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Jackson town councilors will deliberate the possibility of extending a recently enacted mask order at a special council workshop Monday morning.

Jackson town councilors agreed Monday to include projected revenue from a half mill of property tax — a tax the town hasn’t levied in about 40 years — in the next budget, though a final decision on whether to actually approve the property tax won’t come until later. Though the council will vote to approve the final version of the Fiscal Year 2022 budget on June 21, state law gives councilors until July 31 to decide whether to approve a property tax and at what rate. Town Man...

The Jackson Town Council continues to make progress toward finalizing the town’s budget, with health and human services funding — named as a priority by multiple councilors for the upcoming

Funding for community health and human services organizations was the name of the game Monday as the Jackson Town Council again pored over the town’s various budgets at a special afternoon meeting. “If there’s no other message that we send to our community — it’s something that’s very important right now — this needs to be the year of health and human Services,” Councilor Jim Rooks said as councilors wrapped up a lengthy discussion about how they would li...

If you love numbers, tracking dollars and how the town of Jackson spends them, this is the time of year for you.

The Jackson Town Council on Monday night took the first of three necessary steps to connect the Gill family’s proposed 26-acre, 84-lot development in northern South Park to town water

START Bus Director Darren Brugmann has resigned his position after spending nearly six years in the role in Jackson Hole. No reason was given for Brugmann’s resignation, submitted Monday, and Brugmann was not able to be reached by press time Thursday. Brugmann plans to remain with START until sometime during the summer in order to help with the transition to a new director, according to a press release from Carl Pelletier, Jackson’s public information officer. The resignation comes am...

The Jackson Town Council will be busy Monday with both an afternoon Joint Information Meeting with county commissioners and its regular council meeting in the evening. At the council’s regular meeting a decision is likely to be made on whether to allow the annual World Championship Snowmobile Hill Climb to proceed, after it was canceled last year due to COVID-19 concerns. At a specially called meeting last week, the council approved the more restrictive of two options that, among other thi...

The Jackson Town Council at its meeting last week heard some uplifting news about where the town’s budget stands up to this point in the fiscal year, as well as

During a two-day retreat last week, Jackson Town councilors began to set priorities for the coming fiscal year, learned about personality styles and how to communicate and interact effectively, and heard from department heads, most of whom said that operations were at full capacity with very little capability to take on additional work. The bulk of Day 1 was spent working with Sam Haas of Emergenetics, contracted by the town to compile personality profiles of each of the five town councilors as...