While Fremont County building inspectors are working diligently to handle calls for building inspections across the county, a traffic accident last Thursday temporarily took one building inspector out of the office. County Building Official Mike Cox reports that things had been going relatively smoothly since the June 1st transition when authority for the issuance of all western Fremont County building permits and inspections reverted to the main Building Department Office at the County Administration Building. Cox reported to the Commissioners that his staff is working hard to establish a paper trail documenting the status of all pending building permits when the western Fremont County permit services shifted from Dan Ogden Consulting on June 1st.
An accident last Thursday injured building inspector M.J. Hasenauer as he was returning from a day’s work of building inspections in the Copper Gulch area. The accident occurred on County Road 3, the Copper Gulch Road south of Parkdale. A Colorado State Patrol report said the driver of another pickup truck drifted into the oncoming lanes and crashed into the driver’s side of the Fremont County pickup Hasenauer was driving. Hasenauer was taken to St. Thomas More Hospital for treatment. The County’s 2001 Ford Ranger pickup was totaled in the crash. The Commissioners wish M.J. a speedy recovery.
Meanwhile, Cox and the Commissioners are also anxious to get a facility opened in Cotopaxi to provide regular office hours to western Fremont County residents to obtain building permits. An office trailer was moved on site next to the Cotopaxi Sheriff’s substation about three weeks ago and final preparations are being made to get the facility open to serve citizens twice a week.
District 3 Commissioner Ed Norden says county officials are working hard despite some of the recent obstacles to assure western Fremont County residents the service they expect when securing building permits. Norden says the Board of Commissioners does not expect any significant delays in inspections but appreciates everyone’s patience during the transition.
