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The Butte-Silver Bow Council of Commissioners Committee of the Whole met on 2026-10-15 in a session that included three staff presentations, public comment on a proposed data center moratorium and transportation safety, and a series of communications actions. All votes taken during the meeting were 10-0. No agenda or minutes were provided for this summary.
Commissioners, will you please check in? Commissioners committee the whole meeting to order for Wednesday, October fourteenth, twenty twenty six. Can we please have a roll call? Commissioner O'Leary is present and here. Next item on tonight's agenda is any public comment on any items that are on tonight's agenda. If there's any member of the public that would like to speak on any items that are is on tonight's agenda now would be your opportunity. We do ask that you keep your comments to three minutes or less. Welcome. Please state your name and address for the record. Ms. Chairman, members of the council. Uh Evan Barrett, 807 West Silver Street. I wanted to just very briefly comment on uh letter number 435 and Bill No. Three, obviously dealing with Data Center, which is uh going to be uh more active in two weeks on this, but it's on the agenda uh here. I would like to uh comment how we were appreciative for Butte Silver Bowl getting uh this introduced. Uh the idea of a moratorium. Uh uh bringing it to the full council to be acted upon uh is gonna involve uh the kind of participation that this thing deserves. Uh it was not very hard to get 5,000 people to sign petitions. And uh uh so there's a high degree of public interest in it, and that public interest still remains. And so we have the opportunity here to maybe start fresh in a way. In April of last year, year and a half ago, uh, when I came before uh the body and said, why don't you not proceed so rapidly with the land sale? And uh nobody really knew what was going on. So let's get get with it together and take some time. And uh later in the same evening, the land sale was moved forward, and it moved forward three or four different times. Uh and what ensued in my mind, uh that brought about a kind of adversarial situation. I at least felt that there was not an interest at the in the courthouse of letting public participation uh catch up with the uh SABE deal. And uh that did not serve the community well. Uh so we have the opportunity now to move from kind of an adversarial situation to a cooperative situation, and I look forward to that. I think if we all put our heads together and work together uh on this moratorium, we can come up with a good piece of work. But we do need to be transparent, we need to be participatory, we need to provide plenty of opportunity. Uh this moratorium can can be done with one vote, I understand, because it's an emergency or whatever it's called, but we should not be rushing to the process again, like a year and a half ago. Let's not rush. Let's give people opportunity to have their say, listen to learn what the county's thinking, and vice versa. The county to learn what the people are thinking. So this is an opportunity for cooperation, and I look forward to it uh in the coming uh weeks. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Barrett. Is there any other member of the public that would like to speak on any item on tonight's agenda? Welcome. Please state your name and address for the record and what communication you're doing. I am Logan Warner. I live at uh 5100 South Warren uh trailer 25 here in Buttes. Um the thing I'd like to speak on, I did see on the agenda something about SCJ Alliance. Um, in regards to a plan for transportation safety comprehensive for Buttes. Um I definitely think that is a very good idea, and the reason is so I actually e-bike to work. Um, and it is the infrastructure is incredibly inconsistent. There are places where the sidewalk is only there for 500 feet, and then not there for a mile on either side