Great Falls weighs new plan for Board of Health governing body makeup

Metropolis Commissioner Joe McKenney presented an update and a draft proposal with regards to negotiations with the county over the makeup of the governing body that will oversee the Board of Wellbeing throughout Tuesday night’s get the job done session.

McKenney’s proposal for the make-up of the human body, essential pursuing the Legislature’s passage of HB 121, would be to contain two county commissioners and a single city commissioner that would serve as voting associates. McKenney reported this arrives after weeks of conversations with County Commissioner Joe Briggs, as very well as the other users of the county commission individually.

“They can take it, they can reject it, or they can make a counteroffer,” McKenney claimed Tuesday. “The county commissioner and I, we built progress, we created a great deal of progress, but we’re at an impasse wherever we just cannot agree to a final selection. But we’re near sufficient that I desired to bring it up to this physique for discussion.”