STATE OF IDAHO
County of Idaho
MARCH SESSION March 12, 2013 SECOND TERM DAY
10:15 a.m. The board convened with Commissioners James Rockwell, Skip Brandt and Jim Chmelik and Kathy Ackerman, Clerk present.
The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance.
Syd regarding claims:
Current Expense $45,992.85 County Road and Bridge $ 54,736.70
Airport $1,403.14 Emergency Comm. $1,214.60
District Court $1,212.99 Title III Forest-New $11,755.40
Indigent $5,870.82 Appraisal $881.27
Solid Waste $128,514.64 Search & Rescue $1,940.86
Election Consolidation $245.89 Noxious Weeds $5,230.52
Snowmobile 25-A $2,252.70 Snowmobile 25-B $2,124.80
Total Expenditures $263,377.18
Chmelik moves to approve the claims. Brandt seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
10:30 a.m. James Zehner presents estimate for digitizing tax record books-amount is $1,580.00, but that may be a bit light given the number of pages they have-discussion. Zehner will come back in July with a more exact figure. Zehner regarding review of property exemptions-it is required by Idaho Code that these be reviewed on a yearly basis-thorough review was done about five years ago with a number of items cleaned up-additions since then have been at the approval of the Commission. Discussion. Commission has no objection to current exemptions.
Rockwell moves to approve minutes of the March 5 meeting as amended. Chmelik seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
Approval of Reduction of Solid Waste Fees per application income under $8500 and assets under $50,000-Bette Blair.
Approval of wage increase to $11.94 per hour for Deputy Indigent Clerk Camden Willis for successful completion of probation.
11:00 a.m. James Rockwell regarding Firearms Resolution-discussion. Brandt moves to approve Idaho County Resolution 2013-01 upholding the 2nd Amendment. Chmelik seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
11:15 a.m. James Zehner regarding language to address Homestead Entry Surveys in the subdivision ordinance-advises that he, Marsha Cunningham and Kirk MacGregor worked on this at length last week and discovered that the requirements for requesting a variance through the subdivision ordinance covered the intent-discussion. Zehner will work on this a bit more and will come back this afternoon to present new wording.
11:30 a.m. Rockwell moves to go into Executive Session pursuant to IC 67-2345(f)-legal. Chmelik seconds. Roll call-District 1-yes, District 2-yes, District 3-yes.
1 Approval, 2 Denial, 2 Suspended/Tolled, 4-N1, 1-release-N1, 4-Liens, 1-Lien Release
11:55 a.m. End Indigent
11:56 a.m. MacGregor regarding request for a variance within the city of Grangeville Area of Impact-we haven’t had an application form in the past-discussion. Rockwell moves to accept application for variance with a fee of $200. Brandt seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
12:00 p.m. Recess for lunch.
1:00 p.m. The Board reconvenes
Gene Meinen regarding agreement with the Payette National Forest regarding road maintenance-language has not been agreed upon-he will have to bring this back again.
Meinen regarding agreement with Kidder Harris on a FEMA project-questions whether we should bill them for 10% that wasn’t covered by FEMA-discussion. Meinen will pursue billing.
1:30 p.m. James Zehner and Marsha Cunningham regarding proposed wording for subdivision ordinance as it pertains to Homestead Entry Surveys-discussion. MacGregor approves proposed wording. Rockwell moves to approve and adopt the amendment of the subdivision ordinance to include the wording under definitions to include “Any Homestead Entry Survey; or Any 40 acre parcel within a Homestead Entry Survey. In the event there is a remaining parcel of less than 40 acres, that parcel will not be considered an original parcel. “ Brandt seconds. Motion carries with all in favor. Discussion-MacGregor advises that he believes the wording should be modified to include the word ‘division’. Chmelik moves to modify wording to read “Any Homestead Entry Survey; or Any 40 acre or more parcel division within a Homestead Entry Survey. In the event there is a remaining parcel of less than 40 acres, that parcel will not be considered an original parcel.” Brandt seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
2:02 p.m. Meeting adjourned
Chairman:_______________________________ Attest:___________________
