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| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:32:39 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:32:45 | |
| Good morning and welcome everybody to today's regularly scheduled Board of County Commissioners meeting. Today is Wednesday, March | 00:33:01 | |
| 27th, 2024 * 9 AM Roll call please. Mike Freeman, Scott James here, Kevin Ross. Let the record reflect 5 out of five commissioners | 00:33:09 | |
| are here today and it's approval of minutes of March 13th, 2024. | 00:33:16 | |
| Motion for approval by Commissioner saying second by Commissioner Buck further discussion. | 00:33:26 | |
| And then all those in favor signify by saying aye, all opposed. Same sign and minutes pass 5 to 0. | 00:33:31 | |
| Read Read Ordinance, My Audio Read Code Ordinance 2024-01 by Audio Code. Read Code Ordinance 2024-01 by Audio. Second Ocean by | 00:33:38 | |
| Commissioner James, Second by Commissioner Buckery. Coordinator Ordinance 20/24/01 by Audio Any discussion. | 00:33:47 | |
| And then all of a favor signify by saying aye aye all opposed same sign and that will be read by audio 5 to 0. | 00:33:57 | |
| I'm not a student. Any members to today's agenda? | 00:34:06 | |
| No. All right, hearing none. Approval of consent. Agenda approved. Approved consent. | 00:34:09 | |
| Motion by Commissioner James for approval of Consent Agenda, second by Commissioner Freeman. | 00:34:15 | |
| Discussion all right. Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. All opposed. Same sign and consent. Agenda passes 5 | 00:34:19 | |
| to 0. | 00:34:24 | |
| Proclamations Number One Day of the Young Child, March 30th, 2024. | 00:34:29 | |
| Whereas the United Way of Rogue County and Roe County's Early Childhood Council and its community partners, in conjunction with | 00:34:35 | |
| the National Association for the Education of Young Children, are celebrating the Day of the Young Child Saturday, March 30th. And | 00:34:41 | |
| whereas these organizations are working together to increase awareness and importance of early childhood development while helping | 00:34:47 | |
| to facilitate accessible pathways. | 00:34:52 | |
| Of services which will lead to the lifelong well-being for all children prenatal through eight years of age. And whereas teachers, | 00:34:58 | |
| childcare professionals, nonprofits and all those who make a difference in the lives of young children in well county deserve | 00:35:04 | |
| things and recognition. And whereas public policies that support early learning opportunities for all young children are crucial | 00:35:11 | |
| to all children in Wall County being valued, healthy and thriving, now therefore be it proclaimed by the Board of Globe County | 00:35:17 | |
| Commissioners. | 00:35:23 | |
| That Saturday, March 30th, 2024. | 00:35:29 | |
| Known as the Day of the Young Child and the courage all citizens to work and make a good investment in early childhood in Royal | 00:35:32 | |
| County and across Colorado. Signed by all 5 county commissioners. | 00:35:37 | |
| Did we have anybody here, Ernest, did you want to step up? | 00:35:49 | |
| First, I think she'd bring them all up. I mean, if they're going to be here. | 00:35:55 | |
| You don't have to speak. | 00:36:02 | |
| Thank you Commissioners, for your acknowledgement and support of early childhood in our community and celebration of the good | 00:36:08 | |
| young child in White County. We host the Northern Colorado Children's Festival. This event is more than a fun day for families, | 00:36:13 | |
| but an opportunity for stakeholders to come together and highlight the importance of early childhood and the role plays in shaping | 00:36:19 | |
| the future of our children and community, as well as their valuable information, activities and resources with families and other | 00:36:24 | |
| providers. | 00:36:29 | |
| Learning does not begin when a child enters school. Quality education starts at birth. Research consistently shows that children | 00:36:35 | |
| who have access to quality early childhood education programs. | 00:36:41 | |
| More likely. That's right. Academically, socially, and emotionally, this foundation makes an impact later in life. Imagine being a | 00:36:46 | |
| child that could not read at the level you're supposed to be at while your peers continue to learn more. What effects would that | 00:36:52 | |
| have on your confidence and desire to continue to learn and grow? | 00:36:58 | |
| The haters influence influenced by communication and has strong ties to literacy. | 00:37:04 | |
| Currently, only 39% of children are reading a group level by the end of third grade in North County. Third grade is a pivotal | 00:37:09 | |
| moment for children's education, as this is when children stop learning to read and start reading to learn. | 00:37:16 | |
| So they show that grandmother reading at this stage predicts future success, but also when students are not at grade level. It can | 00:37:23 | |
| have negative societal economic impacts, including increased incarceration rates and public assistance needs. | 00:37:29 | |
| Weld County is a child care desert, meaning that there is not a Med capacity to give every child the quality start to. | 00:37:37 | |
| To life. They deserve will. Quality child care is crucial. It is only one of the essential resources it takes to achieve a | 00:37:44 | |
| brighter future for our community. It takes nonprofits, coaches, parents, governments and the overall community to make this all | 00:37:50 | |
| possible. It takes a village. Thank you. Thank you. | 00:37:56 | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for recognizing United Way and the hard work that they're doing to to And so I I just want | 00:38:07 | |
| to acknowledge these amazing women behind me who? | 00:38:13 | |
| Tirelessly, daily work in our community to try to advance early childhood education in our community where we are a child care | 00:38:19 | |
| desert. And I think that there's a couple of reasons behind that and I think you all probably already know this. I'm just going to | 00:38:25 | |
| enlighten you a little bit. I think you all have the same path maybe. | 00:38:32 | |
| My mom. | 00:38:40 | |
| There's a great example. My mom is one of eleven children. | 00:38:42 | |
| And this. And and then there she had three. | 00:38:47 | |
| And then from there I had two. | 00:38:52 | |
| And of the two, my children are talking about maybe having one and. | 00:38:54 | |
| Each place creating is what we already see a train wreck. A report came out about childcare but also came out about workforce. And | 00:39:01 | |
| one of the biggest issues really hitting our country soon will be to work for shortage. And while county will not be an exception | 00:39:09 | |
| to that rule, unless we become advocates today to be able to try to find a way to help add more childcare resources so that | 00:39:16 | |
| families can actually decide, no, I can't stop that, I don't want more children. I can't have more children. | 00:39:24 | |
| I have no place to take them to to have quality childcare in our community. | 00:39:32 | |
| And so I think today's a great example of one of the things that we could do as a community begin to invest in programs like what | 00:39:37 | |
| United Way is doing and trying to add more childcare facilities. And I don't like just childcare centers. We're talking about | 00:39:44 | |
| folks wanting to just open up a childcare in your home. And we can add that we literally last year added 100 new seats. | 00:39:51 | |
| To while county and we'll continue to do that. But we could always do more And so we would love while county to take a look at | 00:40:00 | |
| early childhood and begin to take a look at how we can invest in early childhood and more importantly invest in our our community | 00:40:06 | |
| that and their families. I tell my wife I said Mike fear is all of us are going to get old and nobody will have to take care of | 00:40:12 | |
| us, right. So let's invest in it today and this is a great way to do it. So thank you for your support for what United Way is | 00:40:18 | |
| doing and we ask that you know, I know. | 00:40:25 | |
| Pretty much everybody on this board, we look to sit down with a cup of coffee and just talk a little bit about how much more I | 00:40:32 | |
| think the county we could become progressively looking at this issue and say how can we invest in this future for children, but | 00:40:37 | |
| not only with children but our future workforce. So thank you so much for your time. I greatly appreciate it and thank you ladies | 00:40:41 | |
| for all you do. | 00:40:46 | |
| Take just don't anybody go anywhere yet, right? This is this is the fun time, right? So if you don't mind, just for your record, | 00:40:57 | |
| if both of you would just say your name and address, we have that. That is part of our procedure. | 00:41:02 | |
| Hey, Adrian. | 00:41:08 | |
| And I live at 1726 Westwood Circle #3, Eaton Co. Thanks, Adrian. | 00:41:11 | |
| Ernest and play this Walker and I live at 1212 Creekwood Court in Windsor on the Wall County side. Good, good, good man. And with | 00:41:19 | |
| that, we'd love to take a picture with you with this proclamation. Is that OK? So if everybody will come on up here. | 00:41:25 | |
| All right, everybody ready? | 00:41:55 | |
| 123. | 00:42:06 | |
| Thank you. | 00:42:12 | |
| Good to see you. | 00:42:15 | |
| All right, brings us to warrants, Item number one, general warrants, March 27th, 2024. | 00:42:44 | |
| Motion by Commissioner Buck for approval of General Warren. Second by Commissioner James. Any further discussion? | 00:42:50 | |
| Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye, aye, all opposed. Same sign and warrants passes 5 to 0. | 00:42:56 | |
| Bids Item number one approve Bid B to 400-0141 ton 4x4 extended cap pickup with eight foot utility box quantity 1 Departments of | 00:43:05 | |
| Fleet Services and Public Works. Good morning Toby. Good morning Toby Taylor with purchasing as advertised. This bid is for one | 00:43:13 | |
| 4x4 extended the cab pickup with an 8 foot utility box. The low bidder is from Ken Garff, Ford and Greeley for $62,833. Three | 00:43:21 | |
| services is recommending awarding the award to. | 00:43:29 | |
| Garth Ford of Greeley. | 00:43:37 | |
| Any questions for Toby Move to approve second motion by Commissioner Buck for approval of bid B 2400014 second by Commissioner | 00:43:40 | |
| Freeman Further discussion. | 00:43:45 | |
| And then I was in favor signify by saying aye aye all opposed same sign and B 24,014 passes 5 to 0. | 00:43:50 | |
| Item number two, Approved Bid B 24,053 Cisco Network Switches Department of Information Technology. | 00:44:00 | |
| Three bids were received. The Department of Information Technology staff have reviewed all the bids So Borrow Inc out of Denver. | 00:44:06 | |
| Has the lowest solution at $137,912.80 that meets specifications that were in the documented bid process. Therefore the Department | 00:44:14 | |
| of Information Technology is recommending the award Zizabarro Inc. | 00:44:22 | |
| All right. Any questions for Toby? | 00:44:31 | |
| Motion by Commissioner saying for approval of Bid B 24,053 second by Commissioner James further discussion. | 00:44:34 | |
| Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye aye, all opposed same sign and bid B 24,053 passes 5 to 0. | 00:44:40 | |
| Item number 3. | 00:44:48 | |
| Present bid be 24,032 pavement, smoothness testing and grinding. Department of Public Works one vendor has replied to this | 00:44:50 | |
| solicitation. Public Works is reviewing that reply and anticipates bringing a recommendation to the Board on April 3rd, 2024. | 00:44:58 | |
| Question for Tony. | 00:45:07 | |
| Item number four present Bid B 24,061 VMware Maintenance Weld Department of Information Technology 6 vendors have replied to the | 00:45:10 | |
| solicitation. The Department of Information Technology is evaluating those replies and anticipates bringing a recommendation to | 00:45:16 | |
| the Board on April 10th, 2024. | 00:45:23 | |
| Questions for Toby. All right, thank you, Sir. That concludes bids and brings us to new business. | 00:45:30 | |
| Item number one Consider Petition for Abatement of Refund Taxes for Account number P 9107041, The Mill Event Venue, LLC. Good | 00:45:36 | |
| Morning Assessor Donuts. | 00:45:43 | |
| It's specified in case law, seeing that regardless of whether items are permanently attached to a building. | 00:47:34 | |
| Property tax law requires every owner to annually provide a listing and the cost of their equipment will accept an IRS | 00:48:15 | |
| depreciation schedule. But if we don't get a full and accurate listing, then we're expected to estimate the value and the last day | 00:48:21 | |
| through. If the owner does not provide that full and accurate listing in the year of the valuation, then they lose their rights to | 00:48:27 | |
| file an abatement to the tax. | 00:48:33 | |
| Personal property. So each of my office mails from the declaration form in January. We mail it to the same address where they | 00:48:40 | |
| filed their Secretary of State business filing, and we did that in January of 2021. This appointment is for 21 and 22. We didn't | 00:48:47 | |
| receive a return deck. We mailed the owner a notice of value in June, including the notice of value. Also include a letter saying | 00:48:53 | |
| if you don't protest your value, if you don't get this corrected in this calendar year, you're going to lose your right to appeal. | 00:49:00 | |
| Then we send another letter if we don't hear back. And then we physically try to inspect the property and go talk to the owner in | 00:49:08 | |
| order to do everything we can for a property owner to not lose those rights. We did that on this account and didn't hear anything | 00:49:14 | |
| in 21. We started all over again in January of 22 with that same process. We checked our records and we haven't ever received any | 00:49:20 | |
| mail back. So returned mail on any of these mailings that we did. In the meanwhile, the treasurer was trying to make sure that he | 00:49:26 | |
| was getting his taxes paid. | 00:49:32 | |
| Real property and so. | 00:50:10 | |
| It's about $300,000 in actual value. So if you look on your petition form at tax year 2022, I'm going backwards at this moment | 00:50:43 | |
| because it because it's confusing. We had an original value of $418,129 and we're recommending that we remove $296,717.00 in real | 00:50:51 | |
| property and set the corrected actual value at 121,412. | 00:51:00 | |
| I did 2022 first because in 2021 we're recommending the exact same methodology. | 00:51:10 | |
| And in 2021, we were dealing with covert and business personal property was allowed to get an additional adjustment because it's a | 00:51:16 | |
| valuing use and they weren't able to use all of that equipment when we were dealing with COVAD. So we had made an additional | 00:51:24 | |
| adjustment in 2021 and we are recommending that instead of the value of 121,412 like we did for 2022 that we applied the same | 00:51:31 | |
| adjustment we did for other business personal property, which reduces the value to 81,144. So in summary. | 00:51:39 | |
| Mr. Ribble did not report his equipment listing to us in 21 and 22 and as a result he lost his right to have an abatement of tax | 00:51:47 | |
| for his personal property value. However, we believe there's real property value included and it was and we call that double | 00:51:55 | |
| taxation. So we researched the real property value and after removing that, we've confirmed the remaining personal property value | 00:52:02 | |
| is a reasonable estimate. Therefore, we're recommending approval in part of this abatement request for tax year 21 and 22. | 00:52:09 | |
| This approval will result in a tax abatement for 21 of $4467.40 and for tax year 22A tax abatement of 8779 cents. | 00:52:17 | |
| Is there a representative here for the middle event venue? | 00:52:32 | |
| Yes Sir. And if you don't mind, just state your name and address for the record. Any comments you'd like to make to us, Sir? My | 00:52:36 | |
| name is Brandon Rebel and I live at 6600 Royal Country Down Drive, Windsor Weld county side. | 00:52:42 | |
| And everything that Miss Donzer said is correct. She is absolutely right and we are here because I did not know about filing the. | 00:52:49 | |
| Claiming claiming what was what was real property and what was what was personal property. So everything that she that she said | 00:53:01 | |
| was correct. The only thing I'd like to clarify for the record is that we did discuss going back and forth with the assessors | 00:53:07 | |
| office that all communication was going to the physical address of the business. | 00:53:13 | |
| Which we which we clarified the e-mail which has never been our mailing address so I was unaware of this until until I got served | 00:53:20 | |
| notice. But I agree with everything that she just said and her recommendation on the abatement. | 00:53:26 | |
| Brandy everything to respond to that. | 00:53:35 | |
| My only responsibility that we use the Secretary of State filing for mailing address and when Mr. Ribble contacted us and told us | 00:53:39 | |
| that he had changed his mailing address we've updated that and and now we have a lot of methods to communicate with Mr. Ruble | 00:53:45 | |
| including e-mail and phone but we are required to mail those documents so so we're going to continue mailing in the future just | 00:53:51 | |
| for clarification but if there's any question we'd be happy to answer this. | 00:53:58 | |
| Support. Have any questions for either party here? | 00:54:06 | |
| Yes, Mr. Cena, Mr. Rules, are you satisfied with this abatement then? | 00:54:08 | |
| Yes, ma'am, I am. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to say what's not to love? | 00:54:13 | |
| We approve the abatement as detailed by the assessor. | 00:54:19 | |
| I got a motion from Commissioner James for approval second by Commissioner Buck. Any further discussion? | 00:54:24 | |
| Hearing none. All those in favor of approving the petition excuse me, the abatement amount of proposed by the assessor signify by | 00:54:30 | |
| saying aye aye, all opposed. Same sign and that passes unanimously 5 to 0. Thank you for being here today. We appreciate it. | 00:54:37 | |
| Good time. | 00:54:45 | |
| This brings us to item number two. Consider grant application for Energy and Mineral Impact Assistance Fund. | 00:54:53 | |
| Yeah. Program for phase three of County Road 77 improvements project between County roads 106 and 114 April Cycle Tier 2 and | 00:55:00 | |
| authorized Department of Public Works to submit electronically. Good morning, Elizabeth. Good morning, Commissioners Eliz. | 00:55:08 | |
| Department of Planning Services here to ask for your permission to submit this Tier $2.00 grant application for Wealth County Road | 00:55:16 | |
| to 77 phase three improvements. We are asking for a tier two $1 million. | 00:55:24 | |
| Request to dola to for our total project cost of $3.5 million to offset that and the application is due April 1st and we would | 00:55:32 | |
| just ask for your approval to submit this application. | 00:55:39 | |
| Any questions for Elizabeth? | 00:55:47 | |
| To approve the resolution. Second, thank you. | 00:55:49 | |
| Got a motion from Commissioner James for approval of submitting the application. Second from Commissioner Buck Further discussion. | 00:55:52 | |
| Sad, yeah. Thank you. We continue this wrong Rd. improvement out there and we'll get there. It's about what, 20 miles total I | 00:56:00 | |
| think, but hopefully we'll be successful and again a highly impacted Rd. from oil and gas. So with that, I'll go ahead and call | 00:56:06 | |
| the colony. All those in favor signify by saying aye, aye, all opposed. Same sign and it approves 5 to 0 to submit that | 00:56:13 | |
| application. Thanks, Elizabeth. | 00:56:19 | |
| Item number three, consider warranty D to convey property for relocation of high pressure gas pipeline meter station for County | 00:56:26 | |
| Road 41 and State Highway 52 intersection project and authorized turn sign public service company in Colorado, Colorado | 00:56:33 | |
| Corporation DBA Excel Energy. Good morning. Good morning Commissioners. Eric Green with Old County Public Works. | 00:56:41 | |
| So basically this warranty need is to convey property from Weld County to Public Service Company of Colorado. The the property is | 00:56:49 | |
| located in the northeast quadrant of the. | 00:56:54 | |
| Kind of Road 41 and Hwy. 52 Intersection Improvements Project. | 00:56:58 | |
| That the deed would allow for a conveyance of 0.131 acres of land to public service company. | 00:57:03 | |
| So that an Excel energy high pressure gas pipeline meter station can be relocated this spring in 2024 and then following that for | 00:57:10 | |
| other relocations, utility relocations to begin in, in summer of this year, so that the remainder of the roadway improvements can | 00:57:17 | |
| be constructed in in spring and summer of 25. | 00:57:23 | |
| There's no compensation associated with this lane conveyance. The board previously agreed to provide the necessary land interest | 00:57:32 | |
| for Excel's relocation and no cost to Excel. | 00:57:37 | |
| So staff is asking the board to authorize the chair to sign the warranty deed. | 00:57:43 | |
| It has been reviewed by the Attorney's office, provided as a pass around, and signed by all 5 commissioners to include on the | 00:57:47 | |
| agenda today. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have any questions for. | 00:57:53 | |
| Move to April motion by Commissioner Buck for approval of the deed conveyance second by Commissioner Freeman Further discussion. | 00:57:59 | |
| Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye, aye, all those opposed, same sign and that passes 5 to 0. Thank you very | 00:58:07 | |
| much. Thank you. | 00:58:12 | |
| Item number four consider the acceptance of Deed of Dedication for public Right of Way for County Road 76 and and 33 Intersection | 00:58:21 | |
| Project and authorized Chair to sign KTC Farm LLC. Good morning. | 00:58:27 | |
| Morning Commissioners Trace Anderson Public Works. The agreement for purchase was presented and approved by the Board on March 4th | 00:58:34 | |
| of this year. | 00:58:38 | |
| This deed of dedication is to grant 0.026 acres of public road right of way from KTC Farm to Wells County. | 00:58:43 | |
| In the southeast quadrant of the 7633 intersection. It's a complete roadway and intersection improvements for the Eaton Truck | 00:58:52 | |
| route. | 00:58:56 | |
| The property has been closed and staff is asking for the board to accept and authorize the chair to sign the Deed of Dedication. | 00:59:01 | |
| Any Questions for Church? Second Motion by Commissioner Freeman for approval of the acceptance of Deed of Dedication Second by | 00:59:08 | |
| Commissioner James. Further discussion. | 00:59:13 | |
| None of those in favor signify by saying aye, aye. All opposed. Same sign. And the acceptance of dedication does pass by. Thanks, | 00:59:19 | |
| Tracy. | 00:59:23 | |
| And #5 consider acceptance of Deed of Dedication for Public road right away for County Road 76 and 33 Intersection project and | 00:59:28 | |
| authorized Chair to sign Glenn and Lee Shannon Ruffler. | 00:59:34 | |
| Tracy Anderson Public Works. The agreement for purchase was presented and approved by the Board on March 4th of this year. The | 00:59:40 | |
| deed of dedication is to grant 0.033 acres of public road right away from Glenn and Lee Shannon Leffler to Old County. | 00:59:48 | |
| And the NE quadrant of the World Counter of 76 intersection to complete roadway and intersection improvements for the Eaton Truck | 00:59:56 | |
| Route. The property has been closed and staff is asking for the board to accept and authorize the chair to sign the Deed of | 01:00:01 | |
| Dedication. | 01:00:06 | |
| Any questions for Trace? | 01:00:13 | |
| Move to approve second motion by Commissioner Freeman for the acceptance of the Deed of Dedication signed by Commissioner James. | 01:00:15 | |
| Further discussion. | 01:00:19 | |
| Hey, none. I was in favor signify by saying aye aye all of those same sign and that passes 5 to 0. Thanks Trace. Have a good day. | 01:00:23 | |
| Item number six Consider temporary closure of County Road 39 between County Road 70 and 74. Good morning, Amy. | 01:00:33 | |
| Good morning, Commissioners Amy Muchi, Public Works and presenting this closure on behalf of Goodell Construction. | 01:00:41 | |
| They're requesting this closure to begin on April 1st and go through April 19th and this is for them to complete the intersection | 01:00:47 | |
| improvements for the Omaha track facility. This will include widening and paving. | 01:00:53 | |
| Of that intersection, the detour will take traffic to County Road 43, which is the closest paved route. | 01:01:00 | |
| This is to minimize impacts to 41. At the request of some of the residents on that area, there will be additional signage to guide | 01:01:07 | |
| traffic as well as message boards in place for the duration of the closure and also in advance of the closure. | 01:01:13 | |
| The contractor will be maintaining local access as needed. They've been in communication with the school district as well as | 01:01:20 | |
| emergency services. | 01:01:25 | |
| Excellent. Any questions for Amy? | 01:01:30 | |
| Moved Approved temporary closure second motion by Commissioner James to approve the temporary closure of County Road 39 between | 01:01:34 | |
| County Road 70 and 74. Second by Commissioner Buck. Further discussion. | 01:01:39 | |
| None. All those in favor signify by saying aye aye, all opposed. Same sign. And that temporary closure of County Road 39 from 4/1 | 01:01:45 | |
| to 4/19 passes unanimously. Thank you, Amy. | 01:01:51 | |
| Item number 7. | 01:01:59 | |
| Consider Contract ID 7958, Application for Federal Assistance Form SF424 for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant ECBG | 01:02:01 | |
| Program and authorized Chair to sign Good Morning Chris Morning, Commissioners. This item was approved for placement on the agenda | 01:02:08 | |
| by Pastoral, updated March 20th. | 01:02:14 | |
| Last April, the board completed. | 01:02:22 | |
| Pre application for Department of Energy Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant in the amount of 231,000. | 01:02:24 | |
| $790.00. | 01:02:32 | |
| The grants to be if to be used for lighting and lighting control upgrades and counting facilities, and we recommend approval. | 01:02:34 | |
| All right. Any questions for Chris? | 01:02:42 | |
| Move to approve. | 01:02:45 | |
| Motion by Commissioner Freeman for approval of contract. ID 7958, second by Commissioner Buck for their discussion. | 01:02:47 | |
| None. All those in favor signify by saying aye, aye, all opposed. Same sign. | 01:02:55 | |
| And contract ID 7958 passes 5 to 0. Thanks Chris. | 01:03:00 | |
| Item number eight First reading of Code Ordinance 2024-01 In the matter of Repealing and reenacting with amendments. Chapter | 01:03:05 | |
| eight, Public Works of the Royal County Code, Appendix 8 O Functional Classification Map. This item was continued from February | 01:03:11 | |
| 26th, 2024. Good morning, Evan. | 01:03:18 | |
| Good morning, Commissioners. Evan Pinkham with the Department of Planning Services here today. | 01:03:27 | |
| Appreciate everybody's time on this and appreciate the opportunity to come back with this item after the continuance. | 01:03:34 | |
| And so just getting started here, basically the functional classification map is used as the official roadway plan for the county | 01:03:41 | |
| and is one of the most important transportation planning tools associated with our transportation plan, which is our 2045 broad | 01:03:48 | |
| county transportation plan. | 01:03:55 | |
| Essentially this functional classification map as we're building out a roadway infrastructure in the in the years to come and then | 01:04:03 | |
| so we're planning for future projects, long range projects. | 01:04:09 | |
| As as well as shorter term projects like in our capital improvements plan. This functional classification map is really crucial to | 01:04:16 | |
| ensuring that the county can make these improvements in a cost effective manner. So it's it's truly an important document and an | 01:04:24 | |
| important tool for us as planners and as the county. | 01:04:31 | |
| For our transportation system. | 01:04:39 | |
| So I wanted to go into a little bit of the history and how this map came about and kind of over the years how it's evolved and how | 01:04:41 | |
| it continues to evolve. | 01:04:46 | |
| So essentially the first document of its type that I have record of was created in 1973 and it was a third plan map that was a | 01:04:52 | |
| part of the Weld County Comp plan at the time. Basically an addendum to that plan and it covers. | 01:05:02 | |
| Many of the different things that we covered today in our functional classification map, including basically cross section for | 01:05:13 | |
| different types of roads and basically a hierarchy of roads in the system back in 1973. As time went on that plan evolved a little | 01:05:20 | |
| bit and in 1987. | 01:05:26 | |
| We had a transportation plan adopted and part of that plan included a map that was basically an updated version of this that | 01:05:34 | |
| included. | 01:05:39 | |
| Highway system as well as an arterial and collector system for the county. | 01:05:44 | |
| And covered cross section for each of those items. | 01:05:50 | |
| Getting a little further along here, in 1995 we had a Rd. classification map, same same kind of deal on that. And then in 22,000 | 01:05:54 | |
| and two, we actually hired FHUA consultant to create a roadway classification map and they use some of those older documents and | 01:06:02 | |
| some more information that they were able to. | 01:06:09 | |
| Providing and uncover research on that and updated that particular map, it really focused again on the arterial and collector | 01:06:17 | |
| local Rd. system. | 01:06:23 | |
| In 2004, we have our first strategic roadway map, which essentially was kind of the top corridors in Weld County that saw a lot of | 01:06:30 | |
| traffic and we're basically slated as far as corridors that needed improvements in the future. | 01:06:38 | |
| In FHU was the consultant that helps create that document as well. | 01:06:47 | |
| And then in 2007, an update to that strategic woodland map was was adopted by the board. | 01:06:53 | |
| Moving forward in 2009, we really have our first functional classification map that looks more like what we're adopting today. | 01:07:01 | |
| Again, it used the hierarchy system of roadway classifications starting with arterial and collector and local in 2011. That map | 01:07:08 | |
| was updated 2015 as well. | 01:07:15 | |
| And then in 2017, we updated the functional classification map. | 01:07:23 | |
| Again, and and really just adding additional roads each time here. As you can see, each time these are adopted, there's typically | 01:07:30 | |
| about two to three years in between each of them. | 01:07:37 | |
| And then getting here to 2020, we have the functional classification map that was adopted with our 2045 transportation plan, so. | 01:07:46 | |
| Obviously, we've got some adjustments on that map and that 2020. | 01:07:56 | |
| Functional classification map. | 01:08:00 | |
| It still relies on that that same structure of arterial roadways collecting roadways. | 01:08:04 | |
| And local roadways and then we added another layer under that which is the county highway and typically the right of way is a | 01:08:10 | |
| little bit higher on that county highway than. | 01:08:16 | |
| A regular arterial roadways. | 01:08:23 | |
| So 2020 was the last update that we had. So that's a little bit of a history on it looking at the functional classification | 01:08:25 | |
| whether the kind of. | 01:08:29 | |
| Things that it Why? You know, Why is it needed? Why are we? Why do we look at these things and what what are the elements that | 01:08:35 | |
| we're looking at here? | 01:08:39 | |
| Just looking at our classification definitions like I was talking about earlier, we have the Arterial classification, Collector | 01:08:44 | |
| Collector Classification. | 01:08:49 | |
| And then local Rd. classification. So each of these has different level of right of way, a future right of way that are identified | 01:08:55 | |
| with each and I'll go over that here in a second. But typically when we're looking at each one of these, we're looking at | 01:09:02 | |
| different things. So as you can imagine for arterial roadways, we're looking at moderate to long roadways as far as continuity and | 01:09:09 | |
| really it's an extension of the state highway system. | 01:09:16 | |
| There's they serve as a connection to larger population centers. | 01:09:24 | |
| And typically the average daily trips. | 01:09:29 | |
| Average traffic on these roads is very high in comparison to other roadways. | 01:09:33 | |
| Collector Red Wings are short to moderate as far as continuity, and they link essentially the local Rd. system to the arterial Rd. | 01:09:40 | |
| system. | 01:09:45 | |
| So they serve lower population centers, lower density population centers. | 01:09:51 | |
| Usually shorter trips and kind of that mid range as far as traffic volumes. | 01:09:56 | |
| Local roadways are short to moderate generally, and they serve lower population centers, and typically the traffic on these roads | 01:10:03 | |
| is typically quite a bit lower in general. | 01:10:09 | |
| Looking at right of way associated with these as you can see on the slide, local roads are are your typical 60 foot right of way | 01:10:17 | |
| and typically we have that on every County Road that we maintain at at a minimum that's 60 feet, it's really. | 01:10:24 | |
| Just what's what's needed to be able to have a two lane roadway and be able to maintenance that roadway, maintain that roadway as | 01:10:32 | |
| well as the the ditches on either side collect the roadways include a little bit more future right of way. So it's 80 feet total | 01:10:40 | |
| right of way, so an additional 10 feet on either side. That's what that collector roadway typically has in our definitions there. | 01:10:48 | |
| So then we move on to arterial. | 01:10:56 | |
| These arterial roadways really what we're planning for ultimately there as like as you'll see in a few slides is the ultimate | 01:11:04 | |
| build out of the roadway. We're looking at 140 feet of future right of way on this particular classification. And like I said | 01:11:13 | |
| earlier, these typically have 60 feet of current right of way, but that future right of way is is basically what we. | 01:11:22 | |
| Are looking at as far as setbacks. | 01:11:32 | |
| I'll go into setbacks a little bit here on the next slide. | 01:11:36 | |
| So as we're looking at these setbacks, we are measuring from the future right of way of the classification of the road that we | 01:11:41 | |
| hope that is. | 01:11:47 | |
| That. | 01:11:53 | |
| That is that we're looking at there. So setback is going to be typically excuse me, setbacks are 20 feet from future right of way | 01:11:55 | |
| for for any new structures. So this is new construction. We're not you know looking at things that are already completed, but the | 01:12:01 | |
| set back is for new construction. | 01:12:07 | |
| And the larger setbacks required for collector and arterial roads help to ensure that those future projects can be completed in a | 01:12:14 | |
| cost effective manner. And they're done that way. That happens through, you know, good planning and making sure that these new | 01:12:21 | |
| structures are outside of that future right of way. | 01:12:28 | |
| There we go. And then we're going into typical cross section here on these. | 01:12:37 | |
| For arterial roadways, it's a little hard to see, but basically on the left side there we're looking at an urban arterial in Weld | 01:12:43 | |
| County. | 01:12:47 | |
| What we're going to have here as far as the cross section on number of lanes that we're looking at and other features of a fully | 01:12:51 | |
| built out roadway. | 01:12:55 | |
| In that urban arterial for initial phase, you're still looking at that 60 feet of right away essentially and with the two lane | 01:13:01 | |
| highway on that with different with shoulders on the other side and then the ultimate build out you know. | 01:13:10 | |
| What we're ultimately looking at as long as you know. | 01:13:20 | |
| Traffic increases on that particular roadway and. | 01:13:26 | |
| The needs are met. | 01:13:30 | |
| We're looking at a four lane roadway with a center median on that, with the potentially a trail on either side in an urban | 01:13:32 | |
| setting. | 01:13:36 | |
| Then on the arterial side, on the other side with the royal arterial, same kind of thing. We're looking at A2 lane Hwy. 2 lane | 01:13:42 | |
| roadway in the initial phase and then ultimate phase you'd have a four lane highway with. | 01:13:49 | |
| Roadway with a ditch in between with a center. Median ditch. | 01:13:58 | |
| Moving on to Collector Roadways, essentially what we can fit inside that 80 feet. | 01:14:05 | |
| Is going to be a through lane. | 01:14:12 | |
| Roadway. So that'd be two through lanes and then a center medium center lane that would allow for turn lanes. | 01:14:15 | |
| As you can see, there's different. | 01:14:22 | |
| Differences between the rural and urban on this collector, but essentially the full build out of that roadway would be allowing | 01:14:26 | |
| for that center turning lane. | 01:14:31 | |
| Local roadways. | 01:14:37 | |
| A lot of what our system is made-up, made-up of, are 60 feet of right of way. We've got the. | 01:14:40 | |
| Two lane roadway there with ditches on the other side. In an urban setting, you can have trails. | 01:14:47 | |
| Excuse me? Sidewalk on either side. | 01:14:54 | |
| So moving on here. | 01:15:02 | |
| Where we find this in web county code would be section 8810, and this is under the Web County Transportation Plan and Functional | 01:15:04 | |
| Classification Map. And it says that it's recommended that we update this map every two years. | 01:15:11 | |
| We typically update as as needed, but it's recommended at that two to two to three-year range and right now. | 01:15:20 | |
| With the last update being in 2020, we're a little bit overdue, but we wanted to make sure that we kind of took a good look at | 01:15:30 | |
| these changes that were. | 01:15:34 | |
| We're requesting here today. | 01:15:40 | |
| So getting into the particular updates that were. | 01:15:47 | |
| Requesting. | 01:15:52 | |
| To update on the functional classification map here, we'll start with County Road. | 01:15:55 | |
| County Road 13 at County Road 50. | 01:16:02 | |
| This is really brought on by a joint project that we have with landlord county and the Town of Johnstown and it's a realignment | 01:16:05 | |
| project at Kennedy Rd. 13 and 50. And what we're seeing here is a realignment of while County Road 13 on the West side meeting up | 01:16:13 | |
| with Webb County Road 13 on the east side. This is an area of the county that's growing very quickly. Traffic counts in this area | 01:16:20 | |
| above. | 01:16:28 | |
| 4000 trips per day on County Road 13, so obviously quite a bit of traffic utilizing that roadway. | 01:16:36 | |
| And what our recommendation here is, is to show that alignment on our functional classification functional classification map. | 01:16:46 | |
| That shows the CIP project realignment here on the right. | 01:16:58 | |
| This is a project that's on our CIP list, our our capital improvements plan list. | 01:17:02 | |
| And. | 01:17:09 | |
| We're looking to have it constructed in 2026, so we believe this is. | 01:17:10 | |
| An eminent project and a realignment that we should be showing as a future arterial on our class functional classification map. | 01:17:17 | |
| So moving on here we've got. | 01:17:26 | |
| The Webb County Way. This is a road that was completed recently due to some due to a closure on O Street just West of this | 01:17:29 | |
| location that US 85. | 01:17:35 | |
| The wild county where we're looking to upgrade this one from a local road to a collector roadway. | 01:17:41 | |
| This has fairly high traffic count at a little over 1000 trips per day. We see this as a kind of a clean up effort as far as our | 01:17:48 | |
| functional classification map with it being a new road since our last adopted map, we really haven't had a chance to to upgrade | 01:17:56 | |
| this one until now. So really I believe just a clean up effort on this one. | 01:18:04 | |
| The next Rd. that we're looking at here is. | 01:18:15 | |
| What kind of at 7 just north of Weld County Road 26? | 01:18:20 | |
| This is currently a collecting roadway. We're looking to upgrade this to an arterial roadway. | 01:18:26 | |
| This is a very large, fairly large traffic count on this one. It's 2800 vehicles per day and it really connects parts of Longmont | 01:18:33 | |
| and Firestone up to need for some folks that like choose to go that route. It's an area of the county that's also growing very | 01:18:41 | |
| quickly and this. | 01:18:48 | |
| Upgrade will we see as a another cleanup effort to say the least on this one with the developments on either side eminent you know | 01:18:56 | |
| this is. | 01:19:01 | |
| When we want to reserve for additional right of way. | 01:19:08 | |
| Next we have welcomed Road 90. This would be between. | 01:19:13 | |
| Web Camera 13 and Web Camera 29. Currently this is a local Rd. | 01:19:17 | |
| And we're looking to upgrade this to a collector roadway. Traffic counts are a little under 300 per day, but this is a major. | 01:19:25 | |
| Connection A connection between Pierce and Fort Collins and Wellington I25. | 01:19:33 | |
| You know, this is just a roadway that we'll see a lot more traffic in the future. We want to ensure that we're able to make those | 01:19:39 | |
| improvements as the traffic increases. | 01:19:44 | |
| Where the little bit of a split in this roadway because of a severance annexation, but All in all just looking at. | 01:19:51 | |
| Upgrading to collector there on that one. | 01:20:01 | |
| Next we have Kenya 21 looking to upgrade this one from local to a collector roadway this is. | 01:20:04 | |
| Traffic count is a little under 1400 vehicles per day. | 01:20:13 | |
| It connects between 2 collector roadways, a state highway and really more or less a clean up effort. As far as with it being a | 01:20:18 | |
| local Rd. in that little stretch there doesn't doesn't make a whole lot of sense as far as having collector on either side and. | 01:20:27 | |
| This is a road that connects Milliken to Platteville and a lot of other things. | 01:20:36 | |
| On that one. | 01:20:46 | |
| So I just want to pause here for a second and talk about you know as the as we're making these updates and the changes to the | 01:20:50 | |
| functional classification that we have our our shots. | 01:20:55 | |
| You know 2020 and now 2024 in between that time period there are annexations that occur in the county obviously and some of our | 01:21:02 | |
| roadways are taken up in those annexations and and we need to make adjustments on those as well. So not a slide that I have here, | 01:21:11 | |
| but we are you know in the updated map looking at removing all those Annex Annexed roadways. So just another part of us. | 01:21:20 | |
| So when we went to the Planning Commission on this, we were recommending Log 10, Road 27 to be included. | 01:21:31 | |
| As far as the upgrade on this functional classification map, we would recommended that webcam route 27 basically at the curve at | 01:21:39 | |
| Bracewell to the West to Kenya 27 just north of Kenya 64 1/2 that stretch between. | 01:21:48 | |
| And we had 64 1/2 and State Highway 392 and then a realignment option be included in the functional classification map as an | 01:21:58 | |
| upgrade to a arterial. And we've had a public meeting since then, a lot of conversations, conversations with the board, | 01:22:04 | |
| conversations internally. | 01:22:10 | |
| We've also had conversations with CRT and clearly on this particular upgrade and and right now we're we're just you know kind of | 01:22:16 | |
| retracting on this and and looking at it as. | 01:22:22 | |
| Really we need additional time to look at all the aspects of this upgrade and and options that we are looking at as far as | 01:22:29 | |
| realignment. So in my recommendations here today, I've removed that particular roadway for for upgrade now once we you know get | 01:22:37 | |
| through these conversations get through. | 01:22:45 | |
| Gathering public comment on this item. | 01:22:54 | |
| We can come back at a later date and and look at that upgrade or or or maybe not, you know, maybe not looking an upgrade there and | 01:22:58 | |
| maybe a different county roadway in the area. | 01:23:03 | |
| So kind of retracting on that one and. | 01:23:09 | |
| But we are staff is our engineering staff and Public Works is reviewing different realignments for Cameo 27 in the area and we'll | 01:23:14 | |
| present those to the Board of County Commissioners during our capital improvements plan meeting this year. | 01:23:21 | |
| But just some continued conversations. | 01:23:30 | |
| So well county met with. | 01:23:33 | |
| City of Greeley, East Africa, having improvements at the curve at baseball in particular. | 01:23:37 | |
| This is a stretch of roadway that really is looking to annex in the short term. Potentially later this year is their timeline, and | 01:23:43 | |
| in those conversations we've found that Guild is looking to. | 01:23:49 | |
| Improve the roadway in in 2026 and they're proposing a through lane. | 01:23:57 | |
| Cross section. | 01:24:04 | |
| And also basically leans in either direction and a center lane. | 01:24:06 | |
| And a guardrail on that roadway. So they're looking at improvements in that location and we will continue to work with Greeley on | 01:24:13 | |
| that. If, if plans change, sure we can we can reassess, but but that's that's our conversation with Greeley on that particular | 01:24:19 | |
| stretch of roadway. | 01:24:25 | |
| And then we continue to have conversations. We see that regarding safety improvements at White County Road 27 and State Highway | 01:24:33 | |
| 392. I know this is an area, but top of mind, top of mind as far as you know, safety and a lot of other concerns in the area. And | 01:24:40 | |
| so we're making sure that we're making the right safety improvements in that location and we're going to have additional | 01:24:47 | |
| conversations with our board and with seat belt on that one. | 01:24:54 | |
| So like I said, we had a public meeting, we hosted a public meeting here in the Event Center on March 5th, 2024 at 5:00 PM and we | 01:25:03 | |
| gave some information regarding proposed changes to the functional classification map and as well as we discussed the plans for | 01:25:10 | |
| West County Road 27. And like I said, we're, we're still evaluating those improvements and and looking to kind of further further | 01:25:17 | |
| that discussion along here. | 01:25:24 | |
| As time goes on. | 01:25:32 | |
| So that brings me to basically the functional classification map that we're looking at. | 01:25:34 | |
| Adopting through this process, this is the printed version of that or excuse me, the the PDF version of that. | 01:25:39 | |
| There's also a way to get. | 01:25:47 | |
| There's a way to get to this PDF on our website, and I'll show you that in a second. As well as the portal, the map portal. | 01:25:50 | |
| That you can view this in a little bit more detail, which sometimes this map is really hard to view on APDF and it's it's nicer to | 01:25:58 | |
| see it on agis system. | 01:26:03 | |
| So just kind of going through. | 01:26:09 | |
| How to get to that information? This is a main page world Gov. | 01:26:12 | |
| You would go to the Public Works Department web page. | 01:26:17 | |
| On the Public works page it's scroll. | 01:26:23 | |
| Go to Transportation Planning. | 01:26:27 | |
| What's my favorite page? | 01:26:30 | |
| And. | 01:26:33 | |
| And then this is the transportation planning page. | 01:26:37 | |
| On the top I've. | 01:26:41 | |
| Our functional classification map and PDF and then the proposed changes to the map couple PDF there, but you can also reach the. | 01:26:43 | |
| We already adopted 2020 functional classification map by clicking this. | 01:26:53 | |
| And then on a GIS portal. | 01:26:58 | |
| Which are the website for that is at the bottom there, but if you have questions at night you can. | 01:27:02 | |
| Contact me on this particular page you would go over to the side and make sure and click Public Works and Functional | 01:27:07 | |
| Classification. | 01:27:11 | |
| And then we can see the different classifications of the roadway. | 01:27:17 | |
| The roadway system here, blue is going to be collector, red is arterial and then green is the county highway. So. | 01:27:22 | |
| And then looking at our functional classification map adoption timeline. | 01:27:29 | |
| As since sitting here today, where the first reading? | 01:27:34 | |
| And then second reading is April 22nd at 9:11 same location and May 13th would be third reading. | 01:27:38 | |
| At 9:00 AM. | 01:27:48 | |
| That is all I have for my presentation, but I'm happy to answer any questions. | 01:27:53 | |
| Thanks 7 Commission. | 01:27:58 | |
| So on this special classification map, have we counted it all for the the new federal bill that went through? | 01:28:01 | |
| Or is going through 3372? | 01:28:08 | |
| The larger trucks that they're authorizing the pilot project to 91,000 lbs. | 01:28:12 | |
| We accounted for that. I'm not real familiar with that, so I would have to check with our staff, but I. | 01:28:19 | |
| Yeah, like I said, I'm not real familiar with that. I can. | 01:28:25 | |
| OK. Well, just just to let you know, so there's a group and while they're protesting the federal bill, they have mentioned that | 01:28:27 | |
| we've got, you know, 2900 miles of gravel and caved. | 01:28:32 | |
| 429 bridges, thousands of culverts, and they're expecting that with the heavier weights. What if this pilot project is successful? | 01:28:37 | |
| You know they're they're mentioning some bridges and and they said they consulted engineers but they're they said there's some | 01:28:49 | |
| bridges in particular that we have that would be at risk. | 01:28:53 | |
| With the higher weight. So I was just wondering if it sounds like we. | 01:28:59 | |
| Haven't discussed that at all with staff. It said 27 non Interstate bridges in Weld County. | 01:29:03 | |
| I believe this is sent to all of us on the board, but doesn't mention the bill does not provide funding for state DOT's or local | 01:29:09 | |
| government to make repairs from the heavier trucks on the road. So if if we were to on this functional classification map account | 01:29:15 | |
| for this phenomenon that obviously is coming. Can you point out which roads we would direct those trucks to knowing that we're | 01:29:22 | |
| we're probably going to have some of these on our roads. | 01:29:28 | |
| Yeah, I would always say that the state system and then you know County Road 49 obviously and and some others we can. | 01:29:36 | |
| Yeah, definitely put together a list that we would. | 01:29:44 | |
| You know, push that traffic to we. In our transportation plan, we have freight corridors. | 01:29:48 | |
| And we've listed several freight corridors that that can accept those. | 01:29:55 | |
| Just a second, Commissioner Freeman. Elizabeth, do you mind addressing this? I know you have some information on this, please. So | 01:30:00 | |
| the county does have an oversized overweight permit process that we require for those types of vehicles. And as part of that | 01:30:06 | |
| review, Public Works does take into consideration the routes that because they'd also have to get those through the state as well. | 01:30:12 | |
| And so we work closely with the state on permitting those routes and what we allow them to use for our transportation system | 01:30:18 | |
| because. | 01:30:23 | |
| For this reason, we do not want to take them down a road that couldn't physically, you know, physically handle. | 01:30:30 | |
| That load or or that size vehicle and so Amy Munchie and her team do a great job of really taking those requests into | 01:30:36 | |
| consideration for. | 01:30:41 | |
| Determining the routes the most appropriate routes in coordination with the state that they should be using. | 01:30:48 | |
| Awesome. Thank you, Mr. Freeman. No, I was just gonna say that, you know what, I think that's a great, great point going forward, | 01:30:53 | |
| but it really is irrelevant to the functional classification map that we're talking about today. | 01:30:58 | |
| Any other comments or questions for staff from the board? I'm not sure that's relevant Mr. Chair, that's this is part of our, this | 01:31:05 | |
| is part of our function as far as cost, so. | 01:31:10 | |
| Let's go ahead and move on, please. | 01:31:18 | |
| OK. Any other questions or comments for staff? | 01:31:22 | |
| All right. This is a public comment at, excuse me, excuse me, public hearing. So at this time, if anybody from the public wishes | 01:31:25 | |
| to come forth and address any concerns or or questions they have about this functional classification map that's been presented | 01:31:31 | |
| here today, ask that you please come forward, state your comments to the Board of Commissioners. Keep those comments to 3 minutes. | 01:31:37 | |
| And when you get up there, make sure you state your name and address for the record, please. So anybody wish to comment on the MAP | 01:31:43 | |
| today? | 01:31:49 | |
| My name is Dave Mitchell and I live at 32799 County Road 27. Just want to thank you for listening to us. | 01:32:04 | |
| When we came with the hearing. | 01:32:12 | |
| Comment about road 27. | 01:32:15 | |
| Thank you so much for that and just please. | 01:32:18 | |
| Get more of the community involvement. | 01:32:23 | |
| Figure out some way that they can be involved in this process a little bit more to help bring their concerns and comments. | 01:32:26 | |
| To the table when when these discussions go on, we thank you for that. The other comment I have is that in this proposal, this | 01:32:34 | |
| being made is I don't have a problem with what you're doing with trying to establish classifications for roadways and the like. | 01:32:42 | |
| But I just think that should have been a second item. | 01:32:52 | |
| From the actual Rd. designations in each area. | 01:32:55 | |
| Make it a separate item to update the classifications and things for the roadways, but then address each one of those because each | 01:32:59 | |
| one has different circumstances for the residents in the areas that they pertain to. And so I feel that gives those individuals in | 01:33:08 | |
| those areas a little better opportunity to voice their opinion about what's happening to their Rd. in their area. | 01:33:16 | |
| Comment I have. Thanks Steve. | 01:33:25 | |
| Hi, I'm Glenn Peterson, 3442 County Road 27 in Greenland. | 01:33:32 | |
| And it's my understanding. | 01:33:40 | |
| That the designation of County Road 27 could have been changed from local to arterial. | 01:33:43 | |
| Changing them the amount of right of way by more than double. | 01:33:52 | |
| And I guess my concern is that nobody. | 01:33:58 | |
| I didn't receive a letter or any other notification that changes like that could be made. | 01:34:03 | |
| And that would be significant not only for the traffic. | 01:34:08 | |
| Along that road. | 01:34:12 | |
| That you know. | 01:34:14 | |
| Half my property to disappear. | 01:34:17 | |
| If that right of way was enforced later, so it just it seems. | 01:34:20 | |
| Like our notification of these meetings or about these changes should have taken place. | 01:34:26 | |
| And I do appreciate the fact that you've set back to look at that road again because in. | 01:34:34 | |
| The continuity that was mentioned earlier, row 27 doesn't have it. It doesn't go up to 14. | 01:34:43 | |
| And they're at. | 01:34:53 | |
| Umm 74 it turns into a dirt Rd. then and then at 76 at dead ends. | 01:34:56 | |
| And so increasing traffic. | 01:35:04 | |
| And 27 S would increase traffic on 27 N and then you come up to 874. | 01:35:09 | |
| And you've got a blind spot coming along on. | 01:35:18 | |
| Road 74 so to the. | 01:35:25 | |
| East of 27 there is both a A show. | 01:35:27 | |
| And a curve that makes a real blind spot, so it just seems like. | 01:35:32 | |
| 1727 at 392 to increase traffic then just moves your. | 01:35:38 | |
| Traffic accident potential up two miles to road 74 and 27 so but I I thank you that you're looking at things again I I hope that | 01:35:46 | |
| there turns out to be a a better choice. | 01:35:53 | |
| Thank you. Thank you. | 01:36:01 | |
| Good morning, Good morning. I'm Kevin Shoemaker, 12710 Shiloh Rd. I'm speaking for the brace ball, HOA, I'm the president over | 01:36:11 | |
| there right on the bracelet code and I just want to bring your attention and again we appreciate the effort and going into. | 01:36:18 | |
| The consideration and the expansions and not and so forth, the one that you wanted to bring up was is per the sheriff's records, | 01:36:26 | |
| there was 43 accidents in the last 17 months on the baseball curve, three of those since the last meeting that we were here and | 01:36:31 | |
| so. | 01:36:36 | |
| With that said, the there's four new developments east of Bracewell within a three mile distance east has been approved. That's | 01:36:42 | |
| going to be up to 7600 residents. | 01:36:47 | |
| And that's going to put that many more people going to Severance Middle School because that is that's all the Severance winter | 01:36:52 | |
| Severance School District. | 01:36:56 | |
| Of those, there's going to be a high percentage of high school kids. | 01:37:01 | |
| My daughter was in high school and was on 392 and a car pulled out in front of her and her car was totaled. And that's a very | 01:37:04 | |
| tough conversation or tough phone call to get. So we really appreciate all of the attention and the information that you guys look | 01:37:11 | |
| at as far as what what that corridor is going to be for our future expansion. So thank you. Thank you. | 01:37:17 | |
| What about what I say? I live on 392 between 27 and 22nd, so I get all the issues I guess, but my biggest concern was that when we | 01:37:32 | |
| first saw this was safety. | 01:37:38 | |
| Because if you go and look at where we're going to. | 01:37:45 | |
| Put the two sections coming together. It was a lowest point on three 9216 feet higher to the West. | 01:37:49 | |
| And about 13 feet higher elevation on the east side, so you got it in lower spot. So all of a sudden you got people coming over | 01:37:57 | |
| here and you're going to double the traffic coming into that intersection and potentially having more accidents. That was one of | 01:38:04 | |
| my biggest concerns with the the layout you had. So I appreciate you going back and rethinking this process. So we had a chance to | 01:38:12 | |
| maybe communicate more in regard to some of those issues that may come up. | 01:38:19 | |
| When it comes to, I know somebody commented once that you know where state highway you got to worry about the state trail. Get out | 01:38:27 | |
| there and see how many wide bags they carry out before they do something with the like. | 01:38:33 | |
| But I tell you right now, there's more accidents there than ever gets turned in. | 01:38:40 | |
| But I cleaned it up several times. | 01:38:45 | |
| Coming up from Town Road 27, they'll shoot right across the highway and land out my pasture and I don't know how many of those. | 01:38:48 | |
| Then they come and cut my wire out of electric stamps. I need to get 220 I think, instead of 110 and getting a little shock of | 01:38:53 | |
| their life, but. | 01:38:58 | |
| Back out, so there's a lot of accidents, in fact, in the last. | 01:39:05 | |
| Since November, there's been three accidents. There's never been reported. | 01:39:12 | |
| So it happens all the time, and two of those within one week. | 01:39:15 | |
| And. | 01:39:19 | |
| One once in October, there was three accidents there in one day. | 01:39:22 | |
| OK. And so by putting all the traffic coming into that low spot, we can't see it coming from the other side. I brought it | 01:39:27 | |
| yesterday and it takes a while before you can see what's going beyond when you go on either side of that because of the hill on | 01:39:32 | |
| each side. So I'd like to have you take that into consideration when you're looking at stuff there and I appreciate you guys | 01:39:38 | |
| taking some time to set this back and. | 01:39:44 | |
| Just communicate with us and get ready to do something so we can have some input. OK. Thank you. | 01:39:51 | |
| Anybody else have any additional comment here? Yes, ma'am. | 01:40:01 | |
| Good morning. My name is Stephanie Fever, 32801 County Road 27. | 01:40:06 | |
| I just had a quick question about the capital improvement plan meeting. Is that a public? | 01:40:12 | |
| Meeting when you'll be. | 01:40:17 | |
| Bringing some decisions about the 27 Rd. | 01:40:19 | |
| Yeah, that's a work session that we host generally that's in September, October time frame we hosted in our events room where we | 01:40:22 | |
| had that public meeting the town hall with with everybody regarding the functional classification map. But all meetings like that | 01:40:30 | |
| are public. Yeah, Mr. Freeman, we've actually moved the CIP meeting will be in June this year. We're right. Thank you. So that we | 01:40:37 | |
| can get ahead of the budget process. I don't have the exact date, but it's June something I think 27th, June 27th. Thank you. | 01:40:44 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 01:40:52 | |
| Also, I assume you are still be in communication with the City of Greeley regarding that curve. Do they make their plans public | 01:40:55 | |
| for ready for public viewing? Do they have a timeline of? | 01:41:00 | |
| Do we know a timeline for that yet or probably not. I don't, I don't have that unless you guys in your discussions now. | 01:41:05 | |
| Yeah, I don't have a timeline as far as you know what when they'll be sharing additional information on that. I know the project's | 01:41:12 | |
| looking at 2026 for construction. So if that's true, they're going to be, you know, moving forward with design and everything. But | 01:41:18 | |
| I'm not exactly sure of their public process on those projects. We we had a meeting with the City of Greeley yesterday to try and | 01:41:24 | |
| get an update on where they're at and what they're anticipating for this. | 01:41:30 | |
| Area, and I would say that probably the next step in the process that we'll be bringing to both the council and the board would be | 01:41:37 | |
| an annexation agreement. So that really could move forward with, you know, just a simultaneous project, so it doesn't have to be | 01:41:43 | |
| piece meal. | 01:41:48 | |
| OK. Thank you. And I did just want to say thank you very much for taking the time to have that extra community meeting. I know we | 01:41:55 | |
| kind of ran a little bit late, but we definitely appreciate your time and your consideration and kind of putting this one on the | 01:41:59 | |
| back burner. So thank you very much. | 01:42:04 | |
| Does anybody else wish to have comment here? | 01:42:11 | |
| Yes, Sir. | 01:42:14 | |
| My name is Ken Schrader. I live on 31552 County Road 27. | 01:42:19 | |
| And I just have another concern. I mean, I'm still going back to like I think it was seven years ago. The plan was to take what is | 01:42:24 | |
| 80 3rd Ave. now. | 01:42:29 | |
| And when it's straight N to 392 to connect with County Road 27. | 01:42:35 | |
| On the other side of 392, you would eliminate all those curves and especially the dangerous one. My concern now hearing that | 01:42:41 | |
| really is going to take that over. | 01:42:46 | |
| Is that the voter never goes straight. They'll keep that dangerous curve. You got another curve there, and if you want to connect | 01:42:52 | |
| to 27, you're going to add another curve. | 01:42:56 | |
| The best solution is still. | 01:43:02 | |
| Run that road straight north, and I know it's probably more expensive because there's a ditch, big irrigation ditch that a new | 01:43:05 | |
| bridge will have to be built. That adds to the cost, but I think safety should take priority. | 01:43:12 | |
| And my concern is that if Greeley does this. | 01:43:19 | |
| The solutions never. It's never going to be fixed. | 01:43:23 | |
| Because really spends all that money on that curve trying to make improve it, which they might improve it, but it doesn't | 01:43:27 | |
| eliminate the problem. So I would really like. | 01:43:33 | |
| Them to look at still taking that road straight north and making an intersection with 27 and 392. I think that would be the safest | 01:43:39 | |
| solution. | 01:43:44 | |
| Thank you, Sir. | 01:43:50 | |
| Any additional comment? | 01:43:53 | |
| Hearing none, I'll go ahead and close public hearing for Code Ordinance 2024 O one for the first reading. | 01:43:56 | |
| And bring it back to the board. | 01:44:03 | |
| Mr. Chair, move we approve on first reading Code Ordinance #2024-O, One second. | 01:44:07 | |
| I got a motion for approval of Court Ordinance 2024-01 from Commissioner James second by Commissioner Pot. Further discussion. | 01:44:13 | |
| I'm going to add into I just want to thank staff for taking all the time to put this together, listening to the residents concerns | 01:44:23 | |
| working with them. I want to thank all the members from the community for attending the town hall that we had earlier in the month | 01:44:30 | |
| and giving us your input. We greatly appreciate it And with that I'll go ahead and call the call All those in favor signify by | 01:44:37 | |
| saying aye, aye, all opposed. Same sign and total immense 2024 O1 passes 5 to 0. | 01:44:44 | |
| On 1st. | 01:44:51 | |
| Reading so that goes ahead and concludes new business. This brings us to public comment. Is there anyone here that wishes to speak | 01:44:52 | |
| to the Board of County Commissioners regarding any comments that you may have? We ask that you limit those comments to 3 minutes. | 01:44:59 | |
| If you're unable to make a comment in person, you can always e-mail public comment at world.gov or by emailing such comments to | 01:45:07 | |
| the World County Clerk to the Board at PO Box 758-1150 O St. Greeley Co 806 Three Two. | 01:45:14 | |
| Or again, by visiting us in person? Does anybody wish to make public comment today? | 01:45:22 | |
| Go ahead and close public comment and we will adjourn. We'll take a 5 minute break here and we will come back for public hearings | 01:45:30 | |
| for our 10/8. | 01:45:34 |