Board of County Commissioners of Lincoln County  

Agenda for March 31, 2009

 

 

9:00 Call to order and Pledge of Allegiance

 

9:05 Paul Johnson to present for renewal the liquor license for PJ’s Country Store

 

10:00 Social Services Director Colette Barksdale to give her monthly report

 

11:00 Chris Tisserat, Program Manager for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) in Lincoln County, and Kami Welch, Volunteer Training Coordinator, to start the campaign for April being National Child Abuse Awareness Month

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.      Approve additional expense vouchers if necessary

2.      Approve the minutes from the March 30th meeting

3.      Review a letter from the Colorado Department of Revenue concerning the collection and administration of the County Lodging Tax

4.      County Commissioners’ reports

5.      County Administrator’s report

6.      County Attorney’s report

7.      Old business

8.      New business

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Board of Lincoln County Commissioners met at 9:00 a.m. on March 31, 2009.  The following attended:  Chairman Ted Lyons, Commissioners Steve Burgess and Gary Beedy, County Administrator Roxie Devers and Clerk to the Board Corinne M. Lengel.

 

Chairman Lyons called the meeting to order and led the Pledge of Allegiance, and then the Board met with Paul Wayne Johnson, owner of P.J.’s General Store at Rush, to discuss his establishment’s Liquor or 3.2 Beer License Renewal Application.  Ms. Lengel said she had heard of no problems with the store, and Ms. Devers said she had not contacted the sheriff, but he had never reported anything to her, so Mr. Burgess made a motion to approve the renewal application for the liquor license at P.J.’s General Store.  Mr. Beedy seconded the motion, which carried unanimously.

 

Mr. Beedy made a motion to approve the minutes from the meeting held on March 30, 2009, as submitted.  Mr. Burgess seconded the motion, which carried unanimously.

 

The Board reviewed a letter from the Colorado Department of Revenue concerning the collection and administration of the County Lodging Tax.

 

Mr. Burgess reported that he stopped and talked to Chris Monks about the van after yesterday’s meeting, and it has 92,000 miles on it.  He also dropped by the landfill earlier this morning.  Mr. Beedy reported that he did further research on fuel tank alternatives, Mr. Lyons had nothing to report, and Ms. Devers said that Chip Taylor with CCI called her back about the Highway Users money.  He told her the reason Lincoln County gets less money is because it is a tier-two county and that the money is predicted to drop again during this next budget year.

 

Ms. Devers also shared an e-mail forward from Larry Kallenberger regarding the fact that the CCI Board of Directors will be considering an amicus request submitted by Rio Blanco County concerning the use tax on construction and building materials, specifically as it relates to mining and oil and gas operations.

 

A phone call was placed to County Attorney Stan Kimble to see if he had anything to report, and he mentioned that Ms. Devers had requested that he submit an opinion letter needed for the DOLA fuel tank grant application, and he said he would e-mail it to her as soon as possible.  Otherwise, he had nothing else to report.

 

Mr. Lyons asked if there was any old business, and Mr. Burgess said he’d driven through the county yard to see what was there that they may be able to sell.  He’d seen a couple of old asphalt tanks, as well as the vehicles they’d previously discussed and a thousand-gallon fuel tank.  He thought that District Three might be able to utilize that tank until they found out about the DOLA grant.  

 

Mr. Beedy had one item of old business and that was to inform the others that the Eastern Colorado Services for the Developmentally Disabled board will be holding a special meeting on Thursday to discuss appointing an interim director.

 

At 10:00 a.m., Social Services Director Colette Barksdale and Robert Kraxberger met with the Board to give the monthly report for the department.  She supplied caseload and financial reports for both February and March, as well as the Profit and Loss Statement for 2008, and then informed the Board that they will be giving one of the changing tables to the Blue Cliff Community Building, upon their request.  Ms. Barksdale also gave an update on Project School Supply, which is progressing right on schedule.  She said they have received the information back from all of the schools, and submitted it to the local merchants for their prices.  They will then determine how much money they will need to complete the project. 

 

The CFSR PIP Stakeholder meeting was a success, according to Ms. Barksdale, and she thanked the Board for their involvement.  Also, she gave a quick update on the Dragon Speak software that all of her employees are using very satisfactorily, and gave the Board a copy of the letter she wrote to the state regarding the Child Protection Performance Improvement Plan and their completion of the specified requirements.

 

Ms. Barksdale then requested that the Board allow her to purchase TANF dollars from other counties in need of dropping their excess, as SB08-177 limits the TANF reserve amount that counties can maintain.  She explained that Lincoln County never actually had any reserves, but since we will be allowed to keep $136,000 this year, she would like to build them up to that amount.  Next year, and in future years, if the allocation is under $200,000, the county will only be allowed to keep $100,000 in reserves.  Ms. Barksdale named several counties in need of selling some of their reserves, but stated that she would like to help out other small counties or surrounding counties, such as Kit Carson County and Bent County, as they would get the MOE back.

 

The Board agreed that Ms. Barksdale could purchase TANF dollars to build up the county reserves from other counties, most specifically surrounding counties or smaller counties.  Ms. Barksdale said she would send a letter to them.

 

At 11:00 a.m., Chris Tisserat, Program Manager for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) in Lincoln County, and Kami Welch, Volunteer Training Coordinator, met with the Board to discuss April being National Child Abuse Awareness Month.  Chris’s daughter, Traci, was also present.  The group explained a little about their campaign, then left the Board with pamphlets and pins, and a request to help spread the word in any way they could.

 

The Lincoln County Tourism Board was holding a meeting, so they stopped in to present the by-laws of the organization to the commissioners.  After requesting that a small change be made regarding member appointments, the Board answered several questions regarding submittal and payment of bills and vouchers. 

 

Ms. Devers asked which members would be serving one-year terms and which would be three-year terms, and was told that Steve Beedy and Linda Orrell will each be serving for one year, and the remaining three members will each serve a three-year term. 

 

Brief discussion was held regarding the budget year and the Tourism Board committing funds to a certain entity if they were applying for grant funding and then, with no further business to come before the Board, the meeting was adjourned until 9:00 a.m. on April 6, 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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                    Corinne M. Lengel, Clerk to the Board                                      Ted Lyons, Chairman