June 1, 2021 at 6:00 PM - Crete City Council Regular Meeting
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1. Open Meeting
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2. Roll Call
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3. Consent Agenda
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3.A. Approve Meeting Minutes
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3.A.1. Personnel Committee Minutes - May 18, 2021
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3.A.2. City Council Minutes - May 18, 2021
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3.A.3. Special City Council Minutes - May 26, 2021
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3.B. Accept the City Treasurer's Report
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3.C. Approve the Payment of Claims Against the City
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3.D. Approve Contracts and Contract Renewals
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3.D.1. Copier lease and support agreement with Capital Business Systems.
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3.D.2. Construction management agreement with SENDD for the 2021 DTR program.
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4. Items of Business
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4.A. Consider approving the Mayor's appointment of Dan Papik to the vacant First Ward Councilmember seat for the term ending December 2022.
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4.B. Consider approving Main Avenue Art Market's application for a Special Event Permit, which involves closing Main Avenue between 12th and 11th streets on Friday, June 4 from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
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The Main Avenue Art Market group and BRAC are applying for a Special Event Permit to close Main Avenue between 12th and 11th streets for an event. Traffic control was discussed along with hindering any businesses on that block. Shaylene Smith spoke about it and said the barricades would not go up until City Bank's drive-thru is closed and no other business would be open at that time.
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4.C. Consider amending the Master Fee Schedule to adjust the rates and fees charged for the use of the Community Center, Sertoma Building, and Community Room.
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4.D. Consider adopting Resolution 2021-06: An NDOT Resolution for the City's final acceptance of the construction of the Tuxedo Park Bridge.
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The Public Works Committee recommended adopting Resolution 2021-06 to accept the construction of Tuxedo Park Bridge.
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4.E. Consider approving the second reading of Ordinance 2126: An ordinance to annex West Crete Addition.
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The following citizens spoke at the meeting: Dave Jurina-1515 W. 14th, Teresa Vernon-1407 Idaho, Don Vernon-1660 W. 14th, Janet Bartek-1355 Wyoming, and Mandy Keller-1308 Idaho.
The topics that were discussed were: the benefits of the annexation to the City, why the properties possibly already being annexed hasn't been brought up before now, whether or not they can keep their animals, and why there needs to be three readings if they are already annexed in. City Administrator Tom Ourada informed everyone that animals weren't legal to begin with due to the properties being in the two-mile zoning jurisdiction. However, the Council could change an ordinance to create a new zone to allow for animals and such to be allowed.
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4.F. Consider enacting Ordinance 2128: An ordinance directing the sale of Lot 8 and the east 1/2 of Lot 9, Block 1 (Isis Theater) to the Blue River Arts Council for $90,000.
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Shaylene Smith informed the Council of a couple of different grants that BRAC is due to receive to get the building up and running, one of which depends on them being the owner of the building to receive the check.
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5. Petitions - Communications - Citizen Concerns
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-Elayne Woods-Jones expressed her disappointment with the Mayor's choosing of a male to fill the vacant Council seat.
-Teresa Vernon questioned what the City was doing about the terrible roads past the new Tuxedo bridge, to which City Administrator Tom Ourada says the Street Deptartment is working on fixing. |
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6. Officers' Reports
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-Joy Stevenson reported that attendance and sign-up is up over 10% from 2019. September 15th at 1:30pm will be the grand opening of the library, ribbon cutting and all. Also, bilingual story time will be starting on the first Saturday in August at 10:30am.
-Councilmember Dale Strehle requested a special council meeting on Thursday, June 3 at 4:30 for a possible variance, which worked for everyone else. -City Administrator Tom Ourada informed the Council that the housing commitment letter being sent out today and congratulated the Council on making that decision. He mentioned the Belohavy subdivision plans being given to him last week for the City to approve. Ourada talked about network security, reminding everyone that it can happen anywhere and that the need to be diligent and secure is always high. Also, the auditor will be here in 2 weeks and Ourada would like to meet with the Finance Committee before then.
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7. Adjournment
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