Mayor & City Council

WHITEFISH CITY COUNCIL June 17, 2024 SPECIAL SESSION AT 5:15 PM 1) Call to Order Mayor Muhlfeld called the meeting to order at 5:25pm. Councilors present were Feury, Davis, Sweeney, Norton and Caltabiano. Councilor Qunell was absent. Staff present was City Manager Smith, City Clerk Howke, City Attorney Jacobs, Deputy Police Chief Conway, Planning and Building Director Taylor, and Parks and Recreation Director Butts. 2) Interview City Council interviewed Rachel Schmidt for the Police Commission. 3) Public Comment None 4) Appointment Mayor Muhlfeld, with ratification from the Council, appointed Rachel Schmidt to the Police Commission for a three-year term. 5) Adjourn Mayor Muhlfeld adjourned the meeting at 5:30 and opened the Work Session. /s/ John Muhlfeld Mayor Muhlfeld Attest: /s/ Michelle Howke Michelle Howke, Whitefish City Clerk  WHITEFISH CITY COUNCIL June 17, 2024 7:10 P.M. 1) CALL TO ORDER Mayor Muhlfeld called the meeting to order. Councilors present were Feury, Caltabiano, Davis, Sweeney, and Norton. Councilor Qunell was absent. City Staff present were, City Clerk Howke, City Manager Smith (Virtual), City Attorney Jacobs, Finance Director Gospodarek, Planning and Building Director Taylor, Public Works Director Workman, Parks and Recreation Director Butts, Deputy Police Chief Conway, and Fire Chief Hadley. Approximately 16 people were in the audience, and one attended virtually. 2) PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mayor Muhlfeld asked Brian Schott to lead the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance. 3) COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC– (This time is set aside for the public to comment on items that are either on the agenda, but not a public hearing or on items not on the agenda. City officials do not respond during these comments but may respond or follow-up later on the agenda or at another time. The mayor has the option of limiting such communications to three minutes depending on the number of citizens who want to comment and the length of the meeting agenda) (YouTube Video 1:58) Toby Scott, Barkley Lane, as a private citizen and chairman of the Lakeshore Protection Committee, stated they spent time talking about the rockslide on the west side of the lake at their last meeting. He encourages the Council to consider a workshop to try to form an agreement with the County regarding jurisdiction over the lake. The County could care less about the entire boundary of Whitefish Lake. He encourages Council to consider starting a conversation with the County to get Whitefish in charge of the entire lakeshore instead of just that within city limits. Mayor Muhlfeld commented, normally he does not. He and Mike Koopal met with the County Commissioners two weeks prior to that incident occurring. They discussed enforcement, streamlining or opportunities to streamline lakeshore protection regulations, so that it is not a two-permit process for county residents and also enforcement. The County’s response was they are not a proactive form of government, they are reactive form of government. They will not meet to discuss those items again. We will continue to press but he is not overly optimistic. Beth Sobba is a neighbor to the landslide that occurred on Whitefish Lake. She first met the owner of the property next to her in 2021 at the building site. She distinctly remembers the owner remarking that this was the most pristine place left on the lakeshore. She questioned the builder about the choice of the building site, and he agreed that it was not optimal. In October 2022 the project began, with the relocating nearly a quarter mile of power line, and the creation of the second access road. After 50 or so large trees were removed a large excavator began crushing the steep rocky bank. Form 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., five days a week for the better part of the past two years, they have listened to the constant hammering that could be heard as far away as Houston Point and Iron Horse. This May, nearly two years later, the hammering finally stopped. From her viewpoint, prior to the explosion, a large flat site had been created measuring at least 150 feet long, 60 feet wide and 30-40 feet deep from the hammering and the removal of material. For the weeks leading up to the explosion, they noticed several holes drilled in a grid pattern on the prepared site. She thought it was some kind of anchoring system for the foundation, but her husband explained it was for explosives. She couldn’t understand why they needed to blast with such a big sight prepared already. They were not home at the time of the blast. The explosion and its aftermath have rocked the community into action. Her hope is that the clean-up and the remediation efforts are prioritized over the continued construction. She hopes regulations are put into place to limit the scope and require a higher level of permitting and oversight for projects of this  CITY COUNCIL MINUTES June 17, 2024 magnitude. She also supports bond requirement for possible large-scale mishap or negligence; and regulations to protect neighbors, neighborhoods, and wildlife from the kind of ongoing harassment they experienced from projects that span years. She hopes the fragile eco system, water and wildlife in the Beaver Lake and Beaver Creek corridor to Whitefish Lake will be protected. She calls on the City of Whitefish to do everything in its power to achieve these objectives. Riley Polumbus, 327 O’Brien Avenue, she applauds the Council for making a goal to create a deer management plan. She has recently encountered a human/deer conflict in her neighborhood. She knows of a neighbor who is feeding the deer. That is part of the problem and there should be proper education and enforcement for people like that. She has called the police, but they can’t do anything. She has reported this to FWP today and hasn’t received a response. She should be able to walk her dogs without fearing getting attacked by a deer. She would be interested in being involved if there is a task force. Scott Brigham, 6251 Shiloh Avenue, president of his HOA addressed his letter that is on the agenda regarding the Don K parking issue. The employees of Don K park on the west side of Shiloh Avenue, limiting parking for residents, not allowing traffic the ability to pass through if semis are unloading equipment or merchandise, among others that are listed in his letter. He proposes three options to remedy this situation: 1) Allow limited vehicle parking by residents only (permitted) as we will have no residential parking except short personal driveways (most favorable); 2) Restricting parking only Monday through Friday 7:0 am to 5:00 pm (allowing for limited weekend parking for guests and residents to overflow without the threat of traffic citation); 3) Post no parking on the west side of Shiloh as it is on the East side (least favorable). Kevin Kaltschmidt, 21 JP Road, Don K partner, addressed the concerns of the Shiloh Avenue neighbors regarding parking. He agreed some of his team member do park on Shiloh Avenue due to the large amount of inventory; they try to direct all truck traffic for unloading and loading to the west side of Hwy 93, but there are occasions trucks will utilize Shiloh Avenue. He is addressing with his team about parking close the to stop sign at JP Road and agrees he can do a better job enforcing that with his team. He knows once Shiloh is punched through to the north, there will be no parking on either side of the street. They are working on increasing parking on the west side of the highway, moving inventory and things around to make more room. He would prefer to wait to make Shiloh Avenue no parking until it is punched through with the new development that is going in. Shawna Moore, 120 Washington Avenue, she provided a letter that is appended to the packet on the website. She requests the Whitefish City Council take measures to increase protection for Whitefish Lake. At a recent Lakeshore Protection meeting, members of the community voiced concerns about the recent landslide into Whitefish Lake. The landslide was caused by blasting rock on a residential lot. She believes owners and contractors need to be liable for such encroachments. She also believes governments need to be questioned and held accountable by the people they serve. We are not prepared for the effects of continued growth, nor are we prepared for climate change and yet unknown threats to water quality. Let us begin a community-led movement to create fundamental change in how we manage the resources that make Whitefish both a stunningly beautiful, economically viable and healthy place to live. She suggests collection of additional impact fees for projects in sensitive areas such as wetlands and lakeshore zones; required bonding for contractors to ensure funds for proper cleanup when damages occur; an emergency response plan and supplies as such as turbidity curtain; navigate interlocal agreements to improve investigation and enforcement of violations; increase fines for accidental or reckless building activity and ensure updated rules are implemented; rely on the scientific community and empower the Whitefish Lake Institute to lead us in these changes. She suggests including the health of our lake and water resources as part of the Sustainable Tourism Management Plan. Whitefish Lake is not too big to fail. 2  CITY COUNCIL MINUTES June 17, 2024 Cassie Roberts, 704 Cedar Street, works at the Whitefish Lake Institute as a lake scientist. She echoes what has been said provided a little more perspective on what is going on and the importance of paying attention to the recent landslide on Whitefish Lake. The city is very progressive, and we are doing a good job compared to the county but there are still opportunities to do more. Whitefish Lake Institute is very eager to help along the way in any way we can, whether that is educating contractors or the public in any way. She is very appreciative of all the work Council has done. Studies have shown that when lakes have one more meter of clarity people are willing to drive an hour further to get to them. The issues that happen on our lake shore are not just important to those who live on the lake but to our entire community. We all benefit from Whitefish Lake either through recreation, drinking water or economic draw. What happened in May when a blast created a landslide on a property on Whitefish Lake will affect water quality. Already in front of the site, the water is cloudy and turbidity levels were well over four times than at Beaver Creek. There are large boulders in the lake and at least a dozen large rocks. Maybe the sediment loading would have been less severe, but in another lakeshore violation last year, 50 to 60 trees were removed from the lakeshore destabilizing the hill. This hillslope has been forever impacted. It takes hundreds of years for topsoil to develop. It will never be the same. This sediment loading is different than the natural sediment brought into the lake by creeks. Sediment from creeks has time for its nutrients to be used up by organisms as it travels towards the lake. Now each time it rains, sediment will continue to enter the lake, bringing in nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen. These nutrients can then create algae blooms appearing as large green mass of algae. Large mass of algae like this then dies off, sink to the bottom of the lake and are eaten by bacteria which use up all lake oxygen harming fish and other aquatic life. This landslide has also made the area ripe for invasive species to move in. The lake floor near the violation is now barren and disturbed making it an ideal habitat for fast growing invasive species to infiltrate the area. This is affecting Whitefish Lake. Without proper enforcement in place, this will continue to happen on a greater and greater scale until Whitefish Lake is no longer the desirable clear lake it once was managed to keep this lake free of most invasive species and low in nutrients through tireless work by this community. We need to be forward thinking and come up with a viable way to prevent these lakeshore violations before they happen. Currently it is too easy to pay a low fine and ask for forgiveness after the damage is done. Justine Vallieres, Fish Wildlife and Parks, Bear and Mountain Lion Conflict Specialist, thanked the Council for implementing the bear resistant containers. It is not a perfect system. She has seen conflicts reduced within the community. The bears are now showing other weaknesses such as bird feeders. In the last month she has received 40 conflict calls in regard to bears in Whitefish. The cans are doing their job. There is always going to be human error in terms of latches breaking, overfilling, or not shutting properly. There are a lot of bears and a lot of people. Neither is going away. The point was always to mitigate conflicts, they will never fully go away. Bears are highly intelligent and very visual. Birdfeeders and hummingbird feeders are bear attractants. She trying to do her best in terms of education and awareness, putting a lot out into the communities of how to prevent conflicts from occurring. Whitefish is one of her biggest problem areas for feeding wildlife. There are major issues with feeding deer and bear. She is asking City Council to implement a community bylaw in regard to feeding of wildlife and birdfeeders. She would prefer birdfeeders be taken down between April 15th and November 15th to mitigate conflicts. There should be stipulations of birdfeeders being hung at least 10 to 15 feet up, 5-6 feet out. Deer are dangerous when they are food conditioned and habituated. 4) COMMUNICATIONS FROM VOLUNTEER BOARDS None 5) CONSENT AGENDA (The consent agenda is a means of expediting routine matters that require the Council’s action. Debate does not typically occur on consent agenda items. Any member of the Council may remove any item 3  CITY COUNCIL MINUTES June 17, 2024 for debate. Such items will typically be debated and acted upon prior to proceeding to the rest of the agenda.) (YouTube Video 38:09) a) Minutes from June 3, 2024, Special Session (p.32) b) Minutes from June 3, 2024, Regular Meeting (p.33) c) Ordinance No. 24-05; An Ordinance approving The Springs Expansion Planned Unit Development, to develop 80 independent living units and 44 active living units in two buildings on approximately 5.57 acres of land located at 1501 River Lakes Parkway, Whitefish and amending Ordinance Nos. 99-9 and 99-17 (Second Reading) (WPUD 24-01) (p.41) d) Resolution No. 24-21; A Resolution adopting a map amendment to the 2007 Whitefish City- county Growth Policy, as requested by Whitetail Ridge Holding and adopting findings with respect to such amendment (p.47) e) Ordinance No. 24-06; An Ordinance rezoning an unaddressed lot on Flathead Avenue in Section 1, Township 30 North, Range 22 West, P.M.,M., Flathead County, Montana, zoned County R-3 (One-Family Residential) and I-2 (Heavy Industrial) to WR-1 (One-Family Residential District) and WR-2 (Two-Family Residential District) and adopting findings with respect to such rezone (Second Reading) (WZC 24-01) (p.50) Councilor Sweeney made a motion, seconded by Councilor Caltabiano to approve the Consent Agenda. Councilor Norton abstained due to her absence as the last meeting. The motion carried. 6) PUBLIC HEARINGS (Items will be considered for action after public hearings) (Resolution No. 07-33 establishes a 30-minute time limit for applicant’s land use presentations. a) Resolution No. 24-22; A Resolution adopting the update to the Whitefish Sustainable Tourism Management Plan (STMP) (p.54) (YouTube Video 38:44) City Clerk Howke presented her staff report that is provided in the packet on the website. Mayor Muhlfeld opened the Public Hearing. Julie Mullins, Executive Director of Explore Whitefish stated the STMP is an important committee in making sure Explore Whitefish and their various stakeholders are in line with resident as well as civic concerns as it relates to tourism. She addressed a couple of things in the plan that she wanted to clarify. The original plan had some crossover or misunderstanding between the roles of Explore Whitefish and the Chamber of Commerce. As this plan is written, she thinks there is some further confusion that might develop. It is important in Action Item 1, that we identify that Explore Whitefish is responsible for all external visitor messaging, branding for the City of Whitefish and Explore Whitefish, our visitor education and all of the various resources associated with visitor messaging. The Chamber of Commerce is responsible for local networking, communication, and local events. In Action Item 2, the Chamber, would not be responsible for any external sales or solicitation for business events outside of the Flathead Valley. The third item is they do hope to hire a sales manager however that is contingent on their funding and would have to go through the Convention and Visitors Bureau Board to be earmarked. Explore Whitefish does put out an annual report specific to the tourism economy and their efforts. They can work with the Chamber on an STMP addendum to that annual report. Brian Schott, Sustainable Tourism Management Plan Chair, stated there was a robust dialogue during this process. The Committee surveyed almost a thousand community members and had six different focus groups and a community meeting and panels. Part of this plan is about community building as we wrestle again and again with who we are as a community and what we stand for. We are a progressive forward- thinking community; we looked a tourism trends way before the COVID bubble. We have always been ahead of it. Whitefish has always shown great leadership. He thanked the Council and the community for being a 4  CITY COUNCIL MINUTES June 17, 2024 part of this. This is a work in progress, high guiding principles that we are going after. Julie is looking at the nuts and bolts as she has to as the Executive Director of Explore Whitefish. Explore Whitefish is tasked with a lot of the heavy lifts of this plan. He is thankful of the committee members that have spent a lot of time on this. There being no further public comment, Mayor Muhlfeld closed the Public Hearing and turned the matters over to the Council for their consideration. Councilor Norton made a motion, seconded by Councilor Feury to adopt Resolution No. 24- 22; A Resolution adopting the update to the Whitefish Sustainable Tourism Management Plan. The motion carried. b) Ordinance No. 24-07; An Ordinance amending Zoning Regulations Title 11, Chapter 3, Section 29, Subsection C, Stream, Lake and Wetland Buffers and Setbacks of the Whitefish City Code (WZTA 24-01) (First Reading) (p.99) (YouTube Video 49:25) Planning and Building Director Dave Taylor presented his staff report that is provided in the packet on the website. Mayor Muhlfeld opened the Public Hearing. There being no public comment, Mayor Muhlfeld closed the Public Hearing and turned the matters over to the Council for their consideration. Councilor Caltabiano made a motion, seconded by Councilor Norton to adopt Ordinance No. 24-07; An Ordinance amending Zoning Regulations Title 11, Chapter 3, Section 29, Subsection C, Stream, Lake and Wetland Buffers and Setbacks of the Whitefish City Code. The motion carried. c) Consideration of approving City Manager’s proposed budget as the FY25 Preliminary Budget and setting final Public Hearing on the Capital Improvement Project and FY25 Final Budget for August 19, 2024 (p.111) (YouTube Video 52:42) City Manager Smith presented her staff transmittal report that is provided in the FY25 Preliminary Budget that is included in the packet on the website. She reported FY25 is a non-reappraisal year, so values of properties will remain the same as the prior year, unless there is newly taxable property. The city will only see new taxable property growth in our revenues, which will be estimated at 2.5%. We won’t receive the final numbers until the first Monday in August. The FY25 proposed budget does include a proposed property tax increase. Originally it was 7.75 mills but during the past two work sessions we increased that to 9.5 mills due to three factors; 1) Resort tax relief is expected to decrease due to slower growth in collections over this year. That is 2.75 mills that will increase due to market. 2) Wage adjustments based on a market rate study that the City contracted with CMS to complete. We had 5 mills set aside for that wage adjustment for our ranges 1 through 16, but after working with Council and what the cost estimate would be to increase our ranges 17 through 30 up to at least 90%, the Council provided direction to add 1 mill for the proposed budget. 3) The Council approved $60,000 to commit to the Mountain Climber Commuter Service. That would come in at about .75 mills based on our estimate. All other assessments are budgeted to remain flat. Water and sewer rates are not anticipated to be adjusted for FY25, but solid waste will be adjusted this year due to a 3.25% automatic increase in our contract with Republic Services as well as staff time to help with billing. The 6 mills for wages provide 3.5% cost of living, a 5% market rate adjustment to our matrix, and then for certain positions we will look at their classification, market, job content to see if they are truly within market. We are doing Capital projects primarily cash funded to save taxpayers the financing cost of paying for those over time. You will see a significant decrease in cash balance, the $2 million that the American 5  CITY COUNCIL MINUTES June 17, 2024 Rescue Plan Act funding we received released of general fund reserves to be paid toward the Whitefish Housing Authorities Depot Park Townhomes project. Overall, the cash reserves remain strong even with the changes that have been made through this budgeting process. Currently we are estimating cash reserves to be about 35.62% in total for all property tax supported funds. Other funds we have a target of at least 25%. Mayor Muhlfeld opened the Public Hearing. There being no public comment, Mayor Muhlfeld closed the Public Hearing and turned matters over to the Council for their consideration. Councilor Feury made a motion, seconded by Councilor Sweeney to approve the FY25 Preliminary Budget and set the final Public Hearing on the Capital Improvement Project and FY25 Final Budget for August 19, 2024. The motion carried. d) Consideration of a request from Bill McKinney on behalf of the State of Montana Department of Transportation for a conditional use permit to expand the Whitefish airport with an airplane hangar, located at 1761 East 2nd Street, zoned WA (Agricultural District) (p.) COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BOARD POSTPONED HEARING TO JUNE 20TH 7) COMMUNICATION FROM PUBLIC WORKS a) Consideration to award a construction contract for the Grouse Mountain Park and Rest Area parking lot (p.247) (YouTube Video 1:04:22) Public Works Director Workman presented his staff report that is provided in the packet that was provided in the packet on the website. Councilor Sweeney made a motion, seconded by Councilor Caltabiano to award the construction contract for the Grouse Mountain Park and Rest Area parking lot to Cutting Edge Excavating, LLC in the amount of $209,999. The motion carried. 8) COMMUNICATIONS FROM CITY MANAGER (YouTube Video 1:07:04) a) Written report enclosed with the packet. Questions from Mayor and Council? (p.254) Councilor Caltabiano asked, and Manager Smith stated we are just getting the software rolled out for the Short-Term Rental enforcement. Once we get the data entry and the software rolled out, it is going to take some time to get that ready for a work session. The topics that are listed in her report as work sessions are high priorities that have been on the list for a while. We will make sure that we have a report come forward when we have all the data and utilizing the software. b) Other items arising between June 12th and June 17th Manager Smith congratulated and wished Travis Tveidt, former Fire Marshal, and Assistant Fire Chief the best. He has retired, so that position will be posted soon. 9) COMMUNICATIONS FROM MAYOR AND CITY COUNCILORS (YouTube Video 1:09:11) a) Resolution No. 24-23; A Resolution establishing annual goals for the City (p.256) Councilor Sweeney made a motion, seconded by Councilor Norton to adopt Resolution No. 24- 23; A Resolution establishing annual goals for the City. The motion carried. b) Letter from Scott Brigham regarding parking on Shiloh Avenue (p.259) 6  CITY COUNCIL MINUTES June 17, 2024 Councilor Norton asked, and Director Taylor stated Don K came in a few years ago to do an expansion on the east side. Staff looked at the property requirements to make sure they had all the required parking. It is somewhat difficult because there is public parking available on there. We can’t dictate whether they park onsite or offsite because there is public parking. It would be preferable that the employees park onsite. They are looking at doing some expansion on the west side of Hwy 93 and will be required to provide plans. Councilor Davis asked, and Director Workman stated it makes sense to consider no parking on both sides of Shiloh Avenue rather than 2-hour parking. The pending construction that is starting on the Snowy Mountain Subdivision, the amount of construction traffic that is going to begin frequenting that roadway, he doesn’t think parked cars will be safe. That project will connect Whitefish Avenue to Shiloh Avenue as a connector street. We need the additional lane width. Councilor Comment (YouTube Video 1:15:11) Councilor Feury asked if we are receiving complaints of bear proof containers malfunctioning. Manager Smith also stated Republic Services will containers that are malfunctioning. We have had complaints about the latches not working. It is important to remember that these are bear resistant, not bear proof. Bears can get into them. Councilor Feury responded to couple of the public comments earlier about the failure on the lake shore at Beaver Bay. He thanked Cassie for coming who works for Whitefish Lake Institute. As president of the Whitefish Lake Institute Board, Councilor Feury stated we had a serious violation the fall where an individual cutting down 50-60 trees. Somebody from the city was sent out to look at it and the owner was not polite and continued to cut the trees down. Now we have a big clearcut. As a municipality we are only able to fine $500. We can do it multiple times, but we can’t really bring the kind of penalty to the people who are paying the kind of money they are paying for lakeshore property. The lake is in danger of being harmed and it is being harmed every day and it is something we need to think about. He doesn’t know how we do that, and it concerns him greatly. We are the first lake in the state that actually had lakeshore regulations. They have been in place for over 40 years. As stewards of the lake as a city we have done an exceptional job. We do need to become advocates more than we are currently for the lake. Councilor Norton stated she remembers when we lost the planning jurisdiction, she heard all the people that have been taking care of our lake for 30 years beg the county planning board to keep our regulations intact. We should be working with the county on improving their compliance standards. She thinks we should have further discussions about that because to her it is about our constitution guaranteeing a healthy and clean environment. That is our drinking water supply. Councilor Norton asked the Council for support to consider creating an ordinance to either eliminate birdfeeders during April 15 through November 15th, require specific requirements to help hang birdfeeders, to mitigate human/bear conflict. Mayor Muhlfeld stated regulating bird feeders, while there is good intent and he understands where Justine was coming from, he is not willing to put that in front of the Council. He feels that is a bit far reaching from his perspective. We just did a large rollout with bear resistant containers and now to go to our residents and indicate they can’t put out their bird feeders, he doesn’t think it would go over very well. Councilor Caltabiano stated this may be too premature and would suggest a work session in December, after collecting some data. Councilor Norton also mentioned she attended the Community Wildfire Preparedness Workshop on June 12th. It was mentioned that Big Mountain does not have any way to turn off electricity when a wildfire is in existence. She wondered if we have to deal with that at a city. Councilor Sweeney stated he wanted to know if Flathead Electric had any plans on a contingent basis or pre-storm basis to turn off electricity to 7  CITY COUNCIL MINUTES June 17, 2024 avoid wildfires being started by. He was told they do not. That was his concern. He knows they have the ability to turn off electricity to various areas at any time. Councilor Norton thanked Manager Smith and the staff on getting our staff current on wages. She was shocked that we were behind on getting our wages equitable to other cities in Montana. Mayor Muhlfeld asked Council to provide Manager Smith direction on the annexation policy that was presented during the work session. After some discussion it was of concern to the Council that anything that is too prescriptive will get shot down during the next legislative session. An annexation policy can drive us where we need to go, but we need to figure out what that roadmap is. Councilor Norton would like the Community Housing Committee to come back with an incentive program. Anything else might be perceived as a taking if we enforced something on the development community. Mayor Muhlfeld attended the National Forest Legacy Program meeting at the summit of Big Mountain last week. Fifty states were represented. Looking out from the summit house at the landscape level conservation work that we have done as a community in partnership with the state, DNRC, etc., was a proud moment to be someone who has helped contribute in part to that, and as the Council has. We are serving as a national model for many communities that are struggling to maintain their sense of place. Councilor Sweeney stated as a city we take managing the lake very seriously. We can’t force the County and have been unable to incent the County to reciprocate. He suggests to all who are concerned to voice their concern to the County Commissioners. 10) ADJOURNMENT (Resolution 08-10 establishes 11:00 p.m. as end of meeting unless extended to 11:30 by majority) Mayor Muhlfeld adjourned the meeting at 8:52 p.m. /s/ John Muhlfeld Mayor Muhlfeld Attest: /s/Michelle Howke Michelle Howke, Whitefish City Clerk 8