Description Gallatin County Commissioners' Journal No. 51 Special Meeting April 5, 2010
Date 04/05/2010 Location County Commission
Time Speaker Note
3:02:31 PM Chairman Skinner Call to Order. Present were Commissioners Skinner and White, County Attorney Marty Lambert, Deputy County Attorney Jecyn Bremer, Clerk & Recorder Charlotte Mills, and Acting Clerk to the Board Melissa Rivnie. Commissioner Murdock was excused.
3:02:47 PM Chairman Skinner Public Meeting to Answer Question Concerning Protests of Proposed Zoning Districts
3:03:15 PM Chairman Skinner Announcement: Reminder to the public that the meeting is being recorded and streamed over the internet.
3:03:26 PM Chairman Skinner Proceedings. Four topics to be covered: Agriculture protests--count people or acreage; Agricultural & forest land--count separately or together; Which tax codes can be considered agricultural and; Signature guidelines.
3:05:19 PM Chairman Skinner There was no public comment on any matters within the Commission's jurisdiction.
3:05:34 PM Chairman Skinner Topic 1: Agriculture protests--count people or acreage
3:05:46 PM Clerk & Recorder Charlotte Mills Presentation
3:08:29 PM County Attorney Marty Lambert Presentation
3:22:25 PM Public Comment David Loseff; Kerry White; Brian Troth; Wendy Hiebert; and Shawn Moran
3:34:56 PM Closed public comment.
3:35:02 PM County Attorney Marty Lambert Comments
3:36:54 PM Board Discussion
3:43:17 PM Commissioner White I'd make a motion to, yes, as far as any of the protests received that, on the 50% ag ownership that, that part of the statute, I'd make a motion to, that the County Commission would use acres in the calculation.
3:43:37 PM Chairman Skinner Second
3:43:43 PM Motion passed unanimously.
3:43:49 PM Chairman Skinner Topic 2: Agricultural & forest land--count separately or together
3:44:04 PM Clerk & Recorder Charlotte Mills Presentation
3:45:11 PM County Attorney Marty Lambert Presentation
3:47:19 PM Discussion and Questions
3:48:31 PM Public Comment Kerry White and Brian Troth
3:51:18 PM Board Discussion
3:54:12 PM Commissioner White I'd move to, for the purposes of the protest, and this is not just Southern Valley, this would be for all of the different, the 4 zoning districts, the way that the County Commission would do this would be treating forest as a separate entity from ag land for the, to calculate the 50% protest.
3:54:35 PM Chairman Skinner Second
3:54:38 PM Board Discussion
3:54:48 PM Motion passed unanimously.
3:54:52 PM Chairman Skinner Topic 3: Which tax codes can be considered agricultural land
3:55:01 PM Clerk & Recorder Charlotte Mills Presentation
3:56:00 PM Discussion and Questions
3:58:45 PM Clerk & Recorder Recording Supervisor Eric Semerad Presentation
3:59:56 PM Discussion between the Commission, County Attorney Marty Lambert, and Charlotte Mills
4:01:28 PM Public Comment David Loseff; Brian Troth; Shawn Moran; Dan Griffing; Kerry White; and Jacqueline Flikkema
4:11:36 PM Closed public comment.
4:11:39 PM County Attorney Marty Lambert Comments
4:13:09 PM Clerk & Recorder Charlotte Mills Comments
4:13:28 PM Board Discussion including Charlotte Mills and Eric Semerad
4:16:24 PM Commissioner White I'd make a motion to exclude 1701 and I believe that with that 2002, which is the one-acre building site on non-qualified ag land should also be excluded. So my motion would be to exclude 1701 and 2002 for consideration of protest. The classifications that we will include is 1101, 1401, 1501, these are all to be included, 1601, 1801, 1901, 2001, 2003.
4:17:32 PM Chairman Skinner Second
4:17:40 PM Motion passed unanimously.
4:17:46 PM Chairman Skinner Topic 4: Signature guidelines
4:18:03 PM Clerk & Recorder Charlotte Mills Presentation
4:21:03 PM Clerk & Recorder Recording Supervisor Eric Semerad Comments
4:21:40 PM Discussion and Questions
4:33:14 PM Public Comment Brian Troth; Shawn Moran; Susan Swimley; Dan Griffing; David Loseff; Jim Bryson; Jacqueline Flikkema; Kerry White; Wendy Hiebert; and Mike Haugan
4:55:05 PM Closed public comment.
4:55:08 PM Chairman Skinner Comments
4:56:18 PM Commissioner White Comments
4:58:51 PM Clerk & Recorder Charlotte Mills Comments
4:59:23 PM Meeting Adjourned.
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