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HomeMy WebLinkAbout07-09-15 INC Minutes               THE INTER-NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL (INC) MEETING OF BOZEMAN, MONTANA DRAFT MEETING MINUTES Thursday, July 09, 2015 Attending: Joe Genovese (NHVN) moderator, Ginny Cowan (BCNA), Kirk Johnson (MarLin), Dave Chambers (NENA), Salal Huber-McGee (BPNA), Bob Wall (SENA) QUORUM Present Chuck Winn (Assistant City Manager, interim Neighborhood Coordinator) Mark Carpenter, Chief Steve Crawford, Bill Klundt (Bozeman Police Dept.) Wendy Thomas (Bozeman Community Development Director) David Fine (Bozeman City Economic Development) 4:32 Joe convened the meeting Review of minutes from June 11 meeting. Ginny moved to accept. Kirk seconded. Mo- tion passed unanimously. Public Comment: None Election of officers Bob moved that we accept the current officers (Jennifer, Joe, Bob) as the officers for next year. Ginny seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 4:38 Bozeman Police report – Mark Carpenter, Bill Klundt 3300 calls last month. 22 loud parties, 111 crashes, 176 911 hangup calls. 126 code com- pliance calls. Weeds, abandoned furniture, etc. First Coffee with a Cop recently. Aug. 4 – National Night Out against Crime at Lindley Park. Money raised goes to Bo- zeman Senior Center for Meals on Wheels and other programs. Question about bushes overhanging sidewalks. Should report to code compliance. Over- hang should be even with edge of sidewalk, or higher than 7’. New police chief Steve Crawford introduced himself. Got introductions to other people present at the meeting. The City is forming a new team from Police Dept. and Streets Dept. to address issues that involve signage, parking. Question about parking philosophy – how do we treat people parking illegally in areas where parking is a problem (maybe Bogert Park). Question about fireworks. Only legal on July 3-5, and for two hours on New Year’s Eve. 5:00 Discussion of Affordable Housing – Wendy Thomas Handout of a draft on Affordable Housing Incentives for 2015. Pulled in a consultant to review previous regulations. Conducted a series of public meet- ings, got feedback from builders, people looking for housing, others. Report submitted to Commission on Feb. 2. (Available online, under Community Development). Recom- mended amending program we already have to make it more effective and easier to im- plement. Commission requested more detail on plan from staff. Based on public input, working on program to create affordable housing in two ways: Commission approved two or three mils to support affordable housing fund (commitment for one year). Money has been used to make impact fee payments for rental housing development. Limited to people earning 60% of Area Median Income (AMI), focused on working households. Commission also approved allocating funds for transitional and emergency housing (homeless youth). Set aside $35,000 that will probably be used as grant match funds for 501c3 groups creating this kind of transitional housing. Other aspect is creation of homes for ownership. Goal is to create 54 homes. 3 person family at 90% AMI can afford $213,000. Family of four can afford $237,000. Several incentives across the range of AMI. For 90% bracket, discussing an innovative housing ordinance that would allow “cottage-style” housing, where each owner owns the home and land under it, but there are shared common areas on the lot. Some relaxations of setbacks and other restrictions. Includes expedited review process. For 80% bracket, additional incentives: payment of impact fees, down payment assis- tance, waive subdivision preapplication, simultaneous construction of housing infrastruc- ture, reduced parking requirements. Money for impact fee subsidies and down payment assistance is returned when house is sold. For 70% bracket, reduction of parkland requirement. These are just proposed recommendations. Final program scheduled for Commission re- view on Sept. 14. AMI for a family of four in Gallatin County is $68,800. 5:35 David Fine – Presentation on Broadband Initiative Project Manager for City’s Fiber Initiative. Project currently trying to secure financing. Trying to assemble a community open access network. Not owned by city, owned by a non-profit organization (Bozeman Fiber). Commercial ISPs will be able to offer services over that infrastructure. Recent FCC study showed that over 70% of US residents have only one option for broadband at their home. Non-profit securing private debt to fund network. Network will be built out to schools first. Currently spending $266,000 / year for city, county, schools. Won’t have a huge impact to neighborhoods initially. There will be 3 months of some disruption during initial network construction. Hopefully will start the end of next March. Commissioners endorsed project at the end of May. Cost for initial phase is $3.85 million. If financing is obtained, construction should start next spring, should be able to finish in around three months. Butte did public/private partnership with FatBeam to install fiber. 5:55 Report on HOAs – Kirk Johnson Reviewed likely conflicts between HOA bylaws and the NRO requirements. Requirement about membership/ownership, requirement about dues, requirement about eligibility to vote. Discussed options for allowing HOAs to be recognized: • Create separate organization to be recognized • HOA could revise bylaws to remove conflicting items (highly unlikely) • NRO allows for HOAs to participate as non-recognized associations (would not have any vote, but could participate in the INC forum) • City could revise NRO to explicitly allow HOAs as a separate type of neighbor- hood association • City revises NRO to remove provisions that prevent HOAs from being recog- nized. Could decide to make a recommendation, but we will table that for a future meeting. David asked that next meeting we get a presentation on the recommendations staff is making next Monday on preserving historic buildings. 6:18 FYI Carson not here. Chuck had no additional FYI. Bob moved to adjourn, Kirk seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Minutes recorded by Bob Wall.