STATE OF IDAHO
County of Idaho
MAY SESSION May 23, 2017 FOURTH TERM DAY
8:45 a.m. The board convened with Commissioners Skip Brandt, Mark Frei and Denis Duman and Kathy Ackerman, Clerk present.
The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance.
Parson Rayphe offered an opening prayer.
Syd regarding claims:
Current Expense $ 51,940.88 County Road & Bridge $ 25,415.44
Airport $ 14,578.94 Emergency Comm. $ 5,363.23
District Court $ 1,762.08 Title III-New $ 17,382.19
Title III Forest Fund $ 975.34 Indigent $ 3,721.22
Appraisal $ 1,002.25 Solid Waste $ 283.89
Election Cons. $ 1,429.63 Noxious Weeds $ 10,689.31 Snowmobile 25-A $ 172.21 Snowmobile 25-B $ 12.00
Total Expenditures $ 134,728.61
Frei moves to approve the claims. Duman seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
9:00 a.m. Skip Brandt regarding Courthouse parking lot-big project will not be done this year-Brandt asks for suggestions for increasing space for the public to park. Zehner advises that we missed an opportunity a few years ago when we sold the green house across the street-suggests that $1 per day as incentive for employees not to park in the parking lot would increase parking. Discussion regarding space available at the Search and Rescue building-Trudy Slagle advises that the number of spaces available is dependent on whether or not the building is being used for classes-advises 25-30 spaces total are available. Brandt questions the number of vehicles the Assessor’s Office has-Zehner advises 5 vehicles-Juvenile Probation has 1 vehicle-Sheriff’s Office has 6 reserved spaces. Discussion regarding alternatives to include an additional handicap parking space and signage for parking time limitation. Commission encourages ideas for a solution to be brought forth.
9:15 a.m. Terry Nevius, Jenny Fischer, Josh Bransford and Tom McLeod, provide update on the Dixie-Comstock Project-hoping to move forward quickly under the Healthy Forest Restoration Act to treat a 29,850-acre area to assist in wildland fire prevention. Nevius advises that data collection will begin very aggressively this summer. Brandt questions how many crew members will be deployed to collect the data-Fischer advises that she will be the data collection lead-12-15 people will be working on this part of the project. McLeod reviews the process used to determine the project area. Discussion regarding Orogrande court case-Bransford praises the attorney hired by IAC to defend the case. Mike Cook regarding project impacts to roads-Bransford suggests setting up regular road planning meetings so that communication lines are clear. Fischer provides update on Dutch Oven Project.
10:05 a.m. Canvass of votes. Brandt moves to approve the canvass. Frei seconds. Motion carries with all favor.
10:45 a.m. Brandt regarding cameras for the jail-reviews quote from Fischer. Discussion regarding lease-with the parking lot project out, this could be funded fully this year. Brandt moves to approve the bid from Fischer for jail camera. Frei seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
11:00 a.m. David Rosenkrance, Deputy Regional Forester for Region 4, introduces himself-advises that he wants to make sure that there is good communication going on between the County and the Forest Service. Brandt advises that we do hear from the Payette on specific issues, but there are subjects that they don’t want to discuss-feels that the recent issue has moved from being a local issue to a Regional Forest issue. Brandt advises that we had asked for a letter to be rescinded-this was not done and there was also no reaching out. Rosenkrance asks what can be done to move forward with this. Brandt asks Rosenkrance to review the records-discussion. Brandt thanks Rosenkrance for making the effort to improve communication.
11:20 a.m. Jerry Zumalt regarding funding that has come through on our declaration-it is necessary to rescind the declaration-discussion. Brandt moves to rescind the disaster declaration. Frei seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
Brandt questions the status of emergency repairs on Carrot Ridge Road-discussion.
11:45 a.m. Brandt moves to go into Indigent proceedings pursuant to Idaho Code 31-874. Duman seconds. Roll call-District 1-yes; District 2-yes; District 3-yes
2-Approval; 0-Denial; 0-Suspended; 1-Lien; 1-N-1; 1-Release Lien; 1-Release N-1
11:55 a.m. End Indigent
James Zehner regarding agreement for GeoMedia-this is slightly higher than last year. Discussion regarding moving to a different system. Brandt moves to approve the maintenance/licensing for GeoMedia. Frei seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
Brandt moves to approve Letter of Understanding with Millington Zwygart for auditing services. Frei seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
Brandt moves to approve Memorandum of Agreement with North Central Public Health for website linkage. Duman second. Motion carries with all in favor.
Brandt moves to approve additional meeting requests for Duman and Brandt. Frei seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
Duman moves to approve the minutes of the May 16 meeting as amended. Frei seconds. Motion carries with all in favor.
Additional meetings-Duman-May 25-CMC-Orofino, CEDA-Lewiston
12:33 p.m. Duman moves to adjourn. Brandt seconds. Motion carries with Brandt and Duman in favor. Frei is absent.
Chairman________________ Attest:_________________
