Virtual Events
TriceraTOTs – Edible Soil Layers
6-6:55AM Cycling
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic
10:15-10:45AM Virtual: Baby and Toddler Time
11-11:55AM HIIT & Sculpt
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga Virtual
Real World Events
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 – WAITLISTED
11AM-12:30PM Golden Community Table @ First United Methodist Church
4:30-5:30PM Teen Advisory Board @ Golden Library
5-7PM Golden Women in Business Happy Hour @ Café 13
5PM VIBE@Five @ Cafe 13
VIBE@FIVE is Golden’s Happy Hour! Come join other members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce for this “Very Important Business Event” – VIBE!
6:30PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall
The consent agenda includes the first reading of an Intergovernmental Agreement between the City and the School of Mines. It will discussed and voted on at the second reading, on April 26th.
They will read three proclamations: for Arbor Day, Earth Day, and National Volunteer Week.
They will consider an ordinance regarding governance of the City’s water and wastewater Enterprises.
The business meeting will be followed by a study session. They will continue the discussion they began on March 15th regarding retail marijuana. There is one significant change since the last discussion: City staff had provided a map showing the locations of Golden schools and parks, with the assumption that we would want to keep pot shops away from schools and parks. The March 15th map did not include South Golden Road as a potential store location because of its proximity to Golden High School, Bell Junior High, and Ulysses Park. At the March 15th meeting, Council decided that selling marijuana on South Golden Road will be allowed. Consequently, South Golden Road is now included on the Retail Marijuana Center Potential Locations map.
They will then hear from the Fire Chief about the Fire Department‘s status. There was discussion last fall about hiring more full-time fire fighters so they could staff the fire station on Heritage Road. The Chief has applied for a grant that would help pay for those new hires.
The Police Chief will then tell them about new traffic enforcement technology options, including photo radar, photo red light, and noise detection systems. The Chief will ask Council which of these strategies they want to fund.
After the business meeting, Council will have an Executive Session (no public, no cameras). Tonight’s topic is “Receiving Legal Advice From The City Attorney Regarding Local Taxation Of Retail Sales Of Prepared Food Or Food For Immediate Consumption.”
To comment on any of tonight’s topics, send email to councilcomments@cityofgolden.net or be at City hall at 6:30PM.
Editorial
The same City Council that recently abolished sugary drinks in Happy Meals is now embracing retail marijuana with surprising enthusiasm. Before the election, we heard that the stores would be kept on the outskirts and the number would be quite limited–maybe two or three.
Now Council is considering seven locations–one of them squarely between a high school, a junior high, and a skateboard park.
I’m not enthused about retail marijuana in general, but I am particularly opposed to bringing it to South Golden Road, and I have sent my opinion to councilcomments@cityofgolden.net.
Trivia
6:30-8:30PM Team Trivia Tuesdays @ Buffalo Rose
6:30-8:30PM Trivia Tuesdays @ Golden Mill
6-8PM Toad Trivia Tuesdays @ Mountain Toad Brewing
7PM Trivia Night @ the Ace
7-9PM Team Trivia Night @ Tributary Food Hall
Golden History Moment
88 Years Ago
The April 12, 1934 Colorado Transcript reported that several “Patriotic Organizations” were urging the City to replace the flagpole at 12th and Washington. The pole had come down in a windstorm on March 4th of that year. The American Legion, American Legion Auxiliary, Daughters of the American Revolution, and American Red Cross all wrote letters to City Council, urging them to put up a new pole. They felt it provided an indispensable display of patriotism.
City Council had mixed feelings about it. The flagpole base provided some small degree of traffic calming in an era when cars and drivers were all new and traffic rules were considered suggestions, at best. Council had painted “SLOW” on the flagpole base in the hopes that some drivers might respond accordingly. It wasn’t particularly effective. Cars continued to barrel in to the intersection from all four directions, and there was no such thing as a defined traffic lane.
The flagpole had sketchy roots: the City had never planned to install a flag at that location; instead, unbidden, the Ku Klux Klan decided to bestow in on the City in 1925, during the Klan’s brief surge of national popularity.
A fifty-foot steel flagpole now stands at the intersection of Washington avenue and Twelfth street, and every day the American flag flys from the top of the mast. The pole and flag were presented to the city by the local Ku Klux Klan organization. The flag pole was set in place last Wednesday night by a large number of volunteer workers.
Colorado Transcript – May 21, 1925
In response to public pressure, Council made a temporary repair to the flagpole and it stayed for three more years, then this brief article appeared in the November 4, 1937 issue of the Transcript:
Shrouded with all the mystery of the KKK the avenue flag pole at Twelfth street and Washington avenue was conceived and erected. As mysteriously it was taken down. Children should be especially warned about this corner, until some other protective measure takes the place of the pole.
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!
