Randy Valley Chairman of the Urban Renewal Association (URA), Commissioners Alan Bernmansolo, Treasurer, Skyler Jett and Hailey Owen were present. Mayor Rich Sykes, Patti Osborn with Idaho Power, David Rudeen – Rudeen and Associates, Clay Bingham – DC Engineering. Teran Mitchell – TKM Architecture for Weitz and Company.
The meeting was called to order by Commissioner Crystal Rodgers. Commissioners Al Hofer and Bud Corbus were also present as well as County Clerk Shelly Essl and Attorney Shondi Lott. The meeting opened with an Executive session. The next agenda item was the ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Services) and access to Rattlesnake Hill, with a letter outlining the easement for the tower. In previous meetings Sheriff Hollinshead stated that this is an important piece because of the limitations of the county assigned radios in an emergency. Attorney Lott stated that the easement signed was a partial easement in 1958, Elmore County has an easement only and doesn’t own the property, the state does. The decision will be tabled until all parties can meet and work out the details.
The meeting was called to order with Mayor Sykes & Council Members Brad Stokes, Becky Garvey and Daniel Brennan present. Community Development Director Brock Cherry was also present.
Department Head reports.
The meeting was called to order by Crystal Rodgers President Of the Commission. Commissioner Hofer, Attorney Shondi Lott and County Clerk Shelley Essl were all Present. Paris Dickerson the Business & Community Development Advisor with Idaho Power led the presentation for their process for Power Outages and time to restore. In the presentation the situations that may cause outages are Weather, Icy Road Conditions, Animal Interference, Planned Maintenance and Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) which was the majority of the presentation. This, according to the powerpoint is “Shutting off power for a short period to protect the system” “A public safety power shutoff, or PSPS, is a proactive outage to certain areas where wildfire risk is high due to extreme weather.” This includes high temperature, low humidity, high wind, dry vegetation and public safety. If your power goes out, use battery lights instead of candles, turn off machinery and equipment that were in use, keep one light on when your power has been restored and have a generator (According to Idaho Power). Idaho Power technicians will be stationed by Anderson Reservoir remotely relaying information back to the main control room. They stated that the PSPS will be in effect through October.
Councilmembers, Stokes, McCain, Brennan and Garvery along with Mayor Sykes were all present.
Department Head updates started off the meeting and Chief Connor has quite a bit going on with the Mountain Home Police Department.
Lt. Thompson will be teaching at Tucker Development, The Shop With A Cop fundraiser was held at the McDonald’s on Airbase Rd on Thursday, May 12th, and a 4th Grade Field Day wass held on Friday. May 13.
Chairman Kristopher Wallaert established the meeting at 6pm. Commissioners Travis Eikeness, Cristina Drake, William Roeder were present. Nancy Brietic stepped down as commissioner and her position was filled by Ms. Drake, who is a local real estate broker and her position here can influence the outcome of real estate development approvals. Economic Development head Brock Cherry, Attorney Geoff Schroeder, Brenda Ellis and new commissioner Scott Harjo a local business owner were also present.
The meeting was called to order by Chairperson Patti Osborne with Vice-Chair KC Deurig, Ed Oppedyk, Mitch Smith, Sue Smith, Jeff Blanksma, Ralph Blount, Attorney, Mitra Mehta-Cooper, Director of Elmore County Land Use, were in attendance. The first hearing was for applicant Arthur Young for a conditional use permit to build an RV Storage Park on 5 Acres on two parcels in Mountain Home. For the full story, pick up a copy of the Mountain Home News or click on this link to subscribe to the newspaper’s online edition.
"Accessory Dwelling Unit Legislation"
The goal of this work session was to discuss the potential to see if special legislation was necessary for the multiple requests of an additional dwelling unit on a single property. City Council Members Daniel Brennan, Becky Garvey, Brad Stokes were present. On the P&Z side, Commissioners Eikeness, Wallert, Rhoder & Burlett were present.
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