Remarks by Dale Reynolds
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“We're still discussing. I want to be a no on this because, I mean, it never hurts to ask, but I want to be a no on this because I feel like they gave above and beyond.”
“I want the Civic Center to be done. I think it's important.”
“The way that was presented to us in the auditorium district, it included the Idaho Center, and I think it's fair that they are engaged in that as well.”
“Mr. Mayor, I move this passage to dismiss your rules. Second.”
“Mr. Mayor? Yes. Crystal, could you bring the kids up here? Because I think the best thing we can do is spoil them with sugar and send them home. Right.”
“Might be a question for Daniel. There was a mention from the architect that there's a drain field on the property. Is the existing septic and drain field for the current house, or is that to be abandoned city water and sewer brought in there?”
“And then in a development agreement, could we put a condition on there that they tie to city sewer when available?”
“And one last comment, Mayor. I also have purchased items from this wholesale house. I've only given them money. They've never given me any money. They just have given me doors, but no money.”
“Most of it is on the other side of the street with the airport, which makes sense.”
“Yes. So some comments. I'm looking at the map we have on page 321. It shows random businesses scattered out to the east of the airport. Final round performance and drive train, Timmy's Tree Service. There's just a bunch of them scattered out there between Pitt and Joe Lane and Howard Lane and Airport Road. And I don't know what the zoning is. It's all in the county, but kind of mesh into that neighborhood.”
“The comment about diesels, diesels burn cleaner today than a gas car. I have one and I have to put that stupid def in it and it burns super clean. You probably couldn't back it in your garage and suffocate yourself even, so it's not even that good for that. So semis, and what brought that up is a friend of mine owns a trucking business and they have”
“They burn super clean on there. So I'm not concerned about that. The traffic on that and Happy Valley Road for which coming and going out of there, that doesn't seem like a concern to me. with what they're doing. If you put a multifamily in there or even low density residential, I'm not sure of the total acreage, but it looks to me like you would have a lot more traffic with residential cars going in and out of there. So then what this is, and another thing I like about it is that you have hours of operation of eight to five, somewhere in there, and then they're gonna be done for the day, and…”
“Can it be some comment, Mr. Mayor? So, um, I was also thinking about the, uh, if you were to put single-family residential homes in there, would add a lot. I don't even know if you'd get enough subsurface disposal permits for septics on that many homes, and that would definitely affect their groundwater with a well of 30 feet versus having one septic for a couple of restrooms.”
“Mayor, I move this pass under suspension of rules.”
“MR. MAYOR, I MOVE THIS PASS AND SUSPENSION OF RULES. I CAN'T. I CAN'T. ROLL CALL, PLEASE.”
“Mr. Mayor. Yes, sir. Crystal, I can tell you have three wonderful children that you're reading books to a lot. You did a great job. Thank you. And I think Char might want to have you read some ordinance. Good job.”
“Yes. President, I would like to hear from Chief Huff. Ordinance is only good as is what we can do to enforce it. And I would like to hear his comments on if it's enforceable or how we're going to enforce that. Maybe one of the captains or maybe chief can answer that question.”
“Okay, and then as far as the miles per hour that Councilman Bills was referring to, are you going to stand out on the green belt with a radar gun, or how do we do that?”
“Mayor, one last comment. So I agree with the overall concept of this ordinance. but a lot of it comes back to common sense. Seems like it's not so common anymore. But I agree with the educational piece. First and foremost, I see, you know, 10 and eight and 10 year old kids riding down the middle of 12th Avenue on these things today. And that's a parenting issue. It doesn't matter what kind of ordinance we write if we don't educate. So I think that's really important if we could put out a public awareness campaign and have some, I know Amy does a great job with those things. Not that she needs…”
“I'll start off with comments on this. I have, uh, okay.”
“Mayor. Yes. Cody, kind of as we discussed before the meeting, there's several things about this that just don't sit well with the process. And I think the first one is, is that on the RFP that went out, I think you specced Mondo flooring, is that correct?”
“Okay, so in Idaho statute 67-2808, it would be considered a sole source to spec a specific brand of flooring. And in that case, we can do a 14-day notice and we can come back to council, we can approve a sole source and then go out for that sole source. If that's only one vendor is a higher standard than this vendor known as or this is our preferred brand. There's some legal stuff that goes there and Preston can talk about that. But the other problem I have with that is our budget was published at $104,000 and they came back with $103,600 or whatever. They were the only vendor that has this.…”
“Just under that. Yeah. So it should be no more than about $5 a foot for the material, based on my research and what I've done in my business in the past. That's $25,000 of material. And then about two and a half dollars a foot for demo and haul off. That's $12,500. And then that's $37,500 combined. And then you've got to install labor and add some cove base to it for about $28,000. That's a total of $65,500. So in my assessment, by the way we put the RFP out with the sole source product, I know that that's what you would prefer because that's what's in the rec center. But legally, I don't…”
“I move to approve the project as stated on the screen.”