07-05-2017 Council Work Session Minutes

Home Search

CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION July 5, 2017 APPROVED 178 Council Member Maher suggested that the council voted and approved a resolution that 179 authorizes what came forward. Mayor Reinert suggested then that, to be clear, the 180 council will have to have every element of their discussion included in what they vote on 181 in the future. 182 183 Council Member Kusterman noted that the council's discussion included a request for an 184 itemization so they could look at what is really needed. 185 186 Director DeGardner remarked that he believes Mr. Hutson of CNH Architects thinks he 187 provided what he was asked to. Mr. DeGardner added that by keeping a shell and 188 attempting to retrofit the existing facility was probably not a level of improvement that 189 was considered. Mr. DeGardner said he can inform Mr. Hutson that the city doesn't 190 want to pay the remainder of the bill based on this discussion. Mayor Reinert added that 191 the job wasn't done as requested. He should finish the job with what he was paid or the 192 city can get someone else. 193 194 Council Member Maher said she hasn't listened to the tape to confirm what was said. 195 196 Council Member Kusterman suggested that the mayor seems to want the council to listen 197 to the tape to confirm the direction. 198 199 Council Member Rafferty recalled that he wasn't interested in spending a huge sum of 200 money at this point although he knows eventually facilities have to be upgraded. He does 201 see that Mr. Hutson tried to basically break things down in his report; perhaps Mr. Hutson 202 may have seen that it didn't make sense in his mind to not move to a new facility. 203 Council Member Rafferty said he doesn't see the need to withhold payment of the bill. 204 205 Mayor Reinert said he'd be willing to let go of the issue of payment of the bill but he 206 won't be willing to work with that company again. He'd like to see three contractors 207 brought in to view the current facility and hear what they could do to update that facility. 208 209 Council Member Manthey suggested that the process of discussion now is a good thing; 210 he always anticipated that there would be more council discussion to decide on the best 211 option for this city. He feels the council has to be very clear on the information they 212 want to receive. He thinks part of the discussion are things like bringing in water and 213 sewer and thinking ahead to needs in the future. 214 215 Council Member Rafferty suggested that even a contractor has to understand what is 216 being asked and that type of information isn't prepared. 217 218 Mayor Reinert asked, for the $12,000 that this company will be paid, will there be value 219 to the city in the future. Council Member Rafferty said he believes so. 220 221 The council concurred that the payment will be added to the next council agenda for their 222 consideration (as an item separate from the expenditure list). Staff was directed to look at 5