Whitefish considers emergency preparation

The Daily Inter Lake

The Whitefish City Council holds a work session from 5 to 6 p.m. today to get a briefing on emergency preparedness from Flathead City County Health Department Administrator Joe Russell.

The council then will spend the next hour interviewing applicants to fill vacancies on a number of city committees.

A light agenda for the regular meeting that begins at 7:10 p.m. begins with two public hearings.

The first hearing is a conditional-use permit application by Leo Keane to operate a professional office in a residential zone at 844 Baker Ave.

The second hearing will consider amendments to city architectural review standards to streamline standards and reduce redundancies.

Last month the council tabled discussion on parking options during the Central Avenue reconstruction, but will take up the issue tonight. Leased parking in the new surface lot under construction at the corner of Spokane Avenue and Second Street also will be addressed.

The council will consider an amendment to the O'Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center lease that would allow the city to add Whitefish Theatre Co. as an additional insured party on the city's liability insurance policy, at no additional cost to the city. The center often is used by the public for non-theater events.

The city's insurance wouldn't extend to Whitefish Theater Co. employees when they host theater events; it has its own liability insurance to cover those events.