City Commissioners told staff during a special budget work session on June 29 that they would support the recommended tax increases in the proposed budget. Those include the full inflationary factor and permissive medical levy, as well as using CARES Act dollars and a portion of the fund balance to balance the budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins
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City Commissioners continued their budget discussions during a special work session on June 28. They didn’t make any decisions and will have another meeting at 4 p.m. June 29. During the meeting, commissioners asked staff what they needed to help move the budget process forward. City Manager Greg Doyon said that he needed commissioners to reach a consensus on whether
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City Commissioners will meet for a special work session on June 28 to continue discussion of the city manager’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins July 1. They’ll meet at 5 p.m. in the Gibson Room at the Civic Center. City Manager Greg Doyon and the city’s finance staff presented the proposed budget to commissioners during a
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After nearly a year of discussions, disagreement and apparent lack of communication, the Cascade County Commission voted unanimously during their June 21 meeting to reject an amendment by the city to their joint agreement for management of the City-County Health Department. They instead approved an amendment proposed by the deputy county attorney that is identical to the existing agreement but
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City Commissioners will consider ratifying during their June 7 meeting an agreement with the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation for federal COVID funds for the city’s improvements to Lift Station No. 1. The city’s public works department submitted an application for the first round of the DNRC competitive water and sewer infrastructure grant program. The funding is through
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Cascade County has had a slight spike in COVID-19 cases recently with 125 new cases over the last week. The City-County Health Department has raised the community level back to medium. The case rate is now 153.63 per 100,000, the average of daily new cases over a seven day period. Alluvion closing drive-through COVID testing site on April 30 COVID
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City Commissioners decided during their May 17 work session to cap the amount of federal COVID relief funds set aside for community grants at $3 million. During that meeting, staff reviewed their efforts to get estimates and finalize plans for city projects using American Rescue Plan Act funds. The city has been allocated $19.47 in ARPA funds. Tom Hazen, the
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The Great Falls Public Schools board of trustees voted unanimously during their May 9 meeting to approved essential worker stipend for many employees. The board voted to use some of its federal COVID relief funds for the stipends. The stipend will be $750 for staff who are regularly scheduled to work 21 hours or more per week. For those who
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City staff walked City Commissioners through the basic mechanics of the budget during a special meeting on May 9. City Manager Greg Doyon had initially planned to do full presentations from each department, a format for budget development the city used years ago, but scheduling issues caused that plan to morph into a video briefing with information from the departments
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The City of Great Falls is discontinuing the phone-in option for City Commission meetings. The option was added during COVID-19 closures and remote meetings, but is being discontinued due to call-in delays and dropped calls. The phone-in option will be discontinued beginning with the May 3 commission meeting, but other options remain to provide public comment: attend commission meetings in
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