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Gilpin County meets with lobbyists, sets monitoring/support positions and hears sheriff's objection to firearms training-card bill
Summary
The county met with Policy Matters lobbyists and discussed positions on multiple state bills; the sheriff's office urged opposition to a bill requiring a firearm-safety eligibility card, citing potential costs and operational burdens for rural sheriffs' offices.
Gilpin County commissioners met March 11 with contract lobbyists from Policy Matters to review the county’s positions on a slate of bills at the Colorado Legislature and to decide whether to monitor, amend, support or oppose selected measures.
Heather Retzko, principal at the Policy Matters firm, and Katie Hancock, budget and policy analyst, introduced themselves and reviewed a tracking sheet of bills. Commissioners and lobbyists agreed to remove several bills that had been “postponed indefinitely.” The group then discussed individual measures on the county’s watch list and, in several cases, set or confirmed positions.
Key early positions recorded during the meeting included: monitoring House Bill 1031 (law-enforcement whistleblower provisions), supporting a measure addressing post-death…
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