Category: Commissioner meeting highlights

• Delta County Citizen Report (DCCR) President and blogger, JoAnn Kalenak, presented several objections to the proposed 2019 County budget to Commissioners. She stated, “The proposed budget lacks fiscal responsibly given the large reserve balance that is carried over, year-to-year, Read on…

• Commissioners agreed to continue support to the West Region Wildfire Council (WRWC). The organization promotes wildfire preparedness, prevention and mitigation education throughout Delta, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel counties and is funded mostly through grants and government Read on…

• Commissioners agreed to allow county planning staff to process a 2D seismic mapping project application, submitted by Gunnison Energy, administratively rather than through the county’s full specific development process. Elyse Casselberry, County Community and Economic Development Director, told Commissioners Read on…

• Amid controversy about the availability of water, health and safety concerns, and viewshed impacts, commissioners voted unanimously to approve the development of a 20,000-chicken commercial egg-laying operation on Fruitland Mesa. Recent Missouri transplant, Noah Knox, told commissioners that he Read on…

Commissioners signed a resolution giving the go-ahead to apply for a Great Outdoors Colorado grant for a regional trail through the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area. Commissioners said they would commit up to $125,000 in matching funds toward the project, which Read on…

• Elyse Casselberry, Director of Community and Economic Development, asked commissioners to review proposed timelines, responsibilities and a fee schedule for the county’s land-use code rewrite. The total estimated price tag is $174,000, more than half of which would go Read on…