The Crested Butte News Serving the Gunnison Valley since 1999
—INVITATION TO BID—
DOS RIOS SEWER SYSTEM
SEWER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS
The Board of County Commissioners of the County of Gunnison, Colorado is soliciting bids for the Dos Rios Sewer System, Sewer System Improvements.
The work to be performed includes the installation of 300’ of 8” sewer line extension with two manholes: and the replacement of three, double cleanouts with manholes. The work is located in two separate areas within the Dos Rios Sewer System. The sewer line extension is located just west of Goodwin Lane, County Road 50 and the replacement of cleanouts is located approximately 1.8 miles west of the Dos Rios Water Treatment Plant.
Sealed bids will be received by Gunnison County Public Works Department located at, 811 Rio Grande, Gunnison, CO 81230 until 4:00 p.m., (Local Time) on Thursday, October 30, 2008. Bids received after this time will not be accepted and will be returned unopened. At said place and time, and promptly thereafter, all bids that have been duly received will be publicly opened and read aloud. All interested parties are invited to attend.
The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be examined and/or obtained at the following location.
Gunnison County Public Works Department
811 Rio Grande
Gunnison, Colorado 81230
Phone: 970-641-0044
Fax: 970-641-8120
on or after Monday, October 20, 2008, upon payment of $50.00 for each set.
Inspection trips may be arranged through the office of Marlene D. Crosby, Assistant County Manager/Public Works Director at 970-641-0044 or Jerry Greene, Project Engineer at 970-641-3342.
Any BIDDER or non-bidder, upon returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS promptly and in good condition, will be refunded the payment.
_________ ______________________
DATE Marlene D. Crosby
Assistant County Manager/ Public Works Director
Published in the Crested Butte News. Issues of October 17 and 24, 2008. #101703
—NOTICE OF CHANGE IN TARIFFS ON LESS THAN 30-DAYS’ NOTICE—
Date of Notice: October 14, 2008
GCA Exhibit No. 7 – Customer Notice
Atmos Energy Corporation
Atmos Energy Corporation (“Atmos Energy”)
1301 Pennsylvania Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
You are hereby notified that Atmos Energy has filed with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission of the State of Colorado (“PUC”), in compliance with the Public Utilities Law, an application for permission to file certain changes in tariffs, affecting all residential, commercial, interruptible and other consumers in its Colorado divisions to become effective November 1, 2008, if the application is granted by the PUC.
The purpose for this filing is to change rates by revising the Company’s existing gas cost adjustment tariff to reflect changes in the rates charged Atmos Energy by its suppliers for natural gas purchases. The present and proposed natural gas rates are as follows:
Present Rates1 Proposed Rates2 Percentage Change
Class of Service by Division
Northwest/Central Colorado*
Residential 1.01652 $1.02652 1%
Commercial & Public Authority .99366 1.00366 1%
Interruptible-Small Service .95439 .96439 1%
Interruptible-Large Service .94933 .95933 1%
Interruptible Industrial Service .95040 .96040 1%
Transportation .13564 .13565 0%
Buena Vista – Residential .98154 .99154 1%
Buena Vista – Commercial .98154 .99154 1%
Average Monthly Bill Projected Average Percentage Change
Monthly Bill
Residential $88.73 $89.51 1%
Commercial & Public Authority 444.73 448.99 1%
Interruptible Industrial Service 5,281.74 5,333.47 1%
Buena Vista – Residential 81.68 82.46 1%
Buena Vista – Commercial 350.88 354.37 1%
Prior Year’s Peak Projected Peak Winter Percentage
Winter Month Bill Month Bill Change
Residential $190.00 $191.78 1%
Commercial & Public Authority 965.93 975.44 1%
Interruptible Industrial Service 26,358.44 26,631.94 1%
Buena Vista-Residential 174.84 176.57 1%
Buena Vista-Commercial 803.22 811.32 1%
*Notification Published in our Northwest/Central Rate Area Newspapers
The proposed and present rates and tariffs are available for examination at the business office of Atmos Energy Corporation located at 1301 Pennsylvania Street, Suite 800, Denver, Colorado, or at the Public Utilities Commission at 1560 Broadway, Suite 250, Denver, Colorado, 80202.
Anyone who desires may either file written objection or seek to intervene as a party in this filing. If you only wish to object to the proposed action, you may file a written objection with the Commission. The filing of a written objection by itself will not allow you to participate as a party in any proceeding on the proposed action. If you wish to participate as a party in this matter, you must file written intervention documents under the Commission’s rules.
Anyone who desires to file written objection or written intervention documents to the proposed action shall file them with the PUC, 1560 Broadway, Suite 250, Denver, Colorado, 80202 at least one day before the proposed effective date.
Members of the public may attend any hearing and may make a statement under oath about the proposed change whether or not a written objection or request to intervene has been filed.
Atmos Energy Corporation
Colorado-Kansas Division
By: Gary L. Schlessman
President
1 As approved by PUC Decision No. C08-0537, Docket No. 08L-179G
2 WP 7
Published in the Crested Butte News. Issue of October 17, 2008. #101714
—Preliminary AGENDA—
Friday, October 17, 2008
GUNNISON COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
8:45 a.m. • Call to order; determine quorum
• Approval of Minutes
• Unscheduled citizens: A brief period in which the public is invited to make general comments or ask questions of the Commission or Planning Staff about items which are not scheduled on the day’s agenda.
9:00 a.m. Gunnison Energy Corporation, work session/possible action, recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners, request for 16 vertical and directional gas wells on 9 well pads, located in northwest Gunnison County, Sections 17, 18, 19 and 20, Township 12 South, Range 89 West, west of Highway 133
10:00 a.m. Roper Subdivision, work session/possible action, recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners, request for the subdivision of three single-family residential lots, located eight miles north of the City of Gunnison, east of the Gunnison River
10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Biggers, site visit observations, public hearing/no action, request for construction of a duplex; request for variance to the inner restrictive buffer setback adjacent to a wetland, in compliance with Section 11-107: Protection of Water Quality, located on Lot D-11, Skyland Initial Filing
11:45 a.m. Bear Ranch, site visit observations, request for the construction of a road to provide access to 7 – 35-acres tracts, located approximately 4.5 miles east of State Highway 133, north of County Road 12 (Kebler Pass)
Noon Lunch
1:00 p.m. Glatiotis Subdivision, work session/no action, request for six lot subdivision, located north of the City of Gunnison, on County Rd 13
2:00 p.m. Grindol-Hutchinson Subdivision, work session/no action, request for two lot subdivision, west of Almont, near the junction of County Rd 742 (Taylor Canyon) and County Rd 744 (Spring Creek)
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Schloesser, site visit observations, work session/no action, request for a salvaged wood processing and woodworking operation, located at 318 Pine Street, Lot 2, Ragged Meadow Subdivision, south of the Town of Marble
Adjourn
NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are conducted in the Blackstock Government Center Meeting Room at 221 N. Wisconsin St. in Gunnison, across the street from the Post Office. This is a preliminary agenda; agenda times may be changed by the staff up to 24 hours before the meeting date. If you are interested in a specific agenda item; you may want to call the Planning Department (641-0360) ahead of time to confirm its scheduled time. Anyone needing special accommodations, please contact the Planning Department before the meeting.
Published in the Crested Butte News. Issue of October 17, 2008. #101706
—COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE AND RIGHT TO CURE AND REDEEM—
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This notice is given with regard to the following described lien which is being foreclosed pursuant to a Decree of Foreclosure entered in this matter on September 29, 2008:
Original Grantor of Lien: Thomas M. Pulte and Molly M. Pulte
Original Grantee of Lien: Trappers Crossing at Crested Butte Association
Current Owner of Debt Secured by Lien: Trappers Crossing at Crested Butte Association
Date of Instrument Creating Lien: April 4, 1990
Recording Date of Instrument Creating Lien: April 26, 1990
County of Recording: Gunnison
Book and Page of Recorded Instrument Creating Lien: Book 677, Page 509
Principal Balance of Debt Secured by Lien: $9,400.00
Principal Balance of Debt Secured by Lien as of the Date of Recording of Lis Pendens: $6,600.00
This is to advise you that foreclosure proceeding No. 08CV33 has been commenced in the office of the undersigned Sheriff to foreclose the lien described above. The following described property situated in Gunnison County, State of Colorado, is all of the property encumbered by said lien:
Lot 21, TRAPPERS CROSSING AT WILDCAT, according to the Amended Plat thereof filed October 30, 1992, bearing Reception No. 438114 of the records of Gunnison County, Colorado, County of Gunnison, State of Colorado which property has not been assigned an address as it is vacantproperty.
The violation of the covenant of the evidence of debt being foreclosed upon which the foreclosure is based is the failure to pay common expense assessments as set forth in the Decree of Foreclosure entered in the above-captioned action on September 29, 2008.
YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT PURSUANT TO THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES.
A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §38-38-104 MUST BE FILED WITH THE SHERIFF AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED.
A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §38-38-302 MUST BE FILED WITH THE SHERIFF NO LATER THAN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS AFTER THE SALE.
THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
The name, address, telephone number, and bar registration number of the attorney representing the holder of the evidence of debt is:
Name: Roderick E. Landwehr
Address: Roderick E. Landwehr, P.C. 304 W. Tomichi Avenue, #24 Gunnison, Colorado 81230
Telephone No.: (970) 641-1577
Bar Registration No: 4945
The Date and Time of the Sheriff’s Sale is: December 4, 2008, at 9:00 a.m.
The Place of the Sheriff’s Sale is:
West door of the Gunnison County Courthouse
200 East Virginia Avenue
Gunnison, Colorado 81230
DATED this 10th day of October, 2008.
SHERIFF IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF GUNNISON, STATE OF COLORADO
/s/ Richard L. Murdie
Richard L. Murdie, Sheriff
Published in the Crested Butte News. Issues of October 17, 24, 31 and November 7 and 14, 2008. #101701
— Upcoming Agenda Items—
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
GUNNISON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Meeting to be held in the Commissioner’s Meeting Room at the Courthouse
• Warrants & Transfers
• Monthly Treasurer’s Report
• Gunnison-Hinsdale Board of Human Services
• Public Hearing; Proposed Amendment to Gunnison County Land Use Resolution, Setting Limit on Extended Time for Information Submittal for Land Use Change Permits
• Proposed Amendment to Gunnison County Land Use Resolution, Setting Limit on Extended Time for Information Submittal for Land Use Change Permits; Possible Action
• Code Enforcement; Stop Work Order Dated 1/7/08; Phillip Schmidt and Cleo Duncan
• Designation of Rooms in the Fred R. Field Western Heritage Center
• Design Review Committee Approval of the Lease for the Gold Basin Industrial Park
• Plowing on the Big Cimarron
• Approval of Private Plow Request; County Road 38
• Lot Cluster Application; Lots 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27 &29, West Side of Third Street, LaVeta Placer; Donald J. Archuleta
• Consent Agenda:
• Acknowledgment of County Manager Signature; Certification of Eligibility to Receive Conservation Trust Funds (CTF) for Period January 1 to December 31, 2009; Department of Local Affairs
NOTE: This is a list of items tentatively scheduled for the Commissioners’ agenda. Items may be added up to 24 hours prior to the meeting, or deleted at any time. A final agenda will be prepared after the publication deadline for the newspaper. For further information or confirmation of specific times on the agenda, please contact the County Administration Office at 641-0248.
Published in the Crested Butte News. Issue of October 17, 2008. #101705
—MEETING NOTICE—
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2008 ~ 6:30 P.M.
UPPER GUNNISON RIVER WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT
DISTRICT OFFICES, MAIN PLACE BUILDING
The Board of Directors of the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District and will conduct its regular board meeting on Monday, October 27, 2008, at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the District offices, 234 North Main Street, Suite 3B (Main Place Building), Gunnison, Colorado. The public is encouraged to attend the meeting. An agenda will be posted at the District office prior to the meeting.
Published in the Crested Butte News. Issue of October 17, 2008. #101702