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Home My WebLink About2006 State of the City AddressCity of Chubbuck John 0. Cotant, Mayor Leroy S. Quick, Councilman Thomas J. Holmes, City Attorney Steven M. England, Councilman Ron C. Conlin, City Clerk/Treasurer P.O. Box 5604 Mary C. Gunter, Councilman Steven M. Smart, Public Works Director 5160 Yellowstone Ave. Kent Kearns, Councilman Chubbuck, ID 83202-0006 Phone (208) 237-2400 MY LAST STATE OF THE CITY MESSAGE JANUARY 10, 2006 FIRST I WANT TO STATE AND HAVE ENTERED INTO THE RECORD THAT THIS MAYOR DID NOT AND DOES NOT AT PRESENT SUPPORT THE SUB—DIVISION BEING CONSTRUCTED AT THE WEST END OF HOMESTEAD ROAD. I SUBMITTED AN ALTERNAT PLAN THAT WOULD HAVE CUT 50 HOMES TO ABOUT 24 AND THE SUB—DIVIDER WOULD HAVE TURNED AN EXCELLENT PROFIT. I TRULY BELIEVE WE COULD HAVE A SEWER CAPACITY PROBLEM DOWN THE ROAD AND THIS DEVELOPMENT COULD HAVE HAD.40 OR SO HOMES INSTEAD OF 100. I FIRST LIEVED IN CHUBBUCK WHEN I WAS A SENIOR AT POCATELLO HIGH SCHOOL, IN FACT THE SPRING OF 1942. MY FOLKS PURCHASED THAT BEAUTIFUL HOME AND FIVE ACRES THAT IS LOCATED NEXT TO THE TELEPHONE COMPANY BUILDING NOW BEING TORN DOWN. IT WAS LOCATED ON FOR $6300.00. ON THE CORNER WHERE THE CAR SALES ARE NOW AND THE FIRE STATION PARK WAS PROPERTY OWNED BY ROY GETTY AND THE GETTY'S HAD A BEAUTIFUL WHITE HOME THERE. BOTH HOMES MANICURED THEIR YARDS. BOTH WERE SHOW PLACES AND OFTEN ON SUNDAY AFTERNOONS SEVERAL CARS FROM THE CITY CAME BY TO LOOK AT THESE HOMES. AT THAT TIME CHUBBUCK ROAD WAS A GRAVEL STREET AND THE DUST WOULD BE FLYING FROM OUT WEST WHEN AN AUTO APPROZCHED. I WAS SOON. IN THE MILITARY FOR NEARLY 3 YEARS. WHEN I RETURNED AFTER AN EXPENSE PAID TOUR OF THE FAR EAST, NEW GUINEA TO JAPAN A LOVELY BLONDE GIRL WAS WAITING. WAITING MAY BE STRETCHING IT A BIT BUT ALICE WAS STILL HERE. I FIRST WENT TO THE RAILROAD DEPOT WHERE SHE WORKED AND NO FELLOW WAS ESCORTING HER HOME THAT NIGHT SO I DID SO AND THE REST IS HISTORY. WE, AFTER NEARLY 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE CONSTRUCTED THE HOME ON WEST CHUBBUCK ROAD WHERE NOW MOTHER GOOSE IS LOCATED. WE LIVED THERE FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS. BECAUSE OF VARIOUS�HAPPENINGS I RAN FOR MAYOR ONE NIGHT, THE NIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTIO, AS A RIGHT IN CANDIDATE. WHEN INFORMED BY MR. ROMRIELL THAT WE WERE NOW THE MAYOR I LOOKED AT ALICE AND SAID "WHAT DO WE DO NOW". WE NEVER DREAMED THAT I COULD BE ELECTED UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES.. CHUBBUCK WAS A COMMUNITY OF LESS THAN 1000 POPULATION. THE FIRST MEETING I ATTENDED, PRIOR TO BEING SWORN IN AS MAYOR, WAS WITH PAUL THOMPSON, A COUNCILMAN, AND MR. LES HENRY WHO WAS THE MAYOR I HAD DEFEATED. THE MEETING WAS ABOUT THE SEWER SYSTEM THE CITY NEEDED. I DECIDED I HAD BETTER FIND OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON AND AGAIN THE REST IS HISTORY. ALICE HAS BEEN MY STRONGEST SUPPORTER THROUGH THICK AND THIN. WHEN I TOLD HER A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO THAT SOME OF THE EMPLOYEES WANTED ME TO REMAIN MAYOR UNTIL I City of Chubbuck John 0. Cotant, Mayor Leroy S. Quick, Councilman Thomas J. Holmes, City Attorney Steven M. England, Councilman Ron C. Conlin, City Clerk/Treasurer P.O. Box 5604 Mary C. Gunter, Councilman Steven M. Smart, Public Works Director 5160 Yellowstone Ave. Kent Kearns, Councilman Chubbuck, ID 83202-0006 Phone (208) 237-2400 DIED,.ALICE REPLIED IF YOU DO RUN FOR MAYOR AGAIN YOUR DEATH DATE WILL BE VERY SOON. I WILL SEE TO THAT. I AM READY TO RETIRE AS MAYOR AND FEEL GOOD ABOUT GOING OUT. WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT MAYOR COMING IN TONIGHT, STEVEN ENGLAND. STEVE WILL CARRY ON THE CITY AS WE HAVE DONE THROUGH ALL THE YEARS. HE WILL DO SO IN HIS WAY AND WILL DO A BETTER JOB THAN HAVE I. STEVE RAS ONE COUNCILMAN, KENT KERNS, REMAINING ON THE,;COUNCIL AND TWO OUTSTANDING MEN COMING ON AS "FRESHMEN, MRF.. STODDARD /A WyRITj2NA AND MORGAN. ONE L A� PME9 TO FILL MAYOR ENGLANDS TERM AND I AM SURE WILLBE A FINE ADDITION TO THE COUNCIL. KENT KERNS IS AN OUTSTANDING COUNCILMAN AND DOES HIS HOMEOWRK BEFORE COMING TO MEETINGS. YOU WHO ARE NEW TO THE COUNCIL CAN LOOK TO KENT FOR GUIDANCE, A GOOD STEADY INDIVIDUAL. ALWAYS WELL PREPARED. KENT HAS ONE PROBLEM, LIGHT AT NIGHT GETS IN HIS EYES. TWO EXCELLENT COUNCILMEN ARE RETIRING TONIGHT. ROY QUICK HAS BEEN WITH ME FOR 28 YEARS, WE HAVE WORKED HAND IN HAND THROUGH SOME TOUGH SITUATIONS, MARVIN GUNTER WHO FOR 12 YEARS HAS SERVED AND HAS BEEN A WEALTH OF KNOW- LEDGE ON THE COUNCIL. STEVEN ENGLAND FOR 22 YEARS. THESE MEN ESPECIALLY AND THEIR CAROL GUNTER WIVES, MARIE KERNS, PEGGY QUICK AND ELLEN ENGLAND./ PEGGY FOR SO MANY YEARS AND ELLEN NOT FAR BEHIND RAVE BEEN GREAT SUPPORT FOR THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL. AS HAVE ALL COUNCIL - PERSONS AND THEIR WIVES AND ONE HUSBAND. FINE PEOPLE. THIS CITY HAS BEEN FORTUNATE TO HAVE OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUALS SERVE ON OUR CITY COUNCIL. WE HAVE NOT BEEN PERFECT, WE HAVE ARGUED, BUT WE HAVE ALWAYS REMAINED GREAT FRIENDS. FROM THE BEGINNING WITH VERA ARMSTRONG, AT THE TIME THE CITY CLERK AND THEBEST ATTORNEY WE HAD, JORDAN STUART, ARNOLD STONE, POLICE CHIEF FOR MANY YEARS, TO THE PRESENT WITH STEVE SMART, RON CONLIN, MYRNA CRAPO, DELAINA BAKER, BRYAN HALL, CHARLIE PIGUET, LARRY MILLER, LARRY KOHNTOPP, RANDY SEVERE AND ERIC KING. GREAT LEADERS AND AMONG ALL THE OTHERS GREAT EMPLOYEES. TODAY, I BELIEVE WE HAVE THE FINEST GROUP OF EMPLOYEES WE HAVE EVER HAD. IT IS A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH THEM. I HAVE TO SAY A WORD OF THANKS TO GARY BLACK AND WALMART. ALWAYS OUT FRONT TO ASSIST IN ANY WAY THEY CAN. ALL THE FOOD WE HAVE HAD THE PAST FEW DAYS AND TONIGHT ARE WALMART FURNISHED. POLICE CHIEF JERRY ROWLAND, WHO LEFT US A FEW YEARS AGO, FASHIONED ONE OF THE FINE POLICE DEPARTMENTS IN THE AREA. CHIEF'S WEBB AND SEVERE HAVE CARRIED ON THE DEPARTMENT WITH SO MANY QUALITY INDIVIDUALS WORKING IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES AT THE POLICE STATION. WE HAVE A FINE FIRE DEPARTMENT, PROBABLY BUILT MORE BY CHIEF CARY CAMPBELL AND CARRIED ON BY CHIEFS CHARLIE DICKMAN AND ERIC KINK. I ALSO COMMEND ALL THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE SERVED AND ARE NOW SERVING ON City of Chubbuck John 0. Cotant, Mayor Leroy S. Quick, Councilman Thomas J. Holmes, City Attorney Steven M. England, Councilman Ron C. Conlin, City Clerk/Treasurer P.O. Box 5604 Mary C. Gunter, Councilman Steven M. Smart, Public Works Director 5160 Yellowstone Ave. Kent Kearns, Councilman Chubbuck, ID 83202-0006 Phone (208) 237-2400 VOLUNTEER DEPARTMENT. FAITHFUL INDIDUALS SERVING WITH LITTLE PAY. THESE VOLUNTEERS SAVE THIS CITY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ')DOLLARS THROUGH THE YEARS. KEEP THEM FOREVER. WE HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE TO HAVE EXCELLENT CITY ATTORNEYS. HERMAN MCDEVITT, YOU BETTER LISTEN TO HIM BECAUSE HE NEW WHAT HE WAS DOING, DON BURNETT, WHO HAS GONE ON AND BEEN A JUDGE ON THE APPELLATE COURT, A PRESIDENT OF A LAW SCHOOL AND NOW THE HEAD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO LAW SCHOOL, LYNN WINMILL WHO IS NOW A FEDERAL JUDGE AND AT PRESENT PROBABLY THE BETTER PREPARED FOR THE CITY THAN THE OTHERS. HOLMES ALWAYS HERE WHEN WE NEED HIM AND OFTEN WHEN WE JUST THINK WE NEED HIM. WE HAVE FINE CITY PARKS THAT ARE WELL USED FOR VARIOUS TYPES OF ACTIVITY, PRODUCTS.OF THE MAYOR AND LARRY MILLER AND THE S�PPORT RF �ST SPRING AND COTAN PARK NbOERPilpitIMFRiFf.'GIRiSSBF�HWLEU�OgTiX4bb-SO��ViSPYELb NO DEBT OR INCREASE IN TAXES TO PAY FOR IT. LOOK AROUND YOU IN THIS BUILDING AND YOU WILL SEE EVIDENCE OF THIS MAYOR FOR AS LONG AS THE PICTURES REMAIN ON THE WALLS. IF I COULD REMAIN FOR ANOTHER 36 YEARS I COULD DO NO'.MORE THAN WE HAVE IN OUR CITY NOW. THE GROUNDWORK IS IN PLACE, KEEP CHUBBUCK A SEPARATE CITY. THE PEOPLE WHO SERVE YOU COUNCIL MEMBERS, LAND USE, ALL LIVE IN THE CITY. THEY DO NOT PASS AN ORDINANCE OR MAKE A DECISION AND GO HOME TO THE SOUTH PART OF THE CITY OF POCATELLO. THEY ALL LIVE RIGHT HERE AND LIVE WITH THE DECISIONS THEY MAKE. WE HAVE NOT BEEN PERFECT. WE HAVE MADE MISTAKES BUT ONLY WHO THOSE W5O DO NOTHING MAKE NO MISTAKES. I LEAVE WITH A GOOD FEELING), A FEELING OF LOVE FOR ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE AND HAVE WORKED FOR THE CITY IN THE PAST AND FOR YOU THE CITIZENS OF OUR COMMUNITY. AS BOB HOPE SAID --"THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES" AND ALICE I LOVE YOU. MAYOR