Bucky Hall said it’ll be hard to throw anything on his plate he hasn’t seen before if he wins a term on the Park County commission. After all, he said, he’s already got three terms under his belt. 

Hall, who served as a commissioner from 2005-2016, is one of 10 candidates still in the running for three seats on the board. 

“I'm still in decent health for a guy that's my age, and I felt I was a good county commissioner,” he said. “I've had a lot of support from people every election year saying, ‘are you going to run again?’ And so this time I finally did.”

Hall said he avoided running for office while his son Matt, the former two term mayor of Cody, was in office, but now that Matt has moved on as the Rawlins city manager, Hall is interested in serving once again. 

He said he’s not running because he thinks the current commissioners have done a bad job, “I just feel like I can do as good or better job … I don't think I can get anything thrown at me that I haven't seen before.”

In addition to his time on the commission, Hall served on the Yellowstone Regional Airport board and several nonprofit boards, including the Children’s Resource Center. He was the owner of Caleco Foundry until the building south of Cody burned down in 2024. 

In his previous terms on the commission he said he’s seen good and bad economic times, has dealt with a number of issues with the national government and with local governments, such as working with the local governments on landfill issues. 

In his time on the commission he said the county also made some big upgrades to the Park County Fairgrounds. 

“We poured a fair amount of money into the fairgrounds, because it's the best county fair in the state, in my opinion,” he said. 

Hall said he also has plenty of experience with land use issues, a conversation that is once again at the forefront of county discussions due to the new land use plan and current process to update development standards and regulations. 

He said his initial experience was with one of the more controversial developments to come to the county, Copperleaf in Wapiti. At the time, area residents expressed concerns about water — a major topic talked about in regards to new subdivisions now as well — and the still-big concern of losing agricultural lands. 

“That was a baptism under fire, for sure, but I'm used to all this,” he said. 

Through all those years he said he grew to appreciate the importance of maintaining a good county workforce, which he said is another reason for him to decide to run again. 

“It means probably having to give them more money when we're going to have less money coming in, and to maintain everything the county does, all the services the county offers,” he said. 

Hall said in that vein he has the knowledge and connections in Cheyenne — he served with “his good friend” Sen. Tim French, R-Powell, when the two were on the commission — could assist in ensuring that the state Legislature knows how what they decide in Cheyenne could impact Park County. 

“I do have experience down in Cheyenne,” he said. “I was on the board of the [Wyoming] County Commissioners Association for six years … and I had a lot of good experience lobbying when called upon to do so, so I've experienced dealing with legislators down there.”

He said as French has said, “‘It's our money, not theirs,’ and he would want that money back for us, and he had a good point.”

Regardless of how the revenue situation pans out, Hall said he will work to maintain the county’s services and the workforce.