Public Notices

For all Citizen Advisory Board legal notices, Floodplain Permit notices, and City Council legal notices, the public notices will be published here.

FLOODPLAIN PERMITS:

none at this time.

ZONING APPLICATIONS:

none at this time.

CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARINGS:

The Three Forks City Council will hold a public hearing on January 28, 2025, to adopt the Impact Fee Advisory Committee’s recommendation for updated Impact Fees for all new construction and changes in use for Fire, Water, Wastewater, Transportation, and Municipal Buildings. The draft Service Area Reports and IFAC’s recommendation is available on the City’s website at https://threeforks.municipalimpact.com/impact-fee-advisory-committee.  (The Council intends to hold separate public meetings to update the ordinance regarding Title 3, Chapter 6 Impact Fees as well, which will be in a separate notice.)

Written and verbal comment will be accepted at the hearing, or may be submitted via email to [email protected] or [email protected] prior to the hearing (deadline of 5PM on 1/28/2025).

The hearing will be held at the temporary meeting location of 116 E. Cedar Street, Three Forks, Montana at 6:00PM.  Please contact the City Office at (406) 285-3431 for any questions. 

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Park Mowing, Cleanup, and Weed Control & Fertilizer

The City of Three Forks is seeking proposals from qualified firms or individuals to provide weekly mowing services for the City parks during the growing season, a spring and fall clean-up (including bagging/picking up all leaves/branches/twigs) of all the parks, weed control and fertilizer applied (as needed), as well as “roundup” weed control in the playground/gravel areas (as needed).  The City prefers to enter into a multi-year contract at the rate submitted.  If bagging and removal of grass clippings is extra, please note any additional fee. Please break down the cost by mowing, spring/fall cleanup, and weed control, as well as the length of time in your proposal. Work is seasonal and typically begins in late April through September.  City parks for maintenance include:

Please submit proposals in person, via mail, or email to: City of Three Forks, PO Box 187, 206 Main Street, Three Forks, MT, 59752, or [email protected].  For questions, please call (406) 285-3431. Proposals must be received no later than 5:00 PM, Friday, February 21, 2025.

Garbage Service for the City of Three Forks as a Customer

The City of Three Forks is seeking proposals from qualified firms or individuals to provide weekly garbage pickup services for the following locations:

• City Hall 206 S Main Street (currently has 96-gallon tote)
• City Shop 306 Railway Street (currently has 4-yard dumpster)
• Old City Shop 308 1^st Avenue E (currently has 96-gallon tote)
• Three Forks Community Library 607 S Main Street (currently has 2-yard dumpster)
• Fire Department 13 E Date Street (currently has 96-gallon tote)
• Rodeo Grounds 95961 MT Hwy 2 (currently has two 4-yard dumpsters)
• Stevenson Park located east of park on 3^rd Avenue E (currently has 2 96-gallon totes)

We are also seeking additional roll-off dumpsters for various cleanups throughout the year for our community at large:

• Dumpster(s) capable of hauling 6 tons of yard waste for “Spring Cleanup”
• Dumpster(s) capable of hauling 6 tons of yard waste for “Fall Cleanup”
• Dumpster(s) capable of hauling 1 ton of fireworks waste over 4^th of July weekend
• Dumpster(s) capable of hauling 2 tons of real Christmas trees

The City is also interested in the possibility of recycling services to be offered seasonally at Bertagnolli Park (located between 4^th and 5^th Avenues East and Birch and Cedar Streets) from May to July annually, as this park is used daily for baseball and softball practices and games.

Previous contracts have provided some of these dumpsters free of charge.  The community would be grateful if new proposals included one or more of these services for free as well.  Previous contracts have provided a dumpster and driver for up to a maximum number of trips for one day only for spring and fall cleanups, as staffing permits.  Three Forks is amenable to having dumpsters left for the week or weekends in order to best provide this service to our community.  Three Forks owns the land where these dumpsters would be located.

Proposals should include the fees broken down by weekly service fee by location, additional cleanup services requested by location, additional recycling service if it can be offered.  The City of Three Forks will have the right to accept or reject specific services.

Please submit proposals in person, via mail, or email to: City of Three Forks, PO Box 187, 607 South Main Street, Three Forks, MT, 59752, or [email protected].  For questions, please call (406) 285-3431. Proposals must be received no later than 5:00 PM, Friday, January 31, 2025.

City Hall Remodel Starting 1/2025

City Hall will begin a remodel project starting in January 2025. We will temporarily be moving to the Three Forks Community Library basement at 607 S. Main Street, while the work is done.

City Hall will be setup to handle all of your needs we currently provide, just on a much smaller scale. It may inconvenient for some of you as well to come downstairs - so we are working on where we can provide a payment drop slot, or if you need to discuss something more in depth we are happy to make appointments and meet you upstairs in the Library.

This majority of this project will be funded via a House Bill 355 "State-Local Infrastructure Partnership Act" grant the City decided upon in December 2023, with the grant applications submitted last March. The remodel includes removal of a couple walls to enlarge the office and City Council Chambers area.

SLIPA funds were set aside for each local government to apply for. Projects were prioritized by drinking water and wastewater systems, fire suppression systems, streets, roads, bridges, landfills, street lights, airports, and public buildings.

Fire Hall Addition

Three Forks submitted 3 grant applications: Library ADA door replacement and re-roofing, Fire Hall addition, and City Hall remodel. Unfortunately, the Fire Hall was not awarded a grant, as an addition was not considered maintenance. However, the Council felt the Fire Hall was still a priority so will be using Fire Department Capital Improvement Funds to build an additional ADA bathroom with shower, one non-ADA bathroom with shower, and a small training/office space off the back of the existing building.  Since this project is not under the timeline constraints of grant funding, this will begin once City Hall is complete.

Library ADA Doors & Re-Roof

The Library doors have been ordered and are anticipated to be ready in mid-January.  We are currently in process of completing a service agreement for the building to be re-roofed.  Once the door is replaced, the ADA ramp will and landing will be rebuilt as well.  This will mean that patrons will need to enter the Library from one of the side entrances, but we hope this will not last longer than a few weeks.  As we get closer to that work, we will keep you updated here and on our Facebook page.