2. Flathead High School Street and Alley ConfigurationCity of Kalispell
Charles A. Harball office of City Attorney
City Attorney 312 First Avenue East
P.O. Box 1997
Kalispell, MT 59903-1997
MEMORANDUM
TOO Mayor Pamela B. Kennedy
and Kalispell City Council
FROM: Charles Harb all, City Attorney
James H. Patrick, City Manager
Tel 406.758.7708
Fax 406.758,7771
charball@kalispell.com
SUBJECT: Street and Alley Configuration at Flathead High School
MEETING DATE: Monday, January 14, 2008 — Work Session
BACKGROUND: The City staff and the staff from School District 5 have been
working together to resolve some mapping and transportation use issues at the
Flathead High School site. over the years improvements at the school have been
put in place and the mapping has not kept up with actual uses. The current map
shows alleys that do not and can not exist to serve as alleys given the configuration
of the improvements. The roadway in front of the school, Fourth Avenue West, that
has served as a street and school staff parking area is owned by the school and is
not a City owned and maintained street. It is the desire of the School District that
the alleys be officially abandoned to the School District and that Fourth Avenue
West, or some portion thereof, be converted to a landscaped area.
RECOMMENDATION: The City staff is recommending that the subject alleys be
abandoned according to the appropriate statutory process and that an arrangement
be made between the School District and the City that will allow Fourth Avenue,
owned by the School, to be landscaped, while preserving some portion to allow the
north/south traffic flow.
Respectfully submitted,
Char all, City Attorney
James H. Patrick, City Manager