* AgendaREGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING
COUNCIL CHAMBERS -CITY HALL
ROLL CALL
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
1. AGENDA APPROVAL
2. Council Minutes -Regular Meeting May 6, 1996
3. Approval of Claims per Payables Register
7:00 P.M. MONDAY
MAY 20, 1996
ADDRESSING THE COUNCIL
4. Please see back of agenda for Manner of Addressing the
Council.
ORDINANCES & RESOLUTIONS
5. Resolution 4265-Change Order -Woodland Park DREAM Trail
BUSINESS FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL
6. Proclamations -Public Works Week
Good Sam Clean -Up Day
BUSINESS FROM MANAGER
7. Hendrickson -Final Plat
8. Authority to Bid -Janitorial Services
9. Authority to Bid -Teton Terrace Infrastructure
STAFF REPORTS
Budget Work Session to follow this meeting (See attached schedule)
Next Work Session May 28, 1996 7:00 p.m.
Next Regular Meeting June 3, 1996 7:00 p.m.
NOTE -Budget Work Session Saturday -June 8, 1996 9-12 p.m. 1-3 p.m.
ADJOURN
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with
disabilities to attend this meeting. Please notify Debbie Gifford,
Clerk of Council at 758-7756.
AGENDA FOR BUDGET REVIEW MAY 20, 1996
to follow Regular City Council meeting
1. Fire (Pages 69-74), Ambulance (Pages 219-224), City Hall
Maintenance (Pages 50-51)
2. Police (Pages 52-68) Drug Enforcement (Pages 177-180)
3. Tax Increments Funds (Pages 111-129)
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: May 20, 1996
TO: Bob Babb, Public Works Director
FROM: Joni E.T.rick, WWTP Manager
RE: EPA AWARD
I was informed on Thursday May 16th that we took first place
in the 1996 EPA Region VIII Operation and Maintenance Exceiience
Award competition. Region VIII includes the states of Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah, North and South Dakota, and Montana. Since we
took first place, we will automatically be entered into the
national competition. The results of the national competition
will be known in September.
The award recognizes the operation and maintenance
activities carried out by the Plant Manager and Operators to make
the Plant perform well above its' design expectations. The award
takes into account the complexity of the Plant, the innovative
and creative procedures used, and cost cutting and efficiency
measures carried out.
I was told that the award application I wrote scored "well
into the 90s." I have attached a copy for you. I hand put
together only a few copies, so I have only one spare besides the
one attached. If you think more copies are needed, please let me
know.
The Award Ceremony will be in Aug/Sept. I understand I will
be given more details later this week.
V.A. YAHOLKOVSKY, M.D. (Ret'd)
320 Fourth Ave. East
Kalispell, MT 59901
Tel: (406)-755-8626
20 May, 1996
The Mayor and City Council
Kalispell, Montana
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
I want to express to you my thoughts on your proposed actions in
the coming fiscal year. My particular concern is with the cuts you are
reported to be considering in the taxes and hence in the funds available for
the city services.
It is my understanding that you are planning to cut, among other things,
the following items: the fire department, police and the parks. I want to tell
you about my feelings and thoughts on these topics.
Let us consider the parks first. Having lived in Kalispell for over 20 years I
can tell you that one, if not the main, charm of our town are the city streets, with
the arched trees. As we all know, they have been neglected for many years, and
there is some confusion about their proper care. But eliminating the staff that
has been trying to keep the trees properly trimmed and pruned will only lead to
disaster. Trees will fall, branches will break, and so forth. Since you seem to
be more concerned about the money than the good of the city, I would like to
point out that when these trees will demand attention with falling branches and
such, it will probably cost more than to care for them.
Now the police: the city is growing, we are seeing more crime, not less.
Even with no decrease in police protection we are going down hill. With any
decrease it would be more precipitous. My first ten years in Kalispell no one in
my whole family had a key to the front or back doors. In fact, I cannot recall
owning a key! Now I do lock my doors and the garage. Will I need alarms and
dogs?
There is, you must be aware, an effort of concerned citizens through out
the county and including the city, to establish a central dispatching service for
medical 911 calls. Our record in emergency medical care has been outstanding:
our Alert chopper was the second if not the first in the nation. Our Quick
Response Units, volunteers all, have done a great job. But we have problems:
training and procedures have not been standard, and we do have a problem with
response: at times more than one unit responds and victims are then subjected to
billing from several agencies. The current effort to standardize and improve
training and the creation of a central dispatch that would triage the call and send
appropriate people is on its way. Now, you, the City Council, are planning to cut
the personnel of the fire department, thus eliminating or decreasing the number
of excellent people who provide the care necessary. With seniority regulations,
the department would lose its younger, more active, and more interested
members. You should be aware that the City County Health department is
providing the centralized facility for an office for such dispatch center. Yet with
budget cuts you are decreasing the efficiency of the responding units.
Taxes are high, but services are also needed, and I believe we, the
residents of Kalispell, are getting them at a fairly reasonable price. Cutting
services to save on taxes to get re-elected is not the answer. Administration
and "fringes" of the higher-ups and the City Council itself, might be a better
target for savings than cuts in services if you want a re-election platform.
I thank you for your consideration in granting me this opportunity to
present my views.
V. A. Yaholkovsky, M. D.