C.Falls considers awarding Fourth, Fifth avenues project tonight

The Daily Inter Lake

Following its Feb. 7 decision to move ahead on a revised water, sewer and road improvement plan for Fourth and Fifth avenues, the Columbia Falls City Council will consider awarding a bid for the work tonight.

The council's regular meeting was shifted to tonight since city offices were closed for the President's Day holiday. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in City Hall.

The council also will award a three-year bid for a city auditing firm.

Robert Webber will be considered for appointment as the city's new full-time fire chief/marshal. Jason Kaneen is up for appointment as a probationary volunteer firefighter.

Outgoing Columbia Falls City-County Planning Board Chairman Floyd McCubbins will be honored at the meeting for his years of service in the city's planning efforts.

A request to rename the public road along the north side of the now-developing Glenn's Addition, just west of the Teakettle Vista I and II apartments on the west side of town, will get a public hearing. If it passes that hearing, the council will act on a resolution to change the street name from Teakettle Vista Place to 11th Street West.

There will be discussion on the 2004 Residential Construction, Land Subdivision and Annexation Report, and the second reading of an ordinance to amend the city building code.

Council member Jolie Fish will deliver her report from the 911 Board chairman.

City Manager Bill Shaw will report on Columbia Falls' new planning boundary, a result of his meeting last week with county commissioners to adjust the boundary. A provision in the city-county planning agreement allows for a February meeting each year to extend the boundary a mile beyond the previous year's annexations.

Shaw also will present a letter to the county commissioners regarding revised SID waivers.