Votes at a glance: Lincoln County commissioners approve consent items, pension agreements, permits and funding

The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners adopted multiple motions across its Feb. 7–8, 2023 meetings. Below are the principal actions recorded in the meeting minutes provided in the transcript.

Approved motions and administrative approvals

- Approve consent agenda (minutes, assessment roll adjustments and vouchers); mover: Commissioner Connelly; motion adopted.
- Sign Pension Agreements between the Wyoming Retirement System and Lincoln County Search and Rescue and Star Valley Search and Rescue; mover: Commissioner Connelly; motion adopted.
- Approve 24 Hour/Daily Alcoholic Beverage Sales Permit for Billie Merritt – Pony Tales (World Cutter Races on March 11–12, 2023); mover: Commissioner Bowers; motion adopted.
- Approve 24 Hour/Daily Alcoholic Beverage Sales Permit for Pine Creek Ski Resort LLC – Pine Creek Ski Area (events on Feb. 19 and March 18, 2023); mover: Commissioner Connelly; motion adopted.
- Increase the county mileage reimbursement rate to 65.5 cents, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2023; mover: Commissioner Connelly; motion adopted.
- Sign requisition to US Bank for the Lincoln County Building Corporation for UCC filing and fees; mover: Commissioner Connelly; motion adopted.
- Approve signing multiple quitclaim deeds to finalize vacated lots and streets and release property to private owners; mover(s): Commission motions recorded; motions adopted.
- Sign letter of support for Lincoln County Spotted Knapweed Project for 2023; mover: Commissioner Bowers; motion adopted.
- Approve an additional $5,000 for each Conservation District to process range/ecological data; mover: Commissioner Connelly; motion adopted.

Land-use votes

- Deny File 102 VA 23 (Painted Hills Subdivision road-variance request); mover: Commissioner Bowers; motion adopted. Chairman Hansen stated he personally voted no on the denial.
- Approve File 102 CUP 22 (Ivie Plantation Recreational Vehicle Park) with Findings of Approval A and B and Conditions 1–7; wording change added in Condition 2 and Condition 7 date changed to June 1, 2023; mover: Commissioner Connelly; motion adopted.
- Approve File 101 AP 23 (Bitter Creek Ranches Fifth Filing); mover: Commissioner Bowers; motion adopted.

Notes on tallies and procedure: the transcript records motions and whether they were adopted but generally does not provide full roll-call tallies for each motion. Exceptions are where individual commissioners' votes were noted in discussion (for example, Chairman Hansen said he voted no to the Painted Hills denial). Where a mover or seconder is recorded in the minutes, it is cited above; when the transcript did not provide a recorded second or roll-call tally, that information is listed as not specified in detailed records.

Follow-up items recorded in the minutes include tracking DEQ permitting for Ivie Plantation, legal review of any proposed contracts (for example, the Rain Fire EMS proposal), and administrative recording of amended CUP conditions and quitclaim deeds.