The Friday Packet with Stocky and Stout Podcast

We catch up on the Billings city council for March 2024. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

On this weeks show we take our first dive into 2024 for the Billings city council. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

On this episode of the pod we wrap up the year 2023. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

This week we catch you up on roughly 2 1/2 months of Billings city council meetings. Windows, drains, cops and candidate introductions for the upcoming election. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

On this podcast for the second time we interview Lisa Harmon the senior preacher at Billings First Church. ↓↓Taken from her bio on the Billings First Church website, Lisa describes exactly what she's about.↓↓ "It’s a call. It’s a practice. It’s remembering who we are in soulful, joyful belonging. I am called as Minister of Healing and Transformation of beloved community. Through my ministry and works, I have endeavored to embody the example of Christ in my life, in the work that I have done and in the work that I do today in all settings whether at a city council meeting, at the Montana State Legislature, on the streets in downtown Billings, in a hospital setting, or at the font and pulpit. I continue advocate and work on behalf of those experiencing homelessness, with the addicted, with marginalized populations within the native community, and LGBTQI+ community, with the stranger, the immigrant and the refugee, and across the spectrum of community. The embodiment of the life and ministry of Jesus has taken many shapes and forms in my life over the years as I taught high school French and German, created a cause-related, award-winning, national company, and served as witness on various community boards and commissions that made compassionate and just gains for the City of Billings and Yellowstone County. I have served and continue to serve on boards like the Native American Coalition, Community Innovations, Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter, the Mayor’s Committee on Homelessness, the YMCA, Billings Cultural Partners, the International Downtown Association among others. A 500-hour certified, trauma-informed yoga instructor, I teach 2-3 classes a week. I teach at the Montana Women’s Prison, having started a program there, at Passages, a pre-release center, at Billings First Congregational Church (weekly class), and am a substitute at a private studio. In my years of community work, I knew that God’s spirit was working in me; I knew that God was in our midst in the beloved and broken community that I was called to serve. I am called by God, called by community, deeper into community. This is who I am, a minister of the United Church of Christ." *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

This week catch up on the months of July and August 2023 Billings city council meetings. Parks district funding, garbage collection changes, and the ever present and persistant jib-jab. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

This week on The Friday Packet with Stocky and Stout we talk city budget, possible temporary jail solutions, and leaf identification and disposal solutions. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

This week on the show we attempt to catch up on 10 Billings city council meetings for April and May 2023. Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

On this episode we interview Julie and Mehmet about the DEI Immersion program. Julie Seedhouse is an associate broker at Century 21 and is also the chair of the Billings chamber board of directors. Mehmet Casey is the development director for the Downtown Billings Alliance Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

On this episode we detail the zig-zagging tale that is zone change 1021 which was voted on multiple times at the February 27th 2023 Billings city council. How do you vote on something multiple times? Listen in and find out. Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

On this episode of THE Friday Packet with Stocky and Stout we talk about a myriad of different topics. The CIP, Zone Change 1021, Recreation Centers, back in parking, just to name a few. Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

Stout and I catch up on the Billings city council meetings for the month of January 2023. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

On our last episode of the year we catch up on council meetings for the month of December and dive head first into Billings city council's struggle with zone change 1019. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

On this episode of the podcast we detail the November 21st, 2022 work session of the Billings City Council. We made a concerted effort to make the episode a little bit shorter. Enjoy! *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

We catch up on the moth of October 2022 meetings for the Billings city council. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

On this clip heavy episode we play catch up with the Billings Montana city council for the month of September 2022. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

On this weeks pod we catch up on Billings city council for the month of August. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

On todays episode we detail the first three meeting of the month July 2022. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

We catch up on a massive backlog of billings city council meetings starting in May of 2022. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!

We catch up on the Billings City Council for the month of April and even into May. Housing, high life and budgets. All things critical to a happy healthy existence. *Email us at thefridaypacket@gmail.com with comments, questions, concerns. *Go to https://www.patreon.com/thefridaypacket to “buy that for a dollar” and become a sustaining member of the podcast!!