Steps are being taken in Whitehall to improve the affordable housing shortage. One big step was the passing of Resolution Number 34 by both the Town of Whitehall and Jefferson County.
Click here to view the resolution.
Click here to learn more about NAHN, and even see some house plans for a house that looks like this one! 
Click on this link to the Whitehall Ledger’s website to read about various funding for wind projects in Whitehall.
Commissioner Ken Weber reported verbal confirmation of CREBS funding in Whitehall, Boulder, and Jefferson County, possibly to be used for generating wind power, and Whitehall’s Mayor Ross reported that the IRS Clean Energy Bonds for Whitehall were approved for this grant cycle.
The article also gives informatin about CREBS, which is another one of those acronyms floating around town!
Whitehall’s current plan of community action (in brief) for the next several years is listed below. If you are aware of information that hasn’t been listed here, please contact us and let us know– we’ll add it! community_devel_whitehall@yahoo.com
If you want to be a part of the action, open the Community Development Board page to the right of this post, and look at the Action Plan. It includes contact information, details when available, and which organizations in the community are involved in each project. There is also a budget for this spring, and an overall plan for achieving the vision.
Downtown Improvement, Adopt-A-Lot, Community Development Baord, Town Visibility, Chamber Visibility, Resource guide, Maps & Info Board, law enforcement update, DUI Task Force, Community Safety Fair, Youth Mentoring, Sidewalk Improvements, Animal Shelter, Neighborhood Watch, Business Park, Helping Hands Program, Local Employment Listing, Job Transition, Silver Tower Park, Noxious Weed Management, Walking trails, Candlestick Ranch Preservation, Affordable Housing, Job Career Fair, Adult Education, Daycare, After School Program, Four-Day School Week Research, New Community Vision, Community Growth Plan, Renewable Energy, Whitehall Blog, Youth Assessment Team, Teen Center, Leadership Plenty class, Young Adult Seats on Committees, Expanded Internship program.The new Community Development Board has been formalized by the Town Council, and seats have been assigned to interested individuals. Two vacancies remain, one for a planning board member and one more youth position, ideally from the home school community:
Town Councilman: Mac Smith
Chamber of Commerce: Ann Smith
JLDC: Barb Sunderland
JVCF: Terri Marx
Extension Office: Tom Harrington
Whitehall Schools: Holly Harper
Financial Institution: Roy McBride
County Commissioner: Ken Weber
At large member: Sue Patacini
At large member: Glenna Waltee
At large member: Tammy Johnson
Youth member: Taylor McQuesten
Youth member: Josh Liebers
(And what’s a blog?)
This blog is for the community of Whitehall to use for FREE in whatever ways are useful to the community. That means Animal Shelter, Walking Trail, Whitehall Schools, Town Council, 4-H, Extension Office, Whitehall Weed Project, Friends of the Library, etc. If your group is from the Whitehall Community, (and not making money for anything other than your community) you can use this blog. The space is provided by the Horizons folks, but the blog remains after the Horizons Project ends in June 08.
If you want feedback on an idea, you can get it through the blog. The high school students are aware of the blog and the ways to use it, and the people who check the WSD website are alerted when the blog is updated. Please take advantage of it! We have a counter on this site so we can see how many hits we get, which will give you an idea of how many people are getting your message.
Blogs are a way of communicating, discussing and keeping a record of what’s been said, done and pondered. This blog is set up so that if you post a comment, it will immediately appear for all the world to see. Only a couple people can write posts (what you are reading right now is a post), but we can post what you want us to, or teach you how to do it if you see your group posting regularly.
The Community Development Board is the keeper of the blog, so if you have questions or ideas, please contact community_devel_whitehall@yahoo.org.
community_devel_whitehall@yahoo.com Contact Us!
If you are from the Whitehall Community and you have an idea that will make Whitehall a better place to live, work, grow up, or play, please contact the newly formed Community Development Board! We will put you on the monthly agenda and attempt the following:
connect you with like-minded indivuduals
alert you of any potential resources
inform you of the process that will get your project completed wth the approval of the Town Council
help you in whatever way we can