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SEELEY LAKE - Like every month except August and December, the Seeley Lake Community Council meeting Monday, July 8 will be filled with a number of interesting and pertinent presentations. Cheri Thompson, president of the Historical Society, will start the agenda with a report on plans for the extension of the Seeley Lake Museum. She will be followed by Laura Wood, who will present her idea for a dog run in town. Next will be Claire Muller, executive director of the Seeley Lake Community Foundation, who will talk about recent events at the...
SEELEY LAKE - Like every month, the Seeley Lake Community Council meeting will feature a number of interesting topics Monday, June 10. It will kick off with our State Rep, Mike Hopkins giving an overview of this year’s legislative session. Next will be an update on the county’s efforts to rationalize the building permit process. The Community Council held a forum in January on that topic, with builders, an inspector and several county representatives attending. The main conclusion from the forum was that the permit process included bot...
Monday’s Seeley Lake Community Council promises a full agenda for their May 13 meeting. It will start out with Donny Pfeifer, Montana Department of Transportation Missoula District Preconstruction Engineer, who will talk about plans for Highway 83 and other projects that might be of interest to the Seeley Lake Community. Karen Hughes of the County’s Community Planning and Services will follow Pfeifer. She will introduce Climate Ready Communities, which is a county-wide resiliency planning process led jointly by Missoula County, the City of Mis...
SEELEY LAKE - The next Seeley Lake Community Council meeting promises an interesting agenda. Chet Crowser, Pat O’Herren’s successor as head of Missoula County Community and Planning Services (CAPS), will introduce himself and speak about his plans for CAPS. Next, Jean Curtiss, the new Title District Manager of the Seeley Lake Sewer District and former County Commissioner, will give an update on the current status and projected future of the sewer system. Following Curtiss will be Tom Browder, council member and treasurer of the Double Arr...
SEELEY LAKE - The next Seeley Lake Community Council meeting March 11 will have a full agenda again. It will start with Josh Slotnick, who was newly elected to the County Board of Commissioners last year. Slotnick will talk about his experience in his first two months in office, how he sees the future of the BCC and his role in it. Next will be Dr. Kathleen Pecora, the retiring principal of the Seeley-Swan High School. Dr. Pecora will give a retrospective of her nine years running the school and talk about the achievements and challenges of...
The next meeting of the Seeley Lake Community Council promises a full agenda. The first half of the meeting will be devoted to wildfire smoke and its consequences. Christopher T. Migliaccio, Research Assistant Professor at UM, has been studying the health effects of smoke on a group in Seeley Lake following the Rice Ridge fire of 2017. His team collected data in the fall of 2017 and then twice in 2018 for follow-up assessments. They studied local residents for lung function, blood pressure, heart rate, behavioral/depression and respiratory...
SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley Lake Community Council will hold a forum on the building code and permitting process next Monday, Jan. 14 at the Seeley Lake Community Hall. Klaus von Stutterheim, Council Chair, explained, “over the years we have heard many comments from constituents on this topic. We thought it would be helpful to bring together the officials who issue permits, other experts who are affected by the process and the community. We expect a large audience with plenty of questions and suggestions, so that county officials can hear where t...
SEELEY LAKE - The next meeting of the Seeley Lake Community Council Monday, Nov. 12 again promises an ambitious agenda. The meeting will start with County Commissioner Jean Curtiss swearing-in the new Council member Tom Browder who is filling the vacancy left by Lee Bowman’s move to Missoula. This will be Curtiss’ last official visit to the Council. She will also give a brief retrospective covering the highpoints of her 18-year service as a Commissioner. Next on the agenda are Claire Muller, Executive Director of the Community Foundation, and...
SEELEY LAKE - The next meeting of the Seeley Lake Community Council promises a full agenda. The Council will hear proponents and opposing views on all four Ballot Propositions: LR-128, the proposed levy to support the University system, will be supported by State Senator Tom Facey. At press time the Council is still looking for somebody to take the opposing viewpoint. LR-129, the prohibition for people to collect other people’s ballots, will be supported by State Representative Mike Hopkins and opposed by Facey. I-185, the proposed tobacco t...
SEELEY LAKE – At the Seeley Lake Community Council meeting Monday, Sept. 10, Sheriff T.J. McDermott will introduce Seeley Lake’s new local deputy Ryan Dunster. Deputy Dunster is looking for a place to live in Seeley Lake with his wife and three children. Next will be a presentation by Amber Sherrill of Five Valleys Land Trust who will speak in favor of the proposed Open Space Bond. Following Sherrill, Republican candidate for re-election to MT House District 92 Mike Hopkins will speak in opposition to the bond. After that USFS District Ranger R...
SEELEY LAKE - At the request of one of the Council members, the Seeley Lake Community Council will discuss the current speed limits in Seeley Lake. Those speed limits were lowered two years ago. The project was initiated by the Council, took two years to complete and culminated in an order from the Montana Transportation Commission for lower speed limits in Seeley Lake. The Council will also consider sending a letter of support of the Forest Service’s Rice Ridge Salvage Sale. At the request of one of the Council members, the Council will discus...
SEELEY LAKE - The future of the Seeley Lake Community Council’s Trail Committee will be the topic at the next Council meeting. Committee Chair Ron Cox and the Council have been contemplating transferring its Trails Committee projects and funds to another organization in Seeley Lake, yet to be identified, that also is active with trails. The Council has also invited Montana Department of Transportation to attend the meeting and speak about the planned repairs to Highway 83, what the new bridge across Morrell Creek will look like and when this p...
SEELEY LAKE - Marie Anderson, who is running for Justice of the Peace Department #1 as an incumbent against Alex Beal, will give a brief campaign speech at the next Seeley Lake Community Council meeting and answer questions from the audience. Ms. Anderson had to miss the Candidates Forum last month because of a lengthy court case. The meeting will begin with the election of officers. The Council welcomes two new members in May, Bruce Friede and Klaus von Stutterheim. The latter has served before but had to resign last year because of illness....
SEELEY LAKE - If you are overwhelmed by the number of candidates who are running for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, Fire District, Sewer District, County Commissioner, Sheriff, etc. come to the Seeley Lake Community Council’s Candidates Forums next week. Hear the candidates who are vying for your vote and grill them on the issues that are important to you. Because of the many contested races this year and the sheer number of candidates, we decided to hold two forums. Monday, April 9, 5:15 p.m. at the Community Center: U.S. Senate, Missoula C...
SEELEY LAKE - The next meeting of the Seeley Lake Community Council will open on a cheerful note. Lee Boman has collected four great ideas for Seeley that will be presented to the public. Boman explained that “our objective is to make the community aware of some new ideas and perhaps trigger more involvement and volunteers.” The first idea is a covered, outdoor ice rink for Seeley Lake, presented by Scott Newpower. Following Newpower, Jessica Kimmel will propose that Highway 83 be renamed “Glacier Parkway.” Next will be Auguste Lockwoo...
SEELEY LAKE - The 60-home subdivision proposed in Powell County next to the Seeley Lake Airport will continue to be a topic of discussion at Monday’s Community Council meeting, Feb. 12. One of several major issues is the fact that the subdivision would be using Missoula County resources like fire, sheriffs and roads, while paying their taxes to Powell County. Deborah Bell of Missoula County Public Works will present the County’s GIS project, a county software solution which will help the public get easier access to land records, such as sep...
SEELEY LAKE - A proposed 60-home subdivision will head the agenda at next Monday’s Seeley Lake Community Council. Kurt Fredericks, a lifelong builder who is a consultant to the project, explained that they envision 60 high-end homes in a private community with lot sizes from one and a half to three acres. It would take between five and 10 years to complete. Fredericks said that he started coming to Seeley Lake 30 years ago, fell in love with it and will move into the subdivision. He now lives on his ranch in Helena. Fredericks’ two sons and Mar...
SEELEY LAKE - Law enforcement and Missoula County government will dominate the agenda of the Seeley Lake Community Council’s agenda next Monday. County Commissioner Jean Curtiss will give an update about what is happening in county government. Sheriff T.J. McDermott will talk about what’s going on in local law enforcement. Deputy Mike Sunderland will also attend. He was recently promoted to Detective and has moved to Missoula. The community will have an opportunity to thank Sunderland for his service to our town and also to convey to She...
SEELEY LAKE - Cory Calnan of the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation will kick off the meeting of the Seeley Lake Community Council next Monday at 6 p.m. with a discussion of Mega Fires. Next will be Mike Hopkins, our new Montana House Representative. He will update us on the current legislative session in Helena. Jenny Rohrer will give a presentation on the Seeley Lake Trails Project Survey and encourage attendees to take the survey. Anne Beach, executive director of the Seeley Lake Community Foundation, will talk about...
SEELEY LAKE - Air Quality in Seeley Lake will kick off the meeting of the Seeley Lake Community Council next Monday. Ben Schmidt, Missoula County Air Quality Specialist, wants to start a general conversation on wood stoves and air quality with a focus on the neighborhood immediately south of the elementary school (see the Place for All column on page 4 for more information). Rachel Feigley, USFS District Ranger, will follow with a discussion of the Center-Horse project, an extensive forestry project along the southern boundary of the Bob...
SEELEY LAKE - Next Monday, Jan. 9, the Seeley Lake Community Council meeting promises an ambitious agenda. Sheriff Deputy Mike Sunderland will talk about the office’s “Say Something” project, which seeks to address bullying, its devastating impacts and how it relates to teenage suicide. Ben Schmidt, Missoula County Air Quality Specialist, will address air quality in Seeley Lake and how it could be improved further. Linda Howard of Missoula Aging Services, who shares an office with the Seeley Lake Community Foundation in the Bison and Bear...
SEELEY LAKE - Next Monday’s Seeley Lake Community Council meeting promises to be a lively event, dealing with perhaps the most controversial issue that has arisen here in recent years: the proposed sewer project. Many questions have been asked about the sewer project including what the proposed sewer will accomplish, how it will be financed and its final cost to the consumer, the district covered and why other locations were not included, the technology and methodology to implement it and whether a sewer system is needed at all. The aim of M...
SEELEY LAKE - Next Monday’s meeting of the Seeley Lake Community Council promises a broad agenda. Missoula County Sheriff T.J. McDermott will speak on recent law enforcement activities in Seeley Lake. Duane “Cecil” Schlabach will follow with a report on the successful conclusion of the Council’s two-year Traffic Project and the new speed limits. Mike Boltz will outline his plans to convert the Wilderness Inn into affordable apartments. Since he is seeking U.S. government loans to finance the project, Boltz is asking for an endorsement from the...
SEELEY LAKE - A two-year saga came to a successful conclusion when the Montana Transportation Commission granted virtually all of the requested speed limit reductions that the Seeley Lake Community Council had petitioned for. The Commission’s order Sept. 22 closed the final chapter on a lengthy story that began with a constituent’s question at a council meeting in 2014 about what might be done to slow traffic in Seeley Lake. The council’s Traffic Project was launched with an appeal to the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) for lower...
SEELEY LAKE - Another array of candidates for the November election will present themselves at the second Candidates Forum, hosted by the Seeley Lake Community Council Thursday, Sept. 29, at the Community Hall. Starting at 5:30 p.m., the first half hour will be devoted to pizza, soda and milling-about; the formal part will begin at 6 p.m. The forum will include the following candidates: • State Auditor: Jesse Laslovich (D) and Matt Rosendale (R) • Superintendent of Public Education: Elsie Arntzen (R) • Public Service Commissioner: Gail Gutsc...
