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
Chip Axtell is a Hot Springs County rancher whose ranch was where the Red Canyon Fire started. Axtell works to control cheatgrass on rangeland by limiting spring grazing and testing newer herbicide treatments.
Republican
Phillip Scheel is co-owner and CEO of Tumbleweed Propane and a former Hot Springs County commissioner, first elected in 2016. Scheel is a Wyoming native raised in Pine Bluffs.
Sources: hscounty.com2