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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCCM-03-06-78 MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING March 6, 1978 The regular meeting of the City Council was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Mayor Pickett, who presided. All members and Clerk-Treasurer were present. City Attorney was not present. Councilwoman Doane gave the invocations. Mayor Pickett led the pledge of allegiance. Councilman Horvath moved to approve the minutes of the last meeting as received, Councilman Msacham seconded it and it passed unanimously. OLD BUSINESS: A~enda Item ~l:Reports of Standing Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Committee Report: Councilman Garretson stated his committee had met and one of the topics discussed was chain~ of command within the city government when the Mayor is absent from the city. After a discussion, it was resolved that the Board of Public Works would elect a Vice-Chairman which would provide a chain of command within the city. The committee asked the City Engineer and the various department heads to take a look at the recent emergency and prepare a report to come back to the Council, Mayor and Boand of Works within two months to reflect over what happened and come up with a report and lay out what they did in certain situation~ Also, to take a look at other potential emergencies such as a propane tank on the Monan exploding, which we saw in Florida and Tennessee. This did not resolve the question of the inca- pacitation of the Mayor. He stated he wrote a letter to the Attorney General posing several questions relative to the Mayor and 01erk-Treasurer being inca- pacitated and who could assume their responsibilities. The office of the Attorney General stated the city attorney should aswer our questions. Councilman Garretson asked the Mayor to ask the city attorney to give a written opinion and he would also send a letter to Representative Donaldson to request answers from the Attorney General's office. REPORT OF TR~ BUDGET COMMIT'i'm: Councilman Swift stated the budget committee had met and considered the Utilities Manager's request within the water depreciation account, water operating account and sewer operating account. The committee recommends that Mr. Dougherty proceed with plans to accept bids at a properly advertised Board of Works meeting or in the case of equipment costing less than $5,000.00 provide specific cost figures on the following equipment found to be needed by the Carmel Municipal Utility: 3 new pick-up trucks, approximate cost-$1~,000.00, multipart valves approximately $12,000.00, new water meters-S18,800.00, wiring of pumps for auxiliary power-$2,400.O0, new pump flygt-$2,200.00, truck radio equipment and parts-S1,960.00, office equipment-S675.00, and tapping machine-S500.00, which totals an estimated $53,535.00. The committee recommends that when low bid prices are determined that ~igures be incorporated in an appropriation ordinance for council consideration. The committee recommends that an ordinance be prepared for the March 20th council meeting for $1,175.00 from the sewage operating account for the purpose of operator training instruction and $600.00 from the water operating fund for the same purpose and for an additional appropriation for $5,000.00 in the water utility overtime and $5,750.00 in the sewage utility overtime account for 1978. NEW BUSINESS: AGENDA IT~I: Approval of ~red Hohl as appointment to Regional Sewer Board: Mayor Pickett read proposed Resolution #1-3678 appointing Fred Hohl as the Board member to represent the City of Carmel on the Regional Sewer Board. Councilman page Ga~retson~moved to approve the resolution as read, Co~ucilnran Meacham secondeg it and it passed ~uanimously. AGE~DA IT~2: APPROVAL OF WATER DEPARTMENT FUNDS FORPURCHASE OF '¥~CLES: This item was covered in the budget committee report. AGENDA ITEM ~: ~PLOY PLAN COMMISSION PERSONNEL: Councilman Coots stated there were funds in the Plan Commission and Building Commissioner budgets for a planning assistant or a person in the Building Commissioner's office with training, education, etc. for Plan Commission work and it has been over two months since M~. Klotz who helped the Plan Con~ission, left for other employment and we haven't had any plar~uing assistant. Mayor Pickett stated Dave Fletcher would be the most qualified employee there and he suggested Mr. Coots, the Buildi~ Commissioner and he should get together and try to work out the problem. AGENDA IT~4: Board of Public Works Information Re: Availability of Water & Sewer East of Gra~ Road and North of ~26th Street: Councilman Coots asked the present status of water and sewer availability'to the entire gray road area from 126th street to township line. M~yor Pickett stated water has not been determined. City Engineer stated we have sewage availability for the three projects in motion on gray road. There is a fourth project on gray road for which there is not sewage availability. It is immediately north of the other three. ZONING ORDINANCES: Councilman Coots stated tomorrow eveni~ at 8 p.m. the Plan Commission would begin review of the zoning ordinance as it has been re-drafted for about the third or fourth time and any member of city council or public who has an interest in coming would be welcome. ~0UNTY ANNEXATION OF ROADS ORDINANCE: Councilman Swift stated the County passed an ordinance stating if a city annexed a squane mile of territory you are, under their order, to annex the entire fronting road around the perimeter of that new area and if you don't annex it, supposedely you will be fined. He s~ted he had doubts a fine could be enforced. SPECIAL CENSUS: Mayor Pickett stated he had heard from the census bureau regarding a special census this yeast. Forms had been received and would have to be processed before a date could be set. CITY COURTS: Councilman Garretson stated that the Senate President Pro-Tem and the Senate Minority Leader had tried to put a bill forth that would not have allowed us to extend our court. This was rejected by the full house,se.aa¢compromise they were willing to give up en principal if they could get a product liability feature into the law which sets a time period after which a company is no longer liable for their product. Indiana Constitution says no law may cover more than one subject under one title. What they did was this-one half of this bill deals with courts-the other half deals with a matter the courts would have to consider-product liability-and they put it all under title 33 which is the courts. The Governor has already signed a bill that would allow the courts to s~perate from a law a part they consider inappropriate or unconstitutional, so what Representative Donaldson and Dillinger are in hopes of is that if this bill is tested and the courts ~¢o find that it is a bad law that they will remove the part of product liability because it is under the title of the courts. The Attorney General may very well recommend to the Governor that he not sign the bill because it is unconstitutional. If passed, we could retain our city court for four years. There being ne~f~_rther business, thee?meeting was adjourned at 8:12 p.m. ATTEST. Albert B. P EEECUTIVE SESSION CITY COUNCIL MEETING MARCH 6, 1978 An executive session of the City Council was called to order at 8:30 p.m. in the office of the M~yor. Those present were all members~of the Cottucil, Mayor, Clerk-Treasurer, City Engineer and Fire Chief. Purchase of property was discussed. The meeting was adjourned at 9:15 p.m. Clerk-Treasurer