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Votes at a glance: Pocatello council approves multiple routine contracts, plats and purchases

2247892 · February 7, 2025

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Summary

The City Council approved a batch of consent and agenda items including plats, contracts, grant agreements, equipment purchases, surplus donations and an ordinance rezoning a property at 155 Willard Ave.

At its meeting the Pocatello City Council approved a number of routine and consent items by individual motions or as part of roll-call votes. The measures included plat amendments and final plats, grant agreements, contract awards, equipment purchases, a rezoning ordinance and several departmental procurement actions. Below are the actions taken and key details noted in the staff presentations.

Votes and key details

- Iron Eagle Estates Division 3 partial replat amendment (Agenda item 9): Motion approved to amend the recorded plat per staff recommendations and conditions. (Mover: Council President Loehrke; second: Mangum.)

- Stands Industrial Park final plat (Agenda item 10): Council approved a final plat to subdivide roughly 4.93 acres into 10 commercial lots at the 6100 block of South Fifth Avenue (zoning: RCP) with staff conditions. (Mover: Mangum; second: Paulson.)

- Airport grant agreements and resolutions (Agenda item 12): Council adopted resolutions accepting two Idaho Transportation Department Division of Aeronautics grants, $15,000 for taxi-lane design and construction for hangar development and $1,000,000 for rehabilitation of Runway 3/21; staff said no local match is required. (Mover: Mangum; second: Paulson.)

- Police firearms purchase (Agenda item 13): Council approved the police department's trade-in and purchase of 20 new Glock 45 MOS handguns at $240.75 each for a stated total of $4,815; funds were available in the FY2025 Police budget. (Mover: Nichols; second: Lyrick.)

- Police surplus property donation to Idaho State University (Agenda item 14): Council declared select vehicles and radios surplus and authorized donation to Idaho State University for its law enforcement program, subject to city policy and legal review. (Mover: Lueck; second: Mangum.)

- Use agreement for Pocatello Heights baseball at Scardino Park (Agenda item 15): Council approved a use agreement for Casey Cleves / Pocatello Heights baseball to schedule and prepare ball fields April–August 2025. (Mover: Mangum; second: Paulson.)

- Resolution dissolving ADA grievance committee (Agenda item 16): Council adopted a resolution dissolving the city's ADA grievance committee and designating the ADA coordinator (Skyler Beebe) to handle grievances with appeals to the mayor or designee per federal ADA best-practice templates. Council and staff said the committee had never convened and the new process aligns with ADA templates. (Mover: Council President Lyric; second: Council Member Cheatham.)

- Professional architectural services for Riverside Golf Clubhouse (Agenda item 17): Council accepted staff recommendation and awarded design services to Booth Architecture, PLLC, with funding reserved in general fund reserves. (Mover: Mangum; second: Paulson.)

- Construction management services for recycling center (Agenda item 19): Council awarded construction management to Construction Services, Inc. for a partial remodel of the recycling center at 3034 Garrett Way; funding budgeted in FY2025 sanitation budget. (Mover: Nichols; second: Lyric.)

- Multiple sanitation and street services piggyback purchases (Agenda items 20, 22, 23): Council approved piggyback purchases of roll-off, front-load and side-load refuse trucks (Peterbilt) and street equipment (Western States Caterpillar) as outlined in staff reports, with total amounts listed in the staff documents and funding from FY2025 departmental budgets. (Mover: Lyric; second: Mangum/Paulson as noted.)

- Professional services agreement for pavement condition survey (Agenda item 21): Council awarded survey services to IMS Infrastructure Management Services LP for $58,795. (Mover: Lueck; second: Mangum.)

- Ordinance rezoning 155 Willard Avenue (Agenda item 24): Council read the ordinance by title and placed it on final passage, rezoning the property from Commercial General (CG) to Residential Medium Density Single Family (RMS); the motion included direction to publish the ordinance summary. (Mover: Mangum; second: Cheatham.)

Each item was presented with staff recommendations; details and conditions for approvals were recorded in staff reports and the meeting record.