Posted on: August 11th, 2018

Gold Hill Town Meeting Agenda

Monday, August 13^th2018

NEW START TIME – 7:00p.m.

Approval of previous Minutes

Treasurer’s Report

 Town Council Elections

 Bylaws Review – see https://goldhilltown.com/bylaws-proposed-changes/  

        for the proposed changes and https://goldhilltown.com/what-it-is/    for the bylaws as they stand now

 

 Committee Reports

Gold Hill School

Community Planning –Gold Rush

Weed Committee – See notes below

Wildfire Safety

Community Center – See notes below

Cemetery Committee

 

New Business

 

Upcoming Meetings/Events:

September 23^rdGold Hill Gold Rush

October 8^thGold Hill Town Meeting – 2019 Budget Discussion

December 10^thGold Hill Town Meeting

 

Pam’s – Weed Committee Notes:

 

(1) On July 31 we did a Walk ‘n Talk in the Town Meadow with three guestsfrom the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS–formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service), a subdivision of USDA. They all came from the Longmont Office: Soil Conservationist Sylvia, Forester Dan, Intern Cat, and also CSU Extension Boulder County Small Acreage Management Coordinator Sharon came as well. Gold Hill Joanne led us on a hike up the Meadow Trail. There was lots of discussion up and down the trail and Gold Hillers said they asked all the questions they had about revegetation and weeds and anything else related that came to mind. Btw it was also fun!

(2) Forester Dan (see #1 above) runs anew federal program under NRCS which pays part of the cost of fire mitigationon private land (landas opposed to structures, which is Wildfire Partners’ focus). He said it was up to 1/2 to 2/3 of total cost per acre. This program works with homeowners who have gotten together to pool their acreage for this work. Total acreage in each neighborhood pool has to be at least 1-300 A. By town meeting we should have more info.

(3) Residents have been mitigating spotted knapweed, mullein, leafy spurge, Canada thistle, and others with a habit of taking over. Canada thistle flowered a month early this year at my place; took me by surprise.  Other plants both native and adapted are early, too. What have you noticed?

For color photos of the invasive weeds on the state of Colorado list go here

 

Community Center – Peter Swift:

CU Denver has dedicated a class to study a community center for Gold Hill. Two meetings will help facilitate the development of plans; the first proposed meeting will be a public input session attended by Prof. Keith Loftin.  Interested community members will be asked about 1) possible locations for the building, 2) proposed uses of the building and 3) appropriate architectural styles. The meeting will be on Monday, August 27th at 7 pm in the Fire Barn (tentative location).

 

The second proposed meeting will be on Thursday, August 30th at 1:30 pm at a location to be announced. The students will attend along with Prof. Loftin. The group will tour the proposed building sites and analyze community input from the previous meeting. They will then assemble (tentatively) in the Fire Barn at about 2:30 to receive comments from those who couldn’t make the previous meeting. 

The purpose of this exercise is both to provide the class with a “real world” project, but also to use the project to start a fundraising effort to hire consultants to design the building and do site engineering. Subsequently, there will be fundraising to get it approved and built.

Please come with your ideas and suggestions to help with the design and use of the building.