The Fremont County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution amending licensing regulations for medical marijuana businesses in unincorporated Fremont County at their October 25th regular meeting. The action brought an early end to the two year moratorium on licensing any new businesses. The moratorium was originally set to expire in April, 2017.
With a brief agenda of business for their October 11th regular meeting the Fremont County Board of Commissioners approved a grant agreement with the Colorado Division of Aeronautics for work to be performed at the Fremont County Airport. Fremont County receives annual allotments from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for airport projects. This year the county will receive $260,272 from the FAA representing 90 percent of the cost to perform asphalt maintenance work on the apron and taxiway at the airport. Fremont County and the St
The Fremont County Board of Commissioners is seeking letters of interest from persons to serve on the Fremont County Fair Board. The Fair Board is comprised of 15 to 20 members whose responsibilities include planning and conducting the annual Fremont County Fair. The commissioners will be appointing someone to fill an unexpired term and will consider appointing several new members depending on applications received. Fair Board members serve three year terms.
The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is issuing an emergency closure for Cottonwood Creek (Fremont County Road 40) as a result of potential flooding concerns relating to the Hayden Pass Fire. The road closure begins as CR 40 enters BLM-managed public lands.
“Public safety is our number one concern with this road closure,” said Royal Gorge Field Office Manager Keith Berger. “The post-fire assessment team recommended closure of this road until the threat of flooding in the drainage has lessened.”
An electronics recycling event in Cañon City last month saw consumers deliver more than four tons of old television sets to the recycling effort. The Upper Arkansas Regional Recycling Program and the Fremont County Commissioners sponsored the September 17th electronics recycling as 14,405 pounds of old computers, monitors, printers, and TV sets were brought in for recycling. Recycling Program coordinator Beth Lenz said she didn’t have a precise number of television sets delivered but the 9,330 pounds of televisions probably meant that consumers brought in more than 4
The decades-long tradition of opening meetings of the Fremont County Board of Commissioners with an invocation came under criticism again at the September 27th commissioners’ meeting. Cañon City resident Karen Hunter, who previously took exception to opening meetings with Christian prayers, accused the board of discrimination. Hunter argued that the county does not comply with the establishment clause of the constitution saying that her research showed that only Christian clergy ever offered a prayer at commissioners’ meetings.
The Fremont County Planning Commission will deal with one item of business at their monthly meeting on October 4th. The Planning Commission will hear a request to modify a Conditional Use Permit held by KrauthCo, a local landscaping company, which operates a stone quarry north of Cañon City. The modification is for a 115 acre piece of property located one mile north of the junction of Red Canyon Road and Field Avenue. KrauthCo currently excavates large landscaping rock from the quarry.
An annual property assessment study of values and procedures used in the Fremont County Assessor’s Office has resulted in another report showing that Fremont County is in compliance with Colorado law in analyzing property values. The report issued by the auditing firm of Wildrose Appraisal determined that Fremont County Assessor Stacey Seifert and her staff met the standards of both a procedural and statistical analysis.
A dispute among ambulance providers in western Fremont County that lingered in the courts the last two years took center stage before the Fremont County Commissioners at Tuesday’s meeting. Ambulances from both Deer Mountain Fire District and Arkansas Valley Ambulance (AVA) have been jointly dispatched to the same calls over the past five months after the two agencies could not settle their territorial differences. That resulted in ambulances racing to calls thereby jeopardizing patients and crews.
Upper Arkansas Recycling, your regional recycling program, is partnering with Fremont County to host a special recycling collection event in Cañon City on September 17, 2016. During the event, Fremont County residents will be able to recycle a wide variety of electronics-from televisions and stereos to computers, for a fee.
