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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Minutes 06.01.1982Minutes of the City Council of Laurel June 1, 1982 A regul~ meeting of the City Council of the City of Laurel, Moatana~ was held in the Council Chambers and called to order by Mayor Albert Ehrlick at 7:03 p.m., on June 1, 1982. COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Lonnie Kellogg Bill Brennan Marvin Carter Susan Carter Donald Meyers Bob Gauthier COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: Duane Behm Rob Harris INVOCATION: Invocation given by Reverend Wilhelm. MINUTES: Motio~..by Alderman Gauthier to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of May 18, 1982, as presented, seconded by Alderman Meyers. Carried. CORRESPONDENCE: Letter from Montana League oF Cities and Towns requesting information and announcing a one-day workshop on June 30th regarding Small Cities Block Grant program. Received the m±nutes of the Interlocal Cooperation Commission meetings of May 12th and May 19th. CLAIMS: The claims for Ma~ were presented for review and approval. Motion by Alderman Gauthier to approve the claims for May, seconded by Alderwoman Sue Carter. Carried. ORDINANCE NO. 711 12nd reading) AN ORDINANCE CLOSING PORTIONS OF SOUTH 7th AVENUE IN THE CITY OF LAUREL TO ALL UNAUTHORIZED PEDESTRIAN OR VEHICULAR TRAFFIC. Motion by Alderman Meyers that Ordinance No. 71I be passed and adopted, seconded by Alderman Brennan. Upon taking a roll cali vote, all aldermen present voted, "YES." Motion carried 6--0. RESOLUTION NO. 1907 (ANNEXING THE HIGHWAY) AND RESOLUTION NO. 1908 ANNEXING VILLAGE 'SUBDIVISION:'' 'Resolution No. 1907 was passed and adopted on April 28, 1982, and did not become effective for 30 days (May 28, 1982}. However, Resolution No. 1908 was passed and adopted on May 4, 1982, and should not have been passed prior to May 28, 1982. Motion b.y Alderman Marvin Carter to reaffirm, pass and adopt Resolution No. 1908, seconded by Alderman Gauthier. Carried. JERRY FISHER - MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY SWIMATHON: Mr. Fisher requested the City Council's permission to use the swimming pool on July 24th for a swimathon. We would provide supervision for the pool and all that we would ask is that you set aside part of the pool for the swimathon. Basically what we do is advertise the swimathon event a few weeks prior to it and put up a few posters and make pledge forms available. It will be run just like other pledge events -- the walkathon, etc., but it would be done by kids swimming laps. We wouid get the JC's or some other service organization to supervise. Don Meyers said~that he talked with Jerry last week and all he wants is the Council's approval, then he will take it to the committee. He wanted to see how the council felt about it. Don Meyers suggested that since July 24th is on a Saturday, that the event be run in the morning. page Minutes of the City Council of Laurel Lifeguards were discussed and it was decided that the City would provide the lifeguard. Motion by Alderman Meyers to authorize and approve the swimathon with our supervision to watch over the pool and with the approval of the Park and Recreation Committee, seconded by Alderman Kellogg. Carried. CRAIG STAUS BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS: Mr. Staus mentioned that right now they have over 160 volunteers in Yellowstone County and eight of thes~ are from Laurel. We are expanding in Laurel. It is not Big Brothers and Sisters of Billings any more, it's Big Brothers and Sisters of Yellowstone County. The children that we serve are from 6--17 years of age and primarily of single parents. The volunteers are serving the children on a one to one reiationship. The volunteers serve about 2--4 hours a week and make a one year committment to the child. Most of the children we serve are from divorced situations and they ara experiencing difficulty as a result of the divorce. We need a few more volunteers as there are about 13 children here in Laurel that are going to need volunteers. If anybody knew of anyone who would like to be a volunteer~ they could call 248-2229. COMMITTEE REPORTS: Bill Brennan - License Committee presented the minutes of May 20, 1982. Discussion. Motion ~y Alderman Kellogg to accept and approve the License Comm±ttee minutes of May 20, 1982, seconded by Alderwoman Carter. Carried. ~Police Commission Motion by Alderman Gauthier to a~¢ept and approve the Police Commission minutes of May 1Bth and 14th~ seconded by Alderman Brennan. Carried. Marvin Carter - Garbage Committee At the last meeting we were instructed to take back, to survey, question, etc., on how the council wants us to handle the rate structure hearings. How many we should have, etc. Before we go to the hearing proeess~ do you want to see the adjusted structure that we have made? Sue Carter said that we should have a chance to review it before we are questioned by the public. Discussion. It was mentioned that the committee get everything together and present it to the council before having a hearing, including the resolution and change in the ordinance. Possibly this can be done by the next ~ouncil meeting. Mr. Carter mentioned that members of Garbage Committee are going to Billings Thursday to look at a garbage compactor, truck, that type of thing at lO:O0 a.m. at Holiday Inn West. MAYOR'S COMMENTS: The Mayor requested approval of the appointment of Peg Kamerzel and Mike Bloom to the Gambling Committee. Motion by Alderman Brennan to approve the appointment of Peg Kamerzel and Mike Bloom to the Gambling Committee, seconded by Alderman Kellogg. Carried. page 3 Minutes of the City Council of Laurel The Mayor also requested approvai of the appointment of himself, Don Hackmann, Bo~ Gauthier, Wayne ~Lovgren and Peg Kamerzel to the Investment Committee. Motion ~y Aiderman Kellogg to approve the appointments of the Investment Committee, seconded by Alderwoman Carter. Carried. Don Meyers questioned Mike Bloom regarding the recent test that was done on the bars for serving minors. He was concerned about entrapment. Mike and the City Attorney indicated that we weren't prosecuting anyone and that it wasn't entrapment. Discussion. Alderman Keliogg questioned that if Mike felt we had a problem, these people had been in business ~here for many years, that you didn't go and tell them that we feel that we have a teenage drinking problem and that they are buying it in the bars and go about it that route. You left a pretty bad taste in some of these people's mouths. Mike Bloom said we have done.that before. We have also received compiaints from citizens that are concerned and we took ~ecessary action and got together with the City Attorney before we did it, and we felt this was the way to go about it. Discussion. Discussion regarding having policemen walking a beat. Dave Michael informed the council that today we had trouble at the sewer plant, we got oil on our clarifier. We did find out where it came from and they are working with us to get it cleaned up. There being no further business to come before the CounciI at this time, the meeting was adjourned at 7:50 p.m. ~ _~ ~/f~ ~ Donald L. ma n, ity erk Approved by the Mayor and passed by the City Council of the City of Laurel, Montana, this 15th day of June, 1982. Donald L. Hack~ann, City Clerk -'~'~.-