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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/19/2007 Regular Council Meeting MinutesMINUTES OF REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MARANA MUNICIPAL COMPLEX DATE: JUNE 19,2007 PLACE AND DATE Marana Municipal Complex A. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL, By Mayor Honea at 7:00 p.m. COUNCIL Ed Honea Mayor Present Herb Kai Vice Mayor Present Russell Clanagan Council Member Present Patti Comerford Council Member Present Tim Escobedo Council Member Present Carol McGorray Council Member Present Roxanne Ziegler Council Member Excused STAFF Mike Reuwsaat Town Manager Present Gilbert Davidson Deputy Town Manager Present Jim DeGrood Assistant Town Manager Present Frank Cassidy Town Attorney Present Jocelyn Bronson Town Clerk Present B. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND INVOCATION/MOMENT OF SILENCE Led by Mayor Honea. C. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Upon motion by Council Member Escobedo, seconded by Council Member McGorray, items 4 and 5 were removed from Consent Agenda and moved to first two items on Council Action was unanimously approved. D. CALL TO THE PUBLIC David Morales addressed Council regarding group think and Consent Agenda items. Ed Stolmaker, President and CEO of the Marana Chamber of Commerce, addressed Council and stated this Thursday at the Marana Chamber lunch they have scheduled the legislators from District 25 and 26 to attend. The budget was approved today, but there are a number of bills which they have to address and because of that they are moving the lunch until Thursday, July I 9th. In place of the legislators they will have the Chief and Assistant Chief of Northwest Fire which will be speaking at their lunch in reference to the changes in reference to the business community and the residents. David Hedgepath, pastor of Community Christian Church, addressed Council regarding a project that was started in Tucson in 2001 called the SOBER project. It was formed like a church with worship and prayer, but its focus was on people who had addictions. Currently that center has 90 percent of its member in recovery or working on their addictions. Since 2005, nine other churches in the Tucson area have started a 12-step recovery group. MINUTES OF REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MARANA MUNICIPAL COMPLEX DATE: JUNE 19,2007 Community Christian Church is now eleventh on that list of churches. They plan on continuing meetings every Friday at 7:00 p.m. not just for members of the church, but as an outreach into the community for people who are looking for support and for a group to gather with. E. PRESENTATIONS F. MAYOR AND COUNCIL REPORTS: SUMMARY OF CURRENT EVENTS Council Member Escobedo stated they have changed Miracle in Marana to Miracles, Inc. for the purpose of marketing. They found they have more opportunity for fund raising. They will be set up at the 4'h of July festival with Santa Claus. They will have a raffle. Council Member McGorray stated the Marana Community Food Bank will be at the booth run by National Bank if people wish to bring donations. Mr. Reuwsaat stated as reminder to the public that tomorrow night will be a special study session to begin at 6:00 p.m. regarding water issues. G. MANAGER'S REPORT: SUMMARY OF CURRENT EVENTS H. STAFF REPORTS GENERAL ORDER OF BUSINESS 1. CONSENT AGENDA 1. Resolution No. 2007-104: Relating to the Police Department; authorizing application for undercover vehicle registrations (Richard Vidaurri) 2. Resolution No. 2007-105: Relating to Liquor Licenses; approval and recommendation to the State Liquor Board for a corporate person and location transfer of a No. 09 (Liquor Store) liquor license submitted by Pheng Hour Hak on behalf of Marana Grocery Store, located at 13865 N. Sandario Road (Jocelyn Bronson) 3. Resolution No. 2007-106: Relating to Liquor Licenses; approval and recommendation to the State Liquor Board for a corporate location transfer of a No. 10 (Beer and Wine Store) liquor license submitted by Kim Kenneth Kwiatkowski on behalf of Circle K Store, located at the northwest corner of Tangerine and Thornydale Roads (Jocelyn Bronson) 6. Resolution No. 2007-110: Relating to Subdivisions; approving a release of assurances for Continental Reserve Block 16A and acceptance of public improvements for maintenance (Keith Brann) 7. Resolution No. 2007-111: Relating to Development; approving and authorizing a final plat for Saguaro Springs Blocks 2 & 3 (Kevin Kish) 2 MINUTES OF REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MARANA MUNICIPAL COMPLEX DATE: JUNE 19,2007 8. Resolution No. 2007-112: Relating to Development; approving and authorizing a final plat for Dove Mountain Resort (Kevin Kish) 9. Relatine to Personnel: Revision of Personnel Policy 3-6, Overtime/Compensatory Time, to eliminate holidays from the exclusions for calculating hours worked in a week for overtime (Regina Flen-ting) 10. Minutes of the May 22, 2007 and May 31, 2007 special meetings. Council Member Escobedo declared a conflict of interest on item #7. Upon motion by Council Member Comerford, seconded by Council Member McGorray, the Consent Agenda was unanimously approved. J. COUNCIL ACTION 4. Resolution No. 2007-107: Relating to Transportation; approving and authorizing the Mayor to execute an intergovernmental agreement Amendment between the Town of Marana and Pima County for the sharing of costs involved in the provision of public transit services to certain areas of Pima County and the Town of Marana (Jim DeGrood) Mr. DeGrood addressed Council and stated at present there are two transit services we contract through Pima County for. The first is the Sun Tran route 16 which is basically the Ina Road service. There are 26 trips a day on that route. The second service is the rural transit service that serves northern Marana. In addition to those two services, this year Pima County has offered to extend to us Van Tran service at our discretion. They have a contract with a provider that provides paratransit services to a fairly limited territory in unincorporated Pima County. Pima County is looking at expanding that area. We had requested that Pima County consider making that service available to us should the Town choose to provide that service. It is not a mandatory service. It is voluntary on the Town's part to go forward with that. The current services we have for the Sun Tran service and the Pima County rural transit service is a little over $70,000 a year. Council Member Escobedo asked how many people are using the service from Continental Ranch to downtown Tucson. Mr. DeGrood stated the express bus service which was started last month that the buses are running half full or better right now. They expect them to be full by the end of summer. That service is not subject to this particular IGA. That is paid for by the Arizona Department of Transportation as a mitigation measure for the work on downtown I- 10. When the I- 10 work terminates then this service will roll into the RTA. Mr. DeGrood stated the Marana rural transit operates on a deviated route service. 3 MINUTES OF REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MARANA MUNICIPAL COMPLEX DATE: JUNE 19,2007 Upon motion by Council Member Escobedo, seconded by Council Member Clanagan, Resolution No. 2007-107 was unanimously approved. 5. Resolution No. 2007-109: Relating to Public Works; approving and authorizing the execution of an intergovernmental agreement between the Arizona Department of Transportation and the Town of Marana relating to the I-10/Twin Peaks traffic interchange (Cedric Hay) Mr. Cassidy stated this is an intergovernmental agreement between the state and Marana in which the state is agreeing to put up a total of $14 million towards the cost of the TI and they will be administering the construction contract. The town will prepare the design plans and pay everything over $14 million. This is the agreement that gets the project built. Council Member Escobedo asked how our agreement with Union Pacific has moved forward and does this agreement include Union Pacific. Mr. Brann stated the agreement with Union Pacific is going to be a separate agreement. It is a railroad access agreement. That had been staled for sometime because Union Pacific and ADOT wished to create what they called a broiler plate agreement. The goal of that broiler plate is that now we can tailor the broiler plate to this interchange and that is expected to be a two to three month process. We are in process with our consultant pursuing that agreement with the railroad. Mr. Brann stated much of the public that is in the vicinity of the project has received direct mailings. Thursday night there will be a public meeting at 7:00 p.m. at Twin Peaks Elementary. There will be exhibits of the current status of the interchange, question and answer, one on one format as apposed to a formal presentation. Upon motion by Council Member McGorray, seconded by Council Member Escobedo, Resolution No. 2007-109 was unanimously approved. 1. Resolution No. 2007-113: Relating to Mayor and Council; authorizing the cancellation of the July 3, 2007 regular meeting (Jocelyn Bronson) Upon motion by Council Member Clanagan, seconded by Council Member Escobedo, Resolution No. 2007-113 was unanimously approved. 2. Resolution No. 2007-114: Relating to Development; ratifying design recommendation for the development known as Heinfeld Silverbell & Wade Retail (Kevin Kish) Mr. Kish addressed Council and stated this is a request for ratification of the Silverbell overlay district committee who reviewed this project at its May 22, 2007 meeting and unanimously recommended approval of the design of this center. The proposed center is located on Silverbell Road north of Wade Drive. The project contains 14,740 sq. ft. of building area with 4,600 sq. ft of that proposed to be a restaurant and the balance to be retail shops. Building is comprised of stucco texture over wood frame. The architectural elements include rounded canopies supported by stone veneer columns at the ends and 4 MINUTES OF REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MARANA MUNICIPAL COMPLEX DATE: JUNE 19,2007 center of the building to break up the square appearance of the building. Blue metal awnings will be provided over the windows and the doors at the rear of the buildings to help with solar control and add accent to the color pallet. Landscaping will be provided on the sides and the front of the development. Council Member Comerford asked about a left turn lane. Mr. Kish stated this distance from Wade Road did not allow for a left turn ingoing on the northerly route on Silverbell so it would be a right in, right out only. Upon motion by Vice Mayor Kai, seconded by Council Member McGorrary, Resolution No. 2007-114 was unanimously approved. K. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION/POSSIBLE ACTION 1. Resolution No. 2007-115 Relating to Boards, Commissions and Committees; appointments to the Planning & Zoning Commission, Business and Economic Development Commission and the Board of Adjustment (Jocelyn Bronson) Mayor asked for reappointment of Billy Schisler and Dave Wostenberg to the Planmnt? Commission as incumbents and that all the other incumbents be interviewed on July 10' 1h and then appointed on July 17 Tom Dunn addressed Council and stated he is applying for appointment to the Economic Development Commission. He stated he is a business owner who relocated his business to Arizona. Tina Wood addressed Council and is asking for appointment for any vacancy to the Planning and Zoning Commission. She stated she has a degree in geology and has been an environmental consultant for over twenty years. She currently works for the State of Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and she runs state super fund projects. Mayor Honea stated every applicant would be given a couple minutes to introduce themselves and what board they want to serve on. Council would then go into Executive Session and if they wish to interview specific candidates they would be asked to come in for more in depth personal interviews. The time for the meeting is to be six o'clock. Upon motion by Council Member Escobedo and seconded by Council Member McGorray, to reappoint Billy Schisler and Dave Wostenberg to the Planning Commission and the interviews to be July I 01h and appointment for July 17 th for the rest of the vacancies was unanimously approved. 5 MINUTES OF REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MARANA MUNICIPAL COMPLEX DATE: JUNE 19,2007 L. BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES M. EXECUTIVE SESSIONS. N. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS 0. ADJOURNMENT Upon motion by Council Member Escobedo, seconded by Council Member McGorray, Council voted unanimously to adjourn. CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that the foregoing are the true and correct minutes of the Marana Town Council meeting held on June 19, 2007. 1 further certify that a quorum was present. r s elyn C. B e on, Townn Clerk ,%'n - -OF y - zez S 6