Business people ask for help with Main Street SID
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POLSON — Main Street business people Ed McCurdy, Gayle Siemers and Streetscape committee member Becky Dupuis were on the agenda at the Oct.18 Polson City Commissioner’s meeting. They had come to talk to the commissioners about additional funding for the Main Street Special Improvement District.
“We’re following up on the meeting of Sept. 13,” Siemers said. “… We want some direction from the city.”
Siemers asked commissioners to ask Polson City Manager Todd Crossett to lead a committee of three or four business people “to see what’s available for funds for the city.”
“There are people who might lose their properties,” Siemers added.
“We’re here to get some help,” McCurdy said. McCurdy leases land from Montana Rail Link south of the Elks Lodge on Main Street.
Dupuis said a fundraising committee organized by Karen McMullen was raising money for chattel property, benches, garbage cans, etc.
Dupuis said it had been represented to property owners that every effort would be made to drop either the time of the SID or the amount of the payment.
Mayor Pat DeVries said it shouldn’t be the city manager setting up the committee.
Crossett said if business people were to set up a committee and invite him, he would be happy to attend the meeting.
Murat Kalinyaprak approached the commissioners about an ethics code and the creation of an ethics panel.
Mayor DeVries said she did some research and the process of adopting a code of ethics “would be very extensive from what I can tell.”
Bozeman has a code of ethics, but Crossett said the city has problems finding people to serve on the board.
The motion was tabled until commissioners could look at the city personnel manual and other information.
Among his city manager comments, Crossett said the big news was three blocks of Main Street would be open by the afternoon of Oct. 19.
Crossett added that a profit and loss statement for Aug. and Sept. and for the year to date showed the golf course restaurant a little ahead of break even.
