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| Wednesday, 20 June 2007 10:49 | |||||||
Page 2 of 2 Resolution 947 was passed on a 4-0 vote. This deals with records destruction and the approval of destruction and transfer of documents. Harold Olson from the Pondera History Association (PHA) was on hand to discuss a recent funding donation. Readers will recall that at the last council meeting, Olson requested and was granted $2,500 from the Genevieve Riekin-Anderson Trust (GRAT) to help fund the PHA in becoming part of a foundation, namely the Montana Community Foundation. The PHA would match the $2,500 from GRAT and the MCA would grant a 50 percent match making $7,500 available for the start-up. The council granted that request. Olson told the council on Monday, the PHA would have to raise $100,000 to activate a foundation. “That wasn’t the playing field described to us,” he said. This resulted in the PHA asking for their money back. He went onto say the $2,500 would be paid back to the city. However, he added, the PHA would match those funds and requested an extension to Aug. 1 to attain their goal to begin foundation funds. “If we don’t have the funding by then, we’ll return the money,” he said. The council moved, on a 4-0 vote, to grant the PHA an extension to Aug. 1. The council received a report from Monica Huffman who oversees the Community Service project. She noted that 18 youths have been through the program with a combined 300 hours worked. There are 40 more hours to be served. Just some of the locations that have used community serve are the Conrad Library in cleaning and pulling up old carpet, tutoring in schools, cleaning the Community Center, and Norley Hall after the CofC annual banquet, cleaning up the park in Brady as well as city hall, Horizon Lodge, the dog pound, gardening in the Conrad Community Garden and a cleanup on I-15, to name a few. The next regular city council meeting will be on July 2, 7:30 p.m. in city hall at 411-1/2 S. Main St.
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