The Bushnell Report

Kootenai County Commissioner Mattare gives his thoughts on the 2025 budget for the county. www.thebushnellreport.com

Dan was not able to attend the hearing. He asked that his email be read into the record. Commissioner Duncan read the email into the record. www.thebushnellreport.com

Rachelle expresses that license plate readers are government overreach. She urges the commissioners to not approve them. www.thebushnellreport.com

Bob explains his reasoning for asking for the license plate reader software in his budget for next year. He talks about a proposed policy to help address some of the concerns that public commenters have made. www.thebushnellreport.com

Amy expressed that being against license plate readers does not mean a person is against the sheriff. www.thebushnellreport.com

Stephanie expresses her concerns about her privacy and license plate readers. www.thebushnellreport.com

Here is video from the See You at the Library 2024 event. Clean Books 4 Kids hosted and put on the Kootenai County event at the Post Falls Library. Thank you to Community Library Network for the use of the lawn at the Post Falls Library.

Lynn expressed her concern about Kootenai County becoming a surveillance state due to the Sheriff's request for license plate readers. www.thebushnellreport.com

Elizabeth expressed her opinion that the sheriff's budget would be better off being focused on dealing with drug use/drug abuse, than plate readers. www.thebushnellreport.com

Ron expresses his concerns on the county transit center. www.thebushnellreport.com

Bill calls out a Kootenai County Commissioner on what he sees as hypocritical behavior regarding license plate readers. www.thebushnellreport.com

Howard reminds the planning and zoning commission of the politics behind this rezoning and the accreditation of North Idaho College. He views Christie Wood being a former NIC trustee and one of the people who requested the zoning change to be a potential conflict of interest. www.thebushnellreport.com

Teresa expressed her concern in the conflicts between the Planned Urban Development Plan and the city of CDA's Comprehensive Plan. www.thebushnellreport.com

The CDA City planner states that the zone change request came from the city council. I didn't think that was allowed per Idaho law. www.thebushnellreport.com

Dave gives public comment pointing out that one of the CDA city council members resigned from being a NIC Trustee. He also pointed out that while the president of NIC was notified, the board of trustees was not. www.thebushnellreport.com

Ron Mendive, an Idaho State Representative, suggests that this zoning issue be put on hold. He states that he believes it is a taking per Idaho statue. www.thebushnellreport.com

Greg, a North Idaho College Trustee, stated that the board of trustees was not properly notified. He also stated his opinion on how the rezoning would affect residential properties near the NIC campus. www.thebushnellreport.com

Marianna gave public comment expressing her concern regarding a staff member of the CDA library ignoring a new law in effect regarding books in the children's section of the library. www.thebushnellreport.com

Suzanne mentions Brave books story hour in August, hoping that the interim library director would consider making the event an official library event. www.thebushnellreport.com

Michelle expressed her concern about public meeting law not being followed when the CLN trustees hired the new library director. www.thebushnellreport.com

John gave public comment at the appeal hearing on 6/4/24. He pointed out that the hotel bar open to the public was not considered during the approval process, and that litigation over this was probable. www.thebushnellreport.com

Sandy gave public comment at the appeal hearing on 6/4/24. She pointed out that the city employees and the commission have failed. She suggested that the city council send this plan back for revisions. www.thebushnellreport.com

Colin gave public comment at the appeal hearing on 6/4/24. He pointed out that proper public notice was not given, and that one of the people on the planning and zoning commission is a former Marriott employee. www.thebushnellreport.com

A Coeur d'Alene resident gave public comment at the appeal hearing on 6/4/24. She is against the hotel being built as proposed due to where the entrance is. It would change/affect the parades on Sherman. www.thebushnellreport.com

Coeur d'Alene resident Mike gave public comment at the appeal hearing on 6/4/24. He is against the hotel being built as proposed due to it not following the city ordinances and set backs. www.thebushnellreport.com