Author: Bill Hudson

“Thank you, Commissioner Ranson, for your due diligence and working on this. I know it takes a lot of work and dedication to get the numbers… “

“Seems like a choice to go the $6 million route makes sense, given other demands on the county like schools, roads, water, etc. Not to mention our tax burden we all get to share…”

At the end of that BOCC work session, a discussion took place between the three commissioners that had not been indicated on the meeting agenda…

For 22 years, past commissioners have not had the cojones to fully follow a reasonable road policy…

In 1998, Archuleta County entered into an agreement with 12 Pagosa Lakes subdivisions, guaranteeing road maintenance for five years…

There’s a simple fact that’s been well known, and often discussed, by various County commissioners and Road & Bridge Managers, for 30 years…

One of these documents — the 2025–2028 Archuleta County Strategic Plan — was the result of a couple of years of work…

“We understood very quickly that we needed help, so we requested help from a Type 3 incident management team…”

“Planning ahead helps ensure that as the County grows, residents keep access to a range of housing options, reliable infrastructure, a strong local economy…”

“Give us a ballot measure we can feel good about approving…”

The survey was a bit more extensive, however, than simply asking how voters felt about the sample ballot language…

We already know that Pagosa Springs Medical Center will have a tax measure on the November ballot…

Their letter comes in the wake of a recent incident in which AI systems from OpenAI “broke out of their testing environment and hacked into the tech startup Hugging Face….”

“Are you suggesting that there might be technologies in the future that we would want to keep ourselves open to?…”

“Archuleta County shall not accept applications or engage in pre-submittal activities for data center facilities…”