STATE OF IDAHO
County of Idaho
JANUARY SESSION January 14, 2008 SECOND TERM DAY
The Board met at 9:00 a.m. with all members present.
Gene Meinen – road & airport report. Schedule A roads discussed – forest service roads turned over to the county – county is currently receiving highway users money for the roads.
Elk City garbage pick up – problem – Walco stated they will only pick up garbage once a week instead of twice – discussion followed – Dennis Albers will draft letter to Walco stating twice a week is necessary.
Fee increase for road permit to access county road – Gene suggested increasing from $25.00 to $100.00 – increase will be included with hearing for fee increase.
Airport advisory meeting discussed. Jim made motion to appoint Gary Lasenby on airport advisory board to replace Jim Babb. Skip seconded. Motion carried with all in favor.
FBO (Fixed Base Operator) for Idaho County Airport – Gene explained advantage – better service to public – county would receive flowage fee for fuel if we turned over all fuel sales to FBO. Randy suggested we look at proposals – discussion – flight school could be made available – all commissioners agreed for Gene to proceed with this further.
9:50 a.m. Skip made motion to enter into executive session for personnel issues I C 67- 2345 (a). Jim seconded. Motion carried. Roll call taken.
10:05 a.m. Ended. No decision made.
Syd Fuzzell – Claims.
Current Expense $80,194.63
Road & Bridge $23,272.96
Airport 25,024.07
Emergency Comm 522.64
District Court 9,278.35
Title III 1,371.24
Indigent 28,807.41
Appraisal 289.41
Drug Enforcement 1,193.66
Solid Waste 98,188.31
Noxious Weeds 4,036.57
Snowmobile 25A 2,292.98
Snowmobile 25B 67.79
Jim made motion to approve claims. Skip seconded. Motion carried.
Total claims $274,540.02
Jane Cottrell, NezPerce National Forest and Tom Reilly, Clearwater National Forest. Jane presented awards to Randy Doman, Jim Rehder, Skip Brandt, Rose Gehring, Larry Dasenbrock, Jerry Zumalt, Jim Davis, James Zehner for their help with fire season of 2007. Travel planning – designated routes for motor vehicle use – received comments in July – 200 route proposal comments – 60% complete – 15 – 20% of routes are new – most comments were on existing routes – water quality and wild life issues discussed.
Randy – weed & spread of weeds with all the increase in motor activity is a concern – also, roadless issues.
Jane stated they are addressing these issues – public meeting will be set for review of draft travel plan. Disabled hunting areas are still available for use.
Tom Reilly – forest travel plan – working with public on changes and use of routes – open and closed guides were revamped and will be available – motorized and non-motorized routes discussed – new routes discussed on whether or not they can be considered snowmobile use – public comment period is closed.
11:30 a.m. Skip made motion to enter into executive session for indigent claims – I C 31-874. Jim seconded. Motion carried. Roll call taken.
12:05 p.m. Ended.
Three approved Two liens One N-1
Jim Church and Jim Wemhoff, Idaho County Fair Board re: new position available on board – John Lamb’s ter, expires – Joan Hall agreed to serve on board. Jim made motion to approve the appointment of Joan Hall to serve on Fair Board to replace John Lamb. Skip seconded. Motion carried with all in favor.
Goals of fair board presented along with maintenance of buildings – handicap parking discussed – signs will be set up – events sign by flag pole will be set up – repair work completed on fair buildings. Extension of other buildings discussed.
Revenue for Idaho County Fair discussed – possibility of renting buildings for winter time storage for boats/RV.
Randy mentioned Lion’s Club building on county property at fair ground – lease fee discussed – more information will be obtained.
Virgil Wassmuth, Predator Control Board, reported on purpose of board – group meets once a year – wolf discussion followed – gave report on meeting.
Election precincts. Jim made motion to approve precincts as presented. Skip seconded. Motion carried. See on following pages.
Jim Davis – as of February 15, 2008, Mr. Davis will resign as fire mitigation coordinator. Thank you Jim for a job well done.
Larry Dasenbrock – fee increases – finger printing from $5.00 to $10.00 – will be included with hearing notice.
January 7, 2008 minutes. Jim made motion to approve minutes as amended. Skip seconded. Motion carried.
Beverage license approved:
Canyon House – beer & wine
Elk’s Lodge #1825 – beer & liquor
Oscar’s Restaurant – beer & liquor
Keuterville Pub & Grub – beer & wine
Asker’s Harvest Foods – beer & wine
South fork Station – beer
Wilderness Post 8311 VFW – beer & liquor
JOPO Inc dba Zip Trip #21 – beer & wine
The Dept – beer
Pankey’s Foods, Inc. – beer & wine
Triangle Tavern – beer & wine
Order for cancellation of solid waste fee and penalty tax – $794.88 (solid waste fee) – $4.98 (penalty) approved.
Kirk Newson protesting solid waste fee – paying for fee with his taxes and also taking garbage to transfer station – being charged by weight again – discussion followed. Randy explained process – fee for Mr. Newson will remain the same for this year.
Randy – North Pollock Dumpsters – Cross O Ranch property – discussion – selection of site was under discretion of Walco, Inc. – Walco made agreement – not county – Owners of Cross O Ranch requesting payment for lease of property. Dennis Albers will draft letter for commissioners’ signature.
Sheila Key re: Bemos Gulch – presented copy of plat map – incorrect street name according to residents – want street to be named Bemis – commissioners stated if a person want to change name – must go through hearing process.
Northern Star Road – resident wants road to be named 222D – commissioners stated road will be named Northern Star Road.
Solid Waste System – meeting will be held Wednesday, January 16, 2008 in the commissioners’ room to discuss goals and action plan.
Tim Lee re: Survey #2589 – 110 acres – Kamiah area – 14 miles up Tommy Taha Road – 15 acre parcel sold – requesting to divide remaining property amongst family without going through subdivision process – discussion followed. Tim will present a petition for a variance hearing at a later date.
Deanna Hall re: solid waste letters
James Mead – Pollock area – complaint of solid waste fees – no action taken
Hans Hausmanson – complaint of ag solid waste fee – received residence fee and ag solid waste fee – requesting ag fee be dropped – request denied
Chambers Construction – residential and full commercial – requesting change in solid waste fee – Jim made motion to charge only ½ commercial solid waste fee. Skip seconded. Motion carried.
Commissioners’ reports:
Jim – community guardians – Idaho County currently does not have a community guardian board – discussion followed. Criminal case fund and RSWAC meeting.
Skip – closed primary discussion
Randy – BLM land purchase – fire meeting this week – discussion followed on good working relations with various entities – RSWAC meeting – CEDA meeting.
The Board recessed at 5:00 p.m.
Chairman:___________________________ Attest:______________________
