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SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley Lake Rural Fire District Board of Trustees approved the fire district 2015-2016 budget of just more than $255,500 at their meeting, Oct. 20. They also voted unanimously to give all employees a 2.5 percent raise. The budget committee presented a balanced budget to the board for approval. Seeley Lake volunteer firefighter Michael Richards questioned the agenda’s wording that said the preliminary budget would be discussed. He felt there should have been more time for the public to comment on the budget. The board agreed t...
SWAN VALLEY - At the Oct. 20 meeting of the Swan Valley Community Council (SVCC), the council discussed concerns about high water washing out the road near the Cold Creek Bridge and received a progress report on the traffic safety issue on Highway 83 in front of the Swan Valley Elementary School (SVE). Kali Becher from Missoula County Community and Planning Services (CAPS) and land use planning consultant Dave DeGrandpre also spoke to attendees about the Missoula County Growth Plan Survey due by Oct. 30. Chair Ken Donovan told attendees he was...
SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley Lake Community Council (SLCC) finalized their proposal for safety improvements on Highway 83 and voted to submit it to the Missoula County Commissioners (MCC) for approval at their Oct. 12 meeting. The snow plowing on Grizzly Drive and the Missoula County Public Schools (MCPS) bond were also discussed. The traffic safety proposal includes reducing speeds to as low as 25 mph downtown and expanding speed zones south to mile marker 11 (Poverty Flats) and north to the Base Camp Bar. Passing zones near Big Larch Campground,...
SEELEY LAKE - The Seeley Lake Sewer District (SLSD) received an update on funding from the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development (RD). Managers also updated the board on the hookup surveys. District Managers met with RD and were told that the district did not receive funding from the 2014-2015 allocation. The district is in the next round of funding for the 2015-2016 federal fiscal year’s allocation to Montana through RD. “We knew that [not receiving funding from the 2014-15 allocation] was a possibility,” said Manag...
SWAN VALLEY – The Swan Valley Regional Planning Committee discussed the Public Facilities and Services element at their meeting, Oct. 14. Discussion about services needed and wanted by the residents was followed by vocal opinions regarding land density in the plan. In the introduction to the Facilities and Services element, planner Robert Horne said he tried to convey the attitude he heard in the neighborhood meetings: The Swan Valley is not getting the tax money they pay into Missoula County back in the way of services. In regards to law e...
