Commissioners sign TY Pickett Appraisal contract

Hot Springs County Commissioners signed the TY Pickett Appraisal Contract, approved a Well Permit application and signed the Ross Subdivision Plat at Tuesday’s meeting.

Hot Springs County Assessor Shelley Deromedi presented the board with the TY Pickett Appraisal Contract, explaining that it is a year-to-year contract. The contract is not for the current year, but for 2017, she said. She requested the signature of the board.

The board approved the signing of the contract in the amount of $4,000 for the appraisal.

The companies included in the contract are Wyo-Ben, Inc’s Lucerne Bentonite Plant, the Wyoming Whiskey Distillery and others as mutually agreed upon. The contract states that the companies agree to make analysis and survey beginning Jan. 1, 2017 to include information the company is able to procure and to have the county assessor to review and equalize the value of the properties.

The board also approved a Well Permit application at 310 Red Lane. The well had previously been evaluated for its potential affect on the Big Spring, the Wedding of the Thermopolis Quadrangle and Google Earth images. The proposed well will be up to 60 feet deep and is projected to bottom in the Chugwater Formation. It is predicted to be a Type I well, meaning it will require pumping. The Chugwater Formation has been determined to be above the Paleozoic-age rocks that feed the Big Spring, which means the well will have no effect on the Big Spring.

Hot Springs County Planner Bo Bowman presented the board with the final plat for the Ross Subdivision, for which the board signed.

Barb Rice presented the monthly youth alternatives report, noting that the group of four kids in the program had a good summer.

“We have worked really hard at accumulating community service hours,” she said. “After the airport fly-in breakfast last weekend, they are effectively completed.”

Rice also mentioned that the skate park has been a great success, with no garbage left on the property, no defacing of the property or moving of the bleachers.