AMENDMENT: of the suggestion. Councilman Gellert felt thatihis was adding a cost to the taxpayer. COUNCILMAN GELLERT AMENDED THE MOTION THAT SAID COVERAGE SHALL BE ONLY APPLICABLE TO COUNCILMEN THAT DO NOT HAVE SUBSTANTIALLY ADEQUATE COVERAGE ELSEWHERE. COUNCILMAN CARNS SECONDED. THE AMENDM�hTMENT WAS VOTED UPON AND CARRIED, AND THE MAIN MOTION AS AMENDED ALSO CARRIED. Councilman Gould said that'he had attended the meeting on the 18th at Seaview Elementary School that the Park Board held regarding tennis courts on the reservoir. He said that he would like to publicly commend Rod Garretson for his participation in that meeting. He stated that there were about,50;;people there and the full Park Board, and that they will report on the outcome�of the meeting. Councilman Herb seconded the commendation. Councilman Gellert announced that he would miss the meeting next week on. -March 2nd `and the one on March 30th. Mayor Harrison said that it has been brought to his attention that -there is no representation on the Edmonds Arts Commission from the Edmonds Music and Arts Club. He said that there are now seven members and that he would like to appoint a member from the Edmonds Music and Arts Club.to the Commission. He asked the council to consider expanding the membership from seven members to MOTION: eight. COUNCILMAN.GELLERT MOVED TO INSTRUCT THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE AN ORDINANCE EXPANDING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE EDMONDS ARTS COMMISSION FROM SEVEN MEMBERS TO EIGHT. COUNCILMAN NORDQUIST SECONDED AND THE MOTION CARRIED. Councilman Anderson advised that the luncheon for the Mayor, staff and council will be at the Meat Market on Friday, March 5th and will be no host. Councilman Gellert said that he had read in a publication put out by the Association of Washington Cities that the council can ask a councilman abstaining from voting on a motion, to state his • reason for abstaining. Attorney, John Wallace said that abstention without a reason is considered