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12-16-2003 City Council Study Session PacketCity of Grand Island Tuesday, December 16, 2003 Study Session Packet City Council:Mayor: Jay Vavricek City Administrator: David Springer (Interim) City Clerk: RaNae Edwards T u 7:00:00 PM Council Chambers - City Hall 100 East First Street Carole Cornelius Peg Gilbert Joyce Haase Margaret Hornady Robert Meyer Mitchell Nickerson Don Pauly Jackie Pielstick Scott Walker Fred Whitesides City of Grand Island City Council Call to Order Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call A - SUBMITTAL OF REQUESTS FOR FUTURE ITEMS Individuals who have appropriate items for City Council consideration should complete the Request for Future Agenda Items form located at the Information Booth. If the issue can be handled administratively without Council action, notification will be provided. If the item is scheduled for a meeting or study session, notification of the date will be given. B - RESERVE TIME TO SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEMS This is an opportunity for individuals wishing to provide input on any of tonight's agenda items to reserve time to speak. Please come forward, state your name and address, and the Agenda topic on which you will be speaking. MAYOR COMMUNICATION This is an opportunity for the Mayor to comment on current events, activities, and issues of interest to the community. City of Grand Island City Council Item -1 Presentation of Central Nebraska Humane Society Hours Pat Devine, Executive Director of the Central Nebraska Humane Society, 3554 W. Stolley Park Road, will present the new hours of operation for the facility. Tuesday, December 16, 2003 Study Session City of Grand Island Staff Contact: Doug Walker City of Grand Island City Council Item -2 Discussion of Dog Ordinances Three ordinances have been drafted for addressing some concerns that have been raised recently about the City Dog and Animal Ordinances. One ordinance would make a change to the mandatory annual meeting times from the current requirements for meetings on the first Tuesday of January and the first Tuesday of July to the first week of January and the first week of July. This change is being proposed for two reasons which are that the first Tuesday of these months will on some years fall on a holiday and also because the Animal advisory Board has changed its meeting days to Monday. The proposed change will give the Board enough additional flexibility in scheduling its meetings so that it will not be in conflict with the City Code. The second ordinance has been drafted to address the concerns of the Grand Island Kennel Club. The Kennel Club is being annexed into the City and this ordinance will establish a permitting procedure and an exemption to the animal running at large ordinance for training and showing dogs by a nationally recognized animal organization or a local affiliate. A third ordinance is being proposed to exempt police dogs from the animal running at large and the dangerous dog ordinances. Law enforcement has requested that a specific exemption be placed in the municipal code for the training and use of dogs for law enforcement purposes. The exemption would apply to dogs from all of the various law enforcement agencies. Tuesday, December 16, 2003 Study Session City of Grand Island Staff Contact: Doug Walker City of Grand Island City Council Approved as to Form ¤ ___________ December 11, 2003 ¤ City Attorney ORDINANCE NO. ____ An ordinance to amend Chapter 5 of the Grand Island City Code; to amend Section 5-2 pertaining to required dates for meetings of the Animal Advisory Board; to add Section 5-34.1 pertaining to animal training and shows; to add Section 5-34.2 pertaining to an exemption for animals used and trained for law enforcement purposes; to repeal Section 5-2 as now existing, and any ordinance or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith; and to provide for publication and the effective date of this ordinance. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA: SECTION 1. Section 5-2 of the Grand Island City Code is hereby amended to read as follows: §5-2. Animal Advisory Board; Establishment There is hereby established the Animal Advisory Board of the City of Grand Island, whose duty it shall be to advise the mayor and city council on all matters relating to this chapter. The board shall be composed of seven members: four members appointed by the mayor subject to confirmation by the city council; and the chief of police or his/her designee, the director of the humane society or his/her designee, and the director of the department of health or his/her designee. Appointed members shall serve without compensation. The Animal Advisory Board shall meet during on the first week of Tuesday falling after January 1 and the first week of July 1 of each year and/or such other occasions as may be established by said board. Attendance by any four or more members shall constitute a quorum. SECTION 2. Section 5-___ is hereby added to the Grand Island City Code to read as follows: §5-34.1. Animal Training and Shows Animals may be off a leash when they are being trained for hunting or an animal show at a facility that is owned, leased or operated by a nationally recognized organization or a local affiliate sanctioned by such organization for the training, showing and betterment of animals such as the American Kennel Club or the United Kennel Club. Animals may be off of a leash at an animal show that is sanctioned by a nationally recognized animal organization if such show obtains a permit from the Grand Island Humane Society. The application for said permit shall set forth the date and place of the show or event, and list the types of activities that will be taking place at the event. If the activities at such animal show do not violate any of the provisions of the Grand Island City Code other than the running at large ordinance, or involve inhumane treatment of the animals at such event then a permit shall be issued by the Grand Island Humane Society and a copy of the permit shall be sent to the Grand Island City Clerk and to the Grand Island Police Department. ORDINANCE NO. _____ (Cont.) - 2 - SECTION 3. Section 5-___ is hereby added to the Grand Island City Code to read as follow: §5-34.2 Animals Used and Trained for Law Enforcement; Exemption Any animal used by law enforcement agencies including but not limited to the City of Grand Island Police Department, the Hall County Sheriff's Department or the Nebraska State Patrol shall be exempted from the provisions of the Grand Island City Ordinances including the Animal Running at Large and Dangerous Dogs Ordinances while such animal is being trained or used for law enforcement purposes. SECTION 4. Section 5-2 as now existing, and any ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith be, and hereby are, repealed. SECTION 5. That this ordinance shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage and publication, within fifteen days in one issue of the Grand Island Independent as provided by law. Enacted: December 23, 2003. ____________________________________ Jay Vavricek, Mayor Attest: ________________________________ RaNae Edwards, City Clerk Item -3 Update on Northwest Grand Island Flood Study Sections of Northwest Grand Island experienced significant flooding during the 1967 flood. Most of the area North of Capital Avenue and West of Broadwell Avenue are within the 100 year flood plain. The area between Webb Road and US HWY 281 bounded by Capital Avenue on the North and with State Street on the South is also within the 100 year flood plain. There have been flood control improvements built in the area in the past, but the Moores Creek Wetshed and Northern Grand Island can still suffer considerable flood damage due to spill over of flood waters from two other watersheds, namely Silver Creek and Prairie Creek. The City of Grand Island has been working with the Central Platte Natural Resources District on a feasibility study and preliminary design of flood control measures for this area. Parson’s Engineering Science, Inc. of Denver Colorado is preparing a project grant application for Natural Resource Development Funds(NRDF). Gary Lewis of Parson’s will present details of the proposed project and grant application. Council will consider a resolution in support of the grant application at the December 23, 2003 regular meeting. Tuesday, December 16, 2003 Study Session City of Grand Island Staff Contact: Steven P. Riehle City of Grand Island City Council