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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 04/23/1991 - City CouncilSPECIAL MEETING APRIL 23, 1991 A Special Meeting of the McHenry City Council was called to order by Mayor Busse on Tuesday, April 23, 1991 at 7:30 P.M. in City Hall. At roll call the following Aldermen were present: Bolger, Donahue, Teta, Lieder, Smith, Serritella. Patterson arrived 7:40 P.M. McClatchey arrived at 7:50 P.M. Absent: None. City Staff in attendance were: City Clerk Gilpin, City Attorney IJarusis, and City Administrator Peterson. Also in attendance were Jim Althoff of the McHenry Township Fire Protection District; Bill Landis and Chris Cardamone of School District 15, Dr. Mowery and Steve Cuda of School District 156; Catherine Kasper, Marilyn Lean and Jerry Benes of the McHenry Public Library District; Developers Don Meyer and Brian Cunat; and news reporters Joe King and Roger Rouland. Mayor Busse announced the purpose of the meeting was to discuss amending the Developer Donation Ordinance concerning collection of fees for school districts, library district, and fire protection district. Alderman Lieder, Chairman of the Finance Committee, presented a Developer Donation Plan which reflected his ideas for administering a formula for developer donation fee collections. He felt his plan would be easy to administer and adjust each year utlizing an automatic change which would occur on the first day of February every year. The plan would take into consideration the impact that new development has on the local school districts and local taxpayers. He also felt his plan took into consideration the developers and the impact those fees would have on them and new residents moving into the community. He presented his plan for a Developer Donation Cost/Revenue Methodology which would serve as the basis for determining all future developer donation costs. He recommended that the computations to determine cost be updated every other year, beginning with the developer fees established to begin on June 1, 1991. He also recommended that the City treat all apartments as two bedrooms. Lieder further recommended that the developer donation fees should reach the level of paying the entire cost of a new school based on the number of students generated by a three, four, and five bedroom home. Based on his Developer Donation Cost/Revenue Methodology sheet dated April 23, 1991, this level could be too large of an increase to accomplish in one year and therefore the Council might want to consider reaching the cost of a new school over a longer period of time. The proposed fees and increases he suggested were based on a projected 5% CPI increase and would be adjusted every other year based on the actual CPI. He felt the plan as presented would be easy to administer and would allow developers to use the information to plan accordingly. City Administrator Peterson pointed out that two County ordinances which provide for the collection of impact fees from developers or owners of property who build in an unincorporated part of the County were included with the Council information. The County does not provide for the collection of impact fees for other types of governmental units, only schools. Based upon the County school donation formula, McHenry School District 15 & 156 will receive $2,630.34 for a new three bedroom home which is divided in accordance with a mutually agreed upon split of 65% to District 15 and 35% to District 156. The County School Donation Ordinance does not apply to areas of the County which are within the limits of an incorporated area. A major concern of several Aldermen were the legal technicalities involved with adopting this ordinance based on the Naperville case. There appeared to be no problem with the issue of land donation, but some concern was expressed when the Council gets into the area of requiring cash donations. Some aldermen felt that based on the Naperville Ordinance and on the advice of Attorney Narusis, the Council should not go ahead until it is certain that a lawsuit would not be filed against the City. Other Aldermen felt that it was impossible to determine what might happen in the future, and therefore, felt the Council should proceed with implementing the Developer Donation Ordinance as presented. Mayor Busse called for a recess at 8:56 P.M. The Meeting reconvened at 9:10 P.M. with everyone still in attendance. April 23, 1991 Page 2 Discussion continued between the Aldermen and representatives of School Districts 15 and 156. Motion by Lieder, seconded by Patterson, to agree in principle with the Developer Donation figures for schools as follows and to present this concept to taxing districts and developers for comment: Three Bedroom home - $2,600.00 Four Bedroom home - $3,600.00 Five Bedroom home - $3,700.00 Two B/R Apartment - $ 643.00 Three B/R Apartment- $2,700.00 To implement the above figures for 1991; to adjust the fee schedule formula through 1993 based on actual Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures utilizing the same CPI figure used by the City in reviewing salary issues relataive to employee salaries, and to implement an automatic increase every February 1 through 1993. Voting Aye: Bolger, Teta, Lieder, McClatchey, Patterson. Voting Nay: Donahue, Smith, Serritella. Absent: None. Motion carried. It was suggested that other communities who send students to District 15 and 156 School Districts should also be encouraged to charge developer donation fees to pay their fair share toward growth in the schools. Discussion was then held on the library district and fire district developer donation fees. Motion by Smith, seconded by Serritella, to require developer donation fees for the library district and the fire district of $200.00 each for a three bedroom home with that amount to be adjusted for other bedroom homes based on the Illinois School Consultant Plan, and to review those fees after one year. Voting Aye: Voting Nay: Absent: Motion carried. Bolger, Donahue, Smith, McClatchey, Serritella. Teta, Lieder, Patterson. None. Motion by Teta, seconded by Patterson, to raise the developer donation fee for the library district from $200.00 to $250.00. Voting Aye: Patterson, Lieder, Teta. Voting Nay: Serritella, McClatchey, Smith, Donahue, Bolger. Absent: None. Motion did not carry. Motion by Smith, seconded by McClatchey, to adjourn. Voting Aye: Bolger, Donahue, Lieder, Teta, Smith, McClatchey, Patterson, Serritella. Voting Nay: None. Absent: None Motion carried. The Meeting adjourned at 10:14 P.M.