Staff recommends that City Council approve the MOU between the City and Bright n' Beautiful.

Founded in 1988, Bright n’ Beautiful is a nonprofit organization serving Billings and Yellowstone County and an affiliate of the nation’s leading community improvement organization, Keep America Beautiful. Bright n’ Beautiful works to maintain a clean community through lively, satisfying, hands-on projects throughout the year like Great American Cleanup, Adopt-a-Spot, Arbor Day celebrations, Keep Your High School Beautiful, United Way of Yellowstone County Day of Caring and Yellowstone County Christmas Tree Recycling. Bright n’ Beautiful also supports and promotes impromptu clean-ups as good neighbors stage them throughout the region. For at least 20 years, both the City and the County have donated funds to assist them with their work and are the main funding sources for the organization. This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the City and Bright n' Beautiful outlines the donation that will be provided by the city annually as well as some projects and programs that Bright n' Beautiful will organize.  

City Council may:

• Approve  the MOU; or,
• Not Approve the MOU.  If the MOU is not approved, Bright n' Beautiful will lose almost half of their funding and will need to find other funding or reduce the number of programs they organize.

The MOU states that the City will donate $12,000 annually to Bright n' Beautiful for three years.