CityCommission2025-08-05

Regular City Commission meeting, August 5, 2025

Meeting of the Great Falls CityCommission held August 5, 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 23. 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, Shannon Wilson, and Susan Wolff
Staff: City Manager Greg Doyon and Deputy City Manager Bryan Lockerby, Planning and Community Development Director Brock Cherry, Finance Director Melissa Kinzler, City Attorney David Dennis, Assistant Chief of Fire Prevention Mike McIntosh?, Police Captain Brian Black, and City Clerk Lisa Kunz

Agenda items

Petitions and communications

2. John Hubbard, City resident, suggested that Great Falls Fire Rescue personnel train on condemned buildings rather than building a…

Consent agenda

6. Minutes, July 15, 2025, City Commission Meeting.
7. Minutes, July 29, 2025, Special City Commission Meeting.
8. Total Expenditures of $5,573,633 for the period of June 26, 2025, through July 9, 2025, to include claims over $25,000, in the…
9. Contracts List.
10. Approve a Professional Services Agreement in the amount of $264,097 for the Downtown Storm Drainage Improvements Phase 3, and…
11. Approve a Professional Services Agreement for the Wastewater Treatment Plant Access Gate in the amount not to exceed $127,870 to…
12. Approve a final payment of $139,765.95 for the 33rd Street Water Storage Tank. This is comprised of $138,368.29 to DN Tanks and…
13. Award a contract in the amount of $212,720 to Montana Materials & Construction, for the Giant Springs Road Slide Repair, and…
14. Approve a CDBG Funding Agreement in the amount of $24,000 to the Montana Legal Services Association for the Montana Housing…
15. Approve a CDBG Funding Agreement in the amount of $111,077 to the Spark! Children’s Museum of Montana for the “Spark Inclusion”… — Motion carried 5-0

Public hearings

16. RESOLUTION 10580, AN INTENT TO INCREASE PROPERTY TAX.
17. RESOLUTION 10579, ANNUAL BUDGET RESOLUTION. — Motion carried 5-0

New business

City commission

Adjourned at 9:18 p.m.; the motion to adjourn carried 5-0.

Sources

Agenda packet: https://greatfallsmt.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052025-245 Minutes: https://greatfallsmt.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_08052025-245