19830419 City Council Minutesf.40.
April 12, 1983 - continued •
There was no further business to come before the Council, and the meeting adjourned to Executive
Session at 101:10, p..m.
IRENE VARNEY MORAN, Uty Clerk HARVE H. HARRISON, Mayor
No Council meeting was held on April 19, 1983.
April 26, 1983
The regular meeting of the Edmonds City Council was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Mayor Harve
Harrison in the Plaza Meeting Room of the Edmonds Library. All present joined in the flag
salute.
PRESENT STAFF PRESENT
Harve Harrison, Mayor
Jim Adams, City Engineer
Jo -Anne Jaech
Irene Varney Moran, City Clerk
Laura Hall
Bobby Mills, Acting Public Works Supt.
Bill Kasper
Art Housler, Finance Director
Ray Gould
Marlo Foster, Police Chief
Larry Naughten
Jack Weinz, Fire Chief
John Nordquist
Mary Lou Block, Planning Director
Katherine Allen
Steve Simpson, Parks & Recreation Director
Tony Foss, Student Representat.ive
Pat LeMay, Personnel Director
Jim Jessel, Property Manager
Felix deMello, Building & Grounds Supvr.
Wayne Tanaka, City Attorney
Jackie Parrett, Deputy City Clerk
AUDIENCE
Mayor Harrison recognized Buildings and Grounds Supervisor Felix deMello who announced that on
Sunday, May 1, 1983, from 10:00 to 12:00 a.m. there will be a planting project downtown of the
flowering annuals and he is looking for volunteers to participate for that short period. He is
hoping to involve the community in this project.
Dave Ehrling, President of the Edmonds Chamber of Commerce, announced that there will be a
presentation at the next Chamber meeting on "Main Street, USA," and he invited the Council to
attend. He noted that the Chamber is a revitalized, energized group, and said they would
welcome participation by the Council.
Roger Hertrich, 1020 Puget Dr., said there is a problem on SR 524 at 196th and Olympic in that
there was an accident at that intersection a month ago and another one this evening. He said
there is a sight distance problem there and that together with the speed of westbound traffic
is causing this situation. He noted that the road curves toward the north because of the left •
turn lane at that intersection and at the north side of 196th there was supposed to be a flatter .
area where a.car could pause to survey the highway before crossing it, and he did not think
that was done correctly. Mayor Harrison asked the City Engineer to investigate this, and Mr.
Adams said he had already studied it and one of his recommendations will be to put a cul-de-sac
on that short street to stop the traffic. His written recommendations will be forthcoming.
MAYOR
Mayor Harrison advised that the City's bond rating has been upgraded to A which will save
approximately $75,000 over the 15-year period of the upcoming bond issue.
Mayor Harrison stated, in regard to the Nonrepresented Wage and Salary Program, that he is
required to inform the Council of merit adjustments for department heads and obtain approval of
the Council, but he has decided to inform the Council of all the merit adjustments given. He
had provided them a written summary to show the merit adjustments given, effective April 1,
1983, together with the April 1, 1983 across-the-board increase and the alignment increase to
get the employees into the pay progression plan. There were 12 nonrepresented employees affected
whose dates of evaluation were prior to April 1. Councilmember Naughten recalled the criteria
for merit and noted that everyone was getting approximately 1% so that seemed to indicate that
either there was not enough money in the program or else everyone was rated average. Mayor
Harrison had indicated in his memorandum that it appeared the merit increases cannot go much
beyond 1% this year because of the impact that the total base increases (across-the-board,
alignment, and merit) will have on next year's budget, but that it also appeared that the
average monthly increase.of 7.8% for 1983 is generous. Councilmember Nordquist stated that he
did not think the incentive is in the merit program and that he hoped something could be done
to improve it next year. COUNCILMEMBER NORDQUIST MOVED, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER ALLEN, TO
ACCEPT THE MERIT ADJUSTMENTS. Councilmember.Allen said they need to go to the next to the last
paragraph of the Mayor's memo which said merit increases could not be higher because of the
budget impact this time, and at least they have moved ahead with some people. Mayor Harrison
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