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Lewistown keeps boulevard and street maintenance assessments unchanged; consent agenda and business licenses approved
Summary
The commission voted unanimously to retain the boulevard assessment at $0.75 per linear foot and to keep the street maintenance assessment at the current cents-per-square-foot rate; the meeting also approved claims and several business licenses and tabled a budget amendment resolution.
Lewistown commissioners voted to retain existing maintenance assessments for both boulevards and streets as part of the preliminary budget discussion for fiscal year 2026–27.
On the boulevard maintenance assessment, the city manager reviewed historic rates and noted 59 adjacent property owners. The current assessment was described as $0.75 (seventy-five cents) per linear foot. The commission approved a motion to retain that rate pending a future study; the motion, moved by Commissioner Miller and seconded by Commissioner Warren, passed on a unanimous roll call.
For the street maintenance assessment, the city manager presented three options and said the current rate generates just over $1,300,000. The commission moved to maintain the current rate for the upcoming budget year; the clerk read the motion as a 4¢ per square foot rate, and the roll-call vote was unanimous. (Note: the transcript contains an inconsistency—earlier in the discussion the current rate was described as 3¢ per square foot, while the formal motion as read during roll call referenced 4¢. That discrepancy was not resolved on the record.)
On the consent agenda, the commission approved claims paid from June 12 through June 30, 2026 (motion by Commissioner Mueller, second by Commissioner Warren) and approved business licenses including 'Club Montana' and 'Backed Up Plumbing' (Backed Up Plumbing is headquartered in Oregon and provided required state surety/bonding). The commission also removed Resolution 4226 (a proposed 2025–26 budget amendment) from the agenda and tabled it until further notice.
What comes next: staff will proceed with budgeting under the retained assessment rates and will prepare any additional study of boulevard use and planning; commissioners asked staff to communicate with adjacent property owners as part of the pending study.
