HomeMy WebLinkAboutbocc.res.115.2020 RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ("BOCC") OF
PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO, TO PARTNER WITH THE COLORADO
MOUNTAIN COLLEGE (CMC) IN APPLYING FOR AND DISTRIBUTING THE
COLORADO OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP (COSI) 2020-2021 MATCHING
FUNDS SCHOLARSHIP
RESOLUTION NO. 115-2020
RECITALS
WHEREAS, Pursuant to Section 2.8.4 (Actions) of the Pitkin County Home Rule Charter
("HRC"), all matters not required to be acted upon by ordinance or formal resolution may
be acted upon by informal resolution, and;
WHEREAS, the State of Colorado, through the Colorado Opportunity Scholarship (COSI)
has provided an opportunity for local counties to apply for scholarship support for students
entering postsecondary education, and
WHEREAS, COSI has required that matching scholarship funds awarded to any county be
deposited with, and administered by, a local representative non-profit community
foundation, and
WHEREAS, Pitkin County has agreed to partner with Colorado Mountain College (CMC)
and the Colorado Mountain College Foundation (CMCF) to take advantage of this
scholarship opportunity provided by COSI, and
WHEREAS, CMC has pledged to raise all required matching funds by COSI, in
collaboration with the CMCF, and
WHEREAS, COSI has required that matching scholarship funds will only be awarded to a
county in which the student participants are engaged in a rigorous student success support
program, and
WHEREAS, the school districts contained either in part, or in full, within the boundaries of
this county are currently participants within a previously funded COSI vigorous student
success support program known as the Mountain Futures Fund (MFF), and
WHEREAS, MFF was developed in cooperation with CMC and has developed a functional
framework for administering grant funds awarded by COSI, that is acceptable to COSI, and
utilizes local non-profit community foundations, and
WHEREAS, COSI has indicated that the MFF vigorous student success support program
currently funded in part by COSI and in operation at present is provisionally sufficient to
meet the requirements of the COSI matching scholarship grant requirements, and
WHEREAS, the provision of additional scholarship support, to offset the cost of attending
post-secondary education and a vigorous student success support program are critical to the
continued economic competitiveness of this county, and
WHEREAS, affordable post-secondary education for the citizens of this county is both a
public good and a pathway towards greater individual economic success and greater
economic health for this county, and
WHEREAS, this citizens of this county have an expressed interest in providing affordable
and cost-competitive quality post-secondary education for residents of this county,
WHEREAS, The BOCC finds that it is in the best interests of the citizens of Pitkin County
to approve this Resolution.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of
Pitkin County, Colorado that it hereby adopts a Resolution to Partner with Colorado
Mountain College (CMC) in Applying for and Distributing the Colorado Opportunity
Scholarship (COSI) 2020-2021 Matching Funds Scholarship and authorizes the Chair to
sign the Resolution and execute any other associated documents necessary to complete this
matter.
INTRODUCED, READ AND ADOPTED ON THE 2nd DAY OF December 2020.
ATTEST: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
By sjt,a1ALift, jOtiU,S By: S•leven F. Cl41d.
Jeanette Jones Steven F. Child, Chair
Deputy County Clerk
Date: Jan-15-2021
MANAGER APPROVAL
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Phylis Mattice for Jon Peacock, County Manager
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