Four public bodies meet Tuesday, the same morning in-person early voting opens at the courthouse. The county's planning commission closes that evening on Wilder Ranch, a 3,250-acre subdivision whose file carries a letter from the Bureau of Land Management. County commissioners spend the morning on a permit for a 400-person event barn and an animal-care contract with the valley's animal shelter that expired on September 30. Victor's council hears from that shelter's director the following afternoon, and Victor's planning commission spends Thursday evening on three hearings, one of them a reconsideration of an annexation the city already approved.
Teton School District 401 board, 5 p.m. executive session, 6 p.m. open session, District Office Auditorium, 481 N. Main St., Driggs. Written comments close at noon. The board's $7.09 million annual supplemental levy, on the November 3 ballot, is listed for discussion. No vote is scheduled. The agenda was amended twice on October 8, striking its only action item and adding a third executive session.
The district posts this agenda in its Meeting Documents folder. Its Agendas and Notices folder stops at September 14.
In-person early voting opens at the Teton County Courthouse, 150 Courthouse Dr., Room 208, Driggs, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays through October 30.
Teton County commissioners, 9 a.m., Commissioners' Meeting Room.
At 10 a.m. the board holds its hearing on the Smallwood special-use permit, an event barn on 80 acres half a mile west of Highway 33 on 2500 N, for gatherings of up to 400 people four to five times a month from June through September. County planners recommended approval 5 to 2 in July with fourteen conditions attached. One of those conditions, a buffer along property lines next to ground-floor residential uses, is contested by the county's own report, which says planning staff did not identify the adjacent homes at the pre-application meeting and that "as it is currently configured, this requirement would apply."
Third, the board has a discussion item on an animal-care agreement with PAWS, the nonprofit that runs the valley's animal shelter at 15 S 1750 E in Driggs. The agreement in the packet is the one for fiscal year 2026, which ran from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026. Its signature lines are blank. It sets a contract fee of $5,000 plus $75 per day per animal, and section 7 reads: "Because the Service Fee doesn't adequately cover the costs to run the shelter, the County will forfeit the Service Fee if the Agreement is terminated before the contract expires."
The county budgeted $5,000 on its animal shelter line for fiscal 2026 and drew none of it. It paid $965 in per-animal fees over the year, a figure the county administrator has confirmed. PAWS stopped accepting animals from the sheriff's office on October 1. No agreement for the current fiscal year appears on Tuesday's agenda.
