Minutes - 2023 - City Council - 05/30/2023 - Town Hall EAGLE CITY COUNCIL
TOWN HALL MEETING MINUTES
May 30,2023
1. CALL TO ORDER: Mayor Pierce calls the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m.
2. ROLL CALL: Present: GINDLESPERGER,PIKE,BAUN,RUSSELL.ALL PRESENT.
A quorum is present.
3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Mayor Pierce leads the Pledge of Allegiance.
4. TOWN HALL MEETING:The City of Eagle is pleased to invite all Eagle residents to attend
the town hall meeting. Out of courtesy for all who wish to speak, each speaker should limit
their presentation to three (3) minutes. If time permits, and after all attendees who wish to
address the City Council have done so, the City Council may invite rebuttals or engage in
additional discussions with the attendees. Most items are eligible for discussion,however,due
to the public hearing regulations associated with land use applications,discussion/testimony of
any pending application before the City must be reserved for the date of the officially scheduled
public hearing noticed for City Council or the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Burk Mantel,4690 North Hartley Road,Eagle,Idaho.Mr. Mantel expresses great concern that the
increased use of BLM land, at the end of Hartley Road, is dangerous. This use includes shooting,
off road driving, and fires for parties. Mr. Mantel feels the increase has come about because of the
ordinance the current Mayor and Council eliminated.
Mayor Pierce cites that BLM land allows the activities currently going on by federal law. He does
not believe that the City of Eagle should restrict people from being able to do what federal law
allows.
Councilman Baun clarifies that changing the ordinance did not change the usage.He states that the
issue is continued public use that can only be mitigated by putting together a public use plan.Which
they are working on.
As no one else chooses to speak, Mr. Mantel continues to express concern over road safety; both
the condition of the road and leftover nails from burning pallets for fires that could hinder
emergency services accessing the area.
Councilman Baun clarifies that the public has one access road, Hartley, but emergency services
have multiple access roads.He states the concerns raised by Mr.Mantel are issues that public lands
everywhere face, and that the City and BLM are taking active steps to address them.
Mr.Mantel finishes by giving a brief lesson on"Slick Spot Peppergrass", an endangered plant that
is native to the area.
Ed Thomas,300 South Cobblestone Way,Eagle,Idaho.He comments on the previous speaker,that
some of the examples cited are already illegal and more laws are unlikely to deter the behavior. He
expresses concern over part of Cobblestone Road that becomes too narrow due to parking on both
sides of the street and would like to know if a portion of the road could be "no parking" to help
remedy the current bottleneck.
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Tom Kress, 5002 Highway 16, Eagle, Idaho. What concerns him are the potential problematic
situations that groups,particularly kids, can get into when they go out in large groups on the BLM
land and states it is the duty of"we as parents"to instruct them.
Mayor Pierce mentions the completion of the Bike/Pedestrian bridge on Eagle Road as an example
of government working well for the community.
Councilman Baun encourages Mayor Pierce to give an example of government not working so
well.
Mayor Pierce explains the Dry Creek "Green T" intersection on highway 55 that reduces south
bound traffic to one lane. The County allowed the planned community of Dry Creek to change the
original agreement with the developer which resulted in restricting the flow of traffic on highway
55. Mayor Pierce feels it is sad that it was allowed to happen and cites it as one reason why it's
important for Eagle to control as much land around it as possible,so others are not making decisions
that impact the City.
13. ADJOURNMENT:
Meeting adjourned at 6:09 p.m.
Baun moves to adjourn. Seconded by Russell. ALL AYE...MOTION CARRIES.
Respectful s milted:
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ADMINISTRATIVE CLERK II
APPROVED:
J'`0 PIERCE
MA'OR
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