Towns to receive funding for infrastructure
Sublette Community Partnership assists in State funding requests
by Laurie Latta, Sublette Community Partnership Coordinator
October 30, 2006
Laurie Latta, Sublette Community Partnership coordinator, attended the State Land Investment Board (SLIB) meeting last week in Cheyenne representing Pinedale, Big Piney and Marbleton. The SLIB hearings were held to consider funding support for infrastructure projects. The communities received 8.4 million dollars which will be matched by Sublette County to rehabilitate deteriorating infrastructure and to construct new water and sewer lines to meet projected population growth in the three towns.
The Sublette Community Partnership is a unique partnership connecting Sublette County, the incorporated towns of Pinedale, Big Piney and Marbleton, the five major industry producers operating on the Pinedale Anticline and the Jonah Field, and the University of Wyoming. The mission of the organization is to prioritize and facilitate the implementation of community development projects and activities as identified by various locally-initiated needs studies and surveys.
"It’s important that infrastructure projects receive broad-based support, and the kind of unprecedented cooperation we’re seeing with this partnership is certainly one way of accomplishing that," said Gov. Dave Freudenthal.
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