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Columbia Falls public comments: residents urge codifying police policies and debate proposed immigration resolution

Columbia Falls City Council · February 18, 2026
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Summary

At the Feb. 17 council meeting residents asked the council to codify police policies and raised transit needs; one resident opposed a proposed immigration-related resolution, citing House Bill 200 and her experience with House Bill 267.

Columbia Falls — Several residents used the public-comment period at the Feb. 17 council meeting to press for codified police and city policies, to ask the council to consider improved public transit to Kalispell, and to oppose a proposed local immigration-related resolution.

Anne Higgins told the council she wanted the city to codify certain policies for stability over time and raised transportation needs between Columbia Falls, Whitefish and Kalispell for low-income residents. "There…

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