County minutes show coroner facility housing won board approval

Commissioners approved adding employee housing to the new Teton County Coroner's Facility on July 7, a move that pushes the project's estimated total cost to as much as $5.84 million and folds workforce housing into a building that was originally planned without it meeting minutes. For workers here, that matters because even county operations are running into the same housing squeeze the rest of us live with.

The supporting staff packet says the Adams Canyon project was anticipated to be roughly 3,000 square feet without housing, and that adding housing would increase the budget by about $588,800 to $1,030,400, with costs spread across fiscal years 2027 and 2028 staff report packet. That same packet also says, notably, that County Coroner Brent Blue recommended against including employee housing in the facility design staff report packet.