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PARK CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION
October 28,2002
The meeting convened at 7.02 p.m.
Present at the meeting were Councilmembers Susan Sanger, Susan Santa, Chris Nelson, Jim
Bnmeyer and Mayor Jeff Jacobs
Staff present: City Manager (Mr. Meyer); Director of Public Works (Mr. Rardin); Public Works
Coordinator(Mr Merkley); Director of Community Development (Mr. Harmening); Assistant
Zoning Administrator(Mr Mornson) and City Clerk (Ms. Reichert).
1. Solid Waste Collection Program Changes
Council and staff met to discuss the public response to proposed solid waste collection program
changes and also to discuss multi-family recycling in the city.
Mr. Rardin explained that department staff had been seeking input from residents over the past
year about possible program changes designed to help meet the goals of the solid waste program.
Surveys conducted showed that residents overwhelmingly support the proposed program
changes.
Councilmember Sanger stated that she would like a strong ordinance addressing dumping of yard
waste into streets and gutters
Mr. Bnmeyer was pleased with the public response and felt we should move forward quickly to
implement the proposed program changes.
Mayor Jacobs wanted to see more recycling from multi-family housing and large commercial
operations. He pointed out the fact that the school district does not currently participate in a
recycling program.
Mr. Rardin stated that next steps in the process would be to hold a community open house on
proposed program Changes and to hold a public hearing. At that hearing, council would also be
asked to give preliminary approval to the proposed program changes so that staff could move
forward in developing new contract documents.
Councilmember Sanger stated that it was her opinion that the city should go out to bid on a new
contract.
Mr. Rardin pointed out that the direction staff had received from the council is to re-negotiate
with the current provider and if, at that point, an agreement beneficial to the city could not be
reached, a bidding process would be developed.
Councilmember Bnmeyer stated he was strongly opposed to going out to bid and believed it was
in the city's best interest to renegotiate. Councilmember Nelson agreed.
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Mayor Jacobs stated that the city's goal should be a good quality program and not necessarily the
lowest cost program. He was therefore also opposed to going immediately to bid. He went on to
state that he had received complaints early in the current contract, but had received no
complaints recently. He was comfortable with survey results which stated that the public is
satisfied with the current provider.
Councilmember Nelson said that he was not currently receiving complaints either.
Councilmember Santa had received some complaints, but felt those complaints had been
resolved quickly and efficiently.
2. Sidewalks and Trails
Public Works staff and council discussed possible changes to the City's adopted sidewalk, trail,
and bikeway systems. Mr. Rardin went through a summary of those changes providing
additional detail to the council. He informed council that a discussion was to be held with MN
Dot regarding reconstruction of Hwy 100. If the Hwy 100 project were to move forward more
quickly than anticipated, there were additional trail changes that should be considered at the
same time. If, however, Hwy 100 was delayed, those sidewalk and trail changes could be
deferred.
Following discussion, council directed staff to move forward with a public process for proposed
changes in the Kilmer Neighborhood and asked to be kept informed about the meeting with MN
Dot officials.
3. Developer Compliance
Tom Harmening introduced Gary Mornson, Assistant Zoning Administration, to the Council.
Mr. Harmening then proceeded to state that special circumstances associated with a recent
development project had precipitated this discussion. The expenence of the Community
Development department, however, was that the development project in questions was not the
norm and that overall expenence of the department was that both small and large projects
undertaken in the city proceed very smoothly and there is virtually no problem with compliance
on the part of developers.
He also stated that if compliance issues do occur, they are generally handled through discussion.
If that were to fail, legal remedies are available.
Councilmember Nelson felt that with the one project where compliance was a real issue, an
unrealistic expectation had been created in the neighborhood that there would be no
inconvenience as a result of this major project. He felt some complaints had been legitimate, but
that the majonty were not. He was more concerned with other compliance issues where no
adequate follow-up had been done by staff to ensure that developers had completed all work
required by the development agreement.
Mr. Harmening was also concerned about that issue and stated that most of these problems were
due to poor performance by staff members that were no longer with the department.
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He also described the current requirement for a letter of credit to be provided by the developer
for the value of all work undone when the certificate of occupancy is issued.
Mayor Jacobs thought that we may not need to change policy, but that better enforcement should
be done. Mr. Meyers agreed saying that enforcement mechanisms are in place.
Councilmember Sanger asked that council consider other mechanisms that could work in concert
with our current procedures.
Council directed staff to look a the possibility of adding incentives for self-regulation by the
developers. These new requirements could be added when negotiating development agreements
for large projects.
4. Pawn
Members of the Police Department met with the council to inform them that new regulations for
enforcement of pawn operations would be coming to the council for first reading on November
18th. After performing research on the possibility of regulating second hand operations, staff
had decided not to proposed that option as part of the ordinance.
Annual license fees would also be increased and the number of licenses to be issued in the city
would be reduced from three to two Because there were currently three licenses held, the
ordinance had been designed to achieve the reduction in number of licenses at the point where
the third license was not revoked or not renewed.
The meeting adjourned at 9:10 p.m. /
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Ci Clerk Mayo