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Agenda for Regular City Council Meeting

CITY OF BILLINGS

CITY OF BILLINGS VISION STATEMENT:

"THE MAGIC CITY – A VIBRANT, WELCOMING PLACE WHERE
PEOPLE FLOURISH AND BUSINESS THRIVES."


AGENDA
COUNCIL CHAMBERS      January 10, 2011             6:30 P.M.
CALL TO ORDER – Mayor Hanel
 
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE – Mayor Hanel
 
INVOCATION – Councilmember Cimmino
 
ROLL CALL
 
MINUTES:  
  • December 20, 2010
  • January 3, 2011 (Special Business Session)
 
COURTESIES:     Pepsi Challenge for Swords Park
 
PROCLAMATIONS:  Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday - January 17, 2011
 
ADMINISTRATOR REPORTS - TINA VOLEK
 
 
PUBLIC COMMENT on "NON-PUBLIC HEARING" Agenda Item: #1 ONLY. Speaker sign-in required.(Comments offered here are limited to one (1) minute per speaker. Please sign up on the clipboard located at the podium. Comment on items listed as public hearing items will be heard ONLY during the designated public hearing time for each respective item. For Items not on this agenda, public comment will be taken at the end of the agenda.)
 
 
1.
CONSENT AGENDA -- Separations:
 
A.
Bid Awards:
 
1.
W.O. 10-08 Water Treatment Facility Clearwell Baffle Project (Opened 12/21/10); Recommend COP Construction, LLC; $936,852.
 
B.
Agreement with Air Host for Airport Gift Shop Concession; 2/1/2011 - 1/31/2016; estimated annual revenue - $120,000 to $132,000.
 
C.
Agreement with Billings Housing Authority to fund one Police Officer; 1/1/2011 - 6/30/2011.   
 
D.
Amendment #1, Concession Agreement with Opti-Fi Networks extending term until October 31, 2011, to operate Wireless Fidelity Local Area Network concession in the Airport Terminal Building; estimated annual revenue - $4,000 to $5,000.
 
E.
Approval to rescind prior $500 allocation of East Billings Tax Increment Finance District funds towards a feasibility study for the North Park Children's Center and approve the Billings Industrial Revitalization District's request to allocate $2,500 of East Billings Tax Increment Finance District funds towards a feasibility study for the North Park Children's Center.
 
F.
Approval of Quarterly Report for Pledged Collateral for First Interstate Bank Certificates of Deposit, US Bank Certificates of Deposit, and US Bank Repurchase Account. 
 
G.
Declaring Surplus Property and authorizing Fleet Services to release four Streethawk lightbars with controllers and red lenses to the ConocoPhillips Billings Refinery.
 
H.
Acknowledge receipt of petition to annex #11-01: a 1.5 acre parcel located on the northwest corner of King Avenue East and Calhoun Lane, legally described as a portion of the south 310 feet of Lot 24, Sugar Subdivision; Almon R. Blain Jr., owner and petitioner; and setting a public hearing for January 24, 2011.
 
I.
Confirmation of Police Officers:  Michael Yarina, David Raschkow and Marc Snider
 
J.
Approval and acceptance of the State Highway Traffic Safety Billings STEP Overtime Grant for traffic enforcement funding, October 1, 2010 - September 30, 2011; $10,000.
 
K.
Approval and acceptance of the 2011 High Intensity Drug Traffic Area (HIDTA) Award from the Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy, $161,548.
 
L.
Approval and acceptance of U. S. Department of Homeland Security Grant for the City of Billings Bomb Squad for training and equipment; $38,860.
 
M.
Lots 9-12, Block 142, Original Town of Billings, located at the intersection of 1st Avenue South and S. 25th Street
 
1.
Acceptance of Grant Deed for Lots 9-12, Block 142, Original Town of Billings, from the Montana Rescue Mission, $0.00.
 
2.
Resolution of Intent disposing of Lots 9-12, Block  142, Original Town of Billings, located at the intersection of 1st Avenue South and S. 25th Street to RiverStone Health and setting a public hearing for February 14, 2011.
 
N.
Second/Final Reading Ordinance Amending BMCC 26-500 related to reimbursement and compensation to developers for construction of certain water and wastewater facilities, to add reimbursement for stormwater facilities, and reimbursement for construction of certain water and wastewater facilities on property located within the Limits of Annexation, but outside the approved "Red Area" identified in the City Limits of Annexation Map.  
 
O.
Bills and Payroll:
 
1.
December 3, 2010
 
2.
December 10, 2010
 
3.
December 17, 2010
 
REGULAR AGENDA:
 
PUBLIC COMMENT on Non-Agenda ItemsSpeaker Sign-in required. (Restricted to ONLY items not on this printed agenda; comments limited to three (3) minutes per speaker. Please sign up on the clipboard located at the podium.)
 
COUNCIL INITIATIVES
 
ADJOURN
 
Additional information on any of these items is available in the City Clerk's Office.

Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to attend this meeting. Please notify Cari Martin, City Clerk, at 657-8210.