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Broadwater County meeting approves up to $5,000 for park cleanup days
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Summary
Meeting participants approved using up to $5,000 in parks and recreation funds to support two community cleanup days (fence removal, mowing and supplies) at Centerville and Sunnyvale properties; a voice vote recorded audible "ayes," but individual voter names were not captured in the transcript.
A Broadwater County meeting approved using up to $5,000 from parks and recreation funds to support two community cleanup days at Centerville and Sunnyvale properties, after participants amended an initial parking-area proposal into a single funding motion.
The chair (S4) introduced the agenda item to discuss using parks funds to create a parking area, but participants amended the motion to limit immediate spending to up to $5,000 for two cleanup days, including fence removal, mowing and supplies. Committee member S5 proposed the $5,000 cap and Committee member S1 seconded the amended motion.
"We're gonna fence down and mow," the chair (S4) said when explaining the intended work, adding the funds could also cover supplies such as paint and gloves for Connor's Park cleanup. The motion's supporters stressed the effort is intended as short-term site preparation for volunteer cleanup days rather than a full parking-lot construction.
Al Christopherson (S2) urged caution about future parking-lot plans, noting any permanent lot should be aligned with grant-driven stewardship and recreation-trails standards and the likely layout an engineer would produce. "My only concern was that if you start to do a parking lot that it fits within whatever your vision is...and what that's gonna look like," he said, advising that preliminary work be coordinated with potential grant proposals. In the transcript he also stated that "BCDC has the contract ready to sign with interstate for the prep work," a point raised as context for future engineering and grant coordination; the transcript does not expand the BCDC acronym.
Speakers clarified the immediate scope would not include major earth-moving: participants said they planned primarily to remove fence, mow, and make minor adjustments (for example, to an irrigation ditch) so vehicles could pull in safely for the cleanup days. They noted some supplies might be donated.
The chair called for a voice vote; the transcript records audible "aye" responses and the chair declared the motion carried. The recording contains two explicit "Aye" utterances; individual voter names were not recorded in the transcript.
Next steps discussed informally included coordinating any needed minor county work (such as leveling or ditch adjustments) and using funds as needed to buy supplies for the planned cleanup days. The meeting concluded shortly after the vote.
