The Great Falls Public Schools board voted during their March 27 meeting to forgo pursuing an operational levy for the upcoming budget year. The board’s budget committee discussed the options during a March 15 meeting and recommended to the full board to take the staff recommendation of using about $5 million of remaining federal COVID relief funds to offset some of
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The Great Falls Public Schools board budget committee voted during their March 15 meeting to not recommend a levy for the upcoming school year. The full board will consider the recommendation during their March 27 at 5:30 p.m. at the district office. During their March 15 meeting, district staff reviewed the budget projection and expect at least a $404,084 shortfall
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County Commissioners voted during their March 14 meeting to approve the submittal of an application to the Montana Department of Natural Resources for a conservation easement on 80 acres of school trust land on Fox Farm Road. The application starts the formal DNRC process, including a new appraisal on the property to determine the amount required to purchase the easement.
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The Great Falls Public Schools budget process is underway and there are several upcoming public meetings. GFPS is holding a legislative transmittal update at 5:30 p.m. March 7 at the district office building at 1100 4th St. S. Local legislators are invited to provide insights on the education related bills that met the deadline to be transmitted to the other
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The county planning board voted unanimously to rezone a property in Black Eagle during their Feb. 21 meeting. The property is being considered as the new home of the Children’s Museum of Montana. The property has been leased by the county to Stray Moose Productions since 1999 and Stray Moose owns the building. Charity Yonker, county planning director, said that Stray Moose
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The Great Falls Public Schools board approved a $1.48 million contract during their Feb. 13 meeting for the Meadow Lark Elementary addition. The project will add four new classrooms to the school. The addition is part of the district’s school improvement projects being funded with American Rescue Plan Act, or federal COVID recovery, money. GFPS rebidding Sunnyside, Meadow Lark projects
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Cascade County planning staff is proposing to rezone property in Black Eagle for the potential use by Children’s Museum of Montana. The property has been leased by the county to Stray Moose Productions since 1999. The property was originally zoned I-2 heavy industrial in 2005 as part of the county-wide zoning process. By 2007, the property was zoned I-1 light
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The proposed bill that would change state law related to the availability of obscene materials to minors was updated to maintain the exceptions for public libraries and museums. House Bill 234, as amended, would remove the exception for public school staff to the public display or dissemination of obscene materials to minors. The bill passed out of the House judiciary
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State lawmakers are considering a bill that would remove protections for librarians, museum staff and public school employees in relation to the availability of obscene materials to minors. House Bill 234 would remove the long-standing exception for libraries, museums and public school staff to the public display or dissemination of obscene materials to minors. Proponents of the bill argued that
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The Great Falls Public Schools board completed its annual review of the superintendent last week. The board released a summary of their evaluation on Jan. 27. In a release, Board Chair Gordon Johnson wrote that the board was “pleased to report high satisfaction with the job performance of Superintendent Tom Moore and commend him on his exemplary leadership of the
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