BF Mayor Anderson interview
<p>City of Bonners Ferry Mayor Dave Anderson is running for re-election on Nov. 8.</p>
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City of Bonners Ferry Mayor Dave Anderson is running for re-election on Nov. 8.
He has served Bonners Ferry as mayor for the past four years.
Moving to Bonners Ferry in 1978 the mayor remains in the Christmas tree business. He is married to Laura Anderson who is a counselor at Bonners Ferry High School. He is the father of two daughters and is expecting his first grandchild the first week of November.
Anderson said he is running on his past record. He said he inherited a city in very good shape with good employees and the city was in a progressive mode.
“We have improved on that (progression) and even have improved our employee base, we have good management and across the board we have few closed store fronts in a town that not long ago rated number one in unemployment for the state,” Anderson said.
Anderson was the first mayor to implement a program in which Boundary County Commissioners, Moyie Springs city council and Bonners Ferry city council all meet three times a year.
They meet to discuss common problems, they discuss three topics at each meeting and each one is held on a different turf.
“We rotate who’s place we go t at each meeting,” Anderson said. “The city of Bonners Ferry has a new cooperation with Boundary County, and Moyie Springs.
There was a time when the different entities didn’t have a good off a relationship as they do now and Anderson said this program has helped.
He also said he will still be tackling the not glamorous issue of sewer and water infrastructure. He pointed out that more and more regulations have come down the line, and has been a constant battle.
“Like the landfill we want to keep operating things as long as possible,” Anderson said.
Anderson will continue to look into grant funding for large projects such as sewer and water.
“We are a poor community and are not able to utilize our natural resources to the extent we would like for income and we (council) are more than willing to take a hand out from Uncle Sam to keep operating,” Anderson said.