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After spirited discussion, the school board decided to wait to make a decision on increasing taxes to pay for recreational facilities and activities.
The Teton County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees oversees the taxation power of the Teton County Recreation District. At the school boardâs monthly meeting Wednesday, it was considering a proposal to raise the Rec Districtâs tax to 1 mill, the maximum allowed.
The rec district approved the increase at its most recent meeting, though it needs the school boardâs go-ahead. Taxing property owners at the highest allowed level was meant to offset some of the funding cuts the Wyoming Legislature was considering.
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With the official retirement of Pam Walker, the Education Foundation has formally welcomed Kristin Livingstone as their new Executive Director. Livingstone moved to the valley in February from Jackson, where she was the Associate Director of the Teton Literacy Center.
âMy whole life has been in service of education and children,â Livingstone said. âMy passion is providing opportunities to students.â She is thrilled to take the helm at the Education Foundation and continue her work supporting and expanding the impacts of public education. âItâs abundantly clear how much this community values public education and want to support it.â
Livingstone cited the recent success in fundraising for the foundationâs endowment as evidence of the communityâs enthusiasm and dedication. âPublic schools are the fabric of the community, and it takes a whole community to support them,â she said.
The humanity of a civilization or community can best be judged by how we treat the most vulnerable among us. Fortunately, in Jackson Hole we have 10 nonprofit organizations that do a great job meeting these needs in our community.
Unfortunately, severe cuts to state budgets threaten much of their work. These 10 groups work âto ensure that urgent, core and essential services are unified, available, and accessible to vulnerable, at-risk and in-crisis community members in Teton County.â
They do so in an admirably coordinated fashion that ensures that the federal, state and private money we give them is used well.
There is also a lot of evidence that these groups are well managed and governed. The average tenure of the groupsâ leaders is well over 10 years. Some staff have been with their organizations for 20, 30 and even 40 years. This longevity of service speaks well of governance stability and the supportive culture of their organizations. This also indicates that ou