A district court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the city over the library levy election. In a lawsuit filed in August 2023, Beth Cummings and Dena Johnson asked the court to void the library levy election, in which voters approved a city charter amendment increasing the allowable mills for the library from two up to 17. Cummings and
Read more
City Commissioner Rick Tryon has again asked to revisit the 1993 management agreement between the city and the Great Falls Public Library board. In January, he suggested discussing the agreement to take some of its included seven mills for the library away to direct toward public safety. No other commissioner expressed support. For the current budget, library staff estimates the
Read more
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana Jesse Laslovich will be at the Great Falls Public Library at 3 p.m. Feb. 20 to lead a discussion on how to report and prevent hate crimes. The United Against Hate event will be in the Cordingley Room in the library basement. Laslovich will be joined by local and federal partners, representatives
Read more
The Great Falls Public Library is hosting its annual Black Heritage Evening from 6-8 p.m. on Feb. 8 to celebrate Black History Month. The event will be held in the Cordingley Room, in the basement, with Kate Hampton, community preservation coordinator with the Montana Historical Society, as the keynote speaker. She’ll speak about her documentary, “Hidden Stories: Montana’s Black Past.”
Read more
At the end of their Jan. 16 meeting, Commissioner Rick Tryon said he had a new proposal. He said that he believed they had an obligation to review and have a public conversation about the 1993 management agreement between the city and library board before they get into the budget process. The agreement automatically renews annually on April 20 unless
Read more
City Commissioners will review their budget during their Jan. 16 work session. The city was doing quarterly budget reviews for awhile, but Tuesday’s review will cover the last quarter of the last fiscal year through the second quarter of the current fiscal year, according to the agenda. The city’s fiscal year runs July 1 through June 30. After months of
Read more
Great Falls Public Library officials are continuing their levy implementation plan with some delays due to cash flow changes. Susie McIntyre, library director, updated commissioners during their Jan. 2 work session on the library’s progress and plans for the additional library funds voters approved in June. The levy funds are not being used for the library’s planned remodel, which will
Read more
The Great Falls Public Library is opening a reading challenge to library cardholders in January. Each person who reads one book per category, determined by the library, and one category per book, for a total of 50 books by Dec. 27, 2024, will eligible for a prize to be announced at a later date. Library hosting speaking about experience teaching
Read more
Eamon Orsmeth will give a presentation at the Great Falls Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 4. He’ll speak in the Cordingley Room about his year living in Beit Jala teaching English in a Palestinian Lutheran school from 2017 to 2018. Beit Jala is a town of about 13,500 people in the West Bank, just south of Jerusalem. During his
Read more
Proposals were due last week for the Great Falls Public Library remodel design. The design phase is being funded by the Great Falls Public Library Foundation and not taxpayer funds. Susie McIntyre, library director, said that “we’re super excited to see them” She told the library board during their Nov. 28 meeting that a review committee will review and score
Read more
You must be logged in to post a comment.