Missoula City Council Meeting Agenda

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1.
CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL

  

2.
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES

  

3.
PUBLIC COMMENT - NON-AGENDA ITEMS

  

4.
ANNOUNCE COMMITTEE MEETINGS, COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP APPOINTMENTS AND CHANGES TO COMMITTEE AGENDAS

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5.
CONSENT AGENDA

  

(Items on the consent agenda were approved in City Council committees to be placed on the consent agenda to save time at Council meetings by voting on them as a package. The City Clerk will read the list aloud, so citizens watching on MCAT will know what is on the consent agenda. We’ll invite community comment on these items before we vote.)

  • Recommended motion:

5.1
Accounts Payable (claims) for checks dated August 16, 2022
BF

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  • Recommended motion:

    Ratify accounts payable in the amount of $2,567,363.27 for checks dated August 16, 2022.

5.2
Wastewater Primary Effluent Pump Upgrade
PWM
Gene Connell

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  • Recommended motion:

    Approve and authorize the Mayor to sign a Purchase Agreement with Cascade Pump Company for the Wastewater Primary Effluent 75 HP pump upgrade not to exceed $78,000.00

5.3
Accounts Payable (claims) for checks dated August 23, 2022
BF

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  • Recommended motion:

    Approve accounts payable in the amount of $1,302,730.72  for checks dated August 23, 2022.

5.4
Purchase Agreement with Process Water Technologies, LLC for the Volute Press Upgrade
PWM
Gene Connell

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  • Recommended motion:

    Approve and authorize the Mayor to sign a Purchase Agreement with Process Wastewater Technologies, LLC for the volute press upgrade not to exceed $112,750.00.

5.5
Service Agreement with 2G Energy for Co-Gen Maintenance
PWM
Gene Connell

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  • Recommended motion:

    Approve and authorize the Mayor to sign a Service Agreement with 2G Energy for Co-Gen maintenance at a cost not to exceed $85,031.65.

5.6
Appointment to the Public Art Committee
HRCP
Mirtha Becerra, Heidi West

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  • Recommended motion:

    Confirm the Mayor’s appointment of Erika Hickey to the Public Art Committee for a term beginning immediately and expiring on June 30, 2026.

5.7
Hazardous Vegetation Assessments for Fiscal Year 2022
BF
Marty Rehbein

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  • Recommended motion:

    A resolution levying a special assessment and tax upon property for annual weed assessments to reimburse the city for hazardous vegetation and nuisance weed cut orders performed in 2021 totalling $797.50 pursuant to section 7-22-4101 Montana Code Annotated and section 8.40.040 Missoula Municipal Code.

6.
COMMENTS FROM CITY STAFF, CITY AGENCIES, COMMUNITY FORUM, NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, OR AUTHORITIES

  

7.
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS

  

8.
FINAL CONSIDERATION

  

(Items listed under Final Consideration have had a public hearing.  The hearing was held open to allow time for additional public comment before final consideration and action by the City Council. The chairperson of the standing City Council committee will make a motion. We invite community comment on each item.)

9.
PUBLIC HEARINGS

  

(State law and City Council rules set guidelines for inviting community comment in a formal way on certain issues.  Following a staff report on each item, the City Council and the Mayor invite community comment.  City Council holds a public hearing open for a week and then voting the following week, unless there is a requirement for final action on the night of the public hearing.)  

9.1
Fiscal Year 2023 Executive Budget
BF
Leigh Griffing

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  • Preliminary fiscal year 2023 budget and capital improvement program
  • Work plans and budgets for Road District #1, Park District #1, the Downtown Business    Improvement District, and the Tourism Business Improvement District
  • Permissive medical tax levy

Proposed 7% increases to the following fee schedules: 

  • Wastewater industrial interceptor variance permit fee set forth in 13.07.410 Missoula Municipal Code (MMC) and the waste hauler permit fee set forth in 13.17.210 MMC
  • Fire inspection, plan checking, pyrotechnic display and police and special event fees
  • Business Licensing and Land Use and Planning and Engineering services performed by Community Planning, Development and Innovation
  • Amending current Missoula City Cemetery fees as proposed by Missoula City Cemetery and Missoula City Cemetery Board of Trustees effective January 1, 2023 

The public hearing will be opened on August 22, 2022 at which time the City Council will hear all objections that may be made to the resolutions. At the close of the public hearing the City Council will take up this item for final consideration that same evening.

  • Recommended motion:

    Adopt a resolution of the Missoula City Council increasing the wastewater industrial interceptor variance permit fee set forth in 13.07.410 Missoula Municipal Code (MMC) and the waste hauler permit fee set forth in 13.17.210 MMC by 7% beginning in January 1, 2023. 

  • Recommended motion:

    Adopt a resolution of the Missoula City Council increasing fire inspection, plan checking, pyrotechnic display and police and special event fees increasing fees by 7% effective January 1, 2023 as shown in Exhibits E & F.

  • Recommended motion:

    Adopt a resolution of the Missoula City Council increasing  fees by 7% for Business Licensing and Land Use and Planning and Engineering services performed by Community Planning, Development and Innovation effective January 1, 2023.

  • Recommended motion:

    Adopt a resolution of the Missoula City Council generally amending current Missoula City Cemetery fees as proposed by Missoula City Cemetery and Missoula City Cemetery Board of Trustees effective January 1, 2023.

  • Recommended motion:

    Adopt a resolution fixing the annual appropriations and the Capital Improvement Program for the City of
    Missoula as set forth in the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget and Capital Improvement Program including: • The
    Tourism Business Improvement District work plan and budget for Fiscal Year 2023 • The Business
    Improvement District work plan and budget for Fiscal Year 2023. • The Park District Number 1 work plan
    and budget for Fiscal Year 2023. • The Road District Number 1 work plan and budget for Fiscal Year
    2023.

  • Recommended motion:

    Adopt a resolution levying taxes for municipal and administrative purposes for the Fiscal Year 2023. 

10.
COMMITTEE REPORTS

  

(Items listed under committee reports were not approved unanimously in City Council committees. The chairperson of the standing City Council committee will make a motion. We invite community comment on each item.)

10.1
Budget and Finance (BF) committee report

  

10.2
Climate, Conservation and Parks (CCP) committee report

  

10.3
Committee of the Whole (COW) committee report

  

10.4
Housing, Redevelopment, and Community Programs (HRCP) committee report

  

10.5
Land Use and Planning (LUP) committee report

  

10.6
Public Safety, Health and Operations (PSHO) committee report

  

10.7
Public Works and Mobility (PWM) committee report

  

11.
NEW BUSINESS

  

12.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE MAYOR

  

13.
GENERAL COMMENTS OF CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS

  

14.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS, REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

  

14.1
Administratively approved agreement report

  

The public hearing will be opened on August 22, 2022 at which time the City Council will hear all objections that may be made to the resolutions. At the close of the public hearing the City Council will take up this item for final consideration that same evening.

15.
ADJOURNMENT

  

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