STATE OF IDAHO
County of Idaho
JANUARY SESSION January 13, 2015 SECOND TERM DAY
9:30 a.m. The board convened with Commissioners Jim Chmelik, Mark Frei and Skip Brandt, and Kathy Ackerman, Clerk present.
The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance.
Skip Brandt moves to elect Jim Chmelik as Chairman. Frei seconds. Roll call: District I-Yes, District II-Yes, District III-Yes. Motion carries with all in favor. Chmelik moves to elect Skip Brandt as Vice Chairman. Frei seconds. Roll call: District I-Yes, District II-Yes, District III-Yes. Motion carries with all in favor.
Alcoholic Beverage License Approvals: Cash & Carry Foods-Beer and Wine Riggins One Stop-Beer and Wine Mountain River Outdoor Center-Beer and Wine Keuterville Pub & Grub-Beer and Wine Wilderness Post 8311 VFW-Beer and Liquor The Idaho Bananna-Beer and Wine Asker’s Harvest Foods-Beer and Wine Kooskia Café-Beer and Wine Doreen’s Southfork Saloon-Beer and Liquor Doreen’s Main Street Saloon-Beer and Liquor Sportshop LLC-Beer and Wine CHS Primeland-Beer Only
9:45 a.m. Syd regarding claims:
Current Expense $ 57,949.04 County Road and Bridge $ 23,063.88 Airport $ 1,060.47 Emergency Communication $ 144.71
District Court $ 4,942.09 Title III Forest-New $ 19,740.36 Indigent $ 166.94 Appraisal $ 173.20
Solid Waste $ 133,338.24 Search & Rescue $ 116.06
Election Consol. $ 1,255.43 Noxious Weeds $ 1,903.00 Snowmobile 25-A $ 25.56 Snowmobile 25-B $ 1,424.88
Total Expenditures $ 245,303.86
Chmelik moves to pay the claims. Brandt seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
9:55 a.m. Brandt regarding donation for Crisis Intervention training-we contributed $250 last year-discussion. Brandt moves to approve contribution. Frei seconds. Motion carries with all in favor. Brandt will follow-up with an email to the person who requested this.
10:03 a.m. Don Solberg regarding renewal of Airport insurance-Solberg reviews details/limits of policy and provision for a possible three year policy endorsement. The benefit of a three year policy is that in the event we have a big fire year, the policy would not be audited and the premium remains level. Brandt moves to approve the renewal of the airport insurance policy with the three year endorsement. Chmelik seconds. Motion carries with all in favor. Chmelik moves to waive the anti-terrorism coverage. Frei seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
10:15 a.m. Nightfeather Bogan regarding rural transportation services between Riggins and McCall-funding received through a grant from St. Luke’s-would like to expand the service to include Grangeville. Bogan asks for support from the Commission-they are working toward private funding with no Federal dollars-discussion. Chmelik questions the budget for operating this service-approximately $10,000 per year. Nightfeather will send more information.
10:30 a.m. James Zehner regarding destruction of DMV records over 5 years. Chmelik moves to approve Resolution 2015-01 for destruction of DMV records. Brandt seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
10:35 a.m. Kathy Ackerman regarding destruction of semi-permanent records in Auditors/Recorders Office. Discussion regarding records retention policy as a whole-MacGregor will work putting together a resolution for County records retention. MacGregor reviews proposed resolutions from Ackerman and Zehner-no issue with these. Chmelik moves to approve Resolution 2015-02 for destruction of semi-permanent records in the Auditors/Recorders Office. Brandt seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
10:45 a.m. Kathy Johnson regarding meeting of the Facilities Review Group-they were tasked with researching the proposed gift from the Chenoweth’s of the horse sculpture-Committee was concerned with the large amount of foot traffic-feel that it would be a huge liability for the County and do not recommend placement at the Courthouse. The committee proposed some alternate locations at the East entrance to Grangeville.
10:55 a.m. Kathy Ackerman regarding 5 year load test for elevator-discussion. Chmelik moves to approve bid for $1500 from Northwest Elevator for load test. Brandt seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
Brandt moves to approve the minutes of the January 6. Chmelik seconds. Motion carries with Brandt and Chmelik in favor. Frei abstains-he was not present.
11:10 a.m. Brandt regarding upgrade in phone system-Valence is requesting the opportunity to further investigate the capabilities of the Courthouse for a VOIP system and will utilize hours under our current service contract to do this-discussion. Frei proposes that we suggest that they bill us for a half rate against the service contract since they are trying to refine their own bid. Kirk MacGregor regarding new phone system in his office. Julie Kaschmitter regarding the history of the current phone system-was paid for by the County in 2005 out of the Prosecutor’s budget-system is broken and needs to be immediately replaced. Brandt questions the potential problems when there is also a private practice at the same building. MacGregor advises that the private side of his practice is very minimal-suggests that they come up with a percentage with the County paying part and MacGregor paying part. Frei asks Kaschmitter what the ideal system would look like-Kaschmitter advises that phones are needed in every office and two conference rooms. Discussion regarding how a percentage split could be determined. Continued until next week at 11:30.
Approval of promotion of Syd Fuzzell to Chief Deputy Clerk/Auditor/Recorder at $17.95 per hour effective January 12.
Approval of wage increase for Deputy Auditor Molly Terhaar to $13.74 per hour for transfer to Payroll/Accounts Receivable/HR Clerk position effective January 12.
11:30 a.m. Chmelik moves to go into Indigent proceedings pursuant to Idaho Code 31-874. Brandt seconds. Roll call-District 1-yes, District 2-absent, District 3-yes.
0-Approval, 3-Denial, 4-Liens, 4-N1, 1-Lien Release, 1-N1 Release
11:57 a.m. End Indigent-Break for lunch
1:00 p.m. Skip Brandt regarding overview of solid waste system in Idaho County and where to go in the future-main areas of concern: Rate structure-fine tuning of ag solid waste fees, reconfiguring of fees for city users using the dumpsters; the possibility of the elimination of personal property tax assessment; and dumpster consolidation and possible transfer station. Frei advises that equity in the fees is where he feels the Commission needs to focus-feels that it is a huge problem that city residents are using the dumpsters and the county residents are picking up the bill. Discussion. Darrell Mullinix advises that he feels the rate is arbitrarily assigned-feels that it is unfair that ag properties with small acreage are charged the same. Suzie Eckert regarding the possibility of coming up with a price per acre-Kim Nuxoll advises that this would be nearly impossible to stay up to date on the ag properties as they are constantly being changed-discussion. Brandt regarding accuracy of tonnage amounts-would be good to know amounts coming off each dumpster. Discussion regarding manned dumpster sites. Commission requests break down for solid waste fees-Frei requests information on all of the various revenue streams coming into the solid waste fund-Zehner will work on getting this together.
Order for cancellation-$222.50
Order for cancellation-$198.72
1:50 p.m. Meeting adjourned.
Chairman_______________________________ Attest:____________________________
