12-01-20 Business Improvement District Minutes2017 — 2027 KALISPELL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Meeting date: December 1, 2020
Location: Montana Modern Fine Art
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Marshall Noice, Curtis Bartel, Kisa Davison (by Zoom), Pam Mower,
Cara Lemire, Jon Fetveit & Pam Carbonari (BID Exec. Coordinator)
BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: Gabe Mariman
CITY ATTENDEES: Katharine King, Rachel Ezell
PUBLIC IN ATTENDANCE: No one
MEETING CALLED TO ORDER at 8:35 AM by Marshall Noice, Immediate Past Chair
MOTION: to approve the agenda dated December 1 and the minutes of November 3 by Jon Fetveit
with a second from Pam Mower. Motion passed unanimously.
HEARING OF THE PUBLIC: Katharine King with Community Development at the City of Kalispell
reported that 1 St Ave. W. is open to the new 17t" St. She also informed the board that EPA phase 11
for the BNSF RR is complete. She also reported that the City has a buy sell on a couple of lots in Old
School Station.
BUSINESS
Update — Historic Downtown Design Standards — Rachel Ezell with the City Planning office
reported on the results of the recent survey the city sent out regarding the creation of design
standards for the downtown district. The survey was conducted from October 27 through November
19. The survey link was placed on the City website and emails were sent to the KBID business list.
They received 59 responses. Many of the responses were detailed and some shorter. All seemed to
appreciate the historic district. The city will now work with A & E and put together proposed
standards over the next month and bring them for discussion at the next BID meeting in January.
The standards might come in 2 separate documents for discussion; standards & guidelines. The
standards will be applied to downtown historic properties and not to residential. The process for
adoption will be 1. BID discussion 2. Architectural review board 3. Planning Board and then to the
City Council for adoption.
Update — Bandwango web -based digital experience passport — The board suggested that we
send to the downtown businesses that sign up for the holiday passport our social media post so that
our message to the public was uniform. The next passport will be the Arts and Entertainment
passport. Jon Fetveit made a motion which was seconded by Cara Lemire for Pam Carbonari to
contact Rita Fitzsimmons with Design Works to receive a bid on updating the current walking tour
guide. The motion passed unanimously. There was discussion regarding the names of businesses
in the book as they seem to change more frequently than any other information. The board wished to
keep the names of the businesses in the book.
Flower BID award — Three bid requests were sent out to Wild Geese Gardens, Hoopers Nursery and
Plant Land. Plant Land was the only response. Their quote was the same as last year and a motion
to approve the bid from Plant Land was made by Pam Mower with a second from Cara Lemire. The
motion was approved unanimously.
Street tree replacement — The map of downtown trees was reviewed by the board and it was
determined to replace 14 trees this year. Pam Carbonari will share the locations with the City Parks
and Recreation department. The board would also like to receive a bid for gators on all trees
downtown. A motion to seek bids was made by Cara Lemire with a second from Jon Fetveit. Passed
unanimously.
Postcard notification to property owners re: Facade Improvement Program: This item was
postponed at the last meeting. Kisa is working on this and will send a draft via email in December.
Downtown developer survey & mentor program — continued discussion: It was determined that
this topic should be the focus of one meeting. So discussion was postponed. Cara did report that
she received responses from 7 out of 14 developers contacted. She will reach out to those that did
not respond and will schedule a separate meeting to discuss this item.
Executive Coordinator Report:
Many downtown holiday lights are not working and there is a need for additional greenery. Pam
Mower made a motion to approve the purchase of lights to replace those that are not working and to
purchase greenery for those light poles that are missing greenery. The motion was seconded by
Curtis Bartel and passed unanimously.
New Business: No new business
ADJOURN: Motion to adjourn the meeting at 9:55 AM by Curtis Bartel with a second from Cara
Lemire. The motion passed unanimously.
NEXT REGULAR MEETING: Tuesday, January 5, 2020 at 8:30 AM — Montana Modern Fine Art, 127
Main Street.
Respectfully submitted,
Pam Carbonari
Executive Coordinator