Category: Commissioner meeting highlights

• In response to House Bill 1220, Delta County Commissioners are drafting a county ordinance that would clarify local laws concerning the cultivation of marijuana for personal use — recreational or medical — within unincorporated Delta County.   The state’s Read on…

• Haven House in Ridgeway asked Commissioners for $5,000 in support. Haven House is a faith-based homeless shelter for individuals and families. • Delta Board of Realtors reported on the area’s commercial and residential housing market. Home sales are up Read on…

• Commissioners reviewed an initial draft of the 2018 county General Funds budget. They did not review Road and Bridge, Health and Human Services, and the Other Funds budgets. Initial estimates for the General Fund predict $11,500,439 in expenses (5.6% Read on…

Tony Vervloet, brother-in-law to Commissioner Mark Roeber, was appointed to replace Bruce Bertram as the county’s Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Local Government Designee. Commission Roeber recused himself from the vote to appoint Vervloet and remained Commissions that they Read on…

• Commissioners agreed to support the Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s efforts to retrace the Old Spanish Trial. They signed a letter agreeing to permit Colorado Park and Wildlife to access Delta County-owner property for the purposes of tracing the trial. Read on…

In an Aug. 30, unnoticed joint work session* in Delta County, Commissioners and administration met with their counterparts from Gunnison County.   Several hot-bed issues were discussed including the formal creation of a North Fork Methane Working Group whose mission Read on…