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Commission recommends roles and responsibilities document for mayor and commissioners; charter language making mayor 'full time' fails
Summary
After a lengthy debate on March 5 about whether the mayor should be treated as a full‑time position and how to set compensation, the commission voted 4–1 to recommend the City Commission adopt a roles/responsibilities/expectations document for both the mayor and commissioners; a motion to declare the mayor a full‑time charter position failed 3–2.
The Bozeman City Study Commission on March 5 voted 4–1 to recommend that the City Commission adopt a written document outlining roles, responsibilities, obligations and expectations for the mayor and city commissioners. The commission separately considered — and then narrowly rejected — a motion to amend the charter to declare the mayor a full‑time position.
Commissioners said the city has increasingly complex intergovernmental duties that make the mayor’s workload large; some pushed to acknowledge that reality and to explore objective ways to set compensation. Others warned that prescriptive language…
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