08-04-20 Business Improvement District Minutes2017 — 2027 KALISPELL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Meeting date: August 4, 2020
Location: Montana Modern Fine Art
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT IN PERSON: Marshall Noice, Curtis Bartel, Kisa Davison, Pam
Mower, Cara Lemire, Jon Fetveit, Gabe Mariman & Pam Carbonari (BID Exec. Coordinator)
CITY ATTENDEES: Katharine King & Rachel Ezell
PUBLIC IN ATTENDANCE: No one
MEETING CALLED TO ORDER at 8:34 AM by Kisa Davison, Chair
MOTION: to approve the agenda dated August 4, 2020 and the minutes of July 7 by Marshall Noice
with a second from Pam Mower. Motion passed unanimously.
HEARING OF THE PUBLIC: Katharine King informed the board that a draft of the Valley Bank
parking lot RFP should be completed by the end of the week and then sent to the City Council for
review, hopefully on August 24. She also updated the board on the EPA Brownsfield work currently
being completed and discussed the potential clean-up.
BUSINESS
Welcome new board members — Gabe Mariman and Jon Fetveit. Both were appointed last evening
by the Mayor and City Council. Gabe will have a term that will end, 4/30/23 and Jon's term will end
on 4/3 0/22 .
Architectural Design Standards RFQ update & appointment of member - Rachel one of the City
planners reported that the RFQ for a firm to complete the work on the Historic architectural design
standards was sent out and they received 3 RFQ's for review. The responding firms: Trio
Architecture, Cushing Terrell and A & E. The review committee will consist of Rachel Ezell, City
Planner; Jarrod Nygren, City Planning Director, Cara Lemire from the Architectural Review
Committee and a member from the BID. Both Curtis Bartel and Marshall Noice expressed interest in
serving on the committee. Pam Mower made a motion to appoint Curtis which was seconded by
Marshall Noice. The motion passed unanimously.
Member Survey & Downtown developer mentor program — continued discussion: The board
reviewed an updated survey to be sent to a select group of people who have been engaged in
development in the City of Kalispell and in particular downtown. The modified survey was approved.
Pam C. will send the board members a contact list that will be divided up between the board
members. Each person will be informed to expect the survey and encourage their participation. The
board had significant conversation regarding how the information that is received will be directed to
the City. More conversation will continue during the next meeting.
Executive Coordinator Report: Pam informed the board about a new potential event for the KDA.
They are working on bringing a drive-in movie theatre to downtown utilizing the Herberger's parking
lot. The KDA had purchased 500 masks for Thursday!Fest which was subsequently cancelled. The
masks are available for any downtown business and Kisa also has sanitizer. Pam reported that the
request for a new part-time temporary employee to assist Paul with his work as Ambassador has
received no traction. LC Staffing will continue to work on finding someone. Paul is currently working
7 days a week to water the flowers. Paul also started working on cleaning up graffiti downtown. The
yearend fiscal report was distributed to all board members.
New Business: The KDA is looking for a new event that people could easily social distance. It was
suggested that the KDA look at a corn hole tournament.
ADJOURN: Motion to adjourn the meeting at 9:55 AM by Marshall Noice with a second from Cara
Lemire. The motion passed unanimously.
NEXT REGULAR MEETING: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 8:30 AM — Montana Modern Fine Art, 127
Main Street.
Respectfully submitted,
Pam Carbonari
Executive Coordinator