FedEx may put new building at south end of town

The Daily Inter Lake

An 18,000-square-foot FedEx Ground building is in the works for the Old School Station industrial park.

The city staff will brief the Kalispell City Council at its meeting tonight.

The staff is recommending that the city provide the developer - Devron Property Services Inc. - with some money collected through the industrial park's tax-increment financing district.

In a tax-increment financing district, property taxes collected above a specific amount are set aside in a special fund to pay for infrastructure work to boost economic development.

The building and land costs are estimated at $2.8 million. The building would be a coordination point for 10 delivery routes and move the current facility from outside city limits to within city borders. Old School Station is an island of incorporated land roughly 1.5 miles from the rest of the city.

Also at 7 p.m. today, the council is scheduled to:

n Vote on final approval for rezoning four lots on Second Avenue East owned by the Hockaday Museum of Art to allow it to expand into the southern two lots. The proposed rezoning is from residential to public use. The council gave preliminary approval on April 20.

n Vote on whether to accept, revise or reject a proposed update of the Kalispell Growth Policy for the area west of the Stillwater River, north of Two Mile Drive, east of a line to the east of Farm-To-Market Road, and south of Church Drive.

n Vote on whether to support AGAPE Home Care as it seeks a $42,500 federal loan to buy the United Way office on Appleway Drive.

n Vote on whether to annex 2 1/2 acres belonging to Neil Bertelsen on Cemetery Road, 300 feet west of U.S. 93 South. There are currently no development plans for the site.

n Vote on whether to appoint Chad Graham to the Kalispell Planning Board. Rick Hull has agreed to stay in his soon-to-open seat - which is not the one for which Graham is tentatively earmarked - until a replacement is found for him.

The council also will vote on confirming Butch Clark as the county's representative on the city Planning Board.

n Vote on appointments to a host of other city boards and commissions.

n Vote on whether to reappoint John Parsons to the Board of Adjustment.

n Pick Marshall Noice, Margaret Lekander or Bob Schneider for two seats on the Business Improvement District Board.

n Vote on whether to appoint Sue Corrigan to the Conrad Mansion Board.

n Vote on whether to appoint Wade Elder, Dave Hanson and Karin Witt to three seats on the Economic Revolving Loan Committee.

n Vote on whether to appoint Sharon DeMeester, Jeff Goudreau and Dewey Swank to three seats on the Impact Fee Committee.

n Vote on whether to appoint Joel Schnoknecht and Ron Trippett to two seats on the Parking Commission.

n Select among Joan Jellison, Christopher Amyes, Matt Bonner, Steven Bowen, Montana Danford, Gary Grant, Larry Spinosa or Gerald Wabschall for one opening on the Police Commission.

n Pick Andrea Davidson, Julie Radtke or Dawn Tacke for two seats on the Street Tree Commission.

n Vote on whether to reappoint Mark Munsinger to the Technical Advisory Committee.

n Select someone to serve on a new city-county 911 emergency center board.