From: [email protected] To: Town Council Subject: Online Form Submittal: Rebecca Bextel Email the Town Council Date: Thursday, July 22, 2021 9:51:43 PM Email the Town Council Email Content: Since I cannot find an email address to address the town council like I can the county commissioners, I will copy and paste. Thank you. Dear April, Thanks for your email, and I am sorry all of y’all got sick. I hope everyone has fully covered. This program does not serve the community. It does not help the community for a 30-year-old person to get a FREE $200,000 down payment, then hold the house for the next 50 years, then leave it to their kids for the next 50 years, and by the way those kids only need to have “75% of their income earned in Teton County”, in other words, they don’t have to actually work full time. One person in the house could work one day a week and still qualify. Correct? All in exchange for a deed restriction and appreciation cap. Another question..... The guy featured in the paper who lived in Alpine with his wife and two kids and had too much student debt to buy in Teton County until the tax payer fairy came along....why is that the Teton County tax payers’ problem? What if he had gone to a community college for the first two years to lessen his debt AS COUNTLESS TETON COUNTY RESIDENTS HAVE DONE? Or more directly, his personal choices are no business of the taxpayer because we should not be involved in any way with his personal family checkbook and their buying decisions. But now those who tried to make smart choices are carrying the burden for others! And are we really passing out FREE money so people don’t have to commute from Alpine, despite the fact that many other people still have to commute from Alpine? What made that guy so special? And is his old house now sitting empty? Or let me guess, somebody else moved into his old house and now THEY are commuting to Jackson unless they are lucky enough to get $200,000 from the taxpayers. How does this help anyone IN NEED? If you make $200,000+ per year, which you will need to do in order to qualify for a house that a $200,000 down payment will cover at 20% per the terms of this unbelievable program, you are not in need. Do you think that if you purchase homes for people who want free money here in Teton County, people will stop coming? In your opinion, will Teton County fill up? Or is this just driving the desire for more people to come? What if someone doesn’t have a down payment because they were on vacation for three months out of the year last year? Or what if they chose to buy a big expensive boat and park it on Jackson Lake and then get out of town in the off-season with a big expensive RV? How technical are y’all getting in peoples personal finances and there purchasing decisions? What happens when, AFTER someone receives $200,000 in free taxpayer money, they then go buy an off-season or winter home in Florida or Hawaii, with all the money they saved thanks to the Teton County taxpayers? How will you monitor that? I’ve noticed that if someone has a home within 150 miles of Teton County, they need to sell that home if they are selected for the program. Why wouldn’t they use the money they made on the other home for their down payment? Do you not consider it senior abuse to give $200,000 to someone who is a retired homeowner, but seems to be out of cash, in exchange for permanently deed restricting their home? This would be highway robbery for the recipient, because, as you stated, houses seem to be appreciating something like 20% in Teton County over the past few years, correct? Maybe this is why you’ve not had any applicants. I look forward to your responses. Sincerely, Rebecca Bextel Your Name: Rebecca Bextel Your Company Name: Field not completed. Your Phone Number: Field not completed. Your Email Address: [email protected] Your City: Field not completed. Your State: Field not completed. Your Zip Code: 83001 Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. From: Dory To: Arne Jorgensen Cc: Susan Scarlata; Tyler Sinclair; Paige Curry Subject: Re: Online Form Submittal: Email Arne Jorgensen Date: Thursday, July 22, 2021 5:52:06 PM Attachments: Mayors Office Letter of Support (1).docx Hi Arne, Thank you so much for your willingness to support this effort. I'm attaching a drafted letter of support which would be fabulous if you could fill in contact info at the bottom, sign, and place on your letterhead. Please feel free to personalize as you see fit and let me know if you see any concerns! I think the letter provides a bit of context as well but for your knowledge this grant is one step towards creating a new public park for the community at Astoria. This funding will give us the opportunity to partner with our featured artist, Katie Shepherd Christiansen who will partner with community members along with the public school district and Teton Conservation District to create a community vision for this space represented through interpretive signage. Mayor Sara Flitner signed a similar letter of support in 2016 to support the call for artists that actually led us to Katie, which is why I mention working with us again. Please do let me know if you have any questions. I'd also be happy to hop on a call to go over this. All the best, Dory Sumner Astoria Park Conservancy Sent from my iPad On Jul 20, 2021, at 4:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:  Email Arne Jorgensen Email Content: Hi Arne, Astoria Park Conservancy is submitting a grant request to the National Endowment for the Arts to support a large-scale educational interpretive signage art project we are seeking funding for as part of the larger park development project. We plan to work with Teton County schoolchildren, Teton Conservation District, our featured artist Katie Shepherd Christiansen, and other partners to create bi-lingual content focused on the flora and fauna found onsite. For this application, we need to provide a letter of support from the Mayor- but I know Hailey is on her maternity leave right now. Can you help with this? We can draft a letter for you to format on your letterhead and sign for her if this sounds like a project your office would like to express support for if that's possible? Can you help? Your Name: Dory Sumner Your Company Name: Astoria Park Conservancy Your Phone Number: 973-752-4207 Your Email Address: [email protected] Your City: Jackson Your State: WY Your Zip Code: 83001 Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. From: Google Calendar on behalf of Ben Braverman To: April Norton; [email protected]; Hailey Morton Levinson; Ben Braverman Subject: Ben&Christa<>April Date: Thursday, July 22, 2021 3:26:36 PM We hit the button by accident at the end of the call! SO awesome getting to know you and your amazing work. Let us know when's easy for a site visit and I'll start thinking of ways to raise $$$. Ben&Christa<>April When Thu Jul 22, 2021 3pm – 3:30pm Mountain Time - Denver Joining info Join with Google Meet meet.google.com/apu-hyjg-pyz Join by phone (US) +1 219-501-0307 (PIN: 740553034) More phone numbers Who • Ben Braverman - organizer • [email protected] • [email protected] • [email protected] From: [email protected] To: Town Council Subject: Online Form Submittal: Rebecca Bextel Email the Town Council Date: Thursday, July 22, 2021 3:19:22 PM Email the Town Council Email Content: Dear Keith and Lea, My name is Rebecca Bextel and I am a Jackson resident of nearly 15 years. I, along with many others, have been horrified at the FREE $200,000 down payment handouts given out by the housing authority. I would like to formally request another public comment period on this subject as it was not added to the agenda for the July 12th meeting in time for many residents to take note of it. Also, the link on the housing authority survey to tell of the July 12th meeting was broken until I pointed it out to the housing authority on July 16th (four days after the meeting). Lastly, the "Update on the Housing Program" given by April Norton per the agenda was misleading. She only stated two items based on the results of a survey indicating that a certain amount of respondents felt the need to increase the amount of assistance, and that a certain amount of the respondents felt that this program should be advertised more. After looking at the actual survey results, it seems there was much more to report, including comments expressly AGAINST this program. Thank you in advance for your consideration. Sincerely, Rebecca BextelJackson, WY(307)699-3519 Your Name: Rebecca Bextel Your Company Name: Field not completed. Your Phone Number: 3076993519 Your Email Address: [email protected] Your City: Jackson Your State: Wyoming Your Zip Code: 83002 Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. From: Nataly Espinoza To: Hailey Morton Levinson Subject: Re: Affordable Housing for Dreamers Date: Thursday, July 22, 2021 1:59:09 PM Thank you Hailey! Baby Ayla is sooo adorable!! I admire your ability to balance it all! You're amazing! Nataly On Jul 22, 2021, at 1:11 PM, Nataly Espinoza <[email protected]> wrote:  Dear members of the Town Council & County Commissioners: I am writing this letter in support of allowing recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to apply for affordable home ownership in Teton County, Wyoming.