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Council approves watershed license amendment and corrects prior contract totals for Pend Oreille Peddlers
Summary
Council approved the third amendment to a watershed license agreement with Pend Oreille Peddlers after staff discovered a clerical discrepancy in the contract totals; staff explained the amendment corrects multi‑year allocations and does not add new funds beyond prior budgeted amounts.
Sandpoint City Council on June 4 approved a resolution renewing and clarifying the watershed license agreement with the Pend Oreille Peddlers (POP), a trails and watershed maintenance group, after staff identified a multi‑year accounting discrepancy.
City staff told council the license tracked $10,000 annual allocations for trail maintenance that the city had budgeted and that, over several amendments, a clerical error caused the published total to understate the sum that had been authorized. Staff described the correction as technical: money that had already been budgeted and approved in prior fiscal years (including a $2,200 leftover donation and a $75,000 mitigation allocation) needed to be reconciled into a single total for the agreement.
Finance and planning staff explained the corrected cumulative total for the license over the covered years is $107,200; staff said that amount does not create a new or additional city obligation beyond previously authorized allocations. The council approved the resolution by roll call vote.
POP’s executive director was present in the chamber; staff and councilors thanked the volunteers for trail maintenance and clarified that reimbursements are expense‑based and tied to eligible maintenance activities.
Councilors asked questions about the origin of the $2,200 and the $75,000, and staff explained the smaller sum came from an unspent donation for the Little Sand Creek Watershed recreation plan and the larger allocation related to erosion mitigation work previously authorized by the mayor. Staff said POP will continue to receive the annual $10,000 allocation and will submit reimbursable invoices for eligible maintenance work.
