Remarks by Matt Salka
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I'm the vice chair of the COG and Laura, Region 9 Laura, asked me to run the COG meeting, which is later on down the agenda. But so what I'm understanding is that Commissioner Medina is either going to be there for the moment, I have not spoken with her, and then leaving. And so what I just want to let you all know, Commissioner, is that on our agenda for Region 9 with AAA, there are two recommended actions. And those recommended actions is to vote yes to take on the AAA. with a formal transition of the AAA designation February 1st of 26th. Then the second 27, 27, it says six on here. We'll…
So those are the two action recommendations. I will talk to Laura about the 26 versus 27. But those are the two items.
So then the interim director, Ava, who worked for Region 10's AAA for 12 years, jvaa board members and Laura strathers with state unit of Aging will be in attendance as we have to answer questions so there'll be a heavy heavy heavy lift of style or heavy seems like you have a more detailed schedule would you mind sharing that yeah it's just that I can see what it is that has been included in the packet I know that we included some
I will be sending this to you and Jeff for information only. And so I will get that forwarded to you.
I appreciate, though, that Commissioner Ranson and herself will be there, I think, somewhere. I'm there to represent Region 9, but was struggling at times of some questions. So I'm glad that we've got backup there for AAA and that you'll be able there to support and address any questions there may be. Because there were, I'll be very blunt, there was two board members that were questioning. Which ones?
And then the other one is, oh my gosh, I'll get you the name later. It's... Oh, Silverton.
Austin? It's a female. I will get you that name. But there's just the two. But I went, it went to a positive direction. So I think, yeah, I'm just glad that you all be there.
Any other items on region nine? Oh, I will also too. Yes. So I will be part of that. And then you'll figure out your, your next steps. And then which Gordon, thank you very much for being there in attendance. And I will be there.
Or is, is it go? I will forward that to her information.
Yeah, I have heartburn on... And I will put this in an email to get to Jeff, but updating the Colorado Privacy Act for the age of artificial intelligence. And there's reasons for that. My question I had posed during our district meeting up in Glenwood was the fact that the attorney general, whoever that is, has the ability to change and staff resources. I've already highlighted it on one candidate for the AG's office. So I've marked that for them. But for my input, and I will put this in for Jeff to have, and that is, is that why let's have CCI work on other items where we can then really…
A little bit of a heartburn as well on that topic is that that county is not unified on all county commissioners backing this.
And so for me, I'm sticking to our policies of CCI. And that is, is you should have all, you know, unanimous vote support on a bill proposal. And so that is one where I've been getting my ear put on. So, okay. But I will, I'll put this on.
And I'll follow up on the HUTF. Thank you. All right. Okay. Anything else?
And that's, I'll talk to Puckett Daniels, Commissioner Puckett Daniels, but there needs to be internal improvements. Yeah. For sure.
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Jeff Hughes, Acting County Manager. Ashley Powell, Assistant County Attorney. Great, thank you. Let's all please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I would entertain a motion to approve today's agenda. There's one item here. That is the presentation of the 2027 proposed budget.
There's a motion to approve today's agenda. All those in favor?
Aye. Motion passes. Next is identification of potential perceived conflicts of interest. I would be very concerned if you had to identify anything today during this budget meeting. But I have to still ask the question. Is there any issues you may have?
Neither do I. All right, thank you. There are no minutes, so we'll jump right into it, and that is presentations. Staff report on presentation of the 2027 proposed budget.
Any questions? And mind you, as you see it here with this calendar, I mean, today is just a day of just a top-level view, and we'll be diving deep on these issues, or this budget.
I appreciate your team's conservative approach on this because I'd rather be having more money than... having to say, all right, well, shoot, we over-projected.
I have no further questions. It's just one of those, yeah, let's review it and get after it.
I'm being asked with 1A and the increase of sales tax, at least my message to the public is we're staying above water. It's not the status quo of going and hiring X amount more additional just because we can. We're going to take a slow approach to reviewing departments' requests and go from there.
All right, commissioners, let's go through this, a couple of other items here. And that is, actually, I mean, since it's a special business, we do need to have a public comment section of this. So I will hand this over to Sarah.
Thank you very much. There's people in the audience, but I don't foresee any public comment unless you have any. All right. I'll go ahead and close the public comment portion of this meeting. We have nothing on our consent. We have nothing on our decision. So I will call this special business meeting to adjourn. Thank you.