WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
8:30-9:30AM GWiB Book Club @ Humble House
9AM-1PM AARP Driver’s Safety Program @ Golden Community Center
9AM Golden Seniors – Coffee Klatch @ Golden Visitors Center
Hey Golden Seniors! Join your friends on the Visitors Center Patio for coffee! Sponsored by Golden Pond Retirement Community and Golden Visitors & Information Center. More information I’m their invited guest today, so if you’re coming, I look forward to seeing you there!
9-10AM Women’s Exercise and Bible Study @ First United Methodist Church
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10AM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM Wild West Short Tour
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time @ Golden Library
12-1PM Lunch ‘n Learn @ On Tap Credit Union
The Holidays can be a stressful time both in and out of the work place. Join us and Family Care Center for a Lunch Learn focused on coping with Holiday Stress. (Hint: It’s okay to say no). Not only will you learn ways you can handle the stress to help you and your business have a more joyful season. More information
1PM Wild West Walking Tour
4:30-5:30PM Teen Advisory Board @ Golden Library
5-7PM VIBE@5 @ The Brick Room (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. Become a member 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.
5:30PM Golden High School PTA Meeting @ Golden High School
5:30-8PM Exploring the Elements of Art @ Foothills Art Center
Whether you’re just beginning to paint, intend to strengthen your skills, or are refining a style uniquely your own, explore the potential for self-expression in our visual language. Each session we work on practical application, with demonstrations, of the essential tools of artistic expression: composition, edges, shapes, values, color, light, and subject matter. We always set aside time for feedback on participants’ artwork. Open Studio Members $40/ Members $80 / Non Members $110 Register Become a member
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CITY MEETINGS
5PM City Council Study Session @ City Hall
Council will review the recommended 2024 operating budget and capital improvement plan. The plan calls for some deficit spending.
Projected revenues for 2024: $40,990,017
Proposed expenditures 2024: $42,284,609
Plans for additional hiring:
2 full-time aquatics coordinators
1 assistant golf mechanic
1 golf operations manager
1 Water Treatment Plant Operator
1 Electric Utility Locator
1 Civil Engineer
2 additions to the City Attorney’s office
1/2 museum education assistant (moving from part time to full time)
The second study session topic concerns the City’s charging stations for electric vehicles. The City received grant funding to make the stations free for several years. We have now satisfied that requirement and have the option to begin charging for this service. Staff is proposing a rate of $0.22 per kilowatt hour, which would cover most of the cost of maintaining the public stations. In contrast, commercial charging stations cost $0.48-$0.56/kwh.
6:30PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall
Council will accept in-person public comment shortly after 6:30. If you prefer to email your comments, send them to PublicComment@cityofgolden.net. Written public comments received before 3PM will be added to the agenda after 3PM.
Tonight’s consent agenda (no discussion unless specifically requested by a Councilor) includes approval of a $1,137,730 contract to update the public restrooms in Parfet Park, Lions Park, and next to the Astor House. They will approve an IGA with the Jeffco R-1 School District to provide two School Resource Officers and two assigned patrol cars. They will vote to continue the Rocky Flats Stewardship Council. They will approve the City Council meeting schedule for 2024 (which is unchanged from this year). They will approve a 2023 budget amendment that calls for an additional $860K in expenditures and reduces the contingency appropriation by $325K. They will have the first reading of a change to the municipal code regarding traffic calming They will have the first reading of an ordinance that will increase water (6.2%) and wastewater (5%) rates for 20204.
Tonight’s proclamations recognize Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, Colorado Recycles Week, and Small Business Saturday.
The Finance Director will provide his third quarter report on the City’s financial condition.
They will hold a public hearing (public comment is allowed at this point) regarding the 2024 Operating Budget and Capital Improvement Plan (which was also discussed during the study session).
The Deputy City Manager will provide an update on progress toward the 2023 Strategic Plan.
They will then go into study session to evaluate the performance of the City Manager.
PUB GAMES
6PM Trivia Tuesdays @ Golden Mill
6:30-8:30PM Team Trivia Tuesdays @ Buffalo Rose
6:30-8:30PM Bar Bingo @ VFW Post 4171
LIVE MUSIC
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Open Bluegrass Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
83 Years Ago
The November 14, 1940 Colorado Transcript was focused on Thanksgiving:
Thanksgiving Day is right around the corner–Thursday, November 21–just to be an American–live in Golden and Jefferson county–and be in business on Washington Avenue is enough to make us all reverently happy and thankful.
Avenue Flashes Column
The Golden Gem Theater was sponsoring its annual Thanksgiving food matinee. They were showing The Day the Bookies Wept, starring Betty Grable. Admission was only available with a donation of food, which would be used to stock Thanksgiving baskets for local needy families.
Thanksgiving was unusually early that year. We normally celebrate it on the fourth Thursday in November. In 1939, President Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving to the third Thursday in order to make the Christmas shopping season longer–an economic stimulus move. They changed it back to the fourth Thursday at the end of 1941. Source: archives.gov
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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