SWEETWATER COUNTY The Sweetwater County Commissioners will consider approval Tuesday for the county to apply for the Wyoming Business Council for a Rural Development Grant to assist small businesses in recovering from the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic.
If approved, the grant award would be used to assist small businesses in Sweetwater County recover from the pandemic by providing consulting sessions and a webinar in collaboration with “Entrepreneurial Communities”. The project would be led by consultant Mo Collins, who would provide “short-term, high-impact” consulting sessions.
According to the Commissioners’ meeting agenda and packet, the project also includes developing a “business community assessment” that could identify future courses of action to strengthen economic development in Sweetwater County.
ROCK SPRINGS The Rock Springs City Council is scheduled to review a resolution authorizing the repayment of $1 million borrowed from Northeast Wyoming Regional Airport which was used to complete the construction of the Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport’s snow removal equipment building.
During the Council meeting Tuesday at 7 pm at city hall, the Council will review the transfer of $1 million from the Southwest Wyoming’s Regional Airport’s to Northeast Wyoming Regional Airport.
According to the resolution, in 2020 the City of Rock Springs and Sweetwater County borrowed $1 million from the Northeast Wyoming Regional Airport and $1 million from the Riverton Regional Airport to construct a snow removal equipment building at the airport. This will be a partial repayment of the funds loaned for the project.
SWEETWATER COUNTY Determining how to continue to fund and operate ambulance services for Sweetwater County residents was a priority discussion during Wednesday’s meeting, one of many planned to discuss consolidated services in the county.
During a special meeting between the Sweetwater County Commissioners and representatives from Rock Springs, Green River, Wamsutter, Granger, Superior and Bairoil city councils, the majority of these groups felt figuring out a funding solution to maintain an ambulance service was important to the public.
The group discussed how the county commission decided to terminate the current service contracts and all associated funding with those contracts with Sweetwater Medics and Castle Rock Ambulance Service, effective March 31, 2021. Commission Chairman Randy Wendling said both ambulance services were funded through the county and due to recent budget constraints, the county can no longer fund it alone.