2023 July
County Commission meeting
10:00 Shawn
Walker applied for a county business license for Winding Waters
Landscape-approved
10:15 Travis
Norman, applied for a county business license for Game Chaser LLC – guiding big
game hunting- Bow hunting to end of October. R&K will have the insurance
coverage for the ranch. Approved.
10:30 Jon
Lee, Commissioner over the Weed Board appointed Jordan McKee, & Bess
Huefner to the board. Approved.
10:45
Melanie Limb, Deputy Clerk & Court Clerk. Melanie is following up on the
titles of the vehicles belonging to the county. She is trying to find the keys
to the vehicles to make sure the vehicles are ready to be sold.
The
computers that have been cleaned of info might be able to be used for the
middle school. There are also filing cabinets and various things for the sale.
She also
questioned what to have as an add on the radio station reflecting support from
the county.
Justice
court payments for fines, etc. takes 6 days on instant payments to file the
fees. The Company called, Heartland, uses a quicker turn around for the
payments. Approved to check with the Judge to see if Heartland works for his
needs.
Minutes
approved for June.
11:00 Ben
Willoughby, Attorney-reviewed the continuation of a Public Hearing to allow
livestock to graze freely and defining liability for trespass on private land.
As long as animals are branded. The livestock owner is responsible to fence in
the other option is where the private land owner needs to fence out if they don’t
want the animals coming on to the owners property. Each county has to decide
what they want to do. Since 1991 Rich County law has been fenced in.
Depending if
you want to fence out you need a strong enough fence. If you buy in an area
that has livestock then you need to fence out.
Public
hearing:
Discussion
about neighbors who don’t keep their fences upgraded.
Open range
and county roads makes the driver of a vehicle responsible for damage to the
animal. Fences need to be maintained by the landowners next to the county
roads. If the roads are fence then it is not open range on that part of the
road.
Closed
Public Hearing
Motion to
table Motion until the discussion the fencing upgrades.
11:24 Ben
Willoughby reviewed the ordinance created in 1997 about construction &
maintenance of fences for agricultural purposes. Following the state statute.
Each owner will have an agreement to make & support the maintenance of the
fence. There is a possibility for civil cases against the owner who doesn’t pay
his fair share. An owner may not just remove a fence. They have to agree with
the other owner to do so.
Public
Hearing:
Closed the
public hearing
Motion to
approve the maintenance of fencing and defining open range.
Public
Hearing: Rich County Ordinance for the Application, Development, Operation
& Maintenance of RV Parks & Campgrounds. Mitch Poulsen-Planning
administrator (looked at several county’s ordinances). Perhaps a mitigation fee
needs to be assessed along with a conditional fee to settle the dust control.
Close the
public hearing about RV Parks
Motion to
approve the RV Parks ordinance with amendments.
Discussion
for proposed Noise ordinance. Quiet hours from 10PM to 6AM. Public hearing in
August.
Kaia Bowden-Recorder,
Road naming for Rex Home…..AR North Fork Otter Creek branches off privately to
the Rex home. Mr. Rex would like to call it Legacy Loop. It crosses BLM. She
will call Brandon Neff to see if they have any objections to the name.
Kim Wilson,
Assessor reported on personal property exemptions. Approved.
1:30 Bill
Cox made a motion to accept the GovOS contract with the commission which tracks
the short term rentals. Approved.
Motion to
renew County Engineer contract with an RFP for each of the Engineers in the
County by July 26th. Approved.
Approved
Expenditures.
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