HomeMy WebLinkAbout810619.tiff 1 BEFORE THE WELD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
2 GREELEY, COLORADO
3 Docket No. 81-16
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5 SERVICE PLAN FOR AN ADDITION TO )
THE GILCREST SANITATION DISTRICT )
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Applicant )
7 ) REPORTER' S TRANSCRIPT
HEARING BEFORE THE WELD COUNTY )
8 COMMISSIONERS TO CONSIDER A )
SERVICE PLAN FOR AN ADDITION TO )
9 THE GILCREST SANITATION DISTRICT. )
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11 WELD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS :
Chuck Carlson, Chairman
12 Norman Carlson
Bill Kirby
13 June Steinmark
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15 R. Russell Anson, Assistant County Attorney, County
16 of Weld, State of Colorado.
17 Whereupon, the following proceedings were had at
18 2 :00 p .m. , Wednesday, April 22, 1981, before Mabel Broyles,
19 Certified Shorthand Reporter and Notary Public in the State
20 of Colorado.
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810619
MABEL BROYLES
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258 South 12th — Brighton, Colorado
659-1130
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1 CHAIRMAN CARLSON: Roll call.
2 CLERK OF THE BOARD: Norman Carlson.
3 COMMISSIONER CARLSON: Here .
4 CLERK OF THE BOARD : Bill Kirby.
5 COMMISSIONER KIRBY : Here .
6 CLERK OF THE BOARD: John Martin. June Steinmark.
7 COMMISSIONER STEINMARK: Here.
8 CLERK OF THE BOARD : Chuck Carlson.
9 CHAIRMAN CARLSON: Here. We will go into our hear-
10 ings to date . The first one we are going to take is the Gil-
11 crest Sanitation District because we have a reporter here and
12 she needs to carry on after this is over, so Docket No. 81-16 .
13 MR. ANSON: This is Docket 81-16. This is a hearing
14 for the purpose of considering the service plan for an addition
15 to the Gilcrest Sanitation District . The notice and hearing is
16 pursuant to Section 31-1-201, et seq. , CRS 1973, as amended.
17 Notice has been published on March 26, April 2, and April 9,
18 1981 in the Johnstown Breeze . In accordance with Section 32-1-
19 205, the Board of County Commissioners shall approve the ser-
20 vice plan unless it finds one of the following: There is in-
21 sufficient existing and projected need for organized service
22 in the area to be serviced by the proposed district; or The
23 existing area in the area to be served by the proposed district
24 is adequate for present and projected needs ; or Adequate ser-
25 vice is, or will be, available to the area through municipal
MABEL BROYLES
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258 South 12th — Brighton. Colorado
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1 annexation by other existing municipal or quasi municipal
2 corporations within a reasonable time and on a comparable
3 basis ; or The proposed special district is incapable of pro-
4 viding economical and sufficient service to the area within
5 its proposed boundaries; or The area to be included in the
6 proposed district does not have , or will not have, the finan-
7 cial ability to discharge the proposed indebtedness on a
8 reasonable basis ; or The facility and service standards of
9 the proposed district are incompatible with the facility and
10 service standards of adjacent municipalities and special dis-
11 tricts . The last criteria was if the proposal was not in
12 substantial compliance with the master plan, so basically the
13 Board shall approve the plan unless it finds one of the items
14 that I just mentioned.
15 CHAIRMAN CARLSON: Do you have anything to respond?
16 MR. HONN: Yes , Mr. Chairman, it' s moved by Betty
17 Kountz at the regular meeting Planning Commission that the
18 following resolution be introduced for passage by the Planning
19 Commission: "Be it resolved by the Planning Commission the
20 following be adopted by the Board of County Commissioners .
21 It is the opinion of the Planning Commission that the proposal
22 for an addition to the Gilcrest Sanitation District will
23 formalize the acceptance of services which already exist for
24 the proposed addition. The district is already collecting and
25 treating the waste water from the area of the proposed district.
MABEL BROYLES
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258 South 12th — Brighton, Colorado
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1 The addition of this area to the sanitation district will not
2 result in any expansion or construction of new treatment
3 facilities . Therefore, it is the opinion of the Planning
4 Commission the proposal meets the criteria of Section 32-1-205
5 of the Colorado Revised Statutes ." It ' s to be recommended
6 favorably to the Board of County Commissioners for the follow-
7 ing reasons and that it did meet the criteria that I have out-
8 lined in the Colorado Revised Statutes . The motion was se-
9 conded by Jerry Kiefer. The vote for passage was Bob Ehrlich,
10 Don Billings, Jack Holman, Jerry Kiefer, Betty Kountz, Wilbur
11 Wafel, Fred Otis . This action was taken on April 7, 1981, the
12 Planning Commission meeting.
13 CHAIRMAN CARLSON: Do you have a report?
14 MR. WARDEN: No, I will be later in the agenda.
15 MR. HOFF: My name is Don Hoff. I am the attorney
16 for the Gilcrest Sanitation District . Basically, what has
17 occurred here is there is an area that is a new area to the
18 Town of Gilcrest to the north of the old area of town that has
19 been developed, I guess, within the last eight or-- eight years
20 or so, six or eight years . The main area at the time of Gil-
21 crest has always been within the Gilcrest Sanitation District .
22 They have had almost exactly the same boundaries . The town
23 expanded north of its original boundaries into this area that
24 is a new area north of Gilcrest and there is a map in the back
25 of the plan if you want to refer to that. That area was
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1 developed, as I said, in the last eight years and was either
2 inadvertently or for some reason was not included within the
3 sanitation district before it was developed and it is necessary
4 or at least certainly is desirable for the district to have
5 that area within the sanitation district so that we can pro-
6 vide better services to those people and so that we can arrange
7 for more orderly collection of revenues for servicing that
8 area as far as sanitation service is concerned. So, what we
9 are doing is including that developed area just north of Gil-
10 crest within the sanitation district and as it has already beer
11 explained briefly in your staff' s report, the entire area is
12 developed. There is not going to be any new construction in
13 this area. There is some construction going on or some en-
14 largement going on at the sewer plant or some changes going on
15 in the sewer plant itself, but that does not have anything to
16 do with this particular expansion. What we are doing is ex-
17 panding only the boundaries of the district here and in order
18 for us to do that we have to have approval from the County
19 Commissioners . After we have approval from the County Commis-
20 sioners we can go to the District Court and they, of course,
21 then grant us-- they even chartered that area within the
22 district.
23 If you have any specific questions about the plan,
24 I can certainly try to answer them. If not, I don' t see any
25 need to go through the entire plan again. If you want me to
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1 go through, I will be glad to go through it, but basically
2 what it sets forth is the criteria that the statute requires
3 that we supply to you; that is, the financial survey and we
4 supply the copy of the sanitation district budget for the 1981
5 year. It requires that we show you the proposed boundaries,
6 the proposed new boundaries, and that map, of course, shows
7 you what new area is going to be included. I believe the area
8 that is going to be included is in a solid line and the old
9 area is in the broken line, so the area that is surrounded by
10 the solid line is going to be the area that-- or the area that
11 we are talking about that we want included within the district.
12 Further, the statute asks for an estimate of the population.
13 Well, it actually asks what estimate of the population that
14 would be there . Well, they are already all there so we have
15 told you that. I am not exactly sure what the number is, but
16 in any event, approximately five hundred and fifty persons are
17 living in that area. The statute also requests that we supply
18 you an evaluation for assessment, that has also been done .
19 Standards of construction and engineering services , basically,
20 what we have done is provided services to those residents in
21 the usual fashion that is provided, sewage lines and sewage
22 disposal systems that will service their needs . Those systems
23 are not going to be connected to any municipality any time in
24 the near future. The other nearest municipal facility is La
25 Salle, which is six or eight miles away. So there is no need
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1 to have them standardized with any other municipality system.
2 They are, however, the materials that are put in there and the
3 lines were put in there are the usual size and of the usual
4 quality, of course, for that type of project in Weld County.
5 As far as expenses, the statute requires that we give you some
6 idea as to the expenses of the project. Again, since every-
7 thing there is complete, we don' t have any need to tell you
8 what expenses are, except the administrative expenses that
9 have occurred having the area included within the district and
10 that has also been done .
11 So, unless you have any specific questions , I would
12 ask that you approve this service plan because I certainly
13 expect that we have met all the requirements that Mr. Anson
14 read earlier.
15 CHAIRMAN CARLSON: Anybody that' s got any comments
16 on this? If not, what is the Board' s wishes?
17 COMMISSIONER CARLSON: Anyone in the audience who
18 wishes to comment either way?
19 CHAIRMAN CARLSON: We already asked for that.
20 COMMISSIONER STEINMARK: Mr, Chairman, I would move
21 that we approve the addition to the service and the service
22 plan for an addition to the Gilcrest Sanitation District. It
23 appears that they have answered all the questions satisfactorily
24 according to the criteria as set out by the County Attorney.
25 COMMISSIONER KIRBY : Second.
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258 South 12th — Brighton, Colorado
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1 CHAIRMAN CARLSON: Moved by June Steinmark and
2 seconded by Bill Kirby that we approve the request by the Gil-
3 crest Sewer Sanitation District, I guess it is . Any further
4 discussion? If not, all in favor say aye.
5 (Whereupon, ayes are voiced at this time. )
6 CHAIRMAN CARLSON: Opposed no.
7 (Whereupon, no nos were voiced at this time. )
8 CHAIRMAN CARLSON: Motion is carried. Thank you.
9 (Whereupon, the foregoing hearing was concluded at
10 the approximate hour of 2:15 p .m. . )
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12 REPORTER' S CERTIFICATE
13 I, MABEL BROYLES, Certified Shorthand Reporter and
14 Notary Public within and for the State of Colorado, do hereby
15 certify that I was present and reported in Stenotypy the
16 foregoing proceedings .
17 I FURTHER certify that the above and foregoing
18 eight (8) pages contain a transcript of the said proceedings
19 and that the same is true and correct.
20 My Commission expires September 13, 1981.
21 Done and dated this .07 IR day of `�2"
22 1981.
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25 Certified Shorthand Reporter
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CERTIFIED SHORTHAND REPORTER
258 South 12th — Brighton. Colorado
659-1130
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