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SPECIAL FEBRUARY MEETING borrowing of $2,650,000 is intended to be used by the District to
OF THE WATER DISTRICT fund improvements to the Sage Port Water Treatment Plant and
Jim Matchett... the Sage Port Wastewater Treatment Plant, as well as the con-
struction of a water storage tank, water line loop improvements,
A Special Meeting of the Perry Park Water and lift station improvements. Further information on the legal
& Sanitation District began at 10 a.m. on aspects of this borrowing was provided to the board by Martina
February 12 with four Directors present. Hinojosa of Butler Snow, LLP, the District’s public finance le-
The meeting was called to obtain Board ap- gal counsel. Subsequently, the board approved unanimously a
proval for a 45 Day Notice Process versus a resolution to enter into a leasing agreement with Branch Bank-
Service Plan Amendment. The board unani- ing and Trust Company utilizing the Sage Port Wastewater
mously approved a resolution to authorize the district Manager Treatment Plant as collateral. It was noted that the Board of
to advertise a Public Notice and submit it to the Douglas County Directors had concluded after a year of due diligence that this
Commissioners and district Court. The notice meets the speci- financing option is in the best interest of the district. Further,
fications of Section 32-1-207(3)(b), C.R.S., as amended, since that this leasing agreement is not general obligation debt, and
the district intends to enter into a lease-purchase agreement to that the title of the collateral property would not change.
fund improvements to (1) the Sageport Water Treatment Plant
and the Sage Port Wastewater Treatment Plant, and (2) the con- Next, the board unanimously approved the minutes of both
struction of a water storage tank, water line loop improvements, the January 17, 2018, regular board meeting and the February
and lift station improvements. The notice will be published one 12, 2018, special board meeting. Unanimous approval by the
time in February in The Douglas County News Press. board of disbursements totaling $140,221.51 then followed.
Two feasibility studies were reviewed and accepted, one for
There was no audience participation, and the meeting was ad- sewer service on Fox Circle, and one for water and sewer ser-
journed at approximately 10:04 a.m. As always, further infor- vice on Echo Valley Road. There was then a short discussion
mation is available on the district website, www.ppwsd.org on marijuana grow house concerns vis-a-vis the district with
particular concerns on what might be discharged to the Waste
Water Treatment Plants but no formal actions were taken by the
FEBRUARY NEWS FROM board. The meeting was then adjourned at 6:20 p.m. As always,
THE WATER DISTRICT further information is available on the district website, www.
Jim Matchett... ppwsd.org.

The February meeting of the Perry Park NEWS FROM THE LARKSPUR
Water & Sanitation District was called to FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT
order on the 21st with all Directors present Mike Grill, Board of Directors, LFPD...
at 4:30 PM. The first order of business was
a Board discussion on regular board meet-
ing electronic recordings. This practice has been going on for a LFPD Mission Statement
number of years. These recordings are not used by the district Dedicated to our community through
in the preparation of the official minutes of the meetings, nor by quality services, compassion, and ex-
the authors of any articles presented in the Sentinel. Further, a cellence.
recent article in the Special District Association monthly maga-
zine of February 2018 recommended against such recordings, Rodger and Kim Greer Honored for
while recommending that such recordings continue for execu- 35 Years of Volunteer Service
tive sessions when legal counsel is not present in the interests
of transparency. Accordingly, the practice of electronically re-
cording regular board meetings will no longer continue.

Next, was the audience participation portion of the meeting. A
letter had been received from a property owner in the district
requesting time to speak to the board at this regular scheduled
meeting. It turned out the subject was a request to use a differ-
ent material in an unusually long water service line in lieu of
the district’s normal copper standard. Information on the mate-
rial will be supplied to the district and then reviewed by the
district’s technical consultants, TST Infrastructure LLC, before
any decision is made.
At the the LFPD’s annual award banquet - held January 20 at
This discussion was followed by a funding presentation by
James Mann of Ehlers, the district’s financial consultants. The Continued on page 12

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