9:00 am Library opens, mingling available on the 4th floor

 

9:45 Cooper Room Doors open  

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10:00 Welcome: Terry Minow, Big Sky 55+ Board Chair

 

10:10 Logan Davis, Navigating the Shark-Infested Information Ocean - How to identify and counter disinformation and

misinformation

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11:00 Jeff Kallay: American Generations - The Past Predicts the Future

 

11:50 Lunch - Box lunches and Beverages 

 

12:15 Panel: Intergenerational Jeopardy - United We Stand, Divided We Lose! 

• Alice Boyer - Executive Director Forward Montana - Zoomers issues: housing, health care, job market, ai

• Dr. Atty Moriarty - MT Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics - Young families with children, Medicaid impacts post- HR 1 and MT work requirements, health care challenges for all ages

• Bill Bronson - Great Falls Public Schools Trustee and Big Sky 55+ Board member - Montana Public Education Funding, Montana School Funding Commission once-in-a-decade school funding review and recommendations  

• Jeff Kallay - (see above)

• Moderator Sanna Porte  

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1:25 Break

 

1:30 Panel: Making Montana Taxes More Fair - Do we really need another massive tax cut for  Montana’s richest residents? And if so, who pays?  

• Heather O'Loughlin - Executive Director, Montana Budget and Policy Center

• Rep. James Reavis - Billings Lawmaker and member of the Revenue Interim Committee and 2025 House Tax Committee

• Moderator Jon Ellingson

 

2:30 BREAK - Yoga/Stretch - Claudia Clifford

 

2:45 Panel: Data Centers: Coming to a Place Near You?  What do we need to know?  

• Anne Hedges - MEIC - Energy requirements, rates, climate, water, noise and air quality impacts of data centers

• Svein Newman - Missoula County Energy Policy adviser - Local and state government regulatory oversight questions, capacity, and needs

• Moderator Margie MacDonald 

 

3:45 Plenary discussion: Bringing It All Together and Building Successful Coalitions in 2027! How we can take the ideas of the day and use them to be more effective in the 2027 Leg Session. 

 

4:15 Legislator perspectives: Rep. Connie Keogh shares the perspective of the lawmakers as these issues come before them.

 

4:30 ADJOURN.