Judith Basin County Input
Economic Development (private business)
- Keep taxes low enough to promote new businesses
- Ensure dependable cell phone service (tower)
- Expand hours of grocery store
- Get credit card gas station (rather than key)
- Reopen Black Bull (access building and liquor license)
- Recruit bookkeeper/accountant
- Find lenders who can help make borrowing easier
- Develop tourism
- Improve internet connectivity
- Identify regulations that are holding business back
- Establish new restaurant
Employment
- Develop jobs in energy to bring more workers to area
- Develop jobs in oil, coal, agriculture, finance, manufacturing, housing, retail
- Identify government policies that harm local businesses
- Improve internet access
- Attract young people with jobs and housing
- Maintain Forest Service jobs
Health
- Provide education about healthy diet
- Establish health facilities closer to town
- Access community wellness program
- Maintain healthy lifestyle
Housing
- Coordinate with other communities to rehab housing
- Seek grants for multi-family housing projects
- Secure assisted living facility for seniors
Transportation
- Provide transportation to health services
- Install signal arms, warning signal on all RR crossings
- Get gas station
- Bring back train service
- Trains create opportunity for tourist and recreational rides, sight-seeing by train
- Transit between Lewistown and Great Falls, possible senior bus
- Secure low-cost transit for seniors needing to travel to medical appointments
- Seek grants to build or repair side streets and sidewalks
- Build walking and hiking trails, bike paths
- Coordinate ride-share to medical appointments
- Coordinate prescription pick-up
- Provide rent-a-wreck for folks with unreliable vehicle
- Community bulletin board
- Place mats or printed community calendar (use high school)
Parks & Recreation
- Install hook-ups for temporary campers
- Establish location for community activities (weddings, funerals, parties, etc)
- Seek hotel/motel; indoor exercise facility
- More CPM trails in Belt Mountains
- Improve pool
Education
- Create student activity center
- Offer adult education/employment & business training
- Integrate individual athlete sports into school athletic program
- Expand library
- Create volunteer corps
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