All right, I'd like to call our October 20th City Council meeting to order, and if you would please rise and follow me in the pledge.

I

pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God

with liberty and justice for

all the

roll call, please.

Jason Cuppy.

Here.

Jim

Simon.

Here.

Michael Meese.

Here.

Here.

Everybody's in attendance tonight.

So moving on to public forum.

So before starting your comments, please state your name and address and audible tone of voice for the record.

This is a time for individuals' comment on matters falling within the purview of the Belgrade City Council that are not already on the agenda.

There will be an opportunity in conjunction with each agenda item for comments pertaining to that item.

Please note the council may not engage in discussion or respond to questions during this time.

However, at the mayor's discretion, the city manager, assistant city manager may be asked to provide clarification on existing policy.

And please limit your comments to three minutes.

So first call for public forum.

Second call for public forum.

Third and final call for public forum.

Seeing none, I'll close the public forum and move on to the mayoral proclamation regarding extra mile day.

So proclamation extra mile day, November 1st, 2026.

Whereas the City of Belgrade, Montana is a community which acknowledges that the special vibrancy exists within the entire community.

When it's individual citizens collectively go the extra mile and personal effort, volunteerism and service.

Yes, this 20th day of October.

Thank you.

Moving on to uh public hearings.

So first up is discuss and consider resolution 2026-24, amending the fiscal year 2027 master fee schedule.

Ms.

Finn Kirk.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

Um, we did need to make an amendment to the master fee schedule.

The only fee that actually changed here was we added a fee for utility modeling.

It is currently set where we will charge the vendor's fee to us plus a 10% administration fee, and then we went ahead and included an in-house cost of $250 an hour for when we're able to provide that service from

here.

The other changes here, we made minor like pennies adjustments to the library fees, and that's just gonna help us track the copies and faxes.

Um and then the sidewalk right-of-way fees were originally put in as square feet.

We've altered those to linear feet, but the cost remained the same.

Um, and then we took out the major and minor categories in the individual engineering subdivision plat review so that there's just one category for that now, kind of like we did with the permitting because of Malupa.

And then we had a line for backflow protection that should have been included in a different line.

So we moved that up and put it in with the others.

And then we will have on November 17th one more fee to adjust, and then we should be done amending this fee schedule.

That's all I have for you.

It was fun reading.

I think that all makes sense, but in the building inspection fees under fire detection and alarm system.

Once you hit, what is it?

If I get my lines right, up to 200,000 square feet, it seemed to the cost dropped, and maybe it's just based on units, like the those two lines one, because a hundred thousand to two hundred thousand square feet, it says two thousand sixty-two, and then two hundred to four hundred says fifteen hundred dollars, and then over 400 square feet says 19 cents, which I was assuming that was like maybe on a graduated scale.

But those were the two lines that I happened to notice when I was perusing.

I do not off the top of my head have a reason why that is that way, but I will confirm that it is correct, and that is how it is supposed to be before we do the next amendment.

That way, if there is something off, we can fix it then.

Though what those are um a lot of that is actually contracted out, so that is their rates plus our admin markup.

So anything else?

Any other technical questions for charity?

Thank