Here are the agendas for the Great Falls City Commission work session and regular meetings on Tuesday, January 7. The public is encouraged to attend. You can find the agenda item details and documentation here – https://greatfallsmt.net/meetings Work Session Regular Meeting
As I was going through the 2020 Annual Adopted Budget for the City of Great Falls recently, I thought that E-City Beat readers and local citizens in general would find the following statistics of interest. On page 45 of the Budget in Brief is this chart listing past and current major employers in Great Falls….
_______________________________________________________________________ In a November 24, 2019 piece by Andy Kiersz in Business Insider, Great Falls is listed right in the middle of the pack of the 20 Western state towns that folks are “leaving in droves”. From the article: “Using data from the Census Bureau’s Population Estimates program, we found the metropolitan…
_______________________________________________________________________ There’s an idea floating around about the possibility of combining holidays or making one universal holiday. The latter has something to do with the notion that it’s unfair that Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ but not Buddha, Mohammed, Mother Gaia, the Universe, the Great Spirit, Satan, some goats, rocks and…
First of all, I want to extend a big “Thanks” to each and every local voter who trusted me to represent our grassroots movement for change for a greater Great Falls. We did it. I didn’t have my own agenda during the campaign, I don’t have one now, and I won’t carry one in with me…
_______________________________________________________________________ A piece in E-City Beat last week got me thinking about our local teachers. Most of our Great Falls teachers are really good, honest, hard-working folks who just want to make a difference in the lives of kids and our community. Unfortunately sometimes our teachers don’t get enough thanks for what they do for…
Thursday morning, August 15th was when I first learned about a gun control rally scheduled for Saturday, August 17th in Great Falls at the band shell in Gibson Park, starting at 3:00 PM. The rally was sponsored by ‘Moms Demand Action’ and was in conjunction with other rallies nationwide. The first thing that concerned me…
_______________________________________________________________________ Have you ever read ‘Chapter 21 – CODE OF ETHICS’ in the City of Great Falls municipal code? If not, maybe it’s time to take a look at it. Here are a few examples of what you’ll find there: 2.21.020 – Findings. The City Commission of the City of Great Falls finds and declares…
_______________________________________________________________________ I found it interesting that the day after I wrote a piece about transients camping out at our Great Falls Public Library and in our public parks I noticed this piece in the Billings Gazette: “Billings police investigating downtown stabbing at library” From the article: “Billings Public Library Director Gavin Woltjer said he isn’t…
_______________________________________________________________________ Within the past 10 days in Great Falls: The Cascade County Sheriffs Department busted a human trafficking/prostitution operation here. A Great Falls woman was arrested for selling meth and heroin on multiple occasions to undercover cops. I went to the Great Falls Public Library on a Friday afternoon and encountered several people camped out…