Culbertson council adopts seasonal water rates and multiple sinking-fund and road levies; waives contractor damages on PWA waterworks delay
July 21, 2026 | Culbertson, Roosevelt County, Montana
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The Town Council of Culbertson adopted a seasonal water rate schedule and a program of tax and sinking-fund levies in 1936 to support municipal services and waterworks debt service, the minutes show.
At its May 4 meeting the council adopted RESOLUTION NO. 80 to encourage planting and lawn sprinkling by reducing water rates for April through October: $2.00 for the first 1,000 gallons, $1.00 for the second 1,000 gallons and $0.25 for each succeeding 1,000 gallons used; the reduced rates explicitly do not apply to business or commercial use. The resolution was presented and approved during the May session and attested by the town clerk, Hans Smith.
On May 4 the council also adopted RESOLUTION NO. 82 concerning the P.W.A. Culbertson Water System (P.W.A. Docket No. 7321). The council waived all damages except a $200 penalty that had been paid to Roy N. Stewart, resident engineer, concluding that the town had sustained no damages from the delay because the old water system remained in operation.
At the August 3 session the council adopted a set of tax-levy resolutions to meet municipal and debt obligations. The minutes record a RESOLUTION NO. 83 fixing the general municipal and administrative levy at 20 mills for 1936, directing proceeds to the general fund. Separate resolutions recorded at the same August session fixed sinking-fund levies to retire water-related bonds and funded debt (minutes list 29 mills for a sinking fund for "REFUNDED WATER BONDS" and 15 mills for funded debt), a five-mill levy for road purposes, and a one-mill levy for municipal airport purposes. The minutes also record an additional sinking-fund levy of 10 mills identified for WATER WORKS IMPROVEMENT BONDS; the text of the minutes shows multiple sinking-fund and bond-related levies adopted on August 3.
Council records list purchases and material orders tied to waterworks — pipe, meters and chlorine — and record W. F. Wood as Water Works Commissioner and Hans Smith as Clerk and Treasurer, roles the council confirmed in May. The council entered these resolutions into the minutes and directed collection of the levies for bond retirement and municipal uses as specified in the resolutions.
No roll-call vote-by-name is recorded for the individual resolutions in the transcribed minutes; the resolutions are recorded as adopted and attested in the town record.
At its May 4 meeting the council adopted RESOLUTION NO. 80 to encourage planting and lawn sprinkling by reducing water rates for April through October: $2.00 for the first 1,000 gallons, $1.00 for the second 1,000 gallons and $0.25 for each succeeding 1,000 gallons used; the reduced rates explicitly do not apply to business or commercial use. The resolution was presented and approved during the May session and attested by the town clerk, Hans Smith.
On May 4 the council also adopted RESOLUTION NO. 82 concerning the P.W.A. Culbertson Water System (P.W.A. Docket No. 7321). The council waived all damages except a $200 penalty that had been paid to Roy N. Stewart, resident engineer, concluding that the town had sustained no damages from the delay because the old water system remained in operation.
At the August 3 session the council adopted a set of tax-levy resolutions to meet municipal and debt obligations. The minutes record a RESOLUTION NO. 83 fixing the general municipal and administrative levy at 20 mills for 1936, directing proceeds to the general fund. Separate resolutions recorded at the same August session fixed sinking-fund levies to retire water-related bonds and funded debt (minutes list 29 mills for a sinking fund for "REFUNDED WATER BONDS" and 15 mills for funded debt), a five-mill levy for road purposes, and a one-mill levy for municipal airport purposes. The minutes also record an additional sinking-fund levy of 10 mills identified for WATER WORKS IMPROVEMENT BONDS; the text of the minutes shows multiple sinking-fund and bond-related levies adopted on August 3.
Council records list purchases and material orders tied to waterworks — pipe, meters and chlorine — and record W. F. Wood as Water Works Commissioner and Hans Smith as Clerk and Treasurer, roles the council confirmed in May. The council entered these resolutions into the minutes and directed collection of the levies for bond retirement and municipal uses as specified in the resolutions.
No roll-call vote-by-name is recorded for the individual resolutions in the transcribed minutes; the resolutions are recorded as adopted and attested in the town record.
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