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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/04/1997 Special Council Meeting Minutes ·" .MINUTESOF SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING ' .. '. ' MARANATOWN.COUNC~L ."' ...'. ' · · ' '..'NOVEMBER~,i997 ' "' '" PLACE AND DATE Marana Town Hall, November 4, 1997 CALL TO ORDER By Mayor Ora Ham at 7:05 P.M. II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Led by Mayor Ora Ham IlL INVOCATION Led by Mayor Ora Ham IV. ROLL CALL COUNCIL Om Ham Bobby Sutton, Jr. Ed Honea Herb Kai Sherry Millner Michael Reuwsaat Roxanne Ziegler Mayor Vice Mayor Council Member Council Member Council Member Council Member Council Member STAFF Hurvie Davis Michael Hein Dan Hochuli Sandy Groseclose Roy Cuaron Jocelyn Entz Dave Atler Floyd Foster Dan Groseclose Town Manager Assistant Town Manager Town Attorney Town Clerk Finance Director Executive Asst. to Town Manager Public Works Director Water Operations Manager CDBG Administrator V. APPROVAL OF AGENDA A motion was made by Mike Reuwsaat, seconded by Bobby Sutton, to approve the agenda as presented. The motion was carried 7/0. VI. ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES Hurvie Bavis: On page 18, at the bottom of the page, of the October 21, 1997 minutes, where Mayor Ham gives her report and she thanks the Council for going on with business to ailow her to attend the ribbon cutting at Driver's Mart. Later on in the paragraph, a reference is made to Auto Mart. I am sure she said Driver's Mart, so maybe that should be corrected. A lnotion was made by Vice Mayor Sutton, seconded by Ed Honea, to accept the minutes from October 7 and October 21, 1997, with said corrections from the Town Manager. Motion carries 7/0. VII. CALL TO THE PUBLIC/ANNOUNCEMENTS Hurvie Davis: I would just like to introduce to the Council and community, some people in the audience who provide a very valuable service to us in terms of protecting life and '. MINUTES OF SPEC'IAL COUNCIL.MEETiNG '. ... MARANA TOWN.COUNCIL .."" ':' NOVEMBER 4, '1997 .. · · .. .. properS5 the members of the Northwest Fire District, station 36 on Grief Road. Capt. Jim Hoffman, Firefighter Robert Corbell, Fir¢fighter Heath Evans, and Capt. Kevin Madden who is a regalar liaison with our meetings. We are pleased to have them at oor meeting tonight and hope they don't have to leave on an emergency. STAFF REPORTS No action taken. GENERAL ORDER OF BUSINESS Consent 1. Resolution No. 9%104; Appointment to the Board of Directors for the Red Hawk Canyon Community Facilities District No. I and 2 - Steve Reyna of Southwest Gas to Fill Vacated Position of Kenna Smith, General Manager of Jones Intercable 2. Resolution No. 9%108 - Appointment to the Town of Marana Business Advisory Committee 3. Resolution No. 9%107 - Changing the Term Expiration Date of Board Members or the Marana Municipal Property Corporation 4. Resolution No. 97-105; Continental Ranch Parcels 36-38 and 40 - Preliminary Plat Continental Ranch Parcels 36 t 40 - Request for Approval of a 289 Lot Single Family Detached Home Subdivision on 90.17 Acres in a Portion of thc South ¼ of Section 21. Township 12 South, Range 12 East, Within the Continentul Ranch Specific Plan Area. Applicant is Del Webb's Coventry Homes of Tucson, 1565 E. Rancho Vistoso Boulevard, Tucson, AZ 85737 5. Cancellation of Council Meeting of Wednesda¥~ November 5, 1997 6. Resolution No. 97-115 - Request for Liquor License By Casa Molina Northwest, Inc. A motion was made by Mike Reuwsaat, seconded by Bobby Sutton, to approve the consent agenda. Motion carried 7/0. PUBLIC HEARING; Ordinance No. 97.32; Red Hawk Specific Plan Amendment - A Request to Amend the Red Hawk Specific Plan by Re-Adopting a Portion to be Known as Dove Mountain Specific Plan I, Located North of Tangerine Road in Sections 24, 25, 26, 35 and 36 Township 11 South, Range 12 East and Section 19, Township 11 South, Range 13 East. Property Owner/Applicant is Cottonwood Properties, 3567 East Sunrise Drive, Suite 219, Tucson, AZ 85718 Hurvie Davis: This is a Public Hearing, under request, to amend the portion of the Red Hawk Specific Plan known as the Dove Mountain Specific Plan I. This is the area that contains the resort discussed with you. It has received prior approval and what we are asking for tonight is to re-adopt that portion of the plan that deals with the resort. Mike Reuwsaat: If possible, I would like to open the public hearing on both items, since they are tied together. Dan Hochuli: Although both items B and C are separate agenda items, separate resolutions and can be adopted separately by motion, the public hearings can be combined if you would like to hear comments on both issues at the same time. Mayor Ham: We have public hearing on both Ordinance No. 97.32 and Ordinance No. 97.33. The Council is open for public hearing. See Item C. for motions. '. · '. '.."MARANA TOWN COUNCIL'".." .' · .. '. · · · · · · '. NOV. EMBER 4, '1997' "'.: "' '. PUBLIC HEARING; Ordinance No. 97.33; Red Hawk Specific Plan Amendment - A Request to Amend the Red Hawk Specific Plan by Re-Adopting a Portion to be Known as Dove Mountain Specific Plan H, Located North of Tangerine Road in Sections 14 and 23 Township 11 South, Range 12 East. Property Owner/Applicant is Cottonwood Properties, 3567 East Sunrise Drive, Suite 219, Tucson, AZ 85718 A motion was made by Roxanne Ziegler, seconded by Mike Reuwsaat, to close Public Hearing. Motion carded 7/0. A motion was made by Roxanne Ziegler, seconded by Mike Reuwsaat, to approve the request to amend the Red Hawk Specific Plan by m-adopting a portion to be known as Dove Munntain Specific Plan I. I move that the Council adopt Ordinance No. 97.32 approving the amendment to the Red Hawk Specific Plan, pursuant to the staff's recommendation. Motion carried 7/0. A motion was made by Roxaune Ziegler, seconded by Ed Honea, for the Council to adopt Ordinance No. 97.33 approving the amendment to Red Havek's Specific Plan, pursuant to staff's recommendation. Motion carried 7/0. Mike Reuwsaat: I would like to address the density issue, Does the motion we just made, and that we are going to present, pull the densities off just the 250 acres, or does it include the entire property? David Mehl, 3567 East Sunrise Drive: The modification and amendment to this plan only changes the density on that 250 acres. Our intention with this was to permanently reduce that density. If someone would like to amend the motion so that that reduction from 532 homes to 140, a difference of 392 homes, is a permanent subtraction from the total homes allowed in thc Red Hawk Specific Plan, we would certainly be amenable to that. This will be a very low density development. Our intention is to have a very low density development around a golf course already being developed. A motion was made by Mike Reuwsaat, seconded by Roxanne Ziegler, to amend the motion to add a condition to the zoning so the maximum density of the project will be reduced by 392 units. The motion carried 7/0. Vice Mayor Sutton: Just to clarify, I think the concern was that the 300+ homes wouldn't be moved to another section of the property, making something else more dense. Ed Honea: As I understand it, it would be a reduction from the 13,000 maximum permitted traits. The new maximtLm units permitted would be 13,000 less 392. Dan Hochuli: In order to try and make this as clean as possible under our roles, I request that the Council vote on the motion to amend the original motion which was to add a condition to the zoning so that the maximxun density of the project would be reduced by 392. If that motion passes, then the Council will have the amended motion before them to vote on. Council voted on the motion to amend the original motion to add a condition to the zoning so the maximum density of the project will be reduced by 392 units. The motion carried 7/0. Council voted on the amended motion. The motion carried 7/0. 3 · · ... MINUTES OF SPEC1AL..COUNCiE.MEETING'. MARANA TOWN COUNCIL · .'." '. · · D. PUBLIC MEETING - 1998 Community DeveLopment Block Grant (CDBG) Process and Projects Hurvie Davis: This is the time of year, with our CDBG program, to have a public meeting and receive input, from the public, on our 1998 Community Development Block Grant progrmn. We have outlined a schedule for you in our report. Dan Groseclose: Wc did conduct a public meeting on October 20, 1997 at Town Hall. One citizen from the Town attended, which happened to be a Town employee at the Water Departmant. Wc discussed various aspects of the CDBG program. This meeting tonight is to continue the discussion and for you to receive input from the public and for you to provide input un what type of programs you would like to see funded through the CDBG process. To date, I have received five requests. One for a Marana Health Center Administration, funded in 1997. Another for a Marana Health Center Teen Wellness Program. The Town of Marana has actively worked in a drug prescription program for many years and thc Mara~m Health Center would like to continue that program. This year the program changed a little bit by removing thc age limitation which said it was for senior citizens only. Many youths in the community were in need of these medications and their families did not qualify for different types of insurance. I just came from a meeting at the Marana Vista Estates Neighborhood Watch Group and they indicated that they would like to see thc Housing Rehabilitation program continue, They discussed some various items they are finding difficulty with in their neighborhood, such as leaky gas lines and other major problems. The last thing is our discussion on the water system improvements for the Marana Municipal Water System. This will be an ongoing process. The agenda for your review will come next month. We have all been moved up a month, again, by Pima Comity so we are hastily trying to put things together. I would eertaiuly want to hear from any cmmctl mcmbers or members of thc public who have some ideas. I would like to briefly cover thc requiremcnts of Community Development Block Grant program. Activities must meet one of thc three national objectives of thc program: 1) It would benefit Iow and moderate income persons. 2) It would aid in thc preventiun of slums and blithe. (The Town of Marana has never utilized any programs such as this because to aid in the provantiun of slums and blithe, the Council would first have to declare that there is a problem with slum and blithe in the area. That has never happened.) 3) Meet other cormnunity development needs posing a serious immediate threat to the health and welfare of the community, where other financial resources are not available to meet such needs. (Again, this would be a requirement of the Council to declare that such an emergency does exist.) Our primary situation is to benefit low to moderate income individuals. Any progran~ we come up with, we have to justify to Pima County and HUD that at least 51% of people receiving benefit from the CDBG program are low to moderate income. Mayor Harn: Mr. Hochuli, since we are discussing CDBG, is it permissible to discuss a program already under way? Dan Hochuli: I think so, but I am not sure where you are going with this. Go ahead and I will signal you if you should stop. Mayor ltarn: I am just concerned about the housing we have already put up for the portable housing project. How is that coming and if we are close to having people in that housing? Dan Hochuli: As long as this does not lead to a detailed discussion of that particular project, tiffs question is O.K. to ask. 4 · . M{NvTES. OF. SpECLAL COUNCIL.MEETING '. · · NOVEMBER 4,.·1997 · · '. Dan Groseclose: The construction of those two houses is under a home program that is different from the CDBG. However, I think it is appropriate to indicate to you that we do have three homes that people are at the banks trying to get loans for. One of them definitely has approval. I met with the title company yesterday and I feel that we will probably be closing on that house by the first part of next week, The second individual may be qualified for an RD loan, which is rural development under the Farmers' Home Administration program. It looks very favorable for her to receive a substantial amount of financing to buy one of these homes. The problem with this particular application is that it takes up 4-5 months to process the application through the RD program. We are still working out a few bugs on the third person's financing. Hopefully, it is resolved and we won't have to look for a new applicant. Mayor Ham: The reason I brought this question up is I want to know ff we have funding through this program for the landscaping on these houses, or should we do some CDBG funding for that? Dan Groseclose: For the two new houses, we do have $2,000 per house to do landscaping. The staff has determined that we are not going to do that until the people that are actually going to start moving into the houses. At that point, we will buy the materials and such and they will do the actual work with, our assistance. Mayor Harn: 1 think when you have low and moderate levels like this, people move into a house with no preliminary landscaping and it never gets done and the house is left with a problem. Dan Groseclose: With the budget that we currently have, their participation and not having to pay out for labor, we should be able to do a lot of decent landscaping at those houses. Ed Honea: We told Mr. Hawkins, last year when he applied too late, that when it came time to apply for CDBG with the school funding program we would let him know. Maybe we should directly contact Don Hawkins for the Summer Youth program through the school. Dan Groseclose: This is the appropriate ti~ne to discuss any of these issues. Roy Cuaron: In the absence of any public input, what staff is really looking for is some direction from Council as to what projects you would like to see funded with CDBG so we can do the appropriate write up. It is very appropriate for you to suggest any programs you would like to see funded. Ed Honea: The project that I have tried to get built through CDBG for the last 3 or 4 years, is the Senior Center. Mayor Ham and I have discussed some other moneys that the Town collected and did not plan for. Also, we put up moneys this year for the engineering for the Senior Center so next year we could be looking for some funding to coustmct the Center. It is a much needed commodity in this community, there are a lot of seniors in tiffs town who do not have any where to go where they feel secure. We have already made the commitment and financed the design. Next year, we would like to be able to use some of the available funds from these different programs to actually build this center. I would hope that Council would support this. A motion was made by Vice Mayor Sutton, and seconded by Herb Kal, that Council go into Executive Session. Motion carried 7/0. MINUTES OF SPECIAL COUNCIL' MEETING .. · 'MARANA' TOWN COUNCIL· ' .. · . . . .. E. EXECUTIVE SESSION - Pursuant to A. ILS. 38-431.01 (A) (4) for Discussion and Consultation with the Town Attorney to Consider the Town's Position and Instruct its Attorney Regarding Threatened Litigation Sunward Materials and Trust #7610-T Council went into Executive Session at 7:35 PM, All Council members returned from Executive Session at 8:25 PM. F. Marana Town Council Acting as the Floodplain Management Board - Discussion and Action Regarding Permit of Sunward Materials for Mining Activity, and a Cease and Desist Order Wink Pearson: The Town has hired me to advise them on some of the issues related to the topic on the agenda. 1 met with the Town on the 21~t of October and shortly after that 1 sent a letter to Sunward Materials and to the Trust concerning issues involved with the Cease and Desist Order. The position the Town has taken is that the materials that were to be submitted by this time were not been fully submitted prior to the Cease and Desist Order being effective. I wrote an extensive letter discussing the issues. 1 received a response from the Trust indicating their position, along with some doctunents. As a result of that information exchange, the staff and I were not satisfied that all of the information, in the format in which we had expected it, had been submitted. The Trust and Sunward Materials were so advised. The next matter that occurred was a meeting (today) with representatives from the Trust to discuss what additional submittals they might make to address the issues raised by the Board and the Town concerning the Cease and Desist Order. The Cease and Desist Order, as it is set ap now, will become effective this Friday. The end result of the meeting was the Trust was agreeable to submitting some additional information to staff and myself for review. The tmderstanding would be that they would submit this information by Thursday at 5:00. Briefly, those items were: 1) Additional information to be supplied directly to the issue of the floodplain use permit. 2) Additional items related to some other plans that the parties were interested in pnrsuing. 3) Specific concerns about the 404 permit and the status of that permit, to what extent it would or would not be obtained. 4) Some specific concerns expressed by the staff about being notified of things that were going on. As a result of that meeting, it appears that the Trust would like to submit some additional information. The Board must consider whether that is appropriate and determine if they want to take any fufdier action in the future or the Cease and Desist Order should be enforced on Friday. Those issues are before the Beard, now, for its consideration. April Spross, 9018 North Whitfield: I speak for myself, my husband and maybe a few others in the area who did not come in tonight but have expressed their opinions to us. Our major concern is, of course, the environment and the appearance of our community. It is a growing area and it is beautiful. One of the major problems is the dust. Even coming down the interstate, with the sand and gravel pits already in prndnctian, you can see the dust billowing into the sky and you know it comes through there. We have called the Environmental Protection Agency and they bare sent people out who say the pits are complying with the water trucks and the sprinkling of the conveyor belts, but the dust still billows up and I can see it most every evening, That is not good for our health. People in Tucson come here for breathing problems, this is supposed to be a good area. You see it on the news and weather at night, they talk about the dust being high in the area causing a lot of problems. We do not want this close to our homes. It also leaves scars on the landscape that can not be repaired and never are. There are big gaping holes all over this area. I believe there arc about five sand and gravel pits in the Marana area, now. We do not need more of them. We do not want more of them. The moneys that the Town might get from these sand and gravel pits is not going to make up for the awful eyesores they leave when they are through. It is not fixed, it is just a big hole that you can not do anything with unless you Or. S ECt COVN¢IL. · i. .MARANA TOWNCOUNCIL. ~. · · '. · . .. "NOVEM'BER4;1997 · · · . . '.. spend a lot more money. Even though they say they will do it, there is nothing to make them do the repairs or build lite lakes and plant the trees at the end of the 10 or 15 years of digging 70 feet down and making a big hole. In that area, I think there is a lot of growth for homeewncrs and a lot of businesses are going up with the new Fry's shopping center. I think there is a high density area across from that corner where there maybe apartment buildings at sonic point. I think the potential for other business along Silverbell between Cortaro and Ina would be much more beneficial for thc Town, in the long run, than a big hole in the ground. We feel the destruction of our area should be stopped completely. I think they are nothing but an eye sore and a danger to the environment and people's health in the area. We hope that yon won't approve this. But, if you do, we wonder ifyan really care about the peeple in the area and the hioks of our area. Marana has great potential and is a beautiful area, and we must think about what thc area will look like in thc future. We beg yon to, please, not allow this to continne in our area, or start any new ones especially. Al Taylor, 7561 Straw Hat Lane: 1 urge you to enforce or extend the Cease and Desist Order. There is no good reason to continue such operations in our town. On the other hand, there are compelling reasons for ridding our town of such operations. Our new general plan calls for sorted davelopmant to enhance the image of Mama. I ask you to try to imagine trying to impress potential citizens or businesses and industry by advertising our sand and gravel operations. Those operations simply will not give our town the appearance of the best place to live or do business. Beyond that, we should be committed to the highest and best land uses. This involves assessing the cost benefit implications of any land use. Sand and gravel operations simply do not pass that test. They provide absolutely nothing in revenues. They cost us in the heavier uses imposed on streets and roads, in detracting from the town's appearance and they detract from the tax bases, rather than add to it. Our new general plan points out that beyond the appeal of its ~nountainous setting and arable land, Marana's location advantage on the Interstate-10 corridor, connecting Arizona's two largest metropolitan areas is Maraua's greatest economic asset. Locating sand and gravel operations in this corridor simply squanders the Town's most valuable asset. The proximity to 1-10 should attract the types of businesses and industry that would provide improved employment in terms of both numbers and levels that would add greatly to the tax base in order to finance the infrastructure of the Town and provide long term economic stability. In place of these, we have operations that destroy our image, ruin our environment, contribute nothing in revenues and discourage the type of development that we really need. In this way, we are all called upon to subsidize these operations which do nothing for us except damage us greatly. I would ask yon to do what ever is necessary to call a halt to this squandering of our most valuable asset. Sandy Grosedose: We did get some e-mail from an indMdual by the name of Fran Zimmerman. I would like to pass that on to Council. Allan and Fran Zimmcrman, <froggy~dakotacom. net>, 8919 North Palm Brook Drive: This is to inform the town council my opinion of tonight's meeting. I feel that it was undarhanded to have it on election night and not give enough notifieation of said meeting so all concerned citizens of your cunununity can get involved. It does seem to be unethical-but then again so do you also appear the same way. Concerning thc sand and gravel operation. You are well aware that the traffic congestion is bad enough without this operation. A new school is also being constructed on Silverbell that will also add to the congestion. We, also are aware that there is no funds to upgrade the road and that is not your fault. But what comes next is!!!!! If this sand and gravel does go in.....your names will bc remembered come next election time. That is all I can do. I will publicly campaign for your opposition and remind all that live within the sound of my voiea what you are doing touight. I do not have a memory problem as 1 am sure you hope that we do. If you feel that your government will profit.-think again. My property value will decline, my resale value will decline, very few home will be sold once the prospective homeowner sees this eyesore and views traffic 7 · MINUTES OF SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING..i'. '.' .... · . NOVEMBER 4, 1997 ' '" "" congestion. But all that won't matter to you because we, my neighbors and I, will make dam sure that you-our city council members, will not be there! Vice Mayor Sutton: I would like to do a little clarification from the e-mail that we received. It was similar to Mrs. Spross's concerns. This agenda item is for a Cease and Desist Order that we have in place for Friday to stop the operation. I know your concern, which was one of my concerns, is that a while ago there were some agenda items talking about moving it to thc comer. That is not being discussed fight now, and them is no way I would ever look at any thing like that from that agenda item. This is for the Cease and Desist Order Friday, and I feel real firmly about keeping the deadline on Friday. Mike Reuwsaat: When I get a letter like this, it raises my blood pressure and 1 don't need that. I hope that everybody is more clear and will go back to the community and tell them what we are trying to do here and understand that the things in this letter does not apply to wbat is occurring right now. I understand your motions and so fozth but we need to keep very clear what thc objective is for this Council on Friday, and what it is not. These are two entirely separate agenda items in consideration. Mayor Harm This is our regular Council meeting night and I don't think that meeting on our regular Council meeting night is underhanded, even if it is on election day. Sherry Millner: These citizens live close to me, so I would like to go down and talk to her one-on-one. I met some people in the voting area tonight and I see they are here and I think I made it clear to them what we were here for tonight. Mayor Harm The Cease and Desist Order has not been changed at tiffs time, but there is some consideration by the Council to go ahead and meet on Thursday evening to see if someone can meet with the information requested by our attorney. A motion was made by Mike Reuwsaat, seconded by Ed Honea, that this item be continued until Thursday night at 7:00. Motion carried 5/2. Roxunne Ziegler and Vice Mayor Sutton voted no. Roxanne Ziegler: 1 would like to explain my no vote. The Council sent a letter on August 4, 1997 to Sunward Materials and we were very clear on what we needed. We gave them 90 days to do so. That 90 days is up on Friday. Our counsel, Mr. Pearson, sent another letter on October 22, 1997 and reiterated what the Council of the Town of Marana needs for them to continue. As of tonight's Executive Session, we have not received those documents and they have not acted in good faith. Therefore, I respectfully vote no. G. Mayor and Council's Report Sherry Millner: Mayor Ham, Herb Kal and myself had dinner with three members of the Tucson Council last Thursday. I felt it was a rather productive dinner and had a good time. Roxanne Ziegler: Last Friday, Dave Atler and 1 met at the intersection of Ina and Thornydale at 8:00. We looked at some of what was going on them and what the County wants to do with that road north of Ina. We then proceeded to a 9:00 meeting with the County. We had representatives them from the Business Advisory Council to discuss not putting in a median, but giving access to the businesses on both sides. Unfortunately, we did not roach an agreement so it has been up to Mr. Huckleberry and the supervisors. We, here at Council, will be seeing it one day. That afternoon, I met with Mr. Bing Sherwood with Best and Company to discuss the Sahuam Springs development. · ··MINUTES·OF'SPECIALCOUNCIL.MEETING'. ' "" . · .MARANATOWN COUNCIL.' ' '.' ' ' "' ' ' · EMBER 4,' 1997 NOV ' · ' · Vice Mayor Sutton: Herb Kal, Mike Reuwsaat and myself met with Bill and Peter Wiggins from the nickel plating company out of California. They are very nice gentlemen with an incredible business plan. The type of jobs and pay they would be bringing to Marana would be very sought after and they have agreed to use all of their ability to hire people from Marana and use the Chamber for different purposes. They are thc .type of people you want to attract to your town. I think it could be a very promising venture for them and someone that would be real nice to have in town for prospective businesses. Mike Reuwsaat: Mr. Davis, with the lack of presentation on Dove Mountain today, I think it would be important to contact Mr. Mehl. With the amount of time that has been spent before this Council and the Planning Commission, the benefits of that resort to this community, in terms of economic impact and jobs and so forth, I would like to have that information forwarded on to Mr. and Mrs. Cook and any other appropriate parties, such as the Northwest Explorer. Ed Honea: Roxanne Ziegler, Sherry Millner and I also met with Mr. Wiggins and I was impressed also. It appears that they run a pretty, good shop, they pay well and want to get involved with the community. They also made a commitment to try to hire local people and I really appreciate that. I also met with Mr. Sherwood. He seems very anxious to get their project going, everything seems to be on track. I have had three meetings in the last two weeks, with Don Brooks and one with Dave Doerken in regard to the La Mirage 508 units over on the other side of the track by the Adonis subdivision. When I met with Mr. Brooks the first time, I thought there were many, many unanswered questions about the subdivision. We had our third meeting yesterday with all &the department heads, Mr. Davis, Mr. Hein, Mr. Brooks, members of the Water department and mysell~ We told Mr. Brooks some of the things they would need to provide in order to make their cunununity an asset to our community. Mr. Brooks said he would contact someone from the Town today as to whether or not they could meet some of those requests. It is my understanding that they did not do so. I would encourage other council membars to meet with these individuals as well, and l have a lot of information I can share with you. It could be a very nice addition to our community, ff done properly. There are some serious problems with water and ingress and egress is even worse than it will be anywhere else in the community because there is only one access to the property and it is on the other side of the railroad tracks. Steve Jewett, Governor Hall's representative for Southern Arizona, is a very intelligent man and very pro Marana. 1 think good things are going to happen to us with this governor and Mr. Jewitt. He is going to be the featured speaker at the Chamber dinner at TRICO Electric on November 19, 1997 at noon. I would encourage as many of you ttmt possibly can to attend that meeting. Mayor Harm When developers come before us they should have their act together so when they give a proposal to us we can work with it and act on it; it is not a time for negotiation between the Council and the developer. They need to come to us with a reasonable request that we can just say yeah or neigh on and not spend hours on end discussing what should have been put together before hand. I also met with the Clayton people, the zinc plating company. I was very impressed with Peter and Bill Wiggins and I think it is Bill that is the Council member in Burbank, CA. The industry and the range of pay that they are thinkiug about bringing to Marana are good for non-skilled workers (in the range of $14-$16 per bohr). Sherry Millner: Dick Gear, from our Development Center, did a wonderful job on this. Mayor Ham: Councilman Reuwsaat and I met with a group from the Casa Grande Bank last week. They are interested in Marana and they do not need a huge anmunt of money as a base for opening the bank in Marana. We have had a number of citizens from the community say they would be interested in moving their account to this bank if it comes to 9 .Z' · MINU. ES. OF. SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING· · "MA RANA TOWN.COUNCIL.. . Marana. People in the community are concerned with the bank being closed and we find ourselves in a very inconvenient process. I met with the people from the American Cancer Society, they would like to come before us, again, with more information about the ordinance. I told them the Council might be willing to talk about the vending machine ordinance. It has been rather hectic these last couple of weeks, bnt the most interesting part was meeting the people from California. H. Manager's Report Hurtle Davis: As you know, I was on vacation for the last two weeks, in Newport, Oregon and I met with the building official for the City of Newport to get my house plans approved. The gentleman was very helpful. He is the building official, the plans examiner and thc building inspector. It is a town with a population of 8,500 but it does not have much growth. One of the reasons comes from Governor McCall's days, "Come visit but don't stay." He suggested that I not get my plans approved at this point because you have to begin construction within 6 months after approval or go through the process again and I don't plan on beginning construction until next Jane. He said send them up the first of May and lie would approve them. I asked if he could give me an idea of how much the building permit would cost. He thumbed through the plans and said about $5,000.00. I was appalled because I cost it out based on our building fees and it came to about $2,100.00. I said I could see why Oregon bas no growth. The reason I mention this is because the staff and I inet with the zinc plating company last week. Mr. Hein and I were very concerned about the hazardous waste aspect of the business when GTEC indicated that this company wanted to come to Marana. We met with representatives from Northwest Fire District, Pima Coanty Waste Water Department and Pima County Department of Environmental Quality. As a result of that meeting and the information provided to us, I feel very conffortable about having that business in our community. It is not a business that is going to provide any concern or potential damage to our canununity. We have given them a clean bill of health, they meet all Federal, State and County standards. It was very comforting to have this outside expertise available for a meeting like this because we certainly do not have lhat on our stal~ Mr. Hein and I inet with Mr. Hncklebeny regarding the Santa Cruz levy project last week. We have received a draft of the IGA for the Santa Cruz and we have copies to pass out to you this evening. It is a draft copy and if you have any canunents, get back to us, we are still going to meet with staff and refine this thing. We believe we have made a lot of progress and this document is, essentially, one we can live with. Parallel to that, I have just received an IGA from the City of Tucson regarding the effluent issue disposition. Months ago, we drafted an IGA and sent it to the City of Tucson and had not heard anything back on it until now. We have not had an opportunity to review it yet. I think it is significant progress we are making on both of these fronts. I made my first visit to the Heritage Highland Clubhouse recently and 1 was very impressed. I met with US Homes and Cottonsvood Properties regarding sign issues. They want some signing to promote their development so that ama can grow. I think that is the kind of growth this commudity wants, it is quality and good for the economic stability of this commanity. I think we are looking at a signing that is very similar to the one we tried in Continental Ranch. It has "The Towu of Marana" on it and the builders. I also met with the representatives from Pulte Homes, who are interested in the North Pima Farms area, and they have a specific plan they are looking at. I will meet with staff to deterntine ff some ntinor changes to that specific plan can be made ad~ninistrafively, or ff they have to come back through the process. When we met with the plating company at the Development Center, we had Mr. After, Mr. Flannery, Mr. Svoboda, Mr. Hein, Mr. Gear and myself. I was evaluating our building official as he was addressing these gentlemen and comparing him to the building official in Oregon, who *vas very helpful to me. Our building official did an exceptionally good job at walking these people, who are business people not developers, through the process. I have received many letters complimenting us on our staff efforts. I received a letter today from Catalina Coatings, in Continental Ranch, and I would like to read this into the record. 10 MINUTES OF.SPECIAL.CO'UNC[L .... MEETING· .. .'. . · NOVEMBER 4, 1.997.' ' Dear Mr. Svoboda, Now that I have had the time to reflect on the construction process that CCI went through in building our engineering and manufacturing facility in Marana, I wanted to let you know how Mr. John Thomas positively ~fl~cted our project. John was attentive, detailed, proficient and always willing to help. Basically, John was there every step of the way and made the building process ~s painless as possible. Dealing with most city/town governments, in my experience, is never eosy and frankly I expected to be challenged every step of the way. John w0s like a member of our team. I am grateful for his insight and ability to keep the project moving smoothly, sa'drag us valuable time and capital. Tha peoplo of Marana are lucky to have someone in their employ that is so dedicated and knowledgeable. It has been a ple0sure working with him. It is because of efforts like John's and other Marana officials that CCI looks forward to growing here well into the future. Thank you. Best Regards. Brea Smith Director of Business Development This just points out the kind of public service we give to our community. Occasionally we do make a mistake and we do hear about that. Most of the time we don't hear about the good things we do, we hear about the bad things. We really appreciate Mr. Smith taking the time to send this letter and we will respond to him. X. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS Ed ltonea: This bas to do with all of the meetings I bad with Don Brooks and Mr. Doerken on that piece of property over there. I would like to strongly suggest we set up a committee of 2 or 3 council members and our department heads to draw up the guidelines/parameters for new development in our community. For example, we need a school site per so many houses, so much well capacity per so many homes, etc. I think if we draw up a set of guidelines, when the development community submits a plan to us, they will include these items and it will be a much simpler process than having to beat these things out every time. It is going to be a fairly lengthy process, we could even get the development conununity involved, so we should start something soon. I have spent about 15-20 hours on this project and the staff has probably spent a few hundred hours on it. I don't think they should be so stringent that they can't be adjusted per situation, but it should tell them about where we are looking. If we put this on the agenda, maybe each council member could jot down a diagram of some general things they feel are the responsibility of the development commumty. X£ Mayor Barn: I would put this on the agenda for discussion at the November 180' meeting and then go from there on how we want to proceed with it. Ed Honea: I would ask members of the Council to bring some suggestions with them. Roxanne Ziegler: Mr. Hein brought a lady from Colonius, can we get an update on that? tlurvie Davis: I would like to apolo~ze to Mr. Honea, he did bring the development guidelines suggestion up at the last meeting and I only talked to Jocelyn today about getting it on the agenda. ADJOURNMENT A motion was made by Bobby Sutton, seconded by Herb Kai, to adjourn. Motion was carried 7/0, Meeting adjanrned at 9:20 PM. 11 .. 'MINUTEs.oF SPEcIAL·cOUNCiL MEETING'. ".'..' · '. ' .. ' .MARANATOWN· COUNCIL. .' . '. · NOVEMBER.4~ 1'997 ' . . CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that the foregoing minutes are the tree and correct minutes of the Marana Town Council held on November 4, 1997. I further certify that a quonm~ was present. / / / 12