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.
Commissioners Bud Corbus and Al Hofer were present.
They went right into indigent applications executive session.
Shelley Essl, Clerk of the Court, was reviewing a Public Defense Commission Financial Assistance Application and this was for a conflict of interest attorney.
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.
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 City Planning and Zoning Commission met in regular session at 6 pm on September 19th. The meeting opened with the unanimous approval of the last meeting’s minutes. Following this, the commission was presented with a plan by Walmart to extend their online grocery pickup parking area. Walmart plans to conduct re-striping at crossings, in addition to other safety measures.
After this, the commission approved the preliminary plat for a townhouse development near West 8th South Street. The PUD had already been approved prior to this meeting. They approved the preliminary plot unanimously.
The Mountain Home School District Board met Tuesday evening in regular session. The meeting opened with the opportunity for public comment. Representatives from the Mountain Home Education Association spoke about teacher morale throughout the district. They also spoke about building a greater presence within the school.
Following public remarks, the board began reports. This led to discussions of future facility development. The board was quick to recall the high school bond that faced a crushing wave of opposition from the public. The board was quick to agree that a need for long, mid, and short-term goals exist. They also all agreed that a community board composed of members of the public who opposed the last bond should be assembled to help create short, mid, and long-term goals for future development.
Members of the Mountain Home city council met for the first time this month in regular session on Monday the 12th.
The meeting started with statements from each of the department heads. Brock Cherry informed the council members and mayor that the first episode of a Mountain Home podcast—that aims to engage the community and connect city government with Mountain Home citizens—was released and seeing success. He was also excited to announce an event taking place on September 29th, “What does growth mean for your business?” that the owner of the Mountain Home Adult Training Academy building will be attending.
September’s second County Commissioners’ meeting opened with the Commissioners, all three of whom were present, hearing concerns regarding the proposed casino in Mountain Home. The Commissioners noted that they are unable to comment/discuss in-depth proposed projects before they are formally brought before the commission as an action item at a meeting. However, they provided resources for the members of the public who came to express concerns and conduct their civic duty.
At the regular scheduled meeting on Monday July 11, the City Council Meeting was called to order.
Mayor Sykes recognized Commissioner Nancy Brletic for her service on the City Planning and Zoning Commission.
On the Consent Agenda listed for approval were the minutes for the Special City Council - June 16, 2022; Special City Council - June 21, 2022; Airport Advisory Committee - June 21, 2022; Planning & Zoning Commission - June 21, 2022 and the Regular City Council – June 27, 2022; bills listed from 6/27/2022 to 7/11/2022 in the amount of $325,899.89 and Payroll for the period ending 5/22/2022 to 6/21/2022 in the amount of $671,223.15.
Also for approval was the Water Department's request to not accept Blue Sky Construction, LLC's bid for the College Park water main replacement project and to approve the Street Department's request to go out for bid for the reconstruction of East Jackson Street.
OLD BUSINESS included deliberation and/or decision on the Legislative Action continued from May 9th and June 27, 2022 on the suggested definitions for Multi-Family developments.
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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