HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-05-2000CALL TO ORDER: Chair Sue Singer called the meeting to order at 6:00 PM
Members present: Chair Sue Singer, Vice Chair Rich Wagner, Councilmember Trish
Borden. l~l~f~,~L~lf~gi~: Mayor Chuck Booth, Chief Bob Johnson, Fire Marshal
Dave Smith, Chief Jim Kelly, Plan. Dir. Paul Krauss, Cmdr. Mike Hirman, Attorney
Mike Reynolds, and Secretary Jeanne Herold
II. CONSENT:
Ordinance No. 5395 and 5396; Chief Jim Kelley asked for aPproval of Ordinance No.
5395 and No. 5396: Ordinance No. 5395 is An Ordinance of the City Council of the City
of Auburn, Washington, repealing Auburn City Code Section 10.36.330 entitle "No
Parking between 4:00 A.M. and 6:00 A.M.", as contained in Auburn City Code Title 10,
entitled "Vehicles and Traffic" Chapter 10.36 entitled "Stopping, Standing and Parking",
for the purpose of correcting inaccuracies in the code section as presently written. AND,
Ordinance No. 5396 is An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Auburn,
Washington, adopting Auburn City Code Section 10.36.330 entitled ''No Parking
between 4:00 A.M. and 6:00 A.M. on Mondays and Wednesdays", as contained in
Auburn City Code Title 10, entitled "Vehicles and Traffic" Chapter 10.36 entitled
"Stopping, Standing and Parking".
Jim Kelley explained that this draft Parking Ordinance is in response to the citizen that
came forward with her concerns about parking on Main Street and it has gone through
Legal. The Police Department contacted every business owner on Main Street to see if
this would have an impact, negative or positive and no one had any negative comments
with regard to changing the time frames by which parking would be approved at that
hour. The main concern was insuring that the street would be kept clean.
Vice Chair Wagner made a motion to recommend approval of Ordinances No. 5395 and
5396. Councilmember Borden seconded the motion. Chair Singer concurred.
III. INFORMATION/DISCUSSION
Curfew:
Mayor Booth explained that the curfew has been evaluated, a summary report was
distributed to Committee members. The statistics show from enforcement from the patrol
officers on the street, indication that fewer under-age people are on the street after 12:00
and before 6:00 A.M. Mayor Booth indicated that he was not aware of any arrests that
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had been made for violation of the curfew law. After evaluating the situation, Mayor
Booth indicated that he wished to recommend continuation of the curfew.
Fireworks:
City Attorney Mike Reynolds explained that the Legal Dept. attempted to carry out the
instructions that were requested by the Committee. Essentially, what the draft ordinance
does is simply, and straight forward incorporates the State's Standards with regard to the
transportation and possession. It sets forth a much more restrictive standard for the
detonation, use and manufacture.
Vice Chair Wagner disagreed with the second sentence under 8.24.030-Restrictions and
Permits. I't basically is a total ban on fireworks, which was not what he had in mind. His
intent was for "safe and sane" fireworks to remain legal.
After much discussion, Section 8.24.030, Item F was changed to read:
"Where authorized by Federal law within the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation."
Section 8.24.030; add a new Item G to read:
G. The following types of fireworks are accepted:
1. Sparkler: Stick or wire coated with pyrotechnic composition that
produces a shower of sparks upon ignition.
ih ' in: Cylindrical tubes containing pyrotechnic
composition. Upon ignition, a shower of colored sparks and
sometimes a whistling effect is produced. This device may be
provided with a spike for insertion into the ground (spike fountain),
a wood or plastic base for placing on the ground (base fountain), or
a wood or cardboard handle if intended to be hand-held (handle
fountain).
3. ~: Cardboard or heavy paper cone containing
pyrotechnic composition. The effect is the same as that of a
cylindrical fountain.
4. lllllll~]llltfiKg~: Cylindrical tube containing pyrotechnic
composition. Upon ignition, colored fire is produced. May be
spike, base or hand-held.
5. Wheel: Pyrotechnic device attached to a post or tree by means ora
nail or string. Each wheel may contain up to six driver units
containing pyrotechnic composition. Upon ignition, the wheel
revolves producing a shower of color and sparks and, sometimes a
whistling effect.
6. ~: Small device similar to a wheel in design and
effect placed on the ground and ignited. A shower of sparks, and
color is produced by the rapidly spinning device.
7. ~: Narrow paper tube containing pyrotechnic
composition, which produces color and sparks upon ignition. This
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device does not have a fuse for ignition. The paper at one end of
the tube is ignited to make the device function.
~: Tube or sphere containing pyrotechnic
composition which, upon ignition, produced white or colored
smoke as the primary effect."
Councilmember Borden asked Chief Kelly to clarify what type of enfomement will
actually be done on the Reservation. Chief Kelly asked Commander Hirman to address
that. Commander Hirman explained that today there is one officer patrolling Auburn
Way South and walking to the stands and that will continue until the weekend when there
will be two officers. In a couple of weeks it will be increased as the number of people in
the stand area increases. The officers will be enfoming:
Disorderly Conduct/Fighting,
Alcohol,
Reckless Endangerment,
Drugs and
Any illegal Fireworks under Federal Law
Vice Chair Wagner stated that it was his understanding after meeting with the tribe that
they were considering adding additional security themselves. He asked Commander
Hirman if he was going to be meeting with the Tribal Fireworks Committee before the
season was upon us and if so to discuss the matter further with the Committee. He does
feel that the Muckleshoot Tribe should be partially responsible for some of the security.
Commander Hirman stated he would be in touch with Virginia Cross this coming week
and he would discuss the matter of security with her. '
Chief Kelly stated that he felt this issue should be brought back to this Committee for
further discussion in August.
Vice Chair Wagner made a motion to recommend approval of Ordinance No. 5385 as
modified by the City Attorney and Chair Singer. Councihnember Borden seconded the
motion. Chair Singer concurred.
Auburn Station: Paul Krauss explained that the City of Auburn has entered into
agreements with Sound Transit and King County for construction of the South King
County Regional Transit Center. (Auburn Station) One of the main features of the station
is the Commuter Rail service between Tacoma and Seattle with stops in Auburn and
other valley cities.
The City and Sound Transit are in the process of developing approximately 10,000 square
feet of retail shell in the Sound Transit Parking garage at the Commuter Rail Station.
Sound Transit has advertised for design build proposals for the garage and retail space.
The garage scheduled for occupancy in the spring of 2001. Mr. Karuss explained that the
City staff is seeking to retain the services of a commercial broker to secure leases for the
commercial space.
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The City, under previous agreement, owns right~ to the space and has management
responsibility. Mr. Krauss was seeking permission to retain a real-estate broker to lease
the space and to explore management options depending on market response. All
management options being considered include contracting for all activities associated
with the leasing, management and operation of this space.
Options initially being considered are:
1) Secure a master lease with a finn that will assume all management and leasing
responsibilities.
2) Obtain sufficient individual leases with appropriate business allowing the City the
opportunity to enter into a master leasing/management arrangement in the future.
3) Obtain sufficient individual leases as above to sell long-term (20-year) lease rights
with up-front cash payment.
Mr. Krauss also advised thc Committee that the City already has an offer by the owner of
the Longhorn Restaurant who wants to build a five-story building on the site of the Past
Timc/Truitt Parcels. What the plans call for at this time is a Rock-Pasta Restaurant on the
first floor and they want to have two floors of banquet facilities which they're convinced
there is a crying need for, for weddings, business meetings, etc. A floor of offices and
then three condominiums on the top floor; one of which would be occupied by the owner.
Discussion ensued.
Hangar Lease Agreements: Paul Krauss discussed the Reslricted Use Appraisal
Report/Complete Appraisal of the Auburn Airport Land that was appraised by Brace C.
Allen, MAI, CRE and Kirk A. Kleinholz, Associated. Located in the northeast portion of
the Aubttm Municipal Airport; just south of 30* Street NE in approximately the 100
Block; one block west of Auburn Way North.
The purpose of the appraisal is to provide an opinion of the market value of the subject
real property as of May 10, 2000. In appraising the subject property, the following
activities were done:
· Inspected the subject site.
· Gathered information on comparable land sales.
· Confirmed and analyzed the data and applied the Sales Comparison Approach to
estimate fee simple market value.
· Surveyed Puget Sound regional airports.
The area located east of thc runway and adjacent to the south of 30th Street NE, is known
as the North Hangar Area. The total area of approximately 7.51 acres was recently
prepared and improved as the future site of multiple aircraft hangar buildings. The
majority of the North. Hangar Area, roughly the northerly 600 feet, is allocated for
development of four T-hangar buildings by the City of Auburn, each building containing
20 aircraft hangars. The subject property consists of the southerly 74 feet of the North
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Hangar Area. This portion, measuring approximately 475 feet wide has been allocated
for lease to individuals for separate development of privately owned hangar buildings.
The City has had tremendous mounts of interest in ground leases. If the Council was
prepared to float another bond issue, Mr. Krauss feels quite confident that he could fill
the ground leases because there is a waiting list.
Mr. I(xauss explained that the Allen & Associates, Inc. is the same company that did the
appraisal that set the lease rates for the Auburn Flight buildings and property last year.
That was received very well by this Committee at that time. They suggested a lease rate
of .33 a foot. The City has proposed to not just lease the ground under the buildings
themselves but also lease the space around the buildings. The Airport has had enough
people that have contacted them that Mr. Krauss is convinced that the whole line of the
large twin hangars would be fully leased in sight of a week. Also there are two firms
wanting to build condominium hangars, one of which Mr. Kranss talked to a couple of
years ago. If all of this ground is leased, the City would get somewhere between $35,000
and $40,000 a year for the ground plus all the new aircraft locating on the field that use
the City gas concession:
Mr. Krauss was proposing to go forward with a ground lease program for this area.
Discussion ensued. It was suggested that the Appraiser, Mr. Brace Allen be invited to the
next meeting and that this issue be held until after the June 19~ meeting.
~ Chair Singer asked Jim Kelly about jail tours. Chief Kelly explained that
they're doing site tours of public safety buildings right now that Commander Willard
Lathrop is handling.
IV. ADJOURNMENT:
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 7:25 PM.
Submitted by:
Jeanne Herold, Secretary
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