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Revision 1, 2026-07-03T14:12:00Z, by ElectricCityNotes.
+ = Neighborhood Councils =
+ Great Falls is divided into '''nine neighborhood council districts'''. Each council has five elected positions. They are the ground floor of city participation: elected in the municipal election alongside the [[CityCommission]], subject to the [[OpenMeetingLaw]], posting agendas and minutes in the City's Agenda Center like any other body.
+ Councils meet monthly. Between them they generate more agenda rows a year than any other body in the City's Agenda Center — sixty-odd meeting dates in 2026 alone.
+ '''Robert Moccasin''' is the City's Neighborhood Councils Liaison. He also sits on the [[EmsAdvisoryBoard]] as the neighborhood councils representative.
+ = What they do =
+ Every regular Commission meeting has a standing neighborhood councils item near the top of the agenda, at which a council representative reports. The report from Neighborhood Council 1 at [[CityCommission2026-06-16]] is typical: a summary of the council's own meeting, presentations on the [[CouncilOfCouncils]] meeting, local crime statistics, transportation infrastructure, the Adopt-A-Park programme and the new parks director, and residents' concerns about fireworks enforcement and electric motorcycles ridden by unlicensed youth on streets and in parks.
+ Appointments to fill council vacancies are made by the City Commission — see [[CityCommission2025-11-18]].
+ The City publishes a Neighborhood Council Handbook, an FAQ, an interactive council map, and quorum notices. See [[QuorumNotices]].
+ = Elections =
+ Council seats are on the municipal ballot. In 2025 the number of candidates equalled or was fewer than the seats in eight of the nine districts, which allowed the [[CityCommission]] to cancel those races — see [[MunicipalElections2025]].
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+ Neighborhood Councils: https://greatfallsmt.gov/179/Neighborhood-Councils
+ Our councils: https://greatfallsmt.gov/277/Our-Councils
+ Handbook: https://greatfallsmt.gov/278/Handbook
+ [[CouncilOfCouncils]] · [[CityCommission]] · [[Categories]]
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