Minutes of the Richland County Zoning & Land Information Committee

Monday, February 3, 2014

 

Item #1            CALL TO ORDER The Zoning & Land Information Committee meeting was called to order by Chairman Rasmussen at   9:00 am. Those that were present or signed up to speak were Bob Holets, Gaylord Deets, Larry Sebranek, Marilyn Marshall, James Lewis, Virginia Wiedenfeld, Matt Filus, Paul Klawiter, Connie Champnoise, Lynn Newkirk, Mike Bindl with Cheryl Dull taking minutes.

 

Item #2            Approve agenda and publication  Moved by Bob to approve the publication and agenda, 2nd by Virginia.  Motion carried.

 

Item #3            Approve minutes of the January 9, 2014 meeting  Moved by Virginia to accept the minutes are presented, 2nd by Jim. Motion carried.

 

Item #4            pay bills   Matt stated he is present because there was a question on one of his bills last month and he would like to explain his bill for database editing invoice. He stated he grouped his hours together on the last day of the month in order to simplify his bill. Virginia asked Matt if he had the dates worked to put on the bill. Matt stated he could provide them. Moved by Virginia to approve the payment of the bill as long as Matt attaches the actual dates worked to the bill prior to submitting, 2nd by Bob. Motion carried.

Paul presented a bill for $1800.00 for Azmark for coordinates of 30 corners @ $60.00/corner completed in December. Matt verified the work has been completed and reminded the committee this is money that is coming out of the surveyors budget. Moved by Bob to approve payment of the Azmark bill, 2nd by Gaylord. Motion carried. Remaining corners from Azmark will be billed at $138.71 for 30 corners.

 

Item #5            2014 Contract with msa   Paul presented MSA’s contact for 2014. They have changed $2500.00 per year in the past. This year they have increased it to $3000.00. Larry felt a 20% increase was a little high. Paul stated he has not had any contact with them, he was handed this contract recently. Matt asked how much technical support do we get from MSA? Paul stated that would be a question for Mike, Mike referred that question to Lynn. Lynn was then asked to come to the meeting to answer the committee questions. Lynn stated she doesn’t use them as much as she use to, she contacts ESRI for support more often. Lynn added she likes to talk to MSA on occasion about were we are with mapping vs. other counties. Lynn stated she thought the $3000.00 was for the website with technical support being extra. Mike added $2000.00 was for GIS, $500.00 was NR 151, and he thought $500.00 was for Matt’s layer. Paul advised this committee this money is coming out Electronic Access. Moved by Bob to approve the contract, 2nd by Jim. Motion carried.

 

Item #6            farmland preservation conversion fee account  Mike presented 2 documents that the farmland preservation conversion fees shall be kept by the counties and shall be spent for zoning and/or compliance monitoring. The resolution doesn’t specify which department is to spend it. The transfer of money was tabled at County Board and it will go back before the County Board at the next meeting. Mike stated we do need to complete the Farmland preservation ordinance so some could be used for that.

 

Item #7            waive fee request   The City’s Municipal Waste Water treatment plant are asking that the some fees be waived because some are structures and not buildings. Mike looked back through Consumers Coops permits for bins that were built and they had to pay fees for everyone they built. Mike stated they are requesting fee waiving of approximately $3000.00. Virginia made the motion that the fees not be waived, 2nd by Larry. Motion carried.

 

Item #8            office report   Mike reported there are 2 rezones that have not gone to County Board yet. One is Weeden who picked the surveyor they we just released from contract, apparently they are still not doing work and Welte which has a deed restriction. He reported Phyillis Keller is selling land to her son and keeping a small amount of acreage and Dave Matthes is selling land, keeping 5 acres to create holding pens for animals prior to auction. Both will be coming before the committee next month. Forest township wants a conditional use for Matthes that this for temporary live stock retention only.

Richard presented a non-metallic mining ordinance that is more condensed then previous versions presented. Richard is going to ask that this version be brought before the sub committee tomorrow afternoon, the Frac Sand Committee February 10th and the Zoning Committee in March. Bob stated he feels the sub committee has not gotten to the point were they have discussed exactly what they want in the ordinance.

Mike stated Richwood Township had a town meeting last month with a vote for the Township to go to County wide zoning.

 

Item #9            adjourn  Next meeting will be Monday, March 3rd @ 9:00 am. Moved by Virginia to adjourn at 9:44 am, 2nd by Larry. Motion carried.

 

Minutes respectfully submitted by Cheryl Dull.