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Commissioners Minutes
October
22, 2007
The
Board of Adams County Commissioners met this day with the following
present: Chairman Bill
Brown, Commissioners Mike Paradis and Joe Holmes, Clerk Sherry Ward and
Treasurer Connie Kesler.
Cody Cahill from the Adams County Record was also present.
Whereas
the following proceedings were had, to-wit:
Chairman
Bill Brown opened the Adams County Commissioner meeting.
MINUTES: Joe Holmes made a motion to
approve the minutes. Then
motion was seconded by Mike Paradis and passed unanimously.
LEGION
HALL: Connie Kesler
asked the Board to waive fees for the Fair and Rodeo Improvement
Committee for rent of the Legion Hall. The Board agreed to waive the fees. Connie also brought in to the
Board a detailed map on the mining claims to be sold for taxes.
SUPPORT
LETTER FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION: A letter was prepared for signature. Joe Holmes made a motion to sign
the letter. The motion was
seconded by Mike Paradis and passed unanimously.
SAGE
INVOICE: The 2007-08
dues invoice to SAGE was reviewed.
NORTHERN
ROCKY ECO SYSTEM:
Mike Paradis prepared a letter for the Board to sign stating the
County is not in favor of a Northern Rocky Eco System Corridor. Joe Holmes made a motion to sign
the letter. The motion was
seconded by Mike Paradis and passed unanimously.
FIRE
MITGATION DATE SET:
Don Horton came in to set a date of Thursday, November 15, 2007 at
1:00 pm. Don said he would
inform all people involved.
INTERIM
CLAIMS: Joe Holmes
made a motion to approve the claims. The motion was seconded by Mike Paradis and passed
unanimously.
MAKEUP
HARASSMENT TRAINING:
A date of Wednesday, December 12, 2007 was set for makeup training
for those employees who were not able to make it for the first one.
CODIFIED
ORDINANCES: The
Clerk’s office received the codified ordinances from Sterling
Codifiers. The Board
directed the Clerk to give the ordinances to Pete Johnston for review.
JUVENILE
OFFENDERS AGREEMENT:
The agreement is to provide access to and use of the IJOS by
authorized users. Joe Holmes
made a motion to sign the agreement. The motion was seconded by Mike Paradis and passed
unanimously.
IAC
INVOICE: The line
item of Industrial Litigation dues of $3,000.00 was brought up for
discussion; the Clerk called IAC and was informed it is invoiced every
other year.
ROAD
& BRIDGE LEVY:
The Clerk informed the Board the cities would receive a portion of
the Road & Bridge levy.
ROAD
& BRIDGE: Tom
Glenn, Road Supervisor, came before the Board with road matters. Tom brought up funding from
LTAC. Recycle building in
New Meadows: Tom wants to know how much work the Board would like Road
& Bridge to do on the project.
Work on the Bear Fire House is being done right now, it should be
done on Tuesday. The State
informed Tom that the broom needed to be taken back to the State
Shed. Exeter Road will be
open today sometime.
TRAVEL
PLAN: A date of
November 1, 2007 was set for a public meeting at 6:00 pm at the
Courthouse. Notices will be
created to send out and post throughout town.
Russ
Manwaring and DEQ, Julia Achabal met regarding storm water
ordinance. Russ presented
the Board with copies of other County’s ordinances for review.
OLD
SAWMILL ROAD: The
Sheriff’s Department went out to take the private road sign down. The deputy was told the Building
Inspector and past Clerk wrote letters stating the road is private, more
discussion will be held with Myron Gabbert.
SHERIFF
MATTERS: Scot Kump,
UnderSheriff, was present to discuss matters. The Board moved into Executive Session to discuss
personnel matters.
Bill
Brown made a request to move into Executive Session pursuant to IC
67-2345, Subsection 1(b).
Joe Holmes voted to move into Executive Session. Mike Paradis voted to move into
Executive Session. Bill
Brown voted to move into Executive Session.
Mike
Paradis made a motion to recess the Executive Session and resume the
regular meeting.
CANCELLATION
OF TAXES: Three
pages of cancellations were presented for approval. Karen Hatfield came in to answer
any and all questions. Mike
Paradis made a motion to approve the cancellation of taxes. The motion was seconded by Joe
Holmes and passed unanimously.
INDIGENT: mike Paradis made a motion to
sign a denial letter on Indigent Case 07-11. The motion was seconded by Joe Holmes and passed
unanimously.
ROSE
ADVOCATES AND ADVOCATES AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE: Present were Delores Larsen,
Linda, Weiser Rose Advocates, Elee Coulter, Rose Advocates volunteer and
Advocates Against Family Violence employees, Linda Bonds, Brenda Cameron
and Trisha Combs, Judge Peart, March Combs, Scot Kump and Cody Cahill for
the Adams County Record.
Bill Brown started the conversation that there has been conflict
between the two agencies working within Adams County. At the end of the meeting Delores
Larson and Brenda Cameron agreed to come together to create a MOU that
both parties could work with and bring to the Board for review.
FOREST
SERVICE ROAD OBLITERATION:
Myron Gabbert, Prosecuting Attorney, Ron Hamilton and Judy Boyle
with the Natural Resource Committer met with the Board. The Board brought up a discussion
of all the road closures and obliterations being done throughout our
County and how the County needs to approach the issues. A possible formation of a
Coalition was discussed to create a force with other Counties to be able
to have a say regarding our roads.
Myron was asked his opinion and said he did not have one at this
time. A seminar on road
closures was being put on in Boise at the end of October. Ron stated when decommissioning
of roads happens it is far worse because so much material is used to
obliterate the road it changes the wildlife patterns and also for the
livestock. Little Bear is
slated for 18 miles of road closure and the Grays Creek area will have
road closures also. Myron
will attend the seminar for further information.
BRUSHWACKER: Tom Glenn came once more before
the Board to ask for permission to purchase a brushwacker for Road &
Bridge. Joe Holmes made a
motion to allow the purchase of the brushwacker. The motion was seconded by Mike
Paradis and passed unanimously.
With
no further business to come before the Board the Board recesses until
November 13, 2007.
ATTEST:__________________________
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Sherry Ward, Clerk of the Board
Bill Brown, Chairman of the Board
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