Upgrades, repairs, snowmobiles confirmed in meeting

SANDPOINT — Bonner County commissioners noticed a prolonged agenda at Tuesday’s weekly company assembly. With 21 things on the agenda, the hour-and-a-50 % very long meeting secured many purchases, repairs, and advancements.

The Road & Bridge Department introduced a resolution just before the fee seeking approval to insert unanticipated profits to the department’s price range.

The $9,266 in concern is a grant reimbursement from the Idaho Transportation Department’s Area Freeway Complex Guidance Council. Funding reimburses the county for the Eastriver [Road] slide job in close proximity to Priest River, which commenced in 2020.

“These were being unique easements that we experienced to acquire for the drainage for that challenge,” said Jason Topp, director of Highway & Bridge. “We purchased these initiatives awhile back for that challenge to transfer ahead. This is just a reimbursement for those money from LHTAC to Bonner County for the invest in that we experienced truly currently done.”

Following commissioners authorized the grant reimbursement, Highway & Bridge brought a memorandum of knowing concerning the county and Samuels Storage LLC. The knowing allows the organization to haul different elements alongside a 700-foot part of Samuels Highway, starting at the transform off from U.S. 95. Commissioners accepted the ask for.

Commissioners accredited for unused machines from the office to be publicly auctioned off. The “older” and “worked down” tools will progress to the county’s on line auction platform, Community Surplus. It is unclear when the merchandise will surface on the government auction platform, but all those interested can look at out a entire listing of surplus merchandise throughout the region on PublicSurplus.com.

The Airport requested the commission’s approval to enable the Priest River Airport to purchase snow removing gear. The $300,000 to purchase the gear will come out of grant funds from the 2022 Leading Idaho Initiative, a statewide task.

“The current products, a 1980 Mack plow truck, has exceeded its handy daily life, is unreliable, is high priced to keep and wants to be replaced,” stated Airport Director Dave Schuck.

According to information from Schuck, the airport gets approximately 71 inches of snowfall for every calendar year.

Commissioners authorised the acquisition of the snow removal products.

The Airport, in an additional motion item, sought the commission’s approval to spend $28,486 in servicing expenses for the Sandpoint Airport’s floor based navigation aids. Ground-based augmentation machines is an improvement to GPS navigation. Floor-dependent gear ensures the precision of the landing and choose-off method for aircraft.

The funding for the contract with DBT will arrive from the airport’s finances, which was designated for this purpose. Commissioners accepted the routine maintenance agreement.

The Good Squander Section requested that commissioners approve paying $4,000 to survey the new Midway assortment web-site in Laclede.

The survey will cost $4,000, and will build facts to be utilized for an forthcoming boundary line adjustment for the web-site.

“The authentic homeowners of the large amount had been generally carving out a piece [of land] to give to us,” said Brandon Staglund, employees engineer for Sound Waste. “In buy to do that, we need to have to go the boundary from one particular of their other houses. Preferably you’d do this right before design begins, but we have been delayed for different reasons.”

The Midway web page formally opened in January. Funding for the study will come from the Sound Squander finances. Commissioners approved the investing ask for.

The Treasurer’s Office requested transferring $16,025.20 in surplus cash to the condition for unclaimed taxes.

The overage is a consequence of a reside-auction on a piece of land wherever the prior house proprietor failed to pay taxes. Because Bonner County only collects the cash for the land, taxes, and auction expenses, the added revenue does not technically belong to the county, but the point out.

The personal celebration that procured the land has exceeded the time body for them to arrive forward and accumulate the overage used on the assets. If they would like to appear ahead and accumulate in the long run, they now have to go to the condition to get it dealt with.

“We have a tax sale generally the moment a calendar year for our qualities that have not paid out their taxes. And at this time of sale, we had an overage of what we provide in taxes and expenses,” discussed Cheryl Piehl, county treasurer. “We [the county] do not hold any of the overages by any means. We really do not acquire something over what the taxes and the expenses for these auctions are. … It is live-auction placing so they are really unpredictable.”

Commissioners authorised transferring the further funds to the condition.

The Recreation Office sought the commission’s approval in including $15,397.46 of surprising income to their spending budget. The funds arrives from a United States Forest Provider grant, and will be place to a few entities within the Recreation Division — Bonner County Maritime Share, Priest Lake Snowmobile, and East Bonner Snowmobile.

Of the overall, $4,801.27 will be allocated to equally snowmobile departments, with the remaining $5,794.92 going to the maritime share.

Commissioners authorized accepting the grant money.

The Setting up Division brought 3 items ahead of the commissioners. Even though they ended up at the finish of the commission’s public agenda, the products brought forward took up approximately 50 % of the meeting’s hour-and-a-half very long session.

1 product brought forward sought the commission’s approval for a highway conventional waiver on a non-public street.

In accordance to information and facts from Organizing Section Staff Engineer Chad Houck, Title 12 of county code signifies that the board of commissioners can waive private highway necessities.

The ask for follows a relatives land division, exactly where a 20-acre parcel was divided into 5-acre parcels in just a 5 acre zone designation. The waiver was requested to avoid even further widening the road into a wetland that the highway now travels in excess of.

Commissioners authorized the street waiver.

The other two things the Setting up Section introduced right before the fee confirmed the 12 appointees for the new zoning and arranging commissions.

All 5 users of the prior Arranging & Zoning Commission utilized to volunteer on the new Preparing Fee a few ended up appointed by county commissioners, Brian Bailey, Dave Frankenbach, and Don Davis.

Cheryl Reeves was selected to volunteer for the Zoning Commission.

Beyond the appointments from the prior commission, Allan Songstead, Debbie Trienan, Josh Piltz, and Wayne Brenner were appointed to the Arranging Fee.

In addition to Reeves, Frank Wakeley, Luke Webster, Jacob Marble, and Matt Linscott ended up appointed to the Zoning Fee

The Zoning Commission will concentrate on matters of land use and growth. Purposes regarding subdivisions, variances, land operator zone permit requests, conditional use permits, and unique use permits will go just before the five-member fee, which will normally satisfy on Thursdays.

The Scheduling Fee will concentrate on issues of setting up and development. Apps concerning the extensive system, parts of town impact, and county requested zone adjustments will go ahead of the 7-member commission, which will generally fulfill on Tuesdays. In addition, the Scheduling Fee has the additional job of producing tips to the Board of County Commissioners on amendments to zoning code and complete plan.

After the Planning Section finished their agenda, Commissioner Chairman Dan McDonald recessed the assembly ahead of reconvening shortly after for govt session.

Things lined through the session consisted of four things, even although it was agendized as only a few objects.

Human Means brought two agenda things prior to the fee, a person relating to choosing, and yet another relating to staff.

Risk management introduced two motion merchandise ahead of the commission, just one regarding private data, and a further regarding a broker of document.

A broker of history is a agent of an insurance plan business who oversees a client’s insurance plan plan.

The Board of Bonner County Commissioners keep community meetings every single Tuesday at 9 a.m. in the administrative making positioned at 1500 U.S. 2. People fascinated in nearly attending can do so through Zoom. A livestream of the assembly can be watched on the Bonner County YouTube page, the place an archive of prior meetings can be considered.