The Teton County Board of County Commissioners on Nov. 4 unanimously approved a contract with Quality Counts LLC for traffic data collection not to exceed $26,005 for the period Nov. 1, 2025 through Oct. 31, 2026, with the option to renew for up to two additional one-year terms upon satisfactory performance and budget availability.

Miles Contreras, the county’s demand management coordinator, told commissioners the contract will provide regular counts of vehicle volumes, turn movements and selected multimodal counts to complement permanent counters maintained by WYDOT. "We will use this data to inform indicator dashboard reporting to have a more nuanced view of what is actually happening in town," Contreras said, noting the county plans to visualize counts on a public map and archive past traffic studies.

Commissioners asked about the funding split with the town of Jackson. Jody Pond said the contract would follow current funding splits until a larger joint-powers agreement or memorandum of understanding is negotiated. Contreras said the contract scope includes video-based pedestrian and bicycle counts at select locations and that the firm will use pneumatic tubes or cameras for snapshot counts; permanent continuous monitoring remains a longer-term goal.

Commissioner Gardner, who said he is a "data nerd" and supports collecting more historical and seasonal data, cautioned that if the county declines to be a funding partner in future years it could lose agency over how the program is run. The board approved the contract by unanimous vote.

The contract directs the vendor to produce multimodal counts, provide data processing, and make results available for internal planning and public access; the county’s funding share and any third-party partnerships are to be negotiated under existing intergovernmental split arrangements.