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MINUTES - REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING AUGUST 13, 1998 CALL TO ORDER - The meeting was called to order at 7:30 PM by Mayor Harold A. Ries with the Pledge of Allegiance and a silent prayer. ROLL CALL - Present were Messrs. Paul Meier , John Drummey, Frank Sommerkamp and Joe Maloney. Mr. Ralph Laird and Mrs. Beverly Draud were absent. APPROVAL OF AGENDA - Mr. Celarek stated that Mr. Mike Withiam with Intermedia Cable will be giving a short speech under CITIZENS AND GUESTS, move NEW BUSINESS B) Revenue Bonds to the top of the agenda and under NEW BUSINESS A) Economic Development will be postponed until next month. Approved as amended Motion: Mr. Maloney ??Second: Mr. Meier APPROVAL OF MINUTES - Minutes from the regular meeting of July 9th were approved as submitted. Motion: Mr. Sommerkamp ??Second: Mr. Maloney After the motion, however, Mr. Sommerkamp noted that the Capital Senior Living project is actually independent living which is approximately sixty percent independent apartments and forty percent assisted living. CITIZENS AND GUESTS ?Mike Withiam of Intermedia Cable wished to inform council of the upcoming changes in the cable system in Northern Kentucky. May 1, 1998 TKR Cable was purchased by Intermedia Cable, Inc. Intermedia is in the midst of a 24 million dollar upgrade of the cable system in the Northern Kentucky area by installing new high capacity fiber optic and coaxial cables. This system is not intended to replace phone lines, rather provide a higher speed alternative to modem phone lines. Also, Intermedia will be doing away with the two switch converter boxes and going to the more convenient single cable box. This new service will bring the option of having 130 channels in February of 1999. High speed internet access will be an option as well. There was brief discussion of some of the new channels. Mr. Celarek questioned the cost of the new services. Mr. Withiam said the basic digital service will run approximately fifteen dollars and internet access will run approximately forty-five dollars. CITY ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT Mr. Celarek reported on the following:
NEW BUSINESS A. Revenue Bonds - Resolution 1998-8-1 Mr. Celarek introduced Dirk Bedaraff from the law firm of Peck, Shaffer & Williams , to explain the need for more revenue bonds for Thomas More College. They will be issued in a number of series, up to the maximum of one million dollars. This resolution would authorize the issuance of industrial building revenue bonds in one or more series in an aggregate outstanding principal amount not to exceed one million dollars. The proceeds shall be loaned to Thomas More College to finance the acquisition and installation of equipment suitable for use in furtherance of the educational purposes of the College. The City is not liable in any way for the repayment of these bonds. Mr. Wehrman stated that these bonds are similar to two other sets of bonds approved by Council in prior years. Motion made by Mr. Sommerkamp to accept Resolution 1998-8-1 as submitted, seconded by Mr. Meier. Mr. Meier asked the Mayor if a vote call could be taken. VOTE CALL: Mr. Drummey - Yes, Mr. Maloney - Yes, Mr. Sommerkamp - Yes, Mr. Meier - Yes 4 - Yes?0 - No 2 - Absent OLD BUSINESS
Mr. Celarek introduced John Niehaus, Traffic Engineering Consultant. from Parsons Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas. Mr. Niehaus was asked to look at the section of Thomas More Parkway from Chancellor Drive to Turkeyfoot Rd. Thomas More Parkway averages 16,000 cars a day, Legends Way - 11.5 cars a day, Centreview Blvd - 3,500 cars a day, Chancellor Drive - 2,000 cars a day. Mr. Niehaus explained signal warrants for four points on Thomas More Parkway : 1) access lane to 320, 328 and 330, 2) access to Marriott’s Towne Place Suites, 3) Centreview Blvd and 4) Chancellor Drive. The evaluation of conditions at the proposed access point shows that the existing driveway serving Four Season Sports Club has insufficient cross corner sight distance while the proposed location opposite it would have adequate sight distance. Left turns into either side, however, would have adequate sight distance. Critical gaps for turns out of the drives or through movements between the drives indicates that a 5.5 second gap is needed for a right turn out of a side approach into the major street, 7.0 seconds for a left turn from the side approach into the major street and that 6.5 seconds are required to cross the major street. Based on the evaluations, the following improvement plan is recommended:
For more information about this study or access points, please refer to Traffic Engineering Access Management & Safety Study for July, 1998.
Marriott NGH assisted living project is postponed until the September meeting. NEW BUSINESS
Mr. Celarek informed Council that there is no Stage I plans as of yet, however, Mr. Steve Maloos, with the Jacobs Group out of Cleveland, wished to give a small background presentation. Lot 2 is under contract to be purchased from the Hemmer Co. The plans call for two three story buildings with brick and lap siding to house studio, 1 bedroom and two bedroom apartments for rental on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Each unit will have a full kitchen, which would require a text amendment to allow cooking facilities in the RP-1 zone. Mr. Maloos feels that a frontage road would not be feasible in this setting, however, access B would service the Marriott Hotel and the 40,000 sq ft office building to the east. The company is trying to make this facility fully residential and stay close to franchise architecture. There was discussion about traffic flow and pricing. It was brought up that residents of this facility will not be able to establish voting rights. Mr. Meier noted that the Economic Development Committee usually gets the preliminary reports with the stage I development plans and changes such as those being proposed would have been considered a minor change before four years ago when Hemmer Co. submitted Stage I plans for the Thomas More Research Center. This proposal would need a new curb cut on Thomas More Parkway, which was not approved four years ago, and the service drive, which has been eliminated. Since there needs to be a change in the zoning code and the deadline for submitting the application was the afternoon of August 13th, Mr. Meier recommended that Mr. Celarek pre-file the application. If Council approved the zoning change for this project, the matter will be heard at the next NKAPC staff meeting on September 3rd. A Council recommendation will then be made at the September 10th meeting and Stage I and Stage II plans will be presented by Marriott and Hemmer Co. at the October 8th meeting. There was more discussion on what processes would take place if the text amendment was approved by Council and NKAPC or if the text amendment does not pass. Mr. Maloney wanted confirmation of process from Mr. Berling and Mr. Wehrman. Mr. Sommerkamp made the motion to accept sending the application to NKAPC for the zoning text change in the RP-1 zone and the major change to the Stage I development plan for the northwest portion of the Thomas More Centre Research park, seconded by Mr. Maloney. All present members of Council concurred. COMMITTEE REPORTS Public Works - Mr. Celarek recounted that there was a Public Works Committee meeting, August 25th at 4PM. Mr. Berling reported on the Right Fork Rd. creek washout. KDOT will fix the damage by reinforcing the banks in that area with concrete. It was suggested to ask if KDOT would do an analysis that might indicate a storm water retention plan is needed in that area. Mr. Meier inquired as to whether the bids for the signalization of Thomas More Parkway and Centreview Blvd. have gone out. Mr. Berling replied that Pflum, Klausmeier is preparing the paperwork. Police Authority - Mr. Meier reported that the long range study committee will have another meeting August 26th at 4PM to begin answering questions that were proposed at last month’s meeting. Comments are also being recorded from the newsletter surveys that have been collected thus far. Finance - Mr. Celarek thought there would be a meeting of this committee before the next Council meeting to review end of year financials.
After general conversation, motion to adjourn made by Mr .Sommerkamp, seconded by Mr. Drummey at 9:32 PM. |