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Park County opens Cooke City–Silvergate resort-tax applications; commissioners cite missing revenue totals
Summary
Park County officials opened a slate of Cooke City–Silvergate resort-tax applications on Feb. 27, 2026, hearing requests for search-and-rescue reimbursements, school infrastructure, grooming and trail safety, festival marketing, building operations and more; county staff said up-to-date collection figures were not available and will be circulated before an appropriation meeting March 11.
Park County commissioners and staff opened submitted applications for the Cooke City–Silvergate resort tax on Feb. 27 in Cooke City, reading a list of projects and noting that the most recent resort-tax collection figures were not available at the meeting.
The panel read requests that ranged from a $7,500 search-and-rescue overtime reimbursement line requested by the sheriff’s office to a $72,000 operating request from the local chamber of commerce. "This was a project that I worked on with the MSU extension," said Tad Dykesha of the Park County Sheriff’s Office, describing the SAR reimbursement plan. "The $7,500 would sit in a budget line and then when we had overtime due to search and rescue specifically in Cooke City, that money would be requested just to help cover some of those overtime…
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