1995-12-17 Regular Meeting Minutes of Bayview Drive Service District Board: 12/17/95
The meeting was called to order at 7:05 P.M. on 12/19/95 by continuing
chairman Reed Oswalt. Present were Gale Gray, Fred Roberts, Dawn Black
and Reed Oswalt. Gale Gray asked why we had previously hired A-K
Construction over other possible road maintenance contractors. Reed said
that it was because A-K is the only contractor willing to use heavy rock which
tends to stay on the road better. Fred made a motion to continue to hire A-K
Construction this winter. Dawn seconded it. The motion passed
unanimously. Reed said that A-K under Mr. John Zbitnoff (Zippy) and Jim
Grim(m) had upgraded to having a blade on a front end loader which was
faster and cheaper. Reed had made up a paper showing how much money
we have for our service district, as of Nov. 20, and how he used the money
we had previously. $2,603.94 was carried forward. $5,000 was newly
collected for this year giving a total of $7,603.94 available to our district. Mr.
Gerald Christensen of Kodiak Metals has been recommended for clearing
individual driveways of snow upon the request and consent of individual
property owners who wish to pay him $25.00 each time he does their
driveway. A-K itself will not clean driveways this year. He will follow the A-K
Construction "plow" and be informed by A-K when it is going to "plow"
Bayview. Mr. Christensen has the list of Bayview property owners and is
supposed to call them to see if they want his services. Reed said that our
service district operates on 1 mil tax, and Bell's Flats works on about 5 mil
tax. It costs about $365 to gravel the road and about $265 each time to
grade the road. Each year we need to make sure that our service district's
tax money that remains unused for road maintenance is carried forward for
that use by the Borough and that our money is not repooled into the General
Fund because our money is collected expressly for the purpose of our road's
maintenance. It is not grant money, although separate grant money could
be used on our road. Reed said that there should be such a use of borough
money on Bayview for a capital improvement project to install a guardrail
just past Reed's house where there is a deep and dangerous gulley that a
car could fall into. The gulley is too big to fill in. The borough previously
helped to fill in another less deep gulley by Schauff's house. Some extra
money that Bayview has should go to pay Fred for sawing-up, with special
equipment, the trees which fell on the road in last year's windstorm. Fred
was appointed by Reed to replace Reed as acting chairman when he was
absent last year. The trees fell off of Mr. Rick Baker's hillside property, and
more trees might fall off of that property. The borough says that Mr. Baker
might take some of his trees down himself. The road's guardrail was also
somewhat smashed by the trees that fell, and, perhaps, the borough could
also replace that guardrail. Guardrails come under capital improvement
which isn't our domain. Reed said that we are obligated to use our tax
money for snow removal, primarily. When we have money left over in the
spring, we use it to fix things up on the road. Last year with about $1,000-00
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of our money that was not used for snow removal, Reed had the road
gravelled, graded, rolled and had some corners where Bayview meets
Monashka Circle rounded off by filling them in more. Our road now has a
nice crown, few potholes, and is not so dangerous at the corners. After the
windstorm last year the electrical lines were also rerouted to come in to
Baker's property from Eufemio's, it seems. Previously, the fire department
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I Gale nominated Reed to be the chairman again for this coming
year. Dawn said there was a problem with having Reed as chairman
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chairman is the one who calls A -K to "plow" the road and who calls
meetings]. Fred said that he was willing to be the co- chairman [a capacity in
which he functioned at Reed's request last year]. Dawn seconded this
amended motion for Reed and Fred to be official co- chairmen because
someone who is officially in charge should be here for most of the winter,
she said. The motion was unopposed.
Our road sign for Bayview Drive has once again blown down, and the State
has been contacted to repair the situation. Some day we might have sewer
i in this area. It could be routed down by Eufemio's with a lift station on
Monashka Circle. Reed said that he calls the weather 1 -800 number when
he is considering having the road "plowed." It's difficult to know when to
plow. Fred said someone called to have the road plowed recently. Their 4-
wheel drive car couldn't get up the hill. $365 was spent on gravel, and then
right afterwards a warm front moved in, but, at any rate, putting on the heavy
rock helps build up the road. If we run over our funding, the Borough
assesses us more in tax. Fred said that we don't want accidents, and we
also don't want to run over budget.. The worst stretch of road is in front of
Fred's house so the chairmen gauge the necessity of plowing the road
based on how well cars can maneuver that stretch. Fred will be home most
of the time for another month. After that he will be available to take requests
for Bayview road plowing at Bell's Flats. He will supply us with his phone
number at that time. When Carol Heligso was on the board she told people
they should have 4 wheel drive and studded tires. Reed said that the
crucial consideration should be, "Do you want unlimited snow removal for
awhile or limited snow removal all winter ?" Some people who want snow
removed have previously called the Ak. Troopers or the, and they have
contacted the chairman. The mayor has also been called occasionally. To
simplify matters, one person (the chairman) should call A -K for
snow removal, and if he /she is going to be gone, then another person
should be appointed to call.
Reed will be gone from Dec. 28 to March 28, but we should have our
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required -by -law March budget meeting /public hearing during March. Reed
said that he did not need to be here for the meeting. There is a budget
summary on the back of page 4 - -19 in our orange Bay View booklet put out
j by the Borough, and public hearing laws are on page 4 - -08. We have two
booklets which Donna Smith, the Borough clerk gave us at an attempted
meeting a few weeks ago which was cancelled due to lack of a quorum. A-
K Construction does not have their new excavator on this year's summary as
the excavator is too new. We decided to have the budget meeting /public
hearing the first Tuesday in March 1996 which is the 5th at 7:00 PM. The
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borough clerk will be notified so she can publish the date in the newspaper
for the public hearing as required by law.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:02 P.M.
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Dawn Lea Black
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Acting Secretary
Note: Bay View Drive Service Area Board requests that the Kodiak Island
Borough use capital improvement funds to place a guardrail on the side of
Bay View Drive above the gulley which is just past Reed Oswalt's house
and also that Kodiak Island Borough repair the smashed guardrail below Mr.
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