Remarks by Elizabeth Philbrick
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That's pretty good. I'm not sure I would have been able to do that without labels.
And do we have certain counties whose error rates are significantly higher, and so they're bringing the state in one direction or another? And is that considered to be divvied up so that they can be assisted?
But you essentially paid for your new paver three times over already. Yeah, exactly. Wow. Incredible.
It's also important to note that there's not a lot we can do during the active moments of flooding. We can't go out there and bring heavier equipment onto your dirt road.
A little bit of a side note before we end, because I've been going back and forth with Mike and Aaron and our community, who's very concerned about the Florida, the repair that's going to be reworked this fall. There has been a, extreme amount of emails coming in regarding bicycle traffic on this and Mike you very you very quickly responded to me on Monday and I really appreciate how quickly you did respond to me that the decisions to add signs and lower speed limits are not in your purview however there is the potential of adding bike symbols to the road surface and that you could react you…
On the asphalt as a way to just, as the things that we can control, because I have learned Erin has informed me that changing the speed limits is off the table due to state statute. And that share the road signs are not recognized by the manual of uniform traffic control devices. But if we wanted to put something up, there are other forms, but that we are concerned about what is called sign blindness. When there's too many signs, no one pays attention to anything. But I do know, and I very much respect our bicycling community has rallied significantly around this Florida road project in…
I think that right now they're very focused on the component that we are actively about to resurface. That edge mount to the city limits area in particular. I think, and I am meeting with the person who's organizing this group later today. I do not know that, that they may not know that it goes all the, you know, we're not planning on doing any additional all the way up. This is a very small component, but that area between Edgemont and the city limits is the area that we have any control over right now. Yeah. And I mean, I, at this point in time, I really just, I want them to know that we…
Yeah, particularly in gearing up to the world championships. Yeah, yes. Even more of a cycling mecca. And it is wholly unsatisfying to tell people, please don't ride your bicycle on that road. It is dangerous. Our community doesn't want to hear that. They want to hear, make it less dangerous. And there are capacities that we have and capacities we don't. And I'd like to work within what capacities we have.
And that's why I think it's important for us to just have the discussions of what we do have control over and how we can help now. Because my responses have been, you know, this is... The widening of adding bicycle lanes is the equivalent of adding an entire third lane and then you still need drainage on each side it's it is bigger than it seems and no we can't just move lines a little to the left everything is engineered and designed specifically we can't take three inches off of the shoulder on one side and add it to the shoulder on another and it's Again, it's wholly unsatisfying to give…
Yeah, we try to remind people that when the road is improved, it's improved for everyone because bicycles are legal vehicles in Colorado. They have the right, I mean, and I understand and I've heard a lot of responses that my suggestion to take the lane is extremely dangerous, but It's a, you are a legal vehicle, and I personally wouldn't take the plane in Florida, but the improvement of the road will help every legal vehicle.
I know that there are many discussions that we've been having for a while about these. One thing that we haven't brought up, but I would like to bring up, I know that these well pads will be larger. And one of the concerns I have heard from our community, and this is a strange thing to say, but because our part of the world is such a massive bird migration area, I would like for us to consider making a comment on light pollution and light mitigation and complying with dark skies. And in large part because the area that is likely going to be developed is already such a dark area, we don't want…
There are obvious mitigation techniques that are being used in various other states. I just want to make sure that as we go forward, we're considering the dark sky compliant lighting and that kind of a thing. Thank you.
Okay. Okay. And I'll also point out, and I think the discussions are ongoing, but I just like to make it public. There was some concern about lay flats actually being in culverts and indigenous things of that nature. We want to make sure that there is no interference with existing agriculture operations in the county. I understand that they have certain rights, but there's also the liability. What happens if a tractor runs over only flats? Who is liable for that? Right now, it's already difficult enough to get agriculture water across the county, and we don't want to make that more difficult…
And just for our internal staff, I'm concerned a little bit about ADTs now affecting people's ability to subdivide. So we need to be able to have some plan that if... shale of development is affecting people's ability to have their own property, private property rights. We need to be, this is not really for this letter, but this is something that we need to be thinking about internally. Are we going to hold people to account to ADTs that are not actually community development? They are more economic development on tribal lands. We need to think through all of that.
We will probably need to put an updated CSU extension contract in BDT since that CSU has not updated their conference in about 10 years. I think you guys all received this email. I think that we should probably go ahead and have that discussion in a BDT so that we can understand what the benefits of the extension is. We do have one of the most robust extensions and 4-H programs in the entire state. And it is quite a successful project. And I think that we should just get a little understanding before we re-up a contract. Okay.
In an e-session. E-session, yes. Yeah, that's right, correct.
Yeah, I have a call with Commissioner Bucket Daniels on Friday, as well as Commissioner George Marlin.
we're going to assess this as a board priority. I would recommend based on last year's conversations that we direct everyone we can to team up primarily because the point of employing team up to be the intermediary is so that we don't have multiple projects being targeted at individual commissioners. And then we champion different projects because we have different points of communication with the community. I think the whole point of team up was to streamline it. So let's double check. I, to me, I would suggest we double check with team up to see if they feel like they have the capacity.
So with the grace of Laura Lewis-Roschino, they have put the AAA vote at the top of the agenda tomorrow so that several of the commissioners can leave for the five by five after that. There are several of us who will be making a case for the AAA to be shifting over. This is a large component of my day-to-day work right now is to try to figure out how to iron out the AAA and then make the argument for it to go under the COG as it does in most regions. I cannot guarantee that I can then jump in a car and make it to Telluride. So I will try to zoom in if possible. But my main focus at this point…
Yeah. And this does affect a significant number of the 5-by-5 counties. And so I would imagine that there will be a significant number. I'm hoping that there are a significant number of people at least queuing up and logging in and making the argument for it.
Yeah, so those are the two items. And then separate of that, the nonprofit entity, the San Juan Basin AAA, would have to dissolve after that. The intention was for it to dissolve at the beginning of November. However, the Region 9 Economic Development has requested a longer runway in order to be able to iron out several items they're concerned about. And we will speak to those at the summit tomorrow.
one pagers of the finances and some understanding of where we're at. We have accounted for all dollars at this point in time, but it is still a little bit at the 300,000 foot level.
It's the board of the San Juan basin, triple a that does it. And so it's a very heavy lift at this point in time when there's only a handful of people left on the board. The board has been quiet quitting for years. And there's a lot of names on the board of people who have never attended the board meetings. And so it would be a heavy lift. There are state statutes as to what happens next. And that is one of the reasons that Laura Strother will be on the phone with the region meeting tomorrow. And that is with the intention of making sure people understand what happens and how much could…
Yeah. Nothing's on fire right now. So we won't lose Commissioner Ransom. That's how we lost him last time.
One other item of importance, I know that you all are heading out, and so it's important. I think it is important to note that on October 2nd, we will be setting our CCI legislative priorities. And because I will be the one doing that for you, if you could assume the responsibilities of your individual committees, because I know you have been paying attention to the legislation in your committees, tell me what you want me to be fighting for and fighting against and any points that you need answered. to, to make those points, but just so that I can be voting on your behalf as your proxy on…