= Glossary =

The vocabulary you need to read a Great Falls agenda packet.

* '''ACFR''' — Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. The City's audited annual financial statements, presented to the Commission each January or thereabouts. See [[CityBudget]]
* '''BID''' — Business Improvement District, a self-assessing downtown district. See [[BusinessImprovementDistrict]]
* '''CDBG''' — Community Development Block Grant, federal money passed through the City. See [[CommunityDevelopmentBlockGrant]]
* '''COS''' — Certificate of Survey. Land is often described in resolutions as "Tract 1 of COS 3779"
* '''CUP''' — Conditional Use Permit. A use allowed in a zoning district only with specific Commission approval, granted by resolution
* '''FLUM''' — Future Land Use Map, the map component of the growth policy. See [[FutureGreatFalls2045]]
* '''GFFR''' — Great Falls Fire Rescue. See [[FireRescue]]
* '''GFPD''' — Great Falls Police Department. See [[PoliceDepartment]]
* '''GFPS''' — Great Falls Public Schools. See [[GfpsBoardOfTrustees]]
* '''INTERCAP''' — the Montana Board of Investments loan programme local governments borrow from for capital work
* '''MAFB''' — Malmstrom Air Force Base. See [[MalmstromAirForceBase]]
* '''MCA''' — Montana Code Annotated, the state statutes
* '''MDT''' — Montana Department of Transportation
* '''MLUPA''' — Montana Land Use Planning Act. See [[MontanaLandUsePlanningAct]]
* '''MPO''' — Metropolitan Planning Organization, the regional transportation planning body. See [[MetropolitanPlanningOrganization]]
* '''OCCGF''' — Official Code of the City of Great Falls, the municipal code. See [[OfficialCode]]
* '''OCI''' — Overall Condition Index, the street pavement rating the Public Works department reports on
* '''OF''' — Office File number. Many capital project items carry one, printed in the agenda item title as "OF 1862.0"
* '''PUD''' — Planned Unit Development, a negotiated zoning classification assigned by ordinance
* '''SCIR''' — Strategic Capital Investment Reserve. See [[StrategicCapitalInvestmentReserve]]
* '''SID''' — Special Improvement District, a district that assesses property owners for a specific improvement
* '''SIC''' — Safety Inspection Certificate, the fire code inspection programme
* '''SRF''' — State Revolving Fund, the state loan programme for water and sewer work
* '''DNRC''' — Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, which runs the drinking water and lead service line loan programmes
* '''FLUM''' — see above; adopted with the growth policy in June 2026
* '''CAPER''' — Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report, the annual report back on CDBG and HOME spending
* '''TBID''' — Tourism Business Improvement District. See [[TourismBusinessImprovementDistrict]]
* '''TIF''' — Tax Increment Financing. See [[TaxIncrementFinancing]]

Ordinances change the [[OfficialCode]] and take two readings and a public hearing. Resolutions are one-off acts — a fee schedule, a levy, a permit, a lease — and take one. Both are numbered in unbroken sequences; the City posts them by year.

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Ordinances: https://greatfallsmt.gov/260/Ordinances
Resolutions: https://greatfallsmt.gov/257/Resolutions

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