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- AGENDA MEMO -
Mayor and Members of Council
Bruce Williams, City Manager
Council Agenda for February 6, 1995
CONSENT AGENDA
Agenda Item 1-Council Minutes
Included in your packet are the minutes from your regularly
scheduled Council meeting of January 17, 1995 and the special
meeting of January 28, 1995.
Approval of Claims
The schedule of claims to be paid on Tuesday, February 7, 1995,
have been prepared and available for Council to review. I have
reviewed the claims presented amounting to $160,754.73 and
recommend their payment.
ADDRESSING THE COUNCIL
None scheduled.
Douglas Rauthe
Mayor
Bruce Williams
City Manager
City Council
Members:
Gary W. Nystul
Ward I
Cliff Collins
Ward I
Barbara Moses
Ward II
Dale Haarr
Ward 11
Jim Atkinson
Ward III
Lauren Granmo
Ward III
Pamela B. Kennedy
Ward IV
M. Duane Larson
Ward IV
Agenda Item 2-Ordinance 1216-Salary-1st Reading
Included in your packet is a memo from our Finance Director
outlining the purpose of Ordinance 1216. The pay schedule has
been adjusted by 7.6% which represents the cost of living
increases for the periods ending October 1993 and October 1994.
The purpose of adjusting the schedule is to keep our job
offerings competitive with the market. It is important to point
out that the adjustment to bring the schedule current with cost
of living does not provide any pay increases to our employees.
None scheduled.
BUSINESS FROM MAYOR & COUNCIL
BUSINESS FROM MANAGER
Agenda Item 3-Lantis Enterprises/Heritage Place -CUP
Lantis Enterprises has applied for a conditional use permit to
construct an addition to the north side of the Heritage Place
Extended Care facility. The expansion will include a dining
room, activity area and nurses station for specialized care.
The property is located on the north side of Heritage Way
approximately 400 feet east of Highway 93. The Planning Board
held a public hearing on the matter with no one speaking in
opposition. The board recommends that the CUP request be
granted subject to 7 conditions.
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As you will recall during our work session concerning this
subject you asked that we modify condition 5 to read "the water
main, currently located beneath the proposed addition, must be
relocated prior to the issuance of a building permit". With
this change Staff recommends approval of the conditional use
permit.
Agenda Item 4-Bid Award -Trailer Mounted Aerial Lift
Your packet contains a memo from Mike Baker concerning the bid
results for the trailer mounted aerial lift. The City received
5 bids for the equipment. The low bid submitted by Kois
Brothers of Great Falls in the amount of $19,930 met our
specifications and we therefore recommend this bid be awarded to
Kois Brothers in this amount.
Agenda Item 5-Bid Award -Police Patrol Vehicles
The City received two bids for police patrol cars. Eisinger
from Kalispell bid $42,931.18 and Karl Tyler from Missoula bid
$43,460.00 for the two vehicles. It is Staff's recommendation
that the award be made to Eisinger in the amount of $42,931.18.
For Council's information one auto will be funded from our
general fund budget and the other from a State Safety Grant.
Agenda Item 6-Bid Recommendation Skyline Bowl Parking Lot
The City opened bids on Tuesday, January 31st for the sale of
the Skyline Bowl parking lot.
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We received 3 bids for the sale of the lot. Two bids were
received on or before the 11:00 a.m. filing deadline and the
third was received much later that same day. The late arriving
bid from Glacier Bank was never opened and remains locked in our
vault. Richard Mohrenweiser bid $105,001 and Skyline Bowl
owners bid $110,000. It should be noted before you consider any
of the options concerning the bids I must inform you that Larry
did indicate to Glacier Bank that they had until 5:00 p.m. on
the 31st to get their bid submitted. In responding to the bank
query Larry referred to the resolution authorizing the
advertisement which did not include a specific time for the
opening. The bid submittal times and dates were included in the
bid advertisement appearing in the legal section of the Daily
Inter Lake. This legal ad was published three different dates.
Larry's advice to Glacier Bank although unfortunate does not in
my opinion violate any legal standing we have with respect to
the bid outcome. Your options, although limited, include enough
variety to give a reasonable choice, they are:
1. Reject all bids based on their unresponsiveness and re -bid.
(This is the preferred option recommended by our Development
Director.)
2. Reject all bids and leave the Skyline Bowl parking lot a
public parking facility until such time as the Parking
Commission develops an acceptable parking improvement program.
3. Award the bid to the Skyline Bowl owners in the amount of
$110,000.
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My recommendation is option 2, reject the bids and leave the lot
public parking until the Parking Commission develops an
acceptable parking improvement program. This option will leave
the lot open for parking, save the bowling alley owners $110,000
(bowling alley would continue to use the lot for parking) and
not obligate the City to offer it for sale again until the
downtown parking problems are resolved.