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Home My WebLink About750501.tiff ,`*1 a OFFICE OF BOARD OF COI IN I (J)MMI`:.dur 1 lu I, , PHONE (3031353-2212 EXI. 2/I '/2 Y. -. P il. I)OX 'F . 1 e y f ' A}•. GREELEY,COLORADO 800.1', [ •y kyf COLORADO TRANSCRIPT OF PORTION OF TAPE #75-44 STATE OF COLORADO ) COUNTY OF WELD ) ss 1 , S. Lee Shehee , Jr . , County Clerk and Ex-officio Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners in and for the County of Weld , State of Colorado , do hereby certify that the above and foregoing order is truly copied from the records of the proceedings of the Board of County Commissioners for said Weld County , now in my office . IN WITNESS WHEREOF , I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County , at Greeley , Colorado , this 18th day of August , A . I) . , 1975 _ _ E COUNTY CLERK �llA ( K B) :(' /' 1i ;LC1 ,-tc � � EEJi (d.1C '( ! tilliIi Fl,,,)(� `` -- Deputy County Clerk intTi. L! U WELD COUNTY COMMISSIONER' wKm14'i ZflXQ*,X GLENN K. BILLINGS MOSER /� ucci gC,10/3 750501 EXCERPT FROM REGULAR MEETING BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WELD COUNTY, COLORADO JULY 2, 1975 TAPE #75-44 MR. BILLINGS : I would like to back up now. In talking to the Chairman of the Charter Commission I said 11 : 00 o' clock and it ' s five seconds after. We' ll go back to the appointments which are scheduled on July 2 at 11 : 00 o' clock, the presentation of the completed Home Rule Charter by the Chairman, Mr. Bud Johnson. Is Bud back there? There you are. I was looking in the wrong row. MR. JOHNSON: Mr. Chairman, members of the Board of County Commissioners, I guess seven months, two weeks and one day ago we stood in this meeting room with you and were sworn in by Judge Carpenter of the District Court to perform a specific duty and that was to study Weld County government. We have made a comprehensive study of that government that has endured for 100 years plus . And it ' s been a rather lengthy and involved process. As you know, we got an extension to the original six months study by the state legislature, which enabled us to complete more adequately our study. We have held 39 regular meetings , 14 public hearings in all parts of the county, and 35 , approximately 35 sub- committee study meetings where we have interviewed various elected officials, employees and other facets of Weld County government. We've expended an unknown number of man hours on this comprehensive study. And I sat down this morning and tried to figure up what it might involve and there ' s no way of doing it. Man hours, that I might add, were at no cost to the county. All of these elected people served with- out salary. The study was comprehensive. It was intricate. And, it was thorough. We might say that we laid bare all the facets of county government. And, as I come before you this morning, I surely must know how the clothing sales- man felt when he suddenly found himself at a nudist conven- tion. There' s a need for his product. It' s just that it' s rather difficult to persuade his clientele to recognize that need. This charter is not perfect, but it' s a start. It can be modified. It can be changed. It can be improved by amendment and by ratification of the Weld County citizens. Now some people say that we might have placed restrictions on government. And, it' s true that we did. And, I say it' s time to place restrictions to protect the rights of the in- dividual and to protect him from his government. This char- ter was written more for Mr. Citizen than for Big Brother. This charter is an instrument for orderly and beneficial change as necessity dictates. It contains some new concepts and it retains many proven methods from the old form of gov- ernment. And, .I believe personally, that it is a blend of the best of both. Right now our nation as a whole lacks confidence in its government. And, I think that it' s time for a rebirth of faith in government. And we can start right here in Weld County. I have a letter addressed to the County Commissioners and I will read the letter. "The Weld County Charter Commission hereby submits to the Weld County Commis- sioners a proposed charter for Home Rule for Weld County. The Charter Commission, elected at the General Election in 1974, held its first meeting November 20, 1974 . Pursuant to the statutes the Charter Commission did conduct a comp- rehensive study of the operation of Weld County government and of the ways in which the county government might be im- proved or reorganized. A .proposed charter has been developed and public hearings held thereon, as required by law. A -2- majority of the members of the Charter Commission have voted to forward the said charter to the Weld County Board of Commissioners. That majority, Sir, is every member of the Charter Commission, 21 of them. And it' s forward to you for the setting of a referendum election not more than 90 days nor less than 45 days from receipt of the charter, provided by Colorado Revised Statutes 1973 , 30-11-505. I have a copy for each of the County Commissioners, Roy, Glenn, Vic. For your study, and of course, the setting of the election. I think that it' s interesting to note that of course it was signed by every one that was on the Charter Commission. And, therefore, on behalf of the 21 elected members of the Weld County Home Rule Charter Commission, I do present to you a docu- ment for the future of Weld County. Thank you. MR. BILLINGS: Thank you, Bud. You might like to introduce those charter members who are here so. . . MR. JOHNSON: Yes . Bill Southard, Tim Weigand, Chuck Carlson, George Brooks, Charley Baumgartner, Phil Bowles, Harold Fahrenbruch, Glen Anderson, Peck Lesh, John Martin, Don Altergott. Boy, I keep finding more all the time. And our commission member right up in front here, how about that, Glenn Billings, Glenn. And our secretary, Pat Moore. We've used just about everykndy in Weld County to help us out on this. And other secretaries. We' re glad to have had all of their help through these last seven months plus. Thank you for the time. MR. BILLINGS : We thank you, Bud. And, as the Charter Commission is aware, we've, we are looking at a tentative date for the election until we can get confirmation from our Clerk and Recorder as to the delivery of our -3- • computer voting machines. We can' t definitely set that election. But, our tentative date at this point is, I 'd better check that for sure so I don' t make a mistake, September 9, I believe. And this will depend, we are going to try and coincide this with other times of normal elections, which means Tuesday. And if the voting machines are here and everything can coincide with that date, that • will be the date. But at this point, it has to be tenta- tive. The chair would entertain a motion to officially accept the presentation of the Home Rule Charter to the Board of County Commissioners. MR. MOSER: I would so move that we do accept it and proceed according to the statutes in regards to imple- menting what has been presented. MR. JACOBUCCI : I will second that. And certainly want to give the commission a hand of applause and for their diligent work in the last several months that they worked on the charter. MR. BILLINGS : I would express the same opinion. I know setting on the charter they all had to forsake a lot of special things that I know they would have been doing. Even forsake a lot of their own business to work this char- ter out. And I know there are a lot of us setting out there and myself who at times were voting in the minority. But, as Bud has said a number of times, that everything that' s in here took at least 11 votes to get it there. And so it' s there whether you agreed with it or whether you didn' t. I see George Brooks smiling. And I know there were times when George said "I really just ought to set down and not say any- thing more:' But I think George Brooks to me is became a -4- very important person because of what he did on that charter, the same as all the rest. And I guess it was interesting to note that we had a mixture of both political parties and I don' t think politics ever got in it once unless it was some kind of a joke and which was very important. I have a motion and I have a second. How do you vote on the motion, Mr. Moser? MR. MOSER: Yes. MR. BILLINGS: Mr. Jacobucci? MR. JACOBUCCI : Aye. MR. BILLINGS: Chair votes yes, let the record show that the presentation of the charter to the Board of County Commissioners is accepted as the official document for the Charter Commission. I. had something hid here a little while ago and I 'm not going to let you drink it. But I thought you people ought to know about this. I put it away because of the pro- blem that I was making too many mistakes looking at it. Surprisingly enough, I was at a' meeting last night over in the Longmont area and had lunch with some friends. For the first time, even though all of you are familiar with the Hensel Phelps Construction Company, and Joe Phelps, and what they have accomplished. And there on the wine list was the Joseph Phelps Vineyards. This is the first edition of the Joe Phelps Winery coming out of California and I did sample another bottle. This one I 'm going to keep sealed and put it away. It has a label on it which indicates that it is the first issue of , from their winery and that they will develop other wines. But I thought you people ought to know about a local firm that moved from repairing homes -5- to the eighth largest construction firm in the United States. And now I can truthfully say that this is one of the finest wines I have ever tasted. And I had to make comment earlier this morning that I thought you people ought to know about it. Don't rush to the stores to get some. I think it' s almost impossible to get it, as I understand. It was carried on that wine list and I • thought it was important. But I had to hide it because I was being confused all morning with it setting in front of me. MR. JOHNSON: Let me help you with that bottle, Mr. Chairman. MR. WEIGAND: I think we have a date about the 8th, the 10th. MR. BILLINGS : You think that. . . I made a comment I was going to save that ' til I decided I couldn' t live any more. Then I 'd break it and see if it was better than what I had last night. Anyway, I want to thank all of you for taking your time and coming up and presenting this. I know it' s important to all of you and you can be assured that the Board of County Commissioners will proceed as soon as they can with the election. And Bud, you might want to comment, since you are on radio and everything, as you are aware of, as to what you're going to do about making available the total text of these charters to people throughout the county. I 've had that question answered many times and I think that since we have the news media here now and also radio broad- cast that it might be appropriate at this time to let these people know. -6- MR. JOHNSON: Mr. Chairman, thank you. I appreciate that. Number one, we have another committee. We have committees for everything. But with 21 members we can draw so much expertise among our membership. Mr. Brooks is going to head up a format, if you will, of a brochure that will include the charter as it is presented to you today, plus a brief rundown on what the charter ' s • all about. And a few explanations at the start of it. And, of course it will be bound in soft copy and made available to interested parties. Now it will be approxi- mately, I would say, two weeks before we have it finalized. And obviously, the election is not going to be for some 75 or 80 days. So we will have them. They will go out across the county. We haven' t determined 'as yet how many to print. Our legal counsel is still checking into the responsibility thereto. And while we're on that subject, Sir, you might possibly want to have your input into this as far as the county responsibility to the printing of this publication. We haven' t had a chance to discuss it too much. I do think there is some obligation there on the part of the county to come up with this. Whether it comes through the Charter Commission or whether it comes through the Board of Commissioners, I don' t know at this time be- cause we haven' t had a chance to research it through our legal counsel. But we will have those books available. And they will be disseminated to interested parties. And if you want to get your name put on the list for one, you can call' the Charter Commission Office at the county 353-2212 number and ask for extension 218 or the Charter Commission and we' ll take your name. And then as soon as one is made available, we can send it to you or they' ll be all over the county. They' ll be disseminated all over the county so you can pick them up at various locations I 'm sure. Okay. -7- MR. BILLINGS : Thank you, Bud. Any comments by any of the charter members? Hearing none, we thank you again for all coming in. And as I said before, we will proceed with this as diligent as we can based on the de- livery of our new voting machines. I 'd like to go back • now to the regular agenda. -8- Hello