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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/04/1997 Regular Council Meeting MinutesP AC AT Marana Town Hall, February 4, 1997 By Mayor Honea at 7:07 P.M. II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Led by Mayor Honea HI. ~ Led by Mayor Honea IV. ROLL CALL COUNCIL Ed Honea Sharon Price Tom Clark Ora Harn Herb Kal Sherry Milliner Bobby Sutton Jr. Mayor Vice Mayor Councilman Councilwoman Councilman Councilwoman Councilman STAFF Hu~ie Davis Dan Hochuli Sandra Groseclose Jerry Flannery Jane Johnson Roy Cuaron Dave Atler Jocelyn Entz Town Manager Town Attorney Town Clerk Planning Administrator Human Resources Director Finance Director Town Engineer Assistant to the Town Manager 2 Members of the Press 27 Members of the Public V. APPROVAL OF AGENDA A motion was made by Bobby Sutton, Jr., seconded by Tom Clark and carried unanimously to approve the Agenda as written. VI. ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES A motion was made by Ora Harn, seconded by Bobby Sutton, Jr. and carried unanimously to approve the minutes of the Regular Town Council meeting of December 17, 1996, Regular Town Council meeting of January 7, 1997 and the Special Council meeting of January 15, 1997, VII. CALL TO THE PUBLIC/ANNOUNCEMENTS Dan Copeland: Mr. Copeland advised he is with Copeland Corporation, Business Consultant and Lobbying Company. Mr. Copeland lobbies in the State Legislature. Mr. Copeland wanted to share with this Council on the importance of having a lobbyist. Cities such as Holbrook, Eloy and Nogales Arizona have lobbyists represent them in the State Legislature. Mr. Copeland requested to be put on the Agenda to discuss how he could help the City of Marana and how important it is that the City of Marana get a lobbyist in the State Legislature. Sandra Groseclose: Mrs. Groseclose introduced two new employees: Jennifer Hickey, the receptionist clerk and Rey Ibarra, who is getting the past history into the computer. Jerry Flannery: Mr. Flannery introduced Helen Ireland, who is an expert in Geographic Information Systems. VIII. STAFF REPORTS IX. GENERAL ORDER OF BUSINESS 1. Resolution No. 97-09 Abandoning Portions of a 20 Foot Roadway and Utility. Easement - Lot 25 of the Clark's Vista De Las Montanas Subdivision (Continued from 1-21-97) 2. Adoption of Revised Emergency Operation/Disaster Plan (EOP'~ for the Town of Marana. Continued from 1-21-97) 3. Resolution No. 97-11: The Village at RedHawk. Phase I - Request for Approval of a Single Family Detached Home Subdivision Final Plat Located at the Southwest Corner of RedHawk Boulevard and Moore Road in the Northeast 1/4 Section 35 and Northwest 1/4 Section 36. Township 11 South, Range 12 East. Property Owner/Applicant is RedHawk Marana, L.L.C. and Rita Land Corporation, 3567 E. Sunrise Drive #210, Tucson, Arizona 85718 4. Resolution No. 97-08: Continental Ranch Business Park (Lots 1-8. Blocks A & B) - A Request for Consideration and Approval for the Final Plat for the Re-Subdivision of Parcel 64, Continental Ranch. Portions of Lots 10, 11 and 12 of PepperTree Ranch Business Park and Parts of the East 1/2 of Section 27 and Part of the West 1/2 of Section 26, Township 12 Range 12 East, Located on the Northwest Corner of Cortaro Road and Interstate 10. Property Owner/Applicant is Southwest Value Partners IV LP, 8160 N. Hayden Road, Suite J-208, Scottsdale, Arizona 85258 5. Rea_uest for Use of Town Logo/Seal/Motto 6. Administrative Change to Grievance Procedures - Elimination of Inconsistent Sentence, Addition of Chain of Command to be Followed When Pursuing an Informal Grievance, and Removal of Supervisor and Addition of Department Head's Delegatee as Investigator when Pursuing a Formal Grievance A motion was made by Ora Harn, seconded by Bobby Sutton, Jr. and carried unanimously to accept the Consent Agenda. 2 B. Public Hearing: Resolution No. 97-07-' Development Agreement by and Between the Town of Marana and O'Rielly Motor Company - Approving and Authorizing the Town to enter into a Development Agreement Made by and Between the Town of Marana and O'Rielly Motor Company for the Purpose of Setting Up a Reimbursement Mechanism for Costs of Public Infrastructure and Traffic Improvements on the Southeast Corner of Orange Grove Road and Thornydale Road Incurred by the Developer of the Property Consisting of 17.6 Acres Located in a Portion of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 8, Township 13 South, Range 13 East and Orange Grove Mobile Estates, Lot 1 (Continued from 1-21- 97) Hurvie Davis: This is a continuation of a Public Hearing that we have scheduled previously, regarding a development Agreement between O'Rielly Motor Company and the Town of Marana, basically to cover up public drainage ways at the Southeast corner of Orange Grove and Thornydale Road. The O'Rielly Motor Company is coming in with an inventory of probably 500 late model used automobiles as part of a national chain/outfit. They will be developing the property and they approached the Town to cover up the public drainage ways that run along Thornydale and Orange Grove Road. Obviously we do not have the financial capabilities to cover those drainage ways, so we sat down and negotiated with O'Rielly Motor Company on that issue. Mr. Davis added that O'Rielly Motor Company agreed to do the construction and pay the bill for the covering of those drainage ways and that the Town will reimburse them the cost of that construction on a basis of 1/3 2/3. It's probably going to be anywhere from 5 to 7 years, depending on the amount of business that the firm does. It's obviously advantageous to them to do as much business as they can to generate more sales tax, in which a third of the sales tax would be going back to pay offthe costs that they incurred to cover those drainage ways. Ideally when Orange Grove and Thornydale Road both were constructed by the County some years ago, that drainage should have been put under the street, as you do in an urban environment, Unfortunately that was not done. Mr, Davis commented, if you look to what's existing on tile vacant parcel, across the street on the corner where Wendy's is and on up Thornydale, it is very unsightly. We have guard rails around it, that's a lot of unused space. It's very difficult to keep policed and clean. We've had vehicles that have run into the wash itself where it had been concreted on the sides. We've had to reinstall guard rails up and dowu Thornydale, quite a bit of it up around Ina Road, where the entrances are, on the Southeast coreer of Ina and Thornydale. 1 hope when Thornydale Road is reconstructed to six lanes, the Town or the County, whoever is clearing out that construction, will reconstruct that roadway and put the drainage under the road where it belongs. The property is too valuable to be left in an open drainage way. So I would recommend your approval of the agreement with O'Rielly Motor Company to cover up those drainage ways. Herb Kai: Will the 17.6 acres require retention/detention areas for the water, to catch their storm run-off? Hurvie Davis: Referred the question to Dave Atler. Dave Atler: The drainage improvements that were constructed out there a number of years ago were designed to convey the entire 100 year storm after development and carries it all the way down to the Santa Cruz River. So when you have those situations detention/retention is generally ~/aived. 3 Herb Kal: What if Mr. O'Rielly isn't involved in a drivers mart, is the Town responsible to pay whoever takes over within those years? Where would the funds go then? Hurvie Davis: I'm not sure, maybe the applicants can help me out. It may transfer over to someone that buys the property, that would probably be some arrangement between O'Rielly and whoever develops that property. Our formal agreement is with O'Rielly Motor Company. I don't know the legal mechanism that might be in this development agreement that we would be obligated to pay the next developer. Dan Hochuli: The agreement will transfer to assigns, for the developer O'Rielly Motor Company, so in the event that O'Rielly Motor Company sells the property to someone else, then the reimbursement mechanism transfers as well. Them is an expiration clause that I would need to see. Hurvie Davis: This is not to cover up the drainage ways in the entire parcel. There will be two outlying parcels as you might recall on each end of that project. This agreement would extend the same 6ption to those people, if they wanted to cover up the drainage way, and the reimbursement mechanism would also apply to that. I believe that that's the Town's choice; it's at the Town's option whether or not the Town wishes to enter into that with the outlying parcels. As far as I'm concerned I would like to do that all the way up Thomydale road. I don't think Wendy's generate enough revenue to tackle the costs to cover up the wash. I feel that the estimate of revenues coming in from that business, assuming that it goes in, the amount of service that the town will have to be provided, which is basically Police Services. I doubt if they will generate as much traffic as Wendy's does across the street, they won't sell as many cars as Wendy's sells hamburgers, I'm sure. So that it would not be that much of a traffic impact per say, so we have to provide Police Services and certainly it seems appropriate that we put one third of the tax revenue generated in this time period back into improving the public infrastructure in the general ama. Dan Hochnli: The term of the agreement is 12 years. So in the event that it is transferred and someone else doesn't do anything with the property, for seven years, that leaves only five. So, whether we've reimbursed fully or not, at the end of 12 years we're done. As I recall, the tax projections reflected that we would have the full pay back in considerably fewer years. I think it was 3 to 5 years, somewhere in there. A motion was made by Ora Harn, seconded by Herb Kai and carried unanimously to approve Resolution.No. 97-07, approving and authorizing the Town to enter into a Development Agreement with O'Rielly Motor Company, pursuant to the staff's recommendations. C. Public Hearing: Resolution No. 97-06 - TOWN OF MARANA GENERAL PLAN: Request for Adoption of the Town of Marana General Plan Update Hurvie Davis: This is the third time we've come to you regarding an adoption of the new General Plan. There's been a lot of dialogue exchanged back and forth and I believe Mr. Flannery and the consultant have met with some of you individually to address concerns that you had previously, so 1'11 turn it over to Mr. Flannery from this point on. 4 Jerry Flannery: Thanked everyone who was able to make it to the Special Study Session, and those who couldn't for meeting individually with himself and the consultants to discuss the document. Advised the consultants are present tonight. Some of the history of the document: this item came before the Planning Commission on November 20, whereby it was unanimously approved by the Planning Commission with some minor refinements. It came to the Council at the January 7 meeting, was continued because some of the Council felt a Special Study Session was necessory. Since then, some modifications have been made. The consultant is here tonight to let you know what's been going on with the General Plan and to show examples of some other General Plans that this product will be printed out and look like once we get it all done. With that, Mr. Flannery turned it over to Mr. Counts. Rick Counts, CSC/Counts, 3900 E. Camelback Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85018: Introduced Doug Pike who is the lead engineer in the Arizona Office, who's been at several of the planning events. Since some members of the audience may have some questions, Mr. Counts outlined some of the makings of the General Plan for the Town of Marana. He advised that in less than one year, there have been numerous public workshops/meetings, contacts with individual land owners, developers and other interested persons. There has been for that period of time, the General Plan Advisory Committee and a Technical Committee which met on at least a monthly basis. Mr. Counts commented on the emphasis asked for in this plan was sound growth management for the community and the preservation of the community's rural heritage. Mr. Counts added that there are 5 major portions to the document: a goal section entitled Marana Vision; the second section consists of 4 distinct plan elements - Land Use, Economic Development, Community Facilities & Services and Circulation or Transportation, the third section deals with Urban Form and the General Plan emphasis and the fourth section, unique to General Plans, some contain this others do not, but we felt that it was important and it was specified by Marana that you wanted an Implementation Action Plan. In addition, there are appendices consisting of a glossary which identify terms used specially in the document and another section called Land Use Keys which is an interpretive and a "how to" section regarding employing some of the planning principles contained within the plan to individual cases. Mr. Counts also mentioned that in regards to some concerns expressed by members of the Council and the public, they will continue to endeavor to make appropriate revisions and changes. Some points raised at the last meeting, for example on page 16 of the change pages, make it clear that Regional Commercial and Employment Center Development may occur within the community and on page 31, as Council suggested, there is a reference to the community as the "Gateway to Saguaro National Park". Mr. Pike put up the future development map, Mr. Counts showed where an overlay to indicate where several of the changes had been suggested. Mr. Counts commented on several persons who generally support the General Plan, i.e.: Mr. Levitt, Mr. Winters, Mr. Stubbs as well as others who have made constructive suggestions. Finally, Mr. Counts talked about the Marana General Plan, which will be published within 4 to 6 weeks of the approval of the final copy. In addition, Mr. Counts showed an example of a brochure type summary, that shows in poster format of a community that was completed not long ago. Mr. Counts composed a summary of all the sections of the plan, Marana Vision, and it folds out so that the reverse side is a full summary of the plan. The emphasis is Rural Preservation, Growth Management and showing a diagrammatical map that shows the present concept for Rural Preservation and Rural and Urban Growth boundary lines and finally along the bottom, the implementation action plan. He feels the summary is a very good public relations tool that can be published and of course again, the Town would see the copies before it is complete. The summary could contain all of the features of the plan. With that, Mr. Counts commented that he would be happy to answer any questions from the Council Or the public. Mayor Honea: Asked if any Council members had any questions. There were no questions from the Council members. Bill Sehisler, 12561 N. White Ave.: Advised he wanted to repeat some of the important factors of this General Plan, first off- it was community driven, it's unique to Marana. He advised he would urge the Council to adopt it and to be diligent in preserving its integrity. Because unless if this Council and future Councils do that, then Marana may look like Tucson or Phoenix. That is the reason we've worked so hard to try to get one that's flexible but still pertains to Marana and is very useful for the community. At that time, Mr. Schisler thanked those that appointed him on the Advisory Committee, feels it was a challenge and he really enjoyed it. Mr. Schisler also thanked staff for doing a bang up job and he also took the time to thank the consultants. Early on he was worried, but advised that he and the others made a point with the consultants that this was community, committee and staff driven not driven by the consultants and they took that to heart and did a r~al bang up job. Al Taylor, 7561 Straw Hat Lane, Continental Ranch: Advised that after having studied the proposed General Plan, and having been given a number of views, Council members should feel confident in giving this plan their approval. Mr. Taylor commented on a number of issues he and Joe Riely differed on, however, they were able to arrive at compromises that were at [east palatable to them although they may have not been always what they wished for. Mr. Taylor advised that although he disagreed with Joe on a number of these issues, he regarded Joe's contribution as valuable and feels he had much to offer. Mr. Taylor's point in calling this to Council's attention is simply to emphasize that the document represents divergent views of community members and that compromises were worked out to the satisfaction of all, The fact that divergent views were presented and in one way or another, made a part of the proposal is significant. It assures that a broad spectrum of views of those affected by the document were incorporated in the final form. He thinks this should weigh heavily in favor of the proposed General Plan. Having mentioned Joe Riely, Mr. Taylor wanted to give credit where credit is due, He believes Bill Schisler deserves a great deal of credit for his share in shaping the new General Plan. He had many valuable suggestions to make and he consistently kept in touch with reality. Largely because of him this proposal remains sensible, reasonable, capable of achievement and reflective of the views of most of the residents of Marana, rather than becoming a tool of one factor or another. Mr. Taylor also felt that Jerry Flannery and Cindy DeLeon also deserve a great deal of credit for their valuable professional contributions. Additionally, Mr. Taylor wanted to give credit to our consultant, Rick Counts. Not only did Rick keep the document clear, well stated, practical, he also continuously kept us focused, when any of us had a view that strayed too far from what was good for the community as a whole. In the first place he performed and invaluable service in arranging meetings and hearings, making broad and various contacts, constantly seeking our help in locating those in the community with whom he could consult in order to tap the feelings of community members regarding the kind of place we hope Marana would be and would become. As a result, you have in this proposal a document that is highly reflective of the wishes and the views of residents of Marana. Mr. Taylor urges you to adopt the proposed General Plan and I would also urge every Council member, every planning commissioner, every member of a professional staff to equip themselves with a copy of the document and to be guided by your decision making. He hopes this will not become a document that gathers dust on a shelf. Mr. Taylor also commented that each citizen of Marana should procure a copy of the proposal, to continuously judge the actions of Officials, on the basis of consistency with the prospective and vision in this proposal. That doesn't mean slavish devotion to the General Plan. At times departures from details may be necessary, but the broad prospective of the document should be followed and the responsibility for this lies with all of us as residents of Marana. If we adhere to the principles of the General Plan, Marana will be the community, we all want it to be. A motion was made by Bobby Sutton, Jr., seconded by Sharon Price and carried unanimously to approve Resolution No. 97-06; Town of Marana General Plan, with a rider that it will be brought before Council annually for possible changes. D. Marana Monument Identification Si~n - Request by the Tucson-Pima Arts Council for the Town of Marana to Share in the Cost of the Installation of the Marana Monument Identification Sign (Continued from 1-21-97) Hurvie Davis: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, some time ago I believe May of last year, the Tucson-Pima Arts Council came to the Town and presented designs of proposals for the construction of a monument, an identification sign for the Town. The site chosen is located off Interstate 10 and South of Pinal County line. We are kind of negotiating with the property owner for placement of the sign. The real issue before you this evening is if we wish to pursue this, which would be our recommendation, we need to allocate $4,550.00 from the Towns contingency fund to complete the installation of the sign. Mayor Honea: I thought that we had already approved moneys for the sign to be structured and mounted. Wasn't that already approved? Hurvie D~/vis: Yes sir, that is correct. The costs were underestimated originally, it is my understanding when we acted on it back, last year. Jocelyn Entz: Mr. Mayor and Council Members, Mr. Davis is correct in that we did discuss having the Town contribute to the building of the structure to hold the monument sign in place. The costs that were associated with the Town's contribution were slightly more than anticipated originally and this is why we are bringing it before the Council tonight. The costs are attached to your blue sheets so that you could see, item by item what is required and what the remainder of the Tucson-Pima Arts Council budget is and why there is a necessity for the $4,550.00 request to the Town to build the monument for the sign. While you are reviewing that, I have two colored photographs of the sign, which when you see these, the design was on the floor at the Mountain View High School Art Department. We now have the sign in storage waiting to be mounted on a base. We're just keeping in storage on a month to month basis until we can get it erected. I must add that it is much more beautiful in person than it is in the picture but this is the best we could do. Ora Harn: Mr. Mayor, is this going to be a lighted sign? Jocelyn Entz: Mr. Mayor, Council Member Ham, at this time I'm not really sure; we did not talk about having a lit sign when we were talking about the cost associated with erecting the sign. 1 think that it would be a good idea if we could do that, but we would have talk to the property owner and make sure that we could get this done. Undoubtedly, the Town would be responsible for the cost of this. We have no more money in the T-PAC budget that I'm aware of to do this. A motion was made by Ora Harn, seconded by Sherry Millner and unanimously carried that the Council approve the expenditure of $4,550.00 from the Town's contingency fund to complete the installation of the Marana Monument Identification Sign, and that the issue of a light be looked into to see if that could be put into the package. E. Reso!llfion 97-10 - Support for the Metropolitan Domestic Water Improvement District Request and the Town Council of the Town of Oro Valley Request to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to Revise Its Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Tucson Terminal Storage Facility to Include Features from the Northwest Portion of the Tucson Active Management Area (Continued from 1-21-97) Hurvie Davis: Commented that this item probably could have been on the Consent Agenda. It is for the Bureau of Reclamation to revise their Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Tucson Terminal Storage Facility to look at the features of the Northwest Management area so that we are able to look at the liability factor of water in CAP. Mostly the talk is in the South end of Town, 1 think it's important that we have the reliability of the North if something catastrophic ever happened. I urge your approval of this Resolution tonight. Due to the fact that I did not know when it was going to be on the Agenda, and Mr. DeSpain had other activities he had to take care of, I agreed to kind of handle this item. I'll try to respond to any questions that you might have. The motion was made by Herb Kal, seconded by Bobby Sutton, Jr. and carried unanimously to approve Resolution No. 97-10. F. Parking in Right-of-Way - Parking in Town Right-of-Way at the Intersection of Sandario Road and Marana Road Hurvie Davis: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council this is ao item that you asked to bring back before you. The issue had come up to me by several residents in the Town as well as one of the businesses in the area of Sandario and Marana Road. Mr. Atler and his staff has been looking into it, they've had the area surveyed and are prepared to give you a presentation on it tonight. We continue to get a lot of off the Interstate Semi's parking in the area and creating for some particular problems. Traffic problems, noise problems, we've had some dust problems from time to time. I think Mr. Atlers staff have surveyed all the business in the area and can comment on the con~erns of the businesses as well and what alternatives may be. We didn't bring you necessarily any action tonight other than to recommend an action. We have an alternatives and if you choose one of those alternatives we will take that alternative back and bring you a proper Ordinance and so forth at that time to implement improvement. Mayor Honea: Did Susan Ohm (SP?) leave, or is she in the corridor? She owns the piece of property that we're talking about, she might want to be in here. 8 Dave After: Mr. Mayor, would that be the property by Circle K. Mayor Honea: That's the vacant lot between the Circle K and La Tumbleweed Lounge. Dave Atler: As Mr. Davis mentioned, we've been doing quite a bit of work in the area. Mr. Atler showed an exhibit of the intersection of Sandario Road and Marana Road. He discussed the problem areas and handed out some photographs that were taken at various times of the day and different times of the week. Most were taken from the area up around the Circle K looking to the South. Most of the traffic that is seen when the vehicles are being parked is generally between the Cimle K and running along past La Tumbleweed. The yellow line represents approximately where the right-of-way is, so that you can get an idea that quite a few of the vehicles were parking within the Town right-of-way as well as on private property out there. To summarize the response received from business owners, Diahn (SP?) Swartz and my staff did a face to face poll of the business interest out there, we haven't mailed out any questionnaires yet. The only one that really expressed a concern was the owner/manager of La Tumbleweed. I can tell you that 1 have been out in this area, in the morning with idling trucks, it's loud and smelly, doesn't look very good. Some of the concerns are the sound and smell, in particular La Tumbleweed, if they want to have their front door open, then they have the diesel fuels coming in or dust or what have you. Some of the other concerns are that nobody really raised is the reduction and visibility for their businesses. If you're coming in from different areas along, driving down Sandario or even Marana Road, you can see that they'd be blocking signs and the businesses, so you can't tell what's over there. We presented a few options and we are working with the Town Attorney's office right now to draft an Ordinance pending on the outcome tonight. It can be a total ban of parking within the Town Right-of-Way provided it's posted, to doing a trial -- as we propose in one of our options -- for restricted hours of parking. If you have any questions. Mayor Itonea: I was just curious to see if Susan Ohm had a comment. Do you have a comment - you own a lot of the property that we're talking about, or at least the private property off the right-of-way. Susan Ohm: Well I have to admit that this is a surprise to me, I didn't know that this was going to be discussed this evening. Probably I need opportunity to review this. I wasn't aware there was a problem. So, I'm not really prepared to comment. Herb Kai: Susan, Council Member Clark brought this issue up to put in Agenda. Basically overnight, a lot of the diesels park alongside in front of the bank, East/West; or they park going South in front of La Tumbleweed. Tom Clark: Mr. Mayor, one of my main concerns, l've heard from Ed Stein and J.D. Henley, just in the last week about early in the morning when they're going about their business here within the Town of Marana, that they have to wait as long as five minutes at the Marana/Sandario Interchange because of the trucks pulling back from the Town's properly and the private property back onto the road to get on the Freeway. And once those trucks pull out, whether a car's coming behind them heading North on Sandario or coming onto the overpass to come into Marana; once those trucks pull out of there, they're going 2 to 3 miles an hour to move that truck onto the road and it's just causing a traffic jam there. We're going to have to do something about the interchange there fairly quickly. These are local people that have lived here for some time and J.D. just pulled over yesterday and spoke to me again about it, that you can't get around Marana early in the morning in that intersection because the semis are either coming into Marana early in the morning to stop and get something at the Chevron or the Circle K or pulling back onto the road. They just pull out just one right after the other, there might be a whole line of them and as they cross that intersection nobody can cross at the stop sign. Herb Kai: I've noticed that it's quite a hazard, the truckers will actually park on highway off ramp/on ramps to rest or stay over night. I'm surprised that ADOT doesn't have something that they could enforce. The Red Rock exit there's trucks pulled off, so it's definitely a traffic hazard and not only parking in Marana's right-of-way. Tom Clark: You know there's not a truck stop here. Mayor Honea: Cortaro has truck parking behind the McDonalds and things of that nature that they have set aside on private property. One of the problems hem, is they're actually, especially on Sandario, most of the trucks are parked on public right-of-way. And a lot of those people will park there and sleep all night, and they leave the trucks run. I'm usually there between 5:30 and 6:00 in the morning at that intersection and there's a lot of times that you can count 10 or 12 semis parked on Sandario Road. In fact, I've seen 4 and 5 at a time parked over in Producers as well as parked over on Sandario Road. There's so many that they fill up the right-of-way and park on the.private property on the other side of the street as well. I think it's worse on Sandario than it is on Marana Road, the only problem is Marana Road doesn't have as much room and it's really a problem when they park there. Dave Atler: Mr. Mayor, two issues that ! want to bring up, one is that regardless of what the property owners feel about the situation, I think we need to get them out of the right-of-way. My opinion is, I mean there's a safety and a liability issue there for us, them being in the right-of- way. And the other is, a couple of corners: Cortaro and Thornydale, it wasn't trucks but it was people selling cars and it became car lots for a period of time and what they did, and I think what we should do as a courtesy, to the truck drivers that come in, stop and although they're noisy, they're spending a little bit of money in our Town, whether it's fueling up there or getting something to eat or not. What they did on those other corners, they posted a 30 day notice that it would become a no parking area, because if you have someone coming that's used to stopping at that mile marker and getting off -- it's tough to move those things to move around once you get them offthe freeway -- and they were here last week and they did it and then they come now and they can't park there. Say this person's been parking there for a couple of years or so and then now he's got to find another place, and maybe he's driven 15 hours, so, maybe some type of grace period, to let them know this area will become a no parking at this date. Sherry Millner: Is there something that we put up to prevent them, 1 mean there's a lot of open spaces would we put a barrier of some kind or just a sign. Most people ignore signs. Tom Clark: They don't ignore fines. Hurvie Davis: Mr. Mayor, this type of thing when establish no parking, we hope it's self enforcing. It probably will be to many of the drivers that come in, once we put in no parking l0 signs. What's standard in a situation like this, you put up no parking signs and you usually don't start enforcing it with a ticket from the Police Department for 30 days, in other words it gives them that grace period but in the meantime you know the sign's up and the Police will just give them notice, maybe a warning ticket or just give them a verbal warning. And then after the sign's been up for 30 days, they start enforcing. Tom Clark: ls that understood, or do we give that directive. Is that just an understood thing, a no parking thing and you just slack on it for 30 days? Hurvie Davis: That's generally the procedure with the Police Departments in putting up no parking, but certainly if you want to clarify that and make it a policy, that we can pass on to the Police Dep.a~ment, that's your choice. Mayor Honea: I can tell you it's getting to be a real problem, and the Circle K doesn't sell diesel. The Chevron does, but I've never seen a semi in there ever to buy. 1 think that most of those diesels use that as just a sleeping place either going or coming from the Tucson Metropolitan area. If you'll notice the freeway runs almost east and west and on the north side of the freeway, if you go out there tonight or tomorrow morning early -- you'll see 3 or 4 semis parked inside the cloverleaf's. They pull off and park there. A lot are parking in the Producers Cotton property and there's a lot of them parking on the Sandario Road alignment. I think what's happening is most of those people are just pulling in and using it as a place to sleep until they can go into Tucson in the morning. It is really getting to be a hazard, you know it's not like we have a truck stop or anything there to really accommodate. Tom Clark: Mr. Mayor, what's unique about it is the proximity of that interchange, Sandario and Marana Road to the freeway off ramp, it's so close there and the fact that the cars have to make a turn going under the overpass. A lot of times you'll be looking back south on Sandario and you'll be on Marana Road heading west and you'll look south on Sandario and by that time 3 or 4 cars are coming under the overpass and you just can't get across. And then when the trucks are going there one after the other, it's completely impossible. Sharon Price: Mr. Mayor, I know last night when I was up here for a meeting and 1 went back, I had two of them parked right out there and it was really hard to understand where the road was to make a turn, they were that close to the intersection. So I can see where it's a problem, I also sympathize with the businesses, if they are getting any amount of revenue, but from what I can see when I'm up here, basically that's lethal. Susan Ohm: I think my comment is, as a property owner there and landlord to some of the businesses, is that it would make sense that there would not be overnight parking allowed, but it seems to me that if you prohibit all parking by trucks then, the people that are coming in off the freeway to gas up or to eat or whatever, are prohibited from doing that and I think that would impact on the business people in that area. Mayor Honea: Maybe we could put something like no parking from 10:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M. or something like that to keep them from coming in and parking overnight but it would allow them to park for an hour and use the businesses or something. Dave After: If you look at the photographs, you notice in there that there is still quite a bit of separation between the right-of-way and the businesses, so, they could have, if the businesses chose they could have on-site parking themselves -- if the Council also chose to prohibit parking in the right-of-way. Mayor Honea: If, now that we've brought this issue up at a meeting, is there a liability factor there? Say if a semi is parked too close to the roadway and someone has an accident because they say they can't see in a public right-of-way, or like Councilman Clark said that one of them pulled out and caused an accident or a problem; are we looking at a liability by not taking some action if we know there's a problem there? Dan Hochuli: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, I could probably raise a liability risk on every issue on your agenda, so I try not to say anything, but I have been concerted about this and I agree with the Mayor that now that we have clear notice of the problem and we've had the engineer talking about or someone talking about sight and visibility issues, that probably enhances the liability of the Town. The Town, believe it or not is liable if someone is parking their truck in the right-of-way and they drive into a ditch or they trip falling out of it; it's our right-of-way we're going to have some liability closure on that. Our exposure has diminished a great deal if not completely removed if their parking is in violation of "no parking zone". So we have a risk of exposure against the individual parking the trucks and we have a risk of exposure, a greater risk probably, by the person who misses the road because they can't see around the truck. Or the person who's tuning into La Tumbleweed and drives into a ditch rather than the openings between the ditches because of the configuration of the trucks in that area, one might assume, well, there's a truck there and a truck here, this must be where 1 tun between the tricks and if it's a ditch, they're in the ditch. I think it's even worse in front of La Tumbleweed because of the large drainage ditches. So, yes the recommendation from the Legal Department would be to prohibit all parking all the time on the Towns right-of-way. Mayor Honea: In fact, that's the Ordinance that the attorney's office has been working on. When this issue came up, apparently has been put on hold, until we got some direction tonight and see what's known specifically for this coner. IfI could address some of the concerns over the traffic over there, we have the people out counting the traffic this week, here and one other location in town. We have some moneys through PAG to do some improvements here and one of the items that we are required to do is the traffic analysis. There's some things that we can do, like doing a four-way stop -- 1 think of that nature before we get into any of the improvements. That study is to identify what improvements we're going to need for turning lanes and things of that nature. So we are working on that as well. Dave Atler: Mr. Mayor, the staff recommendation and the motion is for Option 2, with Mr. Hochuli, from what I could derive, was more leaning towards Option 1; strictly no parking. I think we need to get them out of the right-of-way altogether. Hurvie Davis: Mr. Mayor, Council members, my recommendation probably would go for Option number 1 in that the area is really not designed or constructed for traffic control. So, it's sort of a free-for-all out them, I don't know what the exact right-of-way is. We probably got 100 feet of right-of-way or 80 feet of right-of-way beyond the pavement, with absolutely no control. When you allow parking you usually allow parking into curb lanes and stuff like this 12 and have one out parking. In this case, we have absolutely no control over where those people park or how they park, so it's very likely that an accident could happen just by vehicles on the property. One trying to move around another; at the same time one coming from the other direction. So, without any real traffic control or ability to have traffic control I would recommend Option I to you as well. The issue comes up as indicated about the businesses and so forth. I just think that most of those drivers are coming off of there and very little of them spend money -- it's mostly a rest stop and they go in for a coffee break or a rest room break or something like that. Dan Hochuli: Like Mr. Atler stated, by some of the pictures, there is enough room if they are going to visit those businesses. They still have enough room to park several vehicles there. It's not like we're taking it all away and they cannot fit anymore, we're just getting them out of the liability area. }lurvie Davis: And the private property owner also has the ability to do, like the McDonalds did at Cortaro Road, set aside of place on their private property for parking. And that's another alternative that's available to the property owners in the area. Based on my experience though, that we establish no parking in the area, usually when you do something to squeeze people out of this area they try to find another area and they will probably go across the street at Producers Cotton. You'll probably need to have the Police Department go to the owner of the property and get their agreement that they don't want those semis parking there, so the Police will have the ability to run them off. Dave Atler: I think, not being a police officer, I would think that it would be easier from enforcement prospective to have just no parking at all hours rather than having different hours and different days. Again with Option 2 was seeking compromise between the property owners, the users and the drivers in the area. Carl Winters, 270 N. Church: On behalf of Ms Ohm I'd like to ask if maybe the City has too much right-of-way and they'd be willing to vacate some of it and that would alleviate the problem. Mayor Itonea: Not a chance. Sharon Price: Dave, when you talked to the people at Circle K and Chevron, did they indicate that they thought it would be a hardship on the business? Dave Atler: No, they did not. The only ones that expressed a concern over it at all was La Tumbleweed. Sharon Price: And they were against the parking? Dave Atler: They were against the parking. Sharon Price: But the other ones really had no comment? Dave Atler: We did not talk to Chevron owners, we talked to specifically the areas on the southwest corner, since that's where the bulk parking is -- we haven't seen the problem in the right-of-way at the Chevron because there's really no right-of-way on that side. Sharon Price: That's where they were the other night. Dave Atler: Was it? Then they were more than likely on private property over there. There's almost no right-of-way past the edge of pavement over there. Hurvie Davis: Ifl could make one further comment that was raised earlier, 1 have been working with the police department in the past as well as the State Department of Transportation relative to Semis parking on 1-10/Cormro interchange and I certainly was under the impression that it was illegal. ADOT said that it's not, the police department said that it's not. They allow parking on the right-of-ways at the interchange except where it's otherwise posted. ADOT does allow parking at those interchanges which I think is very unsightly and I think it's hazardous. Anyway it's probably one of those areas that those truckers will move over into once we establish no parking. A motion was made by Bobby Sutton, Jr., seconded by Tom Clark and unanimously carried to direct staff to draft a Restricted Parking Ordinance for the Sandario/Marana intersection and surrounding area, based on staff's recommending Option 1. G. First Reading: Leave of Abse~!c¢ Policy - Amendment to the Town Personnel Policy Adopting a Revised Leave of Absence Police (Continued from 1-21-97) Burvie Davis: This is the first reading to the Personnel Policies to adopt a new Leave of Absence Policy, Ms Johnson has been working on this and it's pretty well covered on the blue sheet. I'll ask Ms Johnson if she has anything further to add in this, if you have any questions we'll be glad to respond to your questions. This will have to come back to you later for the second reading and final adoption. Jane Johnson: I would just like to point out to you that one of the first charges I received was to update, revise, modify or re-write the Personnel Policy as soon as practical, as needed and to that end I have brought to you those issues I felt were most crucial. In the past, you had before you the Disciplinary Action Policy, the Grievance Procedure Policy the deletion of some pieces of the existing Personnel Policy that were more appropriate to the Town Code. In the future you'll have before you an Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Policy that we need to have in place to be eligible for certain grants that are available to us. So, the Leave of Absence Policy is one of those crucial elements that I have been working on and I have brought this multi faceted policy to you. I think you can see from the blue sheet that Mr. Davis mentioned, what specifically is in here and I'd be happy to answer any questions or to take suggestions on further changes or modifications that you feel might be considered for the next reading. No action taken. RECESS ' 14 MINUTES OF REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MARANA TOWN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 4, '1997 H. Sel_¢¢fion of 1997 Community_ Development Block Grant (CDBG] Projects - Selection of Priorities for 1997 Community Development Development Block Grant Funding (Continued from 1-21-97) Hurvie Davis: This is the time of year to select a priority for funding under the CDBG Program and in the essence of time, I will just defer and turn it over to Mr. Cuaron. Roy Cuaron: You have a priority listing of projects from 1 - 20, but before we get into that, let me make a couple of comments and then 1'11 ask Dan Groseclose to come up and provide additional imput. I wanted to direct your attention to projects 9 and 10, these projects were requested by private citizens and are currently being funded within our Public Works Department, our Streets and Roads, and 1 believe Recreation Department, and it's staffs opinion that these projects are better served by being funded within the Town's internal operating budget rather CDBG, but certainly you have that option of including them into your prioritized listing. 1 do believe we have some representatives of some agencies that have requested funding and I'll ask Dan to come up and provide additional comments and introduce the representatives of the agencies. I don't know whether you all have completed the listing, but if you need the form, I've got them available here. Dan Groseelose: We've been going through this for several years, this is the first year that I feel very good about the programs that were presented to you tonight. It's not a real long list, it's not a real high dollar amount, I think last year we submitted, I think $1,250,000.00, when we knew we were only going to be funded up to $250,000.00. We have 20 programs that were presented to you, the total I think was $376,000.00 I think they are all good programs. There's several Youth Programs on there, there are several Senior Citizen Programs and there are several Park projects. I think it is a good well rounded situation that we will be able to get your imput and utilize those funds to benefit the Town of Marana. We do have 2 individuals tonight that would like to make a very short presentation to you in reference to the Abstinence Awareness Program. Maria Carea: I am the Abstinence Awareness Coordinator for the Crisis Pregnancy Centers of Tucson. The Abstinence Awareness Program has been in the Marana School District for the past few years, it has been very successful, we've had some wonderful response from the school faculty, from parents and more importantly from the youth in our community. I am a resident of the Marana School District, I also have 2 children, one at the Mt. View High School and the other at DeGrazia Elementary and this program will be going to the schools and help assist the schools to ~ut in Abstinence Awareness Program. Next week, February 10 - 14 we will be at Tortolita Junior High School and also at Mt. View High School, Mr. Holman from Marana Jr. High School here in the City of Marana has expressed interest in our program coming into his school soon thereafter. There have been other individuals in the City of Marana that have expressed interest in the program and I'm a volunteer, the moneys that we are requesting will go strictly lbr the expenses that we have to put this program out, like flyers, pencils and everything that addresses the message of abstinence to the youth in our community. Diane Jackson: I am the Coordinator of the USA Team, that's the Unified Students for Abstinence. It's a program that I started back in 1994, actually 12-1-94 we made our first presentation at Tortolita Jr. High School during an AIDS Awareness event. It was so well 15 received by the parents that they called the principal at Mt. View High School requesting that we come in and make a presentation to the school. We did that and hence we have been invited back probably 3 or 4 times in the last three years. We will be doing a presentation to Tortolita .ir. High School to the entire school in three assemblies. Mr. Holman has previewed the presentation and he's anxious to get the program at Marana Jr. High as well. What it is, it's a peer to peer group, these young people who are on the team, I have 26 young adults, teens and young adults on the team who believe in abstinence, that is waiting until marriage to have sex. They're concerned about the teen pregnancy problem, the AIDS and STD problem that is running rampant here in our own community and their way of helping to have a solution to this problem is to get out and speak to their peers about why they are waiting. They don't preach or say this is what you should do, this is what they are doing and why. They have humorous skits and personal talks that present that they have created themselves in keeping with the lingo that the teens have and they understand each other. It's been very successful, when we started in 1994, we were doing I to 2 presentations a month this month alone I have 11 presentations on the books and so I don't think I need to give any more information on numbers on how it's being received in the community, but again there are some costs that are incurred and we would like to have some of the funding to help promote it further in your community here. Dan Groseciose: One other program that was represented at the last Council Meeting that we were unable to make a presentation on and I had promised them that I would give a brief description of the program and that's the Big Brothers/Big Sisters Satellite branch that they're wanting to put in Marana. These people are very enthusiastic about bringing in and actually establishing a satellite of the Tucson Big Brothers/Big Sisters program. The funding of the program, the total budget is about $65,000.00 of which they're only requesting $25,000.00 to establish and start up of this program. The balance of that funding will come from Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Tucson. They're very committed to it, they feel that there's a real need in this area. I think all of you are aware of the established program that Big Brother/Big Sister have across the United States and the success that they have enjoyed in that program. Do you have any questions about any of the programs? Herb Kal: Dan, you indicated earlier items 9 and 10 are probably low priority because they are being funded by some other mechanism. Do you still want us to rate those towards the bottom, or do you want every one rated? Dan Groseclose: What I would request that you do is rate each one of them, but rate them to the bottom, rate them 19 and 20 if that is your desire. My concern is that if one Council member rates them and the others don't, we go on a system of adding all of these totals together and the lowest numbered items are the ones that receive the top priority. Therefore, if some of you didn't rate them at all then they would be rated very highly when in fact that was not your intent. So 1 would request that, if in fact, you do not want to fund those programs through the CDBG that you give them the 19th and 20th rating and then that would put them towards the bottom automatically. If there is a situation, that there might be a conflict in certain aspects of voting on a particular issue, if you do not vote for an item and you leave it blank -- then what we've done in years past and what we intend to do tonight is to take the average of the other votes and then we establish that average for the vote for that individual who was unable to vote for a particular project. We total the way the other Council members voted on and we take that average and install it further for the one individual who was unable to vote. Ora Harm I do declare a conflict on the Marana Health Center, CDBG agenda items and 1 will not vote on those items that concern the Marana Health Center. I'm not sure that in these programs I really have a conflict of interest since moneys that we receive from CDBG are designated to programs and very little of that money would ever come into my pockets, in fact very little of the Health Center's moneys ever come into my pocket. I would like to speak to the Marana Health Centers issues if you would give me that permission and if Council would allow it. The Marana Health Center will celebrate this year 40 years of serving the Marana community with health care and social services to the low and moderate income families in our community. We started the Health Center in September 26, 1957 with a very small building on the property that belonged to the Church at that time. It had a small building on it and we came up and served the migrant workers of the community and provided health care and other care, social service care to them. The Marana Health Center has gone through some good times and bad times. In 1989 the Marana Health Center, through mismanagement, lost all it's federal funding and there was as strong concern that it would not be able to service any longer in this community. I think that would be an extreme shame for this community not to be able to provide health care for the citizens in this community, that situation has been turned around by "doing business the old fashioned way" - earning our way to keeping the Health Center open. At this time the Marana Health Center is fairly stable, but it still needs to be considered by this Council to provide whatever health and help that the Council can allow us. So I ask Council members if they would seriously consider the Marana Health Center items that are on the agenda. Dan Groseclose: One question that you might have, in years past we have had discussions about operating expenses and such. Item 6, the Marana Health Center administration, $20,000.00 I have discussed this item with Al Cohen from Pima County Community Services and he agrees that it is a valid project and that because of such a large number of non-Marana residents that use the Marana Health Center, they are also considering some costs to go towards the administration for the Health Center also. He had requested that we put this on here also, and everybody is share and share alike. Several items are listed, from Marana Park through programs for the youth or the senior citizens are Park Improvements and we have a representative. Dave Atler: The Park projects that are shown are projects that were discussed carefully with Roy's department as we're coming up with the CDBG projects, they're all shown on the Master Park Plan that was adopted by Mayor and Council this last year, there isn't any deviation from that. Some of the other programs were expressed interest either through some of the public hearings or public meetings that were held or by Council members, probably more specifically on the seniors programs. Pauline Nunez is here this evening as my staff member in charge of the Center over there and she has worked extremely well not only with the youth programs but also establishing programs for the seniors. It has really established a rapport with the people that have been there for years; the Catholic Services and we're very pleased with the progress we're seeing. What you see on some of those programs are to expand a little bit further at what's been done in the past and be able to give them a little bit better service than what we've been able to give in the past. Dan Groseciose: All the Council members now have had the opportunity to see the construction that's going on. The contract that has been awarded by our Engineering Department was fbr $243,000.00 project, which about $117,000.00 of that is being funded by last years CDBG ~7 MINUTES OF REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MARANA TOWN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 4, '1997 programs. One of the things that each year, and fairly shortly within the next couple of weeks you'll be receiving an invitation to go to the annual CDBG Week Celebration that we have annually. Through the City of Tucson, Pima County, South Tucson and Marana. This year the ceremony is going to be held at the Tucson Food Bank, we have already talked to them about the work that is being done on the park and all the CDBG Funds that have been going into that park in years past, and they were all, a very large consensus, of next year we're going to hold the CDBG Week Celebration at the Marana Park. Roy Cuaron: The Council is free to add projects to the list, or delete any or change the funding request. The amount shown there is the respective agencies or departments have requested to implement their programs. You're free to add or delete or increase or change any amount. Furthermore, this listing obviously does not include administration costs and typically we add that on at the end of the process. Dan Groseclose: May I ask a request that if you do decide that you feel that some of the projects should be changed in their funding, that you discuss that prior to your voting because I think that would be confusing if you change it on your sheet and it wasn't changed on any other sheets, then we wouldn't know exactly what to do. Mayor Honea: I think we need to sign these, it's a public vote and we're public officials, I think we have to sign them because they have to be made public if someone wants to see how we voted. A motion was made by Tom Clark, seconded by Bobby Sntton, Jr. and unanimously carried for Council to go into Executive Session. I. xe ti Sessi n - Pursuant to A,R.S. Section 38-431.03 (A) (4) for Discussion and Consultation with Town Attorneys in Order to Consider its Position and Instruct its Attorneys Regarding Marana's Position in the Tax Case of Marana V. Li'! Abner's Ltd. . Exec tiv Sssi n - Pursuant to A.R.S. Section 38-431.03 (A)(1)for Discussion or Consideration of Employment Issue Relating to the Position of Town Manager Council back in session at 10:15 P.M. K. Setting of Compensation for Town Manager and Establishment of Assistant Tow_ri. Manager Position and Setting Compensation Therefor A motion was made by Ora Harn, seconded by Sherry Millner and carried 6 to 1 with Sharon Price voting nay to the Council hiring an Assistant Town Manager and set the salary for that Assistant Town Manager between $50 and $65,000.00 as soon as possible. A motion was made by Ora Harn, seconded by Sherry Millner and carried unanimously to increase the Town Manager's Salary to $75,000.00, effective the beginning of the next pay period. 18 Mayor Honea: Council Members Ham, would you look into our selection of Assistant Town Manager? Ora Harn: I would, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Honea: Mr. Davis, did you have a report on the other issue? Hurvie Davis: We have tabulated the results of prioritizing the CDBG Program. Mr. Groseclose will explain the rankings and the issues we need to decide. Do we submit all of the projects to the County or do we submit a certain list? Dan Groseclose: I believe that we should submit the whole project to Pima County for their consideration. Exhibit A is filled out in a prioritized list, from the top to the bottom. As we look at priority points, the first two are actually in a tie with 32 points. If you go down the list to project 13, Park 15 passenger van for $32,000.00 that would bring the total of all the before to $200,150.00. I would almost be assured that those projects would definitely be funded. From there on out, could be questionable but I think they're all good programs. Since I've presented the original list to Council and the Clerk, is it necessary for me to post these since nobody else is here? Mayor Honea: No. A motion was made by Bobby Sutton, Jr., seconded by Tom Clark and carried unanimously to accept the project order of 1997 CDBG request as presented by Mr. Groseclose. L. Mayor and Council's _Report Mayor's Report: I will be speaking on the 1 lth at the SABA General Membership Dinner. I think we've all been invited on the 14th to a musical if we chose to go -- I did, I hope some of the rest of you did choose to go as well. Sherry Millner: 1 had a meeting with Sharon Bronson on the 22nd with two other people. Council Members had dinner with Ore Valley on the 23rd and 1 think that was very successful. Bobby and I had lunch at the Doubletree with State of the City Address, Tucson, and they said that we had attended for the first time and were glad that we were there. A few Council Members came up after the luncheon and were appreciative that Marana participated. Mayor Honea: I was there last year. Sherry Mi[lner: We were mentioned and so we had to stand up and show our faces. It was something I think everyone should have gone to. It was very good, Bobby Sutton, Jr.: Spoke about a presentation made by himself and Mr. Davis to the Charter Committee. Commented that Paul Lindsay made the presentation on the 21st, at first it wasn't going very well, but eventually they sat down and discussed the flood control issues. He commented that Mr. Davis was able to eloquently answer most of the questions asked. He thinks the questions were answered real well. We went first and i think we represented the rural communities in that we don't want something that's going to come in and take an extra burden on the people in our municipality. One thing that the attorney for the charter said, he believes and they're going to find out and send us in writing, ifa City has a charter, it's protected and it has governing rule over the county charter. He believes and he's trying to get us in writing, like I say any municipality because Tucson's the only charter city in Pima County. Any municipality although it might not be chartered he believes it's covered by the same part of the Constitution that we would stay have rule in our municipality. Tom Clark: Talked about the meeting with Sharon Bronson on the 24th held at his place, there was a good lengthy discussion with her on flood control and cell towers. Her campaign manager, Dan Graham, is going to keep us appraised on the cell towers that come into Pima County within Maranas boundaries so that we can know ahead of time. She has concerns about that and also expressed about City of Tucson concerns about that new law they're trying to implement, which 1 put in yourboxes, some of you have seen them already about the restrictions on cell towers and heights and how to hide them. She was with us for about 2 hours. Ora Harn: I just wanted to thank Council for their expression of sympathy for my sister. She also thanked everyone for the kindness that was shown to her these past weeks. M. Manager's Report Hurvie Davis: Briefly talked about the effort being made to annex the Orange Grove/Camino De La Tierra area. There have been some meetings with very little success in the park that people have had it up basically to their ears with people badgering them about annexation or not annexing. It doesn't look too promising, but we are still continuing the efforts. We had 4 or 5 teams working in the area at times, especially on weekends. We tentatively have it on schedule on the agenda in case we do get sufficient signatures. And this time we will run down to the Recorder's Office and Record it. He commented that at the last PAG regional Council Meeting, Ms Katie Doosenberry is the new ADOT Board Member representing Pima County, she took her seat on the PAG Regional Council and contributed quite a bit to the conduct of the Regional Council Meeting as it relates to transportation issues. She's also indicated, that when the next ADOT Board Meeting is held in southeastern Arizona she wants it held in Marana. I think we can accmnmodate her here at Town Hall. That'll be a first in that, I think, that with your efforts and direction on it are paying off. The other thing mentioned was we are wrapping up the CMlD and the Marana Water Co. agreements. We'll be coming to you on the 18th with the resolution to authorize the Mayor to sign the documents. He mentioned also with the O'Rie]ly Project, there are some problems with access on Thomydale from the property owners, he may have to get Mr. Hochuli and his staff involved in that issue. Mr. Davis mentioned there was a mandatory training class on sexual harassment and all except 2 employees attended. He wanted to commend Jane and Kelly Schwab for the outstanding job that they did in conducting this session and it was very well received by all the employees. It was very informative. Mr. Mayor and Council, thank you for the vote of confidence, 1 appreciate it. X. Future Agenda Items Mayor Honea: Wants to get a copy of Oro Valley's Tower Ordinance, including Towers that look like palm trees and pine trees, different things that will blend in. He also would like to get a copy of the City of Tucson's Ordinance. He would like to get the Tower issue put on the agenda 20 for at least discussion. The second thing that he wants to put on the agenda is to ask Mr. Copeland to come back and make a very short presentation on some of the advantages possibly of having someone to work for us up in Phoenix. No promises or anything, just a short presentation so that we may get some information that would be to our advantage to start looking to have someone to lobby for us on some issues. Hurvie Davis: We've also had some other people interested in providing the same service to us. Mayor ltonea: We could make it available for them to come, basically what I told Mr. Copeland is I'm interested in what services would be available. The third thing, after talking with Council Member Millner, he feels we need to put the annexation of Thornydale Road all inclusive between Orange Grove and Ina on the agenda. Supervisor Bronson told Council Member Millner at a meeting after the one we had on the 22nd that she would not support our project and they were going to shift the money to the north and that project was ready to go, which it is not it hasn't even started in design yet. There's a lot of political pressure on her, I think if we have the votes in PAG and the money's there -- we should take this thing by the horns, 1 think we should look seriously at annexing Thonrydale Road, it's just County property I think we could annex it without signature, Mr. Hochuli could check on that. Since it's already been designed and we have already had a second vote in PAG reinforcing that they would support our 6 lane project, that it looks like we're going to have to go the other route and annex that roadway, but we need to have the particulars on how it's to be done. I think it's to our benefit to al least look into that. XI. ADJOURNMENT A motion was made by Sharon Price, seconded by Tom Clark and carried unanimously to adjourn the meeting at 10:37 P.M. AUDIO TAPES OF THE MEETING ARE AVAILABLE AT THE MARANA TOWN HALL CLERKS OFFICE. CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that the foregoing minutes are the true and correct minutes of the Regular Council Meeting of the Marana Town Council held on February 4, 1997. I further certify that a quorum was present. / 21