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CRISANTA DURAN
Colorado State Capitol
200 East Colfax Avenue, Room 307
Denver, Colorado 80203
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crisanta.duran.house@state.co.us
COLORADO
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
State Capitol
Denver
80203
May 24, 2017
Ms. Karla Ford
Office Manager
Weld County Board of County
Commissioners
1150 O Street
Greeley, CO 80631
Dear Ms. Ford:
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
Vice -Chair:
Executive Committee of the
Legislative Council
Vice -Chair:
Legislative Council Committee
Enclosed please find a copy of House Joint Resolution 17-1029. The
resolution was adopted during the First Regular Session of the Seventy-first
General Assembly of the State of Colorado. It is being sent to you in
accordance with the stipulations set forth in the last paragraph of the
resolution. Please share this resolution with the members of the Weld County
Board of Country Commissions. Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Crisanta Duran
Speaker of the House
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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 17-1029
BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Becker K., Hansen, Winter, Arndt,
Bridges, Buck, Buckner, Catlin, Covarrubias, Danielson, Esgar,
Garnett, Gray, Hamner, Herod, Humphrey, Jackson, Kennedy,
Kraft -Tharp, Lawrence, Lee, Liston, Lontine, McLachlan, Melton,
Michaelson Jenet, Mitsch Bush, Navarro, Neville P., Nordberg,
Pettersen, Rosenthal, Sias, Valdez, Van Winkle, Weissman, Williams
D., Wilson, Duran;
also SENATOR(S) Sonnenberg, Priola, Moreno, Aguilar,
Baumgardner, Cooke, Coram, Crowder, Donovan, Fenberg,
Gardner, Holbert, Kefalas, Lambert, Martinez Humenik, Merrifield,
Scott, Smallwood, Tate, Todd, Williams A., Zenzinger.
CONCERNING THIS DESIGNATION OF INTERSTATE
HIGHWAY 76 AS THE "COLORADO POLLINATOR
HIGHWAY".
WHEREAS, Pollinators, such as butterflies and bees, are valuable to
Colorado's agriculture and native ecosystems; and
WHEREAS, Native pollinators, as well as honeybees and beekeepers,
provide pollination services across the state; and
WHEREAS, Agriculture in Colorado greatly benefits from both
honeybees and native pollinators, with an estimated $24 billion in
economic impact annually across the nation; and
WHEREAS, Pollinators rely on a healthy, diverse habitat and access
to three seasons of flowering native -plant communities for foraging,
nesting, and breeding; and
WHEREAS, A healthy, diverse habitat promotes pollinator migration
and can help provide pollination services to adjacent landowners, and in
recent years habitat fragmentation has played a role in declining pollinator
habitats; and
WHEREAS, Our highways provide a unique opportunity to utilize
Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management to benefit pollinators,
agriculture, and adjacent landowners; and
WHEREAS, The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) can
reduce maintenance costs along a right-of-way by utilizing Integrated
Roadside Vegetation Management and limiting roadside disturbance,
which tools allow CDOT better management and coordination
opportunities with landowners and local governments and provide
regional planning and coordination; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventy-first
General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring herein:
(1) That Interstate Highway 76 from Mile Marker 1 to Mile Marker
183 be renamed the "Colorado Pollinator Highway";
(2) The Colorado Department of Transportation is encouraged to
implement Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management in coordination
with regional planners, local governments, and adjacent landowners in
order to better manage a right-of-way to promote pollinator habitat;
(3) That the Colorado Department of Transportation may accept and
expend gifts, grants, and donations for the purposes of the initial
placement of signs to mark Interstate Highway 76 from Mile Marker 1 to
Mile Marker 183 as the "Colorado Pollinator Highway"; and
(4) That the Colorado Department of Transportation may explore a
cooperative agreement with the Board of County Commissioners in
Jefferson County and Sedgwick County for the maintenance of the signs
marking the "Colorado Pollinator Highway".
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Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this Joint Resolution be sent to
the People and Pollinators Action Network; Jefferson County Board of
County Commissioners; Adams County Board of County Commissioners;
Weld County Board of County Commissioners; Washington County
Board of County Commissioners; Sedgwick County Board of County
Commissioners; Logan County Commissioners; Morgan County
Commissioners; the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of
Transportation Shailen Bhatt; and the Colorado Transportation
Commission.
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Crisanta Duran
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES
Marilyn E s
CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES
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Kevin J. Grantham
PRESIDENT OF
THE SENATE
Effie Ameen
SECRETARY OF
THE SENATE
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