Havre manager proposal fails

Havre will continue to operate under a mayor-council form of government after voters soundly rejected Tuesday a proposal that would have changed the city’s structure.

Voters rejected the Havre Local Government Review Study Commission proposal 2,302-1,435.

“I don’t know, it’s hard to say why it failed,” Commission Chair Brewer last night.

Brewer and fellow committee members Lowell Swenson and Perry Atchinson were chosen by Havre voters in 2014 to determine if Havre should change its current form of government, and if so what form a revamped city government would take.

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