The city’s Planning Commission has a list of priorities for the new year after the Bonney Lake City Council approved the 2010 work plan at its Jan. 12 meeting.
Listed as high priorities the plan are: updating the Shoreline Master Plan; updating a landscaping code to include requirements for maintenance; addressing provisions for interim buildings and uses in downtown design standards and downtown core zoning; and updating a capital facilities plan that includes inventory of city-owned buildings and other facilities.
In March 2008, the council adopted a resolution which indicated updates of the Planning Commission work plan would be done through a motion of the council.
The city is currently taking application for two vacancies on the Planning Commissions with the departure of Randy McKibbin and Donn Lewis, both elected to the city council.
The commission meets at 5:30 p.m. the first and third Wednesdays of each month at City Hall.
The council approved a new collective bargaining agreement with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local No. 120 for 2010 to 2012.
The city and the local AFSCME union have been negotiating a successor agreement to the collective bargaining agreement that expired Dec. 31.
Under the terms of the new agreement, there will be no wage adjustment in 2010 aside from the 3 percent step increase and phase-in of 13 employees who fall below the minimum salary.
The contract also changes union wages to a market-based scale for classifications that have fallen behind the market rate. The agreement also changes employees’ medical plans from a $5 copay with Group Health to $10 by HealthFirst and Group Health’s $10 copay effective March 1.
The employer agreed to pay up to $115 a month for dental insurance and $25 a month for vision.
The union approved the agreement at their Jan. 6 general membership meeting.
In other action Jan. 12, the council:
• approved an interlocal agreement with Buckley for planning services. The city will provide Buckley, which recently laid off its planner, with on-call planning services. The primary planner assigned to the agreement anticipated a quarter-time to half-time arrangement, which can be terminated by either city with a 60-day notice.
• approved a maintenance plan with the state Department of Transportation for the “vegetated medians” coming to a stretch of state Route 410.
• authorized the purchase and installation of 15 street lights in the state Route 410 medians between 214th Avenue East and 234th Avenue East at a cost of $138,000, which will come from Traffic Impact Fees.
• authorize a stormwater mitigation agreement with the state’s Department of Transportation for property along state Route 410 between 214th Avenue East and 234th Avenue East.
• authorized an interlocal agreement with the Sumner School District and city of Sumner to operate a joint recreation program.
• appointed Councilman James Rackley as a representative to the Pierce County Regional Council with Councilman Mark Hamilton as alternate.
