Description Gallatin County Commissioners' Journal No. May 24, 2006
Date 05/24/2006 Location County Commission
Time Speaker Note
1:34:04 PM Chairman Vincent Call to Order. Present were Commissioners Murdock, Skinner and Vincent, Deputy County Attorney Greg Sullivan and Acting Clerk to the Board Stephanie Young.
1:34:09 PM There was no public comments on any matters within the Commission's jurisdiction.
1:34:29 PM Commissioner Skinner Read the Consent Agenda as follows: 1. Approval of Contract(s): Community Service Worksite Agreement Between Gallatin County and the Predator Conservation Alliance for Court Ordered Community Service Workers; County Road Construction Agreement for a Portion of Skinner Road to a 20' Gravel Road.
1:35:17 PM Commissioner Murdock Requests to move both Item 1 and 2 to regular agenda for further discussion.
1:35:43 PM Chairman Vincent Community Service Worksite Agreement Between Gallatin County and the Predator Conservation Alliance for Court Ordered Community Service Workers and County Road Construction Agreement for a Portion of Skinner Road to a 20' Gravel Road
1:35:53 PM Discussion between the Commission, and Deputy County Attorney Greg Sullivan.
1:40:12 PM Commissioner Skinner I'm going to move to approve these two contracts.
1:40:15 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
1:40:27 PM Motion passed unanimously.
1:40:52 PM Chairman Vincent Agenda announcements: Commission requests to move Item #6 before Item #5 on the Regular Agenda. Board Appointment(s):
1:40:58 PM Commissioner Skinner Solid Waste Management District
1:42:19 PM There was no public comment.
1:42:32 PM Commission comments
1:43:16 PM Commissioner Murdock Comment, with that I think that both Richard Mr. Allison and Mr. May will help considerably and I would move to appoint both of them to the board.
1:43:28 PM Commissioner Skinner Second
1:43:36 PM Board Discussion
1:47:33 PM Motion passed unanimously.
1:47:53 PM Commissioner Murdock Fair Board
1:48:39 PM There was no public comment.
1:48:45 PM Chairman Vincent Comments, I would like to nominate, will nominate Dennis Farnham for this position, I stated in that meeting that he's a neighbor, but given not a direct neighbor lives almost a mile away but at any rate I know him but that wouldn't make any difference he has been persistent, he's attended a lot of our Fair Board meetings, he's served on a large Fair Board in California, he's been a law enforcement officer, United States Marshall he's retired and has plenty of time, comments.
1:49:48 PM Commissioner Skinner Second
1:50:00 PM Motion passed unanimously.
1:51:13 PM Chairman Vincent Public Hearing and Decision on a Resolution to Amend the Women Infant and Children FY 2006 Operating Budget to Include New Revenues in the Amount of $3,000.00 to be used for Salary and Wages
1:51:31 PM Finance Director Ed Blackman Presentation
1:52:26 PM There was no public comment.
1:52:44 PM Commissioner Skinner Move to approve Resolution #2006-059.
1:52:50 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
1:52:58 PM Motion passed unanimously.
1:53:03 PM Chairman Vincent Public Hearing and Decision in Support of a Grant Application for the Montana Department of Commerce Home Grant on Behalf of the Human Resource Development Council to provide Financial Assistance to Low and Moderate Income Home Purchasers in Gallatin County
1:53:27 PM Caren Roberty, Development Director, HRDC Presentation
1:56:10 PM Discussion and Questions
1:58:08 PM There was no public comment.
1:58:18 PM Closed public comment.
1:58:20 PM Chairman Vincent Motion to support the grant application to the Montana Department of Commerce Home Grant on behalf of HRDC.
1:58:28 PM Commissioner Murdock So moved.
1:58:29 PM Commissioner Skinner Second
1:58:33 PM Board Discussion
2:00:21 PM Motion passed unanimously.
2:00:29 PM Chairman Vincent Trustee Appointment to the Gallatin River Ranch Rural Fire District. Commission Required by State Statute for the Purpose to Break a Tie Vote Resulting from the Annual Trustee Election held May 2, 2006
2:01:14 PM Commission Comments
2:01:33 PM Deputy County Attorney Greg Sullivan Advice and comments
2:02:14 PM Discussion and Questions
2:02:48 PM Public Comment Mitchell Hobish, and Robert Dyer
2:06:15 PM Commissioner Murdock Comments, I move that we appoint Mr. Pyles.
2:06:38 PM Commissioner Skinner Second
2:06:50 PM Motion passed unanimously.
2:06:57 PM Chairman Vincent Agenda Announcement: Moving Item #6 to the Regular Agenda. Public Hearing on Sufficiency of County's Public Notice Procedures
2:08:07 PM Commission Assistant Glenda Howze Presentation
2:18:56 PM Discussion and Questions
2:21:12 PM Public Comment Steve White, and Clerk & Recorder Shelley Vance
2:31:35 PM Discussion between the Commission, Glenda Howze, Deputy County Attorney Greg Sullivan, and Shelley Vance.
3:10:28 PM No Action Taken.
3:10:34 PM Chairman Vincent Public Hearing and Decision on Increase in County Commission Baseline Budget to Increase Advertising Line Item for Public Notice Purposes
3:10:53 PM Commission Assistant Glenda Howze Presentation
3:14:30 PM Public Comment Steve White
3:21:28 PM Commission Assistant Glenda Howze Comments
3:23:24 PM Commissioner Murdock I move that we increase our County Commission baseline budget to include to increase the advertising line item for public notice purposes to $36,000 a year for the purposes of buying whatever that $685 cost was that Glenda gave us for either a full page or half page ad, so we can have a county page. That is just about exactly double what we're spending now, that would include boards and commission vacancies, put it all on one page, a little bit of this and that, that will be our section in there "Gallatin County what's going on."
3:24:14 PM Board Discussion
3:24:56 PM Chairman Vincent Motion dies for a lack of a second.
3:25:09 PM Board Discussion including Glenda Howze.
3:26:59 PM Chairman Vincent I would move that we request for the County Commission baseline budget an additional $3,000.00 for further consideration in the budget process. That would increase that amount to $20,000.00 total, comments.
3:28:00 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
3:28:08 PM Motion passed unanimously.
3:28:10 PM Board Discussion including Steve White.
3:33:07 PM Meeting Adjourned.
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