The Judiciary Committee of the Butte Silverbow County Council of Commissioners convened on November 12, 2025, to deliberate on three primary items: the proposed regulatory framework for marijuana, the disposition of unsold tax deed land, and administrative claims. County Attorney Matt Enruth, appearing on behalf of the county attorney's office (noting he was absent the prior week due to illness), led discussions on the substantive agenda items. The committee focused on procedural workflow for ordinance adoption and resolved administrative financial matters before adjourning.
Communication 25-310 (Marijuana Ordinance):
Communication 2025-486 (Tax Deed Land):
Note on Timestamps: The transcript explicitly states the meeting was called for "November 12th, 2025," though the user prompt metadata references a date of "2025-11-13." The summary reflects the date spoken in the record (Nov 12).
Yes, I'll move over here. Dan was with us too on Friday. I'm gonna bring my sunbeam heater next week, all right. I will call the Judiciary Committee meeting for um November 12th 2025. I'm confused. Okay, um item number one, communication number twenty-five-three ten, Matt Enruth, Butte Silverboat County Attorney requesting council of commissioners' authorization for the county attorney's office to draft a new ordinance regulating the sale and distribution of medical and recreational marijuana in Butte Silverbow County. Um County Attorney Anruth. Uh Commissioner's ordinance is done. I spoke with Sean Peterson today. If nobody has any additional requirements, what we're gonna ask you guys to do to do is note and place it on file, and then we will resubmit the whole one that we worked on to uh the council. So then we have the clean start of here's the whole ordinance, and then it'll come down to you guys. We'll do our three readings, our public hearing, and then it will go back up. That way we don't have kind of the weirdness of how we developed it, you know, following it. Does that make sense? So Sean and I talked about it today. I said, hey, how do you normally you know propose ordinances? And he goes, well, usually they're fully prepared, you guys aren't discussing them in the meetings. I said, All right, well, let's have them just note it, place it on file. We will resubmit the clean version in uh communication tomorrow, and then you guys will place it back in judiciary for the actual formal readings and the public hearing, and then we will bring it back up for a final vote. Commissioner Callahan. I guess my question is does it go to the full council first and then it comes back with the judiciary? Okay, okay. Just like normally, like like when uh deputy county attorney Sean Peterson normally presents an ordinance to you guys, it goes to full council, then it gets down to you guys, and then we do the actual readings and then go from there. I just Ham and I both felt that made it cleaner. That makes sense. Okay. Yes, because we have to do the public comment, we have to do all of that. And ordinances need three readings. Yep, we're gonna need three readings plus the public comment period and uh hearing any commissioners with questions. Oh sorry. Okay. Um I would entertain a motion. Thank you, Chairman Shay. I'd like to make a motion to note in place on file communication number 25-310. On the question, do we need to cross-reference this? Do we need to hold this and cross-reference it? Yes, with the original communication. Yes. Okay, so we we would want to hold this in advance. So that's what thank you, Chairman Shea. I kind of thought about that too, but we don't have anything yes yet to cross-reference with the same, but we don't have any, yeah. So she's wondering if we cross-reference it with the ordinance when you introduce it. Is that weird? Once we finally pass it, then we cross-reference this communication. Is that what you're saying, Commissioner Shea? Yeah, I guess we could do it that way. Yeah. We don't have to, but Commissioner Morgan um prefers lots of cross-references. The pleasure of the chair. Okay, there's a motion in a second to um note communication number 2025-310 and place it on file.