Remarks by Kip Koso
87 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“Daniel, thanks for answering some of my previous questions, but I've just got a small one for you. The internal circulation, it just wasn't feasible to build any internal circulation, so all of the sidewalk ends up out on Florida. Not the most pleasant walking in there. Do we ever do... not formal circulation but trails or anything through when you've got this 30 slope you've got areas that are unbuildable do we ever try and encourage internal circulation using paths through there or anything i know it's an odd question but yeah you know human nature is creates those circulation and the city…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, not necessarily. There's never been necessarily a requirement to build an informal internal circulation network.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Plus the 30% grade would be tough for some pedestrians.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Move to approve the budget amendment by resolution, amending the 2026 capital budget, increasing appropriations for the 2015 sales tax fund, 2025 parks, open space and trails fund, the 2019 sales tax fund, the airport construction fund, the water construction fund, the sewer construction fund, and the trash and recycling construction fund for the mid-year budget amendments for the city of Durango, Colorado. Second.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Just a clarification, since we're getting $12,500 back from the insurance company on the airport vehicle, do we not offset the $85,000 request or is that handled in a different way when it's an insurance reimbursement? Just an education question more than anything else.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“So we need to keep the $85,000 so we cover the full cost of the vehicle, but we'll receive that $12,000 and it'll be tracked as revenue.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Okay, great. Thank you so much. One other thing, Council, I just want to put a pin in the idea that we are building another parking lot out at the airport. This is the fourth year in a row that we've been adding 150 to 250 spaces. out at the airport. So the beast keeps needing more and more parking. If we are a town that is set on environmental responsibility, I think we need to start investigating alternate things to do to provide transportation in and around the airport, then just keep building another 150 to 250 parking spaces. I'll leave it there. It's future discussion, but I just wanted…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Move to approve an ordinance authorizing a ground lease with Don L. Gosney and Kelly C. Gosney for aircraft hangar 1452 at the airport. Second.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Only the briefest of praise. You took this through multiple airport commission meetings. I think you talked to the airport hangar owners. You talked to a lot of folks and I was there front seat watching the whole process. So I thought you did a great job working with the commission and finding out a happy compromise here, Tony. So I just wanted to say that. Thank you. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Move to approve an ordinance authorizing a ground lease with DBL Management LLC for aircraft hangar 1490 at the airport. Second.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Move to approve an ordinance authorizing a ground lease with John W Sabo for aircraft hangar 1544 at the airport second.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you, sir. Council, hopefully this isn't too controversial, but I wanted to bring up that the two critical boards that I feel should have any counselor involvement in reviewing for application should be the FAB, which has the Financial Advisory Board, which has a three-year term and a very wide breadth of involvement for the city decision-making. as well as the Community Development Commission. It acts as a quasi judicial body and council members might want to be involved since more since appointments have direct decision making authority. And so there's a couple of reasons why I…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah. Council, I just don't think this makes any impact except you do have two boards or commissions that have a greater impact on the city and so i think they are elevated in a certain way and that importance should be weighed out by council weighing in on the um the appointments so um council yazi i just don't necessarily see where there's that much difficulty adding in even if all of council wanted to do it You're only talking about three more people on top of the two that were already assigned to the Commission, and I very heavily doubt that there's going to be three more counselors that…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“My inclination was to have them as a voting member.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Council, it's been three weeks with a lot of activity there, so I'll try and split it between opening remarks and liaison related items. I wanted to express my appreciation for the clean commute activities that happened on June 17th. I think staff did a great job and they even resurrected the Carver's Brewing baked goods. We hadn't seen those in a while, so it was nice to have those out and about. lots of fourth of july activities i'm sure we'll talk about that a little bit but very appreciative of the huge amount of staff time and energy that went into that celebration i had three separate…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thanks, John. Would parks and recs decrease? Would that be reflected in the commercial? Because your graph, if you can bring the graph up for commercial and residential drops. Yeah, it doesn't seem to me like commercials.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“OK, all right. Would parks and recs drop be reflected in commercial on this line?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 27:47
“Okay, great. The cost of animus pumping, I know that that costs us some money. There's X number of dollars in the budget. in X number of days that we might be doing this? Have you gotten to a point where you're figuring out if we're going to be exceeding the budget or not?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“That's fine. I really appreciate these. Would love to see the June numbers whenever you get them and maybe not necessarily wait until the next Council meeting. Thanks.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Chief, thanks so much for adapting the questions that we had the last time into the presentation today. So really appreciate that. Love to see that we're kind of taking that 77% reduction. I think it's a good idea until we kind of solidify how we want to approach these things from going forward. Can you talk just a little bit more about the one vehicle causing 66 searches? I guess I still don't quite follow.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Yeah. For sure. The other thing is the total program investment is $153,000, but that's not staff time. That's not inclusive of staff time, correct?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Appreciate it. Thank you. Councilor Gonzalez.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Airport Commission meeting on June 18th. There was a lot of robust discussion around parking. We're in our fourth year of building 150 to 250 spaces up there, an awful lot of asphalt, but the demand is there. So we're also talking talked about renewing hang releases, which we'll see later on in our meeting tonight. Engaged Durango Forum around ADUs on June 23rd. The feedback that the presentations really are emphasized, but only 15 minutes or so long and people don't understand the meeting of the department heads is kind of the main focus. So that's feedback I got from a…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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City Council · Jul 7, 2026