City and County Government
Missoula Mayor John Engen’s 2011 budget proposal squeezes some $1.11 million out of the city budget. Here’s his strategy and examples of where you will and won’t feel the cuts.
Guess what? Closing park bathrooms would save money, but Engen doesn’t want to do go that direction. I think the idea is, like, what kind of [...]
Don Nicholson turned up this week at the Missoula City Council meeting, and the former councilman offered some ideas for budget cuts.
City budget talks sometimes stay in the realm of the philosophical, but Nicholson got down and dirty on dollars in Council Chambers.
He said the amount of money budgeted for the pools has some padding [...]
The Missoula City Council unanimously agreed late Monday to extend the protest period for special districts. The deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7.
Did you catch that the person who put this item on the agenda is Councilman Jason Wiener? A councilor in favor of the overall budget proposal, including districts? I’d be surprised if [...]
The Missoula City Council agenda is a doozy this week.
Carmike Cinemas wants to add 800 seats and a couple big screens in an expansion, plus bike and car parking. (And “pedestrian facilities,” although I haven’t read committee minutes and am not sure what that means. A shoe shine station like at the airport?)
The city wants [...]
Missoula City Cemetery funds were on the agenda this week at the spirited council meeting. (Nope, I never thought I’d write a headline like the one above. A national cemetery magazine?)
Cemetery Board Chairwoman Sharee Fraser talked about why the cemetery is cooperating with the administration’s request that revenue once headed into cemetery accounts go into [...]
John Hendrickson, who represents the Missoula Building Industry Association, spoke out last night against the new taxes in Mayor John Engen’s budget.
Is former Councilman Hendrickson’s campaign against the proposed special districts the beginning of a campaign for mayor?
Councilman Bob Jaffe noted a change in Hendrickson’s attitude in his (Jaffe’s) most recent committees report:
“I have to [...]
Well, let’s start out by saying this is perhaps the smallest sample population ever. But here you go anyway, and take it for what it’s worth.
City Clerk Marty Rehbein has 13 emails* and one written comment on the special districts. She reviewed the comments over the phone, and it seems like it’s a mixed bag.
One [...]
Missoula prides itself on an outdoorsy aesthetic and gorgeous mountain views, and maybe it’s time the urban chickens establish themselves as part of the local beauty scene.
The chickens, important little buggers both making and becoming food, have the right to look as sharp as anyone else in this town. My editor left a copy of [...]
First, the important news: It sounds like the mayor is going to ask that the public hearing on creating special districts be set for Sept. 13.
Secondly, um, I’m just going to confess I blew up at Lee Clemmensen in Council Chambers. Oh dear.
When other people have meltdowns in Chambers, I write about them, so for [...]
Did you try the rub? Not yet? That’s alright. There’s time.
So let’s get back to this week’s meeting of the Missoula City Council. By the way, those folks will get together this afternoon to talk “special districts” again, and it should be interesting to see if the discussion is constructive.
One cool thing about Monday’s meeting [...]
