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There’s official evidence that it is. According to this website:
The City of Helena operates under a Mayor-Council form of government. This form of government most closely resembles the private sector with the Mayor serving as the Chief Executive Officer and the Council as the Board of Directors.
That’s wrong. A weak mayor-council with a strong city manager is closer to the corporate board and CEO model.
But even that comparison misses the point.
Government represents all of the people and is organized to work for the common good. A corporation is a subset of those people (and possibly also a subset of foreign nationals) that’s organized to enrich just that subset.
Indeed, one of government’s duties is regulating corporations.
Helena generally is considered a progressive city, as well as a stronghold of Democratic voters. It may be those things, but it’s also a city that confuses democratic government with a corporate board of directors, and has a public park with a monument to soldiers who fought to preserve the institution of enslaving humans.