City Club Missoula

City Club Missoula’s June 15 forum will discuss the future of bicycling in Missoula as the city grows. Six bicycling specialists from various arenas will discuss the possibilities and the realities.

What’s the future of bicycling in Missoula as the city grows? At City Club Missoula’s next lunchtime forum on June 15, six cycling specialists from various bicycle arenas will discuss the possibilities and the realities.

The club’s mission is to provide civil dialogue and discourse in a nonpartisan, nonsectarian manner without advocating specific positions, and to encourage participation from the broader community at large.

Until the Montana Legislature deals with the second and third parts of a court mandate requiring it to fund quality education in the state budgeting for school districts will continue to be more difficult than it should be.

Supt. Jim Clark will also talk about the district’s May 8 elementary and secondary levies and other avenues that the district is pursuing to raise awareness and build support for public schools.

Participants will have an opportunity to say what they think should be preserved and participate in an architectural treasure hunt.

Treasure Hunt. The highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the 17th Annual Missoula Historic Preservation Awards.

Missoula County Public Schools fine arts director Paul Ritter – a member of the committee – opened the discussion with a comparison of the community’s school or public-based facilities and how they stack up with others in Montana.

Ritter’s conclusion was that neither school nor public facilities in Missoula – particularly the school ones – match up very well.

Does Missoula need a performing arts center? If so, where should it be? How much will it cost? Who will it benefit? What are the long term impacts to the city and to Western Montana?

“You are 50 times more powerful than a person from California,” Baucus said, as far as access to U.S. senators goes. Montana senators answer to fewer people than California senators do – and Baucus said he likes his bosses.