CityCommission2025-06-17

Regular City Commission meeting, June 17, 2025

Meeting of the Great Falls CityCommission held June 17, 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 8 of the meeting's numbered agenda items; the agenda ran to item 16. 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: City Manager Greg Doyon, Public Works Director Chris Gaub, Planning and Community Development Director Brock Cherry, Finance Director Melissa Kinzler, City Attorney David Dennis, Fire Chief Jeremy Jones, Police Captain Doug Mahlum, and City Clerk Lisa Kunz

Agenda items

Petitions and communications

2. Jeni Dodd, City resident, read from a prepared statement asserting the following

Consent agenda

6. Total Expenditures of $4,025,096 for the period of May 15, 2025 through May 28, 2025, to include claims over $25,000, in the…
7. Minutes, June 3, 2025, City Commission Meeting.
8. Contracts List.
12. Award a contract in the amount of $93,400 to United Materials of Great Falls, Inc., for the 32nd Ave NE Water and Storm Sidewalk…
13. Set a public hearing for the FY2025 Tourism Business Improvement District Budget Amendment for July 1, 2025. — Motion carried 4-0

Old business

14. CITY OF GREAT FALLS ELECTRIC SUPPLY CONTRACT. — Motion carried 4-0

City commission

16. COMMISSION INITIATIVES.

City Manager's report on the Rocky Mountain Building

Under item 16, City Manager Doyon reported back on the Commission's June 3 directive on the Rocky Mountain Building and set out the six steps of the nuisance abatement process under Municipal Code section 8.49. They are given in full at NuisanceAbatement.

Also under item 16, Commissioner Tryon received Commission consensus directing staff to set out the options for balancing priority general fund needs without the permissive medical levy or the inflation factor, and to sketch an alternative no-tax-increase budget showing which services would be reduced.

Measures referenced

Resolutions: Resolution 10574

Adjourned at 7:38 p.m.; the motion to adjourn carried 4-0.

Sources

Agenda packet: https://greatfallsmt.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172025-248 Minutes: https://greatfallsmt.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06172025-248 Video: https://greatfallsmt.viebit.com/watch?hash=ElTIuQu7hqVD7VG3