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City Hall 3/9/09 7:00pm The regular meeting of the
Riggins City Council was called to order by Mayor Robert Crump.
Councilors present were Anderson, Friend, McClure and Barnard.
Guests present included Paul Stevens, Lenae Sohrakoff, Linda Hieter,
Everette Arter and Chris Carey from Lake Shore Disposal, Jon Wilson, Doug
Giddings, and Fred Carey. The minutes of the previous
meeting were presented. The Council
were individually polled and all confirmed they had read the minutes.
There were no additions or corrections offered and the minutes were
approved as presented. The financial
statement was read detailing $ 5,416.43 bills
paid after the February meeting, bringing the total February bills to
$32,025.15. Bills in the amount of
$17,379.24 were then presented for payment.
After review, motion was made by Friend, seconded by McClure, to approve
the statement and allow the bills. Voting
yea, Anderson, Friend, McClure and Barnard.
No nays. A copy of the financial report is attached and hereby made a
part of this record. Lenae Sohrakoff,
manager of Summerville’s American Bar request a waiver of Ordinance #53
allowing alcohol on the sidewalks in designated areas for Jet Boat Races April
17 at 5pm to April 19 at 7pm and Riggins Rodeo May 1 at 5pm to May 3 at 7pm.
After discussion Barnard made a motion to pass resolution #09-02 to waive
ordinance #53 for the dates listed and Anderson seconds.
Voting yea, Anderson, Friend, McClure and Barnard.
No nays. A copy of Resolution #09-02 is attached and hereby made a part
of this record. Everette M. Arter and Chris
Carey of Lake Shore Disposal visited with the City Council.
They have been working on their trucks to make them more efficient and no
hydraulic fluid leaks. They are
working on having the smaller trucks come here each week.
Council wondered if we could reverse order of pickup and do green carts
first before commercial dumpsters to get the carts off the sidewalk earlier.
Mayor Crump suggested we put in the City newsletter to have people put
out the carts in the morning rather than the night before.
We also need to remind patrons of Holiday—Saturday pickup. Linda Hieter visited with
the Council about the grants she is currently writing.
She is requesting the City write a letter of support as the fiscal
sponsor of the Canyon Communities Coalition for each of the 3 grants:
Crafter’s Fair $2,500.00, Canyon Communities Coalition $3,800.00 and
the CABS program $5,000.00. McClure
makes a motion to write the letter of support and Barnard seconds.
Voting yea, Anderson, Friend, McClure and Barnard.
No nays. Doug Giddings, Idaho County
Sheriff talked to the Council about the upcoming Jet Boat Races and Riggins
Rodeo. The Council stated the
sidewalks would be roped off again according to the waiver of ordinance #53.
Idaho County Sheriff’s Dept. will have 6 deputies plus the 4 that
already are in the community at Jet Boat Races and will have 8 deputies plus the
4 at Rodeo. The City Council
requested a police presence at the events in the park such as Big Water Blowout,
Hot Summer Nights, etc… Sherriff Giddings reported
that the department has made some changes and there have been several drug busts
in Idaho county. There are 3 new
deputies in our area: Justin Scuka,
Mark Bell and Fred Carey. Sheriff Giddings requested
$3,000.00 to be in the 2010 budget from the city to replace the intoxilizer
machine. The intoxilizer that used
to be in the Riggins Sherriff’s office
is broken and there currently is not one here. Jon Wilson gave the
following CCC report: (1) Light the Courts – We now have the lights and
poles. They are being mounted.
About 2 months more work and the project will be complete. (2) Gun Club – Cannot use the existing location on
Fuzi Road, due to nearby landowner complaints.
No alternate location found. Wilson then gave the
February Police Report: 2009 Year to
Date calls for Riggins is 115 calls which is the same number as 2008 Year to
date calls. For February there were 40 calls for the area. Paul Stevens with JUB
Engineers gave the following report: (1)
DEQ in Lewiston approved
the water line design for the top of Cemetery Road. (2)
The city needs to do a
title search on properties in that area to move the line.
Mignerey’s property to Brimacomb’s (3)
The city needs to make a
preventative maintenance plan for the televised sewer line maintenance. (4)
Phase 1 of the sewer plant
project is 70% complete. (5)
We need to make the
clarifier as an alternate bid item. (6)
Sludge drains & Geosack
building (pole building will be cheapest). (7)
Accretion ground can be
approved to satisfy our funding requirements. (8)
The structural design will
take about 4 weeks to get done. (9)
Electrical Design will be
done when everything else is together. (10)
Project should go out for
bid if design is completed by April 15th. (11)
Bids should be received by
mid-June. (12)
Estimates for project
$1,131,900 total. (13)
The Salmon River Road
Bridge should be evaluated for estimates on repair and establish the annual
maintenance budget. Paul suggested
the city check with the county on bridge inspections. Charlie Amell gave the
following project report: (1)
An application for the
stimulus money to seal coat North St., Ace’s Place and Well Street as well as
rework of asphalt has been sent in. (2)
Charlie would like to set
up a maintenance schedule to have the sewer lines cleaned. (3)
A cost of $3,000.00 is
estimated to repair the root wad hole in the line near Stinnett’s property. (4)
City needs to contact all
adjoining land owners to the accreation land. (5)
City needs to contact
Western Federal Lands about plans for the new bridge.
Can the city write a letter requesting these plans and the impact this
will have on the city. (6)
At the current Sewer
Facility the City crew is powerholing lines to save $.
The crew is taking down fences, shed and hedges and will cut up the old
tank for scrap metal to get ready for construction of the new plant.
Charlie would like to hire a local contractor to remove the footings in
back. Mayor
Crump requested a copy of the sign ordinance be emailed to all City Council
Members for review. The
City needs to apply for the sign permit for the Welcome To Riggins signs being
put in by the Salmon River Chamber of Commerce. The
vacation of the easement on the Chukar Point Estates was discussed.
LaVar Murdock agreed to pay all costs associated with this.
June recommended we advertise and have the public hearing on April 13th
at our regularly scheduled City Council meeting.
Anderson made a motion with have the public hearing on April 13th
and Barnard seconded. Voting yea,
Barnard, Anderson, Friend, McClure. No
nays. At this time the City
Attorney was discussed. McClure made
a motion we hire Joe Wright to be the Civil Lawyer for the City until the next
budget year when this would be visited again.
Barnard seconds. Voting yea,
Anderson, Friend, McClure and Barnard. No
nays. Mayor Crump will be attending
the meeting with the Idaho County Commissioners to discuss the county taking
over prosecution of crimes in Riggins. Ace
Barton would like the city to write a letter of support for him to continue the
Riggins Food Bank. The
fire hydrant behind Crump’s Chevron was discussed.
The fire hydrant is standing alone now that the fence has been taken
down. Charlie will be notified that
it needs to be protected somehow. Library
Business: (1)
The Library Board President
was discussed. The Library Board met
and asked Frances Ford to take over as President of the Library Board, to
replace Jeannette Tate. McClure made
a motion for Frances to be the President and Barnard seconded.
A letter will be sent to Frances confirming and welcoming her. (2)
The city council
recommended putting in the budget each year for new computers for the library. (3)
Motion was made by Barnard
and seconded by McClure to dispose of the old or broken computers and printers
from the back room. Voting yea,
Barnard, McClure, Friend, Anderson. No
nays. Susan will proceed with this
process. CEDA
requested a $500 contribution. It
was not in the current budget year. Council
suggested putting it on list to be budgeted for FY2010. There being no further
business, the meeting was adjourned. __________________________________
_________________________________ Robert Crump, Mayor
Susan Long, Deputy City Clerk 3-16-09 Salmon River Heritage
Center 2:00pm Special
Meeting of the Riggins City Council was held to discuss: 1
Disaster Declaration 2
Fire Department use of city
laptop 3
City Attorney 4
Catering/liquor license
application from Mike Gradian 5
Accreation Land 6
Rural Water bill Present:
Friend, Barnard, Anderson and Mayor Crump.
McClure was absent. Guests:
Charlie Amell The City Attorney was
discussed. Adam Green agreed to work
for the city @ $125.00 an hour including civil at this time, no retainer.
Barnard makes a motion to rescind and make null and void the previous
motion made by the City Council on Monday March 9, 2009 to hire Joe Wright as
the city attorney to handle civil matters. Anderson
seconds. Voting yea, Barnard,
Anderson, Friend, McClure. No nays. Barnard then made a motion
we hire Adam Green to represent the City of Riggins on civil and criminal
matters @ $125.00 until the beginning of the next fiscal year.
Friend seconds. Voting yea,
Anderson, Barnard, Friend, McClure. No
nays. The use of the city laptop
was discussed and Dan Catherman the fire chief would like to use the laptop for
the fire department. Anderson made a
motion that we sign the computer out
to Dan and allow him to use the computer. Barnard
seconds. Voting yea, Barnard,
Anderson, McClure, Friend. No nays. Robert Ader’s water
license was discussed. The City
Council and Mayor would like to have this done as soon as possible.
Charlie will talk to Robert about this again. The new ATV use on highways
rules were discussed. The County and
State would like to ban all ATV use on public roads.
The Mayor would like to have a resolution made to allow ATV’s to cross
@ all intersections and crosswalks. The
ATV’s would need to be equipped with brake lights, head lights, electric
horns. They would need to have
$25,000 liability insurance and be licensed.
Mayor Crump will work on writing this resolution for the next regular
meeting. The catering permit request
for Jet Boat Races and Riggins Rodeo to sell hard liquor out of the Salmon River
Inn site was discussed. Is he having
a band? Does he have a health
permit? Will the utilities be paid? City
Council will get more information and will table action on this request
until the March 24th special meeting. Charlie discussed the
accreation land application to obtain land near sewer plant. He needs a check
for $300.00 to be sent in with the application.
Total cost will be $600.00. Barnard
made a motion to pay the $300.00 to the Department of Lands.
Anderson seconds. Voting yea,
Barnard, Anderson, McClure, Friend. No
nays. The mercury spill at city
hall was discussed. An insurance
claim has been filed with ICRMP. Jerry
Zumalt requested that the city do a disaster declaration.
Barnard made a motion for Mayor Crump to handle the disaster incident and
make the declaration if necessary. Anderson
seconds. Voting yea, Anderson,
Barnard, McClure and Friend. No
nays. There is currently a House
Bill on the floor that would strike the clause that says if city services are
connected to property outside of the city limits, the property can be annexed
in. This needs to be written and
recorded for property to be annexed before city services can be hooked up.
The City needs to change their city ordinance to reflect this change. There being no further
business the meeting was adjourned. ________________________________
____________________________________ Robert Crump, Mayor
Susan D. Long, Deputy City Clerk 3-24-09 Riggins City Hall 2:00pm Special
Meeting of the Riggins City Council was held to discuss: 1
Catering License by Mike
Gradian 2
Replacement of Carpet from
Mercury Spill 3
Library Carpet coming apart 4
Tim McGowan complaint
against Chuck Wunsch Council Members present:
Mayor Bob Crump, Friend, McClure, Anderson.
Council Member Barnard was absent. Guests present:
Mike & Melissa Blimka and Lenae Sohrakoff. Mike Gradian had requested
a liquor license to sell hard alcohol from the Salmon River Inn premises for Jet
Boat and Rodeo weekends. A lengthy
discussion on the pros and cons followed. Motion
was made by Anderson to deny the liquor license, Friend seconds.
Voting yea, Anderson and Friend. McClure
abstains from voting. No nays. Replacement of the carpet
that was damaged in the mercury spill was discussed.
Decision was made to contact Mildred at ICRMP to see what is covered on
the insurance policy. City Council
decided to replace all carpet in the City Council chambers and the hallway. The carpet in the library
that was replaced in September is coming apart at the seams.
Council recommended we contact PIM’s to make a recommendation on our
options to minimize the damage. Friend
makes a motion to have Pim’s look at the carpet and make their recommendation,
Anderson seconds. Voting yea,
Friend, Anderson and McClure. No
nays. Tim McGowan has complained
to Mayor Crump of the activities on the Wunsch property.
He would like the City officials to talk to Chuck Wunsch about attending
the fire when he is burning brush. Mayor
Crump will talk to Mr. Wunsch. Meeting adjourned. _________________________________
____________________________________ Robert Crump, Mayor Susan D. Long, Deputy City Clerk |
