Live Music 
Cody Sisters!June 22 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm 
See you tomorrow for the Cody Sisters! This amazing trio will perform at the Pub for two hours of harmonies with guitars, mandolin, and string bass by the old wood stove.

 

Don’t forget, 6/29 Kate Farmer

2019 Spring Clean Up

Saturday, June 29

9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Bluebird Lodge parking lot.

For all within the Town Meeting boundaries 

DIVERSION is the focus again this year.  Boulder County supports our diversion/recycling efforts, but they are no longer providing any money for trash disposal.  We will be getting one dumpster for trash and, since we will have to pay for it ($795), we will need to charge (rate sheet at the end). 

Three Dumpsters will arrive between 8:30 and 9:00 a.m. – 1 for junk/trash (we will need to collect a fee for trash and donations for the diversion stuff), one for metal, one for wood – slash and general wood/lumber as in the past.  Please don’t come with stuff earlier than 9:00. 

***And, yes, please, we need volunteers to help!***

To volunteer, please contact me, Gretchen Diefenderfer, at gretchend@nullmac.com  (303-442-3847).

DIVERSION (see http://www.ecocycle.org/charm). 

Mixed rigid plastics (playground stuff, coolers, etc.) and Styrofoam 

Tires – no rims.

Electronics, small appliances

Appliances – refrigerators!

Mattresses

Household hazardous waste (HHW)

            Oil, Antifreeze

           Car batteries

            Latex paint

        METAL Container– No liquids – No fridges – No tires on rims (just rims are ok!) – No batteries –No paint cans with paint still in them.  We will take fridges and tires this year, but they have to go in the diversion trucks [there will be one for tires and appliances, one for HHW, one for mattresses, and more for electronics.   Wire fencing and barbed wire are ok

 WOOD Container– No chemically treated wood including stain or paint – No nails in the wood (although a few seem to be ok, just not an excessive amount) – No particleboard.  Slash is ok – no longer than 18” (be judicious with this – there is only one dumpster and it can’t take a forest of slash) 

        TRASH  Containers  – junk – No recyclables!  We need to pay for this and will need to charge for trash. We also request donations for the diversion items.  Please remember that it would be much more expensive to take a truckload to the dump or to Nederland (a carl load taken to Nederland is charged $25 and a small pick up is $40).

         $5 per large trash bag

            $15 – $18per car, van, or SUV (less for just a few things)

            $25 per pick-up truck or trailer full

            $30 – 40 per vehicle with trailer

 Repurposing – We encourage people to bring stuff that others might want.  Be prepared to pick these items up if no one wants them, or for them to go into the dumpsters.  We will take some stuff down to donate in Boulder, either to second hand stores or to Resource 2000.  But don’t forget we will have the town bake/rummage/craft sale in September, too.

 Any propane bottles must be vented and this means the entire top mechanism must be removed.  Just opening it does not suffice. We made this mistake once and it cost us

It’s amazing how much stuff piles up!  This is your chance to clear that stuff out!

Tony Vrba, our Chair of the Gold Hill Town Meeting, would like to encourage people prior to the 23^rdto clean up areas around the community.  Several people do this frequently, on their own, and it would be nice to get a group effort going.

Gold Hill Fire Department’s 4th of July pancake breakfast needs fun-loving volunteers to help raise money for the fire department. Shifts typically work from 7:30 to 9:30 and 9:30 to 11:30, or you can play all morning! We serve pancakes from 8:30-11:00. If you are interested please email Leslie at finn.leslie@nullgmail.com.

Hope to see you all there. 

Gold Hill Town Meeting

Monday, 7:00 p.m. June 10^th, 2019 Community Center  

Ted Plank and Jeff Maxwell to discuss road maintenance strategies

Review of Previous Minutes

Treasurer’s Report

1. GH Resilient
2. Safelink/Neighborlink/Airlink update – Community Picnic
3. Climate/Sustainability Update
4. Wildfire Partner Days for Rowena
5. Wildfire Partner Days For Gold Hill
6. Museum update – Calendars and Community Outreach
7. IMA Update
8. Weed Management -Invasive Plants
9. Forestry Report
10. CSA
11. Town Clean-up

Upcoming Meetings/Events

Town Picnic-

Town Cleanup – June 29^th

GHFPD Independent’s Day Pancake Breakfast and Parade

Gold Hill Museum Community Outreach July 12^th

Gold Hill Town Meeting – August 12^th

Other:

GH School

Historical Zoning

Forest MGT/CWPP

Fire Department

Cemetery 

Historic Gold Hill

Mining

Community Center

Tony Vrba, Chair GHTM tonyvrba@nullgmail.com

GOLD HILL MEETING NEWSLETTER

Minutes of the April 8, 2019, Town Meeting

Next Town Meeting will be Monday, June 10, 7:00 p.m. at the Community Center

The meeting was called to order by Vice Chair Marielle Sidell. There were 13 people present: Dina Elder, Seth Porter (Adaptation Services Group), Member at Large Dan Maedke, Marielle, Bob Mason, Treasurer Martha Knapp, Pam Sherman, Marcus Moench, Maggie Simms, Cat Russell, Mary Ryan, Virginia Schultz, Secretary Gretchen Diefenderfer.

The meeting opened with Seth Porter with Adaptation Services Group (he is also one of the initiators of Wild Fire Partners), who has been hired by Boulder County to assist our Gold Hill Sustainability Committee for four months with climate modeling using local data, and proposed strategies for climate adaptation over time.  The end result will be a paper for our committee, as well as support in performing some activities over the coming several months.  Their first meeting was Friday, April 5, and they looked at many issues including possibilities for Wild Fire Partners being enhanced for Gold Hill to include water testing, well backup strategies/devices, trees (for planting), community emergency planning event, and additional energy smart support.

            One idea is to explore the potential for a community-owned solar array with onsite storage, particularly in emergencies.

            Dina asked what a 10º rise in temperature means for us as far as health impacts and increased fire danger.  One goal is to get the whole community of Gold Hill wildfire certified.  Marcus added they also looked at fire-resistant species to help buffer us against fires, as well as what we can do with rooftop rainwater collection, as the state laws have changed.

            Bob wondered, given the certainty of increased temperatures and uncertain precipitation, if people can even live here in 50 years.  He believes one key to survivability is working to maintain soil moisture and how to best contribute our individual efforts to the large-scale efforts that will be needed.

            Dina said the plan is to engage the community and get us all on the same page.  Seth added that, yes, how to make a difference is immensely complicated in our complex world.  Climate change is here now and we have to take action.

            Maggie pointed out that none of us are made of money and wondered if the committee could work on ideas for how we can produce money to help carry out our ideas for community-wide efforts.  The Fire department has recently added large cisterns to our water storage capabilities for firefighting.

            Marcus feels like there are a lot of ways to get funding for sustainability stuff from short-term mitigation work to our visions for the future.  The County is behind us.

Minutes of the February 4 GHTM – were approved as published.

Treasurer’s Report – Martha reported at the previous regular Town Meeting in February 2019 our total cash assets were $12,646.56. Our current total cash assets are $12,310.56.

Revenue Summary: none
Expense Summary: General Fund report filing fees for Annual Report for the State of Colorado and Exempt Property Tax $236,00; SafeLink for Welcome Buckets $100. Overall total expenses $336. 
Fund transfers: none

Current fund totals:
General Fund $646.01; Cemetery $5,489.85; Safe Link (combined funds for SafeSite, AirLink, NeighborLink projects) $2,847.75; Community Planning/Fundraising $1000; Forest Management $0 (zero;) Community Relief $2,326.95.

Gold Hill Resiliency           Committee  – Virginia passed around a wildfire risk map for our area.  Caroline Ashley is working on grants for her property mitigation work. Wildfire Partners will again send out postcards to encourage people to get their assessments.  They did get 20-30 people interested last year, but she doesn’t know how many have completed the work.   The chipping program will be different this year – we’ll see what develops.

            Martha pointed out that, for those who have cisterns, emergency water is available with a bucket and rope, or a generator.

            Virginia reported that a lot of interesting ideas came out of the March 23^rdmeeting on solar options and soil water retention.  They looked at resources and watershed health, encouraging native plants, what can we actually do as far as water collection, what about sheep or goats for weed control, composting.  There is now a CSA – 8 families have bought 3 shares with Black Cat.

            Bob Mason said that it’s important to keep water where it falls for soil remediation, to keep control of the water running down roads, etc.  It will require regrading, ditching, etc., with an eye to directing it to replenish the soil.

SafeLink –  Pam brought a big medical bag donated to us by the Red Cross.  The school is the de facto SafeSite (our place to gather in an emergency) – we’re operating under an old agreement with them and working on a new one.  It was decided to put the bag inside the tuff shed behind the Firebarn for now.  The keys for the shed, which has some emergency gear for the town, are right inside the Firebarn on a wall of keys.

Community Picnic – This idea surfaced a while ago and a tentative date of June 22 is proposed.  One suggestion is to include a movie night near the bocce court.

NeighborLink – Deb brought up the welcome buckets that are given out to new community members.  They include a booklet with all kinds of town information – groups, town events and parties, the Fire Department, the Town Meeting, helpful contact information.  We thought it might be a good idea to print up more for general distribution.  They cost $3.75 each for 100.  Everyone thought this was a good idea.  Martha pointed out that there is money in the SafeLink account that can be used.

IMA (InterMountain Alliance)– Pam reported that the County may hire a professional person to work with the IMA to make sure the County knows about our mountain concerns – that our concerns all are not like those of the City of Boulder.

Museum – Marielle spoke with Deb before the meeting and she reports that the Community Outreach meeting and party will be July 12.  Ed Raines will give a talk on Tellurium – our Gold Hill Mines are one of the few places on earth where Tellurium is found. Gretchen added that we are working on the 2020 Calendar and there are still 2019 calendars available for half price.

Town Clean-Up – The County will again support our recycling/repurposing efforts and we would need to pay for a trash dumpster or two.  The consensus was that it is an important community event and a worthwhile effort that helps us all, particularly those for whom it is not easy to take stuff to Boulder or the Nederland transfer station.  We collected enough money in fees last year to pay for most of the trash dumpsters.  Addendum: The date that works for the Inn and the County turns out to be Saturday, June 29.  This would traditionally be the Bocce Tournament, but Bear agreed it would work to move the tournament to Sunday, the 30^th. 

Movie Making in Gold Hill – Periodically Main Street will be closed in front of the Gold Hill Store May 19 through the 22^nd.

Respectfully submitted, Gretchen Diefenderfer, Secretary

P.S. If you know anyone Community member who should receive the Newsletter in the mail, please let me know

GOLD HILL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 AGENDA

7:00 PM May 17, 2018

CALL TO ORDER

ATTENDANCE

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

FIRE CHIEF’S REPORT

            CALLS

            TRAINING REPORTS/RECRUITMENT

            MAINTENANCE

EQUIPMENT:

OTHER BUSINESS

            Dirt movement issue.

            Cisterns, review site options and process UPDATES

            Review and discussion of GHFPD goals and vision

                        Dry hydrants Update and Plan

                        New firefighters

                        Community Relations   

                        Strategic Planning:  Succession plan

            Adjournment

From Hugh Moore,   huiusmor@nullgmail.com

Producers of upcoming film in Gold Hill are seeking a household who can offer some daytime use of washer and dryer, May 19-22.  Please reply to Elly Michaels,  ellymichaels22@nullgmail.com   214-796-7976 

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From Dina Elder dina.elder@nullgmail.com

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From Peter Swift PHswi@nullaol.com on April 28

Movie shooting in Gold Hill

Just spoke with the director/writer. They will be shooting on Main Street on May 19-24. Periodically they’d like to have Main clear of cars for a few hours now and then. Really nice guys and don’t want to hassle anybody. This is gonna be pretty cool. A SciFy comedy if you can wrap your head around that 🙂 Peter

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From: “Armstrong, Katherine R -FS” <krarmstrong@nullfs.fed.us>

Subject: EVENTS: Get involved in Shared Stewardship on the Boulder Ranger District

Date: April 29, 2019 at 10:32:15 AM MDT

To: Undisclosed recipients: ;

Roosevelt National Forest

Boulder Ranger District 

Media Contact: Reid Armstrong, 303-541-2532 Link to this news online at www.fs.usda.gov/arp 

Get involved in Shared Stewardship on the Boulder Ranger District

Six volunteer opportunities available this spring

BOULDER, Colo. (April 29, 2019) — The Roosevelt National Forest’s Boulder Ranger District is seeking volunteers to assist with six Stewardship Days this spring. The goal is to contain the spreading resource impact caused by dispersed camping across the ranger district. Planned work could include reducing, combining or erasing the footprints of some dispersed campsites, as well as installing vehicle barriers, buck-n-rail fence and signage to manage existing sites.

Please RSVP via e-mail to Jared Smith at jared.a.smith@nullusda.gov with the date and location you are interested in attending as the e-mail’s subject line. The RSVP helps staff plan appropriately for the number of people and update participants on any changes due to weather. If any groups are planning on attending, only one person needs to RSVP with how many people are planning on attending.

The Forest Service will provide hardhats and all necessary tools. Volunteers should bring their own work boots, work gloves, long sleeved shirts and pants, eye protection, lunches and water. Participants should plan to meet the Forest Service at the desired location at 9:30 a.m. on the dates listed below. 

The work areas, meeting locations and dates are:

Planned Stewardship Days: 

• Saturday May 4^th – Front Range Trailhead

o   Directions: From Boulder, CO drive west on Boulder Canyon Drive (CO-119) for approximately 5.0 miles, turn left or south on Magnolia Drive and drive approximately 8.3 miles, turn right or north on Forest Service Road 357.1 and drive approximately 0.2 miles to the Trailhead parking area.

• Saturday May 11^th – West Magnolia camping area

o   Directions: From Nederland, CO drive south on Highway 72 for approximately 1.9 miles, turn right or west on County Road 132 W, drive approximately 1.0 miles, turn left or south on Forest Road 355.1A and the trailhead parking area will be on your right.

• Saturday June 1^st – Sugarloaf Mountain Trailhead/ Switzerland Trail

o   Directions: From Boulder, CO drive west on Boulder Canyon Drive (CO-119) for approximately 5.2 miles, turn right or north on Sugarloaf Road and drive approximately 4.7 miles, turn right or north on Sugarloaf Mountain Road (County Road 93) and drive approximately 0.8 miles to the Sugarloaf Mountain Trailhead parking area.

• Saturday June 8^th – Rocky Point Road

o   Directions: From Boulder, CO drive west on Sunshine Canyon Drive for approximately 11.0 miles, continue through the town of Gold Hill on Main Street or County Road 52 and drive approximately 1.3 miles,  turn left or south on Forest Road 453.1 and park near the intersection of County Road 52 and Forest Road 453.1.

• Saturday June 8^th – Ruby Gulch camping area

o   Directions: From Nederland, CO drive north along Highway 72 for approximately 7.5 miles, turn right or east on Forest Road 328.1 and drive approximately 500 feet, turn right or south-east to continue on Forest Road 328.1 and drive approximately 0.15 miles, turn left or north on Forest Road 328.1B and park on the right side at the big open campsite.

• Saturday June 15^th – Upham Gulch/ Switzerland Trail

o   Directions: From Nederland, CO drive north along Highway 72 for approximately 4.7 miles, turn right or east onto Forest Road 226.1 and drive approximately 250 feet to the large parking area on the right.

• Other Forest Service locations that already held Stewardship Days this year include:

o   East Magnolia Road area (Forest Road 321)

o   Peewink Mountain Road area (Forest Road 332.1)

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For the Town:  Hello, Gold Hill! You are all invited to the Gold Hill School’s spring fundraiser!