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October 6, 2023 News You Can Use
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Silt Town Hall will be closed on Monday, October 9 to allow our employees to celebrate as they see fit............have a great day!
The Silt Board of Trustees on Monday, September 25, unanimously passed the first reading an ordinance that accepts the loans offered to the Town by the State of Colorado's Drinking Water Revolving Fund. Second reading of the ordinance will be presented to the Board for final passage on Tuesday, October 10th at 7 PM.
The meeting will be held on Tuesday, rather than its normal Monday time slot due to the Columbus/Mother Cabrini/Indigenous People's Day holiday on Monday. Public comment on the ordinance will be accepted.
Loans totaling over $28.4 M are in the ordinance, but the Town has secured almost $10 M in grants and principal forgiveness. Interest rates on the remaining loans range from 1 to 3% with the bonds anticipated selling at around 3.5%.
The Town of Silt Board of Trustees, along with professional staff and engineers have spent since mid-2020 working to find the best path forward to provide Silt citizens with the pre-treatment option for the WTP.
Since 2022, Dewberry Engineers has led the Town in the process of preparing and applying for loans, grants and principal forgiveness. Dewberry conducted a technical study of the Silt W/WW plants and produced master plans to be used specifically to develop short and long-term plans and costs for implementing improvements.
In 2023, DOLA funded a study by the engineering firm RESPEC to conduct a “second opinion” of Dewberry’s work and found it reasonable and appropriate.
After the Town hired Garney Construction to serve as construction manager at risk (CMAR), the estimated cost was presented to the Board, along with anticipated revenues with which to pay for the project. The Town of Silt Board of Trustees approved the application for a $28 MM loan from the DWRF on June 15, 2023. A loan package was approved by the State on August 23.
Garney and Dewberry have led us to a 90% design/engineering status, on our way to 100% design with a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) by mid-November.
More information can be found here or by calling Town Administrator Jeff Layman at 970-876-2353 x 103.
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Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers Work to Improve Silt's own River Preserve
The Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers is asking Silt residents to come out our own Silt River Preserve on Saturday, October 14 to participate in a community project.
It's a GREAT family-friendly project that is not too strenuous. We will be planting and seeding around a pond/wetland area. The priority task for the day will be to get all the plants into the ground and heavily mulched. Planting locations will be flagged by species. We hope to have a planting demonstration for volunteers at the beginning of the project.
Click HERE is the link to register. We're serving pizza and drinks after the project.
Founded in 1995, Carbondale-based Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to create stewardship of public lands by engaging the community in education, restoration, and conservation projects. RFOV has long been recognized as the regional leader in trail-building, trail-repair, and trail-maintenance. Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers website is (RFOV).
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A Red Flag Warning means warm temperatures, very low humidities, and stronger winds are expected to combine to produce an increased risk of fire danger. |
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This fire, just west of Town a couple of months ago, was too close for comfort!
Please be careful with grills, campfires, chains, mufflers and lawn equipment!
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