Description Gallatin County Commissioners' Journal No. 51 May 24, 2011
Date 05/24/2011 Location County Commission
Time Speaker Note
9:01:16 AM Chairman Murdock Call to Order, Moment of Silence, Pledge of Allegiance. Present were Commissioners Murdock, Skinner, and White, Deputy County Attorney James Greenbaum and Acting Clerk to the Board Melissa Rivnie.
9:02:06 AM Chairman Murdock There was no public comment on any matters within the Commission's jurisdiction.
9:02:18 AM Chairman Murdock Announcement: Reminder to the public that the meeting is being recorded, televised live by Bresnan Communications, and streamed over the internet.
9:02:34 AM Acting Clerk to the Board Melissa Rivnie Read the consent agenda as follows: 1. Approval of Claims; 2. Approval of Contract(s): Extension of a Bridge Loan to GVLT for the Sourdough Trail Project; Approval of a Bridge Loan with GVLT for the Trail Construction on the Regional Park (item was pulled and continued to a later date); Intergraph CAD and RMS Maintenance for 911 Communications; Modification to Contract No. 2010-235 with Prugh & Lenon Architects P.C. for Law & Justice Master Plan ($1,338.00); Morrison-Maierle Inc. for Engineering Services for Airport Improvement Projects at Pogreba Field Airport; Grant Application to the US Department of Justice for the FY 2011 COPS Hiring Program (item has been continued to a May 25, 2011 special meeting); Grant Application to the US Department of Justice for the FY 2011 Secure Our
Schools Program (item has been continued indefinitely); Grant Application to the Montana Department of Transportation for the Participation in the Montana Air and Congestion Initiative Equipment Purchase Program; Approval of Noxious Weed Trust Fund Grant; Approval of Fiscal Year 2011-2012 HRDC's Emergency Shelter Grant Work Plan; Interlocal Agreement with Missouri River Drug Task Force for FY 2011-2012; 3. Approval of Fiscal Year 2012 DUI Task Force Annual Plan; 4. Approval of County Road Easement for Jackrabbit/Valley Center Road Improvements; and 5. Public Hearing and Decision on a Relocation of Common Boundary Exemption from Subdivision Review for Schutter/Amsterdam Holsteins.
9:04:42 AM Public Comment Open Lands Coordinator Mike Harris requests pulling consent agenda item, Approval of Contract: Approval of a Bridge Loan with GVLT for the Trail Construction on the Regional Park, so it can be amended and resubmitted for approval at a later date.
9:05:11 AM Discussion and Questions
9:05:31 AM Commissioner White I'd make a motion to approve the consent agenda with the amendments that were put into record.
9:05:38 AM Commissioner Skinner Second
9:05:42 AM Board Discussion
9:06:22 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:06:32 AM Commissioner White Board Appointments: Fairview Cemetery Board
9:06:59 AM There was no public comment.
9:07:07 AM Commissioner Skinner Move to appoint Richard Schillinger to the Fair Board Cemetery, Fairview Cemetery Board, excuse me.
9:07:16 AM Commissioner White Second
9:07:19 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:07:25 AM Commissioner Skinner Historic Preservation Board
9:07:47 AM There was no public comment.
9:07:54 AM Commissioner White I'd make a motion to appoint Sally Broughton to the Historic Preservation Board.
9:07:59 AM Commissioner Skinner Second
9:08:02 AM Board Discussion
9:08:58 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:09:02 AM Chairman Murdock Solid Waste Management District (At-Large Position)
9:09:27 AM There was no public comment.
9:09:33 AM Commissioner White I'd make a motion to appoint Dan Klemann to the Solid Waste District.
9:09:40 AM Commissioner Skinner Second
9:09:44 AM Board Discussion
9:10:03 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:10:13 AM Commissioner White Bid Recommendation and Award of Contract for the Roofing Work at Fairgrounds
9:10:23 AM Fair Manager Sue Shockley Recommended awarding the contract to Timbercraft LLC for $226,500.
9:10:44 AM Discussion and Questions
9:11:35 AM There was no public comment.
9:11:41 AM Discussion between the Commission and Sue Shockley
9:11:59 AM Commissioner White I'd make a motion to award the bid to Timbercraft for $226,500 and, based upon the recommendation of our Procurement Department as well as the head of our Fairgrounds.
9:12:19 AM Commissioner Skinner Second
9:12:24 AM Board Discussion including Sue Shockley and County Administrator Earl Mathers
9:15:47 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:15:56 AM Commissioner Skinner Opening of Sealed Competitive Proposals for a New 911 Paging System
9:16:14 AM Discussion between the Commission, 911 Communications Systems Manager Kerry O'Connell and Deputy County Attorney James Greenbaum
9:16:35 AM 911 Communications Systems Manager Kerry O'Connell Opened bid from Mountain Communications for $492,015.25.
9:19:12 AM Discussion and Questions
9:19:19 AM There was no public comment.
9:19:44 AM No action taken.
9:19:55 AM Chairman Murdock Public Hearing and Decision on a Sale of Surplus Property no Longer Necessary to the Conduct of County Business per MCA 7-8-2211, at a Public Sale to be Held Saturday, June 4th, 2011 from 8am-2pm at the Former Gallatin County Detention Center (item has been continued to May 31, 2011 meeting)
9:20:24 AM Commissioner White Public Hearing and Decision on the Cancellation of Personal Property and Mobile Home Delinquencies Five Years and Older
9:20:40 AM County Treasurer Kim Buchanan Introduction
9:21:02 AM County Delinquent Tax Collector Arletta Derleth Presentation
9:22:11 AM Discussion and Questions
9:24:04 AM There was no public comment.
9:24:16 AM Discussion between the Commission and Arletta Derleth
9:25:23 AM Commissioner Skinner I would move to cancel the personal property and mobile home delinquencies five years and older that has been presented by the Treasurer's Office in this document.
9:25:35 AM Commissioner White Second
9:25:39 AM Board Discussion including Arletta Derleth
9:26:22 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:26:34 AM Chairman Murdock Public Hearing and Decision on the Second Reading of a Speed Ordinance for Little Coyote Road, Big Sky, MT
9:26:45 AM There was no objection from the public to reading a summary of the Ordinance in lieu of a full reading.
9:27:28 AM Deputy County Attorney James Greenbaum Summarized the Ordinance
9:28:59 AM Rumsey Young Comments
9:29:40 AM Discussion and Questions
9:31:01 AM There was no public comment.
9:32:09 AM Commissioner White I'd make a motion to adopt the final reading of Ordinance #2011-001.
9:32:21 AM Commissioner Skinner Second
9:32:28 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:32:31 AM Discussion between the Commission and James Greenbaum
9:33:08 AM Commissioner White Bid Award Recommendation for Snow Removal Equipment to Include a Tractor Loader and Pavement Maintenance Project at the Gallatin County Airport (Pogreba Field), Three Forks, Montana
9:33:23 AM Travis Eickman, Morrison-Maierle, Inc. Recommendation to award the bids for Tractor Loader to New Holland of Belgrade in the amount of $155,036 and for the Pavement Maintenance Project to Bailey Construction Services, Inc., d/b/a Bailey Paving, in the amount of $74,785.84
9:35:16 AM Discussion and Questions
9:37:11 AM Chairman Murdock Recommended combining Agenda Items #7, 8 and 9. There was no objection from the public.
9:37:25 AM Commissioner White Public Hearing and Decision on Approval of a Grant Amendment Letter to the FAA Reflecting the Final Project Costs Associated with the SRE Tractor Loader and Pavement Maintenance Projects
9:37:37 AM Commissioner White Public Hearing and Decision on Recommendation of Approval to the FAA of a Buy American Waiver for the SRE Tractor Loader
9:37:47 AM There was no public comment.
9:38:04 AM Travis Eickman, Morrison-Maierle, Inc. Presentation
9:38:56 AM Discussion and Questions
9:40:59 AM Commissioner Skinner I'll move to accept the bid recommendation from the Airport Board and to recommend to the FAA the bid as described in this letter that we received in our packet for agenda item #7.
9:41:21 AM Discussion between the Commission and Travis Eickman
9:41:27 AM Commissioner White Second
9:41:31 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:41:36 AM Commissioner Skinner I would move to approve the grant amendment letter to the FAA as we have in draft form in our packet for agenda item #8.
9:41:49 AM Commissioner White The letter dated May 17th?
9:41:52 AM Commissioner Skinner Correct.
9:41:53 AM Commissioner White Second
9:41:59 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:42:04 AM Commissioner Skinner I would move to recommend the approval of the FAA of a Buy American Waiver for the SRE tractor based on the opinion and recommendation from Morrison-Maierle that it does meet the requirements of Buy American.
9:42:23 AM Commissioner White And that includes the letter that is dated May 24th?
9:42:29 AM Commissioner Skinner That is correct.
9:42:31 AM Commissioner White Second
9:42:33 AM Board Discussion including Travis Eickman
9:42:39 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:42:43 AM Discussion between the Commission and Travis Eickman
9:45:46 AM Commissioner Skinner Public Hearing and Decision on a Resolution Confirming Adoption of Terms and Conditions of Neighborhood Stabilization Program Mortgage Down Payment Assistance Program and Appointment of Review Board
9:46:01 AM Grants Administrator Larry Watson Presentation
9:48:25 AM There was no public comment.
9:48:44 AM Discussion between the Commission and Larry Watson
9:49:54 AM Commissioner Skinner I will move to adopt that Resolution (#2011-036) which would confirm the terms and conditions of this program.
9:50:03 AM Commissioner White Second
9:50:06 AM Board Discussion including Larry Watson
9:50:33 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:50:51 AM Chairman Murdock Public Hearing and Decision on a Resolution to Amend the Gallatin County City-County Health Office FY 2011 Budget to Include Additional Revenues Received from the HIV/STD Title II Grant in the Amount of $2,000
9:51:16 AM Environmental Services Director Tim Roark Presentation
9:52:09 AM Discussion and Questions
9:53:26 AM There was no public comment.
9:53:34 AM Commissioner White I'd make a motion to approve Resolution #2011-037.
9:53:43 AM Commissioner Skinner Second
9:53:51 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:54:17 AM Commissioner White Public Hearing and Resolution to Amend the County Attorney Fund FY 2011 Capital Outlay Budget By $1,223 for the Purchase of a Computer, Through a Transfer from the Personnel Budget
9:54:38 AM Deputy County Attorney James Greenbaum Presentation
9:55:06 AM There was no public comment.
9:55:14 AM Commissioner Skinner I would move to adopt Resolution #2011-038.
9:55:21 AM Commissioner White Second
9:55:24 AM Board Discussion including James Greenbaum
9:56:09 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:56:31 AM Commissioner Skinner Public Hearing and Decision on a Resolution Ratifying and Reforming the Gallatin County Weed District
9:56:51 AM Interim County Weed Department Supervisor John Ansley Presentation
9:57:18 AM There was no public comment.
9:57:23 AM Discussion between the Commission and John Ansley
9:57:35 AM Commissioner White Make a motion to approve this Resolution #2011-039.
9:57:41 AM Commissioner Skinner Second
9:57:45 AM Board Discussion including John Ansley
9:58:07 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:58:16 AM Commissioner White Public Hearing and Decision Regarding a Family Transfer Exemption Request from Subdivision Review for Hauser
9:58:30 AM County Planner Tom Rogers Staff Report
10:02:11 AM Troy Hauser Sworn in by Deputy County Attorney James Greenbaum and testified under oath.
10:06:40 AM Shannon Marinko, Skyline Surveying Comments on behalf of applicant Troy Hauser
10:08:12 AM Troy Hauser Continued to testify under oath.
10:09:41 AM Discussion between the Commission and Troy Hauser
10:10:07 AM There was no public comment.
10:10:15 AM Commissioner White I make a motion to grant the family transfer exemption for the applicant Hauser.
10:10:22 AM Commissioner Skinner Second
10:10:27 AM Board Discussion/Findings
10:11:24 AM Motion passed unanimously.
10:11:32 AM Meeting Adjourned.
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