City of Kimberly | minutes | meeting 2025-11-11 | Council Meeting source: https://www.cityofkimberly.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_11112025-201 City of Kimberly minutes City Council November 25, 2025 MEETING minutes 6:00 pm 242 Hwy 30 E., Kimberly, ID 83341 Provisions are being made to support Council, Staff and Public participation, in this public meeting, via a telephone conference call option, or you may attend in person. TO PARTICIPATE BY PHONE, call in at approximately 5:55 p.m. to the conference call number 1-401-526-4234 Enter the Pin number 124 201 904 followed by the pound # sign. CALL TO ORDER & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WELCOME – PLEASE TURN OFF CELL PHONES – THANK YOU ROLL CALL OF CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS City Clerk Carrie Kimball took roll call: Tomlinson-Yes Richman- Yes Duncan- Yes Snarr-Yes CEREMONIES, ANNOUNCEMENTS, PRESENTATIONS None AMENDMENTS TO THE AGENDA None DECLARATION OF CONFLICT None 1. CITIZEN ISSUES – PUBLIC INPUT –No person shall be permitted to speak from a location other than the public podium. This section of the agenda is reserved for citizens wishing to address the Council regarding a City-related issue. In order to ensure adequate public notice, Idaho Law provides that any item requiring Council action must be placed on the agenda of an upcoming Council meeting, except for emergency circumstances. Comments related to future public hearings should be held for that public hearing. Persons wishing to speak will have 3 minutes. Comments regarding performance by city employees are inappropriate at this time and should be directed to the Mayor, either by subsequent appointment or after tonight’s meeting if time permitting. Public participation at a Kimberly City Council meeting is limited to participation in the public comment portion of the meeting. The City Council does not take any action or make any decisions during public comment. Robin Smith- 430 Center St. East, Kimberly Idaho- “I want to talk about dogs not allowed in the parks. I always take my dogs out to walk. I’m always out walking, uhm, but ya can’t walk through the parks. And so, I have always, its just a big(inaudible) dog in the park. All of them, Buhl, Wendell, Jerome, all of them allow dogs in the park. And I just, why, why, WHY can’ we have dogs in the park. I mean if they are unleashed, ya know I, I could say that. If they’re under control. I’m willing to volunteer my time picking up dog poop if that’s a problem. I mean I don’t have a problem with it. Its not big deal. I’d be happy to do that, but I just, well it would be good for the community. There are a lot of people that just let their dogs just run loose, um and those are the ones that are a problem. If the people were ya know, we’re trying ya know just people trying to take our dogs out walking ya know. I think it would be a good thing. Mayor- Thanked her and asked her to leave her email address with the City Clerk so either Brian or Code enforcement can get back in touch with you. Robin- “Okay, and my next thing, there’s one more. Is there something we can do to bring pride back into our community. Um, ya know I know there are a lot of new homes out there on the outskirts of town, that are big and beautiful. But the downtown is pretty janky. It’s ya know, people don’t take pride in anything anymore. I mean not everybody, but some of us, we try to keep things neat. Then you got a few that just will not. I mean when we moved here, if there were weed in the ally, we got cited. And, so, I don’t know if there’s code enforcement here anymore, but I’d just think, well okay, how could we do this. Ya know maybe we could put it on the bills, something like that. Put something, hey let’s take pride in our community, lets keep our yards something. I don’t know. It was just an idea. I wish we could ya know, cuz on all the tree streets, they get pretty shaggy looking. People just don’t take pride in their homes anymore” Mayor- Thanked her and asked her again to please leave her email with the Clerk. 2. PUBLIC HEARINGS RULES - Items listed as public hearings allow citizen comment on the subject matter before the Council. Residents or visitors wishing to comment upon the item before the Council should follow the procedural steps. In order to testify, individuals must sign up in advance, providing sufficient information to allow the Clerk to properly record their testimony in the official record of the City Council. Hearing procedures call for presentation by the applicant, submission of information from City staff, and is followed by public testimony. The rules for testifying include the following: applicant will have 15 minutes to present their project; testimony by the public will be limited to 3 minutes per person. Testimony at public hearings on applications brought forth from the Planning & Zoning Commission can be used to reaffirm previous testimony. PUBLIC HEARINGS: None 3. NEW BUSINESS: None 4. UNFINISHED BUSINESS: None 5. CONSENT CALENDAR- Discussion - Action -The consent calendar includes items which require formal Council action, but which are typically routine or not of great controversy. Individual Council members may ask that any specific item be removed from the consent calendar in order that it is discussed in greater detail. Explanatory information is included in the Council agenda packet regarding these items and any contingencies are part of the approval. A. Approve Minutes for October 28, 2025 B. Accounts Payable for October 30, 2025 – November 25, 2025 General Fund $ 5,688.27 Water Fund $ 25,720.45 Sewer Fund $ 1,367.00 Library $ 655.70 TOTAL $ 33,431.42 Mayor Davidson called for a motion: Council Member Tomlinson motioned to approve the Consent Calendar as presented. Council President Duncan seconded the motion. Roll Call: Tomlinson-Yes Richman- Yes Duncan- Yes Snarr-Yes 6. ADMINISTRATIVE / STAFF REPORTS - Chief Bunderson- Stated He officially has a new officer starting January 5, 2026. He accepted the offer today. New K-9 Ellie will arrive on December 2, 2025. This will give Officer Newell and Officer Ellie time to bond before heading off to training and certification. That training will start December 8, 2025. He wanted to remind everyone about St. Nichalas festival happening December 6, 2025. The new Flocking system is going in. Lexipol starts its new release on December 1, 2025, and all of his officers have the new issue. Chief had his risk assessment with ICRMP today, and it went well. Tomlinson- wanted to know about the accident on the HWY 30 corner and why it took so long to open the roads back up. Chief- stated just before noon, a non-Kimberly resident in a Honda Ridgeline failed to yield for a semi-truck. The semi was disabled in the accident across the lanes of traffic. It also lost 10-15 gallons of oil on the road. It takes time to clean that up to ensure safety prior to re-opening the road. Some motorist had already driven through it before KPD was on the scene. ITD came in and finished the clean-up on their HWY. City/P&Z Administrator Craig Eckles- Stated he has been working with the City of Twin Falls for Sewer Capacities. It will be a few months before he knows the cost of those. As everyone knows funds have been collected for that and are in General Fund. He will be reaching out to Council at time of purchase for that. 11-years ago sewer capacities were not held to the specific site and were being assigned to other areas banking on that site that they were pulled from didn’t develop in a near future plan, that won’t ever happen again. Pending the new costs as we are a pass through of the costs we pay Twin Falls, I expect them to be bought quickly. In the Red Cap Plaza area, there are a few people kicking around dirt up there. He reminded them of the stub-out that was put in the Red Cap Plaza parking lot when Les Schwab went in. He will disclose more information as it is legally allowed. There are still about 3,000 acres left in the Area of Impact, our planned growth area. As Brian knows this impact area has been included in our water master studies and sewer studies. This is the area we plan on in our future growth, primarily our growth areas are residential. That is what our city plans on as we continue to grow. Duncan- stated, everything that is platted and or developed is accounted for, or have purchased the applicable water and sewer capacities. Craig- Stated yes, in-conjunction with lands that have not developed or platted such as the ground to the east of Red Cap Plaza owned by Ridley’s, who purchased their capacities many years ago, Ballards Phase IV purchased sewer capacities also and others. Brian Reed City Engineer/Public Works Director- Stated the crew is geared up for Winter. Christmas decorations are going up, and banners as well. Olsen Farms has their curb, gutter, and sidewalk in and pouring phase II. Good Neighbor Sub-division is almost done as well. Big Sky has curb, gutter, and side-walk in. Crack seal is done, and a barricade will go on Polk West. Carrie Kimball City Clerk- Reminded everyone the Annual Audit was coming up on December 3, 2025. Once all of the Audit entries are in and last Fiscal Year is totally closed, she will present updated financials. 7. COUNCIL COMMENTS - None 8. MAYOR COMMENTS – Reminded everyone about not getting on Facebook or other social media. If you do, you better make sure its factual. We have a policy 9. EXECUTIVE SESSION – DISCUSSION-ACTION ITEM- None ADJOURNMENT: _______________________________ _______________________ City Clerk-Carrie Kimball Mayor- Burke Davidson