The city annually reviews its utility rates to consider adjusting fees. Last year, the city contracted with Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc., or AE2S, for a water and sewer utility rate study base on a comprehensive review of the city’s water and sewer budgets, the water master plan, wastewater facilities plan, customer classes, current usage data and future planned
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The City of Great Falls offices will be closed on Sept. 2 in observance of Labor Day. The Community Recreation Center and the Great Falls Animal Shelter will also be closed. The Great Falls Library was closed Aug. 31 in observance of the holiday. As a reminder, the Great Falls Public Library is closed on Sundays and Mondays. Regular hours
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Two Neighborhood Councils meet next week. Neighborhood Council 6 meets Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Sunnyside School library. Agenda items include committee reports, neighborhood concerns and guest speakers. Guest speakers include City Commission candidate Rick Tryon. Krista Artis from the City Manager’s Office will explain the special events and street closure permitting process. The council’s northern boundary is 10th
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Cattlemen’s Cut Cattlemen’s Cut Steakhouse has opened in its new location at 1400 Marketplace Dr. for lunch and dinner. Business Bites: Saibeen’s and Cattlemen’s Cut relocating; Jimmy John’s opening second location Owner Julie Meyer put the restaurant into the former On the Border space in the hopes of making it more accessible to regular customers and draw in new diners,
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The Cascade County planning board will consider changes to the county’s zoning regulations at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Family Living Center at Montana Expo Park. The county planning department is proposing substantial changes and the board first began consideration of those changes in February. The staff-initiated revisions would impact all property within the boundaries of Cascade County, except
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The Cascade County Zoning Board of Adjustment voted unanimously to approve the special use permit for Big Sky Cheese to build a value-added agricultural commodity processing facility for a cheese processing plant. The board included 17 conditions in their approval of the permit, meaning that the applicant will have to meet those requirements before the permit is actually issued. Big
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Cascade County Commissioners are holding a public hearing on their budget on Sept. 3. Their meeting is at 9:30 a.m. in the courthouse annex. The budget is for the fiscal year that began July 1 and the full document is available in the commission office and online here. During the Sept. 3 meeting, the county budget officer will make a
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The County Commission voted unanimously during their Aug. 27 meeting to adopt rules for county open space property. The rules aren’t intended to apply to rental facilities such as Montana Expo Park and during the meeting, commissioners pointed out that an exception was also needed for Black Eagle Park. The courthouse lawn is the most frequently used open space where
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Monday hours will be restored at the Great Falls Public Library beginning in October, in place of the Sunday hours that typically run October through May. The library board voted unanimously during their Aug. 27 meeting to approve a new staffing configuration that will allow the library to open Mondays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. year round and be closed
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Soapbox at Gibson Park Great Falls Rising is hosting “Speak Up: A Celebration of the 1st Amendment” at the Gibson Park Bandshell at 6 p.m. Aug. 27. The event will be an opportunity for community members to address attendees with a three minute speech on any topic they wish. This event is being presented as a ‘soapbox’ event where speakers
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