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Council unanimously approves consent agenda including contracts, bids and zoning ordinance extension
Summary
Missoula City Council approved a multi-item consent agenda covering accounts payable, professional services contracts, bid awards for street materials, a contract change order, annexation and rezoning hearings, and an extension of an interim zoning ordinance.
The Missoula City Council unanimously approved a lengthy consent agenda that included ratifying accounts payable, authorizing professional services agreements and amendments, awarding construction-material bids, adopting a resolution of intention to annex a parcel, and extending an interim urgency zoning ordinance under Montana code.
City Clerk Trimble read the consent items. Highlights included ratification of accounts-payable checks for March 18, 2025 totaling $949,920.65 and approval of checks for March 25, 2025 totaling $1,552,290.65. The council approved a 12‑month extension of the city’s interim urgency zoning ordinance (Ordinance 37-23) pursuant to Montana municipal interim zoning statute MCA 76-2-306 to incorporate state land-use regulatory changes made in 2023 into Title 20.
The council also authorized the mayor to sign professional-services agreements: a Morrison-Merritt amendment for the Milton Howell Phillips water-main replacement at a cost not to exceed $112,724 (amount as stated in the staff report), and a WGM Group agreement for the McLeod Water Main Replacement Project at a cost not to exceed $85,100. The council awarded bids for street-division construction and maintenance materials to local suppliers (emulsified asphalt, hot-mix asphalt, seal-coat aggregate, driveway grade asphalt, drain aggregate and winter traction aggregate) and authorized return of bid bonds. The council approved a contract change order with Greenbelt Turf Management LLC for $202,500 to remove an additional 2,500 branch hangers affecting the public way for fiscal year 2025.
Land-use items on the consent agenda included adopting a resolution of intention to annex 400 North California Street and setting a public hearing for April 7, 2025; preliminarily adopting an ordinance rezoning parcels southwest of California Street and River Road and referring that item to the Land Use and Planning Committee with a public hearing set for April 7; and setting a public hearing April 7 for a phasing-plan amendment and phase development review of Remington Flat Subdivision phases 4–5.
A member of the public asked whether the multiple asphalt bids were for different projects; staff responded they were for different projects. No council members sought to separate items for individual votes. The consent agenda passed by unanimous voice vote.
