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Helena City Commission Can't Get Out of Its Own Way — And It's Costing the City

If there's one story that defined Helena government this week, it's a City Commission that keeps running into itself. The body deadlocked on four Open Lands Major Projects — leaving a DeFord Trail Head grant in jeopardy and three other open space improvements in limbo — after competing motions over whether bond funds could pay for parking lot paving both failed to clear a majority. That same meeting saw commissioners table a trailhead parking ordinance, delay Trinity Center annexation items, and spar over whether a confidential legal strategy on the immigration resolution had been leaked to the public before a special meeting could even be scheduled.