Community councils report local issues from fire-district ballot confusion to meeting-schedule and leadership changes
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Summary
Round-robin updates from Bonner-Midtown, Clinton, East Missoula and West Valley covered a home-upgrade hub presentation, a substance-abuse program presentation, a special meeting over an incorrectly advertised fire-district levy ballot, and an upcoming retirement of a community chair.
Several community councils provided brief updates during the meeting’s round-robin.
Rick, representing the Bonner-Midtown Community Council, said the council had brief meetings recently and hosted a presentation from the Home Upgrade Hub. Frankie, a Clinton-area council member, reported a presentation from Regan Meacham on a substance-abuse program and said the council voted to change its regular meeting date, beginning next September, from the third Thursday to the third Tuesday of the month. "We did vote to, starting next year in September, we're gonna change our meetings to the third Tuesday of the month instead of the third Thursday," Frankie said.
Stephanie Lundberg reported that East Missoula was holding a special meeting at the same time as the county-wide call to address a misadvertised fire-district levy on the ballot. She said that confusion "has consumed most of our time for the last couple of weeks" as the community sought clarification about why the advertised levy amount differed from what appeared on the ballot.
Tom Tucker of West Valley reported that Jerry Dells will retire in May and the council expects two new members to replace the chair. Cindy Kennedy — speaking as a longtime participant — noted it was the first time in her involvement that county responses to the housing survey outnumbered city responses.
No countywide actions were taken on these local issues during the All Community Council meeting; updates were reported for informational purposes and to flag local follow-up items for individual councils.
