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HomeMy WebLinkAboutminutes.council.19850114 JOINT MEETING WITH COUNTY COMMISSIONERS - Mayor Stirling called the meeting to order at 4:10 p.m. with Councilmembers Blomquist and Walls, and Commissioners Klanderud, Child, Blake, KinSley and Madsen present. 1. County Budget Update Report. Commissioner Kinsley presented a memorandum about the county's budget cuts because of the city/county relationship in various areas. Kinsley said the County has not decided whether to put the question about the number of Commissioners on a ballot. Kinsley said the Commissioners took about $100,000 from the sheriff's department, they cannot be specific about personnel reduction. The CommissionerS cut animal cOntrol from 1.5 persons to 1 person. Mayor Stirling questioned the item of no money being available for transportation after 1985, and why push for sales tax legislation. Kinsley said this means no general fund, property tax monies will be spent, it will be replaced by the seventh penny. Ms. Klanderud said the $58,000 savings will either be reducing the Commissioners' salaries! or reducing the number of Commissioners. This is being discussed. City Manager Schilling~ asked if the county intends to go back to the voters for a mill levy increase. Kinsley said they have no plans at this time, and all the budget plans assume the county does not get an additional mill levy increase. Councilman Blomquist asked if this budget assumes no money at all for trails maintenance. Kinsley said given the current Condition, never. Councilwoman Walls said the intention of the home rule charter committee was that the Commissioners would be more volunteer with less pay without administrative responsibilitieS. Councilwoman Walls said the county seems to be top heavy in administration. If the Commissioners are all going to work full time, then perhaps they don't need a county manager. Blake said there is division on the Board about this, it has only been discussed briefly. Child said given the budget picture, the Commissioners will be spending more time because of having to cuy key people. Mayor Stirling said if annexation goes forward and the county!s domain is reduced, would that have an effect on the number of commissioners. Ms. Klanderud said that would effect a lot of things. The annexation committee has met just once, and will have to do a fiscal impact study. There are discussions about city/county consolidation, about city/county space. Mayor Stirling asked about the effect of cutting back one animal control officer. Lisa RuSsell, animal control officer, said all services would be lowered. Ms. Russell pointed out the calls in the county take longer, put more stress on the trucks. Ms. Russel said the department cannot be run with only three officers. Ms. Klanderud said this cut implies a service reduction, county residents can expect fewer services. Schilling said the staff will analyze this problem and report back to the Board. County Manager Eldert told the Boards within the budget, the county can buy the animal shelter changing the operating contract into a purchase contract. The county does not any money project. Kinstey said the county realizes people may have have for this to be told that an animal control officer cannot respond. 2. Planning office Agreement. Mayor Stirling moved to adopt the joint planning agreement as presented; seconded by Councilman Blomquist. All in favor, motion carried. Commissioner Blake moved to approve the joint planning agreement; seconded by Ms. Klanderud All in favor, motion carried. 3. Trails Agreement. City Manager Schilling pointed oUt the references to the county paying for maintenance will have to be taken out of the agreement. Councilman Blomquist said he met with staff and drew boundaries, the forest service boundary on Hunter Creek, at Buttermilk, through the airport, the forest service boundary to Starwood, adding the Rio Grande trail to Woody Creek. Kinstey said the Rio Grande trail was a gift with some conditions that the attorney is looking into. Councilman Blomquist asked if the small cat with backhoe is included in the inventory. The county said they .will have to see if the county still has this or where it is. Kinsley said the county is offerring an asset as well as a big liability, and the county is not putting any money into this. Kinsley said it is reasonable for the city not to do this because of the no money. Kinsley said this is a magnaimous gesture and an acknowledgement of the value of the trails. The Nordic trail system are winter easements, private easements with no expenses. Mayor Stirling said as cross country skiing becomes more important, would the county look at contributing to their maintenance. Blake said for at least two years the county will havell no money. Madsen said the Nordic Council is looking to get money from ~spen and Snowmass and raise the rest through donations. Another possibility is form a recreation district for the cross countrY trails as well as for swimming pools, ice rink, etc. Councilman Blomquist said he would like this agreement completed as soon as possible. Mayor Stirling said the new parking behind the First National Bank was to be public park- ing; it is signed for county parking. Eldert said when the police move to the Courthouse they will be taking all the parking on North Galena. There will be no whereto park the county administration cars. Parking will be freed up on Hopkins as a result of the police cars being parked somewhere else. There are only three administration cars used by the county staff and are not taken home at night. The county agreed to put only five speCific signs in this parking lot for these cars. COUNCIL MEETING Councilman Collins entered. City Attorney Taddune requested an executive session about litigation. Councilman Blomquist moved to go into executive session to consider pending litigation for 10 minutes; seconded by Councilwoman Walls. All in favor, with the exception of Mayor Stirling. Motion carried. Council retired to the conference room for ten minutes. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION 1. Tom Wells requested the Golden Horn encroachment request be moved earlier because bothil he and the city engineer have to leave. Council agreed. 2. Jeffrey Evans previously brought up the dumpsters by the Smuggler Trailer park and Council directed staff to look into it. It has been determined the property does belong to the trailer court. Also, the city does not have any powers to do anything about the dumpsters. The city staff has offered to write a letter to the homeowners asking that something be done about this problem on a voluntarily basis. Evans said he would like the staff to see if there is a way for the city to get jurisdiction over problems like this. City Manager Schilling said the city does not have an ordinance controlling clear vision. Schilling said there is a potential for being able to correct this through the SPA ordinance. 3. Jon Busch said he met with the engineering staff to research street lighting. Busch said the lighting on Main street is terribly inadequate. The Council had agreed to do sample block with high intenSity incandescent lights. With all the new lighting sources coming on the market, Council deCided to wait to next spring. Busch said Main street is very dark and people crossing the street cannot be seen. City Manager Schilling agreed Main street is a hazard. Busch suggested the city buy replacement bulbs for Main street and have the electric department replace what is there. Jay Hammond, city engineer, told Council the staff plans to do the mock up block on Cooper in the spring. Schilling said the city can relamp at not a great expense. Councilman Blomquist moved to relamp Main street as soon as possible; seconded by Councilwoman Walls. All in favor, motion carried. 4. Kioshi Watanabe from Sushi Masa presented to the Council $500; $404 of which he earned from his tricks and $96 from the waiters' tips. Watanabe said he would like this to go to children's programs. COUNCILMEMBER COMMENTS 1. Mayor Stirling said the city received an award from the Municipal Finance Officers Assoication, ~his award for financial reporting achievement. Mayor Stirling presented this to Sheree Sonfield, finance director. City Manager Schilling said there are 13,000 municipalities in the U.S. and only about 400 receive this certificate. This says a lot for the sophistication of the city. 2. Council scheduled interviews for Roaring Fork Transit Agency and the Wheeler Board for Monday, January 21 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. 3. Mayor Stirling said the annexation committee met last week and Assistant City Manager Mitchell will be sending Council a report. 4. Mayor Stirling reported that Roby Albouy, on behalf of the international consortium of ski resorts got contributions from both skiing companies, ARA and some private sectors and leaves tomorrow for the first stage of the program. 5. Mayor Stirling suggested for the joint meeting January 28, Council meet with the Town of Snowmass Council to discuss the Nordic Council and the upkeep of cross country trails. 6. Mayor Stirling said the planning office has requested comments from Council and P & Z on Burnt Mountain. Council scheduled a study session for Monday February 4 at 5 p.m. with P & Z. 7. Mayor Stirling said CAST will have their legislative tour on January 27 in BreckenridH~ and will be discussing a number of issues. REQUEST FOR ENCROACHMENT - Golden Horn Jay Hammond, city engineer, told Council there is an existing encroachment into the Mill street mall to accommodate stairwells and entrances into the building. The additional encroachments are minor and result in improved circulation for pedestrians. Tom Wells, representing the applicant, presented drawings of the proposed improvements, people could window shop on an even level without the stairways. Wells said this plan is an upgrading of the facade of the building. Gary Plumley said the Commercial Core and Lodging Commission is against any more encroachments into alleys. Plumley pointed out in constricted areas people sometimes trample the flowers in the planters. The CCLC has budgeted some experimental protectors for planters. Wells said the encroachment into the alley is more of an upgrade. Councilman Collins asked if there was room for snow removal.! Hammond said there was. Councilman Blomquist moved to approve the encroachment request; seconded by Councilman Collins. Mayor Stirling said he does not want the mall taken away from public circulation any further. Wells said this improvement will allow easier circulation. Mayor Stirling askedi if the Council would consider money for this encroachment because this erodes the public part of the mall. Councilman Blomquist said that is for retail space. This is a variation in circulation on the mall itself. Councilman Blomquist said this adds to the overall ambiance in this area. This is a modification of an historic encroachment. Councilmembers Collins, Blomquist and Mayor Stirling in favor; Councilwoman Walls opposed.il Motion carried. --~= ..... . ....... ~ ~s~en u~y uounc~± January 14, 1985 TRAFFIC COMMITTEE REPORT Jay Hammond, city engineer and traffic committee chairman, presented the committee's report and recoramended having a work session with Council and the full co~ittee. The committee makes numerous recor~mendations regarding the highway, most of these are short range lr~mediate improvements. The letter to the department of highways would be fairly comprehensive, and the committee would like to discuss this with Council. The second recommendation regards the downtown area, changes in signs, additions of stop signs, revisions to the timed parking, changes to the parking permit system, changes to bus routes. The final recommendation is that this committee for a core of an expanded committee to deal with the issues of the entrance to town and the downtown parking structure. Han~mond said the ~ssues of the entrance to 5own and the parking structure require much more public input, public hearings, discussions with the department of highways to coordinate the entrance to town in conjunction with the EIS. Mayor Stirling said the entrance to town is one of the primary parts of the comprehensive plan and should be worked closely with the planning department. Mayor Stirling asked if the parking structure is on the capital improvement list. Hammond said it was listed by the Blue Ribbon panel with no consensus and was set asid~ from the list. Councllman Blomquist said the committee on amenities recommended a parki~g ~mprovement district be formed as the funding device, before it is decided where the structure will be. Mayor stirling said parking may be the greatest challenge Aspen faces. The ARA did a summer survey, one of the questions was what recommendation would that person make to the Council. Congestion and parking was the highest answer. Mayor Stirling said the city needs to work on how to deal with this problem. Councilwoman Walls said the reason the Blue Ribbon panel could not make a decision about the parking s~ructure is that they could not get reliable figures on how much this would be used and how much revenue it would raise. Jeffrey Evans, committee member, told Council they identified 6 or 7 different ways of funding the structure. Evans said the committee felt it.will be a major capital expenditure to do enough planning to determine how this will be paid for. Evans said the Council needs some direction from the electorate to know which location is preferred. Evans said this issue may be two elections, one for location and one for approval of the funding plan. David White said there is some interest in the private sector about putting a parking s~ructure under Wagner Park. Gary Plumley asked if the traffic committee talked about alternative methods of getting people out of their cars, like better sidewalks. Hammond said the committee did not ~ook at major modal questions, like transportation and pedestrian issues. Evans said the ~raffic committee looked at funded recommendations the city has had done in the past and all studies recommend a parking structure. Mayor Stirling suggested a study session February 18 at 5 p.m. with Council, traffic committee, CCLC and RFTA members and interested persons. Glenn Horn, planning office, said the committee and staff can continue working on the ballot questions during this time. Councilman Blomquist asked the committee ~o consider a parking structure may be the proble~ of the business community rather than the electorate. BANNER DISPLAY - WINTERNATIONAL Mayor Stirling said this ~s a proposal for the City to purchase standards and banners 3 feet by 18 feet. Council decided during budget not to purchase Aspen/Winternational banners as they were constantly taken for souvenirs. This proposal is for $7~85 for banners, poles, cross bars, rope and hooksets. Monroe Summers, Skiing Company, showed Council one of the banners, told Council these are quite portable and can be installed in minutes. Summers said the city could reuse this equipment for years and different ~ypes of events. Summers told Council these could be put up in the morning and taken down in the evening, summers said if the Skiing Company borrowed the banners for Winter- national, they could use them at the opening ceremony, at the Subaru challenge, at the races. Summers said these can be transported easily. Summers said security could be provided by installing the banners and taking them down as soon as the event is over. Summers told Council during Winternational, the Skiing Company would provide volunteer security people to ssay with the banners all the time. Mayor Stirling said these should be managed by the parks department and outside agencies would make applications to use the banners. City Manager schilling asked about installation of these items. Summers said the Skiing Company would propose to drill 3 inch PVC into the ground or into the wall. Summers said the flag holders could be in permanent locations around town or could be set up ~emporarily. Mayor Stirling said it would be appropriate for the city to purchase these banners and make them available to outside groups, who would be required to make a deposit, and that outside groups would be required to replace any flags damaged or takan. Councilman Blomquist moved to appropriate $8,000 to the par~ department for the purchase of generic banners; seconded by Mayor Stirling. Councilman Blomquist suggested seeing what other vendors have to offer rather than just accepting this proposal, schilling asked if these banners require a concrete footing. Summers said no. Mayor Stifling said the groups would be responsible for the installation and taking care of the banners when they issued them. All in favor, motion carried. LIQUOR LICENSE TRANSFER - Grog Shop Fred Peirce, representing the buyers, told Council the Grog Shop is owned by a corporation and two individuals have a contract to purchase all the stock in Paul Robinson, Inc. One of the individuals' husband owns another retail outlet in town. Peirce pointed out that Lanette Phillips has the loan commitment solely in her name. City Attorney Taddune read the regulation that spouses may own separate licenses as long as these are distinct. Regular Meeting Aspen ~lLy ~ounc~± u~l~u~3 ~, ~v~ Councilwoman Walls pointed out there is a precedent set for this at the Ute City Banque. Councilman Collins moved to approve the application for transfer of Paul Robinson, Inc. d/b/a the Grog Ship to David Livingston and Lanette Phillips; seconded by Councilwoman Walls. All in favor, motion carried. ORDINANCE ~26, SERIES OF 1984 - Refunding Bonds Joe Barrows, Kirchner/Moore', said the staff is looking for minimum savings of $200,000 present value. The market dropped and the savings weren't there so this has been tabled. Barrows said interest rates have come into alignment in order to get the financing together and realize the savings. The city will end up with a savings in this years debt service of about $200,000. Barrows told Council the rest of the term of the bonds, the debt service would be the same as the initial issue. Barrows asked Council endorse this plan, Kirchner/Moore will offer the bonds after receiving MBIA insurance. Kirchner/Moore will then offer the bonds based on this plan. This refunding does not change any terms of the original issue. Barrows said he will confirm the price of this issue and suggested Council adopt this ordinance at their January 28, 1985 meeting. Councilman Blomquist moved to table Ordinance #26, 1984, to January 28, 1985; seconded by Councilman Collins. All in favor, motion carried. ORDINANCE ~29, SERIES OF 1984 -SPA Amendments Mayor Stirling explained Council met in an executive session earlier to discuss pending litigation, pending settlement and threatened litigation. Mayor Stirling said the Council will only add one new section to the existing SPA section to empower the planning director to authorize minor changes to an adopted SPA plan. City Attorney Taddune told Council this section directs the planning director to use the criteria in the PUD section to determine whether the changes are minor or not. Mayor Stirling said Council would pass this amendment and continue to work on the more major revisions. ~ayor Stirling said a lot of work has gone into this ordinances, and there are many factors at play. Councilman Blomquist moved Ordinance ~29, 1984 be amended the title to read, "An Ordinance.::i amending article VII Chapter 24 of the Municipal Code pertaining to specially planned areas by adding a new section 24-7.3 empowering the planning director to authorize minor changes to an adopted precise plan"; seconded by Councilwoman Walls. Councilman Blomquist said this will make it easier for changes to be made at the Smuggler Mobile home park and perhaps other cases. It is the intention of the Council to bring back the other revisions after the bankruptcy is settled. Taddune said progress is being made with the Aspen Institute, and this is an expression that Council is trying to help bring things into focus. Taddune said when this ordinance is brought back to Council, it will go through both readings. Mayor Stirling opened the public hearing. Nick McGrath, representing the Aspen Center for Physics, introduced three trustees, Nick deWolfe, George Stranahan, and Mike Simmons. They will be campus planning committee. The Physics Center has an approved SPA plan under the older ordinance. McGrath said the Physics Center is looking forward to working with the city and with the owners of the Institute property. Bil Dunaway objected to Council discussing an ordinance in an execu- tive session as the public has a right to know their deliberations about ordinances. Taddune said legislation can have an effect on pending litigation, and the executive session addressed pending settlements and litigation. Jerry Blann, Aspen Skiing Company, said they own a piece of property zoned SPA and they are entering into an extensive planning for that property. This is tied to the expenditures for Aspen Mountain. Blann asked for a sense of Council on the rest of the ordinance. Mayor Stirling said most of the issues have had straw votes with some minor changes. Spencer Schiffer told Council he appreciates Council's sensitivity to the issues and all the hard work put into this ordinance. Mayor Stirling closed the public hearing. Councilman Collins said he would like "whereas due to the uncertain consequences of pending litigation, the City Council desires to defer final consideration" eliminated from the amended ordinance. Taddune said that was simply informational and could be deleted. Council agreed. Councilman Blomquist moved to adopt Ordinance ~29, 1984, as amended and eliminate the second "whereas"; seconded by COuncilwoman Walls. Roll call vote; Councilmembers Walls, aye; Blomquist, aye; Collins, aye; Mayor Stirling, aye. Motion carried. ORDINANCE #42~ SERIES OF 1984 - Electric Rate Replacement Mayor Stirling opened the public hearing. Finance Director Sonfield told Council this ordinance describes a methodology for establishing electric rates and allows Council the flexibility to state the revenue requirements and set the rates. Councilman Blomquist asked if the commercial rate is higher than residential. Ms. Sonfield said residential is 6.4 kwh and commercial is 6.6 kwh. Councilman Blomquist asked if it would be simpler to have just one rate. Ms. Sonfield said this has been the practice for years and this is a continuation of that. Commercial customers have different peak demands, and this could be one reason for the different rates. Dave Lombard recommended that until there are substantial grounds for changing past practices, they be maintained. Lombard said this practice is customary in utility companies. Mayor Stirling closed the public hearing. ..~= ..... ....... ~ a~p~i~ u~ny ~ounca± January 14, 1985 Councilwoman Walls moved to adopt Ordinance #42, Series of 1984; seconded by Councilman Blomquist. Roll call vote; Councilmembers Collins, aye; Blomquist, aye; Walls, aye; Mayor Stirling, aye. Motion carried° ORDINANCE ~43, SERIES OF 1984 - Planning Office Fees Mayor Stirling opened the public hearing. Alan Richman, acting planning director, told Council this has been redrafted at Council's directed to not increase fees about the 1983 level. Mayor Stirling closed the public hearing. Councilman collins moved to adopt Ordinance ~43, Series of 1984, on second reading; seconded by Councilwoman Walls. Councilman Blomquist said he is voting against this because he feels the fees should be scaled to the size of the project. These fees are high for small projects, and would prefer the fees to be a sliding scale. Mayor Stirling said he feels it is important not to increase the fees every years. Richman pointed out that small pro~ec~s can and do get refunds. Richman said the staff cannot conceive of any other way to make this fairer. Roll call vote; Councilmembers Blomquist, nay; Walls, aye; Collins, aye; Mayor Stirling, aye. Motion carried. ORDINANCE #44, SERIES OF 1984 Aspen Club Rezoning Mayor Stirling opened the public hearing. Alan Richman, acting planning director, told Council at their December 17 meeting they approved this as well as a subdivision into lots 14E and 14W. This is a rezoning from RR to R-15, which is quite desirable and makes the zoning compatible with the surrounding zone districts and land use. There are no negative impacts, and this precludes any commercial use on lot 14. Mayor Stirling closed the public hearing. Councilman Blomquist moved to adopt Ordinance #44, Series of 1984, on second reading; seconded by Councilman Collins. Mayor Stirling questioned the use of an affidavit in this case. Richman said this is not something the planning office does as a regular practice but was used to affirm the two units had predated the growth management regulations. This residence dates back to the 1950's and the ~uilding department records were not available. Roll call vo~e; Councilmembers Collins, aye; Blomquist, aye; Walls, aye; Mayor Stirling, aye. Motion carried. ORDINANCE #46, SERIES OF 1984 - Worker's Compensation/CIRSAWC Assistant City Manager Ron Mitchell explained that not enough cities had joined to be able to fund this. Councilman Blomquist moved to deny Ordinance #46, Series of 1984, for the reason that not enough cities joined to fund; seconded by Councilman Collins. Roll call vote; Council- members Walls, aye; Blomquist, aye; Collins, aye; Mayor Stirling, aye. Motion carried. TEMPORARY PERMISSION FOR SMOKER OPERATION The operators, Troll and Donna Liston, submitted a letter about their smoker operation. Assistant City Manager Mitchell told Council this operation was in the City Market parking lot and was stopped because it was beyond the commercial space approved in the PUD. Mitchell.brought this to Council to see if ~here is a directive to staff. Mitchell said there were complaints made about the outside selling at City Market as well as the Liston's operation. City Manager Schilling said this is a violation of the Code, as well as a co-option of a parking space. Trcll Liston said they operate on a temporary basis, like four days, then leave. Troll Liston said he understands solving this permanently may time some time, and they are asking the Council for permission to operate temporarily until the problems can be solved. Liston presented a petition with 681 signatures in support of this remaining in business in Aspen. Liston read a letter from Tony Welgos, manager of City Market, stating what an asset this operation as and they would support it remaining. Donna Liston told Council there was a similar situation in Breckenridge and they qot a temporary extension of the commercial space, which as renewed annually. Mayor Stirling asked if there was any precedent for this in town, beside Peppermint Patti. Mitchell said this would not qualify under the vending ordinance. Mayor Stirling said he has difficulties with this vehicle taking up a parking space as well as a problem with air and smell pollution. Liston said most people consider this an asset. Liston told Council they city has an air pollution/restaurant grill ordinance and this operation immediately modified their cooking. Donna Liston told Council they do have a state emmision permit. Schilling said there have been some nuisance complaints, but this is in compliance with the state and city pollution standards. Schilling said the questions are is allowing this acceptable to Council, and can it be done legally. City Attorney Taddune said the building department has taken a stand against these kinds of operation because it may be an increased commercial use of floor area ratio. Taddune said Council may want to have special event permits to encourage a flea market or sea food sale, for a certain number of days. Liston told Council all the business takes plac~ inside City Market; they do not sell anything from the wagon. Councilman Blomquist compared this to delivery trucks; they are not selling. Councilman Elomquist said he does not think this operation does any damage. Mayor Stirling questioned this operation being in competition with operators who deal with off-season and with rents. Charlie 'i Weldman, attorney representing the Listons, said dealing with transient merchants is a difficult issue. Prohibiting them can get into interstate commerce problems. Weldman said this operation is here on a periodic basis, selling a good product, they are paying sales tax. Councilman Blomquist moved that Council give temporary permission for the smoker operatio~ in the City Market parking lot until such time as the P & Z shall have reported a proper solution to the long term problem implied by this application; seconded by Council- woman Walls. All in favor, with the exception of Mayor Stirling. Motion carried. ORDINANCE ~1, SERIES OF 1985 Reorganization Plan Councilwoman Walls moved to read Ordinance ~1, 1985; seconded by Mayor Stirling. All in favor, motion carried. ORDINANCE ~1 (Series of 1985) AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ORGANIZE THE EXISTING CITY DEPARTMENTS INTO FIVE AGENCIES, TO BE KNOWN AS THE"PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY","PUBLIC SERVICES AGENCY", PUBLIC SAFETY AGENCY, ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AGENCY, AND LEISURE SERVICES AGENCY was read by the city clerk Councilman Collins moved to adopt Ordinance ~1, Series of 1985, on first.reading; seconded by Councilman Blomquist. Councilman Blomquist suggested another agency, the "management agency" to inClude the Council, Manager, PerSonnel, Data Processing and other. City Manager Schilling said he would look into this before second reading. Mayor Stirling said he feels this is an important step with potential savings to the city as well as improved communications. This will be a benefit to the employees and to the citizens. Roll call vote; Councilmembers Collins, aye; Walls, aye; Blomquist, aye; Mayor Stifling aye. Motion carried. DURANT MINE City Manager Schilling told Council staff wants this item continued. The Durant Mine has had somewhat of a collapse resulting in restriction of flow of a city's water rights. Staff has been discussing the Aspen Chance subdivision the city's interest in jointly financing and maintaining this'to protect the city's water rights. Schilling said there is a possibility the city's water rights could be shut off by the collapse of the tunnel. SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT WITH GRASSROOTS City Manager Schilling asked for a clarification of Council's decision to fund some Grassroots programs. The motion was to approve a contribution to Grassroots of $7500 with only two specifications, $550 for special meetings on request and $2500 for the May election coverage. Schilling asked if the difference between the above and the $7500 was to specified to municipal television coverage. Mayor Stirling said he would prefer the difference to be used for unedited Council meetings. Councilwoman Walls agreed that is her preference. Councilman Collins said he specified two areas, and the balance is left up to the discretion of Grassroots. Council agreed that was the motion that was passed. SALARY ADJUSTMENTS Mayor Stirling asked if this recommendation would take away from the comparable worth study. City Manager Schilling said this is a recommendation for some lower level positions and has nothing to do with the comparable worth issue. Councilwoman Walls moved approval to take effect immediately for the full $6,000; seconded by Councilman Blomquist. All in favor, motion carried. CONSENT AGENDA John Goodwin, police department, told Council the state will provide up to $30,000 for the DUI contract. The city's amount is already budgeted and in place, vehicles and equipment. Goodwin said the department plans a full time DUI officer by March. Mayor Stirling asked if the DUI arrest rate is not increased 100 per cent, will that jeopardize the grant. Goodwin said no. Councilwoman Walls moved to approve the consent agenda; (1) liquor license renewals - Souper; Greenhouse Restaurant; Hotel Lenado; (2) DUI Contract with State; (3) Deputy Municipal Judge/Ron Austin; seconded by Councilman Blomquist. All in favor, motion carried. Councilwoman Walls moved to adjourn at 8:15 p.m.; seconded by Councilman Collins. All in favor, motion carried. K~h, City Clerk