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For the week of August 4th, 1999 through August 10th, 1999

Ketchum council faces big week


By GREG STAHL
Express Staff Writer

This is your week to get involved in city of Ketchum decision making.

The Ketchum City Council will have its hands full on Wednesday and Monday as it meets to discuss some of the north valley’s most pressing issues.

Wednesday, the council will discuss three topics throughout the afternoon.

At noon, it will meet to make formal adjustments to the proposed fiscal 1999/2000 city budget.

At 2:30 p.m. it will consider U.S. Postal Service plans for a new Ketchum post office on the corner of Fourth Street and Second Avenue, behind Perry’s.

After several years of searching for land within the city on which it could build a new post office, the Postal Service selected the site and has spent the past three months drawing up plans.

At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the council will discuss progress on a feasibility study for a north valley community swimming pool complex. Supporters hope the study will show that the pool would pay for itself.

At the council’s regular meeting on Monday, at 6 p.m., council members will meet with members of the Ketchum Planning and Zoning Commission to discuss potential planning scenarios for the McHanville area.

P&Z has indicated during prior meetings it will recommend the council consider annexing the McHanville area. McHanville, a 426,888-square-foot piece of turf just south of Ketchum, is bordered by state Highway 75 on the east and the short county road that will provide access to the new hospital on the west.

The city must decide whether it wants to make recommendations to the county as to what kind of zoning it wants there, or it could annex the area and make those decisions itself.

 

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