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IN THE MATTER OF REPEALING AND REENACTING, WITH AMENDMENTS,
CHAPTER 2 ADMINISTRATION AND CHAPTER 5 REVENUE AND FINANCE, OF THE WELD
COUNTY CODE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF
WELD, STATE OF COLORADO:
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Weld, State of
Colorado, pursuant to Colorado statute and the Weld County Home Rule Charter, is vested with
the authority of administering the affairs of Weld County, Colorado, and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners, on December 28, 2000, adopted
Weld County Code Ordinance 2000-1, enacting a comprehensive Code for the County of Weld,
including the codification of all previously adopted ordinances of a general and permanent nature
enacted on or before said date of adoption, and
WHEREAS,
the
Weld County
Code is in need of revision and clarification with regard to
procedures, terms,
and
requirements
therein.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of County Commissioners of the
County of Weld, State of Colorado, that certain existing Chapters of the Weld County Code be,
and hereby are, repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and the various Chapters are
revised to read as follows.
ADMINISTRATION
ARTICLE IX — WINTER EMERGENCY OPERATION PLAN
Each County agency is assigned the following duties during a snow emergency:
A. thru K. — No change.
Add L.
L. Department of Public Health and Environment:
1. During business hours, the Board of County Commissioners will make the decision
on closing county offices.
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2. On Saturday's,
Household
Hazardous Waste
(HHW)
closures will be at the
discretion of the
Director of
the Department of Public
Health and Environment.
3. The Department of Public Health and Environment will notify the Board of Count
Commissioners and the Weld County Controller of any HHW closure outside of
regular County business hours. The notification to the Controller needs to include
the number of hours the HHW closure was for and the name of the scheduled staff.
Staff will enter the time as County Closure hours on their timesheet.
CHAPTER 5
REVENUE AND FINANCE
ARTICLE VI — FIXED ASSETS
Amend Sec. 5-6-10. — Fixed assets.
A. thru C. — No change.
D. Depreciation of all exhaustible fixed assets used by proprietary funds is charged as an
expense against its operations. Accumulated depreciation is reported on proprietary fund
balance sheets. Depreciation is determined using the straight line method over the estimated
useful life, as follows:
Buildings
30 years
Land improvements
20 years
Equipment and furniture
31-10 years
Amend Sec. 5-6-30. — Inventory.
Department heads and elected officials are held responsible for the inventory assigned to
their departments per Section 29-1-506, C.R.S.; therefore, only minimal County guidelines are
required to ensure an accurate inventory system.
A. The Fixed Assets Inventory List shall be updated annually and shall contain a list of all
property with a useful life of at least throne 1 years and a minimum value not to
exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000.00).
Remainder of Section — No change.
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Board that the Clerk to the Board be, and hereby is,
directed to arrange for Municode to supplement the Weld County Code with the amendments
contained herein, to coincide with chapters, articles, divisions, sections, and subsections as they
currently exist within said Code; and to resolve any inconsistencies regarding capitalization,
grammar, and numbering or placement of chapters, articles, divisions, sections, and subsections
in said Code.
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BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Board, if any section, subsection, paragraph,
sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held or decided to be
unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions hereof. The
Board of County Commissioners hereby declares that it would have enacted this Ordinance in
each and every section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, and phrase thereof irrespective
of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or
phrases might be declared to be unconstitutional or invalid.
The above and foregoing Ordinance Number 2021-07 was, on motion duly made and
seconded, adopted by the following vote on the 5th day of May, A.D., 2021.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
WELD COUNTY, COLORADO
ATTEST
Steve Moreno, Chair
Weld County Clerk to the Board
Scott K. James, Pro-Tem
BY:
Deputy Clerk to the Board
Perry L. Buck
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Mike Freeman
County Attorney
Lori Saine
Date of signature:
First Reading: March 31, 2021
Publication: April 4, 2021, in the Greeley Tribune
Second Reading: April 21, 2021
Publication: April 25, 2021, in the Greeley Tribune
Final Reading: May 5, 2021
Publication: May 9, 2021, in the Greeley Tribune
Effective: May 14, 2021
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