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By Terry O’Brien — 1. FINANCIALS: Th e first 30 minutes of the Board Meeting was missed, including the Financial Report which typically states no financial data in open session. A CORA Request for the Board Packet was submitted 10/18/2021 Read on…
KEY BUDGET ELEMENTS: 1) Total allocations = $35,623,713 up $100,000 from 2019 2) Total revenue = $31,697,552 up $800,000 from 2019 2) Total expected ending reserve in 2020 = $13,176,084 up $900,000 from 2019 (37% of total allocations) 3) Read on…
By Jeffrey A. Roberts CFOIC Executive Director Colorado’s newspaper industry is fighting proposed state legislation that would phase out the required publication of county public notices. Proponents of Senate Bill 18-156 say the notices are a waste of Read on…
By GARY HARMON, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Dec. 9, 2017 A Delta County organization plans to file suit Tuesday against the Delta County Commission, contending that the county’s budget process is flawed and was conducted without appropriate transparency. The suit Read on…
Changes are coming to the Paonia Reservoir. The Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), Fire Mountain Canal Company, and North Fork Water Conservancy District (NFWCD) will host a meeting at Memorial Hall in Hotchkiss on August 15 at 7pm, to explain the Read on…
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed Senate Bill 17-040 into law on June 1, 2017, marking the first major update to the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) in more than 20 years. The amendments to CORA are effective on Aug. 9, Read on…
At Monday’s public meeting, Citizen Report spoke with commissioners about the county’s connection to Colorado Counties, Inc. (CCI) and to get an account of take-aways from their attendance at the annual CCI summer conference held in Keystone, CO, last week. During Read on…