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Weston County commission OKs vice chairman signature on letter to U.S. Forest Service
Summary
The Weston County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved allowing the vice chairman to sign a letter to the U.S. Forest Service regarding an environmental impact statement.
The Weston County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a motion at a special meeting to allow the vice chairman to sign a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s U.S. Forest Service regarding the agency's environmental impact statement process.
The presiding official said the letter was drafted by Drew Bauer and that “Weston County” had been inserted where appropriate. The presiding official said the signature was needed “to keep our place at the table with the Forest Service.”
A commissioner then addressed the vice chairman and moved to allow the vice chairman’s signature on the Forest Service EIS letter, saying, “Mister vice chairman, I'd like to make a motion to approve your your signature on a letter … Forest service EIS letter.” The motion was properly seconded. The presiding official called for a vote; commissioners responded “Aye” three times and the presiding official said, “Motion carried.”
No public comment was recorded at the meeting and the presiding official moved to adjourn at 11:11 a.m.
The action authorizes only the vice chairman’s signature on the draft letter; the text of the letter, its recipients beyond the Forest Service and the specific EIS issues addressed were not read into the record during the meeting and are not specified in the transcript. The transcript records an initial invocation and the pledge of allegiance before the brief business on the letter, but those ceremonial items were not part of the commission's substantive action on the EIS correspondence.
Documentation in the meeting record states the letter was prepared by Drew Bauer and that the county’s name was placed in the appropriate locations in the draft. The commission did not record additional debate, amendments to the draft, or a roll-call naming individual yes votes in the minutes beyond the verbal “ayes” and the chair’s announcement that the motion carried.
The vote approved only the act of allowing the vice chairman to sign the letter; no further direction to staff, formal referral, funding action, or ordinance was recorded during this item.
