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111160 MINUTES OF THE WORK/STUDY SESSION OF TH1. FOUNTAIN HILLS TOWN COUNCIL
TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1991
A public work/study session of the Fountain Hills Town Council was convened and
called to order by Mayor John Cutillo at approximately 6:30 p.m. . Tuesday, July
30, 1991 in the conference room of the Fountain Hills Town Hall Offices located
at 16836 E. Palisades. Building C. Fountain Hills, Arizona .
Present for the work study session were Mayor John Cutillo, Vice Mayor Frank
Clark and Counci.lmembers Mike Minarsich, Wally Hudson, Peg Tibbetts and Charlie
Fox. Absent was Councilman Bill O 'Brien. Also present were Town Yanager Foci
Nordin, Director of Cco unity Development Gary Jeppson, Town Attorney_ Bill
Farrell and Nick Dottermann and Town Clerk Cassie Hansen.
AGENDA ITEM #2 — RESOLUTION 1991-35, ADOPTING THE FINAL BUDGET FOP THE FISCAL
YEAR 1991-92.
Nr. Nordin explained that this item was simply the next step in the budget
adoption process and it 's adoption would follow a public hearing. He said the
budget had been published. He also said we were still waiting for a final number
from the County on our assessed value. Mr. Nordin explained that they seemed to
having a difficult time determining what our boundaries really were.
AGENDA ITEM #3 — RESOLUTION 1991=36, ABANDONING WHATEVER R I GHTTITLE. OR
INTEREST IT HAS IN THAT CERTAIN PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT AND DRAINAGE EASEMENT
AFFECTING ALONG REAR OF LOT 37 IN BLOCK 2 OF PLAT 506C, FOUNTAIN HILLS ARIZONA,
AS RECORDED IN BOOK 159 OF MAPS PAGE31, RECORDS OF MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA._
Mr. Nordin reported that Councilman Hudson had been elected to the Board of
Directors of the Arizona Municipal Risk Retention Pool . He also said staff was
beginning to work on the five year plan. Mr. Nordin told the Council that a
committee had been formed to work on the latest attack on the state shared
revenues and would be meeting early in August to discuss strategy.
Mr. Jeppson briefly addressed the abandonment and said staff had heard no
response from anyone that had been notified. He said no one was using the
easement at this time and recommended approvaF of the resolution.
AGENDA ITEM #4 — SPECIAL USE PERMIT SU91-01 . FOUNTAINHEAD DEVELOPMENT AT 13013
N. PANORAMA DRIVE; A SPECIAL USE PERMIT TO ALLOW A TEMPORARY SALES OFFICE TO BE
LOCATED WITHIN THE POOL/RECREATION BUILDING.
Mr. Jeppson said the County had granted special use permits for a period of two
years allowing sales offices in construction trailers. lie said the next three
agenda items dealt with those special use permits which have lapsed and need to
be addressed with application for new special use permits. He said the Town Code
called for the Council, rather than the Flanning and Zoning Commission, deal with
special use permits. Mr. Jeppson further said that staff recommended a one year
extension for the Fountainhead project. Letters had been received from some of
the residents asking that the Council limit the use of the recreation building
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as a sales office to ninety days rather than one year since they felt the;- here
141)being denied use of the building. The residents were suggesting that the nine'
days would give the developer time to develop phases three and four and the
subsequent ability to move the sales office down to the new area. Councilwoman
Tibbetts asked if the residents had any recourse through the CC&R 's . No one knew
what the CC&R 's said on the subject and it was decided to look into that aspect:
of the matter. One of the residents stated that the recreational building, in
it 's entirety, was being used for the sales office and they could not use any
portion of it. The Council discussed the pros and cons of the extension and the
problems for both the developer and the residents. Councilman Minarsich said he
felt the residents offer of ninety was more than fair but Mayor Cutillo said he
didn 't feel the Council should get in the middle of personal agreements made
between the developer and the residents. These two stances were discussed at
length until it was decided to check the CC&R 's even though there was a clear
division of authority.
AGENDA .ITEM #5 — SPECIAL USE PERMIT SU91-02 MORNINGSIDE SUBDIVISION AT17205N.
TEAL DRIVE; A SPECIAL USE PERMIT TO ALLOW A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION TRAILER AND
CONSTRUCTION YARD. ---------- --- --------
Mr. Jeppson said they were requesting only a one year permit on the construction
trailer because the developer hoped to be built out at the end of that time.
AGENDA ITEM #6 — SPECIAL USE PERMIT SU91-03. GLENBROOK SUBDIVISION AT 16010 E.
GLENEAGLE DRIVE; A SPECIAL USE PERMIT TO ALLOW A TEMPORARY SALES OFFICE TO BE
LOCATED WITHIN THE MODEL HOME ON LOT 31.
It was discussed that using this model home as a sales office for a period of two
years would not put a hardship on the existing residents. Mr. Nordin, in
addressing all of the requests, commented that it appeared the recommendations
of staff on each were driven by the projects themselves .
AGENDA ITEM #7 — POSSIBLE AMENDMENTS TO THE LEAGUE POLICY STATEMENT.
Mayor Cutillo explained that one thing he had in mind to look at in this regard
was the law which covered taking over the Sanitary District and determining if
there would be anyway to make it easier to do. Bruce Hansen commented that there
was one problem in changing legislation to take over Sanitary Districts and that
was the fact that there were twenty five other sanitary districts in the state.
It was decided that staff would investigate and do research into the matter. Mr.
Nordin would also pursue the state shared revenue issue. In answer. to
Councilwoman Tibbett 's question, it was stated that the Legislature was supposed
to look at the policy statement and consider proposing hills from it 's content.
It was also stated that the League was supposed to take it 's direction and
purpose from the policy statement.
AGENDA ITEM #8 — POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICE
PROGRAM. — — -- —
Mr. Nordin said that if the Council wanted to authorize an expenditure to the
program it was within their prerogative to do so even though it had not been
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included in the budget. Mr. Farrell stated that it was perfectly legal for the
Council to expend general funds in this manner. If general fund monies were
going to be expended, there had to be a public health, safety and welfare
consideration and the community ought to receive back some benefit that would
have the rough equivalency of the contribution, ie. something flowing hack to the
community. Councilman Hudson reported that he had rethought this issue and that
even though Fountain Hills did not have a problem, the County did and Fountain
Hills is part of the County. He also stated that we did owe something to our
fellow man other than just taking care of ourselves. He reported on some of the
other communities that were currently donating to CASS:
Avondale 2.34 per resident per year
Carefree 9.39
Chandler 1.65
Glendale 3. 70
Goodyear 2.21
Litchfield Park 1.94
Paradise Valley . 77
He said that we were being asked to give only .51 per person per year and that
it seemed like $5,000, being less than .50 per resident, was a reasonable amount
that would go for a good cause. Councilwoman Tibbetts pointed out that we did
have some need in this regard but that so far, the churches and other community
groups were seeing to the need. Vice Mayor Clark supported the dollar amount
being asked for and Mr. Nordin said the budget could handle it.
410, AGENDA ITEM #9 — KIWANIS SPECIAL EVENT REQUEST FOR A BIATHLON ON SUNDAY. AUGUST
_1.1, 1991..
Mr. Nordin said that all appropriate paperwork was coming together and that
Marshal Dean had reported that all security would be provided by the reserves.
Needed signatures would be obtained- by Thursday. It was discussed that a policy
should be put into effect regarding street sweeping, whether the Town should
charge or not charge for the service. Councilman Fox pointed out that the
sweeping has been done in conjunction with the normal street sweeping scheduling.
Mayor Cutillo suggested that staff put: some sort of policy together in this
regard.
AGENDA ITEM #10 — AWARD THE HID FOR ADDITIONS TO THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM.
Mr. Nordin said that: two bids had been submitted last Friday, one from CBH and
one from American Telephone. He said that Cassie had been taken out of the loop
and that he had worked directly with Julie on this. CBH had been the low bid and
staff would recommend approval of that bid. Councilman Hudson requested a letter
irounthe attorney declaring the conflict of interest per statute and Mr. Farrell
said it had been done already.
AGENDA ITEM #11 — ADJOURNMENT
The Council adjourned the work study session at approximately 7:37 p.m.
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John Y. Cutillo. Favor
ATTEST: 31-44-A-A.-15 .
Cassie B. Hansen, Town Clerk
CERTIFICATION
I hereby certify that the foregoing minutes are a true and correct copy of the
minutes of the work/study session held by the Town Council of Fountain Hills on
the 30th day of July, 1991. I further certify that the meeting was duly called
and that a quorum was present.
DATED this SH ' day of September, 1991.
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Cassie B. Hansen, Town Clerk
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