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What's Happening in Golden - Tuesday, Apr. 14th, 2026

News and events in Golden, Colorado. Tuesday, Apr. 14th, 2026

,   and  Barb Warden
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What's happening in Golden today?

Events for Tuesday, Apr. 14th

Golden History Tours
Baby Time - Registration Required
Preschool Time - Registration Required
Team Trivia Tuesday @ Buffalo Rose

For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar

9AM-2PM Painting in the Wild @ Front Porch

Front Porch Golden Community Center

Put on your hiking boots and join outdoor enthusiast and artist Brenda Porter for her “Painting in the Wild” trip. She will be guiding participants along the Clear Creek Trail to find the perfect spot to paint. Brenda will be providing watercolor kits to participants and giving instruction. No matter what your artistic level, all are welcome. Spots are limited: Register Today!

Active Older Adults aged 50+

Location:

Golden Community Center
1470 10th Street   (Map)

10:30AM Front Porch Friends Meeting @ The Community Center

Photo by Joyce Davell

Front Porch Friends Meetings are occurring once a month. Join us at the Golden Community Center for friendly conversation and to support in planning and implementing future Front Porch activities. 
 More information

Location:

Golden Community Center
1470 10th Street   (Map)

12:30-6PM Ribbon Cutting @ Golden PT & Pilates

Join us for a ribbon cutting celebration for Golden PT & Pilates (formerly Connect PT & Pilates) to honor their new branding, new location in Golden and 5 year anniversary!

Celebrations, food, prizes and more will last all afternoon, with an official ribbon cutting with the Chamber at 1:00 p.m.
More information

Location:

Golden PT & Pilates
1014 8th Street   (Map)

5-7PM VIBE@Five

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.

Location:

Golden Outpost
17695 S. Golden Road   (Map)

5PM City Council Study Session and 6:30PM City Council Business Meeting @ City Hall

5PM Study Session

  • Managed Parking at Water and Jackson Streets
    Parking is in high demand in the area by Parfet Park, the Golden Mill, and the future Clayworks development. Clayworks has been granted a transportation demand management plan, which allows them to provide less on-site parking than our codes would normally require. In response (and in anticipation), the residents and businesses in that area are requesting a managed parking system, which would provide tenants with parking permits.
  • Fire Department Data Analytics
    In 2023, Golden voters approved a tax increase to fund more staff for the Fire Department. The Fire Chief will report on the impacts of that increased funding.

6:30PM Business Meeting

Public Comment

The meeting begins with public comment. If you want to address Council, you will have three minutes to speak. Any public comments received by email before 3PM will be posted in the meeting packet after 3 (so check back then!).

Items on the Consent Agenda are considered non-controversial, not needing discussion. Everything in this section will be approved at once, with one vote.

Any councilor wishing to discuss one of the issues can request that it be removed from the consent agenda and discussed and voted on separately.

These are the items on the Consent Agenda:

  • IGA between Golden, Pleasant View, Golden Gate Fire Protection District,and Intermountain Health (ambulence service) for "Emergent and Non-Emergent Ambulance and related medical services."
  • IGA with Georgetown for water storage in Golden's Guanella Reservoir.
  • IGA with Black Hawk for water storage in Golden's Guanella Reservoir.
  • IGA with Soda Creek Property Owners Assn (in Evergreen) for water storage in Golden's Guanella Reservoir.
  • IGA with Jefferson County for use of County parking lots during City special events.
  • Purchase of three Chevrolet Electric Silverado Trucksand four Chevrolet Electric Blazers. The total estimated purchase price will be $318,925. The vehicles they are replacing will be auctioned off with proceeds estimated at $70,000.
  • "Upfitting" of four police vehicles at a cost of $134,558.
  • First reading of a supplemental appropriation to the 2026 budget with second reading to occur on April 28th. The key items are:
    * Drainage Fund ($31.74M): Lena Gulch.
    * Water Fund ($6.8M): Fossil Trace Gold Course pump station and utility line replacement.
    * Wastewater Fund ($640,000): Utility line replacement.
    * Capital Program & SUT Funds ($60.76M combined): Street and sidewalk
    improvements, fire equipment, parks, Heart of Golden, and public art.
    * Open Space & Conservation Trust ($256,977 combined): Parks projects.
    * Fossil Trace Golf Couse Fund ($101,515): Insulation for battery storage and clubhouse building improvements.

Proclamations

Resolutions

  • Approving a new Comprehensive Plan
    Council will approve a new version of the Comprehensive Plan ("the Comp Plan"). The Comp Plan is treated by staff and council as the expressed will of the people and is used as the basis for policy decisions.

    The 2011 Comp Plan was written based on an extensive public input process. It included several goals which have been largely dropped or degraded in this version, such as "Safe, clean and quiet neighborhoods."

    In 2017, the Plan was changed to say that 45% of Golden's housing should be affordable to low, moderate, and median income households.

    This 2026 version emphasizes increasing density and fitting more people in the City's limited space. It states that most new development will be multi-family housing rather than single family homes. It emphasizes use of transportation demand management plans as a way to allocate less land to parking. It focuses on adding affordable housing developments.

    This new Comp Plan also includes a new section on "Regional Partnerships." This is primarily focused on the School of Mines, which has shown dramatic growth over the past few years. This is always a matter of concern to the City, since they have little or no control over what and where the School decides to build. This section mentions the City's desire to have more input into future campus expansion plans.
  • Amending Council Rules
    The resolution clarifies several aspects concerning Council participation on City and regional boards.
  • Establishment enforcement framework and water service surcharge for violations of outdoor water use restrictions.

Ordinance

The Golden Word - 04/14/26

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Golden History: Youthful Adventures of 1966

Colorado Transcript - April 14, 1966
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60 Years Ago
The April 14, 1966 Colorado Transcript was full of youthful adventures.

Story 1 – Up from the Deep
Two teenagers decided to explore a deep pit near the junction of routes 6 and 93. They had taken a rope with them but found they couldn’t climb the 100 feet out of the nearly vertical shaft. Fortunately, they had friends still on the surface, who went for help. The Golden police and fire departments rescued them. According to the article, the boys were in the pit from 11:30AM until 2:30 the following morning.

Story 2 – Golden Youths Find Body on Lookout Mountain
“Leonard I. Baker, age 12, of Frederick, Colo., and Lawrence D. Wyatt, age 13, of Golden discovered the body about a quarter mile down the mountain from Buffalo Bill’s grave, when they were hiking in the area.” The Jefferson County Coroner identified the body as Donald Young, of Denver. The article doesn’t provide the man’s age, but a card in his wallet said he served in the Navy from 1950-1951.

Story 3 – Golden’s ‘Flyer Saucer’ Turns Into Student Hoax
The previous Sunday, several Golden residents had spotted a red, glowing object over Lookout Mountain. It appeared again on Monday night, so two Golden policemen hiked up the hill and found some School of Mines students creating the UFOs by attaching lighted flares to helium-filled balloons. They loosed the balloons and let them float over Golden.

Apparently, they weren’t very fire conscious.

Weather

Overnight's Weather

Overnight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. West northwest wind around 3 mph.

Tuesday's Weather

Tuesday: A chance of rain showers between 7am and noon, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy. High near 58, with temperatures falling to around 54 in the afternoon. North wind 3 to 12 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night's Weather

Tuesday Night: Rain showers likely before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. West northwest wind 5 to 12 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Tuesday Night: Rain Showers Likely, 39°F

Wednesday: Sunny, 66°F

Wednesday Night: Mostly Clear, 43°F

Thursday: Mostly Sunny, 74°F

Thursday Night: Partly Cloudy, 39°F

Friday: Rain And Snow Showers, 42°F

Friday Night: Chance Snow Showers, 26°F

Saturday: Slight Chance Snow Showers, 54°F

Saturday Night: Partly Cloudy, 32°F

Sunday: Sunny, 68°F

Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 42°F

Monday: Mostly Sunny, 74°F

News About Golden - April 14, 2026

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Engineering tradition: Colorado School of Mines celebrates 92nd E-Days


By Emilie Rusch
Colorado School of Mines Newsroom

Colorado School of Mines students will take a break from their studies this weekend to celebrate what it means to be an engineer. 

E-Days – short for Engineering Days – is one of the most anticipated events of the academic year at Mines, with students taking part in traditions including the Ore Cart Pull and Cardboard Boat Races. 

The 92nd edition of E-Days will begin Thursday, April 16 and continue through Saturday, April 18... Read more...

US DOE proposes 52% cut to National Laboratory of the Rockies funding

By Will Norman
PV-Tech

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has proposed sweeping cuts to its research laboratories, including the National Laboratory of the Rockies (formerly the National Renewable Energy Laboratory)... Read more...

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