Chickens, constructions and more at Council meeting

During the Public Comment portion of last Tuesday's Malta City Council meeting, Malta Mayor Shyla Jones explained why a recent request to allow City residents to keep chickens in City limits was not put on the night's agenda and why the measure wouldn't be approved.

Mayor Jones said that same request had been made to the City of Malta in the past and was denied then for a couple of reasons. The person asking for the change in policy to allow up to 4-to-6 hens (no roosters) to be kept in backyards, in covered pens, and pointed to large cities in the state — Missoula and Billings — and...