1. Parks and Recreation Director Dean Palmquist and I met with Bob Waggoner about possibly relocating the Band Shell from Centennial Park to Veteran’s Park. Bob is vetting it with his Band Shell Committee.
2. When Jeremy started at the Airport I charged him with putting the bug in Boutique’s ear about more flights and to different airports than just Denver and Phoenix. I am happy to report that we are making promising progress on this front. Of course, we are only in the early stages but they are very receptive to one of the suggestions and will see how feasible it would be to get into one of the other suggested destinations.
3. Jeremy also has talked to Boutique about being more of a presence here in Cortez and featuring Cortez on their Facebook page, which they have agreed to do. Within the next few weeks or so Cortez will be prominently featured on Boutique’s Facebook.
4. Coming to a Council Agenda soon will be a contract for the car rental that Boutique is doing. They have reservations through the end of this year and business is picking up.
5. I attending two Zoom meetings this week both kind of dealing with the same issue. The first was put on by DOLA about rent assistance and then the Montezuma County Homeless initiative. Also was partially in attendance, with Mayor Mike and Mayor Pro Tem Medina, the SWCCOG Board Meeting.
6. Jayson Gray, our newest IT staff member, came over today and updated my Zoom. Afterward I had a Zoom meeting with Drew from Peckham and it went well.
7. At an upcoming work session Chief Knuckles and I will be bringing a request before Council for several unbudgeted items. We need to upgrade our Taser’s and body cameras. We would like to talk to you about an additional FTE to hire an Assistant Chief. Finally, would like to take one more stab at the PPE for police officers and would ask Council to consider the helmet and face shield, dropping the request for batons and ballistic shields.
Finance
Marijuana Revenue 2020
Total Prior Year
February $60, 397 $48,709
March $64,883 $49,961
April $79,609 $62,397
May $82,854 $60,902
June $96,713 $68,092
July $93,725 $71,680
August $98,976 $74,516
September $94,916 $78,660
October $95,537 $75,160
November $90,342 $73,365
December $75,094 $65,922
January $85,611_ $63,422
$1,018,357* $792,786
*For the first time in our history we will take in in excess of $1M from the marijuana tax revenue to the city alone.
Parks
1. The Police Department has been notified that the Catholic Church will be hosting a Good Friday walk along the PDV sidewalk and letting them know it is an activity and not a protest.
Public Works
1. Weekly water production: Ave. 1.20 MGD, High: 1.26 MGD, Low: 1.15 MGD. No Water Issues.
2. Water Docks - $ 2,904.00 *Last year at this time sales totaled $8,981.00.
3. Installed electric auto condensation drains in the compressed air dryers. The old float-type auto drains were sticking open regularly.
4. Rich and the water staff met with Doug Roth to lay out the pipelines around the water plant site on the GIS system.
5. Water welcomed Tyler moved over from Streets and began water operations training.
6. Inspected the media, skimmed algae and repaired the surface wash nozzles of media filters #4, #5 and #6, backwashed them and put them back in service. All media filters have been super chlorinated and repaired for the year.
7. Potable water produced in last 7 days: 8.38 million gallons.
Water Rights Used: Feb. - Non-Project 0 ac/ft.
Project 20 ac/ft.
YTD - Non-Project 0 ac/ft.
Project 386 ac/ft.
8. SNOTEL Report 2/8/2021 - SWE - 76% (Median); Total Precip. - 63% (Ave)
*The SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT (SWE) Percent of Median represents the snow water equivalent found at selected SNOTEL sites in or near the basin compared to the Median value for those sites on this day.
The TOTAL PRECIPITATION Percent of Average represents the total precipitation (beginning October 1st) found at selected SNOTEL sites in or near the basin compared to the Average value for those sites on this day.
- Tracie and Neva have begun initiating public outreach for master street plan.
10. Engineering for Mildred/Montezuma intersection proposal; round-about visual/estimate being developed.
11. New IT Support Tech Jason Gray started this week.
12. Master Streets Plan - Ran a test zoom meeting with the team; all outreach is live; ready to go.