Legals December 26, 2019

| December 26, 2019 4:40 AM

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON FY19 BUDGET AMENDMENTS The Polson City Commission will conduct a public hearing on January 6, 2020 at 7:00 pm in the City Hall Commission Chambers for the purpose of amending the FY 2018-2019 budget pursuant to Montana law at MCA 7-6-4021. Any taxpayer or resident may appear at the meeting and be heard for or against any part of the proposed budget amendments. The City Commission will take action immediately following the public hearing to approve the resolution to amend the fiscal year 2018-2019 budget. The proposed budget amendments are on file and open to inspection in the office of the City Clerk at City Hall, 106 1st St. East, Polson, Montana. The proposed budget amendments may also be found on the City's website at http://www.cityofpolson.com. Please contact Cindy Dooley, Finance Officer at 883-8204 for additional information. Published on December 26, 2019 and January 2, 2020. MNAXLP

CLINTON J. FISCHER LAW OFFICE, P.C. Professional Center Building P.O. Box 879 Polson, MT 59860 Telephone: (406) 883-4395 Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, LAKE COUNTY IN RE THE ESTATE OF DONALD RICHARD TUDHOPE, Decedent. PROBATE NO. DP 19-88 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. A written statement of the claim indicating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim and the amount claimed may be filed with the Clerk of the District Court, Lake County, Montana, or mailed, return receipt requested, to the Co-Personal Representatives at the following address: Stephen Tudhope and/or Jill Tudhope McKinsey c/o Clinton J. Fischer Law Office, P.C. P.O. Box 879 Polson, MT 59860 DATED this 2nd day of December, 2019 /s/ Clinton J. Fischer Clinton J. Fischer, Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives /s/ Stephen Tudhope Stephen Tudhope, Co-Personal Representative Jill Tudhope McKinsey, Co-Personal Representative PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES' ATTORNEY: Clinton J. Fischer CLINTON J. FISCHER LAW OFFICE, P.C. Professional Center Building P. O. Box 879 Polson, Montana 59860 Published on December 19, 2019, December 26, 2019, and January 2, 2020. MNAXLP

C. Mark Hash Hash, O'Brien, Biby & Murray, PLLP Attorneys at Law 136 1st Ave. W., P. O. Box 1178 Kalispell, MT 59903-1178 (406) 755-6919 cmhash@hashlaw.com Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, LAKE COUNTY In The Matter of The Estate of Robert Dean Murphy, Deceased Cause No. DP-19-81 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be either mailed to Kelly Jo Kost, Personal Representative by certified mail, return receipt requested, c/o Hash, O'Brien, Biby & Murray, PLLP, Attorneys at Law, P.O. Box 1178, Kalispell, Montana 59903-1178, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED November 22, 2019. s/ Kelly Jo Kost Personal Representative Personal Representative's Attorneys: Hash, O'Brien, Biby & Murray, PLLP By s/ C Mark Hash Published on December 12, 2019, December 19, 2019, December 26, 2019. MNAXLP

Notice of January 28th Countywide Special Election, Counting of Provisional Ballots, Public Test and County Canvass Notice is hereby given by the Lake County Election Administrator that the Countywide Special Election will be held on Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 by mail ballot. Ballots will be mailed on January 8, 2020 to active status voters only. Ballots may be mailed or returned to the Election Office at 106 4th Ave E, Polson, MT 59860 between the hours of 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM from January 8th - January 27th and 7:00 AM - 8:00 PM on Election Day, January 28th. The Election Office will be closed for a holiday on January 20th. Voted (signed) ballots must be in the Election Office by 8:00 PM on January 28th in order to be counted. Individuals will need to fill out a BIPA (Ballot Interference Prevention Act) registry form if they are dropping off someone else's ballot at the Lake County Election Office. An individual may return up to six (6) ballots, not including their own. Forms will be provided at the office or can be downloaded at www.lakemt.gov/election/election.html. Electors will consider the following: Shall the Lake County Commissioners be authorized to levy the amount of Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, ($2,500,000) annually, approximately 37.33 mills annually for a period of twenty years, to fund a Criminal Justice Facilities-Operations Levy? If approved, the yearly fiscal impact is estimated at: $50.40 on a home with a $100,000 market value; $100.79 on a home with a $200,000 market value; and $201.59 on a home with a $400,000 market value. The following events are open to the public and will occur at the Lake County Courthouse (106 4th Ave E, Polson, MT 59860) for the above election: Public testing of the ExpressVote and DS-450 voting system will be held at 9:00 am on January 3rd in the Election Office. *Early ballot preparation will occur from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm on Thursday, January 23rd and Friday, January 24th in the Large Conference Room on the third floor of the Lake County Courthouse. Tabulating of ballots will begin 8:00 am - 5:00 pm on January 27th and continue from 8:00 am - 8:00 pm on January 28th in the large conference room. Provisional ballots will be tabulated at 3:00 pm on February 3rd and the county canvass will be held in the Commissioners' Chambers at 8:15 am on Tuesday, February 4th. * Montana law requires that any person participating or observing the procedures of the count is required to take an oath that they will not discuss the results of the early counting of votes at any time prior to the closing of the polls on Election Day. A person who knowingly violates this law shall be imprisoned for a term not to exceed two years and/or be find an amount not less than $100,000 and not more than $500,000. DATED this 1st day of December, 2019. /s/Katie Harding Election Administrator Lake County, Montana Published in December 26, 2019, and January 2, 2020. MNAXLP

LEGAL NOTICE KELLER FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATION Dwight Lamm, on behalf of Russell and Jennifer Keller, has applied for a floodplain development permit for the placement of 60 cubic yards of 2-foot to 4-foot riprap and 10 cubic yards of 2-inch clean chip rock being placed within the 100-year floodplain of Swan Lake. The project includes the placement of riprap along a +/-100-foot span of shoreline. The subject property is legally described as lot 2, block 2 of Swan Lake Tavern Lots, a subdivision located within section 23 of T25N, R18W. Information regarding the proposal is available at the Lake County Planning Dept., Rm 315 of the Lake County Courthouse. All written and verbal comments are welcome and will be considered. The deadline to submit comments is January 10, 2020. Comments may be mailed to: Lake County Planning Dept., 106 Fourth Ave East, Polson, MT 59860; or faxed: 406-883-7205; or e-mailed: planning@lakemt.gov Published on December 26, 2019. MNALXP

PUBLIC OPPORTUNITY TO PROTEST TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP OF MONTANA ALL-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES LICENSE MORTON & COFFMAN LLC (STUART'S SERVICE CENTER, INC., DONALD COFFMAN, Owner(s)) has applied to transfer Montana All-Alcoholic Beverages License No. 15-865-3720-001 to be operated at MORTON AND COFFMAN, 77529 Us Highway 93, Saint Ignatius, Lake County. The public may protest this license transfer in accordance with the law. Who can protest this transfer? Protests will be accepted from residents of the county of the proposed location Lake County, residents of adjoining Montana counties, and residents of adjoining counties in another state if the criteria in 16-4-207(4)(d), Montana Code Annotated (MCA), are met. What information must be included? Protest letters must be legible and contain (1) the protestor's full name, mailing address, and street address; (2) the license number 15-865-3720-001 and the applicant's name MORTON & COFFMAN LLC; (3) an indication that the letter is intended as a protest; (4) a description of the grounds for protesting; and (5) the protestor's signature. A letter with multiple signatures will be considered one protest letter. What are valid protest grounds? The protest may be based on the applicant's qualifications listed in 16-4-401, MCA, or the grounds for denial of an application in 16-4-405, MCA. Examples of valid protest grounds include: (1) the applicant is unlikely to operate the establishment in compliance with the law; (2) the proposed location cannot be properly policed by local authorities; and (3) the welfare of the people in the vicinity of the proposed location will be adversely and seriously affected. How are protests submitted? Protests must be postmarked to the Department of Revenue, Office of Dispute Resolution, P.O. Box 5805, Helena, Montana 59604-5805 on or before January 12, 2020. What happens if the transfer is protested? Depending on the number of protests and the protest grounds, a public hearing will be held in Helena or Saint Ignatius. All valid protestors will be notified of the hearing's time, date and location. Hearings typically are scheduled within 90 days. A protester's hearing testimony is limited to the grounds in the protester's letter. Following the hearing, the Department of Revenue will notify the public whether the license transfer is approved or denied. How can additional information be obtained? The cited MCA statutes are online at leg.mt.gov/bills/mca_toc/. Questions may be directed to Patty Kautz, Compliance Specialist for the Department of Revenue's Alcoholic Beverage Control Division, at 444-0017 or PKautz@mt.gov. Published on December 26, 2019, and January 2, 2020. MNAXLP

Notice to Creditors Probate Cause # 18-088-P The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Court of the Flathead Reservation, Pablo, Montana In Re the Matter of the Estate of: Mary Bramsen Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, Cindy Umphrey, has been appointed Personal Representative of the above- named estate. All persons hav- ing claims against the said De- ceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Personal Representative, return receipt requested, or to the Clerk of Court of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Court, P.O. Box 278, Pablo, Montana, 59855. Dated this 17th of December, 2019. /s/ Cindy Umphrey Personal Representative Address: Cindy Umphrey 37245 Carbine Rd Ronan, MT 59864 Published on December 26, 2019, January 2, 2020, and January 9, 2020. MNAXLP