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Home My WebLink About20250450.tiffWELD COUNTY UNDERGROUND WATER USERS ASSOCIATION, INC. P.O. Box 104 Phone: (970) 352-0222 33040 Railroad Ave Lucerne, CO 80646 info@newcache.com January 27, 2025 RECEIVED wELn couiv� JAN Z 9 2025 PO BOX 758 GREELEY, CO 80632 WELD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Dear WELD COUNTY, The annual meeting for The Weld County Underground Water Users Association (WCUWUA) is scheduled for Tuesday, March 11. 2025 at 1:00 p.m. at the Association's office in Lucerne, Colorado located at the above address. If vou are unable to attend. please execute the ballot enclosed and return it to the office. The directors are providing you with the enclosed proxy and voting ballot to fill out and send back to the Association in lieu of your attendance at the annual meeting. The items to be voted on at the annual meeting include electing directors for three-year terms, the levying of assessments and any other business that may properly come before the membership. The board currently consists of seven directors, Mike Hungenberg (President), Lynn Fagerberg (Vice-president), Frank Eckhardt, Keith Amen, Chuck Winter, Bruce Johnson and Ethan Cozzens (Secretary/Treasurer). The directors whose terms expire this year are Chuck Winter and Ethan Cozzens. These two persons are on the enclosed ballot. No other nominations have been made for secretary/treasurer or director. The well pumping fees for 2024 are recommended by the directors to meet the budget needs of the company. The directors are recommending the well assessments be $3.00 per acre-foot of pumping plus $10.00 per well. This is the same assessment rate as in 2024. If you would prefer to attend the annual meeting rather than fill out the enclosed proxy and ballot, or if you have questions or comments about the Association, the items of business, the proxy or the annual meeting, please contact Ethan Cozzens, Secretary of the Association, at the number above for further details and so that we can obtain a head count of those who plan to attend in person. Thank you for your continued support of the Association. Sincerely, �-�' �- Ethan Cozzens Secretary, Board of Directors Weld County Underground Water Users Association ce: WGuwvA FI/a�(cp/ss)�pw(cN/c►c), Co�ns�r+ ca �ee�xµS, goCc(KF) ��e� � �21t 3/25 Oo�/�o�/075 2025-0450 �� r. ♦ BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PASS-AROUND REVIEW PASS-AROUND TITLE: Proxy Ballot Request 2025 - Weld County Underground Water Users Association, Inc. (WCUWUA) DEPARTMENT: Clerk to the Board's Office DATE: January 30, 2025 PERSON REQUESTING: Mariah Higgins/ Esther Gesick, Clerk to the Board's Office Brief description of the problem/issue: The annual meeting for the Weld County Underground Water Users Association, Inc. (WCUWUA), is scheduled for Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 1:00 p.m., in Lucerne, Colorado. The Board of County Commissioners can either designate a Commissioner(s) to attend in person or they can vote on the attached ballot form. There are two WCUWUA Board members whose terms expire this year and the well pumping fees for 2025 need to be assessed. What options exist for the Board? Vote via the proxy ballot form provided (following pages), or notify WCUWUA that you would like to attend the meeting on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 1:00 p.m., at 33040 Railroad Avenue, Lucerne, Colorado 80646. Consequences: N/A Impacts: N/A Costs (Current Fiscal Year / Ongoing or Subsequent Fiscal Years�: None Recommendation: Please indicate your choice below. If you would like to vote on the provided ballot form, please turn to the flagged page and initial your selections. Perry L. Buck, Chair Scott K. James, Pro-Tem Jason S. Maxey Lynette Peppler Kevin D. Ross Approve ..-S-!s'�I �� Schedule Work Session Other/Comments: MEMBER PROXY AND CONFIDENTIA��. VOTING INSTRUCTION BALLOT bv MAIL Re: Member's Proxy and Confdential Voting Instruction Ballot Annual Meeting of Members of the Weld County Underground Water Users Association Tuesday, March 1 l, 2025 at 1:00pm Pursuant to Article II, Sections 2.11 and 2.12 of the Weld County Underground Water Users Association's (the "Association" or "WCUWUA") Bylaws, the undersigned hereby appoints Ethan Cozzens, Secretary of the Association, with respect to any votes the undersigned is entitled to cast by virtue of the undersigned's ownership of wells or other structures in the Association as proxy to attend the annual meeting of inembers of the Association to be held on Tuesday March 11, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. in Lucerne, Colorado, and any adjournment thereof, and to cast all votes the undersigned is entitled to cast on the business of the Association as indicated below and, at his discretion, on such other matters as may properly come before the meeting. If you sign and return this Proxy and Confidential Voting Instruction Ballot without marking, this proxy will be treated as being FOR the items listed below. This Proxy and Confidential Voting Instruction Ballot is solicited by the Board of Directors of The Weld County Underground Water Users Association. Pursuant to Article II, section 2.2 of the Bylaws the undersigned acknowledges and understands that each member of the Association is entitled to one vote per well or structure upon each matter submitted to a vote at a meetin� of the members The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR the followin ro osals: � ,��,��'� � ,�t < � � � a�"L� :."�r"��3s, x��t� a� .h ,� e�,3� �.�- S i� att �, ry'€�r �* c h'�-��` `z», ., + �"' � � rr�� c'' �; �*",,3 P� �� ;,� �, �" F "�,�'�`t,'g* r!'r��' „�k"y� �` � �'i �r-x` ' � r'�; `. � �'•` '+�t,�F � �„f P �; �+�.s , � � ,. �` �k -rx 7� m�� 1�`� � .,�''�3 '�;s {�z��a; �`` •��..t «�₹ �.&'`�' _. a..'' Pr3 � ..� a �-r�'�� * ,�.�Y'.�. . �'„v`M1`-�{ �s� ; <, „ �� ''� rrfi ,.�{ �'�tt $x � ��'�d e�':.t,r .� ,,.,,� �',�' " � r; �M � ? , k . "�₹` �'x : � s x x : �,w � N; � 1. Election of Chuck Winter as director to a three-year term. Association and pursuant to the procedures set forth in Article VI of the WCUWUA's Bylaws, as generally described below: • 2025 Pumping assessment set at $3.00 per acrz-foot of pumping • 2025 well fee set at $10.00 per well owned Note: Please sign exactly as name(s) appear(s) hereon. When signing as attorney, executor, administer, trustee, or guardian, please give full title as such. Certi�cation: I hereby declare that either all procedures surrounding the meeting, its notice, and this voting, have been duly met, or if not, I do not object to the procedures used to conduct the meeting, its notice, and this voting, and that this Proxy and Confdential Voting Instruction Ballot represents the vote of the members designated hereon. 2 12 2025 N/A Signature Date Signature (Joint Owners) Date Perry L. Buck, Chair Weld County Board of Commissioners M�M��x Yx�xY - ` AND CONFIDENTIAL VOTING INSTRUCTION BALLOT bv MAIL Re: Member's Proxy and Confidential Voting Instruction Ballot Annual Meeting of Members of the Weld County Underground Water Users Association Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 1:00pm Pursuant to Article II, Sections 2.11 and 2.12 of the Weld County Underground Water Users Association's (the "Association" or "WCUWUA") Bylaws, the undersigned hereby appoints Ethan Cozzens, Secretary of the Association, with respect to any votes the undersigned is entitled to cast by virtue of the undersigned's ownership of wells or other structures in the Association as proxy to attend the annual meeting of inembers of the Association to be held on Tuesday March 11, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. in Lucerne, Colorado, and any adjournment thereof, and to cast all votes the undersigned is entitled to cast on the business of the Association as indicated below and, at his discretion, on such other matters as may properly come before the meeting. If you sign and return this Proxy and Confidential Voting Instruction Ballot without marking, this proxy will be treated as being FOR the items listed below. This Proxy and Confidential Voting Instruction Ballot is solicited by the Board of Directors of The Weld County Underground Water Users Association. Pursuant to Article II, section 2.2 of the Bylaws the undersigned acknowledges and understands that each member of the Association is entitled to one vote per well or structure uaon each matter submitted to a vote at a meetinE of the members. "l he Koard of llirectors recommends a vote FOR the followin ro osals: Ballot-3/S/24 WELD COIJNTY VVeils: i Items Association and pursuant to the procedures set forth in � Article VI of the WCUWUA's Bylaws, as generally described below: • 2025 Pumping assessment set at $3.00 per acre-foot of pumping • 2025 well fee set at $10.00 per wel I owned Note: Please sign exactly as name(s) appear(s) hereon. 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