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> eee e eee WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, Shelter, county spar over levy | payments By Casey §. Elliott Dillon Tribune staff A wish to monitor how tax dollars are being used led to a testy back-and- ‘orth between the Beaverhead County | mmissioners and Beaverhead Ani- | mal Shelter Director Susie Brown. The commissioners, Brown and shel- ter accountant Mardel Scott discussed | the shelter's finances at the commis- sion’s Dec. 10 meeting. Voters approved a one-mill levy for | shelter operations and maintenance in 2006, and a separate, additional two-mill levy in 2014 according to Beaverhead County Board of Elections records. | Both mill levies are permanent, though both could come up in the future and be turned down by voters to end them. At issue are the tax payments to the | shelter through those levies. The com- missioners send out mill levy checks to the shelter on a quarterly basis, but they decided to wait to send out the checks until shelter officials came in | quarterly and made financial reports to the commissioners. Brown objected to the arrangement, stating she has to be able to pay the | people who are working at the shelter. She said the shelter uses the mill levy money exclusively for payroll. “When I don’t have that (money for payroll) and I need it, then I’m taking money from other places and getting behind in those places, because I have to pay my people,” she said. “I can’t say to them ‘I can’t pay you today, I'll pay you next month.” Scott reported for the July-Septem- ber’2018 period, six people received payroll advances, and four of those six Continued to page 3 By M.P. Regan Dillon Tribune staff Changes in the city’s zoning map, rules for its cemetery and the coun- cil’s own rules of procedure feature prominently on the agenda for the Dil- lon City Council meeting set for today, Wednesday, Dec. 19. During the report of Mayor Mike Klakken just after the 7 p.m. start of the meeting, the council) will vote on whether to adopt council rules of proce- dure that would clarify how the council goes about its business—a process largely established by Robert's Rules of Order, which set the guidelines for the conduct of countless public meet- ings around the U.S. One clarification would permit participation by just council members during the early stages of discussion Santa's helpers 2018 - VouumeE 137, NuMBER §1 nN ™ | Escape attempt thwarted | Nick Geissler of Bozeman tracks down his daughter Skyla during the Montana Youth ChalleNGe Academy | graduation on Saturday. While 102 cadets were gathering for their special ceremony, Skyla got a little footloose and Miles City Field Office (Big Horn, | and wandered about until her dad scooped her up and cradled her for the rest of the ceremony. J.P. Plutt photo City Council to consider rule changes tonight on an agenda item, with the presid- ing officer opening up the discussion to members of the public only after discussion amongst council members has begun to wane. Another would allow the presiding officer at a public hearing to exclude “irrelevant, immaterial, incompetent or unduly repetitious statements from members of the public.” The council will vote on a pair of resolutions involving zoning that served as the subject of public hearings earlier this month. The first resolution addresses a petition for the annexation and zoning by the city of the Barrett Hospital Ad- dition, described by Barrett Hospital & Healthcare Chief Financial Officer Dick Achter as an 1.88 acre piece of land between Barrett and Van's IGA. Part of that property, Klakken said at the Dec. 5 hearing on the matter, is already annexed into the city. If approved, the resolution would also extend the City of Dillon's lighting and street maintenance districts to that currently uninhabited property, as well as city water and sewer services. Barrett Hospital is considering putting staff housing and a storage or maintenance building on the property, according to Klakken. The council will then consider an ordinance concerning the rezoning, from unzoned to a public lands (PL1) and institution district, for a piece of land owned by the University of Mon- tana Western by its Bulldog Athletic & Recreation Center. “Part of this is all owned by the university itself, so we're going to zone those PL1,” explained Klakken at the Dec. 5 public hearing on the issue. oOo o101/2049 SMT HISTORK AUTO**3-DiGiT 586 TAL SOC LIBRARY © RESEARCH CENTER PO BOX 201201 #ELENA MT 59620-1201 gylypndptltdy ef ytfong fgg HUH tettotat gaol tt Let DB UNE 1881 - Dion, Montana» $I BLM oll, gas lease delayed By Casey S, Elliott Dillon Tribune staff Bureau of Land Management (BLM) | land up for oil and gas lease in Beaver- head County was pulled from the latest lease auction, officials say. However, the land may be up for | lease again in March BLM officials pulled 76 parcels of | land, covering 54,207 acres, from the | December 2018 oil and gas lease auc- tion because of Western Watersheds | Project (WWP) litigation, BLM Mon- tana/Dakotas Chief of Communications Al Nash said. Twenty other parcels that were on the preliminary parce} list for | the December 2018 lease sale were | deferred for a variety of reasons. | Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, WWP is a nonprofit environmental conservation group with 1,500 mem- bers with field offices in Montana, Utah, Ne vada and California. The organization, started in 1993, works to influence and improve public lands management | throughout the West, with a focus onthe | fered 23 parcels covering 12,517 | of land in the Butte Field Office (Lewis negative impacts of livestock grazing on 250 million acres of western public lands, according to its website. WWP sued the federal government in April over Trump administration policies that removed protections for greater sage grouse, allowing oil and gas leases on nearly two million acres of the birds’ habitat in Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. The ad- ministrative ralled back compromises to preserve dwindling sage grouse populations, and cut the public out of oil and gas planning on public lands, according to a WWP press release. The Dec. 11 oil and gas lease sale of- acres ) and Clark County), Havre Field Office (Blaine, Glacier and Toole counties) | Dawson and Sheridan counties). Nash said previously federal land has been available for oil and gas leasing for decades, and the leases are offered on a quarterly basis. Most of the interest in leases has been for | land in the Bakken Shale Formation in If approved, that resolution would | also change the designation on the city’s zoning map for a section of nearby privately property from unzoned to | | cess before it can be issued a permit commercial community business (C-2). Following the Mayor's Report, the council will review recent Citizen | Requests and then hear reports from City Attorney Jim Dolan, Director of Operations Todd Hazelbaker, City Trea- | surer Neal Straus, Police Chief Don Guiberson, City Court Judge Kaylan Minor, Fire Chief Darrin Morast and/ or Fire Marshal Rick Later, as well as from representatives of the city’s Tree Board, Library Board, Planning Board and Zoning Commission. Continued to page 3 the Dakotas. Nash also previously said that even if a lease is awarded, the company must go through an application pro to drill, which includes reviewing any environmental impacts for the site. The leases are time-limited. The BLM will offer 322 parcels (approximately 180,366 acres) of land in Beaverhead, Big Horn, Blaine, Car- bon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Madison, Musselshell, Powder River, Richland, Rosebud, Toole, Valley and Wibaux counties in Montana; Bowman County in North Dakota; and Fall River | and Harding counties in South Dakota; | for oil and gas leases in March 2019 Continued to page 3 Gail Kuntz and Sharon Rice have begun thé sorting process of the gifts for children from the Giving Tree at Rattle Snake Creek Alpacas at 201 S. Idaho Street. There are still tags on the tree if you are feeling like a Dillonaire. J.P. Plutt photo +9 lel eat tip Ml rete rO THE Dinton TRIBUNE OD DEY ere - CAL1..683-2331 —— E-MAIL US YOUR NEWS TO EDITOR@DILLONTRIBUNE.COM
