Driggs Wastewater Hearing, FY27 Budget

The Driggs wastewater plant heads to a 6 PM public hearing next Tuesday, the day the city also meets with the Environmental Protection Agency. It is the council's first hard call on the 60% design since the federal consent decree clock started running. Before that, the Teton County BOCC holds a two-day FY27 budget review on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Driggs Planning & Zoning Commission hears a proposal for a 69-room Cobblestone Hotel, and a Wyoming-Idaho workshop on Grand Targhee convenes at the courthouse.

Monday, June 8 — a revised Centennial Estates settlement returns

In the afternoon, after an executive session on litigation, the board takes up a revised Centennial Estates settlement, prepared in the weeks since the board tabled the original on May 26. The settlement reads the post-2024 Land Development Code does not apply to the Centennial Estates application, arguing that an application already on file is governed by the code in place when it was filed. The county's outside counsel held that line at the May 26 hearing, and several speakers, including representatives for the objectors, pushed back. The board's morning docket also reopens the Born/Mayberry zone-change hearing left over from May 26 and adopts a FEMA-driven update to the county's Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance.

Tuesday and Wednesday, June 9 and 10 — the FY27 budget

The Teton County BOCC sits for two days on the FY27 budget, running every county department through a 30-minute slot. Tuesday walks through general-fund operations: the Clerk's office and the courts, Building, Extension, Planning, the Prosecuting Attorney, the Assessor, the Treasurer, GIS, the Fair Board, the Sheriff (across five back-to-back blocks in the afternoon), the Coroner, and Public Works. Wednesday morning picks up with the rest: IT, Emergency Management, the Mosquito Abatement District, Facilities, a second Public Works block, and Weeds.

FY27 is the first full county budget cycle planned end-to-end under Idaho's HB 304, which took effect in March 2025. That bill funds a state buy-down that cut the average homeowner's property-tax bill by roughly 14.6%. The county's revenue ceiling has not changed: the 3% annual budget-growth cap in Idaho Code §63-802, plus new construction. What surfaces this week is the working answer to which departments grow, which hold steady, and which get less than they asked for.

Other items, Tuesday June 9

Teton County P&Z meets at 5 PM with five land-use items. The Alex Strange Wetland Setback Variance, on 19.9 acres in Lowland Agriculture, would mark the fourth wetland-setback variance heard in 12 months, after T10 MTNS, Fox Creek, and Circle A. The same agenda carries concept plans for Zamora Estates and Gallery Lane, a short plat for Good Fortune Acres, and written-decision steps on the Clemmer Variance and on the George Allen variance heard May 12.

The Tetonia City Council is set to introduce the formal food-truck ordinance approved in concept May 12. That action created a "Food Truck Court" use category and a Conditional Use Permit process, resolving the dispute between property owner Jon Barlow and the city over vendor water access and license processing.

Wednesday, June 10 — Cobblestone Hotel and a cross-state workshop

The Driggs Planning & Zoning Commission holds a 6 PM hearing on Altitude Business Park, a 7.24-acre preliminary plat south of Buffalo Junction that includes design review for a 69-room Cobblestone Hotel. The same hearing carries the city's repeal of Ordinance 423-21, the short-term rental rules that HB 583 preempts statewide July 1. The Driggs City Council also approved an Element Hotel project on Main on June 2, the second new hotel proposal moving through the city this month.

Tentatively set for the same day: the first session of a cross-state cost- and revenue-sharing study on Grand Targhee, at the Teton County courthouse in Driggs. Idaho commissioners voted in late May to back the $30,000 study with $5,000. The University of Idaho's McClure Center and Wyoming's Ruckelshaus Institute are leading the facilitation, with a guest speaker pulling lessons from Lake Tahoe, which straddles the California–Nevada border.

The Victor City Council meets at 6 PM Wednesday for its regular second-Wednesday session.

Tuesday, June 16 — Driggs's wastewater hearing and the EPA gate

The Driggs City Council opens a 6 PM public hearing on the 60% design for the Driggs wastewater plant, the same day the city meets with EPA. The June 2 council tabled the Driggs wastewater design package, prepared by Forsgren, pending that EPA meeting. The hearing is the first chance for residents to weigh in since the package was tabled. Venue and format of the EPA meeting are not public.

The Victor Planning & Zoning Commission also meets June 16, at 7 PM, on a 12.19-acre annexation request from Teton Valley Resort LLC at 1513 Abigale Lane. The application requests an REC (Park and Recreation) designation. The date sits off Victor P&Z's normal third-Thursday cadence. Written comments go to [email protected].

Calendar

Date	Event
Mon, Jun 8 (afternoon)	Teton County BOCC, revised Centennial Estates settlement
Tue, Jun 9, 9 AM	Special BOCC, FY27 budget Day 1 (general-fund departments)
Tue, Jun 9, 5 PM	Teton County P&Z, Alex Strange wetland variance and four other items
Tue, Jun 9	Tetonia City Council, food-truck ordinance introduction
Wed, Jun 10, 9 AM	Special BOCC, FY27 budget Day 2 (special districts and internal-service functions)
Wed, Jun 10	Grand Targhee cross-state workshop, tentative (Teton County courthouse, Driggs)
Wed, Jun 10, 6 PM	Victor City Council, regular second-Wednesday session
Wed, Jun 10, 6 PM	Driggs P&Z, Cobblestone Hotel and STR code repeal
Tue, Jun 16, 6 PM	Driggs City Council, WWTP 60% design public hearing
Tue, Jun 16	Driggs–EPA meeting (venue not public)
Tue, Jun 16, 7 PM	Victor P&Z, Teton Valley Resort LLC annexation
~Sat, Jun 20	Teton Rock Gym vacate deadline

The Two-Week Ahead: The Driggs Wastewater Hearing and the County FY27 Budget