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# Missoula Civic Look-ahead, November 2 to 8: Election Day quiets the week, but the council decides the England Boulevard annexation Monday
- URL: https://www.missoula-commons.com/missoula-civic-look-ahead-november-2-to-8-election-day-quiets-the-week-but-the-council-decides-the-england-boulevard-annexation-monday/
- Published: 2026-11-01T16:34:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-01T16:34:04.000Z
- Description: City offices close for Election Day, but Monday the council votes on annexing the rest of the KOA property on England Boulevard and a $445,446 North Scott playground contract. Wednesday brings a $350,000 Pattee Creek storm water bond and the data center study at the land use board.
- Author: Missoula Commons Staff
- Tags: Civic

*Monday, November 2 through Sunday, November 8, 2026*

Election Day lands on Tuesday, and it reshapes the week. City offices are closed November 3, the county commissioners have no administrative meeting that day, and the Air Quality Advisory Council and the Historic Preservation Commission have both canceled. If you still have a ballot at home, do not mail it: drop it off Monday or Tuesday at one of the sites listed below.

The biggest decision comes Monday night, when the City Council holds its public hearing and final vote on annexing the rest of the KOA campground property on England Boulevard. The same night's consent agenda carries a $445,446 playground contract for the Park on North Scott Street and $1,882,283.26 in bills.

Wednesday is full. Council committees take up a $350,000 storm water bond for Pattee Creek, a utility rate study contract and an update to the city's Complete Streets policy, and that evening the county's data center study goes before the Consolidated Land Use Board. Thursday the commissioners hold their first-Thursday public meeting, agenda not yet posted as of Sunday.

## Monday, November 2

### Missoula City Council

6 p.m., Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St., in person or on Teams; call-in 406-384-6960, conference ID 461 400 421#, with \*5 to raise your hand. The agenda and 304-page packet are on [eScribe](https://pub-missoula.escribemeetings.com/?ref=missoula-commons.com), the city's meeting portal. One public hearing, two consent items and two proclamations, Children's Grief Awareness Month and Native American Heritage Month. The Upper Rattlesnake Neighborhood Leadership Team gives the neighborhood update.

The England Boulevard annexation: public hearing and final vote. This is the deciding step. The council adopted a resolution of intent on October 26 and set Monday's hearing. After a staff report from Dave DeGrandpre, the council takes comment and votes on the resolution to annex.

The staff report names the owner as Missoula Valley Properties LLC of Bend, Oregon, petitioning through Ron Wetzsteon of Professional Consultants Inc. The request would bring about 7.37 acres at 3710 England Boulevard into the city, the part of the KOA mobile home and RV park property that the 1980 annexation left out. Today that land holds storage buildings along England Boulevard and parts of the RV and mobile home parks. The staff report lists the county zoning as Neighborhood Residential; the city would zone it Limited Urban Mixed-Use, matching the city zoning around it and the 2045 land use plan.

This request is about annexation and zoning, and no development application comes with it. Staff told the committee the annexation would help facilitate future redevelopment of the RV park area, and the application mentions possible housing on the southern part; the existing RV park would continue as a legal nonconforming use in the meantime. Staff recommend approval with seven conditions:

- A fire hydrant within a year or before redevelopment, whichever comes first, with a notice recorded at the county
- Right-of-way easements, due within 180 days or before redevelopment, along the western boundary from Peggy Lane south to the alley between Saxony Place and Lancaster Road, at Lexington Avenue, on the Soho Avenue and Concord Drive alignments, and at the alley between Concord Drive and England Boulevard
- Extra England Boulevard frontage so the north half of that right-of-way reaches 50.25 feet from the centerline, which staff say would allow a future three-lane section near Reserve Street

At the October 28 committee discussion, staff acknowledged the owner's concerns about some of the easement conditions and promised a memo clarifying the language, plus an estimate of housing capacity, before the hearing. Kevin Davis, speaking for the Grant Creek Neighborhood Council and the Hellgate Meadows Village Core Association, backed the right-of-way and urged safety improvements at England and Reserve. The [staff report](https://pub-missoula.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=347042&ref=missoula-commons.com) has the full findings.

On the consent agenda. Two items, which the council usually approves in one vote after inviting comment: $1,882,283.26 in accounts payable for checks dated November 3, and the $445,446 agreement with Dakota Playground for playground equipment and safety surfacing at the Park on North Scott Street. The Climate, Conservation and Parks Committee recommended the playground contract 11 to 0 on October 28\. Council member Amber Sherrill noted that neighborhood children's requests had included a ski hill and a candy shop.

Also in the packet. The administratively approved report lists smaller contracts signed without a council vote, including $65,000 to PineTech for a case management system in the City Attorney's Office, $49,940 for a Parks and Recreation staffing assessment, $44,760 for the water feature at the Park on North Scott Street, and $40,788 for a shade pavilion. Public comment on items not on the agenda comes early, up to 20 minutes total and three minutes per speaker, with a second period after regular business.

A note on the city's hearing notice. The city's [Upcoming Public Hearings notice](https://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/DocumentCenter/View/6526/Public-hearings?ref=missoula-commons.com), dated October 26, still read "No Public Hearing(s) Scheduled" on Sunday. The posted agenda lists the hearing.

### County commissioners' staff briefings

Conference Room 206, County Administration Building, 199 W. Pine St., or on Teams. Discussion only, no votes.

8:30 a.m., Public Works. The [agenda](https://missoulacomt.portal.civicclerk.com/event/9891/files/agenda/18644?ref=missoula-commons.com) lists two discussion items: the department's workflow management system, iWorQ, and a meeting about Snowmass Drive with the Road Users Association and the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. No dollar figures or presenters are listed.

9:30 a.m., Lands and Communities. The [agenda](https://missoulacomt.portal.civicclerk.com/event/10468/files/agenda/18653?ref=missoula-commons.com) opens with two public meeting briefings from Jill Johnson, a Taylor family transfer and a boundary line relocation for MKH Montana, which is how staff preview land items headed for a commissioners' public meeting. Melissa Gordon then gives a grants and community resources update, and Chet Crowser gives officer updates. The agenda does not say which public meeting the two land items are headed for.

### Last call for ballots before Election Day

The Elections Center, 140 N. Russell St., has a 24-hour ballot drop box outside the north entrance of Building B. On Election Day the county's [election page](https://www.missoulacounty.gov/departments/elections/current-election/?ref=missoula-commons.com) recommends using another drop-off location because of traffic congestion in that parking lot, so Monday is the easy day to use it. There is also a drive-through drop-off at McCormick Park, 600 Cregg Lane, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, per the office's [October 27 release](https://www.missoulacounty.gov/news/elections-office-reports-43-ballot-return-rate-encourages-voters-to-drop-off-ballots/?ref=missoula-commons.com). Voter registration and address changes are in person only now, at the Elections Center from 8 a.m. to noon Monday. If you want to see how ballots are counted, the office hosts a public tabulation tour at 8:45 a.m. Monday at the Elections Center.

## Tuesday, November 3: Election Day

### Voting

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Absentee ballots must reach the Elections Office by 8 p.m.; postmarks do not count. Find your polling place at [myvoterpagemt.com](https://myvoterpagemt.com/?ref=missoula-commons.com) or on the county's [current election page](https://www.missoulacounty.gov/departments/elections/current-election/?ref=missoula-commons.com).

Drive-through ballot drop-offs run from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at three spots: McCormick Park, 600 Cregg Lane; the Hellgate Elementary baseball fields north of the school at 2385 Flynn Lane; and Russell Street between the fairgrounds and the YMCA. You can also hand a ballot in at any polling place, though those have no drive-through option.

Election Day registration will be available at the Elections Center, 140 N. Russell St., but the office warns that waits could reach three hours. Questions go to 406-258-4751.

### Offices and meetings

The [city calendar](https://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/Calendar.aspx?EID=19123&ref=missoula-commons.com) lists city offices closed Tuesday. We could not load the county's holiday pages to quote its own notice. Neither the county meeting portal nor the [commissioners' schedule](https://www.missoulacounty.gov/departments/commissioners/commissioners-schedule/?cal%5Ffrom=2026-11-02&cal%5Fto=2026-11-08&cal%5Fview=list&cal%5Fsort=earliest&ref=missoula-commons.com) shows anything Tuesday, including the usual 10 a.m. administrative meeting. One caution: the schedule page carried a banner Sunday saying its calendar feed was temporarily unavailable.

The Air Quality Advisory Council's first-Tuesday meeting, normally 5:30 p.m. at Missoula Public Health, 301 W. Alder St., is marked [canceled on the city calendar](https://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/Calendar.aspx?EID=19019&ref=missoula-commons.com). The council's [own page](https://missoulapublichealth.org/boards-councils/air-quality-advisory-council/?ref=missoula-commons.com) had no notice either way when we checked. Missoula Public Health is at 406-258-3642.

## Wednesday, November 4

### City Council committees

Five council committees are scheduled to meet in Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St., or on Teams, with an audio-only call-in at 406-384-6960, conference ID 175 116 153#, and \*5 to raise your hand. The [posted committee schedule](https://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/Archive.aspx?ADID=19692&ref=missoula-commons.com) is attached to Monday's council agenda, and the city notes it is a draft until the council finalizes it Monday night. We read the Budget and Finance and Land Use and Planning agendas; for the other three committees we have the schedule's item titles only. Committees don't make final decisions; what they recommend goes to the full council, usually on a later Monday's consent agenda if the vote was unanimous.

9 to 9:40 a.m., Budget and Finance. Three items, each a recommendation to the full council.

The storm water bond is the one with money attached. Finance director Leigh Griffing asks the committee to back a $350,000 subordinate lien storm water revenue bond through the state's Water Pollution Control State Revolving Fund. The money would design and evaluate green infrastructure to treat carbaryl, diuron and other urban pollutants in the Pattee Creek watershed. The city expects the full principal to be forgiven if it finishes the project and meets program rules. If not, the money becomes repayable from surplus storm water revenues through January 2047 at 2 percent interest plus two quarter-percent surcharges, and rates might need adjusting. The council vote has a November 16 deadline.

The impact fee item is a correction. When the council adopted the fiscal year 2027 impact fee tables on August 17, a table of reduced fees for mixed-use development in the Sxwtpqyen special impact fee district was left out by mistake. Those reductions, in place since 2021, reflect the lower traffic mixed-use projects generate when trips stay on site. Eric Hallstrom presents, and the motion is to set a public hearing for November 30\. Staff say the fiscal effect depends on how much qualifying development happens there.

The third item confirms Mayor Andrea Davis's reappointment of Robert Erickson to the Impact Fee Advisory Committee through November 30, 2030.

9:50 to 10:10 a.m., Public Safety, Health and Operations. Two Fire Department purchases from Chief Lonnie Rash: rapid intervention kits and a station alerting system. No amounts are listed on the schedule, and we did not read this agenda.

10:20 to 11:05 a.m., Land Use and Planning. Interviews for two alternate seats on the Historic Preservation Commission, sponsored by council member Mike Nugent: Liza Nicholas at 10:20 for the Alternate 1 seat, a term through December 31, 2028, and Steve Sand at 10:40 for Alternate 2, through January 22, 2029\. The committee's recommended motions are appointments, which go to the full council.

11:15 a.m. to 12:05 p.m., Climate, Conservation and Parks. A Marshall Mountain Park update from Morgan Valliant of Parks and Recreation. The schedule lists it as an update.

12:35 to 2:35 p.m., Public Works and Mobility. The longest session of the day, with three items: a professional services agreement with FCS for a utility rate study and financial plan, presented by Rebecca Anciaux; a radio tower lease with Vertical Bridge CCR LLC, presented by Logan McInnis; and a resolution adopting an update to the city's Complete Streets policy, presented by Devin Filicicchia.

If you care about what your water and sewer bills will look like, the rate study contract is the one to watch. If you care about how streets get designed for walking, biking and transit, it is the Complete Streets resolution. No dollar amounts are on the schedule, and we did not read this agenda.

The schedule's footer says there are no committee meetings the week of November 9, for Veterans Day. You can get the weekly schedule by email from the city's [agendas page](https://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/1149/AgendasWebcastsMinutes?ref=missoula-commons.com).

### County commissioners' Wednesday

Two staff briefings are on the county portal without posted agendas: a chief officers' update at 8 a.m. and another at 10 a.m. in Room 206\. Both are listed as department updates, discussion only.

### Mountain Line Planning Committee

11 a.m., Mountain Line offices, 1221 Shakespeare St. The committee is listed on the agency's [meetings page](https://mountainline.com/meetings/?ref=missoula-commons.com) with no agenda yet; Mountain Line posts agendas 48 hours before a meeting. The Planning Committee advises the Missoula Urban Transportation District board, which makes the final decisions. The board itself next meets November 19.

### Animal Control Board

5:30 to 7:30 p.m., location by request from Missoula Animal Services at 406-541-7387, per the [city calendar](https://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/Calendar.aspx?EID=19027&ref=missoula-commons.com). The calendar's agenda link goes to the county boards site, which we could not read, so we can't say what is on the agenda.

### Consolidated Land Use Board: the data center study

6 p.m., Sophie Moiese Room, Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, or on Teams; call-in 406-272-4824, conference ID 115 075 404#, with \*5 to raise your hand. [Agenda](https://missoulacomt.portal.civicclerk.com/event/9972/files/agenda/18651?ref=missoula-commons.com).

This is the one substantive item on the board's agenda, listed under communications and special presentations rather than public hearings. Jennie Dixon, Svein Newman and Patrick Swart of the county's planning, development and sustainability staff present the draft data center interim zoning study. It is a presentation, not a decision, and the land use board is advisory; the commissioners decide.

Some background from the county's [project page](https://missoulacountyvoice.com/data-center-interim-zoning?ref=missoula-commons.com). On July 9 the commissioners adopted a one-year countywide moratorium on new or expanded data centers outside city limits, running to July 8, 2027, and state law requires a study before the county changes its rules. Staff presented the draft at the fairgrounds on October 27\. Wednesday is the second stop, and the commissioners' public hearing follows on Thursday, November 12, at 2 p.m. in the same room.

The project page takes written comments from anyone with a free account; the county contact listed there is 406-258-4657\. The rest of Wednesday's agenda is routine: October 7 minutes, staff announcements, public comment on non-agenda items and board member comments. No public hearings are scheduled.

### Canceled Wednesday

The Historic Preservation Commission's 6 p.m. meeting is [canceled](https://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/Calendar.aspx?EID=19172&ref=missoula-commons.com), per the city calendar.

## Thursday, November 5

### Board of County Commissioners: public meeting

2 p.m., Sophie Moiese Room, Courthouse Annex, 200 W. Broadway, or on Teams. The meeting is on the [county portal](https://missoulacomt.portal.civicclerk.com/event/10018?ref=missoula-commons.com) and the commissioners' schedule, but the agenda was not posted as of Sunday. This is the first-Thursday public meeting, the kind that handles land use, policy, budget items and hearings, and it is the only commissioner session with votes on the listings we could read.

We will not guess at the agenda. Monday morning's Lands and Communities briefing previews a Taylor family transfer and an MKH Montana boundary line relocation as public meeting items, so watch for those. Earlier Thursday, at 10 a.m., the commissioners get their chief administrative officer update, with no agenda posted.

### Health boards not meeting

The City-County Health Board, Water Quality District Board and Air Pollution Control Board meet on third Thursdays and are on the city calendar for November 19\. The Water Quality Advisory Council meets on second Tuesdays, next on November 10\. Missoula Public Health is at 406-258-3376.

## Friday, November 6 through Sunday, November 8

No public meetings are posted on the city or county calendars for these days.

## Board of County Commissioners

To sum up the county week: no Tuesday administrative meeting, with Election Day the likely reason, and one voting meeting, Thursday's 2 p.m. public meeting, whose agenda is still to come. Their regular pattern is administrative meetings on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. in Room 206 at 199 W. Pine St. and public meetings on the first, second and fourth Thursdays at 2 p.m. in the Sophie Moiese Room. The [commissioners' schedule page](https://www.missoulacounty.gov/departments/commissioners/commissioners-schedule/?ref=missoula-commons.com) shows the next administrative meeting on Tuesday, November 10, and the next public meeting on Thursday, November 12, when the data center study hearing is set.

## Around the county

Two neighborhood leadership teams meet this week, both small working sessions rather than general meetings. The Miller Creek team meets Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Fire Station 5, 6425 Lower Miller Creek Road, with grant proposal ideas and a City Council report on the [agenda](https://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/Calendar.aspx?EID=19277&ref=missoula-commons.com). The Lewis and Clark team meets Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Lewis and Clark Elementary, 2901 Park St., to recap its general meeting and welcome new members, per the [city calendar](https://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/Calendar.aspx?EID=18664&ref=missoula-commons.com). Neighborhood councils advise; they don't decide.

No community council meetings appear on the county portal this week. Several come next week: Bonner-Milltown on Monday, November 9, at 7 p.m.; Seeley Lake on Tuesday, November 10, at 6 p.m.; East Missoula and Lolo both on November 10 at 7 p.m.; and West Valley on Thursday, November 12, at 6 p.m. None has a posted agenda yet.

Boards without meetings this week. The Missoula Conservation District meets Monday, November 9, at 5:30 p.m. in the Clover Conference Room at the Exploration Center, 1075 South Ave. W., according to [its own notice](https://missoulacd.org/2026/10/30/monday-november-9-2026-missoula-cd-board-meeting/?ref=missoula-commons.com); the city calendar lists it at 7 p.m., and we go with the district. The Missoula County Public Schools trustees next meet Tuesday, November 10, at 5 p.m.

The library board met October 28 and has no November date posted; the city calendar shows it November 25\. The Missoula Housing Authority board has nothing posted after October 21, and the downtown Business Improvement District board meets next on November 17\. We could not read the Missoula Redevelopment Agency's page this week; the city calendar lists the MRA board for November 19 at noon.

The county announced October 26 that property tax bills had been mailed. For owners who do not pay through a mortgage, first-half payments are due November 30, and mailed payments must be postmarked by that date, per the [county's notice](https://www.missoulacounty.gov/news/missoula-county-mails-2026-tax-bills-to-property-owners/?ref=missoula-commons.com). The Clerk and Treasurer's office is at 406-258-4847.

## How to weigh in

City Council. Open Monday's agenda on [eScribe](https://pub-missoula.escribemeetings.com/?ref=missoula-commons.com), click the item and choose "leave comment," attend in person at 140 W. Pine St., or join on Teams using the link in the agenda header. The City Clerk is at 406-552-6078.

Monday's public hearing on the England Boulevard annexation is the chance to speak before the vote, and the consent items take comment before the package vote. For Wednesday's committees, the same call-in number works with conference ID 175 116 153#; the utility rate study and Complete Streets items are in the 12:35 p.m. Public Works and Mobility slot.

County commissioners and the land use board. Speak in person in the Sophie Moiese Room or on Teams at the link on the agenda. You can also leave a voicemail at 406-258-4877, use the [contact form](https://www.missoulacounty.gov/departments/commissioners/contact-the-commissioners/?ref=missoula-commons.com), follow project pages at [Missoula County Voice](https://missoulacountyvoice.com/?ref=missoula-commons.com), or [subscribe to agenda emails](https://missoulacomt.portal.civicclerk.com/subscriptions?ref=missoula-commons.com), which is the surest way to see Thursday's agenda the moment it posts. For the data center study, Wednesday's land use board meeting takes public comment, written comments go through the project page, and the commissioners' hearing is November 12.

Mountain Line. Attend in person at 1221 Shakespeare St., check [mountainline.com/meetings](https://mountainline.com/meetings/?ref=missoula-commons.com) for how to join, or write to board@mountainline.com.

Elections. Questions about polling places, ballot status or registration go to the Elections Office at 406-258-4751, and you can confirm your ballot was received at [myvoterpagemt.com](https://myvoterpagemt.com/?ref=missoula-commons.com).

## What's next

- Monday, November 9\. No City Council meeting, for Veterans Day week, per the council's schedule. Conservation District at 5:30 p.m.; Bonner-Milltown Community Council at 7 p.m.; the Elections Office counts provisional ballots at 2:45 p.m. in a public tour.
- Tuesday, November 10\. Commissioners' administrative meeting at 10 a.m. and Investment Committee at 1 p.m.; Larchmont Golf Course Board at 3:30 p.m.; Parks and Recreation Board at 11:30 a.m. and Parking Commission at noon; MCPS trustees at 5 p.m.; Water Quality Advisory Council at 6 p.m.; Seeley Lake, East Missoula and Lolo community councils in the evening.
- Wednesday, November 11\. Veterans Day; city offices closed. Mountain Line's Planning Committee entry for that day is marked canceled on the city calendar.
- Thursday, November 12, 2 p.m. Commissioners' public hearing on the data center study, Sophie Moiese Room, 200 W. Broadway. Also that day: Open Lands Citizen Advisory Committee and West Valley Community Council at 6 p.m., the Police Commission at 2:30 p.m., and a Mountain Line board retreat.
- Monday, November 16\. City Council returns. The city has said it will ask the council to schedule a public hearing on the Reserve to Scott master plan, the storm water bond resolution carries a November 16 deadline for the council vote, and the council is expected to set a November 30 hearing on the Sxwtpqyen impact fee fix. Community Wildfire Protection Plan open houses run 6 to 7:30 p.m. that week: Monday at the Exploration Center, Tuesday at the Frenchtown fire station, Wednesday at Bonner School and Thursday at Sullivan Community Hall in Seeley Lake.
- Tuesday, November 17\. Election canvass at 11 a.m. at the Elections Center; downtown BID board at 3 p.m.; Transportation Policy Coordinating Committee at 1:30 p.m.
- Wednesday, November 18\. Missoula Housing Authority board at 5:30 p.m.; City Planning Commission public hearing on the Reserve to Scott master plan at 6 p.m.
- Thursday, November 19\. City-County Health, Water Quality District and Air Pollution Control boards from 12:15 p.m.; Missoula Redevelopment Agency board at noon; Mountain Line board and Finance Committee.
- Monday, November 30\. City Council public hearing on the Sxwtpqyen mixed-use impact fee table, if set as planned. First-half property tax payments due, postmarked by that date if mailed.