Roundup City Council Meeting Minutes

MINUTES OF THE EGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROUNDUP HELD ON OCTOBER 6, 2020 AT 7:00 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND GOTO MEETING.

The meeting was called to order by Mayor Jones. Clerk/Treasurer Lanter conducted roll call with council members, Long, Liggett, Vivirito, Erickson, Carlson, Griffith, Toombs, and Fisher present. Also, present were Assistant Clerk Mann, Director Sibley, and Attorney Lundvall.

Moved by Liggett seconded by Griffith to approve the minutes of the September 15 ,2020 meeting. All in favor. Motion carried.

Moved by Griffith, seconded by Liggett to approve the agenda adding David Liggett to discuss application for variance. All in favor. Motion carried.

PUBLIC COMMENT: Justin Russell, Assistant Chief and Public information Officer for the Roundup Volunteer Fire Department gave an update.

Law Enforcement: Undersheriff Bednar gave a copy of incidents and citations to Mayor Jones.

New Business: Curfew Ordinance Discussion-Council went over recommendation by the committee. Undersheriff Bednar would like summer hours changed due to vehicles being broke into around town. Attorney Lundvall will review and clean things up a bit for Council to look over and discuss, at next meeting.

Mayor Jones: Transfer of the Stockman Bar building should happen at the end of the month. Delia Turley said she would pay the closing cost. Property is on the list of Brownsfield projects with SMDC (Snowy Mountain Development Corporation).

Contacted Mr. Goffena about his property in the flood zone, he indicated he would like to deed it to the City but, nothing has materialized.

The 89th Annual Conference with MLCT (Montana League of City and Towns) will be tomorrow, starting at 9:00am.

Will be back from vacation in time for next meeting.

Arbor Day will be October 16th at 10:00 am. It will be held in front of the court house. Toombs will fill in if Mayor Jones can’t attend.

A video of Senator Daines before the Senate for better water, was emailed by Mayor Jones to the Council.

Mayor Jones is hoping to have the next City Council meeting in the City Chambers if numbers remain the same.

City Attorney Lundvall: Will have the fee schedule resolution at the next meeting.

Dave Liggett is asking for a variance. A copy of his application was sent to the Council for review. Mayor Jones asked Toombs, Long and Vivirito to have a look at the plan and have an answer at the next meeting.

Director Sibley and Mayor Jones met with Commissioners Borner and Goffena on the cleanup on FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) buyouts. There is talk about using properties for Frisbee Golf and a Skate Park. Justin Russell of DES (Disaster Emergency Service) said we aren’t supposed to put any other structures up. He will look more into it.

Correspondence: Received an email from Holly Wolf of Roundup Memorial Hospital. A copy was emailed to the Council, Director Sibley will handle it.

Council Discussion/Future Agenda Item: Report out from Council Committee meetings:

• Zoning Code Amendment/Corrections discussion- Went over recommendations. Will continue next meeting.

Director Sibley: We have a new employee, Clint Allen. No cold mix yet, waiting for call back.

NO PUBLIC COMMENT.

Claims were read as follows:

City Payroll $44,838.22

Mid-Rivers $395.31

Per Diem

$300.00 MT Dept. Of Revenue

$780.47

A & A Implement

$2,740.00

MT Dept. Of Enviro. $1,712.00

AT & T $30.24 MT Oasis Pools $432.92

American Welding & Gas

$65.69

MT Rural Water $160.00

Big Sky Linen

$172.74

Morris Maierle $1,380.50

Culligan Water

$35.70

Musselshell Cnty

$25,000.00

DPC Industries

$1,254.89

Musselshell Valley Equip. $365.00

Electric Service Shop

$52.20

Northwest Pipe Fittings $450.00

Energy Labs

$1,696.00

Northwest Energy $13,165.47

Grainger

$194.03

O’Reilly Auto Parts $199.62

Great West Engineering $30,230.05

Pete Morris Solutions $3,750.00

KLE Construction $77,266.78

Picchioni’s IGA $15.25

Legacy Tree Consulting

$7,308.45

Pitney Bowes $159.15

Linda Yount

$48.96

Roundup Hardware $302.37

Lance Lundvall

$550.00

Roundup Schools

$4,375.00

Mastercard

$670.06

Utilities Underground

$30.94

McCleary Dist.

$2,552.98

Van Dykes

$34.26

Wiedricks Crane Service

$2,152.50 TOTAL $180,029.53

Moved by Toombs, seconded by Liggett to approve Claims for the preceding month and draw warrants on the treasury for the same. All in favor. Motion carried.

NO PUBLIC COMMENT

Moved by Toombs seconded by Griffith to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried.

The meeting adjourned at 7:51 p.m.