The Cokeville Economic Development Steering Committee was formed a few years back by the town council to look at some issues that were on the horizon and may need to be addressed sooner than later. Those issues included land acquisition for residential growth, growth planning, zoning issues for the Planning and Zoning group to be aware of, and general advice based on group consensus for the Town Council to be aware of. It was a set of helping hands for the council, focusing on economic development, which the council had previously not had the manpower to ever address.
The CEDSC called themselves the "Steering Committee", meaning in a positive way to help "steer" the town in a positive direction, one which would help avoid negative future consequences due to poor or lack of planning.
In 2007 at least one of the council members took to calling the committee the "Stirring Committee", thinking it clever to negate all the good works the group did (on a volunteer basis) and instead focus on the fact that the committee asked the town council to take a direct look at real issues facing them down the road. This process of course required thought and perhaps discussion (gasp!) on behalf of the town council.
The group regularly meets on the first Tuesday of every month. Attendance is open to anyone interested. It reports on a regular basis to the council and still strives to be positive, helpful, and working in the direction that improves the town's viability for future generations by making recommendations to the Town Council. On its own, the Cokeville Economic Development Steering Committee has no power or authority. They have some budget money from the council for land acquisition, which would need to be council approved.
To date, the Town Council and CEDSC worked on one major project together, along with the P&Z. That project was setting up zoning for the highway district. The new zoning was approved on 3rd reading in 2007, although it hasn't been added to the town website on the ordinances and planning pages. The groups agreed that the zoning was necessary and important and agreed to not make variances for a business that wanted to come in that was definitely not a fit for the carefully planned, limited "Corridor of Impression" of the town of Cokeville.
The Town Council and CEDSC are currently working on a 2nd project, that of obtaining a town administrator. Consensus is being built. Currently, the town is in the budgeting process and a 3rd police officer as well as a 3rd public works person are being batted around. It would be most beneficial to the town to hire a town administrator to run the town on a day to day basis. This would relieve town clerk NaDene Dana of duties not normally the job of a town clerk. Additionally, the administrator would be there full-time, and the front office could be kept open.
The mayor and council have no regular office hours, and it is not a council's job to run the town's day to day operations. A town administrator could actively work on grants to revitalize Cokeville, from quality of life issues, to downtown improvement. The administrator could also help with master plans, update maps, and make information much more accessible to the general public than is currently happening. There job would be to say, "let me help you find the answer" not "why do you want to know".
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