I have a letter from the county engineer dated 1974 agreeing to maintain the subdivision roads in Willis heights after we paid to pave the roads. I have not recieved any formal communication saying they are not abide by this agreement. The county now wants to charge us twice for the same service of road repair, much as the state did with recent “faster legislation ” (gas tax +new registration tax).
There’s that word again, “maintain”.
During the past two decades, the Boulder County Commissioners have increasingly abrogated their responsibility of fully maintaining all county roads – including those in county subdivisions. These are roads that were totally paid for by the residents of those subdivisions, given to the County Government for FREE, accepted by the County Government with their promise to fully maintain said roads, and for which the County has implemented and collected taxes for the maintenance of those roads for decades.
Now, the county, after years of declining financial support and physical maintenance of said roads, has redefined the word maintenance and maintains that the subdivision residents must pay, again, the cost of maintaining their roads. Residents must now pay a THIRD time for their own roads – once when initially constructed, secondly over the decades via taxes supposedly for their maintenance, and now a third time via a special assessment.
Via this petition, the undersigned hereby petition the Boulder County Commissioners to fulfill their moral, ethical, and perhaps legal obligation to meet their guaranteed commitments when they accepted ownership of the county subdivision roads. We petition the Boulder County Commissioners to fully maintain all county roads, including those in subdivisions for which they have accepted ownership utilizing funds from within their existing, ongoing budget – without implementation any additional fees, assessments, or taxes of any kind. Full maintenance is specifically to include road replacement, overlay, chip sealing and any and all other maintenance and upkeep activities for said roads.
Peter Dente: Boulder County should uphold commitments on subdivision roads – Boulder Daily Camera.
Both the prior and current commissioners have been unreceptive and unresponsive to subdivision residents’ requests, and votes, that the commissioners meet their moral, ethical and perhaps legal responsibility to fully maintain roads they received for free, have owned for decades, and have implemented and collected taxes to pay for full maintenance on for decades. Funds the commissioners have, on their own initiative, diverted to other, nice-to-have, resume padding, non-essential projects and activities.
This has been a prima facie bait and switch with your tax dollars.
So far, 218 of your neighbors have signed our petition requesting that the Boulder County commissioners meet their commitments and do what they promised when they required subdivisions to transfer ownership of their roads to the county for free. Here is the link to that online petition to add your voice. I will print this out and present it at the commissioners’ meeting today at 4 p.m. (ipetitions.com/petition/boulder_colorado_county_road_maintenance). Make your voice heard in writing.
I strongly support this petition. The county, despite their protests, has changed the meaning of maintenance over time. With county encouragement, we paved our roads in 1992 with the county supplying 50% of the funds and they would then “take over maintenance” of the road. This was not a decision that our neighborhood took lightly and if there was any issue with the definition of maintenance, the county had a duty to reveal. They absolutely did NOT.
My crystal ball says: PID voted down, LID enacted, lawsuit ensues. It gets hazy after that.
8/15 updated spelling for clarity in final paragraph.
Three cheers for Boulder County resident Mark Cage: Boulder County’s three amigos don’t speak for me – Longmont Times-Call.
So when the three amigos make joint public statements like “80 percent of county residents consistently approve of the open space program,” just remember they are not speaking for rural residents, they are speaking for their city electorate, and they are not speaking the truth. The last vote to raise taxes for more open space extravagance — the true test of approval — only passed by a razor thin majority, nowhere near 80 percent. Let’s take that vote again with the current economy and we’ll see just how many voters want higher county taxes, added to higher state taxes, added to higher federal taxes, to buy more cornfields with no-trespassing signs.
They don’t speak for me either. I haven’t voted for a County Commissioner that won in 15 years (or longer).
Low-premium, high-deductible health plans are endangered by Affordable Care Act : Stltoday.
“I’m only really interested in catastrophic coverage,” says Coons, 58, who retired last year after selling an electronics manufacturing business in Indianapolis. Beyond their premium, the couple typically spends no more than $500 annually on medical care, Coons says. “I’d prefer to stay with our current plan.”
Mr. Coons is obviously unenlightened and doesn’t realize he has a worthless plan. But he can be forgiven for thinking he can “keep his plan“.
If you read the article, it also implies that preventive care is at “no cost”. Don’t you believe it. There may be no “DIRECT” charge but you ARE paying for it.
Donna Pyle: Optimize traffic flow to reduce Boulder’s pollution levels – Boulder Daily Camera.
Consumers Union recommends shutting off your engine any time you will be sitting for 30 seconds or more to save gas. But in Boulder, you’d wear out your starter within a few months.
She doesn’t even mention the crosswalks. Also, this is a solution that costs the City money and doesn’t bring in any income. Not gonna happen. Not now, not ever.
Settled science: Interior Secretary: I don’t want any climate-change deniers in my department | WashingtonExaminer.com.
The 24 square miles surrounded by reality has an “inside the beltway” edition.
Glad we got that straightened out: Feinstein: You’re Not a Real Journalist Unless You Draw a Salary Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!.
Perhaps Feinstein should read An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths
Public hearing and resolution for Boulder County Subdivision Paving Public Improvement District.
What: Public Hearing on the proposed Public Improvement District to rehabilitate unincorporated Boulder County paved subdivision roads
When: Wednesday, August 14, at 4 p.m.
Where: Commissioners’ Hearing Room, Boulder County Courthouse, third floor, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder (map)
Action Requested by BOCC: Based on the criteria, approve a resolution submitting the question of forming the district, issuing bonds and imposing a mill levy to pay the costs of road rehabilitation in the district to voters in the district for the November election
Be there!
Idaho on Obamacare: We’ll take it from here.
Of the 16 states gearing up to operate online marketplaces — a central feature of the effort to expand coverage to millions of people starting in January — Idaho is the only one where Republicans are in total control of state government. Republicans outnumber Democrats 4 to 1 in the state Legislature, and only a third of Idahoans voted for Obama last fall — the third-lowest tally nationwide.
Idaho’s situation is exactly the opposite of Colorado. The constant Progressive chant that implies that any insurance prior to Obamacare isn’t/wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on is most distasteful and echoes throughout the State. I wonder where the $250,000 +/- came from that my insurance company has paid out to cover our younger daughter over the last few years.
It will be interesting to see the difference in plan pricing especially over time.
Anita Oswald: How deep do our pockets go in Boulder? – Boulder Daily Camera.
I feel like the kid in The Emperor’s New Clothes every time I read a new and outrageously, expensive proposal for municipalization or the civic center or more open space. Meanwhile, the infrastructure, like sidewalks and gutters, continues to crumble and critical city services are underfunded. But, hey, let’s build another bike path. As I was told by a city staffer recently, “That’s the price you pay for living in Boulder, and if you don’t like it…”
Commons sense, boring and straightforward. Note likely to grab a big audience in Boulder. Something about being inside the castle walls of the 24 square miles surrounded by reality.
Perhaps when the minions outside the castle walls say so? Fox poll shows “phony scandal” line playing worse that you’d think « Hot Air.
For Boulderites, you will most likely agree with commenter ‘cmsinaz’ who states…
Its a fox news poll, nothing to see here pffft
HOWEVER, before you dismiss the scandals as phony keep in mind that none other than the editorial page editor of the Boulder Daily Camera, Erika Stutzman who defines the word progressive, is concerned about at least some of them…
These non-phony scandals have produced some strange bedfellows.
Santa Ana to pay new city manager more than $500,000 annually – latimes.com.
Though much smaller than Phoenix, Santa Ana is the county seat in Orange County and a political power base. But the densely packed city has struggled with budget problems in recent years.
No fooling.
Exclusive: IRS manual detailed DEA’s use of hidden intel evidence | Reuters.
Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published in a manual used by agents of the Internal Revenue Service for two years.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I wish this was surprising: AP’s Russ Bynum Covers Up Obama’s ‘Gulf Ports’ Gaffe | NewsBusters.
What Obama said…
If we don’t deepen our ports all along the Gulf — places like Charleston, South Carolina, or Savannah, Georgia, or Jacksonville, Florida — if we don’t do that, those ships are going to go someplace else. And we’ll lose jobs. Businesses won’t locate here.
What Russ Bynum reported…
“If we don’t deepen our ports all along the Gulf — (and in) places like Charleston, S.C., or Savannah, Ga., or Jacksonville, Fla. — if we don’t do that, these ships are going to go someplace else and we’ll lose jobs,” Obama said.
Goodness. Is Russ on Obama’s payroll or something? MSM reporters, here’s a news flash to you as it must you must be too damn dense to understand, idiocy like this that is NOT called out, reflects poorly on all of you.
HHS official: Immigrants who are ‘lawfully present’ but not citizens qualify for Obamacare subsidies.
Regardless of whether or not illegal aliens granted RPI status would get access to Obamacare subsidies in the end, Gerlach caught a major nexus point between the immigration and health care battles the left and the Democrats are waging: the administration does plan to use U.S. taxpayer resources to give Obamacare subsidies to foreigners in America on student visas, travel visas and other things like that.
I guess it’s all free money.
Next thing you know, President Obama will think there are 57 states or something.
Remember, it’s a phony scandal.
