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2012 Campbell County

Annual Report

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“Our mission is to provide quality, efficient and cost effective services for all Campbell County Residents through sound decision making and fiscal responsibility.”

2012 continued to be a very signifi-cant year for Campbell County; with a stable economy and a historically high assessed valuation. This year three of our outstanding leaders will leave their respective posts, County Fair Coordi-nator Betty Hough retired in June hav-ing served with the Fair for twenty five years. Commissioners Christopher R. Knapp and Stephen F. Hughes will officially complete their terms of office on the 2nd of January. Commissioner Knapp served three full terms, begin-ning in 2001; Commissioner Hughes served one full term, beginning in 2009, after serving as a Gillette City Council Member. We extend our appreciation to these three individu-als for their commitment and dedica-tion of service. We also welcome Com-missioners-Elect Garry G. Becker and Mark A. Christensen, and look forward to serving with these two gentlemen.

The theme of our 2012 Annual Report is Capitol for a Day, and on September 11th we were honored to host Governor Matt Mead, Secretary of State Max Maxfield, State Auditor Cynthia Cloud and State Superinten-dent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill to Campbell County. There was a full day of activities and tours for the four State Elected Officials, beginning with a warm greeting at the Campbell County

Airport, including students from Sage Valley and Twin Spruce Junior Highs and the Campbell County High School Marching Band. The schedule included tours of the Northern Drive, Madison Water and Southern Indus-trial Road projects, visits with local Elected Officials, Business and Indus-try Leaders, a public forum with Stu-dents and luncheon engagements with children, senior citizen and business groups. Capitol for a Day culminated with a public picnic at Cam-plex and a stirring 9 11 Memorial Ceremony. The Board of Commissioners would like to thank our County Employees, the City of Gillette, Town of Wright, Camp-bell County School District, Campbell County Memorial Hospital, Gillette College, the Chamber of Commerce, our Business and Industry Partners, and all of you, our Citizens for your contributions and participation with Capitol for a Day. Very commendably organized and facilitated by Kendra R. Como, the Campbell County Cap-ital for a Day celebration was a great success, and will hopefully be repeated across the State.

2012 saw Campbell County’s assessed valuation reach an all-time record of $5.8 billion. Through Octo-ber of this year, the number of indi-viduals employed in Campbell County held steady at over 27,000 and the unemployment was at 3.7%. The Gre-encore gas pipeline, traveling through Campbell County, was recently com-pleted, and the development of ura-nium leases continues. We anticipate a slight decline in assessed valuation for the next year with a dip in the produc-tion of coal, oil and gas.

In the past year, we have completed several infrastructure projects, includ-ing:• The re-alignment of the Union Cha-

pel and Fairview Roads. • Phase I of the Northern Drive

belt loop road, from Garner Lake to Little Powder River Road.

Additionally, the County success-fully negotiated a sale of the Parks & Recreation property along the South Douglas Highway to the Hospital for the new Pioneer Manor, and acquired a State section of land adjacent to High-way 14/16 and Northern Drive, Phase II, for future development.

Current infrastructure to be com-pleted or under construction in 2013:• Northern Drive belt loop road, Phase

II, from Little Powder River Road to U.S. Highway 14/16.

• Wright Recreation Center Project.• Bell Nob Golf Course Clubhouse.• Children’s Developmental Services

Building Expansion.

Our goals for 2013 include:• Maintaining a high quality of ser-

vices and programs within a bud-get established on stable revenue streams.

• Retirement of the County Bonds on

the Joint Powers Recreation Project, June 2013.

• Continued support of the City of Gillette, State of Wyoming and area Improvement and Service Districts efforts to develop the long term regional water distribution system, and establishment of the Regional Water Panel.

• Completion of the Campbell County Comprehensive Plan.

• Facilitate Strategic Planning meet-ing and set objectives.

• Continued investment in the Cap-ital Replacement Reserve and Long Term Maintenance Accounts.

The 2012 Annual Report for Camp-bell County includes interesting and informative statistics, data and accom-plishments from all of our Offices, Boards and Departments, including several Capitol for a Day photographs. We appreciate the excellent work and dedication of all our County Employ-ees. We invite your continued partic-ipation and involvement at Campbell County meetings, programs and activ-ities. Thank you for the opportunity to be of service.

Commissioners Dan Coolidge, Micky Shober, Chris Knapp, Steve Hughes, Matt Avery

Campbell County Commissioners

Campbell County Commissioners Office500 S. Gillette Ave

682-7283

Message from the

Capitol For A Day event on September 11, 2012 with State Elected Officials and Campbell County Commissioners.

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Airport BoardPenny Schild, PresidentJeff Robinson, Vice PresidentJoel Ohman, Treasurer/

SecretarySteven RozierErika PeckhamJay Lundell, Director 686-1042

Board of Commissioners 2013Dan Coolidge, ChairmanMatt AveryMicky ShoberGarry BeckerMark Christensen

Building Code Appeals BoardRichard Robert Cisneros Jr.Delbert ParksMatt TonnRod MathisJohn SimonKevin King, Director 682-1970

CARE BoardMatt Sorenson, ChairmanChristy Schomer, Vice ChairmanLori Jones, SecretaryTraci KnutsonVicki GundersonStasi Shippy, TreasurerMicky Shober, CommissionerDanny PrestonMary Silvernell

Children’s Developmental ServicesCarol Yonkee, ChairwomanScott Wiley, Vice ChairmanJulie Fall, SecretaryLinda MohrClifford Knesel Jr. ,TreasurerEarlene Vandeventer, Director

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Community Juvenile Services Joint Powers BoardMicky ShoberKevin McGrathJeani StoneSheri EnglandBonnie VolkDella AmendPeter EdisSusan Cahill

Linda JenningsKevin AllenJim HloucalSherry Bertoncelj

Corrections BoardJudge Dan PriceHeidi Hockett LoweJeff RechCraig DeuterBill Pownall, Secretary/TreasurerLori GorsethJohn GutierrezJim Hloucal, ChairTammy Akovenko

Fair BoardJake BollerMyles HaugenDave Slattery, Vice-ChairmanSharon Rinker, ChairpersonDebra SneathenSteve SchraterScotty R. HaydenBobbi Jo Heald, Fair Board

Coordinator 687-0200

Fire BoardSherwin (Buddy) Cater, ChairmanKevin Van Dyke, Secretary/

Treasurer

Frank LattaChris KnappRon HolmesScott RankinChuck DobkinsDon Huber, Chief 682-5319

Lodging Tax Joint Powers BoardCharles Schlesselman, ChairmanDebby Zolnoski, TreasurerBrenda Boss, Vice-ChairmanJohn FlocchiniRandi SulzbachBrandi Beecher Margaret Timmer, Secretary

LibraryKaren Johnson, Vice ChairMatthew Sorenson, ChairmanVicki Kissack, TreasurerPhilippe ChinoKyle FerrisPatty Myers, Director 687-0009

Natural Resources & Land Use CommitteeRick Law, MiningTimothy Morrison, Conservation

Dist.

Nicholas De Laat, Citizen at LargeMarilyn Mackey, AgricultureJohn M Daly, WaterW. Ben Wieser, EnvironmentalRobert Grant, Oil and GasCurt Shatzer, Wildlife

Predator Management DistrictJason Oedekoven, CattleMerv Griswold, SportsmanTed Edwards, SheepGib Bell, CattleDan Reimler, CattleTom Edwards, SheepMurphy Love, SportsmanDave Daigle, SportsmanB.J. Clark, Sportsman

Planning CommissionKanti PatelKevin CouchBlaine Geer, Vice-ChairDouglas GerardVicki Schlautmann, ChairMegan Nelms, Director 682-1970

Parks & RecreationDave RearickTrevor LarsonScott Matheny, Chaiman

Eugene Routledge, Secretary/TreasurerTonja CaleDave McCormick, Director 682-7406

Public Health BoardCarol Hungerford, D.D.S.Stacy Hobbs, Vice-ChairmanLinda Wegher, Fiscal OfficerDoug Evans, ChairmanJames Naramore, M.D.Dr. Kirtikumar L. Patel M.D., 682-7275County Health Officer Della Amend, R.N., BC, Director 682-7275

Public Land BoardLD Gilbertz, SecretaryMary SilvernellAndy Fitzgerald, Vice ChairJordan OstlundCharlene MurdockRobert “Nick” JessenBrian Baglien, TreasurerDan Barks, General Manager

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Rockpile MuseumChris Smith, Vice-ChairBill CarsonEverett KnappNola Wallace, ChairDenise Tugman, Secretary/

TreasurerTerry Girouard, Director 682-5723

Senior Center BoardGary Jahnke, Vice-ChairmanJack Matheny, SecretaryJeanne Haakinson, ChairmanNello WilliamsTeri Bagwell, TreasurerCarol GrafSam BennettLeslie Haight, President ex de

FactoCathy Konrath, Director 686-0804

Weed and Pest BoardTed Edwards, TreasurerLeslie Drake, Vice-ChairJames Tarver, SecretaryCharles Tweedy, ChairmanDuane JoslynQuade Schmelzle, Director

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Emergency ManagementDavid King, Coordinator 686-7477

Extension ServiceJessica Gladson, Director 682-7281

Human Resources/Risk ManagementCharlotte Terry, Director 687-6355

Information Technology ServicesPhil W. Harvey, Manager 682-7860

Juvenile ProbationSusan L. Cahill, Esq., Director 682-0746

Office of the CommissionersRobert P. Palmer, Director 682-7283

Road & BridgeGary Lowry, Director 682-4411

Public Works DepartmentKevin King, Director 685-8061County Landfill 682-9499Building and Planning 682-1970

Campbell County Departments

Board Members

Chris Beltz and Governor Mead at the Capital For A Day public picnic held at Cam-plex.

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Campbell County Adult Drug Court

Do you think that the Camp-bell County Adult Drug Court is a “Hug-a Thug” program? This program is one of the hardest things our participants have, or will, experi-ence. They tell us where they will be at any given time and we check. They are required to have a 40 hour a week job, attend a minimum of 112 hours of treatment, attend court session each Tuesday at 4 p.m., attend two AA, or NA, or other acceptable classes a week, have 2 random UA’s a week, wear an ankle monitor for 30 days, and turn in a weekly schedule informing Drug Court where they will be at all times. Each participant is required to pay a minimum of $2,700 toward the pro-gram costs.

In 2011, there were over 670 per-sons charged with Alcohol-related driving charges and over 460 charged with drug charges. In addition to those numbers, there were 331 per-sons charged with Drug and Alco-

hol charges. These numbers do not include MIP’s and Intoxicated Pedes-trians.

Adult Drug Court allows for correc-tive action to be taken by interrupt-ing the repetitive cycle through reha-bilitation. Drug Court treats the prob-lem, not the symptoms. Drug Court is strictly voluntary and an individ-ual must pass a screening by the Drug Court Operational Team and by the Drug Court Judge to be accepted into the program. Adult Drug Court only accepts felony offenders with either drug or alcohol convictions. The par-ticipant cannot have any felony vio-lence convictions.

Once accepted into the program, the participant begins a strict regiment as the operational team starts the pro-cess of helping the participant change their life. Treatment; where the partici-pant goes and who they associate with; random UA’s (twice weekly to start), weekly schedules; work, school or both; and weekly court appearances, are controlled and mandatory.

Our program started in 2002 and we had our first graduation in Febru-ary 2003. There were three gradu-

ates. Since that time, we have had 120 graduates for a total of 123. Over 85 percent of our graduates have not re-offended within the 3 years we track our graduates. Some graduates have opened their own businesses; become supervisors and managers; and are good employees. On May 21, 2013, we will celebrate our 10th year of having participants graduate our program. All of our graduates are being invited back to help us celebrate.

Adult Drug Court is funded under a Wyoming Department of Health grant applied for yearly and the County Com-missioners give a 25.1% cash match. This is a requirement to receive the state funding. We apply yearly for 1% funding from the County and the City and have received an award for the past two years. The participants also pay a monthly fee, which gives them ownership in the program. The grants pay the majority of the treat-ment. Drug Court personnel are paid through the State Grant.

What are the benefits to the Tax-payer? Without Drug Court involve-ment, the participant could spend up to a year in jail. At the present cost

to house an inmate, the cost, for one year in our jail, would be $60,323 .55 . Even at 6 months, the cost would be $30,161.73. Our program costs less than $10,000 per participant. With Drug Court, treatment costs are less, there is less crime to support a habit; as a working citizen, participants pay taxes instead of using tax dollars, are able to get fines paid, pay restitution and get chil-dren back from DFS. Costs associated with caring for babies that were pre-maturely exposed to drugs or alcohol range from $750,000 to $1.4 million. We had one child born to a participant this last year.

In 2012, there were fourteen grad-uates. Currently, we have 25 partici-pants in different phases of our pro-gram. Please come and see what we are accomplishing. We have court each Tuesday at 4 p.m.

Once again we have set another record with the highest Assessed Valuation in Campbell County’s

100 year history, $5.8 billion. And even though 2013 & 2014 could see lower numbers valuation wise, we continue to be very blessed with the resources that are readily available to us and others.

Oil has again become a major player in the south end of the county. In doing our rural review this fall, I was surprised to see the number of drilling rigs,

new well sites, and traffic associated with those activities. However, coal production has declined considerably due to mild temperatures last winter, as well as consumers being over stockpiled.

Residential and Commercial values continue to remain fairly steady with some areas seeing a 3-5% drop. New construction, however, is also keeping steady with the anticipation of our economy making a comeback in the near future.

We added a new member to our crew in July with the retirement of longtime Chief Appraiser Lynn Allar. Patty Brown was gracious enough to join our team, and has been an outstanding addition. Many of you may have met Patty in the Treasurer’s Office where she worked for 5 years prior.

Our goal is to continue collecting, entering, and storing accurate and clean data for valuation pur-poses. Our mapping, GIS, and online services are second to none, and are updated daily to help serve other entities as well as the public.

We would like to wish you all a prosperous and safe new year.

Back row: Erin Slattery, Angela Williams, Jackie Casey, Cindy Langley and Cheryl Uhler. Front row: Hazel Vassar, Alicia Gilliland, Patty Brown, Deb Malli, Shanda Shatzer and Troy Clements, Assessor

Campbell County Adult Drug Court500 S. Gillette Ave, Ste. 2500

687-6470

Campbell County Assessor’s Office

Campbell County Assessor’s Office500 S. Gillette Ave Ste 1300

682-7266

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Your CAM-PLEX Multi-Event Facili-ties continued to serve Campbell County and Northeast Wyoming by hosting 627 event days attended by 330,000 people, not including all the folks who rented the barn or pavilion for general riding. Spirit Hall Ice Arena was host to an additional 46,500 attendees from October to April. Additionally, the events at CAM-PLEX brought in nearly $20,000,000 in eco-nomic impact to our local businesses.

CAM-PLEX contin-ues to offer facilities to accommodate diverse events each year. Energy Hall is the set-ting for many ban-quets, school events, meetings, conferences, receptions and train-ing seminars. Central Pavilion houses vari-ous trade shows, craft fairs, gun shows, auc-tions, and car shows. East Pavilion and Barn #3 are steadily booked with local horse-back riders as well as team roping, rodeos, and dog shows. Morningside Park and Wrangler Arena continue to host demolition derbies, fair activities, outdoor horse shows, 4-H events, and general riders.

The Wyoming Center, open now for over four years, has hosted a wide vari-ety of events including local and national trade shows, RV rallies, banquets, wed-dings, seminars, state conferences, com-munity fundraisers, hockey tourna-ments, public ice skating, ultimate fight-ing, concerts, and so much more. George Jones & Lonestar performed concerts that were well attended by Gillette and surrounding area residents.

In 2012, citizens of Gillette, Camp-bell County, and surrounding com-munity enjoyed the following per-formances on the Heritage Center stage. The “Theater Series” brought in Pilobolus, Macbeth, Titanic and Miracle On 34th Street. The “Fam-ily Friendly” shows suitable for youth and the entire family included On Ensemble, Sylvester And The Magic Pebble, Alash, Are You My Mother?, Twinkle Twonkle, Missoula Chil-dren’s Theatre production of King Arthur’s Quest, Super Scientific Cir-cus, Rock The Presidents, Alpin

Hong with special guests The Gillette Chamber Singers, Jump With Jill and Beakman On The Brain. “Spe-cial Events” in 2012 were Riders In The Sky, Gillette’s Got Talent, Kath-leen Madigan, Men Of Worth and the 2012 Performing Arts Work-shop performance of The King And I. Additionally, the Heritage Center partnered with the Campbell County School District and other entities in the community to provide residency activities with Alash, Alpin Hong, Craicmore, Macbeth, On Ensemble, Paul Taylor, and Men Of Worth.

The Heritage Center Gallery dis-played numerous visual artist’s works including: John Werbelow’s Natural Inspiration, Chris Amend

The Ins and Outs of Existential Entanglements, Herb Kalenberg Honest Observation And Abstract Conceptualization, Scotch & Water-color Society From Pen To Paper, Joan Sowada Come Out and Play, artwork from Campbell County School District students, and the 24th Annual Invitational Christmas Wreath Exhibit.

The 22nd Annual CAM-PLEX Winter Western was held in Febru-ary and continued the tradition as a popular and well attended event. The event kicked off with Western Favor-ite Riders In The Sky in the Heritage Center Theater. Additional weekend entertainment for the community included The Coors Pro Rodeo, Mel-gaard Construction Bulls & Broncs, the Town and Country Trade Show, free stage shows by local entertain-ers, team roping, barrel racing, stock dog trials, and the ever popular pet-ting zoo.

New to Gillette and CAM-PLEX in February 2012 was the Wild West Championship Wrestling Tourna-ment. Over 800 wrestlers and their families traveled to Gillette from 10 states for this event held in the Wyo-ming Center.

CAM-PLEX hosted the Cowboy States Reining Horse Show in June with 600 attendees using over 350 horse stalls for the 5 days.

Adding to a busy summer were 5 RV Rallies with 1,147 RV’s on site, conventions, wedding receptions, equestrian events, dog shows, train-ing seminars and reunions.

The Campbell County Fair, pro-duced by the Fair Board, utilized all buildings at CAM-PLEX in early August. The fair was well attended and featured events such as the Energy Town Pro Rodeo, Demoli-tion Derby and country greats John Conlee with special guests Chancey Williams and the Younger Broth-ers Band. Craig Morgan also made an appearance in concert. Watch for upcoming announcements for the 2013 fair concert!

The two largest indoor garage sales in Wyoming were hosted by CAM-PLEX in April and October. Local bargain hunters flocked to the Wyo-ming Center to find their treasures among the booths.

The work of our CAM-PLEX Mar-keting staff has paid off for 2013 as we will host four large RV Ral-lies during the summer. These ral-lies will bring more than 4,000 RV’s and 8,000 visitors to our community with an estimated economic impact of $4,000,000.

Please visit our web site at: www.cam-plex.com to view the schedule of upcoming events and to learn more about your CAM-PLEX facilities.

CAM-PLEX Multi-Event FacilitiesCam-plex Multi-Event Facilities1635 Reata Drive • 682-0552

Ticket Office 682-8802

CAM-PLEX Winter Western Rodeo George Jones

Performing Arts Workshop

Wild West Championship Wrestling Tournament Youth

Lonestar

Cowboy States Reining Horse Show

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Information Technology Services (ITS) provides tech-nical support on the County’s voice and data network for 23 County departments. These services range from basic computer assistance and trou-bleshooting to com-plete network designs.

Administrative staff prepared the bud-get, facilitated capital purchases, and pro-vided overall direc-tion for projects. Coleen Winterholler, the Senior Admin-istrative Assistant, obtained her Certified Software Asset Man-ager (CSAM) certification and continued to evaluate various software license management packages.

The Network Support divi-sion is responsible for main-taining network security, ensuring reliable access to resources, and planning technical projects for other departments. The three Net-work Analysts, Steve Dana-her, Dustin Cooper, and David Kelsay, completed multiple projects and made progress on several others.

The most notable proj-ect was the comple-tion of the infrastructure upgrade. The Sheriff’s Office, Children’s Cen-ter, Library, Public Health, and Recreation Center are now connected to the Courthouse via high speed fiber links. This has vastly improved access to resources at those locations and pro-vides enough bandwidth for future expansion needs.

Collaboration with the Facilities Maintenance staff continued and upgrades to video surveillance systems

were made at numerous loca-tions around the County. The Network staff also started a joint project with the City of Gillette and State of Wyoming Circuit Court to design and

install a closed circuit video arraignment system. This sys-tem will allow arraignments to be conducted via a telecon-ference type link rather than spending time and money to transport defendants to the Courthouse. It has a tentative completion date by year end and will provide significant savings to the County.

Virtual Desktop Inf rastr ucture

(VDI), along with an upgrade to the Windows 7 operating system, continued to be the main focus and significant progress was made this year in that regard. The Clerks and Treasurers were moved to thin clients with good results and

the technology was deployed in several other departments for initial testing.

The Network staff also began planning for a move to a new network operating sys-

tem. Although the current sys-tem has served the County well over many years, it has become increasingly difficult to interface newer technolo-gies into it.

User Support provides numerous services for County computer users. These include conducting software training classes, providing front line technical support, and spear-heading other technical proj-ects as needed. User Support staff worked closely with Net-

work Support to deploy and support VDI. They also spent many hours testing applica-tion compatibility with the new Windows operating sys-tem.

Rhonda Larmer provided training to County com-puter users for the new ver-sion of Microsoft Word and coordinated the training to

coincide with the upgrade to the new software. The Fully Automated Courts Transac-tion System (FACTS) remains a key application and Rhonda continued to provide lead sup-port on this program for the Attorney’s Office, Juvenile Probation, and District Court.

Beth Kirsch focused much of her time on the County’s financial system, JD Edwards, as well as Kronos, the time and attendance application. A proposal to revamp the fixed

asset system was brought for-ward, so Beth spent time facil-itating meetings with rep-resentatives from various County departments to deter-mine the scope of the proj-ect. She also worked to bring accrual information from the JD Edwards system into Kro-nos.

Natalie Linneman contin-ued her document manage-ment work this year by over-seeing the creation of docu-ment categories and auto filing for the Landfill. She also col-laborated with Public Works staff by facilitating training on data entry.

The programming staff con-sists of three programmers dedicated to developing and maintaining custom programs for the County’s financial sys-tem while the fourth mem-ber is charged with developing web applications.

Bob Overman continued to maintain the Motor Vehi-cle System and implement improvements to the system. For example, he designed an in-house Motor Vehicle Sales Tax receipt and modified the Non-Commercial Temporary

permit to print on the same laser printers that are used to print registrations. These two changes allow the Treasur-er’s Office to print three dif-ferent documents on one laser

printer. In the past, three printers were used to pro-duce the three documents.

Rocky Marquiss moved titles data from outdated jukebox technology to more modern disk stor-age. This move provides greater flexibility and reli-ability for handling the data. He also started the process to update tech-nology that will allow us to move the financial sys-tem into our blade cen-ter. This will reduce power consumption, and more importantly, allow us to move forward with that piece of the Disaster

Recovery plan. Nicki Lindahl spent some

of the year learning the Motor Vehicle System and prepar-ing for the transition that will see her become the lead pro-grammer on this module. She also worked closely with other departments to create custom solutions, such as automating the process of EEO reporting to the State. Additionally, she served as the technical sup-port liaison for Elections.

Justin Penning installed, configured, and implemented the internal Intranet website; it was adapted to the Coun-ty’s specific needs from the ground up and is still ongoing. This year Campbell County standardized its digital sig-nage solution and Justin took the lead on a project to con-figure and install displays at the Courthouse and Children’s Developmental Services. The VDI solution affects all areas of IT, so Justin expanded his knowledgebase by assisting support staff with setting up and troubleshooting the new thin clients.

Standing: Natalie Linneman, Steve Danaher, Bob Overman, Cathy Raney, Rocky Marquiss, Phil Harvey, Beth Kirsch, Dustin Cooper. Seated: David Kelsay, Nicki Lindahl, Rhonda Larmer, Coleen Winterholler, Justin Penning.

Campbell County Info Tech. Services500 S. Gillette Ave, Ste. 2500

687-6470

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Following up on a Needs Assessment from last year, Cathy Raney, the Geo-graphic Information Sys-

tems (GIS) Coordinator, successfully launched the

311GIS system which can be found at http://www.ccgov.net/

mapping/311GIS_Splash.html.

This system will provide citizens with another avenue to notify County staff of issues needing attention, such as road maintenance.

Another notable accomplishment this year was the Special Achievement in GIS award from Esri at the annual International User Conference in San Diego, CA. The GIS Cooperative of Campbell County, the City of Gillette and the town of Wright was the one entity in the State of Wyoming nom-

inated to receive such an award. The award was received for the work done to bring the GIS data of the three governmental units together into a sin-gle unified database.

Work on another major project, a Safety Man-agement System for the Gillette-Campbell County airport, which will be using similar technology to the 311GIS, is proceeding well with an anticipated release for testing in the first quarter of 2013.

Campbell County Rockpile Museum

The Museum serves as the local his-tory center for Campbell County. The Campbell County Rockpile Museum’s mission is to collect, preserve and inter-pret the objects and documents impor-tant to the county’s history. The mis-sion is accomplished through perma-nent and temporary exhibits, educa-tional programs and events, and assist-ing individuals and organizations with research projects concerning Campbell County.

The number of visitors showed a strong increase from last year with 14% more patrons attending events and programs and viewing exhibits. The Museum served visitors from all states except Rhode Island and from 32 for-eign countries from all parts of the world, including China, Chile, South Africa, Sweden, and Russia.

In May, the Museum received the REACH Attraction of the Year Award from the Wyoming Office of Tour-ism. The REACH award is for Rare and Exceptional Achievement for Customer service and Hospi-tality, and only one institution/organization in the state receives the award each year. It is not only an honor to receive the award, but an indication of the Museum’s success in serving both residents and visitors to the area, and promoting the history of the area.

A number of new, permanent and temporary, exhibits were installed this year. Temporary exhibits included They Served with Honor, Stimson Col-ors Wyoming and Benson’s Art Shop.

The Benson exhibit featured local cow-boy artist, Jake W. Benson, and brought together many of his little seen paint-ings completed during the 1930’s through 1950’s.

The permanent exhibit additions include the restored 1920’s homestead

cabin, The Oil Patch, and a redesign of the Native American artifacts exhibit. The updating of Grandma’s Attic, the new Tool Identification hands-on exhibit, and the accessible sheep wagon are popular new features this year.

Last year’s The Unquiet Utes exhibit, which was developed in-house and built from the museum’s collection, was turned into a traveling exhibit allowing the Museum to reach an even broader audience. The traveling exhibit is currently in Montrose Colorado with installations also planned for museums in Wyoming and South Dakota.

The education department began the year with Winter Family Day events. January featured Mystery at the Museum with junior detectives analyz-ing clues and solving The Case of the

Pilfered Pocket Watch, while Febru-ary introduced a new program, Inven-tions Day. The final Family Day event in December offered old-fashioned Christmas crafts. With assistance from parents, volunteers, and staff, children made spool ornaments, corn cob snow-

men, candy trains and variety of other decorations.

During the spring months the Museum continued to support the School District’s educational mission by offering the Civil War Day event for all 700-plus sixth grade students. With assistance from the School District and the Rockpile Museum Association this year’s event included a first-person pre-sentation of Abraham Lincoln. “Presi-dent Lincoln” also gave a public presen-tation at Gillette College. The Pioneer School program for third and fourth grade classes and the Museum Scaven-ger Hunt rounded out the programming for the school groups and kept staff busy for the rest of the school year.

The fall events included the Home-stead Heritage Festival and the 17th

Annual Native American Artifact Show. The festival included Lakota food, Dutch oven cooking, the Basque danc-ers, the Gillette Ganglat Fiddle Club, and numerous stations to try your hand at “homestead skills”. Between 350 and 400 people filled the Museum’s build-ings and grounds during the day’s event.

The educational programs and exhib-its are the most visible aspects of the Museum’s mission, but at least equally important is the Museum’s collection mission. This year we received forty-seven donations totaling over 775 items that help highlight and document the County’s history.

You can help your Museum continue developing a strong collection, which highlights the history of Campbell County and Northeast Wyoming, by donating artifacts and documents.

It was another good year for the Campbell County Rockpile Museum with many accomplishments. The year would not have been as successful with-out a great deal of help from individuals and organizations.

The Museum Board and Staff would like to thank the following for their help and support in making history entertaining as well as educational: the Campbell County Historical Soci-ety; the Pumpkin Buttes Chapter of the Wyoming Archaeological Soci-ety; the Campbell County High School Honor Society; the Gillette College Stu-dent Government; the Living Histori-ans of the Wyoming Frontier; the Big Horn Basque Club; the Gillette Gan-glat Fiddle Club; the School District; the Campbell County Sheriff’s Department; the Campbell County Public Library; our Museum volunteers; the Rockpile Museum Association; and the Experi-ence Works staff.

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Campbell County Rockpile Museum900 W. Second Street

682-5723

Families enjoyed making old-fashioned Christmas ornaments at one of the Museum’s Winter Family Day events.

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Gillette • LIBRARY 2012 • WrightCCPLS Mission: To provide diverse cultural opportunities for reading, learning and entertainment to all citizens of our community. We lead the way to a universe of information with personal service and technology.

Campbell County Public Library • 2101 S. 4J Road • Gillette, WY • 307.687.0009 Wright Branch Library • 305 Wright Boulevard • Wright, WY • 307.464.0500

254,448 Database Queries (+24%)

278,332 Questions Answered (+5%)

10,351 Teens (+45%) attended

504 events (+23%) at CCPL

1,950 Meeting Room Use (+28%)

190,569 Collection Size

1,013 Adults (+37%) attended

216 events (+64%) at CCPL

2,383 Children (+7%) attended

53 events at WBL

266 Teens (+77%) attended

102 (+410%) events at WBL

229 Adults (+12%) attended

25 events (+31%) at WBL484,055

Items Circulated

1,016Outreach Patrons Visited

17,756 Children (+12%) attended

314 events at CCPL

Gillette • LIBRARY 2012 • WrightCCPLS Mission: To provide diverse cultural opportunities for reading, learning and entertainment to all citizens of our community. We lead the way to a universe of information with personal service and technology.

Campbell County Public Library • 2101 S. 4J Road • Gillette, WY • 307.687.0009 Wright Branch Library • 305 Wright Boulevard • Wright, WY • 307.464.0500

254,448 Database Queries (+24%)

278,332 Questions Answered (+5%)

10,351 Teens (+45%) attended

504 events (+23%) at CCPL

1,950 Meeting Room Use (+28%)

190,569 Collection Size

1,013 Adults (+37%) attended

216 events (+64%) at CCPL

2,383 Children (+7%) attended

53 events at WBL

266 Teens (+77%) attended

102 (+410%) events at WBL

229 Adults (+12%) attended

25 events (+31%) at WBL484,055

Items Circulated

1,016Outreach Patrons Visited

17,756 Children (+12%) attended

314 events at CCPL

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In 2011, the Sheriff’s Office began utilizing the WyoLink statewide radio communication system. Upon imple-mentation of this system and through-out previous years, local emergency responders had identified the need for an additional “low level” radio site in the Gillette area to improve hand-

held radio communications. A fund-ing proposal was submitted to and approved by the State of Wyoming in the fall of 2012. The new radio tower was then constructed and equipped just west of the Sheriff’s Office. By the end of December, 2012, the new tower site will be fully functional and will enhance the radio communications of all WyoLink users in the Gillette area.

In 2012, the Sheriff’s Office contin-ued its commitment to increase road-

way safety. The Sheriff’s Office dedi-cated thousands of personnel hours to traffic safety patrols through utiliza-tion of a dedicated Traffic Officer and through overtime funding provided through the Wyoming Department of Transportation. The grant fund-ing allowed officers to be assigned to work additional hours specifically for impaired driving enforcement, and high visibility traffic enforcement.

For an emergencey call 911.

Campbell County Sheriff’s OfficeCampbell County Sheriff’s Office

600 W Boxelder 682-7271

DARE UPDATES CURRICULUM:DARE is keeping it REAL. The

elementary school program ded-icated to keeping kids away from drugs is making a few changes. DARE is adding the slogan, “Keepin’ it Real”. REAL is an acronym for Refuse, Explain, Avoid, and Leave. The new curriculum is still given by DARE officers from the Campbell

County Sheriff’s Office. The curriculum is more student-involved. It has more inter-active videos, and substance abuse will continue to be the topic. There is still a chapter on alcohol and tobacco, but they’ve included other topics, like bullying, stress, and support systems. The program

for elementary schools will now also be more multi-media to adapt to the more tech-savvy students. The Sheriff’s Office started implement-ing the program in September, 2012.

2012 FACTS AT A GLANCE**ALL FIGURES ARE FROM JAN. 1, 2012 TO DEC. 1, 2012**

INDIVIDUAL CRIME INCIDENTS/SERVICES PROVIDED TOTAL NUMBER

Animal Control Services Provided 1,356

Burglary/Break and Enter 78

Driving with Suspended License 287

Drug-related Investigations 181

DWUI 153

Family Fight Responses 196

Larceny (including vehicle theft) 219

Minor in Possession of Alcohol 83

TOTAL CRIMES/SERVICES PRO-VIDED TOTAL NUMBER

Total Crime Responses/Services Pro-vided 13,192

Total Crime Responses/Services Pro-vided Inside Town of Wright 832

Busiest Day of the Week Friday

CITATIONS ISSUED TOTAL NUMBER

Speeding Citations Issued 563

Total Citations Issued 2,482

DETENTION CENTER:The detention center continues to reno-

vate its existing inmate housing areas, updat-ing both the physical and technological com-ponents of the facility. The facility has been excellently maintained throughout the years, but constant use, 24 hours a day, eventually takes its toll. These updates are essential in providing a safe and secure environment for both staff and inmates.

Throughout 2012, the Sheriff’s Office main-tenance staff has taken on the large task of renovations to the adult housing area. Paint-ing, plumbing, shower upgrades, and door repairs were just a fraction of what was included in the work that was completed. Much of the labor was contributed by inmate workers. Hundreds of hours in inmate labor, provided over the course of the year, amounted to a significant cost savings in tax-payer dollars. Much of the painting and larger scale parts of the project could not have been

accomplished without these workers.In addition to the adult inmate housing area

project, Sheriff Pownall has also committed to updating electronic hardware, as well. The electronics are responsible for door controls, video cameras, and intercoms throughout the secure portion of the facility. Staff safety and minimizing liability often hinge on these cru-cial parts of technology. The video visitation will also be improved and provide a wider range of options for family members who wish to visit. A video arraignment system has also been installed between the Sheriff’s Office and Circuit Court. In the coming months, the court will be conducting video arraignments, which will minimize the need for inmates to be transported from the jail to the courthouse each day. Few transports directly relates to reduced costs and increased safety for staff and inmates.

CCDC INMATE POPULATION2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Adult Males 2,195 2,561 2,458 2,693 2,843 2,802 2,388 2,344 2,349

Adult Females 562 649 604 606 691 788 726 739 728

Juvenile Males 138 151 156 161 128 106 141 106 102

Juvenile Females 56 64 64 76 59 29 42 50 32

2,951 3,425 3,282 3,536 3,721 3,725 3,297 3,239 3,211

Average Daily Population (2012) – 115 .**ALL FIGURES PROVIDED ARE FROM JAN. 1, 2012 TO DEC. 1, 2012**

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The 2012 annual report for the Campbell County Coroner’s Office records a decline in the number of cases investigated compared to 2011.

The report is based upon data that is submitted with a portion of December not accounted for. As of the date of this report the office was at 77 calls with 5 declined. The 2012 investigations included cases dealing with assisting other agencies for help in notification of next of kin, cases that were declined by this office and cases that were deferred to other counties after investigation indi-cated so. I have broken down some of the statistics that have been of inter-est throughout the years and noted some of the changes each year brings. Sta-tistics include age, manner of death, gender, seatbelt/helmet use, and alcohol and drug involvement. 2012 concluded with the following:

Age - 0 to 100 years old Manner of Death0-20 (6) Natural - 4721-40 (13) Accidental - 641-60 (26) Traffic deaths - 961-80 (19) Suicides - 1281-100 (13) Homicides - 0 SIDS/Stillborn - 2 Undetermined - 0

Gender - 42 Males (55%) Seat Belt use in traffic deaths - 35 Females (45%) 1 belted 1 - no helmet

Other statistics include:

Avg age of deaths - males 59 years, females 54 year Accidental - 9 traffic, 9 drug, 2 falls Drug related deaths – 9

Frequency by the time of the day called: 0001-0800 – 28.57%0801-1600 – 42.85% 1601-2400 – 28.57%

Calls by days of the week Monday - 14%, Tuesday - 14%, Wednesday - 14%, Thursday - 20%, Friday - 13%, Saturday -12%, Sun-day - 14%.

In all of the years as coroner, I have and will continue to thank all of the very valuable people who assist the Coroner’s Office in the performance of our duties. Many people and organizations work together to help make this office successful in our commitment to the citizens of Campbell County. I greatly appreciate their assistance and time. I would like to thank my deputies Rita Mashak and Laura Sundstrom for their help. My thanks to all the person-nel with the Campbell County Sheriff’s Department, Gillette Police Depart-ment, Campbell County Fire Department, Campbell County Memorial Hos-pital staff and EMS personnel, Dr. Woodward, Campbell County doctors and assistants, Wyoming Hwy Patrol, Wyoming Crime Lab Personnel, Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigations and Dr. Habbe from Rapid City Regional Hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota. With the assistance from all involved, we are able to provide professional service to our citizens.

Clerk of District Court

The year 2012 was a busy year for the Clerk of District Court Office, with three Judges and three courtrooms the Sixth Judicial District is one of the busiest dis-tricts in the state. Cases filed in our dis-trict are more complex and require sig-nificantly more legal filings compared to the other District Courts in Wyoming.

The duties of the Clerk of District Court are set forth in both Wyoming Statutes and Wyoming Court Rules. These duties are to keep the journals, records, books, dockets, and papers pertaining to the District Court. Other duties include collecting, receipting, recording and processing all monies paid to or through the court. The office enters orders for child support matters and judgments, both civilly and crimi-nally.

The District Courts in Wyoming are responsible for handling felony criminal cases, civil matters above $50,000.00, probate cases, adoptions and domestic relations. In addition, the district courts are also the state’s juvenile courts.

One of our biggest challenges is pro se litigants. These cases are our citi-zens wanting to complete their own legal work. Pro se cases require much more of our time than cases filed by attorneys. My office is their initial contact with the court. We can help them with pro-cesses and procedures, but cannot give out legal advice.

Again this year we have tracked down criminal defendants who owe the county money. Many of the defendants have served their time, paid their restitution, but still owe the county money. After paroled from prison, they no longer have a probation officer to track the progress of payments to the court. With a letter from our office, many begin payments.

The Clerk of Court summons jurors for District Court jury trials. Jurors are paid at the rate of $30.00 per day plus

mileage, and most trials are completed within three days, but can last much longer. The Supreme Court Office gen-erates a random computer list of pos-sible jurors for our county. This list is compiled of names from drivers’ license records and voter registration lists. Jurors are required to appear four times, serve on a jury trial or complete their four-month term. We had a total of 11 jury trials in 2011.

The Clerk of Courts office has trained staff to receipt and distribute child sup-port payments. Our core staff function in concert with the Sixth Judicial Dis-trict Child Support Authority and the State Disbursement Unit staff ensure that child support is distributed in a timely fashion according to federal and state requirements.

We continue to have success with Sandcastles. This program requires par-ents who are going through a divorce to enroll their children ages six to seven-teen in a three and a half hour, one time group session prior to the finalization of the divorce. The program is facilitated by school counselors. It provides a safe environment for the children to discuss issues that worry them and to ask ques-tions. Parents are invited and encour-aged to attend the last half hour of the session in order for them to have a bet-ter understanding of what their children are feeling and to be able to develop a closer relationship with their children.

Planning a trip overseas?? Pick up a passport application at the Clerk of Dis-trict Court Office, or for passport and travel information, please visit www.travel.state.gov. Applications are pro-cessed by the Clerk’s Office and for-warded to the regional passport office.

Our goal has always been and will remain to help each and every person who walks into our office in a profes-sional, efficient and respectful manner.

Campbell County Clerk of District Court500 S. Gillette Ave, Ste. 2400

682-3424

Campbell County Coroner’s Office600 W. Boxelder

687-6179

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The Mission of the Campbell County Human Resources and Risk Management Department is to support County departments, boards and agencies in the recruitment, retention and protection of Camp-bell County resources and assets — the most valuable of which is our employees.

Northeastern Wyoming saw the Cost of Living Index increase from an average of 1.35% in 2010 to 3.6% in 2011 and then decrease again to the current average of 1.5% as of the end of the second quarter of 2012. Nationally, as well as statewide, unemploy-ment rates continue to decrease. Wyoming’s unem-ployment rate of 5.2% as of the end of June 2012 con-tinues to compare favorably with the national rate of 8.2%. This downward trend, although slowing, con-tinues to put pressure on the labor market.

The health plan continued to expend less than anticipated by ending fiscal year 2011/2012 under

budget by 2.42%. However, the total actual cost of providing health care continues to increase, up 9.8% from the previous fiscal year. Although this increase is still less than the national average, improving the health of employees and their dependents contin-ues to be a major goal. The revamped Wellness Pro-gram, rolled out in the fall of 2012, provided a mea-surement of the overall health of our employees and targeted areas for improvement. The employee sup-

port of this program was overwhelming, with almost 80% of our employees turning out for the blood draw which will provide the baseline information neces-sary for the development of personalized and tar-geted programs and training.

Employee safety continues to be a high priority for Human Resources/Risk Management. Spear-headed by the Safety Committee, the County has achieved its goal of implementation of a unified county wide safety program that qualified for the discounted workers compensation rate programs offered by Wyoming Department of Workforce Services. That program plus the Safety Discount Program, for which an application has been submitted, will equate to a current annual savings of $40,000 and as much as $95,000 in the next few years. A new safety intranet web page provides convenient access to comprehen-sive training materials, OSHA programs and forms that support each department’s unique safety efforts. The success of these efforts is evident as all County divisions qualified for the Safety Incentive Program for 2012. Something in which every County employee should be very proud of!!

Campbell County Human ResourcesRisk Management Department

Campbell County Road and Bridge1704 S 4J Road

682-4411

Campbell County Human Resource/ Risk Management Depart.

500 S. Gillette Ave Ste 1200 687-6355

Road and BridgeAs we approach the end of 2012, we

have to reflect and compare this year to previous years. Many things always stay the same, but by the same token many things change it almost seems daily. There is never a happy medium for us. We had a very dry year that took a toll on our roads.

The crusher crew started at our Hak-ert Pit in Johnson County, back to Elmore on north Garner Lake and fin-ishing the year back up at Hakert. We

crushed 60,447 tons of gravel at Hak-ert and 35,012 tons scoria and chips at Elmore.

The blades put on 14,166 hours. They were busy with dust control, maintain-ing, helping the Fire Department with fire lines and reclamation of those lines.

The belly dumps were busy as they put on 414,379 miles hauling gravel to road projects and stockpiling in the yard. They also hauled rotomill to the yard from the T7 road project.

Plowing snow, sanding roads, hauling gravel, scoria chips, and reject material kept the end dumps busy. They put on 105,296 miles. This crew is also respon-

sible for crack sealing, patching, haul-ing sand for Cam-plex and replacing and cleaning autogates. They also worked on culvert projects on Bitter Creek and Rocky Point.

The sign crew was on the go replac-ing damaged signs, putting up new signs and working on the sign project from a state grant.

The CMAQ (Congestion Mitigation Air Quality) was used for 20 miles on the Echeta Road. The water trucks and water tankers put on a lot of miles. 1,489,042 gallons of Mag Water was used for dust abatement. We used our rotary grinder to help with the process.

O v e r l a y projects were done on Garner Lake, Force and Fairview.

Our shop crew stays busy k e e p i n g all the equipment working. They hauled 64,053 gallons of gasoline and diesel to other entities.

Training was a part of our year. In January everyone completed Defen-sive Driving and in February, 8 hours of MSHA Refresher was completed.

Charlotte Terry, Jamie Mallon and Tina Honeycutt

Cindy Silbaugh accepting a service award at the annual employee’s picnic.

Donating Blood does not have to be stressful! Starla Kuhrt & Nancy Ratcliff displaying their 35 year Service Award!

The Safety Committee hard at work!

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Incident ResponsesThe Campbell County Fire Depart-

ment (CCFD) responded to more than 2,200 incidents in 2012. Seventeen career firefighters, four career com-mand staff, and approximately 150 volunteers answered these calls from CCFD’s 10 fire stations. In addition, we also have 50 rural Firefighter’s who are part of a rural system which assists in protecting the far reaches of our county.

In early 2008 the fire department instituted 24-hour in-station coverage from Fire Station One in order to pro-vide better response services and min-imize losses. This enhanced service—provided by career and volunteer fire-fighters—has been very beneficial to the community.

CCFD firefighters were especially busy with 226 wildland fires in 2012 due to unseasonably high tempera-tures and severe drought conditions. The entire organization including career firefighters, volunteer firefight-ers, rural firefighters, maintenance staff, and administrative staff are to be commended for their tireless efforts during this time.

Nine “Seasonal Firefighters” were hired and served at CCFD from June 1 through September, 2012. These per-sonnel helped the fire department to respond to a number of wildland fires while in their earliest stages thereby minimizing damage.

Fire department officials would like to thank Campbell County Road and Bridge for supplying dozers, blades, and equipment operators at many of the largest wildland fires. The Camp-bell County Sheriff’s Department is also to be commended for their exper-tise in dispatching and for assisting with traffic control at wildland scenes. Finally, local Ranchers, Wyoming State Forestry, and the Bureau of Land Man-agement are deeply appreciated as they assisted on many wildland fires.

CCFD StaffFour position changes occurred

within the Fire Department’s career staff in 2012.

• In January, Patrick Olson was named to a Firefighter position. Hailing from Fargo, North Dakota, Patrick and his new wife, Amanda purchased and moved into a home in Gillette.

• Shane Kirsch was also named as a career Firefighter after having served as a Volunteer Firefighter at CCFD for three years. Shane is a life-long citizen of Gillette.

• In early June, Matthew Moore joined the Fire Department as its Mainte-nance Supervisor. Matt and his wife Katrina relocated to Gillette from Mississippi.

• After an extensive interview process, Michael Davis was named to CCFD’s Inspector position. Michael and his wife, Vonda moved to Gillette from Loveland, Colorado.

The Fire Department recently con-ducted the most successful Volun-teer Firefighter recruitment drive ever undertaken at CCFD. Thirty-nine new recruits will join forces with existing firefighters at CCFD’s 10 fire stations. These recruits’ training will begin with the annual CCFD Firefighter Recruit Academy starting in late-January.

Also in January, it is anticipated that 14 current Probationary Firefighters will progress into full Firefighter Mem-bership. These members will assume more responsibility on their respective crews since obtaining a wide variety of skills, certifications, and experience. In addition, these members will join the ranks of firefighters who are autho-rized to provide duty shift coverage at Fire Station One.

The Fire Department has a seven-member Joint Powers Fire Board. These members are appointed by the City of Gillette, the Town of Wright, and Campbell County. The Board assures financial accountability, stra-tegic planning, and makes certain that a safe and productive working environment is maintained.

Current Fire Board Members include Sherwin (Buddy) Cater, Chuck Dobkins, Ron Holmes, Chris Knapp, Frank Latta, Scott Rankin, and Kevin VanDyke.

TrainingIn order to learn new skills and

refine old ones, training is a major

Campbell County Fire Department106 Rohan Ave

682-5319

focus at CCFD. In 2012 firefight-ers attended 621 classes (for a total of 10,358 hours of training).

CCFD conducted a Firefighter II Academy to provide advanced fire-fighter training and certification. Twenty-two firefighters attended weekly classes beginning in March and extending through May, 2012. This course was a very successful venture as 21 of the 22 participants earned Wyo-ming Firefighter II certificates.

Training Chief Ron Smith will man-age the training of CCFD’s largest ever Firefighter I Academy. Thirty-nine new probationary firefighters will learn the basic skills of structural firefighting, wildland firefighting, hazardous mate-rial response, rescue techniques, and more.

Public EducationEvery year CCFD provides Public

Education (Pub Ed) to literally thou-sands of Campbell County’s children and adults. October is National Fire Safety Month, and during October, 2012, CCFD administered Pub Ed to more than 1,500 kids.

In these classes, kids are taught why and how fire and smoke are dan-gerous, what can cause fires, and how fires can be prevented. They also learn about items they might encounter that are unsafe to touch (i.e. lighters, pills, knives, electrical plugs).

Pub Ed classes also address fire safety in the home. Kids and adults

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alike learn why it is important that all homes have smoke and carbon monox-ide detectors, and why families should have and practice Exit Drills at their homes. Seniors are taught about cook-ing fires, keeping their homes “fire safe,” and good egress routes so they can exit safely should they encounter a fire.

Wal-mart and Home Depot have donated residential smoke and car-bon monoxide detectors to the Fire Department. Firefighters distribute and install these detectors to home-owners who do not have proper detec-tion equipment. Destination Imagina-tion, a group from Lakeview Elemen-tary School, solicited $1,700 in dona-tions which will be used to continue this program.

CCFD provides Public Education at a variety of community events such as the Pumpkin Festival and the Children’s Festival. In addition, Public Education issues public service announcements for a variety of recurring safety issues.

Inspections and Investigations Divisions

The Inspections Division has greatly enhanced the services it provides to the community with the addition of a new inspector. The Fire Inspector posi-tion has been filled by Mike Davis. He will perform inspections on day-cares, respite care facilities, fireplaces, construction projects in addition to addressing courtesy customer com-plaints and courtesy visits. Mike will also conduct fire investigations and assist with plan reviews in the absence of the Fire Marshal.

With the addition of the new Inspec-tor, Fire Marshal Eric Acton now over-sees all activities within the Inspec-

tions and Investiga-tions Divisions. He manages all aspects of permits and inspec-tions for development projects, buildings, suppressions systems, and fire alarms. In doing so, Eric assists and coordinates with citizens, developers, contractors, and fund-ing entities.

Vehicles and ApparatusEvery year the City of Gillette’s Fleet

Management Division works coopera-tively with CCFD personnel to admin-ister the CCFD Vehicle Replacement Program. The Fire Department is con-tinually challenged to keep its fleet of vehicles up-to-date and ready to respond at a moment’s notice.

In 2012 CCFD replaced aging appa-ratus with the following units:

• Combination Tender/Pumper: This apparatus features a 1250 GPM pump, storage room for fire hose and other gear, and a 2,500-gallon tank. This unit will be placed at Fire Station Ten in the Nickelson Little Farms area.

• Type IV Wildland Unit: More commonly known as a “Brush Truck,” this is the larger of the two types of quick response Wildland Units at CCFD. It includes 4X4 capabilities, a 1,000-gallon water tank, and foam firefighting capa-bility. This workhorse is capable of operating in some of Campbell County’s most rugged territory.

• Rescue Response Vehicle: Sta-tion One’s old Rescue apparatus had accumulated excessive mileage making it eligible for replacement. The Fire Department has steadily increased its usage of this vehicle as the number of medical/rescue calls has risen sharply over the past sev-eral years.

These apparatus were acquired through a Vehicle Replacement Plan which is administered with the assis-tance of the City of Gillette’s Fleet Man-ager, Patrick Martin. In this plan, vehi-cles are earmarked for replacement

based on their age, accumulated mile-age, general condition, and amount of repairs.

The Fire Department expects to replace two apparatus in 2013. Both units are Wildland Response Appara-tus; one is a Type IV unit (as described above), and the other is a Type VI unit (which is a smaller version of wildland unit).

Community ActivitiesThe Campbell County Fire Depart-

ment continually strives to maintain a prominent position within the commu-nity. Every year the Fire Department is involved in wide variety community service activities.

Last year’s Muscular Dystrophy “Fill the Boot Drive” was chaired by Jason Budd. A total of $13,977 was raised which is a new all-time record for CCFD. Included was an informal com-petition amongst CCFD’s 10 fire sta-tions. Wright’s Station Nine handily won this competition by bringing in more than $6,000 of donations.

The Fire Department is involved in a wide variety of other community activ-ities including the following:

• Organize the annual CCFD Fourth of July Pancake Breakfast:

• The department uses a large cast iron skillet, along with several dif-ferent cooking tops all set up in the equipment bay of the Fire Depart-

ment. All that grill space was needed to feed the more than 3,800 people who swung by the Fire Department for breakfast. The Fire Department bought 400 pounds of pancake mix and 300 pounds of sausage for the event.

• Participate in Jackalope Jump (benefitting Special Olympics)

• Participate in Shop with a Cop (ben-efitting needy children at Christ-mastime)

• Supply a fire truck and crew for demolition derbies

• Provide rides on a fire truck for Campbell County High School teams winning a Wyoming State Championships throughout the year

• Guns and Hoses Blood Drive

As 2012 ends, your Campbell County Fire Department eagerly anticipates taking on the challenges of a new year. The dedicated staff and volunteers of the CCFD are committed to continu-ally improving the quality of services provided to Campbell County’s resi-dents and visitors.

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Horticulture, Hannah HoppDuring 2012, Hannah Hopp worked

on 3 major project areas including Mas-ter Gardeners, Community Gardens, and the Garden Walk. Time was also spent on yard calls and walk-in requests for iden-tification of trees, shrubs, insects, and diseases. The Master Gardener Course will be offered again in 2013. Visit http://www.ccgov.net/departments/extension_office/horticulture.html for more infor-mation about the course and application forms.

The Farmers’ Market is a service pro-vided by the Master Gardeners to give local residents a chance to buy and sell local fresh produce, baked goods, jams, jellies, soaps, art and more. There was an average of 21 vendors weekly from mid-July through September. The move to the College Tech Center parking lot was a wonderful decision and helped increase traffic averaging 400-800 customers

each Saturday. The Master Gardeners are currently working on a Winter Market (Market in the Morning) for the future.

The College Community Garden has seen some improvements over the past year. During the end of May three dif-ferent style hoop houses were built. In September, Honor Camp Members came and built the fence. The garden is still on track to open to the public in 2013. The Town of Wright has also decided to develop a new Community Garden. The area has been supplied by the Town of Wright south of their maintenance shop. There is a good possibility that it will be up and running in 2013 as well.

This was the second year that the Mas-ter Gardeners put on the Garden Walk. There were 4 houses on the walk this year that varied greatly in landscapes. There was a great turn out of people who came despite the hot summer heat.

Cent$ible Nutrition Program, Lori JonesCent$ible Nutrition is an educational

program that helps families learn basic nutrition, food resource management, food safety, and cooking skills. There is no charge for the series of eight classes. A cookbook and several kitchen items such as a refrigerator thermometer and a set of dry and liquid measuring cups are some of the incentive items to remind families what they have learned.

There were 130 families enrolled in the Cent$ible Nutrition program in 2012. The average family enrolled has three to five members. The positive results are that 44% of those families now plan meals ahead of time more often. The families also think about healthy food choices when deciding what to feed their family members. Research shows that when a family practices meal plan-ning, everyone is more likely to get their daily nutrients. Of those families, 37% now read the Nutrition Facts label when deciding what to purchase. Families are making choices based on nutrition rather than convenience or appearance. The most important change is that 32% now pay more attention to thawing food safely and storing food in a safe manner. Fam-ilies that use unsafe thawing and storing habits sometimes have mild symptoms of food-borne illness. With food safety it is always best to be safe rather than sorry.

Food resource management takes into consideration things like planning meals

ahead, shopping with a list, and buying only what you can use before it spoils. There were 83% of the families that made improvements in at least one food resource management category. There were 86% of the families that improved their nutrition practices. Nutrition prac-tices include choosing whole grains, offering at least three different vegeta-bles daily, offering two different fruits daily, watching fat intake, and choosing milk or juice over drinks with no nutri-tional value. Food safety practices were improved by 44% of the families. Food safety includes keeping cold foods cold, heating or reheating to proper temper-atures, avoiding cross-contamination, sanitizing, and safe thawing practices. This category historically has the least improvement. One of the reasons is that more families are coming into the pro-gram with good food safety practices.

Some of the agencies Cent$ible Nutri-tion partners with are Early Head Start, Head Start, Wyoming Family Literacy, Department of Family Services, Work-force Development, Department of Voca-tional Rehabilitation, Department of Probation and Parole, Wright Commu-nity Assistance, Westwood High School, Campbell County High School, and the YES House. If you are interested, please call Lori at 682-7281 to enroll in Cent$ible Nutrition.

University of Wyoming Campbell County Extension 412 S. Gillette Avenue • 682-7281

http://www.ccgov.net/departments/ extension_office/index.html

4-H/Youth Educator, Jessica GladsonCampbell County 4-H again saw a

year of record enrollment with close to 600 youth participating in a vari-ety of educational seminars, events, local and state contests, and state and national trips. We are very thankful to our 270+ volunteers that help make all of these programs possible.

The Campbell County 4-H Horse program had great success with the continued growth of timed rodeo events including team roping, break-away roping, goat tying, calf roping and dummy roping. The horse proj-ect also continues to grow in halter, showmanship, trail, and English rid-ing. This year more than 100 youth participated in the horse program.

The 4-H Clover Corrals town facil-ity for urban youth to raise sheep, swine, goats, rabbits and poultry was full and youth reported an increase in the areas of responsibility and team-work in their lives and project related interactions.

Campbell County 4-H also remains a presence at the Youth Ag Expo. In 2012, we focused on “Field to Table” and wool felting. The “Field to Table” program educated youth on the nutri-tional value of whole wheat grains and how they get from a farmer’s field to their table. This included youth being able to grind their own flour from wheat with hand grinders. The wool felting allowed for education on the sheep industry in the textile area.

The 4-H Clover Bud program con-tinued to be strong with over 60 youth ages 5 to 8 participating. Our young members in this program are able to experience 4-H opportunities along with special ones of their own. The highlight of their year was again a two day camp with activities that included how to be a good friend, healthy liv-ing, science, and cooking.

The largest 4-H sponsored activ-ity of 2012 was the annual Camp-bell County 4-H Camp. The camp is held at the Mallo Camp facilities in the Black Hills and lasts 4 days and 3 nights for 4-H members and 6 days and 5 nights for Young Leaders. 4-H Young Leaders arrive at camp the day before the campers to undergo inten-sive leadership training to help facil-

itate the small groups they are in charge of during camp. The leader-ship training consists of team build-ing sessions that facilitates cama-raderie between the older 4-Hers and give them insight on leading the younger 4-Hers in a social setting away from home. The Young Lead-ers, which are 4-Hers who are 13 and older, are involved with the planning and implantation of the camp sched-ule, educational activities and execu-tion of the activities at camp.

Campbell County 4-H Camp is designed for youth to rotate through workshops, activities and program-ming throughout the week in a small group setting. The groups are designed to enhance a sense of com-munity and facilitate growth for our members. As a group they attended sessions during the week that focused on citizenship, team building, cul-tural knowledge, digital video, rifle, archery, cultural awareness, wilder-ness survival, canoeing, and physical activity.

The Campbell County 4-H Young Leader program has seen growth and expansion in membership. There is now nearly 200 teens involved in the County program. The 4-H pro-gram has been working in partner-ship with the teens to create opportu-nities to utilize their leadership train-ing within our community.

In an effort to increase commu-nity awareness, Campbell County 4-H has been working with the school dis-trict’s CAT (after school) programs and the Boys and Girls Club. Start-ing the 2012 school year, 4-H vis-its the after school programs at Prai-rie Wind, Paintbrush, Pronghorn, and Sunflower Elementary and Twin Spruce Junior High once a week. Stu-dents participate in different activi-ties each week that involve nationwide 4-H mandates such as science, fitness, and health as well as well-known 4-H project areas.

We are pleased to announce that Kimberly Bell has joined our staff fill-ing the part-time 4-H position. Kim’s focus will be on working with after-school programs.

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MISSION: All of CDS-CC services are guided by our Mission Statement: “The mission of the Children’s Devel-opmental Services of Campbell County is to serve the community by providing comprehensive quality early childhood services for children and their families, in caring and compassionate integrated environments, so that all children may achieve their fullest potential as unique individuals in society.”

What is Children’s Developmental Services of Campbell County?

We are a non-political subdivision of County Government which provides early intervention/early childhood ser-vices for infants and preschool age chil-dren with disabilities and their families. Without our services, many families would be at a loss as to where to turn for support and direction.

The Children’s Developmental Ser-vices of Campbell County fulfills the function of being able to provide an array of services through one provider, utilizing a team of professionals and specialists. This is collaboration in its truest sense. Each component of ser-vices is not the sole support of all oper-ational costs. Children’s Developmen-tal Services of Campbell County oper-ates on sound budget principles, includ-ing equitable allocations to all funding sources. Annual financial audits are completed with 100% compliance.

SERVICES PROVIDED:Three major service components:

• Early Intervention for children birth to school age with developmental disabilities.

• Early Education/Child Care for chil-dren 2 ½ to school age.

• Early Head Start for pregnant women, infants and toddlers.

Early Intervention

Campbell County Children’s Development Services

1801 Four-J Road 682-2392

Children’s Developmental Services of Campbell County (CDS-CC)

Early Intervention Program

CDS-CC provides early intervention services for chil-dren with disabilities birth to kindergarten age who reside in Campbell County. We provide screening and assessment in all areas of development including com-munication, motor, social, self-help, cognitive, vision and hearing. All of these services are provided free of charge to families and are funded by State and Federal Educa-tional Grants and Campbell County Government.

CDS-CC Statistics:• Currently serving over 293 children with disabilities

which is a 199% increase since 2000 • Services are provided in-center, in homes, community

preschools and child care facilities • Services are available in the community of Wright• Over 1,100 children were screened in 2012• Of those 1,100 children, 160 were identified as a child

with a disability and an educational plan was devel-oped

If a child is determined to be eligible for education ser-vices, a partnership with the family begins in order to develop an educational plan individualized to their child’s specific needs. Services are determined based on Federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Wyoming Chapter 7 Rules and Regulations. Collabora-tion with outside agencies may also be included in order to meet the specific needs of the child and family. We received 100% compliance on the Division of Develop-mental Services review, which is held every three years.

Early Intervention Services provided may include:

• Developmental Preschool• Home-Based Educational Services• Speech Therapy• Occupational Therapy• Physical Therapy• Consultation for Feeding and Behavior Issues

CDS-CC is currently participating in an Engagement Classroom Model research project with Siskin Chil-dren’s Institute of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The research includes methods for arranging classroom environments, organizing the adults in a preschool classroom, improv-ing transitions between activ-ities, behavior management and data collection. It also provides methods for improv-ing the development of educa-tional plans.

Early Education/Child CareThe Early Education Childcare Pro-

gram serves children age 2 ½ to kin-dergarten. The program offers five full day sessions and six half day preschool sessions. Classrooms are multi-age and provide an inclusive environment for disabled and non-disabled children to participate in regular classrooms with adaptations and modifications as needed. The IDEA requires that children partic-ipate in activities with an age appro-priate peer group. A sliding fee scale is established for child care services with priority given to single, low income working parents. A flat fee for half day preschool is required. All services are offered twelve months

out of the year and account for 4.4% of available childcare in the commu-nity. 8-10% of children and fami-lies are placed by the Department of Family Services or are court ordered for abuse, neglect, prevention or drug endangerment. 17-20% of children and families receive income assis-tance from the Department of Family Services. Parenting classes (Love and Logic and Common Sense Parenting) are provided 24 weeks of the year. Children’s Developmental Services

is accred-ited through the National A s s o c i a -tion for the

Education of Young Children and is a Wyoming licensed child care facility.

Philosophies: Creative Curriculum is used to

guide teacher’s facilitation of chil-dren’s development and learning, which is based on five fundamental principles:

• positive adult interactions and relationships

• social-emotional competence• constructive, purposeful play sup-

ports• the physical environment• teacher-family partnerships

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Early Head StartEarly Head Start (EHS) services are

provided free to pregnant women, chil-dren birth to age three and their fam-ilies in home based and interactional settings, using “Parents as Teachers” curriculum. Early Head Start has estab-lished School Readiness Goals to ensure children are prepared to begin kin-dergarten ready to learn. Each child’s readiness is measured by numerous methods of data collection, including Teaching Strategies GOLD, an online assessment tool.

Early Head Start programs enhance children’s physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development; assist pregnant women to access compre-hensive prenatal and postpartum care; support parents’ efforts to fulfill their parental roles; and help parents move toward self-sufficiency.

In Campbell County, EHS maintains full enrollment for 36 families, approx-imately 9% of the total eligible pop-ulation. The services for these fami-lies consist of weekly home visits and twice monthly family interaction activ-ities. There is currently a waiting list of 25 families. During the past year, EHS offered 1,620 home visits and 48 family interactions to 48 children age birth to

three, and six (6) pregnant women and their families. In addition to the child development activities provided, 97% of the enrolled population also received preventative medical care, while 62% have received dental care. Father Involvement activities included the par-ticipation of 23 fathers.

Early Head Start’s most recent Fed-eral Review occurred from June 13 – 18, 2010. Based on the information gath-ered during the review, it was deter-mined that Children’s Developmental Services Early Head Start was in com-pliance with all applicable Head Start Performance Standards, laws, regula-tions and policy requirements. No cor-rective actions were required.

Educational Benefits of early intervention

Science has produced a compelling body of evidence that children who receive early intervention during a time when 90% of brain development occurs, have a significantly higher rate of suc-cess in school. Ser-vices provided to children with delays during the preschool

years greatly reduces, if not eliminates, ongoing problems that would need to be addressed at greater cost in public school.

Cost benefits of quality Early Education/Child Care/Interven-tion Programs:

Projections have been made that quality early childhood child care pro-grams demonstrate substantial cost-savings. According to the High Scope Perry Pre-School Project (Shore, R. 1997 Rethinking the Brain: New Insights into Early Development. New York: Families and Work Institute) for every dollar invested in the program they had yielded savings of $7.16 in costs that might have been incurred if the program had not existed. The pro-gram’s savings to taxpayers (in con-stant 1992 dollars discounted annu-ally to 3%) is estimated to be $88,433 per child from the following sources:

• Savings in schooling, due primarily to a reduced need for special educa-tion services.

• Higher taxes are paid by preschool participants because they had higher earnings once they enter the workforce.

• Savings in welfare assistance and other social service programs.

• Savings of the criminal justice sys-tem and to potential victims of crimes.

Other impacts of the study indicate:• Monthly earnings of $2,000 or

more.• Owning their own homes.• Owning second cars.

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• Children’s development and progress is tracked through Teaching Strategies GOLD, an online assessment tool.

The Pyramid model is a tiered approach in addressing children with social-emotional concerns or challenging behaviors. This model focuses on:

• nurturing and responsive rela-tionships

• high quality supportive environ-ments

• targeted social emotional sup-ports

• intensive interventions

Additional Information:website: http://www.ccgov.net/departments/cdsemail: bac70@ccgov.netphone: 307-682-2392fax: 307-682-8463

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Responsibilities in the Treasurer’s office include the licensing of motor vehicles, the collection of sales tax, the collection of property taxes, the distribution of revenues received to the proper entities, the account-ing of the revenues and disbursements, the registra-tion of mobile machinery, the movement of mobile homes, and the payment of bonds issued for the hos-pital, the school, and the county. Shirley Study was re-elected as Campbell County Treasurer in 2010 and will continue to employ thirteen full time employees who share the responsibilities of the office.

By the end of June 2012, our office collected and distributed $436,045,307 to various governmental entities. The distribution of these funds is dictated by Wyoming Statutes.

We have an optional 1% sales tax that has been in effect since December 1, 1976.

The following shows the collections at the end of each fiscal year for the past five years:

Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2008 $11,487,733

Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2009 $12,850,848

Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2010 $ 9,671,206

Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2011 $11,221,890

Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2012 $11,149,930

On May 3, 2011, at a special election, the voters of Campbell County approved a capital facilities tax in the amount of 1% to collect a total of $110 million. We began collecting the tax on October 1, 2011. The Town of Wright and the Wright Water and Sewer District

will receive $15 million of the monies collected for cer-tain identified improvements and the City of Gillette will receive $95 million for the Gillette Regional Water Supply Project. By the end of June 2012, the City of Gillette had received $16,103,898 and the Town of Wright and the Wright Water and Sewer District had received $2,621,565.

There was a change to the Gold Star license plate in 2012. This plate is for a spouse, parent or grandpar-ent of a service member who died during military ser-vice. The legislature added sibling and child to the list of who qualifies for this plate. The applications are in our office and once filled out can be sent to the Wyo-ming Veteran’s Commission for approval. The Wyo-ming Veteran’s Commission will pay the $30.00 appli-cation fee through 2012.

The Department of Transportation offers a Novelty plate for anyone who would like a Wyoming license plate with a name on it. This plate cannot be displayed on a vehicle. There is a fee of $5.00 per plate, plus $2.00 shipping. The applications are in our office and also on the Wyoming Department of Transportation’s website: www.dot.state.wy.us/wydot/titles_plates_

registration/specialty_plates.A disabled veteran who provides an affidavit from

the Veteran’s Administration that he/she receives fifty percent (50%) or more service connected disability compensation from the veteran’s administration shall qualify for a disabled veteran’s plate. The disabled vet-eran is exempt from registration fees for one vehicle, other than a commercial vehicle, motorcycle, multi-purpose vehicle, bus or motor home. Starting July 1, 2011, the disabled veteran can now choose a military plate, a veteran plate or a disabled veteran plate as his/her exempt plate.

The State of Wyoming offers a property tax relief for people that qualify. Your total personal assets can-not exceed $106,485 per adult household member and your household income needs to be equal to or less than the greater of three fourths of the median house-hold income for the county in which you reside. Three fourths of Campbell County’s median household income for 2011 was $58,590. The personal assets include real estate, bank accounts and investments. However, this does not include the value of your home, a car for each adult household member, and any retire-ment accounts (IRA’s, 401K plans, medical savings, etc). You have to be a resident of Wyoming for the past five years. The State of Wyoming handles the review of the applications and the issuance of the refunds. Applications can be turned into our office or mailed to the State of Wyoming. The applications must be received by the first Monday in June and refunds are issued beginning in August.

The employees of the Campbell County Treasurer’s office will continue to strive to serve their customers with efficient and friendly service throughout the year to come.

The 2012 season started about a month earlier than normal and went fast. The hot dry conditions took hold in early spring and never let go all sum-mer. The summer crews kept busy and a lot got accomplished with their help.

The early spring was noticed by all and we had to submit our chemical bid about a month earlier than nor-mal to keep up with demand. Like-wise, we usually have to find the sum-mer help something to do to keep them busy until the weeds really take off, however, this year it seemed like they

couldn’t get here early enough to keep up with the weed growth.

The dry year also had its effect on the hay production, as only three cer-tifications were done. Twenty five cer-tifications were completed in 2011. Of the three completed this summer, only one landowner called in for a hay certi-fication on his 36 acres. Last year’s cer-tified hay acreage totaled 1,760 acres. The two other certifications were from landowners with wheat straw, which totaled 681 acres.

It was tough finding help this year and we only had three familiar faces return for jobs this summer. The new leafy spurge crew learned fast and they treated about 60 more acres than last year with a total of 173 acres over the 40,000 acre area they walked. The two

person road crew was also new, but it didn’t take long for them to get things figured out and they completed the weed treatment on all of the county roads. The Spray Logger mapping sys-tem for the road crew pickup worked better this year with a new pump and flow meter, and it helped with the record keeping and mapping of the road crew’s progress throughout the summer. The road crew treated a total of 74 acres.

The dry spring and summer was pretty hard on mosquito populations. The two person mosquito crew treated the five mile radius around Gillette in record time. With continued moni-toring throughout the summer, the dips proved that the early mosquito treatments were keeping populations

down. With a summer’s worth of treat-ment already completed, the crew was soon itching for something else to do. Luckly for them, a large area needed surveyed for Russian Knapweed, so with GPS’s in hand, they set out to record data. Although it was just the two of them, they did a fantastic job of covering the area thoroughly. The data gave us a very good picture of the areas that require a program to aerially treat the knapweed starting, hopefully, in the fall of 2013.

With the help from our crews this year, our work was completed and the summer, although it went fast, was suc-cessful. Most of the crew members said they would be back next year, so we are looking forward to a productive 2013 season as well.

Campbell County Weed & Pest213 Stocktrail Ave

682-4369

Campbell County Weed & Pest

Campbell County Treasurer’s Office500 S. Gillette Ave Ste 1700

682-7268

Campbell County Treasurer’s Office

Nancy Ratcliff, Patricia Arp and Shirley Study at the Town of Wright personation during Capitol For A Day event on Sept. 11, 2012.

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The County Attorney’s Office is responsible for the prosecution of criminal offenses occurring in Campbell County and represents and advises the various county entities in civil matters. Jeani Stone was elected Campbell County Attorney in 2002, and began her term in 2003. Jeani just completed her tenth year as Campbell County & Prosecuting Attorney. Charlene Edwards, Carol Seeger, Brooke Steele, Dan Reade, Jacquelyn Brown, Lori Gorseth, Glen Asay, Valerie Thomas, Lisa Finkey and Ronald Wirthwein served as Deputy County & Prosecuting Attorneys in 2012.

Support staff during 2012 included Myrna Clark, Lyla Fevold, Toni Ellis, Carolyn Waldrop, Jackie Adair, Doug Marler, Jill Hampelman, Teresa Kirk-patrick, Renee Proffitt, Jody McGee, Kelly Wal-lem, Cheri Beyersdorf, Maureen Costello, Samara Stroum, Marcy Hoeskstra, Jessica Van Eaton and Holly Filhart. Bill Monahan, Monica Eskew-Weber, Andrea Paxton, and Brenda Christopherson served in the Campbell County Attorney’s Office Crime Vic-tim/Witness Office.

The County Attorney’s Office supervises the Campbell County and City of Gillette Juvenile Diver-sion, Teen Intervention and Early Age Interven-tion Programs. The Juvenile Diversion Office staff in 2012 consisted of Erica Wood, Erin Wiley, Krista Thurma, Holly Filhart, and Randy Monk.

FELONY CASESDuring 2012, the County Attorney’s Office prose-

cuted 250 felony defendants compared to 211 felony defendants in 2011, 223 felony defendants in 2010, 217 in 2009, 247 in 2008, and 191 in 2007. The Dep-uty County Attorneys assigned to District Court had 9 felony jury trials, compared to 11 in 2011, 20 in 2010, 15 in 2009, 19 in 2008 and 13 trials in 2007. In addition, the felony attorneys filed 64 probation revocations with an additional 33 revocations that contained remand to the penitentiary for a total of 97, compared to 88 in 2011, 126 in 2010, 117 in 2009, 85 in 2008 and 94 probation revocations in 2007.

2012 Sexual Assault Crimes Charges Number of Victims

Sexual Assault of Minor in 1st Degree 6 2

Sexual Assault of Minor in 2nd Degree

9 4

Sexual Assault in the 1st Degree 3 3

Sexual Assault in the 2nd Degree 1 1

Conspiracy to Commit Sexual Assault in the 1st Degree

5 1

Sexual Battery 3 3

Total: 27 14

By comparison, in 2011, there was 1 sexual assault with an adult victim , 13 sexual assaults with minors and 1 sexual battery for a total of 15. In 2010, there were 7 adult victims of sexual assault, 17 sexual assaults with minors, and 3 sexual battery cases, for a total of 27. In 2009, there were 10 adult vic-tim sexual assault cases and 18 sexual assaults with minors, for a total of 28, compared to 31in 2008 and 20 in 2007.

MISDEMEANOR CASESThe volume of misdemeanor cases in 2012, totaled

9,925, which is an increase from the previous year. In 2011, 9,064 misdemeanor charges were filed, compared to 9,867 misdemeanor charges in 2010; 10,888 misdemeanor charges in 2009; 10,106 mis-demeanor charges in 2008; 9,859 misdemeanor charges in 2007; 8,523 misdemeanor charges in 2006 and 7,254 misdemeanor charges in 2005.

Driving While Under the Influence charges in 2012 were lower than years previously. In 2012, 646 individuals were charged with Driving While Under the Influence compared to 691 individuals in 2011, 872 in 2010, 1,008 in 2009, 1,002 individuals in 2008, 900 individuals in 2007 and 680 in 2006. 20 of the 646 DUIs were bound over to the District Court for felony DUIs, as a result of the defendant having multiple prior DUI convictions in a short period of time.

The Deputy County Attorneys assigned to Circuit Court participated in 10 jury trials in 2012, compared to 12 in 2011, 17 in 2010, 18 in 2009, 11 jury trials in 2008, 16 in 2007, 18 in 2006 and 13 in 2005.

In 2012, 233 victims of domestic violence were provided services by the Campbell County Attorney’s Office, compared to 202 in 2011, 220 in 2010, 274 in 2009, 266 in 2008, 243 victims in 2007, 234 cases in 2006, and 249 in 2005.

2012 Domestic Violence Related Crimes

Charges Number of Victims

Family Violence Battery 111 108

Family Violence Battery 2nd Offense

2 2

Felony Family Violence Battery 3 3

Unlawful Contact Family Violence 54 54

Protection Order Violations 19 14

False Imprisonment 9 9

Felonious Restraint 1 1

Aggravated Assault 13 12

Felony Strangulation of House-hold Member

14 13

Misdemeanor Stalking 16 16

Felony Stalking 1 1

Total: 243 233

Crime victims were notified of criminal proceed-ings by mail, phone, and office conferences. Vic-tims were given verbal notification of their rights as victims as well as written notification by way of let-ters and brochures. The Crime Victim Coordinators attended criminal hearings with victims who chose to attend, provided emotional support and answered questions the victim may have had during the hear-ing. The Crime Victim Office assisted victims in fil-ing Crime Victim Compensation applications, recov-ering restitution, and provided struggling victims with emergency funds through food and gas gift cards. The Crime Victim Office attended monthly staff meetings and collaborated on open cases and debriefed on closed cases, evaluating services that were provided to the victim, as well as process anal-ysis and evaluation.

JUVENILE COURT CASESJuvenile court cases involve neglected and abused

children, delinquent children and children in need of supervision. There were 354 new Juvenile Court cases in 2012, compared to 311 in 2011, 321 in 2010, 319 in 2009, 265 in 2008, 288 juvenile cases in 2007, 235 in 2006 and 231 in 2005. Of those, 122 were delinquent children, compared to 92 in 2011, 78 in 2010, and 96 in 2009. In 2012, 36 children were filed into Juvenile Court as Children in Need of Supervision, compared to 29 in 2011, 32 in 2010, and 38 in 2009. In 2012, there were 78 neglect pro-ceedings, compared to 59 in 2011, 71 neglect pro-ceedings in 2010, and 51 in 2009. Fifty-two proba-tion revocation proceedings were filed in in 2012, compared to 65 in 2011, 69 revocation proceedings in 2010, and 61 in 2009. In 2012, 66 contempt of court proceedings were filed for non-compliant par-ents, or juveniles, compared to 66 contempt of court proceedings in 2011, 71 contempt of court proceed-ings in 2010 and 71 contempt of court proceedings in 2009. Court-ordered treatment, counseling, proba-tion, community service and the importance of edu-cation are emphasized in juvenile court.

Campbell County Attorney’s Office500 S. Gillette Ave, Ste B200

682-4310

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JUVENILE DIVERSION PROGRAM

The Juvenile Diversion Program, the Teen Intervention Program, and the Early Age Intervention Program are all programs supervised by the Campbell County Attorney’s Office.

The Juvenile Diversion Program is in collaboration with the Gillette Police Department, Campbell County School District, the Campbell County Sheriff’s Department, and the Camp-bell County Attorney’s Office, City of Gillette Municipal Court, City of Wright Municipal Court, Campbell County Circuit Court, and the 6th Judicial District Court.

The 2012 Juvenile Diversion Team consisted of Erica Wood, Randall Monk, Krista Thumma, Erin Wiley and Holly Filhart. Devonn Sosa was the Community Service Supervisor for the program, located in the Campbell County Juvenile Probation Depart-ment, who also works closely with this program.

The Juvenile Diversion Program’s mission statement is to turn mistakes made by first time juvenile offend-ers into an educational opportunity and decrease recidivism of criminal activity. The Juvenile Diversion Pro-

gram focuses on modifying a juvenile offender’s thinking patterns, curtail their criminal activity, improve school performance, improve parent/child communication, boost self-esteem and encourage positive decision making. The Program offers juveniles a record of no conviction if they successfully complete the six to twelve month pro-bation program under the supervision of the Diversion Officers.

To be accepted into the Juvenile Diversion Program, juveniles must meet eligibility requirements and com-plete a screening process. Youth who have not been convicted of a previous crime and who otherwise qualify for the program must submit to random drug and alcohol testing, maintains a curfew, complete a corrective think-ing course, community service, main-tain good grades, and often seek out-side counseling services.

The Juvenile Diversion program began in 1999, largely in response to the overload of the juvenile court sys-tem. It has been very successful for juveniles who have committed their first time offense. This program strives to provide the necessary inter-ventions early.

Statistics reveal that since the pro-gram’s inception in September of 1999 through December of 2012, 6,018 juve-niles have been screened for the pro-gram. Of those, the program has admitted 1,441 juveniles into the pro-gram since it began. In 2012, 104 new juveniles participated in the pro-

gram, for a total of 171 juveniles served throughout the year. During 2012, 88 juveniles completed diversion, 31 failed, and 57 juveniles are still in the program, overlapping from the year previous the number of juveniles.

During the past 13 years, the Juve-nile Diversion Program has been tracking recidivism, or additional criminal offenses committed by Campbell County youth. For the time frame of January 1, 2005 through July 31, 2012 statistics indicate that only 13.6% of juveniles who graduated from the Juvenile Diversion Program re-offended, compared to 53% who re-offended who opted to not participate in the program. This indicates a 86.4% success rate for those who participated in the Juvenile Diversion Program in not re-offending compared to only

47% success rate for those who opted to not participate in the program.

The Diversion Program utilizes cor-rective thinking, a theory based on Dr. Stanton Samenow, which focus on decision making skills within youth and retraining the thinking process of youth to hold “themselves” more

accountable for their actions.The Juvenile Diversion Program is

currently in its thirteenth year of oper-ation and is seeing remarkable gains in changing criminal thinking and reduc-ing recidivism. The Diversion Offi-cers’ backgrounds are unique to many other programs in the United States as ours has both members of law enforce-ment and those trained in social work. A key component of the program is to improve communication within the family. In addition, education and maintaining grades are emphasized and improved following the corrective thinking class and the diversion pro-gram.

The Juvenile Diversion Officers con-tinue to participate in Camp Post-card, a weeklong camp which works with at-risk youth. During 2012, 14

fifth and sixth graders attended Camp Postcard with the Diversion Officers. Since the Juvenile Diversion Program implemented Camp Postcard, 105 at-risk youth have benefitted from Camp Postcard.

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Campbell County Attorney’s OfficeJuvenile Diversion Program

500 S. Gillette Ave, Ste B300 687-6311

CIVIL CASES & COUNTY LEGAL ISSUES

The civil department provides legal assistance to the Campbell County Commissioners and other county elected officials, boards and departments. In addition, a deputy county attorney is assigned to advise the Sheriff’s Department and jail of civil issues that may arise. The civil department handles matters such as employment issues, roads, plan-ning and zoning, taxation and assessment, collec-tions, contract review and drafting, and involuntary commitment proceedings for individuals suffering from mental illness and as a result, poses a danger to themselves or others and requires court ordered treatment. In 2012, 154 individuals were detained for evaluation, compared to 119 detained in 2011, 109 detained in 2010, 125 detained in 2009, 114 detained in 2008 and 97 detained in 2007. The civil depart-ment was successful in legal actions for delinquent

taxes obtaining judgments totaling over 1 million dollars and collected over $113,758.95 in delinquent tax in 2012.

CRIME VICTIM OFFICEIn April 2012, Campbell County Crime Vic-

tim Office in coordination with Gillette Abuse Ref-uge Foundation, Gillette Police Department Vic-tim Advocates, and Sexual Assault Response Team placed ads in the local paper to promote Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault awareness, local victim service agencies, and community awareness events.

Campbell County Attorney Jeani Stone presented at the Gillette Abuse Refuge Foundation’s “Take Back the Night Speak Out.” The Campbell County Attor-ney’s Crime Victim Office also sponsored a sexual assault awareness project, “Denim Day” in collab-oration with Gillette Abuse Refuge Foundation and Gillette Police Department Victim Advocates.

Deputy County Attorneys and the Campbell

County Crime Victim Office attended several train-ings this year to include strangulation training, Crimes Against Children Conference, and Annual Victim Services Conference.

COLLABORATION OF EFFORTSDuring 2012, several agencies have assisted the

Campbell County Attorney’s Office in the prose-cution of criminal offenses. The Campbell County Attorney’s Office acknowledges the cooperation and excellent job done by the Gillette Police Department, the Campbell County Sheriff’s Department, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, the Wyoming Highway Patrol, Division of Criminal Investigation, Adult Probation and Parole, Campbell County Juve-nile Probation, Campbell County Fire Department, Gillette Abuse Refuge Foundation and the Depart-ment of Family Services in the investigation of cases and assistance given to the County Attorney’s Office.

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EARLY AGE INTERVENTION

The Early Age Intervention Program which began in 2001, is a voluntary program that is offered to youth between the ages of 5-12, who are participating in the E iden-tified as at-risk. Youth arly Age Intervention Program do not need a pending crim-inal offense to enroll in the pro-gram. They must meet eligibil-ity requirements to be accepted into the program.

The Early Age Interven-tion Program encourages par-ents to attend parenting classes and counseling with their child.

Contact with the school, siblings and parents, is a key component of the program. Involvement in commu-nity activities is explored. In addi-tion, many juveniles in the Diversion, Early Age and Teen Intervention Pro-grams participate at the local commu-nity garden.

The Early Age Intervention Pro-gram has assisted 226 youth

and their families since the inception of the Early Age Program. Ten juveniles were

admitted to the program in 2012. Nine juveniles completed the pro-gram, no juveniles

failed the program and six carried over for services

into 2013.

TEEN INTERVENTION PROGRAM

In late fall of 2005, the Diversion Program developed and began the Teen Intervention Program, which is a voluntary program designed for youth 12-17 years of age who are exhibit-ing defiant and out-of-control behav-iors such as skipping school, alcohol or controlled substance use, and dis-respectful behavior toward parents and/or school personnel.

The program works on mod-ifying behavior through inter-vention in the home and school, bolstering academic

performance and self esteem increas-ing community safety, and strength-ening the individual and family unit, prior to any criminal charges.

During 2012, 2 juveniles joined the Teen Intervention Program. To date, there have been 49 youth and their families who have participated in the Teen Intervention Program.

The County Clerk’s Office provides a variety of services to the citizens of Campbell County. The employees in this office take pride in their work, continuance of friendly, effi-cient public service and excel-lent public record keeping.

The County Clerk is the Clerk to the Board of Commis-sioners and attends all of their meetings.

The titling department consists of eight full time employees. This part of the Clerk’s Office handles titling of motor vehicles and fil-ing of personal, federal and state tax liens. Motor vehi-cle titles issued in 2012 totaled 24,416, averaging over 94 titles per day.

The Campbell County Clerk’s Office is respon-

sible for issuing marriage licenses which totaled 370 in 2012. Congratulations to all the newlyweds.

The County Clerk’s Office handles the paperwork involv-ing the county retail liquor licenses along with the malt

beverage and cater-

ing permits for the county.The recording section

(vault) consists of six full time employees. This section deals with oil and gas leases, roy-alty deeds, warranty and quit claim deeds. Mortgages, oil and gas liens are also filed in this part of the clerk’s office along with overriding roy-

alties, affidavits of heirship, sur-vivorship and notary public, mil-itary discharges and powers of attorney. The land records department has been busy with various business and residential sub-divisions.

Two employees work in the payroll/accounts payable sec-tion of the Clerk’s Office. They han-dle all areas of pay-

roll from enrollment of new employees to issuing pay-roll checks and payment of all taxes and benefits associated with payroll. An average of 788 employees received pay-checks from this office. On an average there are approx-imately 718 accounts payable checks issued per month. In addition, we have one full time employee responsible for the budget process and financials.

The Election’s Office con-ducted the Primary and Gen-eral elections this year. The General Election had a great turn out, Campbell County Citizens casted 17,653 bal-lots. From the Primary Elec-tion thru the General Election there were 5,297 new regis-tered voters with 3,534 being registered on General Elec-tion Day. In addition, all for-mation elections and enlarge-ment elections for special dis-tricts are done thru the Elec-

tion’s Office.The Clerk’s Office col-

lected over $710,706 in reve-nue for 2012 for the recording of documents, titles, marriage licenses, and miscellaneous receipts.

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Mission of the Juvenile Probation Office: Under the Courts’ direction, the Juvenile Probation Office shall equally implement the goals of com-munity protection and victim restoration, while

improving the juveniles’ competencies to live as productive citizens.Caseloads: During calendar year 2012, the Juvenile Probation Office han-

dled a total of 569 open cases, 397 of which were newly filed during the year. The breakdown between the Juvenile, Circuit and Municipal Courts is as follows:

All Open Cases New Cases Filed

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Court Total Juveniles Males Females Total Juveniles Males Females

District Court (Including Juvenile Drug Court) 241 178 63 115 81 34

Circuit Court 7 4 3 28 21 7

Courtesy Supervision 2 0 2 3 1 2

Out of County 3 3 0 2 2 0

Municipal Court – Juveniles 61 42 19 45 31 14

Municipal Court – 18 to 21 (Including Youth Intervention) 83 58 25 69 51 17Community Service 172 135 37 135 106 29

Total Open Cases 569 420 149 397 293 104

Juvenile Probation Supervi-sion: Youth are assigned to one of our Juvenile Probation Officers: Deb Lind-Adsit, Brenda Parks, Felice Acosta, Connie Scigliano or Andreah Kramer. Intensive supervision pro-bation is provided for Juvenile & Fam-ily Drug Court by Brandy Edlund. Terms and conditions of probation vary by case and include some combi-nation of the following:

• Regular meetings with juveniles and parents

• Visits to home, school, community service or work

• Academic Monitoring – school grades, attendance, discipline

• Random drug/alcohol testing• Searches of home, vehicles and/or

electronic devices• Mental Health evaluation and/or

counseling • Substance Abuse evaluation and/

or treatment• Community Service• Employment and Payment of Res-

titution / fines• Assigned Curfew• House Arrest / Electronic Moni-

toring / GPS• Restriction on associates

In Juvenile Court cases, parents/guardians are also assigned a variety of terms and conditions which may include providing supervision for their child, cooperation with the Juvenile Probation Office and participation in a variety of treatment modalities.

Drug & Alcohol Offenses: Regardless of the Court of referral, or the level of supervision, a high per-centage of youth entering the system are involved with alcohol or drug use. Cases involving alcohol and/or other illegal substances include charges for DUI, Minor in Possession (of alcohol), and possession or use of illegal drugs.

From 2007 through 2012 alcohol and other drug-related offenses made up 22.7%, 27.7%, 33.2%, 30.5%, 30.8% and 36%, respectively, of the cases handled throughout the year. Of the open cases handled by the Juvenile Probation Office during 2012, 204, or 36%, involved drugs and/or alcohol.

Drug and Alcohol OffensesThe Juvenile Probation Office will

continue with aggressive efforts to detect the use of synthetic and other drugs by the youth referred for super-vision. Whenever permitted by court order, or with parental permission, youth will be tested randomly for drug and/or alcohol use. Probationers and their parents are made fully aware that possession and/or use of all drugs and alcohol, including these synthetic products, are considered to be a pro-bation violation with potentially sig-nificant consequences.

Brandy Edlund, Felice Acosta, Brenda Parks, Nicole Burris, Connie Scigliano, Lindsay Fitzgerald, Andreah Kramer, David Anderson, Susan Cahill, Cody Dobson, Devonn Sosa, Judy Ratcliff, Shelly Eliason, Deb Lind-Adsit

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Positive UA Results for Juvenile Probation and Juvenile & Family Drug Court

Court Supervised Treatment Programs (also known as Drug Courts):

The mission of the Campbell County Juvenile & Family Drug Court, together with its Youth Intervention Track, is to decrease the use of alcohol and other drugs, as well as offenses related to their use, and to improve the mental health, life skills and competencies of Program Participants.

Juvenile & Family Drug Court: The Campbell County Juvenile & Fam-ily Drug Court (“JFDC”) began oper-ations in 2002, and provides ser-vices for juvenile offenders between the ages of 13-17 with substance abuse issues, and their families, and focuses on juvenile crime involving the use or misuse of drugs and/or alcohol. The potential participant may be diag-nosed with either drug and/or alcohol dependency or abuse to meet admis-sion criteria. The length of the JFDC Program ranges from 6-10 months depending upon the participant’s diagnosis, treatment plan and individ-ual progress.

Participants may be referred from Municipal, Circuit and/or Juvenile Court. Parental involvement is not generally required. However, in spe-cific cases referred from Juvenile

Court, parental involvement may be ordered and include participation in family counseling, family substance abuse programming and weekly court attendance.

Key Components include:• Weekly Court sessions• Substance Abuse Treatment groups

and individual sessions• Individual Mental Health Counsel-

ing• Intensive Supervision Probation• Frequent random urinalysis /

breathalyzer testing• Immediate sanctions/incentives

for program successes and infrac-tions.

• The $450.00 program fee includes the cost of substance abuse treat-ment and family program, and individual and/or family mental health counseling.

The program utilizes a “team approach” in which the Judge, County Attorney, Defense Attorney, Juve-nile Probation, Department of Family Services, Substance Abuse Treatment Provider, Mental Health Therapist and School District jointly address the needs of the substance abusing juve-nile.

JFDC has completed nearly eleven years of operation. To date, 57 juve-niles and 125 family members, for a total of 182 participants, have entered into the Juvenile & Fam-ily Drug Court Program. During the

course of program participation, there have been many successes:

• 86 participants have successfully graduated from JFDC (25 Juve-niles and 61 family members)

• 100% juveniles were in high school, became high school gradu-ates or obtained their GED

• 81.48% juveniles showed aca-demic improvement

• 64.71% juveniles had decreased school discipline referrals

• 64% juvenile graduates have had no new alcohol/drug related offenses since graduation

• 98.31% juveniles have been involved in an extra-curricular activity, obtained employment or completed community service

• 95.52% of the drug/alcohol testing produced clean UA test results

Juvenile & Family Drug Court Youth Intervention Track (17-21 year old):

In September 2010, the Youth Inter-vention Track was implemented in an effort to address the needs of the underserved young adults with sub-stance abuse related disorders. Seem-ing to “fall between the cracks”, this population is too old to participate in Juvenile & Family Drug Court but does not qualify for admission into the Adult Drug Court program.

The Campbell County JFDC Youth Intervention Track (“YIT”) focuses on youth 17–20 years old, who are referred from Municipal Court, Circuit Court, or Juvenile Court. The offenses generally include DUI’s and/or 3rd and subsequent MIP’s (Minor in Pos-session), although 2nd MIP’s may be considered. Parental involvement is not required in the YIT Program.

The potential participant may be diagnosed with either drug and/or alcohol dependency or abuse to meet admission criteria. Participants are channeled to appropriate substance abuse treatment groups and also receive mental health counseling. The length of the JFDC Program ranges from 6-10 months depending upon the participant’s diagnosis, treatment plan and individual progress.

Key components include:• Weekly Court Attendance • Intensive Supervision Probation• Outpatient Substance Abuse

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• Mental Health Needs Assessment and Treatment • Frequent random urinalysis / breathalyzer test-

ing• Immediate sanctions / incentives for program

successes and infractions

Some participants may also need corrective think-ing, anger management, or referrals to commu-nity services such as Vocational Rehabilitation, GARF, Council of Community Services, etc.

JFDC YIT has completed nearly two and a half years of operation. To date, 22 youth have actively participated in the program. During the course of program participation, there have been many successes:

• 9 youth have successfully graduated from JFDC YIT

• 9 youth are currently participating in JFDC YIT• 91.30% of youth were in high school, became

high school graduates or obtained their GED• 78% of active youth have had no new alcohol/

drug related offenses since graduation• 95.65% of youth have been involved in an extra-

curricular activity, obtained employment, com-pleted community service, or attended post-sec-ondary education classes

• 91.15% of the drug/alcohol testing produced clean UA test results

Municipal Court Probation Supervision: In July, 2009, the Juvenile Probation Office, in collaboration with the City of Gillette Municipal Court, began providing supervision to youth under 18 years of age, as well as those 18-21. Municipal Court supervised probation is generally for a term of six months and may require substance abuse or mental health evaluations and/or treatment.

During calendar year 2012:

• 45 new juvenile cases were referred for super-vised probation

• 69 new youth 18-21 year old cases were referred for supervised probation

• 38% of the juveniles supervised had alcohol-related offenses

• 83% of the 18-21 group supervised had alcohol-related offenses

• 18% of juveniles were referred for participation in the Youth Intervention Track, Court Super-vised Treatment Program

• 62% of the 18-21 group were referred for partic-ipation in the Youth Intervention Track, Court-Supervised Treatment Program.

Probationers are also placed on terms and conditions similar to District and Circuit Courts and supervised by Probation Officers David Anderson and Cody Dobson, who are employed by the City of Gillette.

Community Ser-vice: Crucial to the probation process is requiring that the juve-nile make amends to either an individual vic-tim or the community in general. Probation-ers may be directed to make payments of resti-tution, court fines and/or reimbursement for Court-appointed counsel, as well as to perform hours of community service.

Community Service Supervisor, Devonn Sosa, provides supervision services to both the Juvenile Probation Department and Juvenile Diversion Pro-gram, assigning and supervising community ser-vice hour requirements imposed upon the juveniles through the Municipal, Circuit, Juvenile and Juve-nile & Family Drug Courts, as well as those which are a condition of the Juvenile Diversion Program. She additionally teaches both TEG and Correc-tive Thinking Classes. Benefits include more timely completion of Court orders, serving as an on-going reminder to our youth that these orders should be taken seriously, and saving the costs which accrue with delayed compliance. This year, juveniles super-vised by the Community Service Supervisor paid monies or performed community service hours as follows:

Tobacco Education Group (TEG): Those juveniles who have committed a tobacco-related offense may be required to attend the TEG Class in addition to their community service require-ment. The TEG Class, which includes elements of lecture, video, demonstration and discussion, aims to move the participant through the stages of preparation and action to quit tobacco use. During 2012, 45 juveniles completed the pro-gram.

Corrective Thinking Curriculum: The use of Corrective Thinking classes, which are aimed at teaching youth to become more accountable for their actions and develop their decision-making processes, continues into year seven. The Juvenile Probation Officers are trained in, and utilize on a daily basis, Correc-tive Thinking methods to help juveniles focus on the choices that they have made to bring them into the court system. Corrective Think-ing addresses the juveniles’ thinking errors and reluctance to be accountable for their actions, providing youth with the tools necessary to make better decisions and avoid future involve-ment in the criminal justice system.

In the year to come, the Juvenile Probation Staff will continue to work cooperatively with its juvenile service partners – Municipal, Cir-cuit and District Courts, Department of Family

Services, YES House, and local counsel-ing and treat-ment agen-cies, Camp-bell County School Dis-

trict, Law Enforcement and the County Attor-ney’s Office, among others – toward our mutual goal of holding juveniles accountable and improving the quality of their lives. We con-tinue to be thankful to the Campbell County Commissioners for their support of these essen-tial juvenile programs.

Community ServiceHours Performed

All Courts

RestitutionPaid to Victims

Juvenile Court

Attorney FeesPaid

Juvenile Court

FinesPaid

Juvenile Court

TotalMonies PaidThroughJuvenile Court

6,303.75 $32,702.28 $3,293.00 $325.00 $36,320.28

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Our mission is to provide a variety of safe, mod-ern and affordable Parks and Recreation facilities and activities that will enhance the quality of life by promoting good health and well being for all citi-zens and visitors in Campbell County.

Recreation CenterThe Recreation Center, a 190,000 square foot facil-

ity, has an amazing array of activity space for every-one in Campbell County. The facility houses a year-around leisure and lap pool with a diving tower, a 42 foot climbing tower, a Kid’s Zone babysitting service, three court gymnasium, weight area, cardio area, 4 racquetball courts, three fitness rooms, upper level walking /running track, locker room facilities, con-cession area and a Field House. The main focus of the Field House is the impressive 200 meter track, 6 lanes across and was designed to meet NCAA stan-dards. The track is surrounded by 5 tennis courts with divider nets that allow simultaneous practice of tennis, indoor soccer and track and field events. There is also room for 1000 spectators.

The Recreation Center recorded 333,280 visits in 2012. The climbing tower alone had more than 5234 different individuals climb to the top of the Dev-il’s Tower replica since opening. 717 individuals are belay certified. The leisure pool averaged over 400 visits a day during the summer and continues to be the most popular activity in the new facility.

RecreationThe Feet Don’t Fail Me Now road race series draws

runners and walkers of all levels and ability to par-ticipate in a great community activity encouraging a healthy lifestyle. Other races included the Razor City Splash & Dash Triathlon and the Turkey Trot 5K (with a turnout of 286 runners and walkers). The second annual Indoor Team Marathon took place on the 200 meter track in February. A total of 15 teams and 90 runners participated in the Indoor Team Marathon, each runner completing 35 laps for a total of 26.2 miles.

Fitness classes were booming with many new par-ticipants trying a variety of classes to keep a balance in their exercise routines. Fitness classes included Water Aerobics, Power Flex, Cycling, Pilates, Yoga, Cardio Fitness, Step Aerobics, Zumba, Kickboxing and Jazzercise. The department encouraged partic-ipants to cross train with cardio classes and weight training. CCPR personal training program was offered by appointment only and was used for one on one fitness and exercise advice. Ten certified per-sonal trainers were available at a variety of times.

The 2012 Corporate Games included nearly 200

participants from local community businesses. The events kicked off with a Dart BBQ at the Ice Arena. The events then moved onto the following compe-titions: Golf, Bowling, Dodgeball, Horseshoes, Bil-liards, Wallyball and Waterslide Obstacle Course. A “Minute To Win It” contest was added to each event allowing teams to earn an extra 20 points toward their team total making the games just a bit more interesting! Businesses were encouraged to come out and participate at a recreational level outside of the stressful work environment.

The Climbing Tower staff offered numerous classes for the climbing community. Stone Basics, an introduction class for students 15 years of age and older, taught the basic skills needed to safely climb on their own at the climbing tower and was an intro-duction to belay techniques. Tower Techniques took their climbing to greater heights! This class focused on movement, learning advanced climbing skills and training techniques & methods to improve their “mental game”. Tower Leaders was an introduc-tory class for lead climbing. Advanced skills were covered in depth.

The Annual Fourth of July Celebration provided the community with free events throughout the day. Events included the fireman pancake feed, Fire-cracker 4 mile road race (343 participants), Parade , Mud Volleyball, Free Hot Dog Feed (6,000 hot dogs and chips served), Strong Man/Woman Challenge, Firemen Water Fights, Kids Games (2 bikes raffled off for a boy and a girl) and live music and live enter-tainment.

Other Special Events offered throughout the year by the Recreation Center include the Second Annual Climbing Tower Competition (41 competitors), Eas-ter Egg Hunt, Fly Fishing class, Hip Hop Dance class, Dog Obedience class, Dodgeball Tournament, Bench Press Challenge, Jingle Bell Hike to Santa and the Secret Santa Program.

Adult Programs2012 was another great year for the adult pro-

grams. All leagues and classes are staying steady

with participation. There were a 112 softball teams (1,792 players) in the league including men’s, wom-en’s & coed leagues. Basketball stayed steady at 49 teams (490 players). Adult volleyball is also seeing a good showing at the courts with a total of 155 teams (1,395 players) for the spring and fall seasons.

Other tournaments and competitions offered this year were a Dodgeball Tournament that brought in 9 teams (72 players); bench press competition that brought in 17 participants; and the 3rd Annual Dave Cross Memorial Volleyball Tournament which had 18 teams (144 players) participate. In addition to our Annual Bench Press Competition we added our 2nd Annual USA Power lifting Competition; we had 31 lifters enter the competition that involved the Bench Press, Squat and Deadlift. We had lifters that trav-eled from Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. The karate program had another great year with a total of 444 participants. We also saw 413 Dancers in 11 months (January-November). As

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a whole the adult programs brought in 343 teams (4,781 Participants) which is 189 more participants than we had in 2011.

Youth ProgramsCCPR had another great year for the Youth Pro-

grams. Nearly every program realized an increase in participation from previous years. Soccer, Basketball and Kids Camp were the most popular programs in 2012. Soccer, which is divided into two sessions (Fall and Spring), had 1534 participants. Youth Basketball, grades 4 – 6 grades, continued to be strong in Gillette with a total of 440 ball players. 1st – 3rd grade Ban-tam Basketball Program had 477 future basketball stars participating in the program. In 2012, both bas-ketball programs combined experienced a 118 kid increase from 2011.

The summer was a big hit with Kids Camp bring-ing in a total of 588 campers, down 28 from last year. Other programs that are going strong are Girls Soft-ball (174 participants), Kid’s Night Out (339 kids), Hershey Track and Field Meet (74 participants), and Lil’ Slugger Baseball (77 sluggers). Our third year of Mini-Volleyball brought in a total of 118 participants in the spring of 2012. We experienced growth in 2012 and look forward to another great year in 2013.

Intramural ProgramsThe Intramural Programs at the Recreation Cen-

ter continued to offer youth of many ages an oppor-tunity to participate in recreational sports and fun activities in 2012. Many of the programs experienced an increase in participants: programs such as Junior High Volleyball, Junior High Boys and Girls Basket-

ball, Junior High Golf and Junior High Tennis. Dur-ing the season the boys and girls get to experience the excitement of traveling to surrounding communi-ties for away games; but still get the opportunity to play the majority of their games at the New Recre-ation Center Gyms and Bicentennial Park.

The Blades and Avalanche Youth Hockey Program was also a continued success with an increase in par-ticipants. There were over 70 plus participants in each 8 week sessions of the program. CCPR is very fortunate to have the elite Junior Hockey team coach and mentor the participants - making the program fun and successful for each participant.

The High School Intramural Programs such as Flag Football, Basketball and Dodgeball are always a good way for the students to kick back and play the games they love! With over 250 participants in our High School Intramural Programs, CCPR continues to have fun and grow in numbers.

Summer trips to various places such as Tie Hack Reservoir, Rushmore Water Slide Park, Cook Lake, Flag and Wheels and Gulches of Fun offered sum-mertime fun and excitement for all youth ages 12-16.

As with all programs - CCPR continued to stress their main goals in 2012: Positive sportsmanship and attitudes, hard work and dedication, developing fun-damentally sound skills and HAVING FUN! Overall, 2012 was another great year for the Intramural Pro-grams at the Recreation Center!

AquaticsThe most popular activities at the new leisure and

lap pool include lap swimming, water walking in the current channel, water aerobics and open swim with

all the new play features. A total of 1,128 children participated in swim les-

sons along with about 200 private lessons. Other activities offered were lifeguard, water safety instruc-tor and scuba classes. Private rentals and birthday parties have continued to be two favorite activities. We had 24 private rentals and 240 birthday parties. Now offering birthday parties on weekdays Monday-Thursday from 6-8 p.m. has caught patrons attention and they are booking about 1 a week so it is becom-ing popular. Milk Splash Fridays (a new event) was a designated time for parents and their children 6 and younger to socialize with other families and to enjoy the water together. After the swim, each child then enjoyed a carton of milk and a special snack. This event has taken off very well, we have an average of about 40 patrons at this event.

Throughout this year our Water Aerobic classes have taken off and we have had about 350 partic-ipants each month. Water walking brings in new patrons all the time along with the regulars to walk with the current or not with the current.

Wright Recreation CenterThe excitement of the entire Wright community is

immeasurable as we watch the daily progression of the new facility. The Wright Recreation Center closed on June 22, 2012 in preparation for demolition of the old facility and construction of the new facility. Prior to closing, the Wright Recreation Center was success-ful in 2012 attracting patrons of all age groups and fitness levels.

The pool closed on May 18, 2012, yet contributed to this success. With only three months of Swim-ming Lessons offered, 60 youth participated. This was an increase of 10 over the same three months in 2011. Over 40 patrons enjoyed Water Aerobics. Daily open swim and lap swim pool hours remained pop-ular. Dive-In Movie, Water Carnival and the giant “Yellow Fellow” inflatable brought approximately 70 youth to these special pool events. The pool unde-niably helped attract the 2,079 “drop-in” visits and the 2,144 “pass” visits from January through June of 2012.

Before closing, the community enjoyed a week packed with final pool fun. From family “Glow Swim” night, to “T-Shirt” Tuesday and “Inflatable” afternoons, 145 patrons enjoyed the last days in the old pool. The finale was an amazing “Dog-gone It” day with over 20 patrons taking advantage of a fun swim with their dog.

The youth programs offered prior to closing in 2012 were successful, and many had increased participa-tion. For our pre-school age children, we had 21 par-take in the Play for Pre-K program, an increase of 12. The Recreation Center gives boys and girls in grades 1 – 6 several opportunities to stay active and many

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took advantage. Spring Soccer had 29 participants. Indoor Nerf Flag Football increased by 13 partici-pants with 23. Mini Volleyball jumped to 53 partic-ipants, an increase of 11. Boys 4 – 6 grade Basket-ball increased by 12 with 31 joining. After the Rec-reation Center closed, we continued to offer Youth Basketball by using various buildings in Wright for practice. Bantam Basketball for boys and girls in 1 – 3 grades had 36 participants, up 4 from 2011. Ban-tam teams enjoyed playing games in Gillette for the first time. Our 4 – 6 grade Girls Basketball numbers remained the same with 25 joining in 2012. Dance classes continue at the Wright Library during con-struction with 225 participants in 2012, an increase of over 100 from 2011.

Although many special events were put on hold due to construction of the new facility; we had the annual Easter Egg Hunt with 110 youth hunting eggs and visiting the Easter Bunny. Nearly 100 kids bun-dled up for the outdoor Hike to Santa.

Fitness classes offered at the Wright Recreation Center had a great deal of interest prior to closing. Cycling, Yoga, Weight Training and Akai Ryu Dojo Karate had 108 combined participants in the first five months of 2012. These numbers are consistent with 2011.

The Wright Recreation Center continues a positive working relationship with the School District. Ele-mentary swim lessons were completed in our pool. JH Boys basketball practices were held at the WRC gymnasium along with several games. A total of 773 students used the Wright Recreation Center from January to May 2012.

During the summer months, Parks Maintenance was especially busy with a record number of Little League teams. Keeping the baseball fields and chil-dren’s park immaculately groomed in addition to planting trees and completing the crucial projects essential in preparing for construction, gave little time to spare for this hard working crew.

Parks DivisionThe Parks Division maintains 28 parks and

County facilities in and around Gillette and Wright. Staff members maintain 12 ball fields for youth and adult softball and baseball, 4 soccer pitches for both recreational youth soccer and community soccer use and 8 outdoor tennis courts for community use.

Bicentennial Park, Cam-plex Park and Lasting Legacy Park are the largest and most used parks in the system and take the most resources to maintain.

Maintenance crews racked up over 3000 hours on mowers, went through 2 tons of ball field chalk for softball and baseball field lines, sprayed 225 gal-lons of athletic field paint to place outfield foul lines on baseball and softball fields and to place boundary lines on soccer fields and spread 30 tons of turf grass fertilizer on the park turf all in an effort to make the parks and play fields safe and enjoyable. Parks and

Recreation staff drove 101,228 miles in 2012 main-taining and providing programs for the citizens of Campbell County.

Parks staff completed several improvements to the parks this year along with the standard maintenance activities. Several sidewalks and walking paths were repaired in Bicentennial Park along with new toi-let fixtures and floor in the restroom facilities at the soccer fields. Lasting Legacy Park saw the replace-ment of some deteriorating asphalt walking paths to new concrete pathway and the soccer field was reno-vated to provide a better playing surface and to pro-vide for better drainage.

The biggest and most notable improvement to Lasting Legacy Park came in the fall when after two years of raising the needed funds, the Bricks For Vets committee was able to move the “United We Stand” and “Salute to a Fallen Soldier” bronze sculptures to the Veteran’s Memorial. New concrete and lighting

for the memorial wall was placed in front of the wall along with pedestals for the placement of the sculp-tures and engraved plaques honoring veterans who have served their country in the military. The new memorial plaza is one of the nicest in the region and will serve as a continuing reminder of the service to our country of so many dedicated citizens.

Parks staff is continuing to work on landscape water reduction with the construction of mulched landscape beds at some of the County facilities. Landscape improvements were completed at the Public Health building, Public Library and around the parking garage at the Courthouse. Landscape water reduction in the parks includes monitoring of

coverage on the sports turf areas and replacement of old sprinkler heads with new heads to improve water distribution and coverage.

The Festival of Lights display at Cam-Plex Park was able to add five new displays with the addition of a new power transformer and several power pedes-tals located along the park’s roadway. With the addi-tional power, there is now room for more displays which will continue to make the Festival of Lights the premier holiday lighting event in the region.

Ice ArenasCampbell County Ice Arena and Spirit Hall Ice

Arena continue to be very popular facilities each year.

Hockey is by far the largest user of the two rinks. With the addition of the Gillette Wild Tier III hockey team, popularity of skating continues to increase.

Off season use of the Campbell County Ice Arena saw Roller Derby become another activity that the community can enjoy.

Spirit Hall saw an average 7600 people in the rink per month either watching, skating or participat-ing in some sort of activity ranging from skating les-sons to hockey or figure skating. The Gillette Hockey Association averaged 18 games per month for their youth hockey program and the rink provided 4316 people hours of fun just enjoying the opportunity to ice skate.

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Bell Nob Golf Course 2012 started off unseasonably warm,

and finished off one of the nicest and bus-iest falls ever.

The weather was so nice that for the first time greens were aerated in March and by mid April the golf course was in midsum-mer condition. The weather stayed nice and by late May we were seeing above nor-mal temperatures and with the lack of rain fall it turned out to be one of the hottest and driest summers on record.

The Club House project that has been in the planning stages since last fall started in May with the construction of new num-ber 1 green and fairway complex. The sod from the old putting green was installed on the new number 1 green to ensure all the golf course greens will have the same characteristics. The new hole will be open this season and the golf course will be back to a par 72.

Other areas addressed were new tees and cart path on number 2 along with an expanded and improved practice area with

a new 10,000 square foot putting green and 2 new chipping greens.

This summer was busy and hectic as construction on the new Club House started in June. The new building and location will serve as a focal point for the course and we are sure golfers will be excited to use the new building this sea-son.

The new club house includes expanded pro shop facilities, a larger dining room with 2 outdoor patios and an area dedi-cated to junior golf and summer programs for kids. The new location will offer bet-ter views of the course and a more relaxing environment for both staff and customers.

The building is scheduled to open April 1st 2013, just in time for the golf season. The landscaping around the building will be the last thing to take place and should be completed by mid June.

The staff at Bell Nob is looking forward to next season and doing everything we can to make your golfing experience the best we can. As always our goal is to pro-vide the best playing experience.

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The 2012 Campbell County Fair started the year with the news that Betty Hough, fair manager for 20 years, would retire in June. In March, Bobbi Jo Heald was selected as her replacement. Bobbi Jo received 3 months training with Betty, working together until June of 2012. Plans for the 2012 Fair were well underway in June.

The theme for the 2012 Fair was “Dancing with the Steers” and there was a lot of great music to lis-ten and dance. The Fair kicked off with an out-standing concert by American country music artist, Craig Morgan, followed later in the week by another great concert with John Conlee and special guests, Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band. Both concerts were enjoyed by all who attended.

The Fair had a tremendous lineup of Free Stage Entertainment starting on Thursday. The Axe Women of Maine, a group of champion women log-gers provided great entertainment in the Plaza, as well as, the Pet Stop Petting Zoo. Under the Tent, the Copper Mountain Band provided the visitors with wonderful music. Michael Mezmer, hypnotist also performed, providing amazement and entertain-

ment for all those watching. The Doo-Wah Riders stopped in on Sunday for two performances. Their music is enjoyed every time they come to Gillette. They performed a special song written for Betty and her retirement. All the while in the Plaza, the All Aboard train made its’ stops and provided visitors with transportation around the grounds.

In the Wyoming Center, the Fair had Young Guns Wild West Entertainment set up next to the Kids Corral. Young Guns provided hours of entertain-ment for the kids, while parents were shopping at the trade show or sitting and enjoying the sounds of Fair. In the Wyoming Center Bill Crowley drew his amaz-ing caricature drawings and Mango & Dango, the theatrical circus duo, performed their acts of hilar-ity and dexterity.

The Fair Trade Show was held in the Wyoming Center for the fourth year. There were over 120 booths set up this year. Other events included the Dachshund Races, Fiddle Contest, Fair Talent Show, Pioneer Dinner, Jackpot Roping, Jackpot Team Pen-ning and Ranch Sorting, Youth Rodeo and the Mini-Animal Show. In 2012, there was increased partici-pation in all the 4-H, FFA and Open Class Livestock shows as well as a great showing of Energy Hall exhibits.

The 9th Annual Energy Town Pro Rodeo on Friday and Saturday night featured Burch Rodeo Stock. The Neighborhood Free Barbecue, sponsored by energy producers in Campbell County, was enjoyed by over 4,000 people. The 2012 attendance at the Pro Rodeo was up a little from 2011. The slight increase in attendance might be due to not having the National High School Finals in 2012. The rodeo featured Mut-ton Bustin, and Jason Goodman with the Percheron Thunder. The Demolition Derby was held on Sunday afternoon with a packed house once again.

The Youth Livestock Sale had another great year. With the increase in participation, so were the num-bers in the sale. The sale had 23 more units sold in 2012 than 2011. The Youth Livestock Buyers were very supportive once again, this years’ sale total was $458,206 – up $3,000 from the 2011 Sale. We greatly appreciate all the buyers who come out to support the youth of Campbell County.

The 2013 Fair will be held July 29th through August 4th, with the Youth Livestock Sale on the 5th of August. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend and participate in the 2013 Campbell County Fair.

Campbell County FairCampbell County Fair Board

1635 Reata Drive 687-0200

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The mission of the Campbell County Health Department is to promote health, prevent disease, protect our community, and empower people in Campbell County to optimize their quality of life.

The Public Health office is staffed by 14 Public Health Nurses, 1 Home Health Aide, 4 Administra-tive Staff, and 1 Public Health Response Coordina-tor. The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) pro-gram has 1 Nutritionist, 2 part time Nurses, and a WIC Technician. Della Amend RN-BC is the Exec-utive Director of the Department. Dr. Kirtikumar Patel is the County Health Officer. The agency is governed by the Campbell County Board of Health appointed by the County Commissioners.

PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING provides cli-ent centered quality care and services at the indi-vidual, family and community level. We are the local provider for many Wyoming Department of Health programs. Public Health is a licensed home health agency through the Wyoming Department of Health.

Four core functions of Public Health are to:

• Prevent disease and injury• Promote healthy lifestyles• Protect community health• Prepare for emergencies and health threats

The agency provides services to our county cit-izens with the following Public Health programs: Adult Health and Home Health home visits, Adult Health Maintenance Clinics at the Senior Center, Soup Kitchen, Public Health office, and the Wright Town Hall, Long Term Care assessments, health screenings and referrals to community and state agencies for colonoscopy and breast and cervical cancer screening. Maternal Family Health pro-grams provide Welcome Home visits for new moth-ers and babies, Nurse Family Partnership, Best Beginnings, and Children’s Special Health. Public Health Nurses provide services to the Children’s Developmental Center. Programs for the preven-tion of communicable disease include all immu-nization clinics for children, adults, influenza, and world travel. Tuberculosis screening tests, rapid strep testing, HIV/Hepatitis/STD counseling and testing, communicable disease follow up and refer-ral, and classes to instruct others on disease pre-vention are also provided.

The Health Department is involved in commu-nity coalitions that promote healthy lifestyles for our citizens. We have representation on the Sub-stance Abuse Advisory Council, the Suicide Pre-vention coalition, the Tobacco Prevention coali-tion, Life R U Ready program, the Interagency Coordinating Council, the Child and Adult Protec-

tion teams, and the Brain Injury Support group. We also present monthly for the County Connec-tion program on the Gillette Public Access tele-vision channel. The agency is collaborating with Campbell County Memorial Hospital on a Com-munity Health Needs Assessment using informa-tion from a community wide survey, data from the Wyoming Department of Health and County Health Rankings to identify the health risks of county residents. This information can be used for health program development in the future.

PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE AND PRE-PAREDNESS PROGRAM is funded through a grant by the Wyoming Department of Health Pub-lic Health Emergency Preparedness Program. The Public Health Response Coordinator assists the Public Health Nurses in preparing the agency and community for a public health emergency. A county wide exercise was held in May. Commu-nity partners participating in the exercise were the Sheriff’s Department, the Gillette Police Depart-ment, CCMH, the National Guard, and Campbell County Emergency Management along with the Public Health Nurses.

WOMEN’S, INFANT’S, AND CHILDREN (WIC) PROGRAM is contracted with the Wyo-ming Department of Health to provide nutrition counseling and supplemental food packages to eli-gible clients. Pregnant, breast feeding, or post par-tum mothers, infants, and children up to age five, who meet nutritional, health, and financial cri-teria, are eligible for these services. The average active enrollment per month is 1,100 clients and each client is seen four times a year for assess-ment, nutritional education, and/or benefit pickup.

CLIENT CONTACTS by PHNSDecember 1, 2011 – November 30, 2012 Adult/Home Health visits 3652LT 101 assessments 297Maternal/Child visits 3,825Communicable Disease visits 161Immunizations 3,032Flu vaccinations 3,777Communicable disease screening 2,155Adult Health screening 1,158Child Health screening 1,279Class participants 594

Campbell County Health Department Division of Public Health Nursing Service

2301 Four-J Road 682-7275

Dr. Kirtikumar Patel, County Health Officer, stands next to the flu bug (Tara Wallingford).

Campbell County Health Department

Vivian Watson vaccinating the flu bug.

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Fixed Base OperatorFlightline, Inc. is the Airport’s fixed

base operator and provides certified aircraft maintenance, flight instruc-tion, charter flights, hangar rentals, and aircraft fueling services. Flight-line’s total fuel flowage into aircraft decreased 43% from 2011. Flightline, Inc. set an all-time record for total fuel sales in 2011 at just under one million gallons.

Air Traffic ReportThe GCC Air Traffic Control Tower

realized a 18% decrease in operations of aircraft landings and take-offs. The Airport’s control tower typically oper-ates from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m. seven days a week. There are a total of three fulltime air traffic control tower per-sonnel, with one part-time controller filling in for vacations.

Airport Operations Staff The heart and soul of any Airport

organization is Airport Operations. The formal certification of the Gillette-Campbell County Airport was issued May 26, 1981 by the Federal Aviation Administration which requires Air-port Operations to keep the Airport functioning safely, securely, and effi-ciently. These responsibilities include daily inspections; reporting of prob-lems; informing tenants and users of current conditions; monitoring correc-tions and coordination of overall Air-port activities.

Annually the Gillette-Campbell County Airport is inspected by the Federal Aviation Administration for its compliance to Federal Aviation Reg-ulation Part 139. Four out of the last five annual FAA Part 139 certification inspections, the Gillette-Campbell County Airport has received reports of no discrepancies.....in other words, perfect inspection scores.

On September 11th the Gillette-Campbell County Airport Operations personnel were commended by Gov-ernor Matt Mead for their dedication that ensures the safety, securely, and efficiency of the Airport. Governor Mead recognizes the following Airport Operations personnel for their impres-

sive accomplishments: Todd Chatfield, Operations Supervisor; Terry Funden-berger, Operations Officers; Doug Bar-rett, Operations Technician II; and Bob Bren, Operations Technician I.

Airline ServiceIn 2011 the GCC Airport had their

best year in the history of the Airport by serving a total of 62,256 passen-gers with commercial air service. This was a 14% increase from 2010. How-ever, in 2012 the GCC Airport realized a slight decrease in passenger travel by approximately 1%. This decrease was attributed to the loss of Great Lakes

Airlines which discontinued its air ser-vice to the community on May 17, 2012. However, the GCC Airport contin-ues to provide strong competitive air fares regionally. GCC Airport is cur-

rently served by Delta Air Lines and United Airlines to Denver, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah and Rock Springs, Wyoming. The GCC Airport continues to provide FREE parking, and short security screening lines. The Airport continues to offer a “booking engine” on their Web site where one may actu-ally book flights from our local Air-port, and also compare air fares with

other area airports. The Web site is www.iflygillette.com The GCC Air-port’s Web site offers automatically updated flight schedules, and visual flight tracking of commercial air ser-vice aircraft. The GCC Airport also is part of the social network by imple-menting FaceBook™, and Twitter™.

Airport Marketing In 2012 the GCC Airport contin-

ued a strong marketing and advertis-ing campaign. The Airport contracted Forecast, Inc. as a consultant to help the Airport develop new marketing and advertising strategies towards local air service. The consultant has met with United and Delta Airlines and continues to be successful in get-ting both airlines to offer competitive air fares.

The majority of the funding neces-sary to maintain a successful market-ing and advertising campaign comes from grants received from the Wyo-ming Aeronautics Division which is matched by the County Commission-ers.

Airport Grant and AidIn 2012, the GCC Airport received

over one million dollars in grants from the Wyoming Aeronautics Commis-sion, and the Federal Aviation Admin-istration (FAA). Typically, federal grant projects are paid 95% by the FAA, 3% by the Aeronautics Division and 2% by local county match. The grants were used this year for constructing addi-tional general aviation aircraft ramp, service road relocation, land acquisi-tion, pavement markings (painting), replacement of concrete sections, and air service marketing.

Airport Board MembersThe Airport board is comprised of

five members appointed by the County Commissioners, and the board gen-erally meets the third Wednesday of each month at 4 p.m. in the Fulkerson Airport Operations Facility.

Gillette–Campbell County Airport2000 Airport Road

686-1042

Gillette-Campbell County Airport

Seated in the front row left to right is Todd Chatfield, Operations Supervisor; Shelly Besel, Financial Specialist; Bob Bren, Operations Technician I; and Doug Barrett, Operations Technician II. Not pic-tured Terry Fundenberger, Operations Officer.

Governor Mead recognizes Airport Operations personnel September 11, 2012 at the Gillette-Campbell County Airport

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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENTDirector: Kevin C. King, P.E.

Welcome to the 2012 Annual Report for the Campbell County Pub-lic Works Department. It has been a very busy and

productive year for our department and we are proud to share a bit of our story with you. As with last year, on the capital construction front we have a number of projects in various stages of planning, construction, or post-con-struction phases. Our major building projects in plan-ning, and/or construction this year include the Wright Rec Center and the Children’s Developmental Services expansion. We also had a big year in road construction with completion of the first phase of Northern Drive and the Union Chapel-Fairview road project. A representa-tive sample of projects is compiled under the Engineer-ing Division section of this report.

The rewrite of the county comprehensive plan is well underway and progressing quickly-titled Leave Your Mark, County Comprehensive Plan 2013, the project promises to provide a unique opportunity for the citi-zens of Campbell County to be actively involved in shap-ing the future of our County. The City of Gillette is also updating their Comprehensive Plan, affording the oppor-tunity for both entities to coordinate the plans in the out-lying areas close to the present city limits. Be watching for ads, press releases, news articles, GPA TV and others for more information on the plan. Also, you can visit the County website at www.ccgov.net and click on the Public Works Department then the Planning and Zoning page for a link to the Comprehension Plan page for the project. Here you can keep current with the status of the project, pending meetings and other information on the study. Facebook® users can link from here as well. Leave Your Mark!

Regional Water Phase I extension design is progressing well. Phase I includes lines into Antelope Valley/Ante-lope Valley Business Park, and west down Force Road, initially serving Bennor Estates and Cook Road. The City has funding applications submitted with the state, hoping to secure construction funding for Phase I during this year’s legislative session. The eventual build out of all planned extensions will take a number of years to com-plete and are all dependent upon securing state funding to be used in conjunction with the Capital Facilities Tax passed last year by the voters in Campbell County.

Our department strives for continuous improvement and welcomes feedback from the citizens we serve. We are always on the lookout for new technologies and tools to increase our efficiency and decrease our costs, follow-ing my mantra that if it doesn’t add value, it adds cost. In the coming year, we will continue to develop, improve and maintain our infrastructure investments for the citi-zens of this great County.

Our door is always open and we are here to serve the citizens of Campbell County to the best of our abilities. Enjoy the report.

Engineering/Surveying • Planning/ Zoning • Building • Facilities • Landfill • Recycle • Fleet

Campbell County Public Works

Campbell County Public Works500 S Gillette Ave, Ste 1400

685-8061

ENGINEERING DIVISIONManager: Phillip Giffin, P.E., Engineering Services Manager

The Engineering Division is designed:• to take responsibility for

project development, design development, construction oversight and management, construction budgets and the remodeling and modifications to all capital facilities owned by Campbell County

• to administer permit author-ity for small wastewater facil-ities, publicly-owned sewage collection facilities, and pub-licly-owned water distribu-tion facilities as delegated by DEQ

• to provide services to Joint

Powers Boards for construc-tion of facilities that fall under these boards

• to recommend and admin-ister District Support Grant applications

• to provide Engineering review of subdivision cases

2011-2012 Construction Projects

• Gillette Regional Water• Northern Drive Phase 1 con-

struction• Union Chapel – Fairview

Road construction• Campbell County Senior Cen-

ter expansion• Enzi Drive pathway• Fire Station #7 – Camplex• Robertson Circle water and

sewer• Southern Industrial roads

project• County parking lot mainte-

nance• County paved subdivision

street sweeping and mainte-nance

• County bike path weed spray-ing

• County road maintenance• Fairview Road overlay• Garner Lake Road overlay• Force Road Overlay• Detention Center “A” Pod • Hilight Road alteration• T7 Road alteration• Gillette Library north parking

lot and sidewalk repairs• Garner Lake Road crosswalk

– Camplex• Adon Road drainage struc-

ture• Bittercreek Road drainage

structure• Svalina Wetland mitigation• Courthouse parking garage

concrete repairs• Children Development Ser-

vices playground surface• Gillette Library dumpster

enclosure• Landfill Transfer Station

lighting• Landfill road improvements• Bell Nob Clubhouse construc-

tion• Swanson Road paving

2011-2012 Project Designs, ROW, Studies• Robertson Circle water and

sewer• Gillette Regional Water proj-

ect• Landfill scales and scale

house – north site• Northern Campbell County

road culverts –multiple loca-tions

• Union Chapel - Fairview Road design

• Donkey Creek wetlands at Adon, Svalina and Sunny Slope Roads

• Wright Recreation Center design

• Northern Drive ROW and Phase I and II design

• Bell Nob Clubhouse design• Swanson Road paving design

With continued popula-tion growth, the Department of Public Works strives to ensure that the best possible services are available to the residents of the County. The department works as a team to ensure public services are housed in safe, adequate facil-ities; that roads and dust con-trol continue to be a high pri-ority, and that the citizens of Campbell County receive the highest level of professional-ism and knowledge available.

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BUILDING DIVISION Manager: Keith Bowar, Building Code Official

The Building Division is designed:• to provide information and help in deter-

mining the applicable building codes for new construction, additions, and remodel projects

• to issue permits and perform inspections per the Chapter 4 Rules Regulating Con-struction adopted in Campbell County

• to provide assistance and information regarding the minimum type of permit-ting and inspections required for the type of construction and use of buildings

• to explain and help persons unfamil-iar with construction or with using the adopted codes to understand what is required of them in order to obtain a permit and inspections or to simply explain how best they can get through their project

The year of 2012 was a busy year for the Building Division. Permit and inspection num-bers are up slightly from the previous year. We are working to get the new Chapter 4 Rules for Regulating Construction adopted with the new 2012 IBC - International Building Code,

IRC - International Residential Code, IMC - International Mechanical Code and IPC - International Plumbing codes, as well as the 2011 NEW - National Electrical Code (which is already being utilized).

We welcomed Todd Probasco, Senior Building Inspector, to our staff in early May, 2012. Todd is a great addition to our depart-ment. He is very knowledgeable in the codes and is adapting well to the building inspec-tion environment of Campbell County.

A Building Division website is maintained under the Public Works Department and we encourage all citizens to visit that site. There are a number of helpful how–to guides avail-able. We also encourage foot traffic to our business office for a “hands on” with your questions and projects. Handouts are avail-able for the public at our front desk.

We look forward to serving the citizens of Campbell County in 2013.

PLANNING & ZONING DIVISIONCounty Planner & Zoning Administrator: Megan Nelms

The purpose of the Planning and Zoning Division is:• to promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the

present and future residents of Campbell County• to establish reasonable standards for design and construction

of subdivisions and re-subdivisions in order to promote har-monious layout and use of the land, and to ensure accurate and legal descriptions and monumentation of subdivisions

• to guide the public and private policy and action in order to pro-vide adequate and convenient transportation, utilities, educa-tional and other public facilities, parks, recreation, civil defense, fire protection, light and air

• to minimize population and traffic congestion, air and water pollution, flood damage resulting from inadequate land plan-ning, including provisions for minimum area and width of lots and tracts, proper location and width of streets and roads, ade-quacy of water source and sewage and solid waste disposal methods, and adequacy of drainage and flood control facilities

• to protect and preserve the value of land and buildings through-out Campbell County, to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings, and to safeguard the common interests of the public, the landowner and the subdivider.

2012 was time for the Planning and Zoning Division to review the existing development regulations in the County and begin work on the Campbell County Comprehensive Plan. The number of sub-division requests and re-zoning requests was down for 2012.

The kick-off of the Campbell County Comprehensive Plan Update 2013 began at the beginning of 2012. Over the course of the past 12 months the Citizen Advisory Committee, comprised of 15 city and county residents, has been working diligently on the plan update. They have held bi-monthly meetings to take citizen input and review survey responses, thereby developing the draft plan. The Committee and County staff sent out two citizen input sur-veys during the year and held a series of open house workshops in Rozet, Wright, Gillette and Recluse.

The plan’s main focus is land use, with other proposed chapters on economic development, infrastructure and City/County/Town cooperation. This guiding document will establish goals and objec-tives for Campbell County’s future. A final first draft of the plan will be released to the public in early 2013. County staff and the Citizens Advisory Committee will hold a series of public workshops designed to receive input on the plan goals and objectives and the future land use map. Please come and give us your thoughts and opinions for Campbell County’s future. Leave Your Mark!

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SURVEYING DIVISIONManager: Tony Knievel, L.S., Chief Surveyor

The Surveying Division is responsible for:

• conducting all land surveys for Camp-bell County and overseeing and creating plats of all official surveys made on file in strict conformity to the field notes of the survey

• performing research, evaluating and determining original property bound-aries and land ownership within the County

• providing assistance in construction staking for County projects including roads, and site development

• coordination of GPS surveys within the County

• developing specifications and standards for various surveys

• providing engineers, lawyers, planners, government officials, and the public with surveying expertise as needed

• providing support and expertise in reviewing subdivision plats and ease-ment documents during the planning process

• 2011-2012 Surveying Projects

• Landfill CD pit expansion (1st Phase)• North Landfill aerial photography proj-

ect• North Landfill volume updates• Lasting Legacy re-subdivision• Valley View Addition Tract 1 and Tract G

re-subdivision• Valley View Addition Record of Survey• LX Bar Ranch Record of Survey• County road petition research 1929-1936

In 2012 the Surveying Department became its own Division within the Public Works Department.

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RECYCLE/DIVERSION PROGRAM Manager: Phillip Giffin, Engineering Services Manager

The recycle / diversion program points of interest include:

• The recycle rate at the Campbell County Landfill was 6.6% in the fiscal year 2011-2012. It should be noted that this rate only includes recycle material processed by the County landfill. It does not include materials diverted from the land-fill and transfer station operations, such as the City yard waste & com-post program, and shingles diverted to ICM for recycling. Even with these diversion efforts the recycle rate continues to increase.

• The national recycle rate is 26%; this rate includes all recycling efforts in a community. This high rate indicates that our community has an opportunity to substantially increase our recycling. This oppor-tunity is addressed in the Landfill Strategic Plan.

• Efforts continue to increase our recycle rate. As noted above, the Campbell County School District continues to increase its recycle pro-gram at all of its schools. Also sev-eral businesses have started pro-grams or increased their recy-cling efforts. Curbside recycling is increasing through efforts of the City to improve service. They are also working to increase recycle efforts at large events at the Cam-Plex. We continue to see increased usage of the recycle trailer drop-off centers. We are investigating meth-

ods to improve this service while reducing the time required in col-lecting and maintaining these sites.

• We are continuing to test, bale and truck our co-mingled recyclables to a Denver Material Recovery Facility (MRF). If this proves to be feasible, it will allow us to add other products to our recycle stream and will allow our operations to grow, with lit-tle immediate effect on capital and manpower.

• Our landfill cost study showed that recycling is a net cost to our commu-nity. Additionally, it is the obligation of the landfill to handle the com-munity’s solid wastes in a responsi-ble manner. Community values lead us in our efforts to find methods and markets to divert wastes and increase recycling in ways that are sustainable.

• Recycle processing operations presently include #1 and #2 plas-tics, corrugated cardboard, news-paper, office paper, magazines, phone books, steel cans, aluminum cans, lead acid batteries, used oil, scrap metal, appliances, clean wood waste, yard waste, and household hazardous waste such as paints, antifreeze, pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals.

• Campbell County has one of the largest recycling and waste diver-sion programs in Wyoming, thanks to the commitment of our commu-nity.

Solid Waste And Recycling DivisionManager: Phillip Giffin, Engineering Services Manager

The purpose of the Solid Waste Division is to:

• Provide a modern, safe, efficient and environmentally responsible system for transferring and dis-posing of municipal, construc-tion and demolition solid waste.

• Store, transfer and dispose of household hazardous waste and used oil in a safe and environ-mentally responsible manner.

• Provide a modern, safe, efficient and environmentally responsible system to divert products from the solid waste stream through recycling and other means.

Solid Waste Division points of interest for 2011:

• Filling of Phase II for 2012 of the balefield will be completed December 31, 2012. Operations in Phase III East began in May, 2012. Phase III East has a capac-ity to hold 6 years of municipal solid waste (MSW). The design and excavation for the West por-tion of Phase III and the comple-tion of the leachate ponds, gives us a head start to hold an addi-tional 9 years of capacity, as only the liner and drainage system will need to be installed prior to use. These new cells will serve the County for a total of 16 years.

• A major permit amendment was awarded by DEQ for the con-struction of a vertical and hor-izontal expansion of the Con-struction & Demolition (C&D) pit. This expansion will allow for 9 years increased capacity at average rates. This is the last expansion in the C&D pit per-mitted area. The construction is nearing completion for the hori-zontal expansion. We are pres-ently placing some C&D waste in the vertical portion of this expansion.

• C&D tonnage was a healthy 13,811 tons in 2011-2012; this was significantly less than the 25,805 tons for 2010-2011. This decline was due to the reduction of roof repairs as a result of dam-age from hailstorms in 2010, and

the diversion of remaining shin-gles to Intermountain Construc-tion & Materials, who started a shingle recycling program in 2011. This diversion and recy-cling program will reduce the tonnage spikes the County has experienced in the past due to large damaging hailstorms.

• The 45,567 tons of MSW han-dled in 2011-2012 was a record amount for the Campbell County Landfill. This total included 3,567 tons of dried drilling mud from the oil and gas exploration taking place in the southern part of Campbell County. The previ-ous record tonnage was 43,218 tons in 2007.

• The 2011-2012 total landfill ton-nage of 59,134 was well short of the record tonnage of 67,128 tons experienced in 2010-2011. Approximately 12,000 tons of the 2010-2011 record came from C&D shingles.

• Utilizing data from the Burns & McDonnell Engineering Rate Study completed in 2011 and data from our Landfill scale sys-tem, an in-house cost study has been completed, showing incre-mental costs for each area of our operations. Working in conjunc-tion with our strategic plan, it gives us direction on how to eco-nomically operate the landfills with sustainable diversion and recycling.

• The Burns & McDonnell Engi-neering Strategic Plan looked at our solid waste handling strat-egy and shows that its costs and environmental effectiveness compare favorably with other systems. The plan also shows that we are at, or exceeding, capacity at all of our transfer sta-tion and recycling facilities. It recommends designing and con-structing new facilities at a more strategic location. The Camp-bell County Solid Waste Divi-sion is looking at locating a new resource recovery center and transfer station on the State sec-tion recently purchased by the

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FACILITIES MAINTENANCE DIVISION Manager: Vern Fundenberger, Facilities ManagerThe Facilities Maintenance Division is designed:

• to provide ongoing maintenance functions to County facilities• to develop and institute preventative maintenance programs to maximize

the useful life of County facilities• to maintain clean, attractive and safe environments for County employees

and the general public• to identify and mitigate potential hazards in County facilities• to team with contractors to complete capital construction and improve-

ment projects in County facilities • to oversee and manage the installation, repair and monitoring of fire and

security systems• to provide project management and oversight of capital construction

improvements

This chart reflects the relative percentage of total heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) maintenance costs (parts and labor) for the Campbell County facilities that fall under this Division. This past year, the Recreation Center accounted for about 62% of our total HVAC main-tenance costs. The Courthouse was the next largest at about 17%.

This chart reflects the relative percentage of total maintenance costs (parts and labor) for the Campbell County facilities that fall under this Division. This past year, the Recreation Center accounted for about 71% of our total maintenance costs. The Courthouse was the next largest at about 11%.

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County. The location of this State section, just off Northern Drive, would be convenient for our cus-tomers and would reduce our transfer distance to the landfill. By doing this we could build easily expandable facilities that would be safer and much more efficient for our community.

• Because our MSW and C&D transfer stations are working at capacity, it creates inefficien-cies in our operations. High solid waste volumes necessitate opera-tions to be open 10 hours per day for 5 ½ days per week to keep up with demand. Several changes in operations, such as a more effi-cient baler and bagging system, walking floor trailers to trans-fer wastes and recyclables, along with changes in waste handling strategies, have improved safety and increased productivity. The new strategic plan indicates that besides building new facilities, the best strategy to handle these increased volumes is by encour-aging recycling, waste diver-sion and waste reduction and reuse.

• The transfer station and land-fill operations are striving to improve accessibility and con-venience for the community while improving safety. This is a challenge considering the age and size of our facilities, coupled with the above capac-ity constraints and high traf-fic due to high solid waste vol-

umes. • A new bagging system for our

baler began operating in the spring of 2011; it replaced the wire tie system used previously. We have found that this bagging sys-tem has reduced the amount of spillage from the baling, load-ing, transfer and landfilling oper-ations, improving safety and effi-ciency while eliminating most lit-ter. This in turn has reduced the manpower needed to pick the lit-ter up.

• The enforcement of covered load requirements has greatly reduced the litter along Westover Road and outside the baler building, resulting in reduced manpower needed to pick up litter. Utiliz-ing walking floor trailers to trans-fer both the MSW bagged waste and the C&D wastes has virtually eliminated litter from our oper-ations along the highway, help-ing to keep Gillette and Campbell County clean.

The Facilities Maintenance Division provides maintenance and/or custodial services for the following Campbell County facilities:

Maintenance Only Maintenance and CustodialGillette Abuse Refuge Foundation (GARF)

Campbell County Courthouse

Landfill MSW, C&D and Recycle bldgs. George Amos Memorial BuildingWeed & Pest Campbell County Rec CenterWright Public Safety Building Campbell County Public Health(4) Sheriff’s Office Towers Campbell County Library - GilletteIce Barn Arena Children’s Developmental Services &

AnnexY.E.S. House Campbell County Road & BridgeSheriff’s Office (assist) Landfill Scale HouseGillette College (assist) Rockpile MuseumJoint Powers Fire Board (assist) Campbell County AirportSenior Citizen’s Center (monitor) Bell Nob ClubhouseCam-Plex (provide advice) Old Fire Station #1Warren House Wright Recreation CenterVarious Highway Lights Campbell County Library - Wright

The combined experience of our Facilities Maintenance staff enables us to perform most repairs in-house, resulting in significant savings to the County. It also provides the ability to respond to and maintain County facilities in a timely manner and at the highest level for the safety and well-being of employees and the public.

Our Custodial staff is second to none and takes great pride in their jobs. Their dedication is evident in the appearance of the facilities to which they are assigned. In 2012 the Commissioners directed the Division to centralize custodial services for a majority of County facilities. This consolidation brought the Rec Centers in Gillette and Wright, the libraries in Gillette and Wright, Children’s Develop-mental Services, the Campbell County Airport, the Rockpile Museum and Public Health under the Facilities Maintenance Division. This consolidation will allow us to standardize our custodial cleaning products, paper, and supplies, resulting in savings to the taxpayers. The centralized staff will be cross-trained, enabling them to work in a variety of County facilities as demand arises.

The Facilities Maintenance Division staff members are dedicated public ser-vants that strive to maintain the facilities at the highest level. Their advanced certifications have allowed us to obtain Contractor’s Licenses from the City of Gillette for Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and General Contracting. With these certifications comes a responsibility for ongoing education; last year, we qualified to start an apprenticeship Electrical Program within our department.

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FLEET MANAGEMENT DIVISIONManager: Rod Warne, Fleet Manager

The Fleet Management Division of the Public Works Department exists to “Keep Campbell County’s Employees on the Move” which is the motto for Fleet Management.

Here are some quick statistical figures about the county’s fleet:

• Campbell County’s light vehicle fleet is comprised of 183 vehicles. These include assigned vehicles to various County departments and fleet pool vehi-cles which can be checked out on a daily basis.

• Year-end mileages were not available at press time for this report; however, based upon averages and projections, total miles traveled in 2012 will likely be close to 2011 miles traveled. In 2011, County light fleet vehicles traveled 1.91 million miles, up from 1.85 million miles in 2010.

• 14 County departments are directly assigned County vehicles based upon factors that include specialized needs/use, miles driven and a demonstrated daily need of a County vehicle for County business.

• The other County departments utilize 11 vehicles from the fleet pool by check-ing them out on an “as needed” basis. These vehicles are available on a daily basis and are checked out at the Courthouse.

• All departments may check out fleet pool vehicles for out of town travel.• Fleet pool vehicle statistical use charts are included below. The charts show

trends in miles traveled and vehicle usage for the year (pool vehicles only). In 2012, both usage and miles traveled for the fleet pool vehicles were down. Uses were down approximately 10% and miles traveled were down approxi-mately 14%.

• The average cost per mile for the fleet pool vehicles for 2012 was $0.55 per mile. This is up $.08 cents compared to 2011. These costs include insurance, operating costs (maintenance & fuel) and replacement costs. The increase in cost is attributed to some higher maintenance costs on two older vehicles.

• In 2012, the average four wheel drive cost per mile for selected departments with assigned vehicles was found to be $0.66. This is up $0.03 per mile and likely attributed to an increase in gasoline prices.

• Other 2012 statistical charts are included below:

Fleet Management accomplishments for 2012 include:• continued specialized and required safety training on the 60-foot bucket

truck for county employees who may need to use the truck • continued working relationship with Information Technology in monitoring

vehicle expenditures in the County’s computer system for the fleet mainte-nance system

• continued working relationship with the Campbell County Commission-er’s office and County Clerk’s office to maintain funding for county vehicle replacement account - the original process created a savings account which ensures monies are available for replacing vehicles as they become ready for replacement

• continued collaboration with Human Resources/Risk Management to pro-vide monthly National Safety Council Defensive Driving training - seven classes with 142 students were taught during 2012

• the Fleet Manager continues to serve as an Assistant Emergency Manage-ment Coordinator to ensure the functionality of the office during the absence of the Emergency Management Coordinator

• the Fleet Manager continues to serve as a representative on the Employee Recognition Committee and the Countywide Communications Committee

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The processes involved in “Warning the Public” has been a major focus for the Campbell County Emer-gency Management Agency (CCEMA) in 2012.

IPAWSIn October, Campbell County became one of only

two Wyoming Counties to be certified to issue pub-lic warnings through the new IPAWS portal created by the federal government. (Teton County is the other one.) The Integrated Public Alert and Warning Sys-tem (IPAWS) is a new nationwide system initiated by a 2006 Presidential Executive Order and in order gain access to using it, jurisdictions have to complete spe-cialized training and jump through a number of paper-work hurdles.

IPAWS is basically a secure Federal portal into which authorized users can send Common Alerting Protocol – or CAP – compliant warning messages and from that portal, the messages will be redistributed to IPAWS compliant warning systems.

Before these standards were set, most warning sys-tems had their own proprietary protocols and none of them spoke the same language. Now, they are stan-dardizing the types and formatting of warning mes-sages so they can be delivered across a broad range of warning systems without having to be reformatted for each type of system.

Okay, what does all that mean? It means that once we have the hardware/software in place, we can gen-erate IPAWS alerts which can automatically trigger on the Emergency Alert System over radio and TV for our county, it will also automatically go to the National Weather Service for alerts on Weather Radio, and can also distribute brief messages on CMAS.

CMASThe Commercial Mobile Alert

System (CMAS) is just start-ing to be used in our part of the

country, most of us don’t know that our smart phones come with CMAS

built in. CMAS is basically is a built in emergency text message delivery feature.

With IPAWS, we can go in and designate the area we want to warn and CMAS will select the cell towers of all companies

serving that designated area. It will then push the very brief message out on all of

those systems, and any smart phone that is physically

within that area, no matter what company provides your service, you will get the message, even if you don’t subscribe to text messaging.

And, this is one of those “Free of Charge” things. The Feds mandated there are no fees for those get-ting the CMAS message for air time or data usage. The message is quite brief, it might say “Tornado Warn-ing for the area you are in, or something similar. It is strictly a notification that you need to go to other resources to learn more. It does NOT contain any spe-cifics or details about the event.

Warning Plan UpdateCCEMA worked with Campbell County’s mines this

year to improve our coordination should an “orange cloud” generated by a mine blast approach populated areas. This came from a review of a January 2012 incident which stayed high in the air but caused us to rethink how we work together. CCEMA undertook a major update to our warning and notification plan and how we prepare to pass along notices and information to the public if necessary.

Those efforts are also expected to continue into 2013 as CCEMA builds partnerships for increased public education efforts. We will be focusing on mak-ing useful information available in a variety of meth-ods so our citizens are able to make informed deci-sions about their personal safety in all types of emer-gency situations.

Siren Test ChangeAs the year came to a close, CCEMA is officially

making a change in the monthly public warning siren tests in Wright, and we are considering doing the same in Gillette. In November, a shift worker in Wright made an outstanding suggestion…asking if we could simply change the time of the monthly siren test (the second Tuesday of each month at about 10:40 a.m.) to earlier in the morning, before he and other day-sleepers were settled in and sleeping. After taking public comment from Wright citizens, we’ve decided to move it to 8:15 a.m. in Wright on test day. We have also heard similar complaints from day-sleepers in Gillette over the years and will be asking for public comment this winter to see if Gillette residents would like us to make a similar change on the timing of our monthly siren tests.,

Staying in touch with youCCEMA is now in our third year of issuing alerts

through the CityWatch® automated telephone noti-fication system. This computerized system can send voice messages to telephones and cell phones as well as emails and text messages. Anyone can create an account in the system via the internet or by contact-ing CCEMA, and when weather threatens or incidents occur which we feel you should know about, we uti-lize the system to issue advisories. Most of them are

via email and text messaging, but sometimes we will also use the system to issue voice messages. You can sign up on-line by going to the county’s website (www.ccgov.net) and following the link to the Emergency Management Advisories Registration Page.

We also work closely with the City of Gillette and their social media efforts on Facebook and Twit-ter, communicating with the public through both of these accounts. If you haven’t signed up for those social media feeds, go to the City’s website and fol-low the directions. And, the county has been laying the groundwork for similar communication efforts in coming months.

And, if you’re on the web and wanting to see what advisories we have issued, you can find it at the CCEMA website (http://www.ccgov.net/departments/emergency_management/Advisories.html) We post much of the same information we send out on City-Watch® to that webpage. Anything posted to that advisories page will remain for 8 hours before dis-appearing. Due to system limitations, once a mes-sage is posted, we can’t revise or retract it…so look in each message as they scroll up on the screen for the date and time we have included. There may be a more recent update in the queue.

And, you can call into the Campbell County Govern-ment Community Information line at 685-1067. If we have weather advisories underway, pressing 2 at the main menu will take you to that voice message, and if we have other advisories issued, pressing 3 will let you hear that message.

CCEMA is still one of the smallest agencies in the county, with only Coordinator David King officially on the payroll. However, he relies heavily on Public Health Response Coordinator Charlie Messenheimer and County Fleet Manager Rod Warne as Deputy County Coordinators. Noland Peacock is the Emergency Man-agement Coordinator for the City of Gillette, and Keith Lind is the EMC for the Town of Wright.

Your Campbell County Emergency Management Agency is located at the Courthouse and we try to keep timely information stocked in the brochure rack in the Courthouse lobby. Stop by and help yourselves to any of that material. You can find us on the web on the county’s website and, if you’re in the Courthouse and looking for the office, we’re located within the Com-missioner’s Office, Suite 1100.

Campbell County Emergency Management Agency500 S. Gillette Ave, Ste. 1100

686-7477

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Dan Coolidge 682-7283

Commissioner

Matt Avery 682-7283

Commissioner

Steve Hughes 682-7283

Commissioner

Attorney

Jeani Stone 682-4310

Treasurer

Shirley Study 682-7268

Troy Clements 682-7266

Assessor

Chris Knapp 682-7283

Commissioner Commissioner

Micky Shober 682-7283

Susan Saunders 682-7285

Clerk

Nancy Ratcliff 682-3424

Clerk Of District Court

Tom Eekhoff 687-6179

Coroner Sheriff

Bill Pownall687-6160

Campbell County Elected Officials