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10/20/2025

City commissioners feud over public engagement in hiring of city manager

The Helena City Commission is at odds over the hiring of the next city manager following a special meeting called last week to discuss the timing and the public’s input into the decision. One commissioner said the hiring needed to be “more thoughtful,” while the mayor accused that fellow commissioner of “stalling.”

When current Helena City Manager Tim Burton announced his plans to retire at the end of the year, Mayor Wilmot Collins requested that the commission-manager relations subcommittee — comprised of just himself and

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