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Journal of Proceedings Missoula City Council April 13, 2009 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS MISSOULA CITY COUNCIL APRIL 13, 2009 CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL The meeting of the Missoula City Council was called to order by Mayor Engen at 7:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers at 140 West Pine Street. Present were Alderwomen Hellegaard, Marler, Mitchell, Rye, and Walzer and Aldermen Childers, Haines, Hendrickson, Jaffe, Strohmaier, and Wiener. Also present were Commissioners Landquist and Carey. Also present were Chief Administrative Officer Bender, City Attorney Nugent, Public Information/ Communications Officer Merriam and City Clerk Rehbein. Alderman Wilkins, Finance Director Ramharter and Commissioner Curtiss were absent. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Minutes of the regular meeting of April 6, 2009 were approved as submitted. SCHEDULE COMMITTEE MINUTES The following meetings were announced: Wed., April 15, 8:00 – 9:00 AM Public Safety and Health (PSH) Wed., April 15, 9:05 – 10:00 AM Conservation Committee (Cons) Wed., April 15, 10:05 AM – 12:00 PM Plat, Annexation and Zoning Committee (PAZ) Wed., April 15, 1:05 – 2:00 PM Public Works (PW) Wed., April 15, 2:05 – 3:00 PM; Committee of the Whole (COW) Mon., April 20, After the council meeting; Tues., April 21, 3:00 – 5:00 PM Wed., April 15, 3:05 – 4:00 PM Administration and Finance Committee (A&F) No Meeting Urban Wildlife Subcommittee (UWS) No Meeting EIS Peer Review Subcommittee No Meeting Economic Development Subcommittee (EDS) PUBLIC COMMENTS - None CONSENT AGENDA (1 ROLL CALL VOTE) 1. Approve claims totaling $ 471,597.17. (Detailed Claims) (Chart of Accounts) (A&F) (04/14/09) 2. Approve the Riverfront Neighborhood Council Bylaws as amended. (memo) 3. Approve the extension request for the Windsor Park Phase 7 Subdivision phasing plan amendment to March 28, 2011 in accordance with Article 4-7(2)(A-C) of the Missoula City Subdivision Regulations. (PAZ) 4. Approve tabling a decision to adopt permanent zoning for certain unzoned parcels in the upper west Rattlesnake Valley. (PAZ) 5. Table an ordinance to rezone property located at Rattlesnake Valley Lincoln School Cultural Center from R-8 (Residential) to P-2 (Public Lands and Institutions) as an interim urgency measure, pursuant to Section 76-2-306, MCA. The property is legally described as Lots 1, 2 and 13 of the School House Addition (within the Park Addition), Section 14, T13N, R19W. (PAZ) 6. Approve the Mayor's appointment of firefighter trainees Dave Smith, Justin Walsh, John LaRocque and Jamie Porter as Confirmed Firefighters for the City of Missoula. (PS&H) 7. Set a public hearing on May 11, 2009, to consider an ordinance creating Chapter 5.45 Missoula Municipal code entitled "Ambulance Services" Sections 5.45.010 through 5.45.100 to establish regulations for ambulance businesses operating in the city of Missoula and repealing Chapter 5.44 Missoula Municipal Code entitled "Ambulances" in its entirety. (PS&H) 8. Approve the encroachment permit at 218 East Front Street. (PW) 9. Approve the purchase of one Energy Absorption Systems, Vorteq; Traffic Attenuator to Coral Sales Company of Portland, Oregon, for $15,582. (PW) 10. Approve the purchase of one (1) 2009 Land Pride 72‖ Grass Seeder from Big Sky Kubota of Missoula, MT. for $9,872. (PW) 11. Approve the purchase of three (3) used mini pickups from Montana Mini-Trucks of Shelby, MT. for $23,900. (PW) City of Missoula City Council Minutes –April 13, 2009 - Page 2 Mayor Engen said, thank you, Ms. Rehbein. Chief Painter, would you like to add something this evening? Fire Chief Painter said, Mr. Mayor, Councilors, Commissioners, with your permission, I’d like to introduce you to the four firefighters we’ll be asking you, as part of the consent agenda today, to confirm as firefighters with our department. Dave Smith, right there. Dave Smith was born here in Missoula. He graduated from Bozeman High School but came back to U of M where he obtained a Psychology Degree. He moved to Colorado to pursue a career in the fire service, working for an ambulance service and then as a firefighter for the Fire Department in Littleton for 10 years during which time he also obtained his paramedic certification. Dave and his wife, Michelle, have two children including Hamish Bradford-Smith who was also officially a native Missoulian arriving here last August. Justin Walsh. Justin was born and raised what he claims was a little town in Northern California. He attended community college there before coming to Missoula to finish his education by obtaining a degree in Business Information Systems from the University of Montana. He started his career as a firefighter and EMT in California before becoming a smokejumper and wild land firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service. He has traveled both domestically and abroad but enjoys the abundant outdoor activities and the quality life he has found here in Missoula. John LaRocque. John was born in Great Falls but moved to Missoula as a youth and attended grade school in Bonner and graduated from Hellgate High School. He also attended UM where he obtained a degree in Health and Human Performance. And during his summer he worked as a seasonal wild land firefighter for Nine Mile Ranger District. John has also supported our community by working as a volunteer firefighter for East Missoula and as a counselor for Missoula Youth Homes. He enjoys hiking, fishing, camping and hunting but confesses that his favorite activity is taking walks with his beautiful wife April and their son, Kyler who just turned one and their yellow Lab, Riley. And Jamie Porter. Jamie Porter was born and raised in Oregon, left home to attend Santa Clara University where she obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry with an emphasis in Biochemistry and a minor in Religious Studies. During her time in Santa Clara, Jamie also worked as an assistant to Santa Clara’s Basketball Program and helped raise funds for improvement to the Pediatric Hospital at the University of San Francisco Medical Center. Jamie also found her way to firefighting by our wild land fire agencies working for the Forest Service as a Financial Officer, Arson Investigator and Fire Prevention Officer in addition to wild land firefighting. She has worked as an EMT for Marcus Daly Hospital’s Ambulance Service and taught wilderness emergency medicine. She loves the outdoors, is active in her church and her family’s woodcarving business. She enjoys being close to her family which consists not only of her parents and her sister, but two yellow Labs, Junior and Belle. These fine folk have successfully completed the training requirements for confirmed firefighter. They have received positive performance appraisals from their training officers, their company officers and their respective shifts battalion chiefs and I’m proud to recommend them for confirmation. I believe they also are, with good reason, proud to be part of our team. I would like to thank all of their co-workers for helping them toward that end as well, especially our Training Division and ask that you confirm them. Mayor Engen said, thank you, Chief. I see a number of those co-workers are here this evening. Thank you for swinging by. Are there any questions or comments on any of the items on the consent agenda? Anyone in the audience dare to wrestle the microphone away from Chief Painter to comment on any item on the consent agenda? Seeing none, Ms. Rehbein will have a roll call vote on the consent agenda. Upon a roll call vote, the vote on the consent agenda was as follows: AYES: Childers, Haines, Hellegaard, Hendrickson, Jaffe, Marler, Mitchell, Rye, Strohmaier, Walzer, Wiener NAYS: None ABSTAIN: None ABSENT: Wilkins Motion carried: 11 Ayes, 0 Nays, 0 Abstain, 1 Absent [applause for the new firefighters] City of Missoula City Council Minutes –April 13, 2009 - Page 3 COMMENTS FROM CITY STAFF, AGENCIES, COMMISSIONS, AUTHORITIES, AND COMMUNITY FORUM Robin Spaziani, Bike/Ped Board, stated that the Board has had the opportunity in the past month to address several different issues. One of which was brought to the Board from a group of citizens concerned about the safety of the C.S. Porter School crossing on Reserve. They are working toward getting a grade separated crossing there and the Board has drafted a letter of support for that grade separated crossing. In the meantime they have sent a second letter requesting an immediate speed reduction from Mount to South and any other interim measures that they can take such as the school crossing signs to increase the visibility of that crossing and make it safer than it is. Another issue is the bike lanes on Orange Street between First and Florence. The bike lanes actually don’t exist there. They exist on either end but a spot in the middle does not have any bike lanes. Also there is a four-foot shoulder there with fog lines demarking the shoulder from the road but they feel it isn’t really safe there because no one really knows what a bicyclist right is. The law is clear but people, in general, don’t know that it is the bicyclist right to ride on the road rather than the shoulder. And if you’re on the shoulder then you don’t have the right to go through the intersection and somebody can cut you off when they make a turn. It isn’t a safe situation. So they drafted another letter requesting the inclusion of standard five-foot bike lanes when the permanent striping is done in June on Orange Street. A copy of that letter has been passed out to the Council.
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