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\"So when we when we do supplemental, budget requests, really, they're kind of at this point in the year, it's more like revised appropriations, catching any errors that we had when we adopted the budget with the previous board,\" Candice Bridal, county staff, told commissioners.

The package described by Bridal includes multiple items staff said must be captured in a supplemental so the county can file accurate reports with the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA). The items discussed were the following: a move of funds for community contributions (described in the meeting as $150,000 from the general fund to a county contributions account); two small tourism-related grants recorded to a grant fund; an allocation that staff said should have been set aside for the sheriff's search-and-rescue program (recorded in discussion as $40,007.90); $515,000 to cover 2025 fleet vehicle payments; a $9,440 replacement for the coroner's walk-in refrigerator; and a $950,000 transfer to cover the purchase of two parcels associated with the Harrison's Park project.

Bridal said several line items reflect board approvals that occurred after the budget was adopted or that were approved but not recorded in the budget in the correct fund. \"A lot of these items were board approved ... the timeline for them happening may or may not have captured them in the budget. So anytime that happens, we do have to go and actually make a supplemental adjustment because this has to get submitted to DOLA,\" Bridal said.

Commissioner Matt Bullock pressed staff on the $515,000 fleet charge, asking how so much slipped through the budget process and whether the county should reconsider its current leasing arrangements. \"I'm wondering how, half a million dollars got missed. I don't understand the verbiage of that $515,000 ... Was that not in the budget at all, or was it in a different category?\" Bullock asked. County staff and other commissioners described the omission as a communication and coding error tied to transitioning the fleet program between funds and a change in how some vehicles are procured and managed.

Bullock and other commissioners asked for a deeper review of fleet use, mileage and alternatives to current lease practices. \"I think we should review the fleet ... and see if we can start cutting down on all those leases,\" Bullock said. County staff agreed to organize a follow-up work session that would include the county's fleet manager and the vendor so commissioners could review utilization, mileage and cost assumptions.

Bridal described the $950,000 land purchase for the Harrison's Park project as two parcels previously approved by an earlier board; staff said they were recording the transfers to reflect the purchases on paper. Commissioners requested additional detail on the specific parcels and the intended scope of the park property; staff said they would provide more information later.

No formal roll-call vote or ordinance was recorded in the work session transcript. Commissioners and staff treated the items as administrative adjustments that staff must document and submit to DOLA. Bridal said the county files such supplemental adjustments quarterly to keep the published budget in alignment with board-approved actions.

What happens next: staff said they will prepare the paperwork to record the supplemental adjustments and submit them to DOLA in the county's regular reporting. Commissioners requested a separate work session on fleet utilization and asked staff to provide additional parcel-level detail on the Harrison's Park property.

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\"We were formed out of a need for wildfire mitigation, post fire flooding, back in 2017,\" Pappley said, describing ARWC's work since the 2017 season and citing the group's recent recovery effort for the Interlaken fire. \"We work across private and public land from a water perspective.\"

Pappley outlined three primary program areas: CoSWAP-supported wildfire mitigation crews (Colorado's strategic wildfire action planning program, administered by the state, which provides crews and project management support), the Twin Lakes Wildfire Ready Action Plan and the California Gulch comprehensive watershed restoration program. He also described a new RiverWatch citizen-science water-quality monitoring effort that has begun sampling Lake Fork Creek for metals and other parameters.

On California Gulch, Pappley said ARWC had secured roughly $4 million through a Natural Resources Damages (NRD) grant and had matched that amount with an additional $4 million, producing an $8 million program budget spanning multiple years and sites. Pappley said the California Gulch program includes culvert and crossing replacements, wildfire mitigation and mine reclamation work to reduce legacy-mining contamination.

Pappley described an ask to Lake County for operating support in 2025: a $31,000 total request for county-related tasks, with about $10,000 coming from a CoSWAP grant and a net county cost of $21,300. \"Will only be 21,300,\" Pappley said, and he told commissioners he had set that amount aside in the commissioners' budget for 2025.

Commissioners and staff asked for details on several topics. Commissioner Matt Bullock asked whether ARWC was testing for fire retardant compounds after the Interlaken fire; Pappley said ARWC's immediate post-fire focus had been ash and debris and that other entities such as Aurora Water and Colorado Springs Utilities were conducting some testing and could be asked about specific chemical analyses. Pappley named a consultant (Blue Elements and one Emily Osborne) as a potential contact for studies of fire-retardant runoff but said ARWC had not led that particular study.

Pappley also described a successful culvert replacement on County Road 11 and showed maps and aerial data used to prioritize Twin Lakes mitigation work. He said some NEPA work that had delayed mitigation funding is now complete, enabling federal partners and local organizations to pursue more on-the-ground mitigation.

\"That's our number-one targeted area basically in the basin, because of the importance of Twin Lakes, and so we already have that grant and that's moving forward,\" Pappley said of the Twin Lakes work.

Pappley ended by asking for continued county partnership and noted that ARWC will convene a Twin Lakes stakeholder meeting in the coming week. Commissioners expressed strong support for the collaborative's approach and for leveraging utility and state funding to extend local dollars.

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Anne (county staff) summarized site work and utility capacity and said the parcel adjacent to Fire Station 2 has adequate water and an oversized septic system—attributes that reduced some costs. She said teams worked with public works to identify the best siting on native soil and to minimize conflicts with the fire station's operations.

Bonnie (SHAPE, architect) and a representative from Downstream Construction described how early assumptions shifted after a fuller operational review and after moving the building's location. Early budget planning assumed a roughly 1,000–1,200-square-foot conditioned facility with an unconditioned garage and produced a bid package with a construction-price estimate and a design contract not to exceed $750,000.

As the schematic design advanced, the design team returned a construction estimate of about $734,000 with additional site and mechanical complexity that raised a working project total to about $845,000 before contingency. The team then applied a 20% contingency as a safeguard for market volatility. Through further value-engineering, the design and construction team said they were able to reduce the package to roughly $667,500 in a revised cost model while retaining required operational functions for the coroner's work.

Designers explained that the garage is more operational than a standard vehicle bay: it must accommodate a high-top transit van, provide ventilated, plumbed workstations, an oil interceptor for vehicle drainage, storage for evidence and personal effects and a conduit to a conditioned morgue area with a walk-in cooler. The proposed plan includes locked storage, differential ventilation for the \u00153dirty\u0016 and \u0015clean\u0016 zones and space-saving office and sleep-rest accommodations for long calls.

Commissioner Matt Bullock questioned the magnitude of design fees for a relatively small building. Bonnie and county staff said the architectural and engineering fees reflect the full scope through construction administration, the building's specialized mechanical and plumbing systems, and additional civil and geotechnical work required after moving the building location to native soil.

County attorney Chris Floyd asked about secure storage for personal effects; the design team said the plan includes locked storage and surveillance coverage to meet security needs without adding an extra conditioned room that would increase footprint and cost.

The design-construction team said it will assemble a packet with a line-item budget, the list of cost-savings moves and revised drawings and provide that material before the board's April 1 meeting. The board asked staff for a short follow-up meeting to walk through the value-engineering items and to confirm long-term lifecycle assumptions for materials and systems.

No formal action or vote occurred at the work session; staff requested direction to proceed to the April 1 agenda with the updated materials and asked for guidance on whether to proceed with the current schematic and the funding approach.

Speakers quoted in this article come from the meeting transcript; direct quotes are attributed to the speaker named at first reference.","Design and construction teams updated the Lake County Board of County Commissioners on a proposed coroner facility sited next to Fire Station 2; staff said initial budget estimates changed after schematic design and site relocation, and they plan to return to the board on April 1 with detailed cost breakdowns and value-engineering notes.","actionData","errors"]

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