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A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE KALISPELL CITY COUNCIL WAS HELD AT 5:30
P.M. WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1990, IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT CITY
HALL. MAYOR HOPKINS PRESIDED. COUNCILMEN BUCK AND NYSTUL WERE
ABSENT AND ALL OTHER COUNCILMEMBERS WERE PRESENT.
Mayor Hopkins called the meeting to order and led the Pledge of
Allegiance.
Mayor Hopkins requested permission to strike two items from the
agenda, the Community Development Director and the Public Works
Director.
STREET CLOSURE: 1ST & 2ND AVENUES WEST/1ST & 3RD STREET WEST
Hopkins stated the street closure has been requested in order to
conduct the First Federal Tour of the Flathead on August 18,
1990. He stated it is a bicycle race and the first one ever in
town.
Stan Watkins, representing the bicycle race, stated he had gone
to the affected businesses for this closure, and there were no
objections. The Post Office closes at 2:00, so the closure will
begin shortly after and last until 6 p.m.
He requested emergency vehicles be on call in case of emergency.
Councilman Larson so moved the closure and Moses seconded. The
motion carried.
APPROVE PRELIMINARY 1990 BUDGET
Hopkins stated the preliminary budget includes the mill funds,
not included are all of the enterprise funds. There is also a
copy of the budget summary for the various milled funds,
including the general fund, compensation insurance, retirement
and health. He explained the action required by the council is
to approve the preliminary budget and to authorize the City Clerk
to advertise the date for the public hearing on the final budget.
He stated all the departments requests are included and the
total is around 2.9 million dollars.
Councilman Atkinson moved to approve the preliminary budget and
authorize the Clerk -Treasurer to call for the public hearing on
August 8, 1990 at 7:30 p.m. Larson seconded the motion.
Upon vote the motion carried.
APPROVE EVERGREEN SEWER AGREEMENT
Resolution 3942-Evergreen Interlocal..Agreement
Councilman Granmo moved Resolution 3942, a resolution authorizing
the execution of an Interlocal Agreement, between the City of
Kalispell and Flathead County Water and Sewer District #1--
Evergreen, setting conditions precedent for performance, and
declaring an effective date. Larson seconded the motion.
Neier stated the
only changes made in the final
draft of this
agreement were some changes having to do with the
agreement. it
says it referred
to the RSID as the service area
and thereafter
in the agreement
Page I consent requirements , in
that agreement -
the agreement was
changed to refer to service area
rather than
RSID, because the
RSID is the service area.
He said there was also come capitalization that was done through
out the agreement.
There was lengthy discussion as to wordage, grammatical and minor
textual changes.
Upon roll call vote,"`Ah�e _motion• carried with 4Atkiiison. :�Voting
against.,
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Fallon thanked the City and the Council for all their efforts
over the last 10 months. We know it has been a long road and a
Jong journey and appreciate all the efforts. He said even though
the discussions with the city have ended we still have to comply
with the consents to annex, and notice to withdraw from a rural
fire district and we are in the process of working on that now.
Our next step is going to the County Commissioners and getting
the RSID approved and would appreciate any communication the
City might have to the County Commissioners, as just saying that
the Interlocal Agreement has been approved and that any other
commments that you might have that could help assist us, we would
greatly appreciate.
He said they will be meeting with County Commissioners on
7/30/90 at 9:30 a.m.
CALL FOR BIDS: CITY COURT COMPUTER
Councilman Larson moved that the council authorize the police
Department to go out for bid for a Police Department/City Court
computer network. Moses seconded the motion.
Larson explained that the Police Department has sought grant
money inorder to put together a City Court/Police Department
computer network. He said that there has been a great deal of
studies done by the Montana Supreme Court, the Department of
Highway Safety with the state, the Police Department, the City
Court and basically what the system would do would tie the Police
Department and the City Court together. One advantage would be
that they would be able to share appropriate files. There will
be a complete law library on a computer memory system. The City
Judge, City Attorney and Police Department will have access. He
explained last years budget contained a a .$5,000 line item for
the City Judge to acquire computer equipment, this was not spent
and so it was carried over to this year. That $5,000 would be
the only city money going into this project and the rest of the
money has been obtained through grants from the Dept. of Highway
safety. He said there has been alot of effort of Chief Clark's
part. The grant would provide two high speed work stations for
the judge, a laser printer, color monitors, separate computer
memory systems for the law library, 300 plus megabyte file
server for the police department, shared data, and two high speed
work stations for the police department clerical personnel.
This system has been approved by the Montana Supreme Court and
will serve as a model system for all the courts in the State of
Montana.
There was discussion as to the carry over of the $5,000.
They had applied for a Grant through Gallatin County -Crime
Control to have this pilot program funded through the Board of
Crime Control and Drug Use. They did not feel there was enough
drug use tied to it and we were turned down.
We had to go through another grant process through the Traffic
and were successful. It has been two years of jumping over
hurdles with the Supreme Court.
With the package all put together, the City will have a $20,000
plus system for $5,000.
There was discussion as to future costs to the city.
Upon vote, it was tied and Mayor Hopkins voted in favor, and the
motion carried, with Granmo, Furlong and Gunnerson voting
against.
ADJOURN: The meeting was adjourned at 7:15 p.m.
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Roger Ij. H¢pkinV, Mayor
ATTEST:
Amy H. Robertson, Clerk -Treasurer
Debbie Liverman, Recording Secretary
Approved as presented August 20, 1990
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