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Memorandum
To: Cities and Towns in Central and Eastern Montana
From: Alec Hansen
Date: May 3, 2010
Re: Legislative District Meetings
Working through the District Directors,1 have set up the following schedule for the 2010
Legislative Meetings in Central and Eastern Montana:
District #5 1:30 P.M. Monday May 17 City Hall Lewistown
District #11 10:00 A.M. Tuesday May 18 *Utility Center Billings
District #12 9:30 A.M. Wednesday May 19 City Hall Miles City
District #4 1:00 P.M. Wednesday May 19 City Hall Glendive
District #3 10:30 A.M. Thursday May 20 City Hall Glasgow
District #2 3:00 P.M. Thursday May 20 City Hall Havre
District #2 10:00 A.M. Friday May 21 City Hall Shelby
The Legislature will convene in 8 months to face a threatening collection of revenue and finance
issues connected to the deep national recession and what appears to be a slow moving
economic recovery. The fiscal experts on the legislative staff are predicting that Montana will
be looking at a budget deficit in the area of $400 - million. In this situation, all programs and
expenditures will be on the table and subject to adjustment. The League must be prepared to
defend the Entitlement Program and other state transfers, while continuing to promote fair
land use and water quality regulations, health care solutions, affordable employee benefit and
wage laws and other policies that are consistent with the interests of all the cities and towns
across the state.
The District meetings in the years before the Legislature meets have a very simple purpose.
They are set up to give the members an opportunity to offer comments and suggestions that
will be the foundation of the policies and positions the League will stand behind next winter.
We encourage all League members to attend these meetings to assure that their opinions are
known and their interests are represented. 22
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