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City Council meets
The Cottonwood City Council granted a conditional use permit request for the Cottonwood Credit Union at their July meeting Monday, July 11. The Credit Union had purchased an adjacent lot and house and has plans to remove the house and expand their parking area. They would also like to add a storage building/garage about the size of a 3-car garage. In a public hearing prior to the regular meeting city attorney Joe Wright stated that public parking is one of the things allowed for conditional use permits in zone A residential areas. Later in the regular meeting the conditional use permit was approved and will go into effect once Wright does the proper paperwork. Also part of the public hearing process prior to the regular meeting was Angie Edwards of CEDA going over the Senior Center Project. It is deemed to be 90% complete at this point and is coming in under budget. The hope is that the leftover funds can be used to address the entrance areas and concrete on the south side of the hall between the hall and the Kuther Building. In her land and buildings report, Mayor Shelli Schumacher reported the railing was supposed to be delivered Tuesday morning and the senior citizens are looking to move in by August 1. Early in the regular meeting police chief Terry Cochran presented the Association of Idaho Cities award reported on in last week’s Chronicle to Jason Rambo and Danielle Cochran, who are responsible for the cities drug education program for which the city received the award. Danielle Cochran also talked about the ongoing poster contest she has that has entries due by the fair. She hopes to run this contest again every year. In the reports Pat Holthaus reported the city pumped 4.4 million gallons of water and sold 3.8 million. After unmetered water was accounted for there was still a loss of 14%. No new leaks have come to the surface. Ron Grant had nothing new to report in the sewer department and also reported there were no fire calls this past month. Jack Duman reported the grinder had problems so they weren’t able to get the concrete mix nor the first shot of oil done on East St. Hopefully it will get done next Monday. He also wanted to caution drivers that once the first shot of oil is done the surface will be tender for awhile so be careful driving in those areas. He’s worried about the traffic on First Street South, one of the other streets involved, as that goes in front of Hometown Auto & Ag, which gets a lot of turning traffic. He also wanted to stress that the “No Trucks” signs on some of the streets pertain to through traffic only and is not meant to affect delivery or service trucks. Police Chief Terry Cochran said his preferred route for the large mobile mammography truck that visits the hospital would be to take Foster Street to Lewiston and then follow Lewiston St. to the hospital. After seeing the no trucks sign on Foster that driver has tried to take North St. or come up Lewiston from Front St., both of which are steep hills that are troublesome in winter time. In the airport report Linda Nida said she has been looking into getting more funding for the airport runway surfacing projects coming in 2017 and 2018. Currently they are getting 50-50 match but that still puts the city on the hook for about $50,000 of the estimated $100,000 cost of the projects. So far she hasn’t had much luck. Pat Holthaus said he was asked by Ken Kuther of Kuther Air Service about contamination possibilities with the city well so close to the airport. Wright suggested talking to the Division of Environmental Quality as the well-head protection ordinance is not real specific. After the reports were done an ordinance was read and passed concerning the Suddenlink cable-TV franchise cancellation. Chief Cochran said he has had some reports where Suddenlink just cut the cables to homes and let them drop into their property. Can the city do anything. Carol Altman said she has been referring people to Suddenlink. Schumacher said she would get on that as well. Jack Wimer put in a request to the city for a possible out of town sewer hookup, wanting to know if it was even possible. Apparently he is looking at building on property just outside of the city limits behind the release time building. Roy Uhlenkott said there is a line up the alley which is right on the city limits. It’s a 6 inch line at least to the release time building and a 4 inch line at Bud Uhling’s house. He’s not sure where that change is made. If Wimer wants to connect he would have to do it right. Sewer commissioner Grant said to tell Wimer that yes it is possible. He would have to pay the out-of-town rate which is 175% of the in-town rate, and make a proper connection. A catering permit from Keuterville Pub & Grub for the VFW beergarden at the Idaho County Fair was approved. A memorandum of understanding agreement with the county on the alcohol program was renewed for the police department. This is an annual agreement, which the county prefers, as the grant funding is approved on an annual basis. An airport hanger lessee’s insurance came up with Carol stating it had expired and she had notified the party by certified mail. Grant suggested having the city attorney contact him. The meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m. The next regular meeting will be Monday, August 8 at 7 p.m. A budget workshop is scheduled for Tuesday, July 26. |
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