In his first minute on the job — literally — Shawn Fredrickson made clear a top priority.
“Butte-Silver Bow’s Parks and Recreation Department is, by far, the lowest-funded parks and rec department when compared to other major cities in Montana and the lowest-funded department within the city and county of Butte-Silver Bow and it’s not even its own department,” Fredrickson told commissioners just after they confirmed him as parks director Wednesday night.
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He then said that “is a discussion for another day” but tossed in two more pitches during a brief talk to the same council he chaired before resigning two weeks ago to take his new job.
