County Commissioner
What does this office do?
- Setting your property tax rate
- Funding county roads, parks, and public health services
- Setting land use and building rules outside city limits
Affects: Healthcare Affordability, Environment and Public Health, Government Efficiency,
Candidates:
Republican
Barb Poley has been Park County Treasurer since 2010, after 32 years in local banking, and is a past president of the Wyoming Association of County Treasurers. Poley's focus is careful county budgeting and sound management of public funds.
Republican · Incumbent
Lloyd Thiel is a Park County commissioner and Clark rancher who long ran his own construction firm and served on the county predator board and a cemetery district board. Thiel backs a 50% property tax exemption on primary homes and keeping a five-member commission.
Republican · Incumbent
Scott Steward has been a Park County commissioner since 2022, after more than 30 years with the Park County Sheriff's Office, the last 17 as sheriff. Steward's priorities are finishing the county's updated land use plan and development rules to manage rapid growth.
Sources: parkcounty-wy.gov2