WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
9AM Golden Seniors – Coffee Klatch @ Golden Visitors Center
9-10AM Women’s Exercise and Bible Study @ First United Methodist Church
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time @ Golden Library
4:30-5:30PM Teen Advisory Board @ Golden Library
5-7PM VIBE@5 @ Courtyard & Residence Inn (map)
VIBE@FIVE is Golden’s Happy Hour! Come join other members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce for this “Very Important Business Event” – VIBE! This event is for members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce and their guests as well as for members of the Golden Young Professionals. Stop in for a quick hello and a refreshment right after work and a chance to get to know fellow members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce and Golden Young Professionals. This is a great networking and socializing event. Become a member
5:30PM Golden High School PTA Meeting @ Golden High School
5:30-8PM Exploring the Elements of Art @ Foothills Art Center
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
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CITY MEETING
5PM City Council Study Session @ City Hall
Council will review and discuss the City Manager’s recommendation for the 2024 Capital Improvement Plan and Operating Budget. The meeting packet provides considerable detail about the proposed spending plans. Some high-level points include:
* Staff proposes to hire 8.5 additional City employees.
* Proposed expenditures ($42,284,609) exceed proposed revenue ($40,990,017)
Capital expenditures for 2024 include:
* $500,000 for fiber connectivity (includes use of ARPA);
* $8,025,000 for West Colfax complete streets project;
* $1,133,000 for curb, gutter, and sidewalk concrete replacement;
* $1,000,000 for public restroom improvements;
* $1,450,000 for Highway 93 safety improvements design
* $1,944,000 for a new fire truck, and $649,000 for fire dept equipment;
* $759,000 for improvements to municipal facilities, including fire stations;
* $631,000 for Golden Community Center improvements; and
* $5,000,000 (potentially) for design for Phase 1 of the Heart of Golden project.
The Golden Urban Renewal Authority will do their 10-year check-in with Council. They plan to emphasize affordable housing and complete streets. Learn more….
6:30PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall
The meeting will begin with public comment. If you want to address Council, be there at 6:30. If you prefer to email them, send your comments to PublicComment@cityofgolden.net.
Tonight’s consent agenda includes approval of a contract for on-demand concrete work. The second consent item is a contract to reconstruct two retention ponds. The first is “just east of the overpass of State Highway 58 over West 44th Avenue.” The second is “northeast of the intersection of Ridge Road and Wyoming Street.”
Staff will summarize their work to manage the summer crowds in and along Clear Creek. In an attempt to limit parking along 10th Street, they raised the cost of a parking ticket from $30 to $100. They found that the price increase did not discourage parking, but it did raise more money. They recently proposed increasing all parking tickets in the City to $100. Overall, “Staff continue to see significant issues with parking, crowds, and partying behavior at the creek. Staff proposes that next year we focus on limiting access points with hardened boundaries, increasing staff presence further, and making progress towards the creation of a reservation-based system so that overall creek user numbers can be limited to a safe and manageable number of people.”
They will hold the first public hearing on the 2024 Budget and Capital Improvement Plan.
Tonight’s second public hearing concerns a change to the Planned Unit Development for the CanyonPoint subdivision.
Finally, they will approve Resolutions expressing Council’s support for this fall’s three ballot items: increasing property taxes to help fund the fire department; allowing the city to keep the excess lodging taxes that they collected in 2023; and changing some outmoded phrasing in our City Charter.
Speaking of Public Comment
There are two addresses that people use to reach Council. The first is the I referenced above, “PublicComment@Cityofgolden.net.” The second is the one we used to use to address Council: CouncilComments@Cityofgolden.ent. Comments sent to that second address now wind up in an obscure location on the City website. There are a couple of interesting ones this week. Check it out!
PUB GAMES
6PM Trivia Tuesdays @ Golden Mill
6:30-8:30PM Team Trivia Tuesdays @ Buffalo Rose
6:30-8:30PM Bar Bingo Night @ VFW Post 4171
LIVE MUSIC
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Open Bluegrass Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
105 Years Ago
The October 10, 1918 Colorado Transcript announced a series of public health regulations to guard against the Spanish Influenza epidemic.
In Golden all places of public gathering and all loitering places have been closed tight. This includes the moving picture show, schools, churches, dances, parties, lodges and gathering of any kind. Pool rooms and card rooms are not permitted to operate, and loafing will not be permitted in any cigar store or in other places where people have been wont to congregate.
Soda fountains will not be permitted to operate, as it was claimed by physicians that the disease can be communicated by means of the glasses and spoons used.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
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