General Meeting Minutes 7-13-2006

Approved 08/10/2006

  Minutes for City Council General Meeting

July 13, 2006

  The July 13, 2006 meeting of the Gustavus City Council was called to order at 7:00 p.m.  Six council members were present at 7:00 p.m.  Wayne Howell arrived at 7:32 p.m. in time to vote on Ordinance 2006-07.

 The minutes of the previous meeting were read.  Martha made a motion to approve the minutes as read.  Motion passed 6/0.

 Under Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items, Charlie Rice delivered a petition signed by Gustavus community members and other persons requesting the City Council pass a resolution to impeach the President and Vice-President of the United States, another to change the vote of the Electoral College and a third to rectify voting machines across the United States.  The mayor stated that the council would discuss this issue at the work session on July 20, 2006, after further study.

 There were no Ordinances for Publications.

There were two Ordinances for Adoption:

Title 8 Dock and Harbor ordinance was presented for Public Hearing.  Ken Klawunder made a motion to adopt the Title 8 Dock and Harbor ordinance.  Kim Heacox thanked Diane Klawunder for her work in putting together the ordinance.  Lou Cacioppo read from a prepared statement concerning the work that went into the preparation of this ordinance.   Statement attached.  Ken Klawunder commented on the Approach Fee Zone for navigation that exists in front of the current dock and that the same zone will be present in the same location for the proposed new dock.  He asked the community to respect the Approach Free Zone by not mooring or anchoring vessels there, especially when barge traffic was expected at the Gustavus dock.  The mayor announced that there were a few typos or numbering inconsistencies that would be corrected before the Ordinance went online.  Ordinance passed 5/1 on a roll call vote.

 Ordinance No. 2006-07 A Non-code Ordinance of the City of Gustavus providing for the establishment and adoption of the budget for fiscal year 2007.  The mayor read and explained the following changes to the budget: addition of a line item, Interest Income for $4,000.00 under administrative income, the addition of an additional $700.00 added to the GVFD Expense Budget for Workman’s Compensation increase, and the DRC Capital Expense/Capital Income for the Denali Grant was changed to $25,840.00.  Martha made a motion to adopt Ordinance NO. 2006-07 as amended.  Motion passed 7/0 on a roll call vote.

 There were two Resolutions to be passed:

Resolution No. 2006-06: A Resolution certifying the Annual Certified Statement of Revenues and Authorized Expenditures for the Year Ending June 30, 2006.  The Mayor explained that the city would postpone the adoption of this resolution to allow for more time for a financial statement to be drafted with the City Accountant.  The resolution and financial statement should be ready to be passed by the General Meeting in August.

 Resolution 2006-05:  A resolution of the city of Gustavus adopting an alternative allocation method for the FY06 shared fisheries business tax program and certifying that this allocation fairly represent the distribution of significant effects of fisheries business activity in the Northern Southeast Fisheries management area.

 Discussion followed:  The council asked the City Clerk for clarification.  After input from the community members with further explanation, Ken made a motion to adopt Resolution 2006-05.  The resolution passed 7/0 on a roll call vote.

 There was no Unfinished Business.

 Under New business

The Homeshore Café Application for a Restaurant Beer and Wine License.  Wane gave background on how the Alcohol Beverage Control Board asks that the governing body make comment on the passage of a liquor license in the community.  He explained that the Homeshore Café had to procure signatures of 51% of the people living within a one-mile radius of the establishment.  He explained that the license the Homeshore Café applied for was for the sale of beer and wine only and the majority of the revenue of their business must come from the sale of food.  He explained that this license differs from other more permissive licenses. Public commentary was taken at this time. 

 Ken made a motion to approve the beer and wine license that had been applied for by the Homeshore Café through the State of Alaska and further stated “I add to this motion that the Gustavus City Council write a letter to the Alcohol Beverage Control Board approving the Homeshore Café’s Application for the license”.  The motion passed 5/0/2 with abstentions by Mike Atkins due to his direct involvement with the license as the owner of the Homeshore Café, and Becky King, Mike’s mother-in-law on a roll call vote.

  Wayne commented on the package liquor store application for Snug Harbor, LLC.  He reminded the public that the decision was made to not make a decision until a local option for alcohol sales be added to the ballot in October.  The mayor explained that a citizen of Gustavus had taken on the task of getting the 10 preliminary signatures necessary for ballot approval and that at least three people had gotten or were getting the signatures of a percentage of registered voters who voted in the last election that is necessary.  The local option chosen, if passed, would make an exception for one beverage dispensary permit (Glacier Bay Lodge), beer and wine licenses and a special events permit.  This vote would not affect any current licenses or permits.

  Committee Reports:

DRC – Karen Taylor read a report for the Disposal and Recycling Center.  Copy Provided

GVA – No Report was given.

Road Committee-

Wayne gave a report for the Road Committee and the challenges that the weather was creating.

Meeting adjourned.