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 valleys 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 Perrys.
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 councils 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.