City of Polson moves forward with grant applications
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POLSON — Polson City Commissioners passed three resolutions at their April 21 meeting, enabling the city to move forward with grant applications. Those were: Resolution 1060, to accept the 2014 wastewater preliminary engineering report; Resolution 1061, to accept the environmental assessment; and Resolution 1062, to authorize submission of the Montana State Endowment application.
Since the commission voted to proceed with the roughly $18 million Membrane Bioreactor System on April 14, these three ordinances will enable the City to move forward with grant applications to fund the project.
The resolutions prompted only two public comments.
Local resident Andrew Speer asked if the preliminary engineering report included the engineering cost, which it does not.
Former commissioner Elsa Duford asked if the project would be approved if the grants didn’t go through.
Mayor Heather Knutson replied that whether or not the city receives grants, the project will continue. In other business, Agnes Rinehart, representing the Polson Beautification Committee, reported on plans to hold the Polson Clean Up! Green Up Day! on Friday, May 2 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers should plan to meet at the old Heart and Soul office in the North Lake County Library District building. Usually Clean Up! Green Up! Day is held on a Saturday, but Rinehart said the group felt they would get more help from businesses on a Friday.
The City of Polson also wants to help with the clean up, according to Karen Sargeant, acting Polson city manager. On May 16, citizens are encouraged to put branches and leaves in trash bags and stack them at the curb. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., city employees from all departments will come around and load the yard and tree waste. Then on May 17, there will be electronics recycling at the Lake County Transfer Station, Sargeant said.
Although it wasn’t a clean up project, former City Treasurer Bonnie Manicke researched former mayors of Polson so they could be honored for their service. She presented Mayor Heather Knutson and the city commissioners with a plaque listing the former mayors and their dates of service as well as blanks for mayors now and in the future.
Manicke compiled the information, starting with Polson’s first mayor C. M. Mansur, for the National Day of Service on April. Manicke said the research was fascinating. She noted the plaque was dedicated to former Mayor H. Dean Greiner, who served as mayor from May 1, 1977 to Dec. 31, 1981.
Dave Cottington, chair of the Polson City Golf Board, asked the commissioners to approve donating two 2015 golf passes to the Polson Rotary Club and the Finley Point Fire Department to be used as fundraisers for the groups. The Commissioners voted unanimously to donate the passes.
The next Polson City Commission meeting will be held May 5 at 7 p.m.
