Libby council meeting set for June 16
The Libby City Council will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16, for the first time since Mayor Doug Roll abruptly adjourned the May 18 meeting. Roll canceled the regularly scheduled council meeting of June 1.
The meeting will be held in the Ponderosa Room at City Hall, instead of the council chambers, where meetings are normally held. Neither the change of venue nor the change of date were explained in the meeting notice.
The agenda, posted near the close of business yesterday, contains nothing out of the ordinary for council meetings.
The meeting will begin with the Pledge of Allegiance, roll call and welcome, with a prayer offered by John Thurmond. Announcements and committee reports will follow.
Public comment for items on the agenda will follow the committee reports, time is limited to three minutes per person.
The council will then hear any unfinished business, although no specific items are listed on the agenda.
The council has two guests listed to appear during the time reserved for new business. Pam Peppenger and Kathy Stern are appearing to discuss street closures for the rodeo and Logger Days, respectively. The council will also have a first reading on Ordinance 1874, which repeals two sections of city code related to subdivisions and filing. Section 16.04.010 adopts, for the city, the county’s subdivision ordinances.
The council is also scheduled to discuss or act upon approval of business licenses and the claims for May and a request from Lincoln County to consider mail-in ballot elections.
Claims and business licenses are generally approved at the City Council’s first monthly meeting, held on the first Monday of every month. Due to the canceled meeting, the city’s claims were not approved by the City Council, so payments were not sent to city vendors on the normal schedule.
The second public comment period, for items not on the agenda, is the final item listed before adjournment. As with the earlier public comment period, time is limited to three minutes per person.