Museum park land to expand

The Glasgow City Council heard a request from the Valley County Pioneer Museum on Monday. Virgil Nelson, president of the museum board, explained a letter sent to the council asking for some land in adjoining Bundy Park so the museum can expand. The land was described as 300 feet to the east by 200 feet to the north of the existing museum.

City Attorney Dave Gorton will do research to determine if the establishing documents of the park allow the land donation.

Meanwhile, the second phase of the Safe Routes to School project near East Side School will not be done until next year. This involves installing sidewalks, curbs and gutters so children can walk to school safely.

Robert Kompel, Glasgow's director of public works, said the city received a $50,000 grant last year and phase one was done, but the Community

Transportation Enhancement Program project engineer said that writing the next agreement will take eight months, so they will miss the summer construction season.

This might not be a bad thing, Kompel said. It gives the city time to gather the $46,000 local match.

The City Council also passed on its first reading a resolution to remove most of Carney's Second Addition from the city limits. The second reading of the resolution is March 10.

The addition of approximately 16 acres on Glasgow's west side was taken into the city without having an improvements agreement for streets and sidewalks. It was subdivided into three lots, zoned residential. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was constructed on one lot, the nearby Fish, Wildlife and Parks regional headquarters expressed interest in one lot, and one remained.

The owners declined to sign an improvements agreement for the unbuilt lots and requested to take them back out of the city. Permission was granted and the subdivision was undone.

Councilman Melanie Sorensen stated again that the city has not addressed the concerns of the church, which now backs onto county property with no zoning. She voted against the resolution.

City Attorney Gorton said that according to state law, the city retains control of subdivision zoning in a 1-mile border outside of the city limits.
In other business:

– Police Chief Bruce Barstad said that the three Glasgow police officers who will be honored as Top Cops in Washington, D.C., on May 14 – Tyler Edwards, Peter Glowacki and Robert Weber – hope that their captain, Brien Gault, who nominated them for the honor, can accompany them to the nation's capital. Their trips are paid for but not his. Barstad and Mayor Dan Carney said they will find funding for Gault.

– Larry Cote met with the Water Committee recently about a problem he brought up at the Feb. 22 City Council meeting. He objects to paying a $100 water deposit "per occupancy" of an apartment building that he owns because there is just one meter. Regardless of how many occupants are in the building, he said he should just pay one $100 deposit for the one meter.
The committee reported that they had decided not to change the ordinance or their interpretation of it. The city keeps water deposits for two years, then they are refunded.

– The council approved the transfer of an older fire truck to St. Marie.

– Council members voted to pay 2009-2010 dues of $3,253 to the Great Northern Development Corporation.

– Mayor Carney attended a 4 for 2 meeting in Malta on Saturday. He said the council needs to pass a resolution of support for the expansion of the Theodore Roosevelt Expressway, which is planned be a major thoroughfare from Canada to Texas.