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Home My WebLink About09/21/2010 00 Action Agenda ACTION ON YAKIMA CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS MEETING SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 COUNCIL CHAMBERS, YAKIMA CITY HALL 6.00 P.M. — BUSINESS MEETING 1 Roll Call Present: Council: Mayor Micah Cawley, presiding, Council Members Maureen Adkison, Dave Edler, Rick Ensey, Dave Ettl and Bill Lover Staff City Manager Zais, City Attorney Cutter and City Clerk Kloster Absent: Assistant Mayor Kathy Coffey 2. Invocation /Pledge of Allegiance Council Member Dave Edler gave an invocation and led the Pledge of Allegiance 3 Open Discussion for the Good of the Order A. Proclamations • Yakima Truck Driver Appreciation Week Al Pineda, from Conover Insurance, accepted the proclamation B Presentations /recognitions /introductions • Yakima Police Explorers Achievements and Awards Police Officers Ira Cavin and Dolce Diaz, co- advisors for the Explorers, gave an overview of the Explorer program and summarized their duties and accomplishments. Eleven explorers were present. C Status reports on prior meeting's citizen service requests • Response to Jim Evans regarding weedy Tots ACTION Motion carried to accept the report. VOTE. 6 -0, Coffey absent D Appointments to Boards, Commissions and Council Committees — None 4 Consent Agenda Items 7 and 8 were added to the Consent Agenda ACTION Motion carried to approve the Consent Agenda as read VOTE. 6 -0, Coffey absent *A. Consideration of approval of City Council Meeting Minutes 1 Business Meeting — September 7, 2010 2. Adjourned Meeting /Study Session — September 8, 2010 ACTION Motion carried to approve the Council meeting minutes. B Consideration of approval of Council Committee Meeting Minutes *1 Council Public Safety Committee — August 18, 2010 *2 Transit/Transportation Planning Committee — August 19, 2010 *3 Gang Free Initiative Steering Committee — August 26 and September 8, 2010 *4 City /County Intergovernmental Committee — August 31 and Sept. 14, 2010 *5 Council Economic Development Committee — September 1, 2010 *6 Neighborhood Development Committee — September 1, 2010 ACTION Motion carried to approve the Council Committee meeting minutes. SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 7 Rules and Procedures Committee — August 26, 2010 (reinserted) • Recommendation to address issues raised by citizens during Audience Participation through standard City procedures instead of giving precedence because they were presented during a business meeting, recommendation that response to issues that cannot be addressed through standard procedures be extended to four weeks rather than the currently established two -week time period ACTION Motion carried to adopt the Committee's recommended process. VOTE 6 -0, Coffey absent 5 Audience Participation No one came forward to speak. 7 P.M. — PUBLIC HEARINGS 6 Public hearing to consider an ordinance amendment to modify the Yakima County Tourist Promotion Area (TPA) John Cooper, President/CEO of the Yakima Valley Visitors and Convention Bureau, gave background on the formation and membership of the Tourist Promotion Area. He explained the petition request to add two more members to the Zone B Yakima area and distributed statistics on the TPA's hotel representation. Council Member Adkison stated that Union Gap has notified the City they plan to withdraw from the TPA. Due to budgeting difficulties, Union Gap has requested to terminate at the end of the 2010 instead of giving one year's notice City Attorney Cutter advised there is no authority in the interlocal agreement to waive the withdrawal provision. The public hearing was held Jay Wildgen spoke against the request to add two members and Verlynn Best and Penny Baker spoke in favor of the request. ACTION Motion carried to pass the ordinance VOTE 6 -0, Coffey absent ORDINANCE NO 2010 -37 CITY MANAGER'S REPORTS *7 Consideration of a Resolution authorizing execution of an agreement with Conley Engineering for fixture upgrades ACTION Resolution adopted RESOLUTION NO R- 2010 -106 *8 Consideration of a Resolution authorizing execution of an agreement with Akel Engineering Group, Inc. to provide wastewater /stormwater engineering services for the Wastewater Division ACTION Resolution adopted RESOLUTION NO R- 2010 -107 2 SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 *9 Consideration of a Resolution authorizing execution of a mutual aid agreement between Joint Base Lewis- McChord/Yakima Training Center Police Department and the City of Yakima Police Department ACTION Resolution adopted RESOLUTION NO R- 2010 -108 *10 Consideration of Resolutions authorizing execution of 2010 agreements with. A. Greater Yakima Chamber of Commerce ACTION Resolution adopted RESOLUTION NO R -2010 -109 B Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Yakima County ACTION Resolution adopted RESOLUTION NO. R -2010 -110 C Yakima Sunfair Festival Association for tourist promotion services ACTION Resolution adopted RESOLUTION NO R- 2010 -111 *11 Consideration of a Resolution setting the date of a public hearing before the City of Yakima Hearing Examiner for October 28, 2010 to consider two right -of -way vacation petitions and Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital's associated Master Development Plan ACTION Resolution adopted RESOLUTION NO R- 2010 -112 *12 Set date of Closed Record public hearing for October 5, 2010 to consider the preliminary plat of Mountain View Estates ACTION Closed Record public hearing was set for October 5, 2010 ORDINANCES *13 First reading of an Ordinance amending the 2010 budget and making an appropriation in the Economic Development budget and authorizing grant funding from SIED for North 1 Street corridor revitalization study services (no action required at this meeting; second reading scheduled 10 -5-10) *14 Second reading of an Ordinance amending the 2010 budget and making an appropriation in the 462 — Transit Operating Fund for extended services ACTION Ordinance passed. ORDINANCE NO 2010 -38 *15 Second reading of an Ordinance amending the 2010 Refuse budget for unanticipated landfill and fuel expenditures services ACTION Ordinance passed ORDINANCE NO 2010 -39 16 Other Business Council Member Ensey requested Council to review Boards and Commissions and determine whether some of them are still necessary Staff was directed to provide a report on the amount of time they spend on each committee The consensus of the Council was to review the report in 30 days at a regular business meeting Council Member EttI asked Council if they would be interested in using Elway to poll the community regarding issues and concerns the Council is discussing. Council decided they would like to think about this more and bring it back for discussion at a future time. Staff was directed to contact Eisenhower High School to determine if the statistics class would be interested in doing a survey of the community, which had been done in the past. 3 SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 Mayor Cawley brought up the forms of government issue saying he still had questions he would like answered It was pointed out that it was difficult to study the issue without having it better defined Discussion ensued on how to further pursue the subject. ACTION Motion carried to establish a 3- person committee to bring back in 30 days or Tess an outline and answers to frequently asked questions for discussion at a study session or regular business meeting VOTE. 6 -0, Coffey absent ACTION Motion carried to assign Council Members Edler, Ensey and Lover to the committee. VOTE. 6 -0, Coffey absent 17 Adjournment — 7 30 p m ACTION Motion carried to adjourn to September 28, 2010 3.30 p m. for a joint public meeting with Yakima County in the Council Chambers on the West Valley Neighborhood Plan. VOTE 6 -0, Coffey absent 4