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April 6, 2005 Commission Minutes
04/06/2005 Location County Commission
  
Time Speaker Note
1:36:53 PM Chairman Murdock Call to Order. Present were Commissioners Murdock, Skinner and Vincent, and Acting Clerk to the Board Mary Miller. There was no public comment within the Commission's jurisdiction. Read the consent agenda as follows: 1. Approval of Budget Transfer - Bridge Department
1:37:36 PM Commissioner Vincent Move adoption of the consent agenda.
1:37:39 PM Commissioner Skinner Second
1:38:05 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
1:38:09 PM Chairman Murdock Receipt and Opening of Bids for 2005 Dust Control Project
1:38:28 PM County Road and Bridge Superintendent Lee Provance Bids received as follows: Dust Buster, Inc 47.5 cents per lineal ft; and WE Dust Control- Whitehall 45.75 cents per foot. Will take bids under advisement and come back with recommendation at a later date.
1:40:39 PM   Discussion and Questions
1:41:29 PM Chairman Murdock Public Hearing and Consideration of First Reading of Amended Speed Ordinance 2005-002A, a Portion of Springhill Community Road
1:41:56 PM Commissioner Vincent Read ordinance.
1:44:08 PM Public comment Bill Wright
1:44:49 PM Commissioner Skinner I'll move to adopt Ordinance #2005-002A, which is an amended speed reduction ordinance for a portion of Springhill Community Road.
1:44:58 PM Commissioner Vincent Second
1:45:01 PM   Board discussion
1:45:22 PM   Motion pass unanimously.
1:46:02 PM Chairman Murdock Agenda adjustment moving to Item 4 Continuation on Discussion on Tubb Road, Baseline Road, Lagoon Road, and Gallatin County Airport Authority - Clint Litle, HKM Engineers summarized proposal. Letter submitted from J. David Penwell, Attorney labeled Exhibit A, Item 4.  
1:54:33 PM County Road and Bridge Superintendent Lee Provance Comments  
1:58:26 PM John McKenna, Gallatin Airport Authority Comments  
2:00:53 PM   Discussion between the Commission, John McKenna, and Clint Litle
2:04:18 PM Jason Leep, PC Development Comments  
2:05:56 PM David Penwell, Attorney Comments on behalf of developer
2:08:38 PM   Discussion between the Commission and David Penwell
2:11:45 PM County Road and Bridge Superintendent Lee Provance Comments
2:12:59 PM Buck Johnston, Gallatin Meadows Development Corporation, Rangland Estates LLC Proposal summary
2:16:22 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Buck Johnston and David Penwell
2:24:09 PM   Discussion between the Commission and County Road and Bridge Superintendent Lee Provance
2:26:43 PM Chairman Murdock Discussion and Adoption of County Commission Budget Goals/Objectives for FY 06
2:27:47 PM   Board discussion
2:28:41 PM Fiscal Officer Ed Blackman Presentation
2:29:11 PM   Discussion between the Commission and Ed Blackman
2:34:56 PM Chairman Murdock Motion to approve the budget goals as amended.
2:35:01 PM Commissioner Vincent So moved.
2:35:04 PM Commissioner Skinner Second
2:35:07 PM   Board discussion
2:35:23 PM Chairman Murdock Amend your motion to adopt Mission Statement, Vision, and Goals, all three.
2:35:32 PM Commissioner Vincent Sure
2:35:33 PM Chairman Murdock Would the second agree to that?
2:35:34 PM Commissioner Skinner I would agree to that.
2:35:35 PM   Board discussion
2:36:55 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
2:37:14 PM Chairman Murdock Continuation on Decision Concerning ITS/Basement Remodel
2:38:10 PM Bob Isdahl, Facilities Director Presentation and provided handout to Commission
2:40:25 PM Randy Kuyath, CAO Comments
2:41:03 PM   Discussion between the Commission Bob Isdahl and Randy Kuyath
2:43:39 PM Fiscal Officer Ed Blackman Comments
2:44:34 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Bob Isdahl, Ed Blackman, and Randy Kuyath  
2:47:35 PM Clerk and Recorder Shelley Vance Comments
2:49:21 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Bob Isdahl, Shelley Vance and Ed Blackman
2:53:45 PM Chairman Murdock Ed says we could take the money from somewhere, I like his approach of taking $2,500 a share of it out of ITS's remaining budget and the rest of it for this study by Intrinsik out of the Commission contingency. Can we have a motion to do that?
2:54:02 PM Commissioner Vincent So moved.
2:54:04 PM Commissioner Skinner Second
2:54:09 PM   Board discussion including Bob Isdahl
2:56:24 PM Grants Administrator Larry Watson Comments
2:56:57 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
2:57:16 PM Chairman Murdock Budget Meeting w/Clerk & Recorder, Commission, Human Resources & Finance
2:57:55 PM Fiscal Officer Ed Blackman Presentation- Review of Facilities requested budget
3:00:29 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Bob Isdahl and Ed Blackman
3:06:40 PM Commissioner Vincent Move that we approve the request for option 2, 8% increase for operational expenses and I would just like to note in that regard and kind of second Commissioner Murdock's comments that we have nothing to say about a lot of those operational expenses, there're just factors that we have to deal with and also the hiring the addition of one maintenance position.
3:07:10 PM Commissioner Skinner Second
3:07:13 PM   Board discussion
3:07:40 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
3:07:45 PM Fiscal Officer Ed Blackman Presentation- Overview of Packet to be distributed on April 13th
3:09:07 PM   Discussion between the Commission and Randy Kuyath  
3:09:31 PM Clerk and Recorder Shelley Vance Comments
3:11:19 PM   Discussion between the Commission and Randy Kuyath  
3:14:46 PM Clerk and Recorder Shelley Vance Comments
3:17:10 PM Fiscal Officer Ed Blackman Comments
3:18:39 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Bob Isdahl, and Ed Blackman
3:20:32 PM Fiscal Officer Ed Blackman Presentation- Discussion and Decision on utilization of FTR at offsite meetings
3:21:40 PM   Commission comments
3:21:54 PM Clerk and Recorder Shelley Vance Comments
3:22:30 PM   Commission comments
3:23:09 PM Clerk and Recorder Shelley Vance Comments
3:23:51 PM Fiscal Officer Ed Blackman Presentation- Handout of information on why FY 06 will be a difficult budget year
3:27:42 PM   Discussion and Questions
3:28:29 PM Clerk and Recorder Shelley Vance Questions and discussion with Ed Blackman
3:30:42 PM Randy Kuyath, CAO Presentation to Commission CIP Committee Recommendations- summary of requests
3:36:52 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Ed Blackman, and Randy Kuyath
3:55:14 PM   Meeting adjourned.