During the November 9, Colorado City Metropolitan District (CCMD) meeting, District Manager Jim Eccher presented the board with many property bids that had been submitted for Colorado City lots. While counteroffers will be returned to the bidders on several lots, the decision was made by the board to refuse sale on the majority of the offers.
Offers submitted and decisions were as follows:
~Unit 1, Lot 644 offer was for $600. Motion passed was to refuse sale.
~Unit 1, Lots 112,113,114, and 115 offer was for $10,000. Motion passed to counter offer at $28,000.
~Unit 4, Lot 77 was discussed in the work-study session but the lot has a major CCMD water line running down the middle of it. The discussion was moved to be an agenda item under new business in the meeting, at which time the board voted this lot to not be sold but to become part of CCMD’s greenbelt area.
~Unit 7, Lots 443, 674, 676, and 743 were combined with Unit 15, Lots 63, 64, 89, 224, 265, 275, 312, 489, 518, and 560 for a lump sum offer of $19000. These lots were stated to all be east of the interstate, and have no water, sewer, or roads in the area. The motion was passed to refuse sale.
~ Unit 14, Lots 10 and 11 which have had a line vacated making them one parcel number had an offer of $3000. The motion was passed to counter offer for $20,000.
~Unit 21, Lot 607 had an offer of $5000. Due to a typo of the unit number, the discussion resulted in several canceled motions, lengthy discussion, and map study before the board passed a motion to counter offer at $7000.
In other property matters, five applications submitted to the Colorado City Architectural Advisory Committee were approved. Three were for new homes and two were for garages.
Eccher reported he had made some calls to get prices on contract gravel hauling but only received information back from Little Diggers.
The board and CCMD employees discussed the costs of contracting gravel hauling as opposed to CCMD hauling it with their own truck. Costs and problems of purchasing a different dump truck as opposed to having the current one worked on were also discussed.
Jake Brunick, a local auctioneer and equipment appraiser who was in the audience, offered to go to Colorado Springs and do an appraisal at no cost to CCMD on a dump truck the CCMD had considered purchasing.
The board made no decisions on contract haulers, repairs, or new equipment purchase until they receive more information.
Director Cook questioned the approval of a bill to be paid to Davis Paving due to the way funds were allotted. Cook protested that the repair costs were split by a percentage between water and sewer costs instead of allotted by what department each job had been a repair for. Eccher and CCMD Finance Officer Yvonne Barrows agreed to research the charges and change the general ledger accounts charged to the proper amounts.
CCMD budget committee meetings will be getting underway in the next week or two to present information at the November 30 meeting.
Eccher reported on an estimate he had received for purchasing and installing variable frequency drives for the sewer plant. He says what he would like to have installed would make the sewer plant more efficient. The estimate presented for this project was $46,014.51. Chairman Neil Elliot and Director Bob Cook expressed their desire to see more bids supplied for this project before a decision is reached.
In CCMD's old business, Eccher reported he still has not had time to research or make decisions regarding the covenants that the lawyer needed, the computer firewall security, or security cameras.
Director Cook raised the issue of many eligible voters not receiving ballots due to not having Colorado City addresses. Methods to improve getting voter information to Pueblo County were discussed.