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LICENSE COMMITTEE
TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1998 3:30 P.M.
CITY HALL
MEMBERS PRESENT: Miles Walton Dirk Kroll
Larry McCann Cathy Gabri.an
Alan Hovious (late)
OTHERS PRESENT: Jeanette Koch Cheryll Lund
Gary Temple
The committee met to review the city business licenses for the
1998-99 fiscal year. There was discussion regarding the process of
licensing and the time frame in which the different notices are
sent out.
Alan commented that he feels that any business licenses that have
to do with the congregation of children, should be run through the
police department for approval, before issuing.
At the present time, we require bonding insurance for new
contractors for a period of three years. Larry said that at some
point, we are going to be required to have bonding insurance for
all contractors.
In the past, the Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) was mainly
concerned with business structures. Now they are looking at all
business and residential buildings. The insurance rates are set by
the ratings of the building departments that do the inspections.
The ISO is requiring us to bond every contractor and they will
start auditing us in October 1999. The end result of this would be
better insurance rates for residential and business customers.
Our policy for the three year bonding was set by ordinance so we
need to change this ordinance. It will be to late to do it for the
1998-99 licenses so we will initiate the new bonding requirements
for the 1999-20 licenses.
It was stated that there is a bill for the 1999 legislature that
would allow the state to license contractors. If this passes, the
city would not be able to license contractors and we would lose
this revenue.
It was the recommendation of the committee that Jeanette Koch and
Cheryll Lund be on the License Committee as they both work with
licensing.
Motion„by Miles Walton to approve the business licenses for fiscal
year 1998-99, seconded by Dirk Kroll. Motion carried.
The meeting adjourned at 4:05 p.m.
Respe ctfully /submitted,
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