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Residents urge clearer outreach on nuclear storage talks and complain county website accessibility; county staff outlines phased remediation plan
Summary
Public commenters pressed commissioners for clearer, broader outreach on early talks about nuclear energy/waste and raised long‑standing transparency concerns about the county website. County administration described a phased plan to remediate high‑use website content and said full remediation will be gradual due to resource limits and state law.
Residents at the Rio Blanco County Board of County Commissioners meeting on Jan. 20 urged the board to do more public outreach about early discussions of nuclear energy and waste storage and to restore public access to records and videos they say have been removed from the county website.
Why it matters: Several residents said the county needs to advertise meetings and technical briefings widely — not only by agenda notices — so people who do not receive email agendas can attend and ask questions. Separately, commenters and a county official debated the pace and scope of making county web content accessible under Colorado’s recent website‑accessibility statute.
What residents said
Public commenters asked the county to hold larger, clearer public meetings about talks the county has hosted with outside presenters on nuclear energy and possible storage. “Tell them exactly what it is,” said one speaker during public comment,…
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