HomeMy WebLinkAboutbocc.min.reg.090219698etpember 2, 1969
The Board of County Commissioners of Pitkin County, Colorado, met at
10:00 o'clock AM, September 2, 1969, with the following members present Chairman
Clyde Vagneur; Commissioners T, J. Sardy and J. Sterling Baxter; Robert Delaney,
County Attorney, Peggy E, Miklich, Clerk; Lloyd Speckman,
Bills were audited approved and order paid from Various Funds as
follows:
SPECIAL LIBRARY FUND $1,458,79
HOSPITAL OPERATING FUND 33,00
AIR RESIIUE FUND 315.00
COUNTY CLERK's CLEARING FUND 10,147.47
ROAD & BRIDGE FUND 12,892,09
GENERAL FUND 23,293,29
Joe Burger State Welfare Department appeared before the Commissioners
and discussed a request by the Commissioners for a six months extension of the
probationary employment of Pitkin County Welfare Director Mary Northrup. Mr,
Burger denied the request but did agree to offer Mary Northrup an emergency
appointment for sixty working days, Upon motion by Baxter seconded by Sardy
and unanimously voted the Board made the offer to Miss Northrup and advised
Miss Northrup to give her decision to the Board within twenty four hours,
Sheriff Carrol Whitmire requested and increase in salary for Billie
Zelnick from $350,00 to $400.00 per month. After discussion the salary of
Billie Zelnick was set at $380.00 per month.
additional right-of-way '~e obtained and the road widened over TnTatson
Divide before it could be kept open cn a regular basis.
Commissioner Sardy reported that he had made an investi-
gation concerning appropriate specifications for paving in sub-
divisions where County maintenance and snow removal is requested
and recommended that highway specifications and recommendations be
accepted.
Thereupon, on motion duly made, seconded and unanimously
adopted, it was declared that hereafter the standards for Sub-
Division Roads desire to be accepted for maintenance and snow removal
by the County would require a base course according to County Stan-
dards heretofore maintained, plus paving, with not less than 24 feet
in width and not less than 2 inches thick, prepared and laid in
accordance with Colorado Department of Highways specifications for
hot mix paving.
Mr. Gene Krill, representing the Telephone Company,
advised the Commissioners they were withdrawing request to lay
telephone cable in the Red Mountain Road and had decided to follow
an overhead route along with the cable television.
Mr. George Thurston, representing Holy Cross Electric
Association requested authority to place an electric line along
the railroad right-of-way recently conveyed to Pitkin County by
the D&RGWRR to serve the new Aspen Sanitation District Sewage
Treatment Plant, extending from a point opposite that plant on
the railroad right-of-way, northwesterly to connect with existing
power line service. After extensive discussion concerning alter-
native routes, and on motion duly made, seconded and unanimously
adopted, it was directed that license be granted to Holy Cross
Electric Association to install a power line to serve the Sewage
Treatment facility at the "Hog Pasture" site provided concurrence
is obtained from the D&RGRR Company and provided further that the
right-of-way so granted shall be subject to termination at the
election of the County Commissioners at such time as alternate
service becomes reasonably available at the Sewage Treatment Plant
site upon not giving less than six months advance notice of termina-
tion in writing. Also, the power lines shall be so located as not
to encroach upon the graded part of the railroad right-of-way.
The Commissioners discussed recommendations by the Pitkin
County Airport Authority for widening the runway, acquisition of
leasehold interests and other property at the airport, and agreed
to confer with the Regional Service Authority about implementation
of this plan.
The County Attorney was directed to reply to a letter from
the Sopris Mental Health Clinic, advising that the Commissioners
would favor an arrangement whereby representatives of the County
on such Clinic be appointed by the Commissioners.
Mr. George Nelson, Surveyor, discussed conditions for
acceptance of the roadway into the County System in the West Aspen
Subdivision No. 2, advising that a paving requirement had not
been imposed by the Commissioners at the time the subdivision was
laid out and he felt that this requirement should be waived in this
instance. However, it was determined that only four houses had
been constructed in the subdivision at this time and therefore it
was not eligible for County acceptance. The Commissioners advised
Mr. Nelson that at such time as the required nine houses were con-
structed, the matter could be resubmitted for consideration.
Mr. Martin Dumont, District Attorney, appeared advising
that while the State of Colorado had accepted responsibility for
public defender expenses in 1970, the District Attorney expense
would still be borne by the counties within the district. He also
made suggestions as to the needs of his office, and the Commissioners
suggested he include them in his budget request.
Mr. Edgar Stanton, representing the Planning & Zoning
Commission,. discussed various zoning matters with the Commissioners.
A petition for rezoning from A-F -Agriculture and Forestry to
T-Tourist of an area on Smuggler Mountain, easterly of Aspen, known
as The Warren Lake area was recommended to be denied by the Planning
and Zoning Commission for reasons among others that the road was
inadequate to serve it; that the density requested would be too
high in the judgment of the Planning Commission.
Thereupon, on motion duly made and seconded the Commissioners
voted to accept the recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Commission
and the application for rezoning to Tourist was denied.
Mr. Stanton reported that as to the request of Henry Stein
for rezoning from A & F to B-Business of an area near the Airport
Ranch, adjacent to the land heretofore rezoned to Business at the
request of Paepcke-Spachner-McBride be tabled or deferred for further
consideration until such time as Mr. Stein presented a definite plan
of development and indicated the nature of use contemplated.
On motion unanimously adopted, the recommendation of the
Planning & Zoning Commission was accepted and the Commissioners
directed that further consideration of this request be deferred
until a definite plan of use was submitted.
The Commissioners discussed at length subdivision plans
presented by John Doremus on behalf of Fredric Benedict & Company,
with which he is affiliated on Red Mountain. Mr. Doremus presented
a revised plat of Block 3 of the Red Mountain Subdivision, reducing
the sites from 17 to 11, and Mr. Stanton advised the Planning &
Zoning Commission had approved this plan.
Commissioner Baxter advised the Commissioners had
previously indicated they would approve this subdivision on the
reduced number of lots provided a solution could be reached con-
cerning the Red Mountain Road access problem, and that thus far
this problem had not been solved. Mr. Doremus also requested
consideration of a preliminary part of Block 4 of the Red Mountain
Subdivision located adjacent to Block 3, it appearing that the
same road problem would pertain as to this subdivision. The
matter was tabled for further consideration until additional
efforts could be directed to the solution of the road problem.
A plat was presented of the Little Annie- LimeVillage,
first filing, located in the Castle Creek drainage nrLittle Annie
Basin, southerly of Aspen, and the plan was referred back to the
developer for amendment of the surveyor's certificate and for
correction of language dedicating the roadway to public use, and
also to show access on a public highway.
The Commissioners discussed with Marvin Reynolds, the
matter of the fire zones within the County, but no definite decision
was reached.
There /wing no further business the meet~mg adjourned.
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