The Saratoga Steering committee has thinned a bit since the end of the Zieger administration with only four people present at the meeting. Mayor Glode, Town Engineer Chuck Bartlett, Councilman Richard Raymer and Dan Gorton were present to discuss the process of updating the town’s master plan.
Many of the town planning documents are currently out-of-date. The comprehensive land use plan dates to 1977, the Major Street Plans from 1978, the water and sewer master plan was completed in 1978 or 1979, although the water portion was updated in 2007. The most current document is the airport master plan which was finished last year.
The goal of the steering committee is to create a unified master plan for the town encompassing all of those documents.
The project is estimated to cost approximately $66,000. The town has received a Wyoming Business Development Community Block Grant for $49,000 in support of the project and Voices of the Valley has pledged $2,500. Bartlett has also requested money from the Wyoming Department of Transportation but has not received a response.
The steering committee is still debating whether to advertise a request for qualifications (RFQ) or request for proposal (RFP) to planning and engineering consulting firms who would write the master plan document. Bartlett said he would like to see the advertisement, either in RFQ or RFP form, go out by mid-February so that the committee can evaluate firms in May. If this schedule holds, they hope to award a contract by April and have the final master plan in November.
The steering committee is hoping to attract interested citizens to join the board and would ideally like to have a seven person committee to complete the process.
Tentatively, the next master plan steering committee meting will be 4 p.m., Feb. 4 at the Saratoga Town Hall.
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