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Severance board approves $1,000 community grant and reviews senior services, park closures and capital projects
Summary
The Citizen Advisory Board approved a $1,000 after-prom grant and heard staff updates on an upcoming Harmony — Ponderosa traffic signal, a major waterline replacement, Phase 5 community-park construction (closing parts of the park mid-February—October) and local outreach to expand senior services.
SeveranceCitizen Advisory Board members approved a $1,000 community grant request for a high-school after-prom and reviewed several town projects and resident concerns about senior services.
The grant request from a Severson High School applicant for after-prom programming was included in the meeting packet and was approved after a motion and roll-call vote. The board recorded a unanimous affirmative outcome during roll call; names of individual voters were recorded on the roll but specific vote-by-name mapping to speaker labels in the transcript excerpt was not provided.
Staff provided multiple capital-project updates: the traffic signal at Harmony and Ponderosa is scheduled for arm erection in the coming week with the final light components due in one to two weeks, the design work for a major waterline replacement (removing the town's last asbestos line) is about 50% complete and will require later road closures, and Phase 5 of the community park will close portions of the park from mid-February through October for construction. Staff warned that some summer events will be canceled or moved and said Severance Days will likely shift to a fall date to accommodate construction.
On services for older residents, multiple speakers urged town staff to pursue Weld County aging services and to consider using available space such as the library or newly completed town facilities to host local senior programming and meal distribution. One resident described the difficulty seniors face traveling to Windsor for services and urged the town to "try to get some of those services" locally.
Other administrative notes: staff reminded residents that solicitors must be licensed on townofseverance.org (profit solicitors must apply annually), town hall offers free notary services for residents, and the town has active RFPs for paving and trail work and a call for artists for a sport-court wrap. The board also heard a brief legislative watch item regarding a state planning bill discussed in the meeting that participants said could limit local review for small projects; staff recommended monitoring and potential advocacy.
The board adjourned following the regular agenda.
