Commissioners Corner

By Dick Scott

 

Chris Sorensen has been selected by the Hickenlooper-Garcia transition team to serve on the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Committee.  Chris will also be Kiowa County’s representative to the Homeland Security Board serving a six county

Region here in SE Colorado.  These selections did not occur by chance but are a direct result of the expertise and dedication Chris has for these programs. We are indeed fortunate to have Chris serving our county and the SE region. We will be well served to have his expertise voiced at the state level as well.

            Don Oswald, Bill Koehler and I attended a meeting of the CARR (Citizens Against Railroad Relocation) group in Haswell Last week. Although the study regarding the proposed rail across western Kiowa Co. has been put on hold temporarily other CDOT studies regarding rail and transit are developing and could include the rail issue in Kiowa County.  The commissioners remain in support of the opposition by CARR. 

            We will be discussing the 2011 budget at the Commissioner meeting this week and will looking at ways to come closer to a balance.

            Don and I will be attending the Colorado Counties Inc. Winter Conference Nov. 29,30 and Dec1. We anticipate gaining insight to several issues such as pending legislation, medical marijuana, energy transmission and certainly budgets. It is a good time to visit with other commissioners and gain their perspective of the many issues facing Colorado Counties. I know that energy transmission will be a topic at the conference, we have a meeting with energy people at our commissioners meeting this week and there will be a regional meeting on transmission following the CCI conference.   

 

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