Missoula City Council Meeting Agenda

Meeting #:

Date:

Monday, May 05, 2025 at 6:00 P.m. - 7:00 P.m.

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1.

CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL

2.

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES

2.1

Minutes from April 21, 2025

3.

ANNOUNCE CHANGES TO COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDAS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP APPROVALS

3.1

Committee Schedule for May 7, 2025

4.

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS

4.1

Neighborhood Council Updates

4.2

Proclamation - Public Employee Service Recognition Week

Andrea Davis

4.3

Proclamation - Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Awareness Day

Andrea Davis

5.

PUBLIC HEARINGS

(State law and City Council rules set guidelines for inviting community comment in a formal way on certain issues.  Following a staff report on each item, the City Council and the Mayor invite community comment.  City Council holds a public hearing on the item, a member of council makes a motion, and a vote is taken.  The public hearing and vote take place on the same night, unless there is a reason to hold the vote over to a later meeting date.)  

5.1

Funding Recommendations for the Unified Application Program Year 2025

Kendra Lisum, Colleen Kane

• Recommended motion:

  A resolution granting approval of the City of Missoula Unified Application Round Year 2025, awarding Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF), HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to certain organizations, directing staff to negotiate contracts and agreements, and authorizing the Mayor to sign the contracts and agreements with said organizations.

5.2

Tipp Clark Fork River Property Open Space Project

Zac Covington

• Recommended motion:

  A resolution approving up to $112,700, including due diligence and related costs, from a combination of 2006 and 2018 Open Space Bond funds for the acquisition of the Tipp Clark Fork River property of approximately 16.5 acres adjacent to the Kim Williams Trail.​

5.3

Ordinance Amending Missoula Municipal Code 10.22.240 Parking Commission - Jurisdictional Area

Jodi Pilgrim

• Recommended motion:

  An ordinance amending section 10.22.240 Parking Commission – Jurisdictional Area Missoula Municipal Code allowing City Council to change the jurisdictional boundaries of the Parking Commission by resolution.

6.

NEW BUSINESS

7.

PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR ITEMS ON THE AGENDA

8.

CONSENT AGENDA

(Items on the consent agenda were approved in City Council committees to be placed on the consent agenda to save time at Council meetings by voting on them as a package. The City Clerk will read the list aloud, so citizens watching on MCAT will know what is on the consent agenda. We’ll invite community comment on these items before we vote.)

• Recommended motion:

8.1

Accounts Payable (claims) for checks dated April 29, 2025

• Recommended motion:

  Ratify accounts payable (claims) for checks dated April 29, 2025, in the amount of $820,222.07.

8.2

Accounts Payable (claims) for checks dated May 06, 2025

• Recommended motion:

  Approve accounts payable (claims) for checks dated May 6, 2025, in the amount of $914,374.91. 

9.

REGULAR BUSINESS

(Items listed under committee reports were not approved unanimously in City Council committees. The chairperson of the standing City Council committee will make a motion. We invite community comment on each item.)

9.1

Committee Reports

9.1.a

Budget and Finance (BF) committee report

9.1.a.a

Minutes from April 23, 2025

9.1.b

Climate, Conservation and Parks (CCP) committee report

9.1.c

Committee of the Whole (COW) committee report

9.1.d

Housing, Redevelopment, and Community Programs (HRCP) committee report

9.1.d.a

Minutes from April 23, 2025

9.1.d.b

Johnson Street Shelter Capacity, Funding for Shelter and Housing Sprint

Daniel Carlino, Kristen Jordan

• Recommended motion:

  [Recommend Do Not Pass] Adopt a resolution to continue allowing full capacity at Johnson Street shelter, direct the mayor to continue funding of shelter space for fiscal year 2026, and fund any remainder of the housing sprint’s funding goal.

9.1.e

Land Use and Planning (LUP) committee report

9.1.f

Public Safety, Health and Operations (PSHO) committee report

9.1.g

Public Works and Mobility (PWM) committee report

9.2

Informational Reports

9.2.a

Administratively Approved Report

10.

PUBLIC COMMENT ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS

11.

COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE MAYOR

12.

GENERAL COMMENTS OF CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS

13.

ADJOURNMENT

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