[Vision2020] "Moscow Cares" Website (Update 022009-01)

[Tom Hansen]

Greetings Visionaires -

The "Moscow Cares" website has been updated to include the following 
videos and related documents from the February 17, 2009 Moscow city 
Council session.

1)  2008 Citizen Survey Report. (Accepted)

The Administration Department administered the fourth comprehensive City 
of Moscow Citizen Survey in November of 2008. The purpose of the survey 
was to assess the public’s opinion of various aspects of City services and 
operations. Additionally, questions were included by the City’s citizen 
committees and commissions related to each of the group’s charge and 
mission. The surveys were mailed to 1,200 randomly selected residents. A 
total of 356 completed surveys were received, which after accounting for 
non-deliverable surveys resulted in a 32% response rate.

http://www.MoscowCares.com/021709_04_CitizenSurveyReport.htm

2)  Proposed Ordinance to Classify Vicious Animal Violation as a 
Misdemeanor. (Passed 6-0)

Currently under Moscow City Code § 10-5-14, a citation for vicious animal 
is an infraction pursuant to M.C.C. §10-5-16. The violation of Idaho Code 
§25-2805(2) for a vicious dog results in a misdemeanor. Because of the 
serious nature and potential harm caused by vicious animals, it is 
proposed that the City of Moscow Code regarding wild and/or vicious 
animals be amended to align itself with the intent of Idaho State Code. 
The City Prosecutor, City Attorney's office, and Moscow Police Department 
are in agreement with this recommendation.

http://www.MoscowCares.com/021709_05_ViciousAnimal.htm

3)  Draft Ordinance to Add Appeals Procedures for Various Business 
Licenses.  (Passed 6-0)

A recent review of Title 9 revealed that certain business licenses issued 
by the City do not provide for an appeal process when they are denied, 
suspended, or revoked. The City Attorney recommends that an appeal process 
be created for the general business license (circuses, etc.); secondhand 
dealers and pawnbrokers; taxicabs; and solid waste haulers, in order to 
meet due process and fairness requirements. The addition of an appeals 
process will also help the City to create a factual, evidentiary and 
procedural record.

4)  Request By Waste Management, Inc. to Assign Solid Waste Export 
Contract to Waste Connections of Idaho, Inc.  (Passed 6-0)

The City has received a request from Waste Management, Inc. to assign its 
right under the contract to Waste Connections of Idaho, Inc. which is the 
company that has been subcontracting the actual hauling of municipal solid 
waste from the Latah Sanitation Transfer Station to Waste Management’s 
landfill at Arlington, Oregon. The terms of the contract between the City 
of Moscow and Waste Management contains a provision which allows for 
assignment with the City’s written consent. Staff reviewed and edited the 
document and recommends approval. Reviewed by the Administrative Committee 
on January 12 and 26, 2009.

http://www.MoscowCares.com/021709_07_ContWasteConIdaho.htm

5)  Moscow School District - License Agreement.  (Passed 6-0)

After receiving approval from the City Council to submit an application to 
the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation for funding to improve 
Paradise Path from Heron’s Hideout to Carol Ryrie Brink Nature Park, staff 
met with Moscow School District Superintendent Dr. Candis Donicht to 
inform her that the City was applying for the grant and that, if awarded, 
we would be able to pave the existing dirt path on the north end of the 
Joseph Street Property parallel to Paradise Creek within the Brink Nature 
Park. Dr. Donicht has offered a license agreement which would allow use of 
the property under certain requirements.

http://www.MoscowCares.com/021709_08_MSDLicAgr.htm

Up Next:  Discussion of Interpretation of Catering Permit Code.  

That's right, V-peeps.  Tune in tomorrow and watch Mayor Chaney, Bill 
Lambert, Dan Carscallen, John Weber, Tom Lamar, Walter Steed, and Wayne 
Krauss attempt to establish a definition for the word "party"; most of 
whom probably attended the Boston Tea Party.

Till then . . .

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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