Category: Commissioner meeting highlights

Commissioners approved two lists of names for appointment to special working groups as part of extended study born from the updated Master Plan. Elyse Casselberry, county community and economic development director, presented nominees for the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) Read on…

• Dick Miller, owner of Escalante Ranch on Escalante Canyon Road, spoke with Commissioners about unsafe OHV drivers speeding “up and down the canyon road.” Miller told Commissioners that “we are getting more 4-wheelers and side-by-sides, people who are going Read on…

Commissioners agreed to draft an Innovation Grant letter in support of Delta Brick & Climate Company — owner Chris Caskey — to produce bricks using sediment from Paonia Reservoir fired in ovens heated by methane captured from mining vents. Caskey Read on…

• Commissioner Don Suppes gained approval to award a $28,700 contract to build a pavilion at the 4H Shooting Range outside of Cedaredge. The money is coming from the county’s Conservation Trust Fund, which are lottery dollars for the acquisition, Read on…

• Three residents living along Last Chance Road in Peach Valley spoke with Commissioners to express extreme concern about a change to their road’s name without their approval or input. Each talked about not having been contacted by the county Read on…

With standing room only, 37 residents attended Monday’s County Commissioner meeting to ask Commissioners to reconsider their decision not to renew the appointment of Jen Sanborn as the Upper North Fork representative to the Delta County Planning Commission (PC), a Read on…

At yesterday’s Delta County Commissioner public meeting, Commissioners shocked members of the community when they appointed a new representative from the Cedaredge area to the board of the Delta County Planning Commission, and effectively removed the Paonia area representative without Read on…