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Moratorium Support Committee Meeting 6.7.06
Attendees: Darlene Beckman, Marv Beckman, Ralph Farnsworth, Susie
Navetta, Audrey Farnsworth, Rick Cox, Dave Davis, John Stead, Gerry
Wasserburg, Eric Hauptman, Richard Koehler, Johan Hogervorst, Dan
Scarrberry, Karen Peck Guests: Gary Darnielle, Denise Walters, Mark Cherniak Began meeting at Johan asked for additions or corrections to
the minutes that he sent out from last week’s meeting.
It appears that all problems with mailing list are fixed and
everyone received the minutes and agenda. Began meeting with introductions of committee
members, audience members and guests.
Johan asked if any attendees had any questions concerning the
qualifications of the LCOG employees or Mark Cherniak.
Denise was asked if she had any experience with lake associated
cities and her answer was no, but she could study up on other city
ordinances that apply. Mark
mentioned that _____________________________________________________________ NOTE: In a later conversation with Mark by e-mail, Chair Hogervorst discussed Mark’s rate with him and asked if working for the city at $40/hour was appropriate, seeing as this was a special rate for non-profit groups. Mark said that he was not originally aware that he would be working for the city and would ordinarily charge $50/hour. Mark did not push this at all, but Johan stated that the city should pay him what he would ordinarily charge and would specify such in the official letter he would be sending Mark, after committee approval. We then began working through a list of topics
Johan had prepared with the goal of defining roles of the contracted
professionals and the scope of work that was required to begin ordinance
revision. The first list was
the existing documents that would need to be used during the revision: It was pointed out by Gerry that the Council
needs to approve what are the official documents so as to avoid confusion
before we even start revising anything.
Without this, there will be mass confusion.
The list we have to date includes: 1.
2.
Existing Chapters 155 and 156 as updated by Gary/Joanne -
3.
4.
CCI Concerns from last ordinance revision – by using the
existing ordinances, about half these concerns will be resolved. 5.
Compiled BMP info from Troutdale, Tahoe and 6.
TGM Model Development Code, 2nd edition We discussed the 6 priorities with the
professionals: Priority #1 – BMPs for erosion control, surface water runoff and
vegetative stabilization. Additionally,
fertilizer ordinance, mitigation bonding for development and impervious
surfaces. With regard to ordinance revision, the group
discussed the best way to interface with Denise Walters and to make this
revision a public process. We
decided to make a list of the ordinances that need work by June 21st
and provide it to Denise. Johan
will be the liaison to Denise and the committee will work in subcommittees
that report to Johan. Denise
will work on drafts of the ordinances and will feed back to the MSC.
Once a final draft is decided upon, two weeks notice will be given
for a public hearing and the draft will be made available to the public.
After review, the draft will go through the Planning Commission and
then to the Council for approval. The
MSC will be designated a CCI Committee to make the process fit with public
meetings law. Action:
Johan, outline process to Council and get approval for a CCI Priority #2 – Implementation
of Ord. 173 – Priority #3 – Higher Septic Standards – Mark Chernaik will be
contracted to do this priority. Mark
shared in detail what he would be doing and how he would do it.
He discussed that if you add a filter to a standard system approved
by DEQ, it does not require a separate approval by DEQ.
His objective is to come up with standards that 1) are consistent
with the law, 2) are not cost prohibitive, and 3) have no unintended
negative consequences. Mark
asked for information in three areas: New home prices, names of septic
installers and the number of households with dishwashers.
Mark explained the effect of dishwashers on phosphorus levels into
a septic tank. Eight grams are
delivered each time a dishwasher is run with standard dish washing
detergent. Action:
Johan will send Mark an official letter, agreeing to the estimate for
hours and cost as discussed. Priority #4 – Educational Outreach – Efforts are on-going.
Susie handed Johan a copy of the latest sub-committee meeting
minutes. They are still
planning for the August 19th Water Quality Fair.
This subcommittee is still researching the cost of sending out
LCOG’s spiral bound septic publication and Priority #5 – Priority #6 – Documentation – minutes and ongoing reports.
Action: Johan will
present a summary report at the next City Council meeting. The group then went through several questions
to be answered as part of setting up the program of work for the
professionals. Some highlights
are as follows: 3. What are the roles of the volunteers working on the MSC?
Volunteers will work in subcommittees to assemble various aspects
of the ordinances for Denise to work on.
Action: John Stead will
assemble existing information for the list of items to eventually be
submitted to Denise Walters by the 21st of June. 4. How do we want the document to look?
We will use the existing ordinance structure but will likely have a
separate chapter for water quality. We
will use a legislative change format that shows the old and new code side
by side so that anyone can see what has changed. 7. Define the
inter-governmental agreement…? Once
we have a list of duties assembled, a scope of work will be developed from
this list. LCOG will then be
able to tell us what can be accomplished with the funds available.
We will then sign an inter-governmental agreement that will put
LCOG under contract with Dunes City. 8. What are the most expensive aspects of the LCOG work?
Travel to meetings.
11 active members X 3 hours = 33 hours x $18/hrs = $594 Notes assembled by Johan Hogervorst,
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