SAM WILSON

MISSOULA

Missoula's newest city park is poised to be named after a longtime local attorney who in 2005 was found to have sought sex from a woman unable to pay her legal fees.

The city's Parks and Recreation Board on Sept. 9 voted unanimously to recommend that a new city park between the Kim Williams Trail and the Clark Fork River be named "Raymond Tipp River Park," after the current landowner's father, who died in 2021.

The Tipp family earlier this year agreed to donate at least 51% of the costs of acquiring the land to the city in exchange for naming rights. The rest of the cost is being paid by dollars from the city's open space bond.

Archived court documents requested earlier this month by the Missoulian show a state ethics board ultimately found the woman's allegations

See Full Page