Vacant properties committee meeting Tuesday

Havre City Council’s Vacant Properties Ad Hoc Committee will meet Tuesday to discuss how next to move forward with addressing the issue of blight caused by vacant derelict properties within the city.

City Council Member Caleb Hutchins, who also sits on the five-member committee, said in a Facebook instant message conversation Sunday that the meeting will take place Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Havre Hill-County Library.

The committee was established by Mayor Tim Solomon at the urging of City Council President Andrew Brekke last May, after Montana State University-Northern grant writer Samantha Cla...