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Gallatin County Commission Meeting Minutes December 06, 2006
Description Gallatin County Commissioners' Journal No. December 06, 2006
Date 12/06/2006 Location County Commission
  
Time Speaker Note
1:37:38 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.
1:37:46 PM Chairman Vincent Agenda Announcements: Bresnan Communications will be televising the County Commission Public Meetings on Tuesdays and Wednesdays of each week on Channel 20.
1:37:52 PM Chairman Vincent Public Comment on any matters within the Commission's jurisdiction. John Prichard spoke in regards to the Hebgen Lake Estates District boundaries & the monitoring wells in the district.
1:39:00 PM   Discussion between the Commission, John Prichard, and Deputy County Attorney Greg Sullivan  
1:44:49 PM Clerk to the Board Stephanie Young Read the Consent Agenda as follows: 1) Review and Approval of Minutes - November 21 & 22, 2006, 2) Decision on Agreement for Annexation of Adjacent Right of Way for the City of Bozeman - Parks/Story Mill Road, 3) Decision on Agreement for Annexation of Adjacent Right of Way for the City of Bozeman - Hall/Wagon Wheel Road
1:45:16 PM   There was no public comment.
1:45:29 PM Commissioner Skinner Move to approve the consent agenda.
1:45:31 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
1:45:36 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
1:45:39 PM Chairman Vincent Public Hearing and Decision on a Resolution of Road Name Change in Gallatin County (Un-named Road off Buffalo Jump Road to Lakota Drive)
1:46:05 PM GIS Coordinator Allen Armstrong  Presentation
1:46:31 PM   Discussion and Questions
1:46:46 PM   There was no public comment.
1:46:48 PM   Discussion between the Commission and Allen Armstrong.
1:48:12 PM   Closed public comment.
1:48:23 PM Commissioner Skinner Move to approve Resolution #2006-141, a resolution that would name an un-named road off Buffalo Jump Road to Lakota Drive.
1:48:35 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
1:48:44 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
1:48:47 PM Chairman Vincent Public Hearing and Decision on a Resolution of Road Name Change in Gallatin County (Un-named Road off Upper Rainbow Road to Josies Lane)
1:49:01 PM GIS Coordinator Allen Armstrong Presentation
1:49:30 PM   There was no public comment.
1:49:47 PM Commissioner Skinner Move to approve. (Resolution #2006-142)
1:49:48 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
1:49:56 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
1:49:59 PM Chairman Vincent Public Hearing and Decision on a Resolution of Road Name Change in Gallatin County (Un-named Road off Moffit Gulch Road to Ritas Ridge Road
1:50:14 PM GIS Coordinator Allen Armstrong Presentation
1:50:55 PM   There was no public comment.
1:51:03 PM   Discussion between the Commission and Allen Armstrong.
1:51:23 PM Commissioner Skinner Move to approve. (Resolution #2006-143).
1:51:25 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
1:51:33 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
1:51:40 PM Chairman Vincent Public Hearing and Decision on Request for a Conditional Use Permit to Allow a Small Scale Broadcast Facility for Verizon Wireless at 302 East Kagy Blvd
1:51:56 PM County Planner Tim Skop Staff Report, submitted a copy of letter labeled Exhibit A, Item #4.
1:57:28 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Deputy County Attorney Greg Sullivan, and Tim Skop.
2:01:12 PM Paul Slotemaker, Attorney Presentation on behalf of applicant Verizon Wireless
2:02:04 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Paul Slotemaker, and Greg Sullivan.
2:09:48 PM Deputy County Attorney Greg Sullivan Requests to add a condition to read as follows: "The applicant shall, prior to issuance of a land use permit, submit to the Gallatin County Attorney's office documents evidencing the contractual relationship between Valley View Golf Course in order for the Gallatin County Attorney to determine whether the contractual relationship requires the applicant to undergo subdivision review. If subdivision review is required, the applicant must obtain subdivision approval from Gallatin County prior to the issuance of a land use permit."
2:10:23 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Greg Sullivan, and Paul Slotemaker
2:11:35 PM Public Comment Carl Tange and Gordie Bowman
2:17:02 PM Paul Slotemaker, Attorney Rebuttal
2:20:39 PM   Closed public comment.
2:20:45 PM   Board Discussion between the Commission, Tim Skop, Paul Slotemaker, and Greg Sullivan.
2:26:10 PM Commissioner Skinner I'll move to approve the Conditional Use Permit to allow small scale broadcast facility in this area for Verizon Wireless with the conditions presented by staff except for taking out in condition #4 taking out the phrase "less than", and I would add Condition #7 to address the language proposed by the County Attorney's Office.  
2:26:42 PM Commissioner Murdock I would second it if you would also add a condition which would prohibit obstructional lighting.
2:26:48 PM Commissioner Skinner I would do that.
2:26:50 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
2:26:54 PM   Board Discussion/Findings between the Commission and Deputy County Attorney Greg Sullivan, and Gordie Bowman.
2:30:36 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
2:31:00 PM Chairman Vincent Public Hearing and Decision on an Improvements Agreement Spanish Peaks Estates Phase 6 Major Subdivision
2:31:20 PM Chairman Vincent Comments
2:31:42 PM County Planner Warren Vaughan Staff Report
2:32:42 PM Bob Lee, Morrison-Maierle, Inc Comments on behalf of the applicant Spanish Peaks Holdings, LLC
2:33:14 PM   Comments between Warren Vaughan and Commissioners.
2:34:09 PM   There was no public comment.
2:34:14 PM   Closed public comment.
2:34:18 PM Commissioner Skinner Finding that this Improvements Agreements has been approved by the Gallatin County Attorney's Office and the Road and Bridge Department, I would move to approve.  
2:34:27 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
2:34:41 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
2:34:47 PM Chairman Vincent Decision on Final Plat Approval for the Spanish Peaks Estates Phase 6 Major Subdivision
2:34:55 PM County Planner Warren Vaughan Staff Report
2:36:38 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Deputy County Attorney Greg Sullivan and Warren Vaughan.
2:39:14 PM Bob Lee, Morrison-Maierle, Inc Comments on behalf of applicant Spanish Peaks Holdings, LLC
2:40:00 PM Commissioner Murdock Finding that the conditions have been met and as explained to us by the staff, I move that we grant final plat approval to Spanish Peaks Estates Phase 6.
2:40:14 PM Commissioner Skinner Second
2:40:23 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
2:40:31 PM Chairman Vincent Public Hearing and Decision Regarding a Resolution of Intent to Adopt the Belgrade Area Growth Policy and Set a Date for a Public Work Session
2:40:53 PM Belgrade City-County Planner Jason Karp Presentation
2:42:39 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Jason Karp, and Deputy County Attorney Greg Sullivan.
2:55:21 PM   There was no public comment.
2:55:24 PM   Discussion between Chairman Vincent and Belgrade City-County Planner Jason Karp
2:56:13 PM   Closed public comment.
2:56:30 PM Commissioner Murdock To adopt a resolution of intention with the provisos that there would be, could be provisions, so I move that we approve the Resolution of Intention #2006-144 to adopt, revise or reject the Belgrade Area Growth Policy with a meeting date, do we have to set that at this time, I would prefer not to, but you want us to?
2:57:05 PM   Discussion between the Commission and Jason Karp
2:57:55 PM Commissioner Murdock For a Work session, joint work session on January 9th of 2007.
2:58:02 PM Commissioner Skinner Second
2:58:17 PM   Board Discussion between the Commission, Greg Sullivan, and Jason Karp.
3:00:41 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
3:00:44 PM   There were no Pending Resolutions.
3:01:02 PM   Meeting Adjourned.