Centennial Estates Settlement, May 26

DRIGGS — Memorial Day opens a two-week window anchored by the Centennial Estates Settlement and an agenda dense enough to fill two consecutive Teton County commissioners' meetings, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Item 4.2 on Tuesday's agenda, "Amend Regular Meeting Schedule," appears to formalize the spillover; any items the commissioners don't reach Tuesday roll to Wednesday morning. Victor City Council holds an annexation hearing Wednesday evening, and the Victor v. Driggs wastewater lawsuit returns Friday on a motion for change of venue.

Monday, May 25 — Memorial Day

Federal and state holiday. The Teton County Board of County Commissioners' regular 4th-Monday 9 a.m. slot shifts to Tuesday at the standard 9 a.m. start; a second regular BOCC meeting follows Wednesday.

Tuesday, May 26

Teton County BOCC, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., First Floor Commissioners' Meeting Room, 150 Courthouse Drive, Driggs. A full-day P&Z-heavy agenda. The headline items:

Sweetwater Trulove Substantial Plat Amendment Final Plat Hearing. The Phase I subdivision adjacent to Driggs-Reed Memorial Airport seeks to go from 18 lots to 44. A separate written-decision item on the Sweetwater Trulove Preliminary Plat Reconsideration follows later in the morning, and a county-initiated Driggs Area of Impact code amendment discussion closes the planning block. A staff memo ties the AOI question directly to the Sweetwater application.
T10 MTNS LLC wetlands-setback variance reconsideration, item 7.3 at 10:40 a.m. Public hearing and action on the third wetlands-setback variance the BOCC has handled in twelve months.
Floodplain Map and Ordinance Update, item 7.4 at 11:00 a.m. FEMA-driven, with a TCC Title 12 update on the same vote.
Mayberry / Born zone change from Rural Residential to Industrial-Research east of Driggs.
Log Cabin Subdivision written decision.
Item 12.1, Centennial Estates Settlement (case CV26-23-0079). Public hearing and action on the Release and Settlement Agreement filed by petitioner Aaron Powers, challenging the county's June 26, 2023 denial of the final plat for the Centennial Estates Subdivision. The county's sole stated basis for the 2023 denial was lack of legal access; the settlement recitals say Powers held fee simple title and legal access along a 60-foot wide parcel at the time of denial. Two public-comment documents sit in the same item.

The afternoon adds two Recreation District items (a Joint Powers Agreement and a Lease Agreement), two Sheriff's Office grant applications (breathalyzer and radar equipment), a 2026 Community Health Center grant award, a 2025 BRIC mitigation grant application out of the Building Department, a Code Compliance budget line for a Greater Yellowstone Coalition bear-conflict mailing, and the renewed RAD curbside-collection franchise agreement.

The clerk-and-administration block carries the May 19 primary election canvass, approval of the April 27 and April 30 meeting minutes, and an FY27 budget process update. Late items include a discussion of the Ruckelshaus / McClure Study and Funding, a discussion of the Grand Targhee Resort expansion, and an executive session under Idaho Code § 74-206(1)(b) (personnel).

Driggs City Council Budget Meeting, 6 p.m., Driggs City Hall, 60 South Main Street. A budget meeting, not a regular council session. The two Subdivision Final Plats Driggs CC took up earlier this month were on the May 20 agenda.

The Teton County Planning & Zoning Commission's regular 4th-Tuesday 5 p.m. slot and the LDC Workshop do not appear on the eScribe portal for May 26. The May 11 LDC work session pushed the next public hearing to late June.

Wednesday, May 27

Teton County BOCC, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., First Floor Commissioners' Meeting Room. A second regular BOCC meeting on consecutive days, formalized by item 4.2 on the May 26 agenda. The Signal reads the structure as a spillover meeting. Tuesday's 27-plus item P&Z-heavy agenda is dense enough that the commissioners scheduled a second day to handle what doesn't fit, plus Wednesday's own slate. That is an inference from the agenda shape, not an explicit statement from the county.

Wednesday's posted agenda carries three Discussion Items, not Action Items, in the commissioners' block:

A proposed county Burn Ordinance from the Teton County Fire District. The TCFD memo argues unincorporated Teton County has no enforceable open-burning rule because the Sheriff cannot issue citations without a county ordinance. A model ordinance is in the packet.
Dispatch Services to Fire & Rescue.
Fairgrounds.

If items from Tuesday roll over, they would join those three.

Victor City Council, 6 p.m., Victor City Hall, 138 N. Main Street. Public hearing on the D&B Partners "Birch to Baseline" application: annexation file LU2026-01 and rezone file LU2026-02. Same group as the Birch Crossing project just north of the same site, where the Victor Planning & Zoning Commission unanimously recommended single-family RS-7 zoning on April 16 and rejected a 146-unit rental proposal.

Friday, May 29 — Venue Motion in Victor v. Driggs

Motion for change of venue, CV41-26-0062. The Victor v. Driggs wastewater lawsuit moves on a motion for change of venue. Victor's complaint alleges contract breaches and continued pollution violations by Driggs under the cities' inter-city wastewater agreement; the suit is the legal companion to Victor's $35 million standalone-treatment-plant track. Judge Boyce disqualified earlier in the case; Judge Clark is now hearing. The public docket did not list a hearing time as of publication.

Also This Two-Week Window

Monday, June 1. The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality publishes the final FY2027 Clean Water State Revolving Fund list. Driggs ranked first on the draft list with a $25 million package: $6.34 million in principal forgiveness and an $18.66 million loan at 2.5 percent over 30 years.
Tuesday, June 2, 1:30 p.m. Status conference in Victor's wastewater-borrowing petition CV41-26-0046 before Judges Tingey and Boyce, after a May 13 order vacated the May 19 motion hearing and reset the September 11-13 judicial confirmation hearing block.
Tuesday, June 2, 6 p.m., Driggs City Hall. Driggs City Council meets for a 60-percent wastewater design presentation. The plant rebuild is on a federal-consent-decree timeline; the January 2025 city announcement of the EPA/DOJ consent decree targets full transition to a new Activated Sludge Process with Membranes system by January 2029.
Wednesday, June 3. Idaho DEQ closes the public comment period on a draft Section 401 water quality certification for the Gates Ranch Access project, northwest of Driggs. The proposed work would widen an existing access road and two driveways that do not meet county standards, replace a culvert, and construct wetland mitigation. The federal permit reference is USACE NWW-2025-00517.
Thursday and Friday, June 4-5. Stroudwater consultants are on-site at Teton Valley Health Care. The hospital cleared a $1.8 million profit in FY2025 and posted a $13,000 first-half operating margin in FY2026 against a budgeted $478,000 loss.
Friday, June 5. The Teton Dam failure turns 50.

Looking Ahead to June 8-10

Monday, June 8, BOCC. The Fall River Midway Substation reconsideration is on the calendar; Teton Valley Wire reports a late-June decision deadline. The June 8 meeting has not yet appeared on the eScribe portal as of publication.
Monday, June 8, Teton 401 board meeting. The May 11 minutes are scheduled for approval. The board's $13.3 million supplemental levy goes on the November 2026 ballot.
Tuesday, June 9, Tetonia City Council. Formal introduction of the food-truck ordinance the council approved in concept on May 12.
Tuesday, June 9. Jenkins poaching sentencing in Teton County District Court.
Wednesday, June 10, Driggs P&Z, 6 p.m. Hotel proposal and short-term-rental code amendments. The STR amendments may be the local repeal of Ordinance 423-21 forced by HB 583's July 1 preemption of local STR regulation.

What We're Watching

The agenda-spillover read on Tuesday and Wednesday sets the week's shape. Tuesday stacks the Centennial Estates Settlement with the Sweetwater Trulove plat amendment, the AOI code discussion that project triggered, the T10 MTNS wetlands reconsideration, the floodplain ordinance, and a discussion of the Grand Targhee Resort expansion. Wednesday brings the Fire District's Burn Ordinance discussion plus dispatch and fairgrounds talks, plus whatever rolls over from Tuesday. Friday's venue motion is the first public step under the new judge in the Victor v. Driggs wastewater case. The June 1 SRF list and the June 2 design presentation close the loop on Driggs's federal-cleanup financing path.

What to watch: Tuesday and Wednesday, May 26 and 27, at the Teton County Courthouse from 9 a.m. each day.

The Two-Week Ahead: Back-to-Back BOCC, Centennial Estates Settlement, and a Venue Motion