The General Operations committee voted to forward to the budget committee a proposed agreement in which the City of Gallatin would take over a county crosswalk project and pay the county a lump-sum amount documented during the meeting as $703,420.25.

Committee members reviewed a redlined financial summary the city provided showing two figures discussed in the meeting: the city’s listed waived fees (reported as $407,406.50 in the document) and the cash payment to the county. Commissioners discussed outstanding invoices related to the project — roughly $54,000 in legacy fees and a quarterly temporary certificate-of-occupancy fee that totalled about $21,126 — and debated whether to ask the city to waive the temporary CO charges as part of a counterproposal.

A commissioner moved to send the city’s counteroffer forward to budget, with staff instructed to continue negotiations about the temporary CO fees. The motion was seconded and carried; the committee will submit the agreement to the budget committee and subsequent legal review. The mayor and county staff said the City of Gallatin would take over administration of the crosswalk work and issue the county a payment to complete the financial settlement.

The committee did not record an itemized line-by-line final settlement in the meeting minutes; the financial summary presented in committee will be attached to budget materials and to subsequent legal review. Commissioners said any amount the city spends under the $150,000 crosswalk construction estimate that comes in under budget will be returned to the county per the proposed structure.