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7:40pm. President Jim O'Keefe called the meeting to order. All Town Council Members
were present except Lianne Swanson.
OPEN FORUM: No one from the audience responded.
NEW BUSINESS:
1. Cub Scout Pack #51. Vincent Ortiz to receive Order of Light from the Cub Scouts.
Jim O'Keefe MOVED, second by Geri Dee, for Dennis Dee to represent the Town Council in presenting Vincent Ortiz with a Certificate of Achievement at the Cub Scout Awards to be held on June 15, 1996 at Vasquez Rocks Park. VOTE: 6 aye, 0 Nay.
2. Mail. Rick Curtis reported that the local Post Office Boxes are scheduled to go out
of business on July 1st. He is negotiating with the Post Office to erect a Cluster Box for
the Community organizations.
OLD BUSINESS:
1. Model Criteria Committee: Julianne Feuerhelm reported that she had received comments on her proposed guidelines from Nolan Henderson and Dennis Dee. The first committee meeting will be held at 7:30 pm on June 19th at the Chamber offices. She invited everyone interested to this meeting.
2. By-Law section on Disciplinary Hearings: Julianne Feuerhelm objected to having the hearing she requested regarding Tana Lampton in public. There was a general discussion about a prior hearing where the accusations were made in private and the hearing was held in private. Here, a Town Council member has brought charges against another Town Council member, and the accused member has requested the hearing to be held in public. This is new ground for the Town Council. Nolan suggested that the hearing take the following course if it is to be held in public:
A. Charges are presented by party making the accusation.
B. Person bringing accusation makes their case to the Town Council.
C. Person accused makes their defense.
D. Person making accusation can rebut.
Geri Dee MOVED, second by Jim O'Keefe, that it is the Town Council's interpretation of the Disciplinary portion of the By-Laws that an accused member of the Town Council can have a public hearing if that member puts their request in writing to the President of the Town Council. VOTE: 5 Ayes, 1 Nay (Feuerhelm).
Julianne Feuerhelm then asked for and reviewed Tana Lampton's request for a public hearing.
3. Water Committee: Lillian Smith and Linda Kirk synthesized all reports made to the water committee, with Lillian and Diane Terito distributing various reports and a 5-page summation of Community surveys.
The water committee presented their first Resolution, unanimously approved by the water committee, for the Town Council to oppose a regional water distribution infrastructure in Agua Dulce. There was a general discussion about the surveys and the results of pulling water from the ground. Nolan had reservations on the number of respondents to the community surveys and the Town Council using this as just cause to pass a resolution. Dennis Dee pointed out that the resolution deals with government imposition of a water infrastructure.
Jim O'Keefe MOVED, second by Tana Lampton, to adopt this resolution as the first reading of Resolution 001-96. VOTE 4 Aye, 1 Nay(Henderson), I Abstain (Feuerhelm).
The water committee then presented their second Resolution, unanimously passed by the water committee, for the Town Council to oppose a Regional Sewer Plant and Sewerage System in Agua Dulce.
Jim O'Keefe MOVED, second by Tana Lampton, to adopt this resolution as the first reading of Resolution 002-96. VOTE: 5 ayes, 1 Abstain (Feuerhelm)
There followed a discussion of how to disseminate these resolutions to the public.
Nolan Henderson MOVED, second by Tana Lampton, to have these resolution placed in the Country Journal with a notice that July 20, 1996 will be the date of the final reading and Vote for adoption of these resolutions, and asking the public who are concerned about either of these resolutions to appear at this meeting.
VOTE: 6 Ayes, 0 Nays.
There then followed a lengthy discussion about how Town Council members and Committee Chairs are to proceed with spending Town Council monies. The Town council took notice of a bill from Ken Schmidt for $722.00 and another bill from Seward for $1,400.00. This matter was referred back to the water committee for discussion and resolution, since there is an issue of fund raisers that might solve this billing problem.
Chuck Brink objected to the water committee report taken to the State Water Staff meeting last Friday by Geri Dee and Nolan Henderson on grounds that it left out a discussion of Surfactants, known animal dumps and obvious flaws of the UC report. There followed a lengthy discussion of the pros and cons of these issues. Geri finally stated that these points were moot since the water committee had not reached consensus on their report and the report had not been voted on before being faxed to Geri, and thus this report was not presented to the state.
There was no further business conducted.
ADJOURMENT: 11:20pm
Respectfully submitted, Dennis C. Dee
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