City Council schedules redo on annexation vote

Havre City Council is again visiting the question of annexing properties west of town, with the agenda for tonight’s meeting including a vote to repeal one measure moving forward with annexation and another to take a vote on a new version of the proposal.

Havre Mayor Tim Solomon said today the redo is to correct an error on when a public meeting had been scheduled originally, Oct. 3. That was two days short to the 30 days required by law from the first vote on the resolution and the public meeting.

“It was just an oops on figuring out the timelines,” Solomon said.

The new resolution stating the city’s intent to annex property sets the public hearing on the proposal for Oct. 20.

The hearing will be noticed in an advertisement in the newspaper and the city will mail notices of the hearing to people whose property is affected by the proposed annexation.

Following the public hearing, the city will accept written comments about the proposal for 45 days.