Council MIN 04-24-1990 Special
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April 24, 1990
Tuesday, 7:00 p.m.
CALL TO ORDER
PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL OF
C 0 Ulf CILMEMB ERS
STAFF PRESENT
PRESS IN
A'ITEND AN C E
AUDIENCE
COMMENT
Inquiry on short
plats/zoning
Invitation to
Council
Request for
Permit for
Mini-Golf Course
CONSENT AGENDA
FEDERAL WAY CITY COUNCIL
SPECIAL MEETING/STUDY SESSION
Municipa1 Building
Council Chambers
MINUTES
DEBRA ERTEL, Mayor, called the special meeting of the Federal
Way City Council to order.
Deputy Mayor GATES led the Pledge of Allegiance.
DEBRA G. ERTEL, Mayor, MARY E. GATES, Deputy Mayor, JAMES W.
HANDMACHER, ROBERT E. STEAD, JOEL R. MARKS, LYNN J. TEMPLETON
and JAMES E. WEBSTER.
J. BRENT McFALL, City Manager, JOHN B. WALLACE, City Attorney,
BRUCE LORENTZEN, Building Official, GREG FEWINS, Senior
Planner, and CHRIS GREEN, Recording/Senior Secretary.
KURT HERZOG, Federal Way News, JOE TURNER, Morning News Tribune,
and LEON ESPINOZA, Seattle Times.
Henry W. Dun, 29849-9th Avenue S.W., Federal Way - regarding short
plat on his property and current zoning. He is requesting that the
council allow him to short plat even though current zoning would
not allow such platting because of square footage of his property
is not adequate. Per Councilmember HANDMACHER, he explained that
due to the fact that the property is in a zoned area of not less
than 15,000 minimum lot size and his lot is less than that require-
ment, the short platting would not be allowed since it is illegal
under both County and City zoning.
Nancy Co1e, 4059 S.W. 321st, Federal Way - on behalf of St. Francis
Hospital she extended a personal invitation to the Council to attend
their 4th Annual Hospital Gala on May 19, 1990. She personally
delivered invitations to those in attendance.
Warren Smith, 4520 North Huson, Tacoma - requesting Council allow
a permit for him to set up a mini-golf course. He has been talking
with Planning Department, but hasn't been successful to date in
obtaining a permit. The course is portable, so would only be set
up from early Spring through late Fall.
Consent agenda items require routine Council action and are dis-
tributed in advance for study and review. The consent agenda is
adopted in a single motion with no discussion.
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Special Meeting/Study Session
April 24,1990 (continued)
CONSENT AGENDA
(continued)
APPROVAL OF
MINUTES OF
3/27/90 AND
4/3/90
CORRESPONDENCE
Inquiry from
Lakeland Elemen-
tary Students
Name Change
Fund Raising
for Silver Lake
Elementary
Legal Opinion
IlITERLOCAL
AGREEMENT
Corrections: Minutes of April 3, 1990 - page 4, line 3, six months
should be "six weeks"; page 5, line 11, May should be "April";
page 6, line 22, and caption of Administrative Report, Marianne
should be "}1aryann".
Lake1and Elementary students, Katie Finley, Carla Mora and Nicole
Maloney directed letter to Council inquiring about City Council
and special events sponsored by the City. Referred to Human
Services Committee.
Letter from King County Records & Elections, Robert W. Bruce,
Superintendent of Elections, dated April 16, 1990, advising that
name change petition is sufficient. Also certification from
Jane Hague, Manager of Records & Elections Division was found to
be sufficient under the provisions of RCW 35A.21.140 and 35.62.020.
Referred to City Attorney for 1e~a1 status.
Letter from Susan Honda, Silver Lake PTA, extending invitation to
purchase bricks for walkway at new school. Referred to Finance
Committee.
Legal opinion by City Attorney Wallace dated November 17, 1989,
regarding name change petition. For information only.
MOVED BY TEMPLETON, SECOND BY STEAD, TO APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA
ITEMS. THE MOTION CARRIED.
Councilmember WEBSTER, Chairman of Parks & Recreation & Cultural
Arts reported that the proposed agreement would authorize the State
Parks & Recreation Commission to act as our acquisition agent for
purposes of obtaining title reports, appraisals and then upon
approval, the Council negotiating with property owners to acquire
those properties contained in the two Hy1ebos projects that were
in the King County Open Space Bond Issue. MOVED BY WEBSTER,
SECONDED BY GATES, THAT CITY MANAGER BE AUTHORIZED TO ENTER INTO
THIS INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE WASHINGTON STATE PARKS &
RECREATION COMMISSION CONTINGENT UPON DISCUSSION WITH THE STATE
PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION STAFF ON ANY CHANGES THAT THEY WOULD
REQUEST. THE MOTION CARRIED.
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Special Meeting/Study Session
April 24,1990 (continued)
OLD BUSINESS
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Land Use & Councilmember HANDMACHER, Chairman of Land Use & Transportation
Transportation Planning Committee reported that last night they met and had a
brief session before the Council of the Whole met for their
Executive Session to consider the Planning Commission appointments;
the major subject matter was to review several short plats and
one multi-family project. The next meeting will be next Monday
night and the agenda will include finalization of the scope of
work for land use inventory and scope of work for six-year
transportation plan, which must be done by July lst--Mike De11es
is revising what needs to be done for the July 1st date. MOVED
BY HANDMACHER, SECONDED BY STEAD, AS RECOMMENDED I~ LAND USE MEETING
LAST NIGHT THAT THE FOLLOWING ACTION BE TAKEN:
1 - THE FOLLOWING PERMITS WOULD BE RETURNED TO THE COUNTY FOR REVIEW:
S89S0408 RANDAL SHORT PLAT
S89S0181 NEW CONCEPT HOMES SHORT PLAT (SEPA REVIEW REQUIRED
BY FEDERAL WAY)
S89S9288 MATLAND INVESTMENTS
2 - THE FOLLOWING PERMIT WILL BE PROCESSED BY FEDERAL WAY:
S89S0407 HENRY DUN SHORT PLAT (DENIAL RECO~~ED)
3 - THE FOLLOWING PERMIT HAS BEEN DENIED BY THE COl~TY AND SHOULD
BE RE-SUBMITTED TO FEDERAL WAY:
S89S0230 WAGENHALLS/MILLER SHORT PLAT
MOTION CARRIED.
There had previously been scheduled two plats for hearing on
May 10, 1990, Parkwood Campus and Campus Ridge--he was informed
by Kay Shoudy today that the Parkwood Campus, in fact, has not
had a hearing before a hearing examiner yet, so it is not, in his
opinion, appropriate for the Council to be conducting a hearing
prior to it going before a hearing examiner. MOVED BY HANDMACHER,
SECONDED BY STEAD, TO REMOVE PARKWOOD CAMPUS FROM PUBLIC HEARING
SCHEDULED FOR MAY 10, 1990, AND SEND TO HEARING EXAMINER FOR
ADDITIONAL HEARING, AND THAT CAMPUS RIDGE BE MOVED TO MAY 17, 1990,
AND THAT THE HEARING PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED FOR MAY 10, 1990, BE
CANCELLED. THE MOTION CARRIED.
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Special Meeting/Study Session
April 24,1990 (continued)
COMMITTEE REPORTS
(continued)
Human Resources
Budget/Finance/
Insurance
Public Services
Faci1ities/
Personnel
Counci1member TEMPLETON, Chairman of Human Services Committee,
reported that the next scheduled meeting is May 2,1990, at
5:30 p.m., at City Ha11--they will review the Teen Program
applications. After that he has scheduled another meeting on
May 18, 1990, at 7:00 a.m., with agenda to be announced. Tomorrow
at 5:30 p.m., he will be meeting with John Marchione from our
staff--he has been assigned by City Manager McFall to be the
staff person responsible to the Human Services Committee at this
time--he and John will be going over seven enhancement fundings
that the committee approved, so that they can enter into agreements
and get dollars into the hands of the agencies.
Counci1member GATES, Chairman of Budget/Finance/Insurance, reported
they will be meeting April 27th at 7:00 a.m.--agenda for that
meeting consists of continuation of last meeting's discussion
regarding licensing of seasonal and transitional businesses. They
will be looking at what some other cities have done--to see if we
want to be different or the same or a combination perhaps. We will
also be discussing how we will be approaching the 1991 budget--since
the new City Manager is on board, it would be nice to know how he
approaches things, so we can work together to mutually set that up.
Many of you have heard about the conversion of our loan from the
State from a $50,000 loan to a grant to a loan--she just wanted
to clarify this subject for people in the audience--the City's loan
of $50,000 in the 1990 budget has been a loan from the beginning
and never changed from that loan--essentially what this does is
keeps our budget exactly where it was set up originally, and it will
be repaid in a timely fashion. The grant was item vetoed yesterday
by the Governor.
Councilmember MARKS, Chairman of Public Services Committee, reported
they will meet this Friday at 8:00 a.m., until about 9:00 a.m.,
with Jerry Graham who will talk about recycling. Then they will
meet the Friday after that, May 4th, from about 8:00 a.m. to
9-9:30 a.m., with some concerned citizens in the Mark Twain
Elementary School area regarding traffic problems and lights and
signs. On May 10th (Thursday) at 7:30 a.m., they will meet to
discuss an ordinance concerning massage parlors; and will also
meet the following Thursday, May 17th at 7:30 a.m., with agenda to
be announced. We will probably act on the massage parlor ordinance
at the council meeting on May 15th.
Counci1member STEAD, Chairman of Facilities/Personnel, reported
they met last Wednesday, at which time they went over the proposals
from the two facilities that the City might take over--the City
Manager recommended that we enter into some negotiations with the
Financial Center at 336th & 1st Avenue--the committee has authorized
City Manager McFall to enter into preliminary negotiations with
that site with the possibility of moving City Hall there. Our next
meeting will be May 9th--we had scheduled a meeting for tomorrow
morning, which has been cancelled since the person who was making
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Special Meeting/Study Session
April 24,1990 (continued)
COMMITTEE REPORTS
(continued)
Facilities/
Personnel
Parks,
Recreation &
Cultural Arts
NEW BUSINESS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
AUDIENCE COMMENT
RECESS INTO
EXECUTIVE
SESSION
the presentation is unable to be at the meeting--the next
regularly scheduled meeting will be May 9th.
Counci1member WEBSTER, Chairman of Parks, Recreation & Cultural
Arts, reported their last meeting was Tuesday, April 17th, at
which time Randy Pearson from State Parks was present and they
discussed the Brook1ake Community Club property, which is included
in the Open Space Bond Program--for potential acquisition as part
of the Hylebos Wetlands project. At the conclusion of that
discussion, the committee's consenus was to leave that parcel in
the process at least through the title report and appraisal phase
and then we will take another look at it and decide whether or
not we want to ask State Parks to proceed on that acquisition.
Our next meeting will be Wednesday, May 2nd, at 7:30 a.m., in
Council Chambers--agenda will be the initial screening of the
consultants who have submitted proposals for the Parks & Recreation
Comprehensive Plan; it is the intent of the committee to narrow
that list down to three or four and those will be turned over to
the City Manager for final review and recommendation. Also,
Chairman WEBSTER asked if we have heard anything regarding insurance
for "Family Fest"? City Manager McFALL responded, "no", but he
would follow up on it.
Councilmember HANDMACHER, asked to respond to Warren Smith's
request for a mini-golf course--he felt Mr. Smith had two concerns:
(1) that he felt he wasn't treated fairly by staff in Planning Dept.
and HANDMACHER explained that he should take that matter up with
City Manager McFALL; and (2)Whether or not the City Council could
grant him some special dispensation because of the nature of his
project and HANDMACHER told him that under the City's Codes the only
way they could do that would be by virtue of a variance request--
there is a process for doing that through the Code--so HANDMACHER
explained to Smith that that would be his only remedy and the only
way the Council could do anything about his request.
Counci1member GATES reported that she would be speaking to the
Lakewood Chamber of Commerce on Thursday regarding incorporation.
Mayor ERTEL reported she would be speaking to the University Place
people on Thursday evening regarding incorporation. Councilmember
HANDMACHER reported he had already spoken with the University Place
group. Mayor ERTEL reported that Thursday morning, one of the
television stations will be taping interviews with Counci1member
HANDMACHER and herself regarding incorporation.
No additional comments from the audience.
Mayor ERTEL announced the Council would be recessing into Executive
Session at 7:40 p.m., to discuss pending litigation and that they
would need about half an hour, which means they will reconvene
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Special Meeting/Study Session
April 24,1990 (continued)
RECESS
(continued)
MEETING
RECONVENED
ADJOURNMENT
about 8:10 p.m., and rather than having the audience move, the
Council will move into the City Manager's Office. At 8:10 p.m.,
City Manager McFALL announced they needed another ten minutes; at
8:25 p.m., City Manager McFALL announced an additional fifteen
minutes was needed for the Executive Session.
Mayor ERTEL reconvened the meeting at 8:43 p.m. Councilmember
WEBSTER announced that he has been asked by the County Executive's
Office and Councilman Barden's Office to attend a task force on
affordable housing in Bellevue on Monday--he is not sure exactly
what it is going to entail, but he will report back next Tuesday
to the Counci1--apparent1y they are looking at ways to increase
affordable housing in the County.
Counci1member MARKS announced that there is a
Advisory Group that is meeting at noon in Tim
Deputy Mayor GATES and he will be attending.
cussing regional governments, transportation,
and local issues.
South King County
Hill's Office, and
They will be dis-
comprehensive plans
As there was no
ERTEL adjourned
went into their
further business to come before the Council, Mayor
the meeting at 8:45 p.m., and the Council immediately
Study Session.
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DELORES A. MEAD, CMC, CITY CLERK
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