Board of County Commissioners Regular and Meetings - Special Meeting

Uh, good morning everyone. It's the special meeting of the Lake County Board of County Commissioners. It's April 14th at 9:00 a.m., 2026. We will begin with item number one, discussion and consideration of resolution 2026-12. This is a resolution amending resolution 2025-17, a resolution adopting signature authority policy. This will be led by Candace Bryan, our county manager. All right. So, we had a work session last week and um we came back and made um the changes that you guys requested to the um signature authority policy and then also um the governance policy. So, they're in your packets and we are asking um if you guys are are ready to pass those today so we can um hold up um just regular operations dayto day. Yeah. Love it. You guys have questions or No, I appreciate that we already had a work session about this and had a good discussion. Oh god. Oh man, I talked about number two. Sorry,

I talked about both policies.

Um, I would say just piggy backing on what K just said a little bit, there is a biggest change from the one we talked about in the work session and the one in front of you all today is the emergency spending authority for public health and DHS which we talked about. Yeah. Okay. Well, then I will move to adopt resolution 2025-17, a resolution adopting a signature authority policy. It's an amendment. We're amending one.

Hold please. Like, shoot, I put that on. I clicked on the wrong thing. We're doing policy.

Andy, strike that for the record. Okay. No, it's not opening. I can read that. Thank you. I move to adopt 2026, resolution 2026-12, a resolution amending resolution 2025-17, a resolution adopting a signature authority policy. I'll second the motion and take it to a vote. I

I resolution 2026-12 is adopted. Moving on to item number two, discussion and consideration of resolution 2026-13. This resolution adopts leadership and governance policy led by Matt Hobs, our county attorney.

Yeah, sir K has talked about we this is the other policy we discussed in the work session um last week. Um the the biggest change to this one is the provision you all asked for about putting something in there regarding sort of interactions with elected officials. So I I tried tried to flesh that out and uh pull it up here which section it is. You know the other red lines are were mainly just um changing the formatting and kind of organizing stuff. So there weren't really any substantive changes. Number eight uh in the policy sort of the inter interaction with other elected officials tries to you know set out that they they do have their own independent uh you know constitutional and statute authority authority uh under Colorado law that nothing this policy changes that but at the same time sort of also making clear that the EOCC is um has approval over budgeting, appropriations, and expenditures as provided by law. Um you know, and that the board and the county manager and the county attorney shall work cooperatively and professionally with one another uh in a manner that respects both the board's countywide fiscal governance responsibilities and the independent legal authority of other elected officers. Um, so just kind of a generic statement sort of recognizing I think we're all we're all on the same team. They have their own

independent authority and the board by law has uh the fiscal authority over double count. Mhm. Yeah, it's well written. Thank you. Okay. I move to approve resolution number 2026-13, a resolution approving and adopting the leadership governance policy. I'll second the motion and take it to a vote. I

I resolution 2026-13 is adopted. Item number three is an executive session pursuant to Colorado Revised Statutes 24-6-42 4B and E to receive legal advice and determine positions relative to matters that may be subject to negotiations concerning a potential proposal in response to a request for proposals for the lease and development of Lake Fork Ranch water rights. including associated comments and partnership considerations um attending this executive session. I'd like everybody to just state their name so I don't have to do it. Please alert me if you need anything.

Thank you. Sandra, do you want to call on people? Sure. All right. Bryce Erlick, director of water network resources. Okay. Matt Hobs, County Attorney, Candace Bryan, County Manager, Elsa Tharp, County Commissioner, and County Chair Matt Bulock. Oh, yeah. And online, we have uh Go ahead and introduce yourself, Adam. Adam Kramer's Brown and Caldwell. Thank you. Josh Becker, Deputy County Manager. Okay. Thank you. Uh there's somebody online that just says iPhone. Would you like to identify yourself? Okay.

Okay. I will move that we go into executive session. I'll second the motion and take it to a vote. I I We are now in executive session. We will stop the recording. We will now come out of executive session. Just a reminder that no decisions were made during executive session and this concludes our special meeting at agenda. Go. Sorry. I'll move to approve the consent agenda. I'll second the motion and take it to a vote.

I consent agenda is approved. This concludes our special meeting of April 14th, 2026. at 10:24