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Show MONSOON TIMES TOWN COUNCIL NOTES-SEPT 10th MEETING Members present Dave Wagstaff, Pat Drake, and Charlie Kulander. Council elected Dave Wagstaff mayor pro tempore for the meeting. Contract Allowing Expansion of B&B: All three Town Council members were suprised that an agreement had been signed, without their knowledge, by Mayor Valli Smouse. SEPTEMBER 15, 1997 - 7 Letter Regarding Unshielded Lights: TC working on letter to be sent to all CV residents. Draft letter to be reviewed again by Council. One example of good lighting are the Church parking lot lights-the lights put out a lot of light, but don’t shine in neighbors eyes. Valley residents will have to be creative in shielding necessary at very specific times (right before bloom and after every rain! ! ! ! l). I don’t see any easy answers. Is there someone out there with new ideas? Do share. I will continue to collect information on puncturevine stem weevils for the CV Times. In the their lights. Stan-dard fixtures that provide shielding are hard to find. Town/POA Road Funds; Valli and of puncturevine or the season’s trophy goathead. Perhaps a festival, with a parade and a Goathead Queen? I wonder, can puncturevine be stir-fried? —Alice Drogin Road Supervisor John Blake gave POA Board a list of road related meantime, let’s get creative. Maybe we could offer prizes for the largest sack projects totalling $13,000. POA Board had approved funding these projects at Valli has agrwd to allow the B&B to its last meeting. Much discussion expand the size of the existing about what would happen if there were building facilities, construct a swim- ing pool, construct a tennis court, and allow other possible expansions due to the sloppy language of the agreement. Loopholes in the agreement allow for other expansions of the business and practically ensure that the controversy and animosity will continue. Clauses in the agreement that would have helped limit future expansions of the business were deleted in the final agreement signed by Valli. Since the Council members at the September 10 Town Council meeting were dismayed surplus funds, these funds would be held in trust and used only for POA been signed without their knowledge. Board approved projects. CV Scholarship: No applicants this year. Lois will ask John what donor would like to have done with schol-arship. agreement was not approved in open public session of the Town Council, and differed substantially from earlier drafts that had been “quasi” approved by the Town Council either in growing season. After this, rototilling or grading the soil does a terrific job of planting the new swds. workshops of in closed seessions of 2) PUNCTUREVINE STEM the Council, the legitimacy of the agree-ment is seriously in doubt. Neither the public nor the Town Council had been given notice of this WEAVIL (Microlarinus lypriformis) is a beetle native to Eurasia and Africa; decision. Again, all three Town now established in many states, Council members at the meeting were including Utah. According to Biological Control of Weeds in the West obtained from the Grand County dismayed and confused that an agreement had been signed without their knowledge. No one would have known that this had happened except that the recording fee was listed in this months bills. G OATH EA DS from p.l it has been used in California since 1961 for control of puncturevine and is Lot Well: Jack reported he will get another water test as questions have been raised about accuracy of first test. Town Clerk Position: Lois has re— advertised for the Town Clerk position. Clerk hired a couple months ago has already quit. Applications are available through Job Service. Office Trailer. Dave vollmteered to travel to SLC to inspect a construction office trailer if another becomes available. Questions about whether Grand Junction might be another source. Dave said it would cost about $500 to bring a modular unit across state lines. decision. Again, all three Town and confused that an agreement had No one would have known that the agreement had happened except that the recording fee was listed in this month’s bills. There are several substantial issues involved. The agreement appears to violate the CV Zoning Ordinance. The Zoning Ordinance does not allow a non-conforming use to expand. The CV Inn B&B has been a legal (or probably illegal) non-conforming use since 1991. Public decisions are supposed to be made in public. This one was not. Did the Mayor have the authority to do this? Does the Town Council have the authority or the right to (apparently) violate the Zoning Ordinance? Given that there is strong community support for limiting B&B’s, Extension Agent, the weevil “has why does the Town allow the CV Inn provided good control in arms with B&B to continue growing? Does this warm climates.” Peter Lawson of mean that citizens will have to take the Town to court to undo what appears to be an illegal decision? Professor Valley has used the beetles for 3 years now, and reports that Committee Reports: Community More B&B Contract any surplus funds. Jack said that POA Board should have say in how any surplus funds should be expended. Cormcil agreed that if there were any although he has seen some good results, he still has plenty of goatheads this year. The beetle/sq.ft. ratio is unknown at this time. The insects, which reportedly eat 0 n l y puncturevine, may be purchased in the spring through Grand County Weed Specialist Tim Higgs. Higgs advised that it is too late in the season to disseminate the weevils, as they require a month or And maybe most important, why don’t the elected officials to do what they were elected to do, i.e., keep Castle Valley a residential area? And, if there are good reasons why they can’t do this, at least residents should be able to find out what’s going on without the decisions having been made in secret. [This unfortunate situation has two of warm weather to acclimate to just been discovered. I’ll try to have the area if they are to overwinter. Not a wise investment at this time. more complete information by next month’s issue] —Jack Campbell 3) HERBICIDE containing 2-4—D may reduce the problem, but not eliminate it Repeated applications are |
