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Home My WebLink About2/28/2017 - City Council - City Council Meeting Minutes - Steven C LacyCITY OF EAST WENATCHEE COUNCIL MINUTES FEBRUARY 28, 2017 REGULAR SESSION OF THE CITY COUNCIL CONVENED MAYOR STEVEN C. LACY, PRESIDING FEBRUARY 28, 2017 6:30 P.M. ROLL CALL Mayor Steven C. Lacy Councilmember Tim Detering - Excused Councilmember Sandra McCourt Councilmember Wayne Barnhart Councilmember John Sterk Councilmember Chuck Johnson Councilmember Crawford Councilmember Harry Raab EMPLOYEES IN ATTENDANCE Police Chief Randy Harrison City Clerk Dana Barnard City Attorney Devin Poulson Community Development Director Lori Barnett Finance Director Nick Gerde Public Works Director/City Engineer Greg Pezoldt Executive Secretary/Accounting Assistant Teresa Allen APPRECIATION AWARD(S) Mayor Lacy announced two employees from the East Wenatchee Police Department, Eldon Chowning, and Ray Coble, would each be receiving an appreciation award for 10 years of service to the City of East Wenatchee. PRESENTATION Wenatchee Valley Independence Day Celebration — Jan Lutz, gave a presentation of activities that would be held and requested support from the City of East Wenatchee for the event in the amount of $5,000 to help pay for costs that are involved for public health and safety, such as Police and Fire Protection, EMT's, security and those types of costs to the organization. Council Action: A motion was made by Councilmember Johnson, second by Councilmember Barnhart, for approval of a $5,000 contribution from the 2017 Budget to support the Wenatchee Valley Independence Day Celebration. The motion carried, 6-0. BUDGET ISSUES) Nick Gerde, Finance Director reviewed the Budget Committee meeting minutes from the February 23, 2017 Budget Committee meeting. He noted 5 topics of discussion included 1) a schedule of equipment needs for the Public Works Department, 2) Public works replacement of facilities on City campus and possible availability of the Douglas County Public Works are on 3rd Street, 3) Landscaping theme and needs for the 5"' Street Roundabout Project, 4) sales tax issue dispute with the Valley Mall Parkway Parking Lot Project, 5) Council Workshops to discuss issues in a workshop setting, by possibly converting the Budget Committee calendar to accommodate this request. DEPARTMENT REPORT(S) Greg Pezoldt, City Engineer — gave a report regarding the Highline Drive and Simon Street intersection Channelization. He reviewed a traffic analysis regarding the level of service, which is the measure of congestion. RH2 has made a recommendation after determining that both the right in and right out options CITY OF EAST WENATCHEE COUNCIL MINUTES FEBRUARY 28, 2017 will improve traffic flow for Highline Drive and Simon Street SE. He reviewed the different options, noting that this could be put in at a later date. If we decide this works we can leave it in place, otherwise it can be removed. Council Action: A motion was made by Councilmember Barnhart, second by Councilmember McCourt, for approval of the recommendation of the City Engineer. The motion carried, 6-0. Public Comment: John Doyle one of the owners from Bob's Classic, said they were unaware of this item coming to the City Council until this afternoon. They have concerns of traffic heading north on highline and not being able to turn left onto Simon Street. City Councilmembers discussed the different options, including a round -a -bout, reducing the size of the barrier as well as other options. It was discussed that businesses should be contacted on Simon Street and informing them of what options are being proposed. Mayor Lacy expressed the need for something to be done during the Highline project. Council Action: Councilmember Barnhart withdrew his motion, Councilmember McCourt withdrew her second to the motion for approval of the recommendation of the City Engineer. Council Action: A motion was made by Councilmember Sterk, second by Councilmember Crawford, to put in the half of the Island with the option of doing something later (pg. 20). The motion carried, 5-1. (Raab) MAYOR'S REPORT(S) QMayor Lacy said as was discussed during the Budget Committee Report, the East Wenatchee City Council hold monthly workshops. He said he is basing this in some degree upon his experience and understanding in talking to Mayor Kuntz as to how they conduct their monthly workshop meeting. He feels it makes a lot of sense to us to involve more Councilmembers on a monthly basis in some of these discussions that occur now just for members of the Budget Committee. He added it would require full Council to meet three times a month. Without objection from Council we will start planning our agenda accordingly. No objections were heard. Mayor Lacy said at the joint meeting prior to this with the City of Wenatchee Councilmembers, Douglas County Commissioners and Chelan County Commissioners suggestions you heard tonight that our City Council should engage more frequently with the Wenatchee City Council allowing the two governments in interact together to move forward on some of the community driven agendas to enhance better decision making for the Valley. Mayor Lacy said the Sister City is currently in the recruiting mode for the trip to Misawa, Japan this year. Mayor Lacy noted that he and his wife will be going this year and asked if any Councilmembers wished to participate. Councilmember Johnson expressed interest, but could not make a commitment at this time. Mayor Lacy noted there will be a closed session following this meeting relating to union negotiations. CONSENT CALENDAR Items listed below were distributed to Councilmember's in advance for study and were enacted in one motion. Council Action: A motion was made by Councilmember Johnson, second by Councilmember Barnhart, to approve the Consent Calendar as amended. The motion carried, 6-0. 1. Consideration of Minutes — Regular Session, February14, 2017 CITY OF EAST WENATCHEE COUNCIL MINUTES FEBRUARY 28, 2017 2. Consideration of Payables and Payroll i. 2017 Payables — As of this date, February 28, 2018, Council does approve check numbers 47473 through 47474 and 47496 through 47547 in the total amount of $129,345.93. Payables checks 47489 through 47490 and 47492 through 47493 were voided ii. 2017 Payroll — As of this date, February 28, 2017, Council does approve check numbers 44348 through 47366 through 47394 and direst deposits on January 17`h and February I' in the total amount of $433.508.01. No payroll checks were voided. ORDINANCE(S) An Ordinance of the City of East Wenatchee repealing and replacing Ordinance No. 2017-03 and adopting an immediate moratorium on the acceptance of applications for use permits, wireless telecommunications facility permits, building permits, right of way use authorization and franchises for new wireless communication facilities within the City, to be effective for a period of six months, declaring an emergency, establishing a public hearing date, and providing for severability. Presented by: Lori Barnett, Community Development Director Mayor Lacy elevated the Ordinance to second reading without objection. Council Action: A motion was made by Councilmember Raab, second by Councilmember Sterk, to adopt Ordinance 2017-05. The motion carried, 6-0. Ordinance No. 2017-05 An Ordinance of the City of East Wenatchee repealing and replacing Ordinance No. 2017-03 and adopting an immediate moratorium on the acceptance of applications for use permits, wireless telecommunications facility permits, building permits, right of way use authorization and franchises for new wireless communication facilities within the City, to be effective for a period of six months, declaring an emergency, establishing a public hearing date, and providing for severability. ADDITIONAL ITEMS) Memorandum from City Attorney Devin Poulson — Website analytics. EXECUTIVE SESSION At 7:41 p.m. Mayor Lacy called a ten minute executive session regarding potential litigation. At 7:51 p.m. Mayor Lacy extended the executive session an additional five minutes. Council reconvened at 7:56 p.m. ADJOURNMENT 8:00 p.m. CLOSED SESSION G na Barnard City Clerk