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03-18-2002 - Regular ~W CITY COUNCIL OF EDGEWATER REGULAR MEETING MARCH 18, 2002 7:00 P.M. COMMUNITY CENTER MINUTES CALL TO ORDER Mayor Schmidt called the Regular Meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. in the Community Center. ROLL CALL Mayor Donald Schmidt Councilman James Brown Councilman Dennis Vincenzi Councilwoman Harriet Rhodes Councilwoman Judith Lichter City Manager Kenneth Hooper city Clerk Susan Wadsworth Legal Assistant Robin Matusick Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present INVOCATION. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE There was a silent invocation and pledge of allegiance to the Flag. APPROVAL OF MINUTES A. Reqular Meetinq of February 11. 2002 Councilwoman Lichter moved to approve the February 11, 2002 minutes, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. B. Reqular Meeting of March 4. 2002 Councilwoman Rhodes moved to approve the March 4, 2002 minutes, second by Councilman Brown. The motion CARRIED 5-0. PRESENTATIONS/PROCLAMATIONS/PLAOUES/CERTIFICATES/DONATIONS A. Mavor Schmidt proclaiminq April as Water Conservation Month and presentinq the Proclamation to the Volusian Water Alliance Mayor Schmidt read the proclamation designating April as Water Conservation Month. CITIZEN COMMENTS Dick Martinez, 317 Schooner Ave, stated he would like to address a comment made at the last meeting. He spoke about the regulars that attend the meetings and referred to them as the watch dogs of the city. At the last meeting, they heard that they are the same five people that are always complaining. Mr. Martinez stated he was going to complain about a letter he sent to the City about Code Enforcement on January 4th for the No Name Saloon. Those Code violations have been going on since last October. Since January 4th nothing has been done and they still have existing Code violations. He noticed that Rich's Place was now violating the same codes and that is parking on the right-of- way of u.S. #1. He feels the officers should have seen the same thing he did and he saw it over a period of several nights. He is getting tired of the lack of Code Enforcement in the city of Edgewater. If he can't get an answer from the city Administration, he is going to take his complaint to the State Attorney on Friday. '-" "WI" city Manager Hooper stated he knows of two areas that Mr. Martinez has talked about. The first was the tents that are up. What we have in our permit identifies they have five days after the last day of Bike Week, those tents are supposed to be down. Code Enforcement has been on site and he thinks they are working to get those down. The parking on the right-of-way is not a new one. That isn't something that has just occurred. The parking on the right-of-way at Rich's and the No Name has been a number of years. DOT is involved to determine if they will give them an easement to park on the right-of-way or require them to move. Until DOT tells us that, we don't really have much to do except DOT's decision as to whether to let them or not let them stay on that right-of-way. Councilwoman Rhodes stated but we have a City Code that says you can not park on the right-of-way and questioned why that can't be enforced. City Manager Hooper stated we can enforce it. Before we do that, there have been a number of years in which it has not been done. He spoke about getting into an arbitrary enforcement of one day after ten years they have been allowed to do something and we say no you can't do that anymore. They have written a letter and stated they will come into Code compliance. They said they would make the Code application to DOT to enable them to make that'determination to or not to be able to stay and do that. He feels we are on shaky ground to enforce something that hasn't been enforced over a number of years and suddenly say they are going to do it. They adopted the restriction of parking in the right-of-way about a year ago. They have been noticed of that. Their response was when they bought the property, DOT was letting them do that. They asked DOT and DOT is still looking into their records to determine when they bought it, did they give them an easement to let them continue to use it. Mayor Schmidt asked how long it should take to hear something from DOT. City Manager Hooper stated they have indicated the City will hear something in the month of April. Mayor Schmidt mentioned other businesses that uses the right-of- way. It will address everything. City Manager Hooper stated the way they have done it in Code Enforcement, if it creates a nuisance or a problem they have used it. He spoke about many people parking on the right-of-way throughout the City. At this point it is more of a safety issue than anything else. The safety issue isn't with the city. They are parking on State property and that is what they have asked the State to look at. Councilwoman Lichter asked when City Manager Hooper heard last from the State. City Manager Hooper stated they talked to the State about two weeks ago. Dominic Capria, 606 Topside Circle, agreed with Mr. Martinez. They have problems here that statements were made. He said five but the speaker said twelve people who were watch dogs twelve years ago. He agreed they are watch dogs. One of the watch dogs is sitting up there today and that is Councilwoman Lichter. Mr. Capria stated they have had workshops for how many months on the noise ordinance but yet they had a nuisance law that nobody has enforced parallel to the one that Dick Martinez talked about, nobody is enforcing. If they had enforced those laws, they wouldn't be spending all these months on the noise level law. He isn't against the No Name or Rich's or anyone else. All they did, as Councilman Vincenzi said, was give them more days. CITY COUNCIL REPORTS Councilman Brown had nothing at this time. Councilman Vincenzi had nothing at this time. Page -2- Council Regular Meeting March 18, 2002 ~ "'" Councilwoman Rhodes had nothing at this time. Councilwoman Lichter stated Tuesday March 12th she chaired the Permits Compliance and Water Conservation Group and at that meeting Deborah Green has informed her that there may be some monies for our medians. She has informed Jack Corder who is going to get in touch with her to see if we can use some of that. Councilwoman Lichter reminded the Council April 5th the rain sensors must be activated and in place. Those are for those individuals that have regular wells but it is also for the reclaimed water it if it is on a timer. She spoke about the enforcement process the County is going to follow. If it doesn't workout with the County enforcing it, they are going to bring it up at the TAC meeting and perhaps our local guys will have to see if people have water sensors. She spoke about having water problems in the year 2010 because we are filling up and cementing over grass areas that the water used to go down and into the aquifer. Councilwoman Lichter spoke about the Humane society meeting she attended Thursday night. They are going to have a festival for pets Saturday, April 20th with many activities going on. The Council will be invited for the groundbreaking because they have the money and permits to enlarge somewhat. The festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the groundbreaking will be at 12:00 p.m. Mayor Schmidt spoke about visiting the city Hall in Deltona. It is a nice building with a nice layout. He feels the three of them that went will be talking to City Manager Hooper about the upcoming budget and some thoughts they have on some things to get the ball rolling. He spoke about there being several hundred people there to look at Deltona's City Hall. Mayor Schmidt stated Congressman John Mica was there and he was able to speak to him about SR 442 and SR 415 and the whole road network. He is dying for information from all the area cities involved. He would like to try and get a meeting together between Deltona, Daytona, the County, Port Orange, New Smyrna, and Edgewater and anyone involved with the SR 415 road network and the SR 442 network and the L-Cam Extension where it ties into SR 46. He also feels Karl from the MPO also needs to be there. He feels they need numbers and traffic counts. He feels they could put a nice package together for Congressman Mica to take to his people in Washington. He feels this is going to be a whole road network that they as a County aren't going to do. He feels while Congressman Mica is still in office they need to give him some ammunition that he can take in front of his Committees and say this is a really needed item. Mayor Schmidt spoke about seeing the widening of 192 on the news tonight. It talked about safety, evacuation, economics for that 35 mile stretch of road. It is a ten-year project for that road. City Manager Hooper stated his office called about a week ago and they sent them the two TOPS opportunity grants for transportation. The last two years they have submitted and this last year he thinks we are getting a little funding to do the preliminary studies. They were real pleased to hear we were sending that to them. Mayor Schmidt spoke about the people in Washington not knowing the extent or what is involved here. He has thought about making a video from the air and start it where SR 415 starts in Daytona stretch over down SR 415, show Edgewater to Deltona, show the L- Cam extension, show the mess by the Sanford Airport. He feels a video would go a long way. He stated we want some type of evacuation and some road to go through there. Page -3- Council Regular Meeting March 18, 2002 '-" ""-" Councilwoman Lichter spoke about an article in the newspaper about having the need for more east west passage and they mentioned in that article a bridge going to New Smyrna. She feels they might give some thought to that also. PUBLIC HEARINGS, ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS A. Public Hearinq. status of Animal Control Board Member Robin Hendricks city Manager Hooper presented the background information with regard to Animal Control Board Member Robin Hendricks. Mayor Schmidt opened the public hearing. Donna Wagner, Acting Chairperson, Animal Control Board, spoke about Ms. Hendricks' medical problems. She spoke about why it is important to have a full Board. Mayor Schmidt closed the public hearing. Mayor Schmidt asked how long it will take to get a new member. City Manager Hooper stated the Animal Control Board would review the applicants at the next meeting and make a recommendation to council. Councilwoman Rhodes moved to terminate Robin Hendricks term on the Animal Control Board but leave the opportunity open, if at some point she wants to serve again, that she can apply when there is an opening to come back, second by Councilwoman Lichter. The motion CARRIED 5-0. B. Res. No. 2002-R-08. staff recommendinq applyinq for a FIND Grant for $60.775 for the construction of a new fishinq pier with qazebo at Kennedy Park. assurinq dedication and availability of required matching funds and authorizinq appropriate city official to enter into an Interlocal Agreement City Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. Legal Assistant Matusick read Res. 2002-R-08 into the record. Mayor Schmidt spoke about a concern expressed by a citizen regarding building a pier from Kennedy Park to Menard May Park. Due to there being no comments, Mayor Schmidt opened and closed the public hearing. Councilman Vincenzi asked where the rest of the money comes from. City manager Hooper stated the FIND portion is $60,000 and they need Port Authority money and some of our money from impact fees we get from parks. Mr. Corder spoke about the Port Authority grant they have applied for. This grant is an additional $60,885 and the city is required to match with 10%, which would amount to $13,500, which they would use impact fees for. The remainder would be $60,000 from the Port Authority and $60,000 from FIND if we get the grants. If they don't get them, they will apply again in another year. Councilwoman Lichter moved to approve Res. 2002-R-08, second by Councilman vincenzi. The motion CARRIED 5-0. C. Res. No. 2002-R-09. acknowledqinq a Chanqe in Control of the Gas Franchise from South Florida Natural Gas CompanY to Florida Public utilities Company due to the recent change in ownership city Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. Page -4- Council Regular Meeting March 18, 2002 ......, ..., Legal Assistant Matusick read Res. 2002-R-09 into the record. Mayor Schmidt opened the public hearing. Councilwoman Lichter asked if it is prudent at this time if you are changing companies to look over a franchise that has been in existence since 1985 to see exactly what they want at this time or if any changes might be necessary. City Manager Hooper stated when the franchise is up for renewal, that is the time. This is contemplated in the franchise that if they sell, they can move from one name to the other without modification of the franchise. It comes up again for renewal in 2005. Mayor Schmidt closed the public hearing. Councilman Vincenzi moved to approve Res. 2002-R-09, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. D. 2nd Public Hearinq. staff requestinq approval of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) annual Plan Work Sheet for FY 2002/03 and the Five-Year Budqet proiect for FY 2002/06. Edqewater's FY 2002/03 allocation is $104.196. City Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. Mayor Schmidt opened the public hearing. Dominic Capria, 606 Topside circle, stated he didn't realize until tonight that it was five years at $104,196. He thought it was just for the one year which would be involved in the 2003 budget. He isn't too concerned with it but he asked if it is $104,196 each year and asked if they had any indication what that might do to our millage rate. City Manager Hooper stated it is not related and he wasn't sure what Mr. Capria meant. He further explained there are only certain expenditures on block grants that you can spend it on. It needs to be capital and needs to be spent in certain portions of the City from an economic disadvantage portion that you can spend it on to upgrade. They are not related. Mr. capria stated he was concerned because they were saying it would be included in our 2003 budget for the year. He feels there has to be some relations to our tax structure. City Manager Hooper assured him there wasn't. Mayor Schmidt asked Mr. Capria to sign the Sign-In Sheet. Mayor Schmidt closed the public hearing. Councilwoman Rhodes moved for approval of the Community Development Block Grant annual Plan Work Sheet for FY 200203 and the Five-Year budget projection for FY 2002/06, second by Councilwoman Lichter. The motion CARRIED 5-0. E. 2nd Readinq. Ord. No. 2001-0-96. Amendinq the Official Future Land Use Map from County Urban Low Intensity and Commercial to city Commercial for property located south of 28th Street and west of US 1 (continued from 12/3/01. Item 6U) F. 2nd Readinq. Ord. No. 2001-0-97. Amendinq the Official Zoninq Map from County 8-4 (General Commercial) and R-3 (Urban Sinqle FamilY Residential) to city B-3 (Hiqhway Commercial) for property located south of 28th Street and west of US 1 (continued from 12/3/01. Item 6V) City Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. Due to there being no comments, Mayor Schmidt opened and closed the public hearing. Page -5- Council Regular Meeting March 18, 2002 '-'" ...,.; Legal Assistant Matusick read Ord. 2001-0-96 and Ord. 2001-0-97 into the record. Councilwoman Lichter asked if this is a more intense highway use. Chief Planner Darren Lear explained generally the County R-3 was in the rear of these properties. These are vacant properties as of right now. These were requested by the owners of the property. County B-4 is along the same lines as the City B-3. It doesn't really change the intensity. It changes the use. There was a brief discussion regarding where this property is located. Councilman Brown moved to approve Ord. 2001-0-96, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. Councilwoman Rhodes moved to approve Ord. 2001-0-97, second by Councilman Brown. The motion CARRIED 5-0. G. 2nd Readinq. Ord. No. 2001-0-98. Amendinq the Official Future Land Use Map from County Urban Low Intensity and Commercial to city Public/Semi-Public for property located at 3232 South Ridqewood Avenue (continued from 12/3/01. Item 6W) H. 2nd Readinq. Ord. No. 2001-0-99. Amendinq the Official Zoninq Map from County B-4 (General Commercial) and B-3 (Urban Sinqle FamilY Residential) to city B-3 (Hiqhway Commercial) for property located at 3232 South Ridqewood Avenue (continued from 12/3/01. Item 6X) City Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. Legal Assistant Matusick read Ord. 2001-0-98 and Ord. 2001-0-99 into the record. Due to there being no comments, Mayor Schmidt opened and closed the public hearing. Councilwoman Lichter moved to approve Ord. 2001-0-98, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. Councilwoman Rhodes moved to approve Ord. 2001-0-99, second by Councilman Brown. The motion CARRIED 5-0. I. 2nd Readinq. Ord. No. 2001-0-100. Amending the Official Future Land use Map from County Urban Low Intensity and Commercial to city Commercial for property located south of 28th Street and west of US 1 (continued from 12/3/01. Item 6Y) J. 2nd Readinq. Ord. No. 2001-0-101. Amendinq the Official Zoninq Map from County B-4 (General Commercial) and R-3 (Urban Sinqle FamilY Residential) to City B-4 (Hiqhway Commercial) for property located south of 28th Street and west of US 1 (continued from 12/3/01. Item 6Z) City Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. Legal Assistant Matusick read Ord. 2001-0-100 and Ord. 2001-0-101 into the record. Due to there being no comments, Mayor Schmidt opened and closed the public hearing. Councilwoman Lichter spoke about a there being a single family residence in several of those areas and asked if those people notified directly about this change. City Manager Hooper explained everybody within 300 feet are notified of a land use or a zoning change. Page -6- Council Regular Meeting March 18, 2002 '--' ..." Councilman Brown moved to approve Ord. 2001-0-100, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. Councilwoman Lichter moved to approve Ord. 2001-0-101, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. CONSENT AGENDA There were no items to be discussed on the Consent Agenda at this time. OTHER BUSINESS A. ParkTowne Industrial Center - staff recommendinq acceptance of preliminary layout of Phase II desiqn City Manager Hooper explained the Consulting Engineers that are in charge of the construction engineering inspection phase as well as the preliminary layout for the expansion of Phase II would be making a presentation. Katie Gierok, Gierok Engineering, stated she and Chris Murphy with Weldon Land Development have both been working on the preliminary layout and the design for Phase II. She went over the map that shows the preliminary layout and the three potential entrance sign designs. She then commented on the changes she has updated since the first map. She would like the Council's opinion on which sign they want to go for. Councilman Vincenzi asked the difference in cost for each sign. Ms. Gierok stated there shouldn't be a huge difference in cost. They haven't priced them yet. They want to get a feel of where Council wants to go with this. It was the consensus of Council to go with the half moon sign with the brick. Ms. Gierok credited Lynne Plaskett because the sign chosen by Council was her concept. Ms. Gierok then went over the layout of the Phase II design. Ms. Gierok made mention that FIND is not willing to sell the portion of the property where the pond is next to the containment site. This has thrown a wrench into trying to make the connection to New Smyrna Beach. City Manager Hooper explained FIND's thought process is that canal is how they are bringing the dredge material up when they clean out the river so they are pumping up there and they want to make sure they are connected. He is going to talk to Mr. Roach tomorrow to see if any other way will make them feel happy. What they have described to him is that they have sold that in the past in other places and it didn't go well and they have been cut off from their containment site. They went out and bought an entire 30' to 40' along the canal that goes from our strip down to the river to be able to put pipe and get in and clean and maintain. Councilwoman Rhodes stated instead of that being a cul-de-sac, why can't that go straight through to 10th street. City Manager Hooper stated the potential is there but until the high school is sited and until New Smyrna and the County agree on where the best route is. That is probably the best for the park. The other thing the County is looking at is if you went directly west of here and on the other side of the College to make another road that brings traffic from Airport Road and brings it all the way up to 10th Street. That is their alternative instead of using our Industrial Park. Page -7- Council Regular Meeting March 18, 2002 ....,. ..." City Manager Hooper feels if you brought traffic up Mango and went into the Industrial Park, that works, but the mixing of school buses and school children with industrial traffic is probably not the best answer so they are coming across with a second route. The School Board, the County and both cities are working and have joint meetings scheduled to pick an alignment that is best for all those multi purposes. They have all agreed to find the best solution and try to propose that. Councilwoman Lichter stated she thought the Board of Education was going to be buying the church property for the School. City Manager Hooper stated that is correct. That is an option to purchase and they haven't concluded. There is a parcel for drainage and a parcel for the site itself. Mayor Schmidt stated there are three different parcels altogether. City Manager Hooper stated New Smyrna is not real happy with that and is asking to have them reconsider. New Smyrna is concerned about 10th Street and the traffic that goes out to Josephine and what happens on Old Mission. There are a lot of transportation issues that the County is involved with that. Councilman Vincenzi pointed out a location where he would like to see an entrance. He doesn't think the industrial property would be that attractive if there were hundreds of cars going through there in the morning and when school gets out. City Manager Hooper stated that is part of our dilemma. If you are looking at it to help kids from Florida Shores get to a high school, that is an asset but that is hurting the park. Ms. Gierok explained why they chose the location for the connection being to make the traffic blend better. City Manager Hooper stated at this plan they have no idea to make the connection but with the School Board and the County and the two cities still talking, it is not ruled out but they aren't planning or designing for it. They want to stop it right there unless something changes. Councilwoman Lichter asked what the status is of the Morgan Property. City Manager Hooper stated we have an appraisal that is completed, which is 70 acres. They completed that four or five weeks ago. He met with Mr. Morgan on Friday and he is very interested in selling to the City. The appraisal came back at $20,000 an acre for 70 acres which is $1.4 million. We don't have the money today. We are having a nice conversation and they are talking about some long term, as this is developed, he would give us this property with a payment due in ex-number of years but at this point they are talking. Mr. Morgan has agreed to give us the right-of-way regardless of whether we purchase the property and he sells it to somebody else that we will work. There is about four acres of right-of-way through there and about a two acre pond. Councilwoman Lichter stated that is nice but he is going to give it to us. City Manager Hooper stated think in terms of very nice but you have tripled his value of property. City Manager Hooper asked the Council to vote to accept that so that what we want to do is send them to do the final design of that. City Manager Hooper informed the Council what happens next. He made mention of the tremendous amount of people that are asking to buy these lots. They are meeting with the Attorneys this Friday on how to do pre-sales. We can enter into a contract subject to our closing with some people that want to buy several of these lots. That is occurring now. Page -8- Council Regular Meeting March 18, 2002 ~ ~ Councilman Brown mentioned having a road that went around the containment pond. He asked if that is dead. City Manager Hooper stated it is 80% or 90% dead. He is not interested in budging from that. Ms. Gierok stated it is difficult because we are in construction. Our decisions really have to be right in line. The contractor is ready to dig that pond today. There was a brief discussion regarding combining two of the ponds and building a road around them so instead of going next to the containment site you would go on the other side of the ponds. Ms. Gierok explained they looked at several layouts. Councilman Brown moved to accept the preliminary plan and authorized Gierok Engineering to move forward with the design, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. Councilman Vincenzi was hesitant about voting yes but agreed to as long as it is subject to change later. City Manager Hooper explained what could be subject to change is there can be potential to come in at a later date and connect somewhere along here by that vote the Council is authorizing them to design this. B. Phase I of FY 2002 Annual Road Resurfacinq - staff requestinq approval to 'piqqY-back' the Volusia County Paving bid with Halifax pavinq, Inc. to perform street resurfacinq in the city of Edgewater for an estimated cost of $211,155.35 Mayor Schmidt stated Riverside Drive has a lot of space between the edges of the road and where the grass is. There are a lot where people falloff the end of the road and make the ditch a little bigger. He feels that needs a lot of dirt to fix the shoulders. Councilwoman Rhodes spoke about the condition of where the roads meet SR 442 and Roberts Road. Mayor Schmidt stated with Indian River they know they have to get DOT to dump some dirt in there and that is going to be taken care of. City Manager Hooper stated they are looking at some of those on Riverside Drive. Some of those are driven by drainage where they have had wet areas and somebody runs off the road. It is more of a dirt issue than the resurfacing. Councilwoman Lichter feels Riverside Drive is a more acute problem in terms of flooding that the sewers are low and the river comes up and she feels they have a lot of sewer problems on Riverside Drive that have to be addressed before they throw in dirt. Councilwoman Lichter asked Director of Environmental Services Terry Wadsworth what is in the works for fixing some of the flooding on Riverside Drive. Mr. Wadsworth stated they are looking at the stormwater problem. They have made some corrections that have been somewhat helpful but with severe rains you still get sheeting from u.S. #1 to Riverside Drive. They have discussed with the Stormwater Consultants from PEC some steps they can take to help eliminate that but it will take doing it in-house quite a bit of time putting swales in the side streets that run between Riverside Drive and u.S. #1 and go ahead and put ditch blocks and swales and some other means of capturing water to give some treatment and to keep some of that water from getting Riverside Drive. Mr. Wadsworth further commented on the sewer issue and that being part of the reason they haven't gone ahead and re-paved any of Riverside Drive. At budget time they will be discussing that and pick it up next year. Page -9- Council Regular Meeting March 18, 2002 ~ "WIll Councilwoman Lichter mentioned possibly getting a grant on historic Riverside Drive to get some money from possibly st. John's to kick in to some of the cost. Mr. Wadsworth stated they have been pursuing those. They have applied for several and will continue to apply. city Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. Councilman vincenzi stated pine Tree Drive is terrible. Mr. Wadsworth commented on the scoring criteria they followed to determine what roads were the worst and needed the most attention. Doris Hill, 112 Lincoln Road, asked if Lincoln Road is getting any consideration in this. City Manager Hooper stated no, he lives on Lincoln. This is resurfacing. If there is a desire, the homeowner's need to get together and it is paid for 1/3 on one side, 1/3 on the other side and the City pays for a 1/3 and they set up an assessment program. Andy Anderson, pine Tree Drive, stated every time they have a heavy rain the 18th street canal plugs up or if it doesn't plug up it gets real slow when it comes to letting the water out of there. It is somewhere east of pine Tree Drive. He doesn't know if there is furniture in the pipes or what is going on down there. When it rains heavy, they get a lot of water laying around on pine Tree Drive. He believes it has something to do with the canal and feels there is something in the canal that is holding that water up. He also suggested maybe the pipes aren't big enough. Mayor Schmidt asked Mr. Wadsworth to look into that. Councilwoman Rhodes made a motion to piggyback the Volusia County Paving bid with Halifax paving to resurface these roads for $211,155.35 and the execution of the agreement, second by Councilman vincenzi. The motion CARRIED 5-0. OFFICER REPORTS City Clerk Wadsworth had nothing at this time. Legal Assistant Matusick had nothing at this time. City Manager Hooper presented an update of the YMCA. They are having an emergency meeting this evening at 5 p.m. to determine getting approval to ask for additional money. He has met with the current pool contractor as well as the contractor the YMCA is trying to bring in to take over the job. He was supposed to as of Friday give them a price quote and that hasn't occurred either. He thinks at this time the best answer he has for Council is the bank has authorized a loan of $700,000 to the YMCA. When he met with the contractors the potential new contractor the needs exceed the $700,000 but he didn't know a for sure amount because nothing has been in concrete. They issued a stop work last week on the pool. They reached a point where the contractor said it would be good and sound prudent judgement to let them finish some of it so they released the stop work on the pool itself. The bath house still has a stop work order. They are supposed to be in contact but he doesn't have nothing new. Councilwoman Lichter stated if they are having a meeting tonight perhaps we will be hearing tomorrow. City Manager Hooper stated they were supposed to call him and let him know because they knew he was updating the Council tonight on telling the Council whether they were there. Page -10- Council Regular Meeting March 18, 2002 '-' """'" Advertisinq for Enqineer City Manager Hooper stated the other item is authorization from the Council to advertise for additional engineering services. Those would be plans review, construction, and inspection as we are starting to have quite a bit more business activity one of the things we do not have staff to do is inspections. That cost is passed directly to the individuals coming in with the subdivisions so it isn't costing additional dollars. They want to look at our renewal of the continuing contract for water, wastewater, drainage, advertise for that and try to do all of that at the same time. That is about a sixty day process to bring those back to Council. Mayor Schmidt asked if they are looking at next year's budget to go to an in-house engineer. City Manager Hooper sated he doesn't think he is ready to recommend that to the Council. The Consultant role has worked extremely well and the turn around time is phenomenal. Councilwoman Lichter feels it has worked out with our City Attorney this way in a manner that she never anticipated would be so practical. She spoke on different engineering firms having different expertise so she likes the Consulting use of engineers. City Manager Hooper stated the best part is the cost is passed back. Councilwoman Lichter asked about the old hospital on u.S. #1. She feels it is looking more and more derelict. City Manager Hooper stated it is on their list with Code Enforcement. They are following up to condemn the building. He agreed to bring the Council a schedule at the April 1st meeting that says what stage they are at to condemn and tear it down. Councilman Brown reminded everyone of the Meals on Wheels walk. CITIZEN COMMENTS/CORRESPONDENCE There were no citizen comments at this time. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to discuss, Councilwoman Rhodes moved to adjourn. 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