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RE : DESIGNATION OF WELD COUNTY AS 208 MANAGEMENT AGENCY
WHEREAS , the Board of County Commissioners of Weld
County, 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, Weld County has been assigned the role of a
management agency in the Larimer-Weld Areawide Water Quality
Management Plan, as more fully defined by said plan, and
WHEREAS , County staff has submitted to the Board a
report , entitled "Assessment of 208 Management Agency" ,
hereto incorporated into and made a part of this Resolution,
and
WHEREAS , in the staff report to the Board on the 208
management agency, the organization, tasks , funding and
benefits specify Weld County' s 208 management agency role
for 1980 .
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Weld County
Board of County Commissioners hereby officially recognize
the acceptance of Weld County as a 208 management agency, as
more fully defined in the Larimer-Weld Areawide Water Quality
Management Plan, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the staff report presented
to the Board of County Commissioners July 2 , 1979 , entitled
"Assessment of 208 Management Agency" , hereby is adopted as
the policy of the Weld County Board of County Commissioners
concerning organizational placement , tasks to be performed,
priorities of the 208 program for 1980 , funding and expected
benefits for Weld County as a result of its role as a 208
management agency in 1980 , and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the above action is nunc
pro tunc to the date that the Council of Governments adopted
the Larimer-Weld Areawide Water Quality Management Plan on
the 6th day of September, A.D. , 1978 .
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The above and foregoing Resolution was , on motion duly
made and seconded, adopted by the following vote on the
18th day of July, A.D. 1979 , nunc pro tunc to September 6 ,
1978.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
WELD COUNTY, COLORADO
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DATE PRESENTED: July 18, 1979
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WIiD�. To Board Members _x\11111 Dace July 2, 1979
COLORADO From Don Warden 1\�i' /►
Subject: Assessment of 208 Management Agency
At a work session with the Board on June 11, 1979, you directed staff to
assess the 208 Management Agency concept as it relates to Weld County.
Specifically, the Board wanted a staff recommendation as to practical fund-
ing alternatives for the program if the Board chooses to become the 208
Management Agency, and to address the proper organizational placement to
perform the 208 Management Agency task.
In order to make the above assessment, Gary Fortner, John Hall, Phil Arm-
strong, and myself met to develop the above staff recommendations for the
Board. As a result of our efforts in the area, the following are our staff
recommendations to you:
1. Specific tasks that should be accomplished by the 208 Management Agency
in the first year are attached and broken into two segments. One is
the Management portion which should be performed by the Planning Depart-
ment, and the second are certain regulatory functions that should be
accommodated in the Health Department.
2. The Health Department task, it was agreed upon, could be done at the
current level with current staff, since many of the tasks are being
performed by the Health Department at this time. It is recommended
however, that if additional support is required in the area of solid
waste management that the funding source come on an individual basis
from the solid waste fund that was created from the 5% surcharge on
all landfill sites in Weld County. When the surcharge was implemented,
it was with the concept that the funds would be used to defray costs
associated with the sites in Weld County. Thus, this is an appropriate
use of this resource.
3. It is staff's recommendation that the overall management functions of
the 208 Management Agency be performed by a senior planner called a
Program Coordinator, located under the Director of Planning. The priori-
ties for this position in the first year should be as follows:
a. To develop extensive staff recommendations concerning future tasks,
methods of sharing cost, funding mechanisms, and overall program
development as the 208 management function begins to focus as it
is implemented in the first year.
b. The compilation of intergovernmental agreements between the County
and other management agencies and operational agencies in the
County (approximately 30 agreements) .
c. The development of land use and facility plans for the town.
d. Coordinate facility planning with the use of consultant resources.
e. Development of the circuit rider concept for operating agencies
in the County that would share in the cost but provide proper
support to operating agencies so that they would not have to
rely on the 208 Management Agency.
4. Based upon the staff review, it is proposed that a program budget of
$26,374 be requested in the 1980 budget. In summary, the budget would
include 1 program coordinator as originally proposed, would eliminate
the need for a sanitation engineer, but would call for the use of
consulting services in the amount of $7,500; secretarial support would
be absorbed with the existing staff or considering the word processing
pool concept in Weld County; mileage and travel would be absorbed in the
Planning budget in 1980; and approximately $1,000 would be incorporated
into the Planning budget for miscellaneous expenses associated with
this program. It is further recommended that of the $7,500 for consult-
ing services that there be placed an administrative freeze on these funds
and that they would only be used on a case by case basis with Board ap-
proval. Anytime consultants are used, the Board should scrutinize for
what purpose, and also should explore whether or not operating agencies
should share in the cost of the services to be provided. It is quite
possible that if the consultants are needed for facility planning, that
the entire cost should be paid by the operating agency and not by the
Management Agency at all.
5. It is recommended that the first year cost of the 208 Management Agency
be accommodated as follows:
a. The 208 Management Agency function should be viewed as part of the
overall planning function in Weld County.
b. The concept of the planning and building inspection functions in
the County being paid in full by planning and building permit fees
should be adopted by your Board in light of the fact that the uni-
form building code calls for a major update of fees throughout the
nation which should provide enough financial support to support
both budgets in their entirety in 1980 and beyond.
c. If the 208 Management function is considered part of planning, the
overall cost of this program would be absorbed within the revenue
limits of the planning and building inspection fees generated in
Weld County.
d. Costs directly attributed to facility planning or to a specific
operating agency, should be paid for by direct fee by the operating
agency and not by the Management Agency or Weld County.
e. The program coordinator, in the course of compiling the inter-
governmental contracts, should make every effort to explore the
concept of cost sharing with other operating and management agencies
and the intergovernmental agreement should specify that any costs
that can be directly attributed to the operating agency because of
planning or facility planning should be borne by the operating or
other management agencies.
6. It is staff recommendation that the 208 Management Agency program be
viewed as a new program in the overall priority scheme of the 1980 budget
process. It should be prioritized within the planning and building in-
spection budgets submitted by the Director of Planning, and during the
budget hearings should be considered in conjunction with priorities of
other existing and new programs to be funded by the 1980 budget.
7. It is the staff's recommendation that in the exploration of the County's
involvement in the 208 Management function, that to rely upon the con-
cept that the State would assume this function is truly not a viable
alternative in that it does not appear as though the State will have
the staff and organization to properly provide this service to Weld
County. Funding and placing the 208 Management Agency within Weld
County would have the following benefits:
a. County land use efforts would become more effective.
b. It would move more communities within Weld County towards more land
use planning.
c. It would provide more control over industries within the County.
d. If the control would revert back to the State, the County could
be adversely impacted.
e. The County would have more input in the development of State regula-
tions for such matters as clean water requirements and stream clas-
sification.
f. It would allow Weld County to better respond to such pressures as
the location of a water treatment plant in Weld County from a City
such as Northglenn.
It is recommended that the Board adopt the above staff recommendations concern-
ing the 208 Management function in Weld County. The proposed recommendation
is viewed as being a very cautious and conservative approach, but yet one that
will allow Weld County to be in a position to properly respond to the 208
program and also insure that the interests of the citizens of Weld County are
protected in the overall management of water resouces that are critical to this
area.
If you have questions concerning any of the above, please do not hesitate to
contact me. During the early warning budget sessions, this topic has been
placed on the agenda under the planning department.
cc: Gary Fortner
Phil Armstrong
John Hall
Dr. Charles Juels
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TASKS
I . Management Municipal Waste Treatment Implementation Plan
Task 9 : Conduct detailed facility planning, as appropriate,
for areas experiencing degraded ground or surface
water quality or public health nuisance due to :
o Inadequate sewage treatment capacity (including
sludge disposal or recovery) and
o Failing septic systems .
Facility planning areas are defined in Figure
6. 1 .1.A.
Task 10: Implement, as appropriate, subregional operation
and maintenance programs on a cost sharing basis .
(See Interim WOMP Report #6, Section 10. 0. )
Task 11 : Notify in writing Areawide Planning Agency in the
event of the following actions :
1. Intent to seek funding assistance (from any
source) to construct or expand waste treatment
facilities :
2 . Violation of an NPDES Permit Condition; and
3 . Intent to expand or amend existing sewer service
area.
Task 13 : Insure coordination of sewer service areas and
treatment capacity with land use decisions and plans..
II. Management Urban Stormwater
Task 27 : Define boundaries of urban stormwater management
areas for Fort Collins , Loveland, Greeley and Estes
Park. Assess areas of rural development and deter-
mine areas of critical stormwater management pro-
blems for which control plans can be developed.
III. Management Implementation Plan for Irrigated Agriculture
Task 49 : Establish an agricultural advisory committee.
IV. Management Non-Irrigated Agriculture
Task 53 : Establish an agricultural advisory committee.
V. General Administrative Tasks
Task 58 : Enter into intergovernmental contracts , as appro-
priate, with operations agencies .
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
I . Municipal
Task 16 : Enforce NPDES permit conditions .
Task 17 : Enforce qualified operator certfication.
II. Industrial
Task 22: Enforce NPDES Permit Conditions .
III. Leachfields and Lagoons
Task 39: Submit the following information to the Areawide
Planning Agency:
o Inventory of area for which failing septic
tank systems are documented to cause ground/
surface water contamination which could result
in public health problems;
o Inventory of areas for which failing septic
tank systems are suspected to cause signifi-
cant ground or surface water contamination;
o Data and information to support above inventories
including :
a. Location map;
b. Frequency of maintenance;
c. Number of septic systems;
d. Estimated age of septic systems ;
e. Type of system (i. e. , engineered or standard) ;
f. Water quality and/or epidemiological data;
g. Number and frequency of complaints ;
h. Number of septic tank approvals processed each
year for the past five years ;
i. Statement of adequacy of resources (budget ,
staff, equipment) to review septic system
requests .
Task 40: Enforce septic tank regulations .
IV. Solid and Hazardous Waste
Task 44 : Reporting Requirements : The County Health Department
will provide the following information to the Area-
wide Planning Agency on a timely basis :
1 . Hazardous substance spills ;
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2. Plans for construction of sanitary land fills
and public and private dumps ;
3. Complaints regarding the operation of land fills
and dumps .
Task 46 : Enforce NPDES Permits.
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Task 59 : Enter into intergovernmental contracts with
management agencies regarding area of domain
within management area boundaries for qualified
incorporated communities .
Task 60: Establish, as appropriate, citizen advisory
committees or other means of public input to
carry out technical tasks defined below.
Task 61 : Designate, as appropriate, an individual (s) to
represent implementing agency in coordinating
technical tasks conducted by the Areawide. Planning
Agency.
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