We are on the record. Good morning, everyone. This is Tuesday, the 11th of March 2025. We're going to bring the to order the Park County Commissioners Board of Commissioners meeting. That's redundant here at 11 o'clock. Would you please, if you're so inclined, join us in the invocation and the pledge. Our father and our creator, we ask you to join with us this wonderful late winner day, and join with us as we conduct the business of We the People. We ask for your blessings, your guidance, and your discernment as we tackle the issues that are before us today. We ask for your guidance and your blessing on all of our workers, our citizens, our residents and those that are traveling all of our busy, busy highways. Be with all of those who need your help that are in times of concern and hard and need. Please be able to help them lift up and solve those issues in your name we pray amen The pledge allegiance The United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all All right welcome everybody Dave everybody. Dave Wistell-Cherman, I just wanted to notify everybody that last week's meeting, we did not get the recording on the record. I just wanted to make that announcement. Our clerk was doing some training for a new hire and we wanted to help them do the training. And inadvertently was a mistake human error that we didn't get the recording so it was our error I just wanted to make that noticed at the beginning of this meeting. With that we have a proposed agenda in front of us let me step back just a minute and just say that we have a full board and a complement here we have Mel Cassel our county clerk we have. We have Commissioner Gimmer, Commissioner Mitchell, Dave Whistle, Chairman, Lucas Meyer, our county manager, and we know I've senty some running around somewhere in the back if we need her, Cindy Garth. So, with that, we have our public agenda in front of you. Any amendments or adjustments? Yes, Mr. Chair. I move that we amend the agenda by removing item number two under consideration and or decision on the following items. The resolution to allocate money to the Park County EAS Council for lodging tax revenue is not ready for prime time. I'll second that. Okay, its proper motion is second to amend the agenda as presented. Any further discussion? Being none, we'll call the question. Those in favor vote by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same sign that motion carries 3 to 0. So with that we will have our approval of the minutes is next on our consent agenda as well as approval of the vouchers. I've reviewed the vouchers Commissioner Mitchell on these appear in order to me. Give her a minute to review them. I can tell you that the spending this week is a mere $350,000. We're not in the millions, so that's good. We see weeks with million dollars as we get a little concerned. The greatest part of that is to the general fund of 185,000. ARPA is 104,640. CTF fund, I'm not exactly sure what that is, I don't remember, recognize that one. 2200 grant fund, 3500 library fund, 5700, of works 22,000, human services 24,000, fleet, 1300, and Land and Water Trust fund, 3100. So those are the highlights of that. I just looking at the ARPA expenditure to see what it is. There's the question, Lady. We had a question, Cindy, on the ARPA expenditures for vouchers. Do you have any enlightenment for us? Oh, um, which, um, yeah, ARPA, yeah, here. Sure. I just saw it, Rocky Mountain excavating for. Yes, the valley shop. Valley shop. Okay, great thing. All right, it was the first item and I just missed it. So thank you, just wanted to put, store that away in my brain. I moved that we accept the consent agenda with vouchers and approval of minutes. It's a proper motion, is there a second? There's a second. It's a proper second, any further discussion? Big none, we'll call the question. Those in favor vote by saying aye. Aye. The post same sign that motion carries. Okay, we have first up, number one, approval of awards, approval approval approval or deny a contract for professional services from Choletta, I'm gonna I'm gonna mask her the name CHL OETA for the hazard mitigation plan for emergency services office This is the contract we discussed last week I'm not sure how bunch of length with Brad and the people at emergency services. The contract is in its final form this week. We have the final form approved by the council and our staff to be executed and that's what this is for. So with that, am I correct, ma'am? Yes, I'd like to just also make one more clarification. In approving the Master Services Agreement and discussion about the RFP this morning, the RFP was posted January 8th of 2025, the deadline was February 8th of 2025. We only had one bidder, which was this organization, Cluita, and they did submit the bid. They are registered with Systems of Award Management. And so I think your intent was to proceed with this contract or accepting their bid and moving forward with the contract that's presented before you. And they did incorporate all of the changes that were requested by our legal counsel. Thank you for that update, ma'am. And I'm seeing Brad on the chat saying, we're almost forward for word, what you were saying, and you didn't have the benefit of seeing it. So it is the same information. So thank you for that, Brad. I move that we approve the contract for professional services from Cloweta for the hazard mitigation plan for emergency services. Proper motions are second. I'll second that. Proper second, any further discussion? I know Brad's still on the line, but I think this is pretty well set. I have no issues with it. If we do, we'll learn about them. We'll call the question. It was favor vote by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Oh, same sign that motion carries 3-0. Okay. Consideration or decision on the following items. Number 1, approve or deny appointments to the Pike Speak Area Council of Governments, PPA CG, which serves as the area agency of aging for El Paso Park and Teller County's respectively, and to the Regional Advisory Council RAC, which advises and makes recommendations to the PPA CG Pike Speak Area Council of Governments. So we have Penny Everest Park County, to Park County, to Pointee to PPA CG, and then Sheila Williams are Park County appointed to the RAC or regional advisory committee. That's in front of us. I move that we approve the appointments of Penny Everest to the Pike Speak Area Council Commission on Aging and Sheila Women's as part county appointee to the regional advisory council for PPA CD. That's a proper motion. I'll second it. This is proper second. Any further discussion? Yeah, you want to want me to give the public a bit of an effort. Please. Yeah, Commissioner Mitchell has served as our area aging representative for the last two years that I'm aware of. And she's very familiar with this and now represents the County commissioners on the PPA CG. Yeah, actually I've been with the Commission on Aging with Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments for like three and a half years. but I step down to fill the board position for Park County with PPA CG. But there are multiple Council of Governments in the state, the state is divided up with these. We being El Paso, Teller and Park County. Federal monies are flowed through to PPA CG in this regard for the Older Americans Act Federal Money comes to the state, the state divvies it up to the area agencies for aging and then they divviate out to the counties on different grants and projects that are funded. So the commission on aging is advisory on what resources are needed in the three counties. How to go about resources, more public information gathering, and input and dialogue with seniors and the RAC Regional Advisory Council. They take the monies are available and they approve grant structures that go to individual counties and projects and everything has to be through an approved project. So for instance, RAC, they make money available to Park County for us to help seniors age and play safely to where they can apply for a grant to put grab bars in their bathroom or a ramp into their home or anything else that will help them live safely. It also provides, we had a project a couple years ago where we put freezers in our community centers for through the senior coalition and they're the ones that work directly with PPPACG and we stock those with frozen meals for seniors who are food needy. And so they and those meals are much higher quality than a shelf stable meal. And so those are some of the things that we work on through there. And I think that Penny and Sheila will both make great additions to those two committees. And then Susan Walton is going to be appointed by PPCG as a member at large to the Regional Advisory Council and that is for her to just have her voice as our director of human services To just advocate for funding for what we the services we provide in part county. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. We appreciate that overview. She gave us similar comments during our work session if you were with us then, but it's basically that is the conduit for us that goes from the federal government to the state government to our local aging entities. So it's really important for our community as we know we are in aging county. And I feel it every day, so no different than anybody else. All right, have we called the question? Okay, we are down to, we need to call the question. We have a motion and second on the table. That's what I ask. Call the question. Those in favor vote by saying aye. Aye. Aye. vote with same sign. Motion carries 3-0. Okay. Now we are down to, we've taken off the resolution to allocate monies because we don't have one. Public comments. Anyone who has public comment in the room or online, please come up, sign in and the Sandy, please join us. And I'd love to hear what you minutes to sign in. And I have a longer name. So we've heard nothing about Rose. Would you mind announcing your name, Forrest, please? Oh, Sandra Horox, sorry. We've heard nothing about roads in a long time. We've got a lot of other issues I realize. But I would like to keep a couple of items on the table. Number one, one was the last time our plow map was updated. Because I've lived in this county since 2007, I keep being told by road and bridge that I am my little cul-de-sac is not on the plow map. So the trick is I have to go out every year because because we have a new plow driver every year, sometimes more than one. And find the plow driver and ask him if he will plow my cul-de-sac. Other than that, the road that's above me and I go downhill to my house, they come through, they plow, and I sometimes have a three foot wall of snow to try to get through, which I can't get through with the car or the truck. And the last time I had to actually pay for a plow person within Rancho de Rockeys to come out, and it cost me $100 to get that taken out and then get my driveway done. And actually I wasn't here. I was in Kansas and Missouri. It was Thanksgiving when we got the 16 inches. So this is what I get every single year. And I'm getting a bit fed up. And I don't understand why my call to sack is not considered a county road, which it is. I am paying taxes every year. I'm paying taxes every year to do all the legwork to get the plowing done. That's number one. And I would even volunteer to help if you need volunteers to go out and figure the maps. I will do anything at this point, but I hear nothing. Secondly, grading. Now, all I've heard from everybody, this includes people that I live around, people on the board, is that washboard is caused by people driving too fast. So I did research and what I found out from a University of Toronto grant that was done, they had two conclusions. If a road is wet, you get potholes. If it's a dry area, you get washboard. And the only way that possibly keeping speeds under five miles per hour, you might not get as a better washboard. So what we need in this county is to have not every road, but there are certain roads that we all know get washed boarded out like there's an area in Rancho de Rockeys. They'll come in and grade three days later. It's almost as bad. Number one, I don't think the people that are doing the grading really know what they're doing. Maybe they're not going down far enough, I don't know. We need better training, which you probably already know. And secondly, we need to figure out where the biggest problems are in our and then put them on a regular grading schedule. Maybe once a month you go through. It isn't all of ranch of the Rockies. It might be Ranch Road, Windmill, Campfire and lower pitchfork. Where pitchfork and campfire come together is the place that I said in three days it's bad. I mean I don't even go that way, I have to go down campfire for a ways, but then I'm driving all the way around the edge of ranch of the Rockies to get in and out because the roads are so bad. Apparently we don't do roads in the winter period except to plow them when you plow, which isn't very often, but in the summer the road above me did not get graded until I think it was November or the end of October. I mean, we are not paying attention to a regular schedule for the roads in our county. I don't know who's in charge, but I think that needs to be attended to. I have one more thing and we have some chats in between the two meetings about monies that we might possibly be losing from the state and federal governments, especially the money administered through either federal or through the state that is federal money. Once we know, I realize you don't know what's going on, nobody does. Once we have a better idea, I think we need to have town halls so our people know what exactly we're losing. And one example that you gave was the Alma sewage plant upgrade, which they lost their million dollar grant so far. We don't know if it's going to be reinstated. But with the way things are being cut, we have no idea. So please, once you do know, get out in the county and have some town halls. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Anybody else? Just a quick follow-up. Sandra, is that correct? Okay. Whatever you prefer. If you want to follow-up with in an email, then I can start looking into follow-up on your road and the gradient situation and make sure that you have those staff contacts going forward. Okay. We have no other comments unless someone from the audience would like to come up. You're just burning to give us some thoughts and ideas, opinions. I move we close public comment. Proposions. Second. Further discussion. Being done, call the question. Those in favor vote by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Both same sign. We are closed public comments, entertain a motion to adjourn. I move we adjourn. Proper motion. Second. Second. Further discussion? Call the question at 11.20 a.m. Those in favor vote by saying aye. Aye. Opposed same sign, we are in adjournment. Mr. Chair. We do have some pending legislative items to go over for our two-day legislative session with CCI in Denver Thursday and Friday. So if we can just go through those real quick I'm gonna run out and get my two pages that I printed and I'll take notes on how you guys want me to vote On these two days. We've noticed after every one of our regular meetings since we don't have a long agenda we have an additional administrative session afterwards so we're going to take a short . vote on these two days. We've noticed after every one of our regular meetings since we don't have a long agenda, we have an additional administrative session afterwards, so we're going to take a short break and then come back and discuss all of our legislation. What we do every three weeks, commissioners across the state meet together in Denver, both in person or remotely, and we go through and review all of the legislation every three weeks. Those generally, we have a briefing on Fridays, which all of us were on. Okay, that's fine. And the recording will be cut because this is our work session. So with that, we are going to just basically talk about bills that were brought up to us on Friday.