Good evening.

I'm going to call the Buttes Rebook Council of Commissioners Committee of the Whole meeting to order for Wednesday, September 9th, 2026.

Clerk, could you provide us roll call?

One presiding, ten present, one absent.

Thank you.

Let the uh record show that Commissioner Morgan is absent and excused this evening.

Commissioner Walker, would you lead us in the prayer and the pledge?

Okay, at this time I'm gonna call for any public comment on any items on the agenda this evening.

Any public comments on the agenda.

Please state your name and address for the record.

Could you just make sure your microphones turned off and then restate that, please?

Got it.

Okay.

Uh Kristen Granfield 150N.

I'd like to comment on uh communication 2026 438.

Uh it looks like there's been a request to schedule the public hearing, which, if I'm not mistaken, I heard earlier has been granted.

Um I wanted to bring up a couple things.

Um, and I assume all of you have seen the right of way request that the petitioner is looking for.

Um it is on a hilltop that overlooks if you uh were to stand on it or be close to it, the park uh behind the hospital, which we enjoy launching music at, sledding in the winter, etc.

Um, in terms of granting this right of way to an investment of undeveloped land, um I have lived in nine cities and actually nine states and thirteen cities, and I have never seen a city or county grant land to someone without a cost.

Um I'm wondering what that cost or payment will be to the city of Butte.

In addition to that, I think it's ironic that um in communication 2026-432, this person in Butte wants to purchase the vacant lot that Butte owns.

So I don't understand why a municipality would give away land to one and not to a citizen.

So that's that's a concern.

Um the overall concern is that based on the location of the property, it has a lot of benefit in the future potentially for activity of the community, for habitat within the community, etc.

And I think it's very important that when we are looking at granting someone the privilege of owning land in Butte and developing it, that it take into account what the public deserves, who should maybe be privileged to use that land or be granted that land.

There's a number of citizens and bodies within Butte, like seniors, etc.

churches, not for profits, that are they also getting the same treatment, I would ask.

Um so those are my comments on granting this right of way.

It seems to me I'm not a native to Butte, but coming into Butte, I look at what I can give when I've joined this community.

I don't look at what I can take, and this person is petitioning for that right of way, which is a take.

If you view the zoning and plot maps, and I suggest you take a ride up there and take a look at the property in conjunction with where the park is located.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Granfield.

Is there any other public comment on the agenda?

Seeing none, I'm gonna skip the report of the chair, and we'll move on to section one bid openings, public hearings and/or presentations.

Presentations, uh number one, communication number 2026-447.

Kayla Lappin, economic development coordinator, requesting Council of Commissioners permission to schedule a presentation on September 9th, 2026 from REC Silicon Inc.

regarding an update about their butte operations.

Ms.

Lappin.

Welcome.

Uh Commissioner Thatcher, members of council.

Um I have with me a representative from REC, Zach Kelly, who would um like to give this presentation.

Thank you.

Welcome, Mr.

Kelly.

Thank you, Commissioners.

So I got the honor tonight to give you guys an introduction into a company, a plant that's been here for 30 years.

But I think a lot of people know we're there, but maybe you don't exactly know what we do, what we make, and what's actually out there.

So I'll start off with what we make, and that's silicon-based gases.

So we start off siline gas is our main by volume product, and it has been for a number of years.

We sell it in cylinders, tunners, and modules all over the world.

We also produce chlorocylenes, monochlorocylene, MCS, dichlorocylene, we call DCS.

These are precursors in our process where they're formed in the process for making psiline gas.

We pull a slipstream out of the process, and then we run through distillation columns, and we're end up with a semiconductor grade high purity gas used at fabricate at semiconductor fabs.

We also have uh silane derivatives.

This would be where silane is the starting material, and then from there we have an established diceylane product we've been making since 2008.

We're currently working on a tricilane product that we're hoping goes into like the next generation of fabs.