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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/24/90TAPE #777 UNAPPROVED DRAFT CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES OCTOBER 24, 1990 The regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Bremerton was called to order in the City Council Chambers, 239 4TH Street, Bremerton, Washington, Wednesday, October 24 , 1990 at 5:30 p.m., with Council President Lynn Horton presiding. Council members present were: Lon Overson, Wayne Estes, Spencer Horning, Hank Waibel, C. R. "Tiny" Collins, Morrie Dawkins, A1 Colvin and Russ Johnson. Also present were City Attorney Ian Sievers and City Clerk Kathleen McCluskey. The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance led by President Lynn Horton and the Invocation was given by Dr. David Williams of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church. President Horton announced Council would hold an Executive Session immediately following the City Council meeting to discuss a "real estate" issue. CONSENT A__G_EN_D_A~ None #0019 CLAIMS/WARRANT REGISTERS Vouchers audited and certified by the auditing officer as required by RCW 42.24.080, and those expense reimbursement claims certified as required by RCW 42.24.090, have been recorded on a listing which has been made available to the council. M/S/C/U(Colvin/Dawkins) on October 24 1990, the Council does approve for payment those vouchers included and further described as follows: 118691, 118692 in the total amount of $6,641.45 and Regular Payroll in the total amount of $382,573.48. COUNCIL MEMBER REPORTS Mr. Johnson announced the Bremerton Solid Waste Advisory Committee would meet on Thursday, October 25, 5:00 PM, at the Water Utility office on Olympus Avenue. Mr. Colvin received a letter from Dale Deboise in which he questioned if citizen input was accepted on the issue of Roosevelt Field- Mr. Colvin emphasized this was a "free country" and citizens were welcome to give input on any item and suggested they turn their suggestion into Mayor Mentor via the Suggestion Box, which was recently installed in the lobby of City Hall. He acknowledged that a new brochure was just produced which capitalized on the #1 City designation. He encouraged increased participation in the United Way campaign and noted a large portion of the funds collected were turned back into the local community. TAPE #777 City Council Reg. Mtg. Minutes October 24, 1990 Page 2 of 12 He announced on December 2, District #1 will host an Appreciation Social to express appreciation to the citizens of District #1 for their input and concerns expressed for the benefit of the City. Mr. Overson pointed out the recent insert in the current issue of The Bremerton Progress, which promoted the City of Bremerton and Kitsap County. Mr. Estes stated he was continuing to work with the "Desert Shield" ~e~Pi~'~d announced the following overseas shipping deadlines: air parcel in by November 16; air letter in by November 26; 3rd class in by November 10; special available mail in by November 3. So far 150 names had been gathered for this project. Mr. Waibel reported the city's newest restaurant was open, The Keg, and he wished them good success. He wished his wife a "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY". Mrs. Horton state she and several Council members attended the reception for the USS Carl Vinson, held at the PSNS Officers Club, which was well attended. PUBLIC RECOGNITION Kathleen McCluskey, City Clerk, read a Proclamation recognizing women have been and are the victims of domestic violence in their homes. The YWCA's A.L.I.V.E. Program has assisted the victims of domestic violence and increased public awareness of the problem. Mayor Mentor proclaimed October 29, 1990, as "NIGHT OF UNITY", to focus public attention on the magnitude of the problem of women who were battered and to escalate efforts to end this problem. Kathleen McCluskey, City Clerk, read a Proclamation alerting Bremerton residents to change their clocks back from daylight- savings time on October 28; and at the same time to change their batteries in their smoke detectors and flashlights in an effort to provide a more safe environment. Mayor Mentor proclaimed October 28th as CHANGE YOUR CLOCK, CHANGE YOUR BATTERY" DAY in the City of Bremerton. President announced following the Council meeting, 7:00 PM, there would be a forum on two City Bond Issues on the November Ballot and discussion on Initiative 547. Lorraine Inabinet~, 6430 NE Middle Street, Suquamish, member of the Community Access Cable Committee, expressed great concern of the current parking regulations, in particularly the 24 hour enforcement. She shared that several volunteers of the Cable Access TV crew had threatened to quit due to parking problems. She outlined the time schedule required in order to televise City Council meetings and other forums that were transmitted from the City Council Chambers. The unhappy crew members refused to park in TAPE #777 City Council Reg. Mtg. Minutes October 24, 1990 Page 3 of 12 the City's garage because they felt it was unsafe and if they parked on the street they were then vulnerable to getting a parking ticket. She strongly urged the City Council to take action to exempt the downtown area from 24-hour parking enforcement. She pointed out that as downtown became more active with evening hour activities, parking enforcement would adversely affect patrons of those events. Kathleen McCluskey, City Clerk, stated all the changes discussed during the Council meeting held two weeks prior, including changing the parking hours, would be coming back to Council in the form of an ordinance within a week or so. President Horton stated if there was going to be a delay, she suggested doing something short-term that could ease the Cable Access crew members parking problems. Ms. McCluskey stated she could arrange for placards for the crew members. Del Knauss, 139 Olympic Avenue, stated he was speaking as a private citizen, not a member of the Parking Advisory Committee. He spoke in reference to a "Letter To The Editor" written by Councilman A1 Colvin. He noted that the City's 2-hour parking requirement was nothing new, that the City Council had the option to park free in the Parking Garage or behind City Hall with a placard in their vehicle or park on the street. If they chose to park on the street, they were then subject to regulations just as anyone else was. He emphasized that if Mr. Colvin had a problem with the City's parking regulations he should have understood what he was voting on when new Parking regulations were adopted by the Council. Don Martsford, 182 J, stated for clarification he in no way intended the words he spoke at the last Council meeting he attended, to have been interpreted as threatening against Council members. He expressed concern over the City's plan to build a Public Works Complex on Oyster Bay Road and questioned if an Environmental Impact Statement had been completed? He also questioned if it was zoned properly for such a use? P_resident Horton explained the City intended to make a public presentation of the plans for the Public Works Complex to the West Park residents, which would allow for public input. Steve Slater, N.E. Roy Board Rd., Belfair, reported he observed a sewage leak from a sewage pump station in an area south of Jackson Park on Oyster Bay. President Horton requested Kathleen McCluskey, City Clerk, to forward that information to Mayor Mentor. Don Atkinson, Bremerton Main Street Association, presented Ken Brees, City Street Department Superintendent, a Certificate Of Appreciation for his assistance on Main street Association's special projects. He noted Ken and his Street crews had been very active assisting with the Banner/Basket program downtown and the dedication of Wyckoff Park. Ke~. ~re._e~, Street Superintendent, stated they try to do what they can and were very interested in helping Bremerton to grow. He noted if they do their part then TAPE #777 City Council Reg. Mtg. Minutes October 24, 1990 Page 3 of 12 exempt the downtown area from 24-hour parking enforcement. She pointed out that as downtown became more active with evening hour activities, parking enforcement would adversely affect patrons of those events. Kathleen McCluskey, City Clerk, stated all the changes discussed during the Council meeting held two weeks prior, including changing the parking hours, would be coming back to Council in the form of an ordinance within a week or so. President Horton stated if there was going to be a delay, she suggested doing something short-term that could ease the Cable Access crew members parking problems. Ms. McCluskey stated she could arrange for placards for the crew members. Del Knauss, 139 Olympic Avenue, stated he was speaking as a private citizen, not a member of the Parking Advisory Committee. He spoke in reference to a "Letter To The Editor" written by Councilman A1 Colvin. He noted that the City's 2-hour parking requirement was nothing new, that the City Council had the option to park free in the Parking Garage or behind City Hall with a placard in their vehicle or park on the street. If they chose to park on the street, they were then subject to regulations just as anyone else was. He emphasized that if Mr. Colvin had a problem with the City's parking regulations he should have understood what he was voting on when new Parking regulations were adopted by the Council. Don Mansford, 182 J, stated for clarification he in no way intended the words he spoke at the last Council meeting he attended, to have been interpreted as threatening against Council members. He expressed concern over the City's plan to build a Public Works Complex on Oyster Bay Road and questioned if an Environmental Impact Statement had been completed? He also questioned if it was zoned properly for such a use? President Horton explained the City intended to make a public presentation of the plans for the Public Works Complex to the West Park residents, which would allow for public input. Steve Slater, N.E. Roy Board Rd., Belfair, reported he observed a sewage leak from a sewage pump station in an area south of Jackson Park on Oyster Bay. P__resident Horton requested Kathleen McCluskey, City Clerk, to forward that information to Mayor Mentor. Don Atkinson, Bremerton Main Street Association, presented Ken Brees, City Street Department Superintendent, a Certificate Of Appreciation for his assistance on Main street Association's special projects. He noted Ken and his Street crews had been very active assisting with the Banner/Basket program downtown and the dedication of Wyckoff Park. Ken Brees, Street Superintendent, stated they try to do what they can and were very interested in helping Bremerton to grow. He noted if they do their part then maybe the Citizens will pitch in and do their part. Mr. Atkinson announced he had a new generation of Bremerton #1 pins, which would be available to purchase for $2.00 from Main street Association or TAPE #777 City Council Reg. Mtg. Minutes October 24, 1990 Page 4 of 12 at City Hall. Funds raised from the sale of these pins would go back into replenishing the supply. Laura Belinski, 131 A Russell, questioned if the Public Works Complex Bond issue passed, but for some reason it could not be built on the Oyster Bay Road site, where would it be located? She expressed concern that the City had already set actions in motion that the only place to place such a complex would be on Oyster Bay Road. President Horton stated City staff would contact her to explain the proposal and requested Ms. McCluskey to forward information to the Mayor so that he could set up an appropriate meeting with the residents in that area. Lorraine Inabinett encouraged the public to tune in Thursday evening, October 25. 7:30 PM and November 1, 6:30 PM, to view a Candidate Interview program (3-hour program). 6A - OUARTERLY ACTIVITY REPORTS FROM KITSAP COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL AND BREMERTON/KITSAP COUNTY VISITOR AND CONVENTION BUREAU, #AB90-273 There is no requirement for Council action. Representatives from both organizations are here to present quarterly activity updates and to answer any questions that Council members may have concerning the expenditure of City funds allocated for program operations. Mim Heuss, Executive Director of the Bremerton/Kitsap County Visitor And Convention Bureau (VCB), stated the most talked about topic had been the "#! Most Liveable City" designation. A meeting was held between City, County, community groups and Ken Gouldthorpe, State Department Of Tourism, to discuss how to take advantage of this #1 rating. From that meeting, three staff members of the Department of Tourism, the Director of Marketing, Director of Advertising and Assistant Director of Tourism, have been scheduled to hold a Marketing Workshop, November 9, at Olympic College. From this workshop, ideas of how to capitalize on the #1 designation for the remaining nine months would be developed. Ms. Heuss invited the City Council to have a representative attend that workshop. The VCB's trade booth will be manned, representing the City of Bremerton and the Turner Joy Project, at the State Tourist Conference in Wenatchee on October 31. Advertising items and tourism information would be available at the trade booth. This conference gathers all of the tourism people from around the state and the objective was to get promotional materials out to people who would be looking for interesting activities and tourist areas. Ms. Heuss passed out samples of the advertizing materials to be used. She drew attention to the new Bremerton brochure, which was developed through Main Street, VCB, Council President Horton and the Mayor's office. TAPE #777 City Council Reg. Mtgo Minutes October 24, 1990 Page 5 of 12 The VCB totally changed their ad campaign across the nation to reflect the #1 designation. She briefly described a full color page ad, that included the USS Turner Joy project, which would be distributed nation-wide, (550,000 copies), as well as internationally. Berry Anderson, who runs the Seattle newspaper group, provided VCB over 100 clippings of articles relating to the "#1 designation" She noted the only negative comments were addressed at the State of Washington and not Bremerton. Hotel/Motel Tax - VCB had been very involved, since September 1989 about once a week, with a committee of the State Legislature to work on this project before the next Legislative Session. From a recent meeting, chaired by Representative Art Wong, chairman of the Revenue Committee, she learned that his proposal was to take the original Hotel/Motel 2~ Return Tax and return it back to the State as it was originally before 1967, and then add on a new 24, which would be returned to the local government. Ms. Heuss noted there had been a lot of objection to this proposal because there was no guarantee how the final Bill would be developed at the time the Legislature acted upon it. There would be no guarantee that the money would come back to the community or that it would go through at 2~. Mayor Mentor had been requested to address a letter to Representative Wong, which reflected what the City of Bremerton would like to have happen. A response from Mayor Mentor was received, which was then taken to the meeting of that committee and was well received. One of the suggestions in that letter was to "leave it as it was" - she did not feel that would be the case and anticipated some kind of change would take place. Because of her position as President Of The Association Of Convention And Visitor Bureaus, she was able to attend those Legislative Committee meetings, whereas she would not if she were not in that capacity. One of the proposals the Association Of Visitor Bureaus' suggested was that if the 24 tax was taken back to then propose an option of a 34 tax - with the option to add the 1~ on at any point within the next 5-10 years. That, however, would increase the Hotel/Motel Tax in the City of Bremerton by 34 and only a 14 benefit would be received locally. She believed no matter what happened there would be a 24 increase on that tax. President Horton noted Council would be meeting with State Legislators in December and discuss upcoming issues for the next Legislative Session. She requested Ms. Heuss to keep Council informed of what "posturing position" they would like conveyed to the Legislative members at that time on this issue. Ms. Heuss reported the new Visitor Guide (County-wide brochure) was being developed and would be promoting the "#1" designation. Earl Smith, President of Kitsap County Economic Development Council (EDC), stated growth management would be the "name of the game" in the future. EDC was very much involved in recent presentations, TAPE #777 City Council Reg. Mtg. Minutes October 24, 1990 Page 6 of 12 representing the county and the cities. He chaired the Kitsap Futures group, who gave input for two years on Vision 20/20, which is a continuing process. He noted the most important thing to happen in the future would be the cooperation between the county and cities in the growth management area. The seven Chambers Of Commerce in this County, Bremerton/Kitsap County Visitor and Convention Bureau, EDC, and Flagship had met several times as a group and provided inputs that were exactly the same inputs that the City Council discussed during the Growth Management Symposium, which was held October 13 and 14o The EDC supports a strong and diversified economy, to build up and not out, to have cooperation between county and cities, to have annexation agreements, shared costs, shared revenue, local intergovernmental agreements between city and county, possible consolidation of services where that made sense, open space preservation, affordable housing, and adequate transportation. He anticipated placing growth management in their contract with the City, as one of the things the City would want the EDC to do to help the City in their approach to growth management. If there was not cooperation between the cities and county, there would be a problem in using some of the tax funds that EDC was allowed to use. The EDC Board voted unanimously to oppose Initiative 547, as well as all seven Chambers Of Commerce in Kitsap County had voted to oppose this initiative. He emphasized this proposal took the initiative away from the local elected officials and put it with 16 appointed officials in Olympia. He did not believe people in Kitsap County wanted appointed people in Olympia making decisions that would affect them. If Initiative 547 passed, he believed people in Kitsap County would pay for it in increased home prices, increased taxes as well as other things; and local officials would not have a say whatsoever. Small Business Assistance Program - EDC had assisted an average of 135 businesses each quarter. He pointed out recent news about sale of some of the Bremer Trust properties and the expansion of the Admiral Theater as being positive things happening in Bremerton. He read excerpts from an article entitled: "Downtown In The 1990's - The Economic Future Of American City Centers". The thrust of the article was that cities that were revitalized had to maintain their quality of life, which included good schools, quality housing, cultural activities, reasonably priced housing and favorable social environment. This article also projected 25 types of businesses that would survive and where the bulk of jobs would be in the 1990's, local marketing recruiting should be done in those 25 area. In regard to retail sales, Mr. Smith quoted: "Retailing - here the market will be spit into high volume low price lines, and high price individualized lines. Trying to survive by selling the most or the cheapest of any given product will also never be a winning strategy in downtowns. The most successful approach will have to be TAPE #777 City Council Reg. Mtg. Minutes October 24, 1990 Page 7 of 12 compete with quality of service before and after the sale with quality of merchandise, individualized focused knowledge of the customer, mixed marketing and a quality shopping environment" Mr. Smith noted he hoped that was where Bremerton was headed. EDC will do what it can to promote to the fullest the "#1" designation. On September 30, EDC submitted the Community Profiles for Kitsap County and all the cities in Kitsap County. This information was the first that would be sent out when someone showed an interest in locating a business in our area. Procurement Assistance Program was doing well. The EDC final report stated $7,390,000 worth of business was done in Kitsap County, with 165 job placements, and over 80~ of that was in Bremerton. In Flagship's revenue review, he noted there was a provision whereby the State appropriated(1990) $53.00 per resident to Bremerton as a State Shared Revenue - Transient Naval Personnel were not included. However, home ported ships were included if they happen to be in home port waters. Next year, because of the increased tax on gas, the City would receive $61.25 per resident. Last years population was 37,730 residents and that was the number used when determining the City's State Shared Revenue portion. Now, they were counting residents on a quarterly basis because when an area was annexed no funding was received if it was annexed after April 1 of that year. USS Turner Joy Project - this project was going well. The contract to place the anchoring system came in $70-75,000 higher than what was budgeted. Fortunately, another $35,000 was identified from Capital Improvement funds with the Port of Bremerton matching the remaining $35,000. The new Port of Bremerton marina bids would go out on October 29 and be awarded November 27, with construction starting December 10 and a completion date of April/May 1991. Acceptance of the USS Turner Joy from the Navy was anticipated for December 14 and anchoring completed by February/March 1991, with an opening targeted for May 18. Mr. Smith was not completely sure that the pier to the USS Turner Joy would be complete by May 18, however, he did believe there would be public access to the ship at that time. 7A - ORDINANCE #4293 (SECOND READING)__._AMENDING_CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE BREMERTON ZONING ORDINANCE THAT PERTAIN TO DEFINITIONS, SIGNS AND PLANNED UNIT DE~_LOPMENT, #AB90-270 Public Comment - none ~1952 M/S/C/U(Waibel/Dawkins) to pass Ordinance #4293, on second reading, TAPE #777 City Council Reg. Mtg. Minutes October 24, 1990 Page 8 of 12 amending certain sections of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Bremerton, Washington, that pertain to Definitions, Signs and Planned Unit Development. 7B - ORDINANCE #4294 (SECOND READING) ADDING A NEW CHAPTER TO TITLE #1987 !0 OF THE BREMERTON MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROHIBIT THE OPERATION OF COMPRESSION BRAKES WITHIN THE CITYL___~90-271 Public comment - none Mr. Johnson questioned if the person responsible for placement of signs should be changed from the City Engineer to the Mayor? Ian Sievers, City Attorney, stated the City Engineer was given cert~ responsibilities through State law, which includes placement of such signs. M/S/C/U(Estes/Colvin) to pass Ordinance #4294, on second reading, prohibiting the use of compression brakes in the City, except in emergency situations; providing penalties therefor and authorizing the City Engineer to post appropriate signs and adopting a new Chapter to Title 10 of the Bremerton Municipal Code. 7C - RESOLUTION #2325, SUPPORTING KITSAP MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES GRANT APPLICATION TO THE STATE HOUSING TRUS~_~U~D_~._~_0_~27~ Kitsap Mental Health Services is submitting a grant application for approximately $500,000 to the State Housing Trust Fund for the purchase, rehabilitation, and furnishing of up to ten homes located in Bremerton and greater Kitsap County to provide decent, affordable housing for chronically mentally ill households with incomes between $414 and $600 a month. These households cannot afford market rate housing and without proper assistance will become homeless. This application was discussed by Kitsap Mental Health Services and the Operations Committee at its October 17, 1990 meeting. The Resolution was drafted per the Committee's direction. ~a~q~_~D~_~nson, community services Manager, introduced Elena Argomaniz, Planning and Development Director for Kitsap Mental Health Services, and noted her agency came to Ms. Dickinson's office several weeks ago with a copy of the proposal to the State Housing Trust Fund for funding to purchase and fix up as many as 10 homes in Bremerton and Kitsap County for chronically mentally ill people that they serve. One of the requirements for submitting the application to the State was to show that the application was consistent with the City's housing policy. Ms. Dickinson reviewed "Housing Bremerton" objectives with Ms. Argomaniz, which were recently adopted, pointing out the consistencies between the application and "Housing Bremerton". Also, she wanted the City Council to be aware of what was being proposed, so she invited Ms. Argomaniz to attend the Council Operations Committee meeting where they discussed the application and proposal. The Operations TAPE #777 City Council Reg. Mtg. Minutes October 24, 1990 Page 9 of 12 Committee suggested that a resolution of support of the funding application be drafted and brought before the full Council. ~_~_~!~omaniz stated she appreciated the opportunity to meet with the Operations Committee and on behalf of Kitsap Mental Health Services thanked them for their support. It was her understanding that some Council members raised questions about the use of the State funds and the relationship to the regional contract for residential services for which both Kitsap Mental Health Services and Peninsula Lodge bid, which was ultimately awarded to Kitsap Mental Health Services. To clarify those questions, she explained the purpose of the proposal was to begin to develop a pool of decent, affordable housing for the chronically mentally ill of Kitsap County. They recognized the need to offer these people some degree of security at a time when homelessness was increasing in the community. This project, along with several others they have initiated, was driven by the housing crunch. Currently, they serve 353 adult clients, who already live within the community with the help of services her agency offers. Due to their having terribly low incomes, 76% of them survive on $414/month and 95~ of them have incomes less than $600/month. Presently, rents have escalated, rental vacancies rates were virtually non-existent and these people were vulnerable to becoming homeless. They are in danger of being displaced and there was no relief in sight, at this point. This proposal had nothing to do the Residential Contract that they were awarded for the region. That contract called for down sizing Peninsula Lodge, which would have happened regardless who was awarded the contract. Peninsula Lodge wanted to down size to 12 beds and Kitsap Mental Health proposed a 15 bed, 24-hour supervised facility, which was now being renovated and opened by mid December. The funds awarded in the contract for supported living was for services only, i.e, treatment services, not for buying or renting property to house clients. The clients of Peninsula Lodge would be moved into the community by January 31. This was a long term project with 10 people to be moved from the supervised facility and transitioned into community living. The application proposal was long term and none of the houses would be purchased or renovated before a year from now and they would house 30 mentally ill consumers. She emphasized there were 100's of mentally ill consumers who were in danger of losing their homes. As responsible providers, they recognized the need to be proactive and aggressive about keeping their clients, who live in the community, off the streets. While in the past they had been able to help them by helping them access existing low-income housing, they know this was no longer sufficient and they needed to take new directions. Steve Slater stated as a recovering mentally ill person he could testify to the merits of such a program and urged the Council to support this proposal. TAPE #777 City Council Reg. Mtg. Minutes October 24, 1990 Page 10 of 12 Mr. Johnson questioned if Kitsap Mental Health Services was a private sector corporation? Ms. Argomaniz stated they were a private not for profit organization. Mr. Johnson questioned if they purchased a house would they pay taxes on it? Ms. Arqomaniz stated she believed so and that cost was factored into projections of monthly costs. Mr. Johnson noted some people were concerned about the City's helping to purchase homes that would be taken off the tax rolls. Ms. ArgQ~!~ responded they were intending to pay taxes. In clarification, she pointed out the proposed resolution was basically a "letter of support" and the funding they were applying for would be through the Washington State Housing Trust. Mr. Johnson noted his surprise that 70~ of the people in the mental health categories were located in the City of Bremerton, which seemed disproportionate with the spread of population and questioned if that was normal? M__s. ArgO_~n~ stated she was not sure ... but basically they ran a count of all the Bremerton zip codes. ~_t_Joh~ pointed out that would not be a valid basis. He pointed out Bremerton had a disproportionate number of low- income people compared to other areas. He felt it would be better to disperse them throughout the rest of the population and possibly have only two of the proposed facilities in Bremerton and the other eight spread out in the County. He felt placing 60~ of the proposed housing in Bremerton only perpetuated the imbalance. Ms. ArgomaniZ stated Bremerton did have a disproportionate number of low income people and unfortunately with chronic mental illness there are disproportionate numbers of mentally ill represented in the very poor levels. There had been more low-income housing available in Bremerton for a number of years than other parts of the County, which could add to the reasons why there were greater numbers of residents in that category. She explained they were looking to locate six homes in the City and four homes in the County area. Some areas were left out of this equation, such as Bainbridge Island, due to the higher cost of housing in those areas and other solutions were being looked into, such as church subsidies. There were homeless mentally ill located in those areas that need assistance. Mr. Johnson stressed that Bainbridge Island should provide some of this housing just as much as Bremerton. Mr. Colvin stated he supported any program that would help those in the low-income level, however he did not want to see a concentration of mentally consumers in one area. Ms. Argoman~_~ stated that was specifically what they wanted to avoid. The plan was to spread out the housing throughout the County. Mr. Colvin questioned if the County was cooperating with the Agency to disperse housing these people within county areas. Ms. Argomaniz stated yes, they had the County's support. ~!_. Collins expressed concern that what was being discussed was to locate the six homes within west Bremerton. Ms_~Argomaniz stated not in west Bremerton. Mr. Collins pointed out that within the Resolution they were requesting rental rehabilitation loans from #3192 #3205 TAPE #778 TAPE #777 City Council Reg. Mtg. Minutes October 24, 1990 Page 11 of 12 the City, which were exclusive to west Bremerton. Ms. Argoman!~ stated of the six homes to be located in Bremerton, they would only use rental rehabilitation money, if it was available, for three of the houses. It was their intent to not locate all of the homes in one area. ~r.___~9_l~s requested striking the final paragraph of the Resolution, which stated: "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Bremerton City Council directs staff to work with Kitsap Mental Health Services to explore use of rental rehabilitation loans to provide matching funds as necessary and appropriate to the State Housing Trust fund monies". He felt this left too much of a feeling that the City's rental rehab funds could be used as leverage for matching funds from the State; and he did not believe that was the intended use of the City's rental rehab funds. Mr. Overson questioned what Ms. Argomaniz's response was to Mr. Collins suggestion to delete that paragraph? Ms. Argomanil stated it was never her understanding that they had a commitment on the rental rehab funds. They would certainly apply for them and she hoped they would qualify to receive them. Mr. Overson noted he felt the proposal as presented was a good program. Mr. Estes questioned if after the mentally ill consumers were able to exist within the community, could they remain in the homes? Ms. Ar_[_qomaniz stated those homes would be intended as permanent housing and as long as a person wanted to remain there they could. Mr. Dawkins stated it was his understanding that there was very little interest being shown in use of the rehab funds. Dickinson stated the City had marketed extensively to the private sector rental property owners and they had no positive responses for use of that money. Those funds could be used as loans to non- profit agencies, who met all other terms and conditions. The purpose of the funds were to be used to renovate rental owned property occupied by very low income people in the community. Mr. Dawkins felt it was time everyone took a deep look inside and decide if they want to help people who really needed it. Mr. Johnson stated he supported spreading out the location of the homes throughout the county, including Bainbridge Island. M/S/C(Dawkins/Estes) to pass Resolution #2325. M/S/F(Collins/Colvin) an amendment to the motion to delete the last paragraph of the Resolution ~r~_.~9_~-~ questioned what Mr. Collins' objection was to the last paragraph? Mr. Collins stated the implications were that the City funds would be used as leverage for getting the matching funds from the State and he considered this was wrong. Mr. Colvi~ questioned if the public was aware of the interest rate for the rehab funds? TAPE #778 City Council Reg. Mtg. Minutes October 24, 1990 Page 12 of 12 Ms. Dickinson stated the interest rate was 5~, which they used as the lead marketing device. Vote on the amendment: Amendment failed. In Favor: Opposed: Abstain: Collins, Colvin, Overson, Estes, Horning, Horton, Dawkins, Johnson Waibel Vote on the main motion: In Favor: Collins, Dawkins, Overson, Estes, Horning, Horton Opposed: Johnson Abstain: Colvin, Waibel Motion passes. With no further business meeting adjourned at 7:05 p.m.. KEY, CITY CLERK APPROVED ' 1 President LYN~HORTON, Counci City of Bremerton KLM/LH/me cc: Normal Distribution File/Vault