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Read the article at The Electric by Jenn Rowell
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“During their Feb. 6 meeting, City Commissioners will be asked to approve a resolution calling for an election on the question of conducting a local government review and establishing a study commission to do so.
The resolution has to include language on how many members the commission will include and the estimated cost.
Staff is estimating that the cost will be $150,000.
They estimated $125,000 in 2014.
They made no recommendation on the number of members, but said that the 1994-96 commission had seven members and the 2004-06 commission had five members. In 2014, commissioners set the membership at five, but voters didn’t call for a local government review.
Montana law requires that all county and municipal governments ask voters every 10 years if they want to conduct a local government review and establish a study commission.
The review is not of those currently in office but of the structure of the existing local government…”