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HomeMy WebLinkAboutminutes.council.19660418 Regular Meeting Aspen City Council .April 18~ 1966 The regular meeting of the Aspen City Council was called to order at 3:35 P.M. by Mayor Barnard with Councilmen Stapleton, McEachern, Clymer, Administrator Wurl and Provisional City Attorney Janet Gaylord. The accounts payable were given to Councilman McEachern to check. Mayor Barnard stated we would waive the reading of the minutes ~nd asked if there were any corrections. There were no corrections and the minutes would stand approved as recorded. Ordinance #5, Series 1966, An Ordinance Amending Title I, Chapter 15, The Ord. #5 Ordinances of the City of Aspen, Colorado, Pertaining to Chief of Police and Chief of Poli¢ Declaring an Emergency to Exist was read for the second time by the City Clerk. Councilman Stapleton made a motion to adopt Ordinance #5, Series 1966 on second reading. Seconded by Councilman Clymer. Roll call vote - Councilmen Stapleton aye: Clymer aye; Mayor Barnard aye. Ordinance #6, Series 1966, An Ordinance Amending Title XI, Chapter 1, The Ordinances of the City of Aspen, Colorado Pertaining to Zoning, and Ord. #6 Declaring an Emergency to Exist, was read by the City Clerk for the second time. Parking Councilman Stapleton made a motion to adopt Ordinance #6, Series 1966 on second reading. Seconded by Councilman Clymer. Roll call vote - Councilmen Clymer aye; St~pleton aye; Mayor Barnard aye. Discussed an ordinance submitted by Administrator Wurl pertaining to sidewalk Sidewalks standards. Mayor asked Council if they wished to have this ordinance read for the first time. Council stated they wished the Planning and Zoning Commission to study the ordinance before they considered this. The City Attorney submitted and read the following Resolution: RESOLUTION Resolution WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Aspen, Colorado desires to ~50,000 from pay certain amounts that are now due from the Water Fund of the City, and Elec.toWater finds that there is~not ~ufficient money available in the Water Fund currently to make such payment; ~ WHERE~S, the payments of such amounts shall not cause the City to exceed the overall budget of the Electric Department; WHEREAS, the CitY C~uncil find that it is in the best interests of the City to make such payments, and desires to transfer the sum of $50,000 from the EleCtric Department. Fund to the. Water Department Fund to accompliSh the purposes aforesaid; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: 1. The City Clerk and the City Treasurer are hereby authorized and directed to transfer the sum of $50,0~00 from the Electric Department Fund to the Water Department Fund; said sum to be used to meet current expenses due from the Water Department Fund. 2. A copy of this Resolution shall be delivered to the City Clerk and City Treasurer as authority to effect said transfer. ~ Councilman Clymer made a motinn to adopt the Resolution to transfer $50,000 from the Electric Department Fund to the Water Department Fund. Seconded by Councilman McEachern. Roll call vote - Councilmen Stapleton aye; Clymer aye; McEachern aye. Regular Meeting Aspen City Council April 18, 1966 The dump maintenance contract was read by Administrator Wurl. Mayor Barnard Dump Maint. read letter from Buffington Stating their pri~e for maintaining the new dump would be $900.00 per month'~ ~'Cou~cilman McEach~n 'made~a mOtion to accept the dump' maintenance contract with the County. Seconded by Councilman StaPleton, Council instructed Administrator Wurl to check with the County ;Mr. Buffington's offer, and also get the contracts signed. Roll call vot'e- Councilmen Clymer aye; Stapleton aye; McEachern aye. Mayor Barnard asked Council if they wished to have Ordinance #7 read for the first time. Mr. Hank-ThurStbn, City Building Inspector, was present and stated Ord.#7 Warm to Council the purpose of this ordinance is to:.make sure all installations, major Air Heating repairs and maintenance of warm air heating systems wOuld come under a special permit for this purpose. Council discussed how to determine major and minor repairs and maintenance. Mr. Thurston stated this would be up to the judgement of the building .inspector. ~oun¢~t.~,lnstructediMayor Barnard to read Ordinance #7, Series 1966, An Ordinance Amending Title IV, Chapter 6, The Ordinances of the City pf Aspen, Colorado, Pertaining to Warm Air Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning and Declaring an Emergency to Exist. Councilman Stapleton made a motion to accept Ordinance #7, Series 1966 on first reading. Seconded by Councilman Clymer. Roll call vote - Councilmen McEachern aye; Clymer aye; Stapleton aye. The Mayor read letter from the Aspen Planning and Zoning Commission referring the Master Plantto the City Council for its approval. Luke Anthony stated the Master Plan realtors want 60 days before Council approval to the Plan to think about the density control and talk to Jerry Brown k Mayor Barnard stated the Master Plan is only a guide to follow and the time to make objections would be when and if any changes should ~ccur. Mr. C. M. Clark stated the Council could accept all or part of the Plan. Mr. Francis Whitaker, member of the Planning and Zoning stated this was up to the Planning and Zoning only~ Council could not make this decision. Mr. Tom Benton stated the Planning and Zoning has asked Mr. Gramiger, C. M. Clark, and Luke Anthony to submit their recommendations to Planning and Zoning and they will consider them. Councilman McEachern made a motion the City Clerk set up a public hearing on the 9th of May at 8:00 P.M. at the Seminar Building if available or at the Court House. Seconded by Councilman Stapleton. Roll call vote - Councilmen McEachern aye; Stapleton aye; Clymer aye. Mayor Barnard stated the public hearing on Street Improvement District #66-1 Hearing is now in session. St. Improvemen' #66- 1 Administrator Wurl read in full Ordinance #8, Series 1966, An Ordinance Creating Street Improvement. District #66-1 in.the City of Aspen, Colorado; Ordering the Construction Therein of Street Paving~ Curb, Gutter and Necessary Drainage Improvements, Together with Necessary Incidentials; Providing for the Issuance of Bonds in Payment for Said Improvements; Making Provision for Notice to Con~ractors ~nd For Notice to Bidders for Special Improvement District Bonds of Said City; and Declaring an Emergency to Exist for the first time. Mayor Barnard asked if the citizens had any remonstrances or objections to this Improvement District. Mr. Harry Uhlfelder, interest in the property located on the corner of Hallam and 7th, objected to having to pay the assessment if according to the Master Plan a cul-de-sac is put in on this corner. Mr. Guy Drew, owner of the Agate Lodge, if Hallam comes to a dead end on this corner people will be using his alley. Mayor Barnard statedhe .can see where this sgreet would be a problem with cars coming off the highway at a great amount of speed. Perhaps this could be alleviated by putting in a planter, down HalLam, and also there will be put in dips at each intersection. Mrs. P. J. Scheid stated She had not signed for Hallam, because of cars speeding off the highway down this street. If the cul-de-sac is put in, she stated she hopes Hallam is paved. Councilman Clymer stated perhaps the problem could be solved by making Hallam a one way street. The, problem is in entering~ the street, not in leaving the sDreet and going onto the highway. Mr. Uhlfelder stated this would not be workable if he builds his motel on this corner, he will be depending on this traffic and the people will have to go around two blocks to get into the motel. Mayor Barnard read the following written objections: Reginald Kell - If Oh~ cost is to be $600 for the side street, and $480 for the front street our decision is in the negative. Mr. W. K. Martin - Watch 3rd and Gillespie to ~void "puddling". Mr. Rickenbaugh - Wish to save the trees in front of the Mittendorf. S. F. Briggs II - Requested more information. Terese David - Job could be done at a lower cost. Ralph Ball - Reduction of cost to property owners, and change district to include North 4th Sgreet and take out North 3rd. Harry Uhlfelder - Withdraw petition pending further developments on Hallam east of 7th Street. Rearing #66-1 F. duPont Cornelius - Width of paving related to trees, as well as flow of traffic on Hallam Street. Mayor Barnard stated the schedule for paving will be ~. put in the Aspen Times. Mrs. Scheid asked if there would be an extra charge for curb cuts and Council stated no, also there would not be a necessity for curb cuts since the curb will be the type you can drive over. Mr. Card stated he thought the through streets should be considered~before paving a dead end street. ~-~ Mayor Barnard stated the dead end streets had to be done in order to make a net work of the paving district. Hans Gramiger a~Ra~ if the people on Original will have to pay the assessment, if in the future the Highway 82 is changed to this location. Council informed Mr. Gramiger the people on Highway.82 are assessed the same as MamxMmxxaMx~xmmxRxmmxxxaxm~xXR~mx~mxlRx~x~axmR the other streets. Mr. Luhnow asked about repairs near the Glory Hole in the paving which was done in Improve- ment ~istrict #1, in 1963. Mac Murray from Esco stated this would be patched as soon as the weather permitted. Mrs. Shheid asked about paving around the Community Church. Mayor Barnard stated this could be done if the people had a petition with 100% signers and made arrangements with the contractor and the City would participate the same as in the rest of the District. Mayor Barnard asked if there were anymore objections, there were none. The Mayor called the public hearing to a close. Mr. Robert Card was present and discussed with Council ~he pump house on Pump House Hyman Street which Mr. Card ~anted from the City in 1963 for $10.00 per month. Mr. Card stated if the City wishes to tear down the Pump house, he could find another place to store his material. Councilman McEachern made a motion that Administrator Wurl be authorized to dispose of the pump house on East Hyman as he sees fit in the besti~g of the. City. Seconded by Councilman Stapleton. All Councilmen in favor. Councilman McEachern moved the adoption of Ordinance #8, Series 1966 on Ordinance #8 first reading. Seconded by Councilman Stapleton. Roll call vote - Councilmen #66-1 Clymer aye; McEachern aye; Stapleton aye. Councilman Stapleton made a motion to suspend rule 19 and pay the bills. Seconded by Councilman Clymer. Roll call vote -'Councilmen Stapleton aye; Clymer aye; McEachern aye. i ! Mr. Bredar from Henningson, Durham and Richardson presented to Council other i Underground underground parking systems they had installed for parking. Mr. Bredar stated he ~wParking Wagne had made a preliminary study of~Wagner Park~ Also they would study Wagner Park as it relates for parking and to the Master Plan, make soil pourings, field survey, design, drawings and plans and.an estimate of cost for a total fee of $1900.00. This fee would be c~edited towards the price of the final design fee if Council gave them the go ahead. Council stated they would taka this'under advisement at this time. Mountain Valley Water Agreement It was stated all the engineering was done Mountain Valley on the 8" line, leaving only the engineering in the field to be done. This was Water Agreemen~ paid to David Holder last year by Mr. Hendricks. Also the first step is to move the tank, second stage will be the 8" line-. Mr. Benedict asked how this would affect the people in Aspen Grove. Wurl stated it would not affect the people in Aspen Grove,~the only thing will be moving the tank from Aspen Grove to Mountain Valley and tying in both subdivisions. Councilman Clymer stated a decision will have to be made as to the cost between moving the tank and buying a new one. The cost of moving the tank will be more than Council had anticipated. Councilman Stapleton made a motion to authorize the Mayor and City.Clerk to enter into this water contract agreement on the 18th day of April between the City and Mountain Valley. Seconded by Councilman Clymer. Roll call vote - Councilmen McEachern aye; Stapteton aye; Clymer aye'. Dr. Baxter was present and stated, the bidders for the replacing of the sewer Sewer Line Mill St. line on Mill Street felt a lack of security in'their bids, not knowing what the City wanted to do on the back filling and permit fee. Dr. Baxter stated to Council an alternate proposal of bringing the gravel, instead of concrete, up to the s~reet level until the street improvement is put in and put in soil cement at that time. Also keep the gravel compacted in the meantime with sprinkling. When the time came to put~ in soil cement remove this top layer of gra~et. Dr. Baxter stated at no time'will'more than one block be torn up with material on the street. The digging will be done in-the center of the street. Dr. Baxter also stated perhaps it would be an advantage to agree on only one inspector instead of paying for three. Dr. Baxter stated perhaps the Sanitation District could pay the City to maintain the pot holes in the section of gravel until the paving'is~done. Discussed changing the $1.00 permit fee to $.05 and supplying the City with a bond. Council agreed they would rather have soil cement instead of concrete. Discussed percentage and size of rocks to be used for back filling. Council instructed AdmiBist=ator Wurl to write a letter to the Sanitation District stating Council's decision as follows: prefer soil cement, back fill to be material with under 8" in diameter rocks, permit fee of $.05 to be per sq. ft. to be retained by the City and a cash or performance bond of $.50 per sq. ft. Mayor Barnard stated Charles Brandt had resigned as Police Magistrate effective Police Magistra May 1st unless Council~was able to get-s~meone before this date~ The City Clerk Yvonne Kirkland submitted an application from Yvonne Kirkland, Attorney. Attorney Gaylord stated the Bar Association approves of this application. Miss Kirkland is a resident of the City. Councilman ~lymer made a motion to,appoint Miss Yvonne Kirkland as Police Magistrate effective May 1st. ~Seconded by Councilman Stapleton. Roll call vote - Councilman McEachern aye; Stapleton aye; Clymer aye. Administrator Wurl Stated back in the minutes the Mpuntain Rescue did state they would build a place to store the a~cient fire equipment. ,Wurl checked with Holy Fire Equipment Cross re storage in warehouse, they donor wa~ the responsibility. Councilman Stapleton made a motion to suspend rule 19 and pay the Little League Donation $150.00. Seconded by Councilman McEachern. Roll call vote - Councilmen Clymer Little League aye; Stapleton aye; McEachern aye. Administrator Wurl asked Council if they wished to participate in a tree program Tree Program this year, as has been done in the past. Council instructed Wur! to check out with Hank Pedersen type of trees, and call for bids. Harry Willl~ms driveway cut discussed. Mr. Williams has requested two driveway Driveway Cut cuts and cut to be made 2' from his property line. Counc%lman Stapleton~made a motion Williams to allow Harry Williams two access_ routes ~ his land and allow him to-place it ~ithin 2' of his property line. Seconded by Councilman McEachern. Ail Councilmen in favor. Mayor Bernard read petition of 15 signatures requesting the removal of the St. Lights recently erected street lights on Riverside Annex or to be fixed in. such a way to Riverside Annex make them less bright. Councilman Clymer stated we need a street light at 315 N. Galena, Councilman Stapleton stated the City should have a lighting program and standarize on all lights in town~ Council instructed Administrator Wurl to look into this and see what can be done. Administrator Wurl stated the PUC will supply him~-~with a list of companies which Gas Samples take gas samples. Administrator Wurl requested authorization from Council to purchase materials Storm Sewer needed for storm sewer on Hopkins to cost approximately S2300.00. Councilman H~pkins Stapleton made a motion to instruct Administrator Wurl to purchase material for storm sewer on Hopkins west from Center. Seconded by Councilman McEachern. Roll call vote - Councilmen Clymer aye; Stapleton aye; McEachern aye~ Wurl also requested authorization to purchase mater.iai, estimated at $620.00, Water Line for water line extension on Durant of about 250'. Councilman McEachern made a Durant motion that the City spend $620.00 for water line on Durant Street. Seconded by Councilman Stapleton. Roll call vote - Councilmen McEachern aye; Stapleton aye; Cl~vmer aye. Administrator Wurl stated the Sanitarian requests permission to attend a 10 Sanitarian week course in Missouri, the cost to the City would be only the salary for the Study Course 10 week period. The state pays the total expenses for the trip. Letter read by Mayor Barnard re Master Planf~om Hans Gramiger. Mayor referred Master Plan this to the public hearing on May 9th. Administrator Wurl submitted to Council plans and estimates for remodeling Remodeling City first floor of the City Hall. Hall Administrator Wurl stated the budget provides for a new pick-up for the Street Pick Up St.Dept. Department. The Parks Department is in need of a truck and suggested to Council we buy the new truck for the Street Department and give the old pick-up presently being used by the Street Departmet to the Parks Department. Council instructed Wurl to get prices and Council will take this under advisement. Hans Gramiger submitted a petition re Master Plan. Mayor Barnard stated this Master Plan would be brought up at the public hearing on May 9th. Councilman Stapleton stated the Wonder Shop would like the City to put in curb Wonder Shop and gutter between the Wonder Shop and the Aspen Lea~ Building due to water leaking Curb into the front door of the Wonder Shop. The Wonder Shop will put in the sidewalk. Council stated they wouxl~ study this. Councilman Stapleton made a motion to adjourn at 7:15 P.M. Seconded by Councilman McEachern. Meeting adjourned with all Councilmen in favor. Clerk