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City of Kimberly minutes City Council October 14, 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 1-732-965-7646 Enter the Pin number 546 116 172 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 Swearing in of Sgt. Irving-Mayor Davidson Chief Bunderson Certificate Presentation Officer Orton- Chief Bunderson Jace Shaw was present for his government class project. 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. Cassandra Searby residing at 901 Ballard Lane, Kimberly, ID 83341- “I sent out an email earlier today. I wanted to extend; we wanted to extend an invite to our Levy session on Monday October 20th at 10:00 am at Rock Creek Fire Department. Our goal is to educate and provide accurate information about the Supplemental Levy and the Plant Facility Levy. Uh, and answer any questions you may have. Mr. Schroder, Superintendent Schroder will be leading that, and he hopes that you are able to attend. If you’re not, we will be hosting a community session on Saturday October 25th at 10:00 am at the Middle School Commons. So, you can attend one” Mayor- Questioned what the time frame was on the Saturday one. Cassandra- stated its form 10-11am. There will be refreshments. 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: A. DISCUSSION ACTION ITEM – Mayor recommendation to cancel and/or reschedule the regularly scheduled meeting on November 11, 2025 due to it being Veteran’s Day.- Mayor Davidon Craig- Stated he knew for sure the next meeting will have KBOA and at least three Public Hearings. Duncan- Questioned if there was a limit on how many times a meeting could be cancelled, or how often we must have one. Craig- Stated there was no limit on how many a year that he knows of. Tim Stover- Called and stated If you’re meeting at least once a month you are good. Mayor Davidson called for a motion: Council Member Snarr motioned to cancel the regularly scheduled meeting of November 11, 2025 due to it falling of Veteran’s Day. Council Member Tomlinson seconded the motion. Roll Call: Tomlinson-Yes Richman- Yes Duncan- Yes Snarr-Yes B. DISCUSSION ACTION ITEM – MVMPO update- handouts provided at meeting by Craig. Craig went through the two handouts thoroughly touching on all points. (see attached) He let the audience know the MVMPO stood for Magic Valley Metropolitan Organization, and that we are Federally mandated to participate. We started in 2018. AS everyone knows Kimberly has three voting rights there. Nancy will be resigning from her spot and Mr. Richman will be taking over. He pointed out the extension of Paintbrush, and stated eventually it will wrap up around to HWY 30. He referenced the Godfreys in attendance tonight. When they developed Select Source, they put in their curb, gutter, and sidewalks. Along with being able to still do a little landscaping, on their property. There is quite a bit of push back from the City of Twin Falls. Kimbelry gets beaten down quite often about Chobani not having curb, gutter, and sidewalk. He reminded everyone it was not Kimberly who signed off on that. It came out in the last MVMPO meeting that there certainly does need to have sidewalks for safety. How that happens, he doesn’t know. The City of Kimberly has been great stewards of getting those sidewalks in for safety. He hopes they become more vigilant for those sidewalks. Craig stated we now have a safe pedestrian pathway on all sides of the school. Craig stated there seems to be a hard drive from certain politicians to amend the maps to now include Filer, Buhl, and Hansen. They were all on board when this all started and chose not to be a part of this for numerous reasons. The City of Jerome gets to continue to receive their funds, and not part of the MPO. The MPO again, is mandated Federally based on density and connectivity of touching of the cities. That is why we had no choice. Craig stated to Mr. Richman and Mayor Davidson, that message was probably not well received in the meeting. We will see how that goes. To rework everything and reopen the maps. To get where we are, it takes several years and lots of money. We are right at a million dollars for this project. $755,000.00 in grants that have funded this. Craig had everyone look at the map and find the intersections. The one near and dear to us is Hwy 30/3400 E. intersection. This is now rated as “high”. It’s unfortunate it takes accidents and death to rate higher to qualify. ITD has rated this high now, due to having the highest property damage at that intersection in the MVMPO arena. This puts us into the “pool” for consideration / ranking of funds. We rated an 8 according to the maps. We have never qualified due to no fatalities for the last 12-years. The intersection with a light will look very similar to the light at Hankins and Addison. The intersection will be upwards of $2.2 million. You will have your Public Hearing on the 28th in front of you to recalculate the DIF fee for that intersection. Those are tied to the new developments. When we started collecting that, we were going for a match under $200,000. Unfortunately other intersections have had fatalities, and the cost is now much higher for our intersection. Craig then referenced the 2nd form again, Addison Ave. and 3300 East to State HWY 50, they are looking at additional lanes. There are three projects, we were told the ranking for the Blue Lakes/Perrine Bridge is #1, the #2 one is from HWY 50 to the Bridge, the #3 is the Third River Crossing. It’s the hot topic. (See attachments). Craig invited all to the MVMPO Community workshop on November 19, 2025 from 4-6 at RCFD. The information he has provided tonight will be there as well. He hopes to see everyone there. There’s the update he has for everyone, and will update them as he gets more information. Craig thanked Cassandra for the invite to receive information regarding the School Levy on the ballot this November. Duncan- Questioned, to be clear the MVMPO three projects are not funded in any way correct. Craig- Stated that pool of money, which now that we are nearing, that time, goes in with the other 5 MPO’s in Idaho. The lazy susan will turn, where are the fatalities at, crashes, damage are at. ISP stated 192 fatalities in the State this year to date up from 182 last year. Ada county actually is below the average compared to the Magic Valley. 1.1 vs 5.2 We are very thankful for our PD and first responders for keeping us safe. Everyone us trying their hardest to make things safer out there. Mayor- Stated that was great information, we have made great strides. Duncan- Stated Kimberly has held their own trying to get that light in. 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 September 23, 2025 B. Accounts Payable for September 24, 2025 – October 14, 2025 General Fund $ 53,345.45 Water Fund $ 22,899.34 Sewer Fund $ 6,859.64 Library $ 1,962.97 TOTAL $ 85,067.40 Mayor Davidson called for a motion: Council Member Richman motioned to approve the Consent Calendar as presented. Council Member Tomlinson seconded the motion. Roll Call: Tomlinson-Yes Richman- Yes Duncan- Yes Snarr-Yes 6. ADMINISTRATIVE / STAFF REPORTS - Chief Bunderson- Stated he had testing for applicants on October 20th and 28th coming up. There are six applicants and then they will narrow that down for the face-to-face interviews. Supervisor rolls are full. He will be moving one of the speed trailers from Center St. and leaving one there with the message of “NO U-TURNS”. Chief has had it saturated with officers during peak hours. Mayor- Stated the Chief has had a good response with that new 4-way. It’s gone better than the one at Polk and Emerald. Tomlinson- Stated there was a Tractor trailer setting on Center right before the stop sign. You can’t see the stop sign when approaching it. He is afraid someone will run it and get hurt. He asked if Chief could do anything about that. Chief- Stated he would have his night officer go check it out and have a conversation with them. They are banned from being in city limits. Tomlinson- well there’s no trailer on it. Just the tractor. Chief- Stated okay, he will have his officer go deal with it. City/P&Z Administrator Craig Eckles- Craig wanted to verify with the Chief and Council, as he is responding to a Public Records Request, the manuals we are using in conjunction with our Personnel Policy. It was about 4-5 years ago that the manual was Lexipol. (Chief agreed). The city still uses everything that was adopted by that. Chief- Correct, it was current through 2023. Craig- Okay, and in addition to that, the former Chief wanted to make some amendments to the other manual, which is IPPM, Idaho Policing Policy Manul. Craig went through the minutes of the last 10-years, and never found where the Council never repealed any of those manuals, or any of the other things that were put in place. Craig wanted to just confirm, because he is responding using Lexipol on some inquiries. Down the road if the Council decides to use something different that is up to them. So, for the record Lexipol, IPPM, and our Personnel Policy are what we are using. Craig, in response to Tomlinson’s statement regarding the tractor trailer, he wasn’t sure if the tractor itself exceeds 20,000 GVW. Will have to look at the laws on that. Craig was glad he brought it up. Just to the North of Monterey Jacks has been under construction. With the Lezamiz project for several weeks. Craig was really struggling with something similar to a tractor that was parked over there. It just sat there. It was really blocking the rapid beacon flashing light. He made a couple of calls and told them to find a different place to park. He understands it is handy to have it right across the street; however, it made driving through there very tight and was blocking that flashing light for crossing. It, again, comes down to life, safety, health. Craig stated he knew the Chief will look into that, and they are also working on other trucks parking in town. Craig stated there has been a huge change in traffic flow adding the Stops signs at Oak St. and Center, and the U-Turns are nearly gone. He will be meeting with the Chief and Brian on a more permanent solution. Will it be concrete, or yellow posts attached to the road like what’s in front of Ridley’s. Change is hard. Stop signs are hard. It comes down to life, safety, health. The biggest improvement has been the 4-way stop on Polk St. That has been a long time coming. It was part of the traffic study. There will be another traffic study in about a year. With the signs going up in our problem areas, they do work and traffic is slowing down. Again, LIFE, SAFETY, HEALTH. Mayor- Stated the 3-way on Emerald and Center has been a huge success. Brian Reed City Engineer/Public Works Director- Stated the PI systems will be shutting down this week, probably tomorrow. The crew is starting to winterize everything. They had to install a new hydrant at Topaz and Gem. Brian stated the speed dips are done for this year. Good Neighbor Sub-division is finishing up on the water side, and sewer is getting close. Big Sky has lots of effort going into the water lines going in. He is hoping for asphalt this year. They are starting to work towards Paintbrush. Duncan- Questioned if the water gets shut off through the PI systems, how is the new park getting watered? Does this mean no playing on it until 2027? Craig- Stated they are doing what they can as fast as they can. It all depends on lots of different factors. Trying to get it done ASAP. He stated the sprinkler system is going in now. Brian- Stated it all depends on the weather. Carrie Kimball City Clerk- Had nothing further to add for the night. 7. COUNCIL COMMENTS - None 8. MAYOR COMMENTS – None 9. EXECUTIVE SESSION – DISCUSSION-ACTION ITEM- None ADJOURNMENT: _______________________ ______________________ City Clerk-Carrie Kimball Mayor- Burke Davidson
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