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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/03/1972 Special Meeting / Regular Meeting 463 • NOVEMBER 3, 1972 . • • NOVEMBER 6, 1972 •. - SPECIAL MEETING ' . . . YAKIMA CITY COUNCIL ' - . . -_ .NOVEMBER 3, 1972: . . _ . . Pursuant to due.notice of special meeting of the Yakima City Council for November 3, 1972, due to lack of a. quorum, no special meeting was held on this date. II ' ., . CITY CLERK . MINUTES OF SPECIAL MEETING - . YAKIMA CITY COUNCIL . - - NOVEMBER 6, 1972 . The City Council met in special:session pursuant•to duenotice at.1:30 P.M.., November 6, . 1972, in the Conference Room at Yakima City Hall.. • Councilmen present at the meeting were Mayor Bert Broad, Lenore Lambert, Jim Lust, °.Walter Robinson,- Don Schussler and Bill Whitaker. , Also present were'City•Manager McMicken, C-ity,Attorney- Andrews and Administrative Assistant Jim,Flint. The Council commenced an initial study of the preliminary budget,.and made plans for further reviews of the budget, including an all -day meeting to be held•Friday, November 10, 1972, at the Holiday Inn in Yakima. The City Manager filed with the City Council information,previously requested by the Council pertaining to •labor.negotiations and the union requests... - The City Manager reported to the Council on meetings held the previous'week'with the ' Yakima Convention and Cultural Center Task..Force, and briefly discussed the work of various 'committees of the Task.Force. The meeting, adjourned at'three•o'clock P..M.• - . REGULAR MEETING - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1972 - 3:00 O'CLOCK P.M. > : i : :: : . . The Council then met in regular session at the hour of 3:00 P.M., Mayor Broad pre- siding, Councilmen Brown, Lambert, Lust, Robinson, Schussler and Whitaker, City Manager McMicken.and City•Attorney Andrews present on roll call.. The Invocation was given by City'Attorney Fred Andrews. . The minutes of the special and regular_meetings :of October 30, 1972,•having been duly certified accurate by two Councilmen., :and ,no one present wishing to have said minutes read publicly; Mayor Broad declared said minutes. approved as recorded. • Petitions•No. -763, 764 and 765; having been filed with the'City Clerk on November 3, 1972, by Wm. D. Rehfield, 'requesting improvement of property by construction'of a water main, sewer, and curbs,. gutters and surfacing of.street on• Perry. :Street. =.west of 3rd . it was MOVED by Robinson, seconded by Schussler that said petitions, for the creation of , Local . -•Improvement:.Districts,•be r-eferred•to•,the City Manager and Staff for study and • • recommendation: carried, Broad,. Brown, Lambert,-Lust, Robinson,'Schussler•and Whitaker voting aye by voice vote. Petition No. 766, having been filed with the City Clerk on November 3, 1972, by Douglas A. .and ;Feral:.P , Fellows and - :Chester R:. Kay Sonnabend; requesting - vacation -of a portion of public right -of way including the Edgecliff•Manor cul -de -sac; it was 'MOVED by Robinson, seconded by that Resolution . No. D -1953 fixing the time of hearing for December 11, 1972, •be passed as read: carried;. •Broad, Brown;. Lambert; Lusty Robinson ;. Schussler: and Whitaker .voting aye; on •roll :call. . . _ -, -- : . RESOLUTION NO. D- 1953,- A RESOLUTION fixing the time and place for hearing on a petition ' for vacation of :a-portion of•public.right of way. • An Ordinance appropriating $57,389 in various funds to pay salaries and fringe benefits • . , for employees hired under the E.. E. A_Feder,al•grant.program,having been read in its • entirety at this meeting, was laid on the table for one week or until November 13, 1972. City Manager McMicken gave an explanation of this Ordinance, stating that these are PEP employees for this -.year -that .were not :contemplated in the 19,72 budgets and .that -they. have been-paid-by available, funds :within those budgets; but .that :a. new appropriationri2s now- needed in the amounts shown in the Ordinance. . , - I . • ' - ,,--_ .: _. .. : . r' - . It was MOVED -by Lambert; seconded - by Schussler that.Ordinance.No. 1459, fixing and levying ad valorem taxes for the 1973 budget and amending Ordinance No. 1446, passed October 2, • . 1972, be passed as read: carried, Broad,. Brown; .1Lambert Lust, Robinson, Schussler and Whitaker voting aye ' on 'roll .;call. : Ther.el was discussion as to the - possi'bility.:of reducing the amount of millage on the city property tax. assessments, since there are additional funds anticipated, . from Revenue: Sharing .., However:, , pit _was .the, consensus of those present that the future of. the-Revenue ,Sharing money is too uncertain to .just-ify .levying less . than .the maximum amount of 11 : milks . ,, - :,,• ,,••• . • . r: r:: _ _ . .. _. . - ._ _.. ORDINANCE NO. 1459, AN ORDINANCE amending City of- Yakima :-Ordinance, -No. .1 :dated October 2,_1972, entitled, "An ordinance fixing and levying the amount of ad valorem • taxes - necessary, :balance.- :estima-te-d .expend,itures.. -for the 3; 7-,Bud.get = -�t for.he,C ity' of • Yakima," ' . . In accordance with the Yakima.City Charter and State Statute,'City'Manager-McMicken••sub.- mitted the ..preliminary , budge.t for the : City • of . yak ima ; ,f.or the. year .,197:3 , and reported• that a copy has :been filed with ,the •City : on, 'November 2', 197 : 2,:.' He .- furtherrepgrted -that • . I