06-04-21 City Manager Report with Arrest Report1
City of Kalispell
OFFICE OF THE CITY
MANAGER
Information Memorandum
6/4/2021
1. Police Department
Attached is the latest law enforcement activity report. Year to date calls for service are
14,019, this compares with 13,224 in 2020 and 15, 231 in 2019.
Several members of the Kalispell Police Department attended DDACTS training in
Kalispell, on May 25 and 26. Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety
(DDACTS) integrates location-based crime and traffic data to establish effective and
efficient methods for deploying law enforcement and other resources. Using GIS
mapping to identify areas that have high incidences of crime and crashes, DDACTS uses
traffic safety strategies that play a dual role in reducing both.
Chief Overman attended the FBI
National Command Course in
Stafford, VA, on May 17-21.
The course was sponsored and
funded by the FBI. The course
was an executive development
and command course targeted at
Chiefs and Sheriffs from across
the United States with a sworn
staff of less than 50. Law
enforcement leaders explored
their role in providing effective
leadership for their community.
2. Planning Department
The Kalispell City Planning Board will hold a public hearing at their June 8 meeting and
take public comments on the agenda items listed below:
1. File #KA-21-02 – A request from Katherine Gates (Mission Impawsible, LLC)
for annexation and initial zoning of B-1 (Neighborhood Business) for property
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located at 100 Ponderosa Lane (Ponderosa Veterinary Hospital), containing
approximately 1.48 acres. The request is based on a desire to connect to city
sanitary sewer service.
2. File #KCU-21-03 – A request from Tristelle Vu (The Ritz Bar & Salon) for a
conditional use permit to allow an accessory casino within the B-4 (Central
Business) zone. The property contains an existing bar and will be adding a nail
salon in addition to the proposed accessory casino space. The property is located
at 110/116 Main Street, formally known as the Kalispell Bar.
3. File #KCU-21-04 – A request from Layne Massie (Edge, LLC) for a conditional
use permit to allow a multi-family residential development for property located at
2015/2105 Third Avenue East, containing approximately 2.04 acres. The
development (Third Avenue East Apartments) would include 48 residential units,
parking, and recreational amenities.
4. File #KCU-21-05 – A request from Jason Sharp for a conditional use permit to
allow an auto repair business within the B-3 (Core Area Business) zone. The
property contains an existing building that was previously used for fleet vehicle
maintenance and equipment storage for an internet service company. The
property is located at 710 West Montana Street.
5. File #KPP-21-03 – A request from Owl Corporation for major preliminary plat
approval for Westview Estates Phases 6 and 7. The property is located within an
R-3 (Residential) zoning district, with a total of 34 single-family lots on
approximately 15.98 acres of land including the lots, streets, a park area, and
other common area. The property is located to the east of Stillwater Road and to
the north of Westview Estates Phase 2.
6. Files #KPUD-21-01; and KPP-21-02 – A request from Bison Hill, LLC for the
Mountain View Planned Unit Development (“PUD”), which is a Residential PUD
overlay on approximately 139 acres of land abutting the north side of Foys Lake
Road to the west of the Highway 93 Bypass, along with major preliminary plat
approval for Phase 1 of the development. The property was previously annexed
with a PUD overlay called Willow Creek, which has since expired. This proposal
is for a new PUD by a different applicant. The PUD calls for a total of 407
dwelling units (225 single family lots, 16 cottage lots and 166 townhome lots)
along with approximately 49.1 acres of open space and park area. The Phase 1
preliminary plat consists of approximately 21.2 acres with 94 lots (5 single family
lots and 89 townhome lots), streets and open space.
Documents pertaining to the agenda items are on file for public inspection at the Kalispell
Planning Department, 201 First Avenue East, Kalispell, MT 59901, and are available for
public review during regular office hours. In addition, information on the agenda items
are posted on our website at https://mt-kalispell.civicplus.com/314/Planning-Board under
planning board “upcoming agenda.”
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3. Building Department
In the last 3 weeks, we have issued permits for 4 single-family homes. This brings the
total of new single-family/duplex and townhouse units for the year to 108, compared to
91 last year at this time.
There have been 148 multi-family housing units issued so far this year. Last year at this
time we had not issued any multi-family housing permits.
There was a total of 206 combined building and/or fire inspections completed in the last 3
weeks.
Residential – 86 Plumbing – 30
Commercial – 21 Mechanical - 28
Electrical – 29 Fire - 12
4. Community Development
Construction of the Kalispell Parkline has begun as Sandry Construction has commenced
the removal of the Railroad tracks, removing railroad signals, and started clearing and
grubbing. Following the removal of the railroad tracks underground work will begin.
The fuel island canopy, pumps and underground fuel
storage tank and piping have been removed from the
property at the northwest corner of Main Street and 4th
Street East (Sweat Peaks) through the cooperative effort
of EPA Brownfields and Montana Department of
Environmental Quality. The next steps will include
over-excavation of the site, then backfill and re-paving
of the parking lot.
Work on the South Kalispell/Airport TIF Traffic Improvement Project continues as the
contractor finalizes items on the project punch list. Major components of the project are
in use including the new street connection at 17th Street West, two parking lots east of 1st
Avenue West and the bike lanes on Airport Road.
5. Public Works
Solid Waste Annual Spring Cleanup Collection Day
The City of Kalispell’s Solid Waste Division
completed their eighth annual spring clean-up for
residential rollout customers during the month of
May. This annual service allows residential rollout
customers to put large items and excess household
items on the curb for rear loader pickup. These items
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may consist of couches, washers, dryers, yard debris, large boxes and other items that do
not fit in their rollout container. This service does not allow the collection of any
hazardous products like oils, antifreeze, batteries, pesticides or weed killers. In addition,
to their routine collection duties, the Solid Waste Staff, in just one week, removed around
27 tons of debris and household appliances to the landfill.
Grandview Lift Station (LS 3) Repair
Lift Station 3 on Hwy 93 and Grandview Dr is one of the City’s largest lift station and
services a large residential and commercial sewer shed in North Kalispell. The lift station
pumps at 860 gpm and cycles (on/off) 125 times/day. A valve located in the lift station’s
drywell piping had developed a leak and required replacement. Sewer Maintenance Staff
procured the valve from a manufacture and modified the valve to meet the existing piping
configurations. A bypass pumping plan was developed by Sewer Maintenance Staff
which implemented a 2-stage pumping operation to match or exceed the high incoming
flow rate against the vertical pumping head. This project was successfully completed in 1
day by the Sewer Maintenance Staff.
6. Parks and Recreation
Montana Conservation Corp (MCC) spent the week of May 24 – 28, mapping and
spraying invasive weeds in our more natural areas throughout Kalispell’s parks system.
Vandalism continues to occur in the park system. The Lagoon bathroom at Woodland
Park was graffitied a day after parks staff removed the previous graffiti. With the warmer
temperatures and more people using the parks, we are hoping vandalism is reduced by the
presence of the increased summer visitors.
Our Forestry staff continues to prune trees on 4th Avenue East along the 600 block. A
contractor has completed the planting of 86 trees as our final insurance related task for
the May 2020 windstorm.
We have finished our hiring for Camp Woodland Summer Day Camp and will hold our
staff training on Saturday, June 5 and Sunday June 6. With the 26% increase in camp
registrations this year, we have also increased the number of staff hired. We will have 42
staff at Camp Woodland this summer (16 returning staff and 26 new camp counselors).
We are currently averaging 116 participants per day with most of the days having reached
the 120-participant capacity.
The Woodland Water Park also begins training this week for Shift Managers,
Concessions, and Front Desk positions. Returning Lifeguards will have their training in-
service next week. New Lifeguards will attend a five-day training June 9-13.
Our adult 7v7 outdoor soccer league will begin on Thursday,
June 10. We have 14 teams registered for the league this year.
The league will take place at the Kalispell Middle School
lower practice fields on Monday and Thursday evenings from
6:00pm-9:30pm. We will have 8 weeks of regular season
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games in June and July and a 2-week playoff in early August.
7. Information Services
IT staff are working to setup the City Council Chambers for hybrid in-person/Zoom
meetings for City Council Meetings. The first hybrid meeting is June 7.
Video migration continues with the police in-car and body camera video. Once all the
data is migrated from the old server to the new server, clean up scripts will be run and the
old server will be decommissioned. Video migration started on 4/14 and just over 50%
of the content has migrated. The new server has a 10-gig network connection, but the
old server does not.
GIS staff have been working through issues with the latest version of ArcGIS Pro and
have been meeting with ESRI representatives to begin the initial discussion of upgrading
to newer versions of ArcGIS Enterprise.
AV staff filmed the Kalispell Parkline Contract signing event. Footage from the event
will be played on the city cable TV channel and posted to social media.
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Crimes Against Persons
Homicide/Justifiable Homicide 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
SIWOC/Sexual Assault 3 0 0 0 5 0 3 0 8 0 19 0
Robbery 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
Aggravated Assault 3 0 4 2 3 3 6 2 7 3 23 10
Assault on a Peace Officer 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3
Simple Assault 6 5 7 3 9 6 13 10 3 1 38 25
PFMA 12 8 10 10 8 6 13 5 8 6 51 35
Resisting Arrest 3 3 4 4 6 6 7 6 2 1 22 20
Crimes Against Property
Burglary 2 0 1 0 4 1 1 0 4 1 12 2
Theft 41 23 37 16 45 21 39 18 26 13 188 91
Vehicle Theft/Unauth Use 3 1 3 1 9 6 5 2 2 0 22 10
Arson 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Forgery/Counterfeit 1 1 5 0 3 0 3 0 1 0 13 1
Fraud 5 2 4 1 3 1 5 2 4 1 21 7
Theft of Identity 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Embezzlement 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3
Stolen Property offenses 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Criminal Mischief 8 3 8 1 21 2 9 1 16 5 62 12
Crimes Against Society
Weapon Law Violations 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Prostitution Offenses 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Child Pornography 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Drug Offenses 22 16 9 8 23 14 11 3 7 5 72 46
Family Offenses (non-violent)2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 7 0
DUI 6 5 10 9 4 4 7 6 16 17 43 41
Possession of Alcohol 1 1 5 4 0 0 6 6 7 9 19 20
Provide Alcohol to Minor 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Other Alcohol Offenses 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 3 1 1 6 5
Kidnapping/Custodial Int.1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 3
Disorderly Conduct 7 6 4 4 4 5 7 5 5 4 27 24
Criminal Trespass 28 22 7 8 10 6 17 16 7 2 69 54
Violation of Protective Order 4 2 9 1 2 0 4 3 2 4 21 10
Obstructing a peace officer 13 12 5 4 5 5 9 9 7 5 39 35
Juvenile Offenses (except MIP)1 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 9 6 14 9
Other Offenses 42 41 29 27 33 30 35 33 38 36 177 167
Total 217 156 170 108 203 118 209 131 184 122 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 983 635
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513 345 367 294 504 333 383 329 567 400 2334 1701
Total Calls for Service
Kalispell Police Department Case and Arrest Reports - 2021
January February March April May June July August September October November December Totals
2775 2465 3013 2785 2878 13916