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Fruita City Council Minutes 6 April 3, 2012PUBLIC HEARINGSThere were no public hearing items on the agenda.7. ADMINISTRATIVE AGENDAThere were no Administrative items on the agenda.8. COUNCIL REPORTS AND ACTIONSA. DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION TO CONSIDER TAKING A POSITIONON MESA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 51’S BUDGET ISSUES ANDOVERCROWDING ISSUESCity Manager Clint Kinney stated that Mesa County School District is continuing to evaluate itscurrent budget situation and overcrowding issues. The Council packets contained a draft letter anda draft resolution for Council consideration. The letter/resolution is designed to help the SchoolDistrict understand the City Council’s position regarding the issues.Mr. Kinney noted that Councilor Fuller had a couple of grammatical suggestions that didn’t make itinto the Council packets.Mr. Kinney continued that the proposal as he understands it is that the boundary lines betweenShelledy and Rimrock Elementaries would be adjusted so that about 80 children from Rimrockwould attend Shelledy Elementary and approximately 150 children from Shelledy who live in southFruita would be bused to Loma.Councilor Moss said he thought the Council should send the letter. Councilor Fuller said that hefelt that the Council should try to keep the kids who live in Fruita in Fruita schools. He said hethought the letter expressed the Council’s concern about the issue.Mayor Henry said he understood that Harry Butler is the person who took the lead in opposing anytransporting of south Fruita kids to the Redlands area. He said the Council owes him a thanks.Councilor Mascarenas stated that her preference would be to send a letter and not a resolution. Shesaid she liked the draft letter and how it was written. She commented that this was an example ofhow Fruita is so different from the rest of the valley and that she was disappointed thatcommunication didn’t quite happen earlier. She said she thought the letter would help open upsome dialog between Fruita and the School District.Mayor Henry agreed with Councilor Mascarenas’ concern about the lack of communication, addingthat he spoke with Greg Mikolai the following day and indicated to him that there would most likelybe a letter coming. He said he also encouraged him to make sure in the future that when issues likethis come up, that the Fruita City Council be informed.Councilor Moss noted that Fruita would be impacted more than any other community in the valley.
Fruita City Council Minutes 7 April 3, 2012Mayor Henry said that prior to the opening of Rimrock, the kids from south Fruita were bused toLoma and there are still a number of children attending school there.Councilor Buck said that the budget issues are not going to go away, but she felt the letter was agood start to express the Council’s concerns to the School District. Councilors Bonar and Mulderagreed.COUNCILOR BUCK MOVED TO APPROVE AND EXECUTE THE LETTERDATED APRIL 3, 2012 TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. COUNCILORMASCARENAS SECONDED THE MOTION. THERE WERE 6 YES VOTES.B. COUNCIL REPORTS AND ACTIONSCOUNCILOR BONARCouncilor Bonar reported that he would be meeting with the Colorado Mesa Capstone students thefollowing day to discuss the formatting of their final report on the preliminary evaluation of theKokopelli Trail extension. There are two students who are working on this as their Capstoneproject this fall to begin the more in-depth analysis, which will be Phase I – Cultural andendangered species. Councilor Bonar continued that the project is moving along and he expects tohave a presentation from the CMU Capstone students to the Council probably at the beginning ofMay. He added that the college is pretty excited about the partnership.Councilor Bonar also reported KAFM Community Radio’s Spring Membership Drive was currentlygoing on and he manned the phones at 6:00 a.m. earlier in the day. The station now has 300 wattsand pretty good saturation of the Fruita area.COUNCILOR MULDERCouncilor Mulder stated that kids are swimming at Snook’s Bottom already. He said he enjoyed theWastewater Treatment Plant tour that the Council took earlier that evening. He said he didn’texpect to see such a clean operation.COUNCILOR BUCKCouncilor Buck recalled that last year, the City of Fruita decided to be an underwriter for KAFMRadio but the Tourism Advisory Board wasn’t very excited about doing that again. She said for theamount of money, the Board feels it could be better spent elsewhere than on radio spots, so theywill not be underwriting again this year. She asked for the Council members’ opinions on it.Councilor Bonar said that for underwriting, the City received four reads per week that updatedpeople on current activities such as the Thursday Night Concert Series or other festivals held inFruita.Councilor Fuller asked if now was the appropriate time to make the decision about underwritingwith KAFM.
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