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Park update: trustees hear CPW funding interest and illegal-road concerns for Silver Plume Mountain Park
Summary
Trustees heard an update that Colorado Parks and Wildlife may consider funding related to the town’s bighorn sheep herd, and discussed an allegedly illegal road causing damage; trustees said mitigation assistance may require criminal charges and offered to contact the Taylor Kennedy land co-owner.
Mac provided an update on behalf of Cindy Neely, reporting that Neely had met with Colorado Parks and Wildlife and that the agency expressed possible funding interest because of a bighorn sheep herd on Silver Plume Mountain Park. Mac characterized the meeting as positive but said the funding process would be slow.
Mac and Berenato also described an illegal road that has caused damage to park land. According to the minutes, sheriff's deputies on scene may have been unfamiliar with the terrain, and Neely was advised the town might have an opportunity to meet with the district attorney and the sheriff's department to pursue criminal investigation. Mac and Mayor Berenato offered to reach out to a co-owner of the Taylor Kennedy land to make the landowner aware of the damage.
An agenda item listed an executive-session financial discussion about a potential purchase of 350 acres to expand the park, but the minutes mark that item as 'N/A' and show no executive-session discussion during this meeting.
The board did not take formal action on land acquisition at this meeting; trustees asked staff and trustees to pursue outreach and to continue coordination with CPW.
