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As the discussion around healthcare continues, the members of the Saratoga Town Council appear to be divided as to the best coourse of action to take for the following topics: • Saratoga’s role in healthcare • The pursuit of a critital access hospital by the Platte Valley Healthcare Project (PVHC) • Memorial Hospital of Carbon County’s intention to establish a clinic in the Valley •The lease between the Town of Saratoga and Health Management Services (HMS) This was made apparent during the...
The Carbon County Commissioners met at 2 p.m. on Aug. 20 at the Platte Valley Community Center. All the commissioners were in attendance. The agenda, minutes from the regularly scheduled meeting on Aug. 6 and financials that totaled $1,179,212.78 were approved in the first few minutes of the meeting. Emily Kaluzny, Carbon County Emergency Response Coordinator, told the commission the public health department was working with Wyoming Game and Fish Department (Game and Fish) in putting dispensers...
While one of the most discussed topics in recent meetings of the Saratoga Town Council has been healthcare, finances have become a close second as concerns have been raised about the most recent audit and the current budget. During the Aug. 20 meeting, the council spoke with Sammy Flohr, town treasurer, about progress with the Town of Saratoga’s bookkeeping program and approved a new auditing company. On The Books Over the past month, Flohr, who has been with the Town of Saratoga for five y...
When it comes to the governing body of a town, those sitting on the town council should serve as an accurate representation of the citizens. One may argue that this is not always the case. I think it’s safe to say that, with recent developments, this statement currently holds true. Ever since the formation of the Healthcare Sustainability project subcommittee, opinions have been divided on the announcement of a critical access hospital being pursued. The concern is whether or not the hospital wo...
The Saratoga Airport Advisory Board held their last monthly meeting on Aug. 14 as they make the transition from meeting monthly to meeting quarterly. Along with making that decision, the advisory board also made a recommendation to fill the final open seat and discussed snow removal equipment. Monthly to Quarterly The discussion about how often to meet has been one held since the inception of the advisory board. Under the dissolved Saratoga Airport Boar, meetings were held monthly and the...
The long search for a zoning officer may finally be coming to an end for the Town of Saratoga. During the Aug. 13 meeting of the Saratoga Planning Commission, two prospective candidates were in the audience as commissioner Jim Beckmann conducted the meeting in the absence of Acting Chairman Tom Westring. Saratoga residents Bob and Sierra Smith were also in attendance at the meeting with questions about the special use permit for their bed and breakfast business, Roan Hill Ranch. Seth “Turtle” Jo...
The Hanna Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the Hanna Town Hall with three council members in attendance. Council member Traci Fowler was absent. Mayor Lois Buchanan was present. Before the regularly scheduled town council meeting started, there was a public hearing for a special use permit submitted to establish a RV park located at 608 3rd street. There were no objections and several attendees from the audience voiced positive comments on how well kept the park was by land owner Alice...
There are new wind projects being slated to come to northern Carbon County that will have impact on several municipalities. The Lucky Star Wind Energy Project (Lucky Star) will be operating on 78,292 acres, mostly owned by two privately owned ranches; Medicine Bow River Ranch and Lookout Ranch. The project will also use land from federal and state parcels. Two Rivers Wind Energy Project (Two Rivers) will be on 19,547 acres. This project will be on land held by privately owned ranches, federal an...
The Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) addressed their pursuit of consolidated billing during their Aug. 7 meeting in Saratoga as they listened to a proposal from Alysson Sneddon. The board was also presented with a petition from Saratoga Town Councilmember Steve Wilcoxson addressing the Sunday closure of the Saratoga Transfer Station. Board members Leroy Stephenson and Schelby Merrill were absent. Bills, Bills, Bills As was previously reported (see “Billing, hazard” on...
The Riverside Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Riverside Town Hall where all current council members were in attendance. Mayor Leroy Stephenson and Town Clerk/Treasurer Jan Cook were also present. The agenda and minutes from the July 11 regularly scheduled meeting were approved. Financials were gone over by Cook and the council approved paying the bills. Stephenson told the council that, when he attended Carbon County Council of Governments in Dixon on July 17, there was a Wyoming...
Nearly four months since first appearing before the Saratoga Town Council, Bob Quist, interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC), returned for the Aug. 6 meeting of Saratoga’s governing body. The attendance of Quist at the meeting came 10 days after a press release from MHCC announcing the Board of Trustees’ intent to establish a clinic in the Platte Valley (see “MHCC announces clinic” on page 3 of the July 31 Saratoga Sun). Along with Quist, current...
Nicole Karem is Gateway Community Coordinator for the Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC) and she came to Carbon County on July 22 to explain designating Encampment/Riverside as a Gateway Community on the Continental Divide. Karem said there are currently five states involved in the 3,100 total miles on the Continental Trial Divide (CDT). 550 miles of the CDT are in Wyoming. The addition of Encampment/Riverside brings the total of gateway communities on the trail in Wyoming to three. Rawli...
The Carbon County Council of Governments (CCCOG) met at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Valley Community Center in Baggs. As might be expected, there was strong representation from the towns of Baggs and Dixon. Only the town of Medicine Bow did not have a representative. The roll call took a few minutes with the large crowd. Next the agenda and minutes from the regular meeting on May 25 were quickly approved. Financials were reviewed and approved. Irene Archibald, Encampment’s representative f...
On July 26, Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC) announced in a press release that the MHCC Board of Trustees had unanimously approved a decision to “begin the process of acquiring or constructing a primary medical facility in the Platte Valley” during their regularly scheduled July 25 meeting. Jason Campbell, MHCC Board of Trustees member and Saratoga resident, was quoted in the press release as saying “Memorial Hospital of Carbon County has played an important role in our famil...
The July 16 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council proceeded without Mayor John Zeiger in attendance and Councilmember Steve Wilcoxson serving as Mayor Pro-Tem. The Saratoga Sun asked about Zeiger’s absence from the council meeting the following day and was informed by Town Clerk Suzie Cox that Zeiger had been responding to an ambulance call. In a conversation with Zeiger on Thursday afternoon, Zeiger confirmed Cox’s statement, adding that he had returned from an ambulance call at approximately 6:...
As the Town of Saratoga enters month four without a permanent planning and zoning officer, the three member Saratoga Planning Commission spent a large portion of their July 9 meeting discussing how to handle the issue. Since the departure of Dan Ferrin in March, the position has remained open, though former planning and zoning officer Kent Smith has served on an as-needed basis. The planning commission also sent a recommendation to the council in regards to the zoning amendment for Seth...
During their regularly scheduled meeting on July 10, the Carbon County Impact Joint Powers Board (CCIJPB) was presented with a conundrum in the form of Saratoga resident Mark Jones, who was nearing completion on an accessory building on his property that included water and sewer service. “I guess, to kind of fill the board in, Mark is building a pole barn accessory building to the rear of his house and our former zoning officer and public works director signed off on a building permit that w...
While it appeared, upon its creation, that the Saratoga Airport Advisory Board was having a problem filling the open seats, the July 10 meeting showed that it now has the opposite problem. Following the appointment of Ladd Sanger to the advisory board during the Saratoga Town Council meeting on July 2, one seat remains unfilled while at least two people have submitted letters of interest. An additional two individuals, however, have expressed an interest in serving on the board as well. The...
On Friday, the Saratoga Care Center held its annual federally mandated disaster drill which involved the complete evacuation of the facility, a bomb going off, two woundings, a fatality and a hostage. At last year’s drill, members of the Saratoga Police and Fire Departments showed up along with a SCWEMS ambulance crew. That ambulance crew included, now, mayor of Saratoga John Zeiger. Mr. Zeiger was also the Carbon County Emergency Coordinator at the time and, in that capacity, has run or assisted in these types of disaster simulations. He is w... Full story
The Riverside Town Council met at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Riverside Town Hall with council member Fred Lorenz absent. The meeting started with a public hearing for a liquor license application for Desi L. Vacher and JoElla Vacher, who recently purchased The Mangy Moose. There was no public opposition and the public hearing was closed. The council approved the liquor license. The minutes for the regularly scheduled meeting on June 11 were approved. The financials were next on the agenda and...
All council members were in attendance at the Hanna Town Council held at 6 p.m. on July 9 at the Hanna Town Hall. Mayor Lois Buchanan was not present due to illness. Council member Bob Patton was mayor pro tem. The agenda and minutes from the June 11 regular meeting were approved in a timely manner. Public Works Director Larry Korkow told the council grounds keeping was much of the work being done in the town. He said water usage was up, compared to the wet month of June. “It may be up, but noth...
The most recent meeting of the Saratoga Town Council on July 2 lasted just under an hour and, while it seemed abbreviated compared to previous meetings, the council still held much discussion on a variety of topics. The recently approved one-year contract with the Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD), appointments to the Saratoga Airport Advisory Board, the third reading of Ordinance No.855 and issues with hiring a new planning and zoning officer were all subjects of...
Two major points of discussion during the July 3 meeting of the Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (UPRSWDD) were centered around the topic of a centralized billing program currently being pursued by the district. The first involved discussion with former UPRSWDD Chairperson Alysson Sneddon and the second was in reference to comments made by Councilmember Steve Wilcoxson during the July 2 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council. Bill Me UPRSWDD Chairman Randy Raymer informed the rest...
With less than two weeks left in the current fiscal year, more changes were made to the budget for the 2019/2020 fiscal year before it passed third reading during the June 18 meeting of the Saratoga Town Council. Councilmember Jon Nelson told the rest of the council that he was prepared to vote against Ordinance No. 854 if the changes weren’t made, which led to the document being tabled until after executive session. The budget wasn’t the only place where the town council discussed fin...
Healthcare and emergency services continue to be issues of concern for the Saratoga Town Council. At the June 18 meeting of the council, Mayor John Zeiger read two pieces of correspondence, heard a concern from a previous council member, discussed the ongoing issues with the Enhanced 911 (E911) system and received an update from the Platte Valley Healthcare Project (formerly the Healthcare Sustainability Project Subcommittee). Clinic concerns As the council meeting got underway, Zeiger informed...