CALL TO ACTION by Mayor Miller to All Fromberg Residents!

Direct quotes from Mayor Shirley Miller’s Facebook Page follow. The appropriate placement of such “A CALL TO ACTION” to Fromberg residents would seem to be on the “new” TOF website which TOF so proudly touts and spent a substantial sum of to money to “update” per following link: http://www.fromberg-mt.com/. Photographic documentation available upon request.

“This year Carbon County is in line to receive approximately 1.5 million in grant funds. The Town of Fromberg has recently been in meetings with a top grant writer and we are anticipating submitting a grant request very soon.
These grant funds will allow us to upgrade our infrastrucure and replace Fire Hydrants throughout the town, along with needed gate valves and control valves. These improvements will benefit the town greatly in fire safety and water pressure.
We are urging the community to email or call your local Senator and urge him to vote yes on HB 652.
W are very excited about the possibilty of receiving these funds. The Town will not have to provide match funds, take out a loan or raise rates.
Fromberg residents, the Mayor and Council have worked very hard to get  improvements planned and completed. PLEASE ..
help with your emails and calls
Thank You.”

9 “Comments”

1. Audrey L. Walleser: “If you check the Montana Legislative website SB 652 does not exist. Call made to the legislature is not going to make a difference. Those calls are merely put on a sheet of paper and placed on their desks. Perhaps better understanding of the legislative process would be something that needs to be looked at
2. Shirley Miller: “You are right. I will make that correction. It is HB 652”
3. Audrey L. Walleser: “The bill has to come out of the committee first before the floor can vote on it. Therefore time would be better spent contacting members of the committee to vote it out of committee first, then exercise it for floor vote”
4. Audrey L. Walleser: http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0203W$BSRV.ActionQuery?P_SESS=20191&P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=HB&P_BILL_NO=652&P_BILL_DFT_NO=&P_CHPT_NO=&Z_ACTION=Find&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ2=&P_SBJT_SBJ_CD=&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ=
5. Shirley Miller: ” Audrey L. Walleser: I realize it is still in committe, and several have alredy contacted members of that committe. From what I understand it will come to the floor for a vote soon. The Town was advised to contact our local Senator first and we are trying to do  both. My goal is to get as many of the Fromberg community as involved as I can. We need all the improvements we are able to do. The water system and Fire Hydrants are a priority  When the bill passes, ( I am optomistic) We have done all the footwork and will submit  asap.  Recently, a regular attendee of the council meetings was contacted with this information and  that person was very negative, which is puzzeling, as that same person has been very vocal about these improvements. This could and should be very important for the Town as a whole and I would hope that everyone feels the same.”
6. Audrey L. Walleser: “Shirley Miller there is no point in contacting anyone other than committee members until it comes to the floor it’s intrusive and confusing. I find it interesting that the town feels the need to hire a grant writer as the funds are being given to the county in some regards and this is new program, additionally even if it passes the floor vote it would have to be signed by the governor. Furthermore after reading this bill from my understanding that $1.5 million that Carbon County gets is already designated in the bill with specific purpose and projects. Putting the horse way ahead of the cart.”
7. Shirley Miller: “The Town did not hire a grant writer.  We have gotten the information and will persue it,  We will continue to be in contact with this person and get as much information as we can. I will try to confirm your coments with him, as to the funds already being designated, whick is questionable, as the funds have not yet been approved or signed. With the printed information I have, these funds have been designated to Carbon County for some time now.”
8. Shirley Miller: “I am well aware of your knowledge of the legislative process. unforntunately I am not , so thank you for the tutorial.I will most certainly study them. That being said, I have to go straight to the source , bring ideas, suggestions and requests and rely on their extentsive knowledge and help to hopefully procure funding to complete them.”
9. Audrey L. Walleser: “Shirley Miller, the bill is 18 pages long and it lists multiple projects in Carbon County right in the bill.Actual HBO652 pdf: https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2019/billpdf/HB0652.pdf