MEETING OF THE CITY OF CONNELL, WASHINGTON
CONNELL, FRANKLIN COUNTY, WASHINGTON
EXCUSED:
Councilmember Ron Boyer
STAFF:
City Administrator Art Tackett, Chief of Police Rick Rochleau, Public
Works Director Pat Munyan, Deputy City Treasurer Jeri Reinauer and City Attorney
Terry Tanner
VISITORS:
Dan Burgard, Cascade Earth Sciences and, Kathy Bingham, Franklin County
Graphic.
CORRESPONDENCE/PRESENTATIONS/APPOINTMENTS
1)
Liquor Control Board -
1) American Legion gambling license for a fund
raising event
2) Quik Mart renewal of
liquor license.
CONSENT
CALENDAR
Councilmember
Skoglund moved to approve the Consent Calendar as follows:
1)
Minutes of the August 27, 2001 Regular Meeting.
Councilmember Martinez seconded motion.
Motion carried unanimously.
CITIZEN
COMMENT / NON AGENDA ITEMS
None
APPROVAL
OF AGENDA
Councilmember
Skoglund moved to approve the agenda as presented.
Councilmember Pruett seconded motion.
Motion carried unanimously.
PUBLIC HEARING - MARYETTE CAMP ANNEXATION
Mayor Walton opened the public
hearing at 7:45 pm on the annexation for property belonging to Maryette Camp and
continued the hearing to September 24th.
CASCADE EARTH SCIENCE PRESENTATION – Dan Burgard
CES, an
environmental consulting company specializing in land application and waste and
wastewaters. They were subcontracted by Anderson Perry to take a look at some of
the land use applications for the area that was being looked at for a new
industrial production facility that was interested in locating in Connell and
the ramifications of a wastewater treatment plant for that facility. City
Administrator Tackett and Jeff Bishop had traveled to Spokane to meet with CES
previously and the current presentation is in response to that meeting.
Dan Burgard was present to give a brief
rundown on what CES felt could be done to meet the needs of this project
(Project GROW). One of the areas of concern was the financial impact of managing
the wastewater from the facility. Mr.
Burgard’s presentation included a handout with information on the potential
financing with an industrial non-recourse tax-exempt bond, (non-recourse meaning
no debt load to the City), and a potential project structure.
Further discussion by council and staff
were about the impacts of the need for fresh water to blend with the wastewater
from the facility in order to meet the needs of diluting the salt load before
dispersing the wastewater through a sprinkling system. One of the potential
water options was utilization of irrigation water for a portion of that need.
Art was directed to follow up with contact to the company to see if they are
still interested in the Connell location for development.
WASTEWATER FACILITY- PROJECT UPDATE
Larry Seibel of Anderson Perry was
not present to update the Mayor and Council on the progress of the projects and
had given City Administrator Tackett some written information to share with
council.
Schedule A –
including the lift stations, gravity sewers and force mains. A
pre-final inspection was held on Schedule A Tuesday and Wednesday last week.
The standby generators were tested for automatic operation
(during simulated power outage). Operation was excellent.
The motor control centers and lift stations were tested for
automatic operation. (Lead pump on, lag pump on, both pumps on, and lead/lag
pump alternation.) The test runs were conducted by filling the wet well at Lift
Station #4 with water, pumping it to Lift Station #5, thence to cell #1 of the
lagoons. All systems checked out okay.
The
contractor demonstrated how to remove and reset the submersible pumps.
A punch list of deficiencies was
compiled. The contractor will correct them before acceptance.
The system will not be put into
operation until it has been demonstrated
Schedule B
– comprised of lagoons, treatment plant and irrigation systems.
The contractor is placing the concrete slabs at the treatment building
entrances. The pipe is being constructed to the well site.
The well driller (Picatti Bros., Inc.)
is scheduled to begin drilling the well this week. The well should take less
than 2 weeks to drill.
The electrical sub-contractor
(Farmer’s Electric) is wiring the interior of the
treatment plant building. Equipment installation will commence when the interior
of the building is wired, plumbed, and dry walled.
The fencing sub-contractor (Bent Creek
Fence) is on site. The 8 foot tall fence is approximately 90% complete.
Big Bend Power is constructing the
power transmission lines to the site. About half the power poles have been set.
Partial Pay Estimate No. 5 for Schedule
B has been provided for your approval. The Contractor has not yet returned the
signed copies. They should be received this week.
Motion:
Councilmember Pruett made a motion to accept Partial
Pay Estimate No. 5 in the amount of $279,243.87 to Selland Construction as
presented. Councilmember Martinez second. Motion carried unanimously.
WATER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS - PROJECT UPDATE
Larry Seibel of Anderson Perry was
not present to update the Mayor and Council on the progress of the projects and
had given City Administrator Tackett some written information to share with
council.
Phase I –
Garfield Road Waterline extension.
Construction can’t be started before approval by the
Department of Health is received. Art indicated that he had not been aware of
the need to get plans in to the Department of Health and went to Spokane to
deliver them by hand. He indicated that he and Larry still have some things to
do in dealing with both the Department of Health and the Public Works Trust
Fund. It will cause a delay in starting the project by a couple of weeks.
Phase II –
Striker Addition system improvements.
The preliminary plans are ready for an on-site
joint review by the City and Anderson Perry. Mayor Walton will set up a time to
get together with Larry Seibel to walk the neighborhood and visit with the
residents that have structures or trees that are in the right of way for the
water line.
ORDINANCE NO. 739 – Farm Annexation
The farm is
comprised of several different parcels and is not being annexed in its entirety,
but only the parcels that are designated in the ordinance.
Motion: Councilmember Lobach
made a motion to adopt Ordinance No. 739. Councilmember Martinez second. Motion
passed unanimously.
ORDINANCE NO. 740 –
Amending Legal Description of Ordinance 738
Mr. Tackett explained
that the legal description had not been accurate on the original ordinance No.
738.
Motion: Councilmember Lobach made a motion to adopt Ordinance No. 740 as presented. Councilmember Pruett second. Motion passed unanimously.
WATER RIGHTS -
City Administrator
Tackett requested to have this item moved into executive session at the end of
the meeting.
TRAFFIC SEPARATION AT POST
OFFICE – Chief Rochleau
Police Chief Rochleau
presented the proposal received from Pavement Surface Control for the traffic
separator for Franklin Street in front of the Post Office. There was some
question about the cost that was written in the proposal. Pat indicated that he
would check with the company about the cost proposal.
Motion: Councilmember Lobach made a motion to go ahead with the traffic separator at no more than the presented cost of $3,116.00 plus tax. Councilmember Pruett second. Motion carried unanimously.
PAYMENT OF BILLS –
Councilmember Lobach made a motion
to pay the payroll and bills in the amount of $356,986.12. Councilmember
Skoglund seconded the motion. Motion
carried unanimously.
DEPARTMENT
REPORTS
Police
Report - Chief
of Police Rick Rochleau.
1)
Fall Festival – went pretty good. A couple of vehicle prowls and one
assault, but
outside of that everything went pretty good.
2)
Officer Turner returned to full active duty last week.
3)
Officer Quinton is in his fifth week of the academy and doing well.
Public Works - Public
Works Director Patrick Munyan
1)
Had been working mainly on preparation for Fall Festival.
2)
Contacted the railroad as requested and they did weld that plate back
together that holds the concrete at the crossing and they are looking at getting
a crew to replace the asphalt that is missing. Art talked with the railroad
about the Clark Street crossing and that will be addressed during the Clark Street
project.
3)
Schedule A of the wastewater facility project had a two-day walk through
for the pump testing and went pretty good.
4)
Elm Street will be done in about four weeks. Now that Fall Festival is
over most of the crew will be put on that project to get it done before cold
weather sets in. There will be a need to remove some trees and shrubs out of the
right-of-way in order to proceed.
City Administrator's Report - City
Administrator Art Tackett
1)
DNR – Art and the Mayor met with the Department of Natural Resources
and then talked with a real estate person who will pursue this further.
2)
PUD – the increase of energy costs are of concern and Art has contacted
PUD to see if they will come up and do an energy efficiency analysis to see if
the City can do anything further to save energy.
Mayor Walton’s Report – Mayor
Gary Walton
1)
Community Center – Mayor Walton would like to see the group that worked
previously on the fee schedule for the community center to due to the increase
of the energy costs, and to also look at the small church rental guidelines,
load capacities and fee schedule and then bring the recommendations back to the
council. Mayor Walton will see if Councilmember Boyer will be willing to
participate.
Attorney Terry Tanner – nothing
to report.
The
Mayor recessed the regular meeting at 9:50
p.m. to go into an executive session
for approximately 30 minutes, to discuss the purchase of property.
The
regular meeting was called back into session after the executive session at
10:19 p.m. and the Mayor gave a brief update on the condition of Fire Chief Bob
Koch and how well he is doing. There being no further business to be heard
before the City Council of the City of Connell, Mayor Walton adjourned the
regular meeting at 10:20 p.m.