The Town of Star Valley Ranch has completed the annual budget and approved it on Third and final reading. The budget will be directing funding toward road improvements.

“A couple of the highlights from that is, putting about half a million towards roadwork, which is something a lot of residents in town are very interested in us improving,” Mayor Ru Rok said.  “And the other thing we did with our budget last night, too, is we’re actually carrying over some funding from our last budget to complete some road projects that we budgeted for last year.”

Additional town planning will include improving the municipal water storage tank.

“We also have a big project with the lining of our Green Canyon storage tank.

“That one started last fall, but they couldn’t get it done because of weather,” said Rok. “So, now they’re doing the outside this year.”

“Those are a few highlights and what it takes to run a town this size,” Mayor Rok summarized. She said the town will remain focused on water and roads.

Water improvement will include some capital projects for the town.

“We budgeted for some new pumps for our Green Canyon booster station, and also some new pumps for some of our well houses,” the mayor reported. “We also are planning to replace the Prater Canyon Spring delivery line that comes down from Prater Canyon, so that’s another major capital project. And this keeps the town water system up to the standards that the EPA wants.”

She noted, “We are, unfortunately, still chlorinating, but actually, that’s been going really well. We’ve been working with the EPA to get that nicely dialed in and it hasn’t been as big of an impact to residents this time around because we had chlorinated and then we were stopped and then we started again. I think we’re just doing a much better job this time and it’s not so apparent to people when they turn on their water taps.”

The mayor reported Star Valley Health visited with the town council, about the EMS District.

“Mr. Ordyna was here from  Star Valley Health, and he basically gave a recap to the council and to the residents about the county commissioner’s decision not to form the special district.

The visit included a request to consider how the town might help in the future.