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Residents raise concerns about growth, security contractors, Xcel offers and Medicaid during Elbert County public comment
Summary
Several residents used the public-comment period to urge slower growth management, question private security contractors and express worry about children’s Medicaid; one speaker also said Xcel Energy reduced a land-offer amount to landowners and asked whether the utility had resubmitted its application to the county.
Multiple residents addressed the Elbert County Board of County Commissioners during the meeting’s public-comment period, raising separate concerns about development, private security contractors, utility offers to landowners and public benefits.
Sunny Mills said zip ties were placed on mailboxes for speeding enforcement at a town hall and expressed concern about security contractors operating on local ranches; she compared contractors to large private security firms and urged attention to sheriff pay and child-health coverage. Mills raised a statewide concern that “85,000 Colorado children” are on Medicaid in rural areas and asked about the county’s health-department leadership.
Greg Lopez, identifying himself as a longtime resident and a former mayor of Parker, urged the commissioners to consider tools to manage growth, including temporary development moratoria, and said board decisions affect long-term infrastructure and service costs for roads, sheriff patrols and public works.
Carrie Jiblets told the board that Xcel Energy (referred to in the record as “XL”) had sent another, lower final offer to landowners and asked whether Xcel had resubmitted its application to the county; she requested the board’s awareness of the change in offer amount.
The board accepted the comments during the public-comment period. No formal action was taken in response during the meeting; commissioners said they heard the concerns and noted where issues overlapped with agenda items to be addressed later or in future meetings.
