Treasure Valley Partnership
Meeting Minutes
May 22, 2006

Mayor Merrill welcomed everyone to the new Eagle City Hall building.

Doug Armstrong of KTVB Channel 7 delivered a presentation on the State of the City/County addresses this past year. He showed a video of excerpts from the addresses that highlighted points to think about when designing future State of the City/County addresses.

Suggestions for improving the visual impact of these addresses:

1. With the venue being used, a raised stage allows the camera to focus on the speakers without catching people eating, moving around, etc.

2. A table for dignitaries that are being introduced would assist the camera person. Or orienting the camera person with an agenda and location of the people being introduced would help as well.

3. Holding the State of the City/County Addresses between 9-11 am and 1-2 pm will allow channel 7 to enhance the exposure of the address on the Internet and allows for them to do a good job of graphics on the address.

4. Backgrounds with a variety of color assist in the visibility of the session.

5. Try to keep your visual aid projectors from directly behind you. It is best to have the screen off to the side.

6. Power Point presentations don’t come across well on television.

7. Have lights in front of speaker instead of behind them.

8. They do not have the broadcast resources past an hour per address.

9. 30-60 minute addresses work best for TV.

10. Mayor Merrill indicated that the Partnership has been talking about flood ordinances for the past couple of meetings. There are 3 things that people she has conferred with that they believe we all need to make sure our ordinances include.

11. No Adverse Affect - If you are going to develop on the flood plain, you need to prove that you are not going to have an adverse impact on the property adjacent, across, etc.

12. Minimum setbacks from the floodway.

13. The amount of base flood elevation development.

Mayor Merrill indicated that one of the things we could do to have an impact on flood damage is to require developers in their CCR’s to have set-aside money for flood mitigation.

Doug Hardman stated that as elected officials, it is important to remember that there is no flood response team. You almost have to do it on an ad hoc basis. Ultimately, who is responsible is, you the chief elected official in your communities. All your power rests in your floodplain ordinances.

Commissioner Yzaguirre suggested that we have Bill put together a matrix on the floodplain ordinances of the members. Bill indicated it would be ready for the next meeting.

Doug indicated that there are a couple of reasons to declare a disaster emergency. One is to give your self some limited immunity and the other is to request some assistance from another entity within the State.

Donna Horan gave a presentation on the Boise River Sweep Program. This is going to be the 5th year of the Program. She described the river sweep effort all the way down stream past Caldwell and discussed the fund raising efforts they have undertaken this year.

Bill Larsen called for approval of the minutes from the April meeting. Margie Watson moved to approve the minutes, Nate Mitchell seconded, motion carried.

Bill indicated that he had reworked the budget based on requests from members. The new budget, details projects for this year, and balances income and expenditures for the year. Nate Mitchell moved to approve the budget/finance report, Margie Watson seconded, motion carried.

SAUSA Project MOU - Bill stated that the MOU was just complete that morning. He indicated that the MOU appeared to lack the supervision language the TVP members were wanting in the MOU. Bill volunteered to develop the supervision language for the MOU and pass it around the SAUSA committee members to get their buy-in on the language we wanted in the MOU.

Tom Dale indicated he had concerns about the project. His concern is that with the MOU, the TVP looses oversight and control of the SAUSA Project employee. He wanted to make sure that the TVP retain control of this employee and this project.

There was a discussion about this SAUSA Project employee being a pass through employee of Canyon County. There has been some precedence of employment through one of the member municipalities for TVP and other nonprofit employees. In these instances, the control over the decision-making on the employee remained with the nonprofit. An example would be Kelli Fairless several years ago.

Meeting Adjorned