CityCommission2025-05-20

Regular City Commission meeting, May 20, 2025

Meeting of the Great Falls CityCommission held May 20, 2025. Called to order 7:00 PM. Regular meetings begin at 7:00 pm in the Commission Chambers, Room 206 of the Civic Center.

Partial summary — this page lists 13 of the meeting's numbered agenda items; the agenda ran to item 25. The minutes linked at the foot of this page carry the full agenda and all the recorded votes.

Present

Commission: Cory Reeves, Joe McKenney?, Rick Tryon, and Shannon Wilson
Staff: Deputy City Manager Bryan Lockerby, Public Works Director Chris Gaub, Planning and Community Development Director Brock Cherry, Grant Administrator Tom Hazen, Interim Park and Recreation Director Jessica Compton, ARPA Project Manager Sylvia Tarman, City Attorney David Dennis, Police Chief Jeff Newton, and City Clerk Lisa Kunz

Agenda items

Petitions and communications

1. Jeni Dodd, City resident, read from a prepared statement in opposition to the City’s purchase of property addressed as 5200 2nd…

Consent agenda

5. Minutes, May 6, 2025, City Commission Meeting.
6. Total Expenditures of $5,575,275 for the period of April 10, 2025 through April 30, 2025, to include claims over $25,000, in the…
7. Contracts List.
8. Grants List.
9. Approve the final payment for the CDBG 32nd Street South ADA Upgrades, Phase 2, in the amount of $299,921.49 to United Materials…
10. Approve the final payment for the CDBG Sidewalk project around Carter Park, in the amount of $53,982.02 to United Materials of…
11. Approve the final payment for the 7th Ave NW Street Reconstruction from 11th Street NW to 12th Street NW project, in the amount…
12. Approve the final payment for the Great Falls Animal Shelter Remodel Project, in the amount of $7,397.20 to A&R Construction, and…
13. Approve the purchase of one new Peterbilt 548 tandem axle dump truck from Jackson Group Peterbilt of Missoula, through Sourcewell…
14. Approve the Fiscal Year 2026 annual bid award for asphaltic concrete material to Great Falls Sand and Gravel, Inc. for an amount… — Motion carried 4-0

Public hearings

15. LEASE AGREEMENT WITH THE AMERICANS LITTLE LEAGUE ASSOCIATION. — Motion carried 4-0
16. LEASE AGREEMENT WITH THE WESTSIDE LITTLE LEAGUE ASSOCIATION. — Motion carried 4-0

New business

City commission

Measures referenced

Ordinances: Ordinance 3274

Adjourned at 8:01 p.m.; the motion to adjourn carried 4-0.

Sources

Agenda packet: https://greatfallsmt.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-250 Minutes: https://greatfallsmt.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_05202025-250 Video: https://greatfallsmt.viebit.com/watch?hash=fmb5NdjEwTQAoQQp