2 [ The Lovell Chronicle [ July 14, 2011
Lovell Town Council
Town of Lovell projects
moving forward
BY DAVID PECK
More progress was made
on the upcoming South phase
of the Lovell water and sew-
er infrastructure project dur-
ing the July meeting of the
Lovell Town Council Tues-
day night.
Project engineer Frank
Page reported that he has re-
ceived the easements for the
Wyoming National Guard
property, then brought three
requests for approval of
Mayor Bruce Morrison's sig-
nature before the Council.
The first item involved
a letter to the USDA Rural
Utilities Service regarding
"funding responsibility" for
five storm sewer manholes
that are outside the scope of
the South Project but could
be refurbished during the
course of work.
Page explained that
the manholes are very old,
perhaps around 100 years
old, and the brick top por-
tion of the manholes is de-
teriorating. He said their
repair would not be eligible
for funding under the South
Project unless they would be
disturbed by the work, and
they won't be.
Page said the manholes
could be repaired with new
rims, lids and paving and
hooked up to new pipe at an
estimated cost of $4,300 each
for a total of $21,500.
Page said the letter from
Morrison would explain that,
while the manhole repairs
are not project eligible, it is
in the town's best interest to
replace the manholes during
the project. Thus, he said,
the manholes will be includ-
ed in the bid documents as a
bid alternate and contractors
who bid will be told that, if
funds are available and the
price is right, the manholes
would be included in the
project and paid for on a sep-
arate schedule by the town.
r0uThe next item Page
ght before the coun-
dI was the approval of a
right-of-way certificate to
be signed by Morrison and
presented to RUS. The cer-
tificate states that all right-
of-way and easement issues
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regarding the South Project
have been resolved.
Finally, Page reported
that he and the mayor at-
tended the county commis-
sion meeting last week to re-
quest language changes in
the county's required utility
license and the waiver of the
$300 license fee in regard to
a culvert on Road 11½ that
will be part of the South
Project.
Page said the commis-
sioners "politely declined" so
he requested that the council
authorize the mayor to sign
the utility license applica-
tion as written and pay the
$300 license fee.
Councilman Bruce Wol-
sey made the motion to au-
thorize the mayor to sign the
letter to the RUS about the
storm sewer manholes, the
right of way certificate and a
letter to the county request-
ing the utility license, with a
$300 check included.
The motion passed
unanimously with council-
men Scott Allred and Brian
Dickson absent.
Page said the South
Project is nearly ready to go
to bid.
LOVELL INC,
Lovell Inc. Director Sue
Taylor reported that work
is proceeding on the incuba-
tor building, noting that the
contractor had successfully
jacked up the floor to bring
it back to its original level
and had begun pouring new
"footers" to support the floor.
She said most of the debris
has been cleared from the
building and that the con-
tractor is proceeding with
the refurbishment.
Taylor also reported
that she, Page and Wolsey
met with the town plan-
ning and zoning commission
Monday to present a prelim-
inary plat for the re-platting
of the old hospital property
for the future senior housing
project. Included in the plat,
she said, would be a pro-
posed road and alley and the
property dividing line for the
subdivision project.
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has 10 days to return the
plat to the town and Lovell
Inc. with questions and con-
cerns, Taylor said, .and the
commission will meet again
on Aug. 1 at 7 p.m. to con-
sider the plat.
FIREWISE UPDATE
Councilman Kevin Jones
said paperwork has been
submitted for the cleanup of
the hill along the Globe Ca-
nal and that the Firewise
program has been approved
for a cleanup grant on a 90-
10 matching basis. Land-
owners agreeing to clean
up their hillside would only
have to match the 10 per-
cent, and in-kind labor could
count toward the match.
Jones also said a con-
tractor has been contacted
about the Town of Lovell's
3.5 acres that would be in-
cluded in the cleanup effort.
The council then voted to
proceed with the cleanup of
the town's property.
Under public comments,
Jim Szlemko said a new sign
on the west edge of town
stating Lovell High School
athletic accomplishments is
in the same spot where the
Welcome to Lovell sign used
to get run into from time to
time. He suggested moving
the sign further west near
the Beware of Dog sign.
Morrison said the sign
had been donated by Wyo-
Ben and that he will suggest
the change to the company.
Szlemko also said the
portion of Nevada Avenue
near the hospital that is
rough and full of potholes is
a "disgrace to the town." He
said he hopes that portion of
the road will be included in
the water and sewer project
so it can be suitably paved.
Town ClerldTreasurer
Valerie Beal announced that
Rusty Nail, Inc., doing busi-
ness as the Brandin' Iron
Restaurant and Lounge, is
applying for a ban and .grill
liquor license .and that: a
public hearing will be held
on Aug. 9.
The council adjourned
the brief meeting at 7:25
p.m.
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COURTESY PHOTO
Volunteers plant shrubs along the Shoshone River recently as part of a project
to replace invasive species in the Yellowtail Wildlife Habitat Management
Area.
Partners pl0000nt shrubs wildlife
The Bureau of Land
Management Cody Field
Office, Marathon Oil Corp.,
the Meadowlark Audubon
Society and the Nation-
al Wild Turkey Federa-
tion came together on a re-
cent Saturday to plant 650
shrubs on public land along
the Shoshone River east of
Lovell.
More than 30 volun-
teers planted the shrubs to
replace invasive Russian
olive, which the BLM me-
chanically and chemical-
ly removed from this area
two years ago. Russian ol-
ive can take control of riv-
er bottoms and out-compete
native vegetation in the cot-
tonwood understory. Deer,
waterfowl, turkey, pheas-
ant and other wildlife spe-
cies benefit when Russian
olive is removed and space
is made for native vegeta-
tion to flourish.
NWTF's Energy for
Wildlife program provided
the funds to purchase the
hundreds of shrubs.
"Silver buffalo berry is
the native shrub-of-choice
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because it produces a fruit
similar to the Russian ol-
ive's but doesn't out-com-
pete other native vegeta-
tion," said BLM Wildlife
Biologist Destin Harrell.
"This results in a diversity
of flora for wildlife."
Skunkbush sumac,
golden currant and cotton-
wood trees were also plant-
ed.
Mike Williams, envi-
ronmental supervisor for
Marathon's Wyoming As-
set Team, anticipates that
this project will help Mar-
athon plan future habitat
improvements.
"We'll be able to learn
from our collaborative suc-
cess on this project and
then apply those lessons
to other riparian habitat
projects on private proper-
ty elsewhere in Wyoming,"
Williams said.
The 300-acre river tract
where the workday took
place is part of the greater
Yellowtail Wildlife Habi-
tat Management Area. The
Yellowtail Coordinated Re-
source Management (CRM)
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Morning Worship -- 10:50 am
Sunday Night 6:30 pm
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group has worked for the
past several years to im-
prove riparian habitat in
this area and on adjacent
private lands. The CRM is
a collaborative effort, with
funding primarily from the
Wyoming Natural Resource
Trust Board, National Fish
and Wildlife Foundation,
BLM, Wyoming Game and
Fish Department Trust
Fund, National Park Ser-
vice and NWTF. The BLM's
Cody and Worland field of-
rices have provided much
of the labor with staff from
fire, fuels and range pro-
grams. The recent volun-
teer shrub-planting day
continues the riparian hab-
itat improvement work of
the CRM.
"This is public land. It
belongs to all of us so we're
chipping in to make it bet-
ter," said Williams. "It will
feel good to come back here
in the future and see the
improvements we made to-
day."
For more information,
contact Harrell at 307-578-
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please call Denise Andersen, 548-6556.
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