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City to Move Forward With Safe Streets for All Comprehensive Safety Action Plan
The development of a Safe Streets for All Comprehensive Safety Action Plan was addressed by officials with the City of Sheridan this week. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter has more.
Stantec Consulting Services, Inc. will develop a Safe Streets for All Comprehensive Safety Action Plan for the City after the Council awarded them the project during their recent business meeting. Stantec will receive $249,922 to develop the action plan, which is being funded by a $200,000 Safe Streets for All federal grant and a City match of 25 percent from Public Benefit. City Engineer Thomas Morneau.
Morneau said the objective of the federal grant is to prepare a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan that will identify high-risk corridors and intersections, address systemic safety issues for all modes of transportation, incorporate community input, and establish a framework for future implementation actions.
Dirk Sanderson
April 9, 2026 at 9:36 am
Why and what in the hell are we the people, taxpayers of Sheridan,Wyoming, being put on the hook, and forced to absorb close to a quarter of a million dollars for a “Safe” street study, when we have a “capable” City Street Department, with the appropriate staff and Director in place, coupled with a “diverse” City Police Department personnel, who could and should be able to do the project, as their stated job duties and performance. Many of us in Sheridan, at the time the City Administrator position was being put forward, that this type of wily, nily, public policy would be the result, as an unelected City Official in charge, would result in this very exact uncontrolled government, outside of we the people’s ability to control. Our strong Mayor, City Council form of government, since this City’s Charter, is no longer. What we now have since the inception of the City Administrator’s position is a nonperforming Defacto Mayor, a quasi Council, simply showing up in ceremonial fashion every other week, at their now convenient time of 5:30 p.m., excluding the bulk of Sheridan’s citizens to redress their grievences before our City Government. Think long and hard come this August primary on who?, you want in any Government representative’s position. Preferably ones who truly are willing to work on behalf of we the people, all we the people, instead of running for reelection immediately after being elected, serving only the few, the special, the privileged, and the monied!? Jussayin