_______________________________________________________________________ Earlier this week E-City Beat sent the following email to all six of the Great Falls city commission candidates. Greetings candidates, Thank you to those who submitted candidate profiles last month. E-City Beat would like to give each of the candidates another opportunity to let the community know a few details about your positions…
Editors note – last month we asked each of the six candidates running for the Great Falls city commission to submit a profile for publication (exactly as submitted and without editorial comment) including the reasons they are running and what they want to accomplish if elected. Kim Rodriguez, Terry Thompson, and Rick Tryon responded with…
_______________________________________________________________________ E-City Beat can confirm that Great Falls city commissioner Tracy Houck is no longer Executive Director at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art. According to the PGSMA web site Houck is no longer employed there in any capacity. It is unclear whether she was fired or she resigned. We first started receiving messages from…
_______________________________________________________________________ Editors note – last month we asked each of the six candidates running for the Great Falls city commission to submit a profile for publication (exactly as submitted and without editorial comment) including the reasons they are running and what they want to accomplish if elected. Kim Rodriguez, Terry Thompson, and Rick Tryon responded…
_______________________________________________________________________ Editors note – last month we asked each of the six candidates running for the Great Falls city commission to submit a profile for publication (exactly as submitted and without editorial comment) including the reasons they are running and what they want to accomplish if elected. Kim Rodriguez, Terry Thompson, and Rick Tryon responded…
_______________________________________________________________________ Editors note – last month we asked each of the six candidates running for the Great Falls city commission to submit a profile for publication (exactly as submitted and without editorial comment) including the reasons they are running and what they want to accomplish if elected. Kim Rodriguez, Terry Thompson, and Rick Tryon responded…
_______________________________________________________________________ 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 have heard several statements from folks recently such as, “the Mayor is mostly ceremonial and doesn’t really have any influence” and “the Great Falls City Commission is just a technicality, the city manager has all of the power.” Wrong. These kinds of misconceptions are not only wrong but they are also part of…
Last month, before the filing deadline for this year’s City election had elapsed, I asked Great Falls Mayor Bob Kelly if he intended to endorse embattled City Commissioner Tracy Houck in her campaign for re-election. Kelly declined to do so. Since it was possible at the time that the mayor wanted to see a complete…
_______________________________________________________________________ Below is more important information provided by Great Falls resident Pam Hendrickson concerning efforts by Great Falls city Commissioners Moe and Robinson to secretly negotiate a partnership between the City of Great Falls and the Maclean Animal Adoption Center. Every concerned citizen in Great Falls should read this and share it widely. The shenanigans…