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Gallatin County Commission Meeting Minutes September 5, 2007
Description Gallatin County Commissioners' Journal No. September 5, 2007
Date 09/05/2007 Location County Commission
  
Time Speaker Note
1:29:33 PM Chairman Skinner Call to Order. Present were Commissioners Skinner, Murdock, and White, Deputy County Attorney Kate Dinwiddie and Acting Clerk to the Board Mary Miller. (Clerk Note: There was no audio until 1:30:53).
1:29:42 PM Chairman Skinner There was no public comment on any matters within the Commission's jurisdiction.
1:30:02 PM Acting Clerk to the Board Mary Miller Read the consent agenda as follows: 1. Decision on a Request for Final Plat Approval of the Wright-Rider Subsequent Minor Subdivision (Also known as the Westra Amended Plat) 2. Decision on a Request for a Mortgage Survey Exemption from Subdivision Review for Hunnell
1:30:13 PM   There was no public comment.
1:30:21 PM Commissioner White  I would make a motion to approve the consent agenda as read into record.
1:30:27 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
1:30:29 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
1:30:33 PM Chairman Skinner Board Appointments
1:30:51 PM Commissioner White  9-1-1 Advisory Committee
1:31:43 PM   Board discussion
1:31:57 PM   There was no public comment.
1:32:04 PM Commissioner White  I'd make a motion to accept E.J. Clark and Brett Waters.
1:32:10 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
1:32:13 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
1:32:27 PM Commissioner Murdock Search & Rescue Advisory Committee
1:32:56 PM   There was no public comment.
1:33:04 PM Commissioner White  I'd make a motion to reappoint Ms. (Carolyn) Robinson.
1:33:10 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
1:33:20 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
1:33:23 PM Chairman Skinner Receipt and Decision on Taxes to be Levied and Mill Levies Needed to Support Elementary and High School District, Inclusive of Operating, Bond, Retirement, Transportation, and State Levies (Continued from 8/28/2007)
1:33:50 PM Superintendent of Schools Mary Ellen Fitzgerald Presentation, submitted Laws Relating to County Superintendents labeled Exhibit A, Item #2, and Memorandum labeled Exhibit B, Item #2
1:37:57 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Finance Director Ed Blackman, and Mary Ellen Fitzgerald
1:40:38 PM   There was no public comment.
1:40:47 PM   Board discussion including Ed Blackman
1:42:00 PM Commissioner Murdock Move to approve.  
1:42:01 PM Commissioner White  Second
1:42:05 PM   Board discussion
1:43:00 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
1:43:04 PM Chairman Skinner Public Hearing and Decision on Granting an Encroachment Permit off Jackson Creek Road to Pogue
1:43:20 PM Jerry Pogue Applicant presentation
1:46:41 PM   Discussion between Deputy County Attorney Kate Dinwiddie, Jerry Pogue, and the Commission
1:50:03 PM   There was no public comment.
1:50:11 PM   Board discussion
1:51:28 PM Commissioner Murdock Move to approve it with the conditions the same ones we had the first time with the following amendments, the date (A) would be as approved, a structure for as approved by the USPS instead of the thirty mailboxes and changing the date from June 18th, 2007 to October 31, 2007.
1:51:51 PM Commissioner White  Second
1:51:57 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
1:52:06 PM Chairman Skinner Public Hearing and Resolution of Intent to Increase the Rae Fire Service Area per Unit Fees From $194.28 to $216.47 for the Purpose of Operating Costs
1:52:30 PM Jesse Armitage, Board Member, Rae Fire Service Area Presentation, submitted printout of increases in cost labeled Exhibit A, Item #4
1:55:13 PM   Discussion and Questions
1:57:28 PM Dan Springer, Board Member, Rae Fire Service Area Comments
1:59:28 PM   Discussion and Questions
2:02:09 PM   There was no public comment.
2:02:17 PM   Discussion between the Commission and Deputy County Attorney Kate Dinwiddie
2:03:18 PM Commissioner Murdock I move that we approve, I don't even like to use those words in the motion, that we acknowledge, that we accept that's already been given by law by the board which is a resolution to amend the Rae Fire Service Area per unit fees from $194.28 to $216.47 for the purpose of operating costs, #2007-110.
2:03:53 PM Commissioner White  Second
2:03:58 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
2:04:09 PM Chairman Skinner Public Hearing and Decision on a Resolution of Road Name Change in Gallatin County (Safe Trek Place to Television Way-Bozeman)
2:04:49 PM GIS Coordinator Allen Armstrong Presentation
2:05:58 PM   Discussion and Questions
2:06:26 PM   There was no public comment.
2:06:34 PM Commissioner White  I'd make a motion to approve the resolution for the road name change to Television Way it's Resolution #2007-111.
2:06:47 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
2:06:53 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
2:06:56 PM Chairman Skinner Public Hearing and Decision on a Resolution of Road Name Change in Gallatin County (Un-named Road off Gallatin Road to Swift River Lane)
2:07:22 PM GIS Coordinator Allen Armstrong Presentation
2:08:36 PM   There was no public comment.
2:08:44 PM Commissioner White  I'd make a motion for the approval of the un-named road to Swift River Lane, which is Resolution #2007-112.
2:08:53 PM Commissioner Murdock Second
2:08:58 PM   Motion passed unanimously.
2:09:09 PM Chairman Skinner Public Hearing and Decision on a Resolution of Road Name Change in Gallatin County (W. Stevens Street to Robbers Roost Road-Covered Wagon)
2:09:22 PM GIS Coordinator Allen Armstrong Presentation
2:10:29 PM Public comment Dorothy Egolf and Jesi Stahl
2:17:17 PM   Discussion between the Commission, Allen Armstrong, Dorothy Egolf
2:26:21 PM Commissioner Murdock I move that we deny the road name change as presented and leave it as it is and the numbering. (Resolution #2007-113).  
2:26:27 PM Commissioner White  Second
2:26:38 PM   Motion passed 2:1. Chairman Skinner opposed.
2:26:47 PM   There were no Pending Resolutions.
2:26:50 PM   Meeting adjourned.