City and County Government
Remember how Councilwoman Lyn Hellegaard said she’d like to hear a financial report from the mayor on a quarterly basis? Well, hot dog, the City of Missoula Charter requires it.
Under Article III Section 5, the Charter talks about how the mayor administers the affairs of the city. “Once every three months, the Mayor shall make [...]
Well, not Councilman Jon Wilkins. He wanted to run a committee, but he wasn’t chosen. In fact, Councilwoman Pam Walzer told him he needed to shape up in one respect.
Walzer said the councilman’s strong statements about projects at Planning Board meetings and other places aren’t right. The Missoula City Council is a quasi-judicial body, she [...]
Former councilman Jerry Ballas said the state High Court’s decision in the Roe case shows that the councilors who started taking on petitions for lot line adjustments were in the right.
“I just think that the Supreme Court ruling pretty much vindicated the position of eight people on the City Council at that time who [...]
Here’s* suspensions and reinstatements for failure to pay and appear, from the Montana Department of Justice Department of Motor Vehicles.
Here’s the form* used for suspensions.
Here’s the long list* of historical suspensions for all kinds of things, not just failures to pay.
And finally, a link* to a National Center on State Courts report on fine collections.
All [...]
First number of the day: Six. It’s that many degrees below zero.
But, oh dear, I wanted to post information related to Sunday’s story* about Municipal Court much earlier. Below are some figures from City Hall.
First, a brief anecdote from deputy city attorney Carrie Garber on another person who isn’t paying for damages caused.
Remember the Lowe case? Some people who haven’t been keen on the zoning rewrite brandished it, its criteria, as evidence the city was doing this rewrite upside down and backwards?
Well, the judge’s order said it isn’t even clear whether the Lowe criteria apply here. And it says the city considered those things, such as public [...]
… on the judge’s decision about the zoning lawsuit.
City attorney Jim Nugent said the case was an extra one on the judge’s docket, and a ruling may not come out until next week.
“He could easily need this weekend to work on it and not issue it until Monday,” Nugent said.
It’s expected sometime before 7 p.m. [...]
With Missoula judges bowing out of the zoning lawsuit, the case heads to Helena.* Missoula City Attorney Jim Nugent said the suit will be before Judge Jeffrey Sherlock.
So, the judge who ruled on the lawsuit about funding public schools, a.k.a., the education judge?
Said Nugent: “He might be educating all of us.”
– Keila Szpaller
… the Clark Fork Terrace II lawsuit, city attorney Jim Nugent said he believes the decision will come in the next 30 to 60 days. In court on Tuesday, Judge Ed McLean said he didn’t expect more briefs in the case.
It was interesting to watch the lawyers quiz witnesses on the stand. City attorney Jim [...]
… lunch. The judge heard arguments today on the Neighborhoods By Design lawsuit against the city. Evidently, city attorney Jim Nugent doesn’t need extra fuel to keep him going.
His lunch? A blackberry yogurt from Safeway. Eating, he said, is a distraction.
“I eat light when I’m in court.”
– Keila Szpaller
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