LINGLE – The Lingle Town Council met at the Community Center at 6 p.m. Wednesday for the mandatory discussion of weekly agenda items.

Present at the meeting was mayor Micah Foster along with council members Tabitha Lambert, Kathy Willhelm, and Shelly Duncan.

Councilman Jeff Jerome was able to attend the meeting digitally via Zoom.

With the Fourth of July now in the rearview mirror and a dangerous recent wildfire contained, the council was able to hear what would be a fresh and light presentation by local Tree Board member, Lindy Ellis.

Ellis voiced both reasonable and logical concern in regard to some deterioration in local trees and urged both the council and residents to become more conscientious and aware of the matter.

“I have several things for tonight,” Ellis began. “The tree board is meeting, and we are wanting to encourage everybody in town to start observing their own trees. I don’t know if you have been by my yard but I do have a dead tree, and it died over the winter. I thought it was just dry, so we are encouraging everyone to look at their trees. If you see anything going on then you can call them directly, take pictures, and hopefully we don’t have any more trees die.”

“The tree board is also trying to be a green community, so we have been talking a lot about this,” Ellis continued. “When we had pots of flowers on Main Street along with this little flower bed by the senior center, our family decided in honor of my mother’s love for gardening and flowers we would like to take on those projects; while also working with the town in getting those things taken care of. So, that’s what we are doing. The memorial money donated to the city is used for taking care of the water system, buying new plants, and getting some new pots and flowers.”

“We talked a lot about spraying mosquitos as there still has still not been any West Nile involved in Lingle. So, maybe spraying doesn’t need to happen now. Spraying the mosquitos also kills pollinators, which are our beneficial insects and bugs. We would like to recommend not spraying for mosquitoes right now. If there is a case of West Nile we will have to revisit that, but for right now we may have to say we’re good. Wear long sleeves and even the bug spray you might have at city hall from last summer. I don’t know what you do about flies though. They are actually worse than mosquitoes.”

Ellis was met with agreement and appreciation as the room filled with a bit of bright laughter.

The meeting then turned attention towards Town Supervisor Logan Dailey, and any ongoing matters related to maintenance.

According to Dailey, although he and his staff remain busy as always, his words certainly echoed those of Ellis’.

“We have been doing some different projects throughout town,” Dailey said. “We have done some street repairs and a lot of tree trimming. There were several dead branches off the tree in the park, so we are trying to prevent more from falling.”

“I was also going to bring up and present Wyo Warn info, which was the water and wastewater emergency cooperative,” Dailey continued. “I will be presenting that again. The general idea behind that is to create an inventory of assets throughout the state of Wyoming in the event we have some issue with a well or pump. Or anything pertaining to our wastewater system. We would have state-wide inventory to say this is what we need and would have the hire to come here for whatever the situation may be. I just wanted you guys to be aware, and we have been working with the tree board in getting things established. We have been pretty busy. I did just come across a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for things like this, and I do intend to apply for it.”

Council member Willhelm pointed out the constant efforts and community engagement Dailey and his staff have been putting in with the Lingle in recent months.

“I just wanted to say kudos to Logan and his crew,” Willhelm said. “He is making great improvements to the town. We are noticing that and are greatly appreciative of it.”

Shortly before adjournment, the council would go over the third reading of “Ordinance #372. An Ordinance amending Section 7 of Election Ordinance #45.”

The ordinance received a motion for approval, was seconded and passed.

“It’s just an update,” Duncan assured.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:27 p.m.