In the interest of full disclosure, let it be known that the author of this article is married to the Mayor.
In what was an otherwise a very uneventful Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting Tuesday (Monday was President’s Day) night, Interim Administrator Karen Cumbo brought the sparsely filled room to spontaneous applause when she casually announced during Staff Reports that the Colorado Department of Transportation had reviewed the numbers from a traffic warrant study done a few months earlier, and had come to the conclusion that a traffic light at the intersection of Hwys. 66/36 and Stone Canyon/McConnell Bridge was indeed, justified.
Ironically, and appropriately, one of the few stunned people present was Ed Bruder, a Stone Canyon resident who was very instrumental in leading the effort to get CDOT to consider the need for the light.
Prior to the meeting, the BOT held a workshop during which Cumbo and Town Attorney Tim Cox updated the Trustees on what was currently going on in the State Legislature and in neighboring communities concerning the medical marijuana issue. The workshop was attended by three members of the Planning and Community Development Commission, a couple of dispensary owners, and a few other concerned citizens. Since it was just a workshop, no action was proposed or taken.
Some “action” was taken on the rest of the evening’s extremely light agenda (apparently, since it was Fat Tuesday, the Board has given up lengthy and cumbersome agendas for Lent). With just enough Trustees in attendance to make up a quorum (Kathy Carroll, Tina Schooler, and Peter Baumgartner did not make the meeting, although Baumgartner was at the pre-meeting workshop), the BOT unanimously approved an agreement with One Business Mart to host the Town of Lyons’ website, and they also agreed to a proposal for the 2010 funding of services to seniors ($2,500 to Meals on Wheels, and $1,000 to Special Transit). Staff and Trustee reports were given, the consent agenda, consisting of only one item, the February 1 BOT meeting minutes, was approved, and because it was Mardi Gras, the meeting was adjourned at 8:45 p.m. (a record) and everyone left to “laissez les bon ton roulette.”
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