Welcome to Engage Bozeman!
We're glad you're here!
Engage Bozeman is the City of Bozeman’s online “home” for projects that we are seeking community input on!
Do you want to learn more about what’s happening in Bozeman as we plan for the future? Are you interested in providing input on City projects, but short on time? This website is an easy way for you to stay informed, provide your input, and connect with your neighbors, city staff, and elected officials.
Whether you have 5 minutes, or a whole afternoon, visit the project pages that interest you, and register here!
How we engage
City Commission adopted the Engage Bozeman Community Engagement Initiative in April 2021 as a guiding framework for how City staff, leadership and the community can contribute to decision making processes in our city. The Engage Bozeman framework outlined our guiding principles of Equity & Inclusion, Trust & Transparency, and Innovation & Adaptation, established goals and metrics, and a common definition, process, and tools for community engagement.
Community Engagement means:
"An inclusive and ongoing process that relies on a two-way exchange of information, ideas, and expertise between the public and the City of Bozeman to solve problems and make sustainable decisions."
Defining decision making:
Our approach to community engagement means that decision makers, staff, and the public are all aware of which decisions have already been made and which decisions will depend on community input.
We are committed to providing information on the decision making process for each project, and how your input is being considered along with other decision making criteria, such as economic/financial, environmental, technological, and social impacts.
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Level of Engagement
Each project has a different level of engagement. The graphic below shows the four different levels of engagement. Look for this graphic on each project page to see which level of engagement is happening.
Inform: Giving information to the community
Consult: Asking for the community's input on alternatives
Involve: Working with the community to create alternatives
Collaborate: Partnering with the community to create criteria and alternatives
Hello! I meant to include this on the survey. We need an easy to access calendar of events/meetings/webinars including the places of these meetings. I like to print it out for folks at work at the hospital. I just can't seem to find something inclusive of events. Thanks!
I have an issue with city work at my home and have tried to figure out how to contact someone to discuss it, and can find no way to contact the proper person, Mr. Mihelich if I understand how the administrative responsibilties are divided.
Workers are about to tear out the hedge behind my house. No one previously communicated with me about this. Not a very responsive, considerate or empathic local government, folks.
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Looking for information on Bike Black Avenue but could not find it.
I live near Graf St and Enterprise Blvd and struggle with the fact that there is no safe bike infrastructure to get me anywhere west of 19th Ave. Right now, there are bike lanes on S 19th Ave but they abruptly stop just south of Kagy, and there are no continuous side walks between the end of the bike lane and Graf to take instead. How are people who live as south as Blackwood Rd expected to commute by bike safely without riding in lanes dedicated to cars? I am especially concerned since drivers still frequently speed on S 19th after passing Kagy despite the speed limit being lowered recently. Not to mention, I frequently see people running the light on 19th Avenue at the intersection of Graf and 19th. I look both ways turning onto 19th even when the light is green because I see the light run so often. Overall, I stick to only bike commuting when I need to go somewhere east of 19th where bike infrastructure is much safer.
I have seen many near head-on or T-Bone type collisions at the intersection of Catamount St and N 27th Ave. Drivers traveling East and West don't see the Stop sign and have nearly hit the North South travelers.
I cannot get back to my registered entry to the road development on Fowler -- I think its building is a foregone conclusion, but I would like to see as much vegetation -- nice shrubs, trees, grasses -- preserved as possible. I drive in that neighborhood frequently although I do not live there. Please preserve a maximum amount of nice vegetation.
I see family-unfriendly, 3-bathroom, 2-bedroom condos for the rich being approved all over the downtown core, while simultaneously being asked to vote for higher taxes to support affordable housing. It’s quite the head scratcher.