City government wants to educate public on SIDs for street work

During a lengthy meeting of the Streets and Sidewalk Committee of Havre’s City Council, city officials agreed to try to work to educate the public on special improvement districts — SIDs — that could be used to repair streets in the city.

“We’ve obviously had two ballot measures that didn’t pass, much to my chagrin,” council member Terry Lilletvedt said, “but it didn’t pass two times so I think we need to look at other options.”

Havre tried twice to have voters approve a mill levy to use to rehabilitate the streets.

In 2015 voters denied the first attempted levy, and in 2017 narrowly voted dow...