“OUR THING”
By Dave
2/10/22,
5:15 PM
“OUR THING”
Monday (2/7/22) , Ranch Matters (RM) published a report regarding the Work Session Meeting with the focus on President Bill Burt’s “Rodeo Arena Proposal” with a follow-up report, yesterday (2/9/22), titled:
“IT’S ALL A SECRET.”
https://ranchmatterscrr.com/its-all-a-secret/
Our stories centered primarily on the questionable process behind the contractual and financial ramifications of Burt’s proposal. For reasons that only Burt and the Board knows, the Association Membership were left in the dark.
As reported, Burt didn’t want to discuss at Monday’s meeting any of the pertinent details openly and apparently made sure the Work Session Packet withheld any relevant information, including, letters to the County, maps and diagrams of the proposed project.
If RM hadn’t attended yesterday’s Jefferson County Board of Commissioners Meeting and witnessed first hand Burt’s testimony that included his submitted exhibits-information hidden from the Ranch Membership, there’s a good chance the property owners would be the last to know what’s really going on.
Burt’s Plan included holding a “Special Meeting” for Board approval, of a contract that encumbers the Association Homeowners for 5 years.
Burt had his Special Meeting today and all of the Ranch Directors were present with the exception of Monty Riddle.
After Roll Call, Burt stated: “Went and visited with the Jefferson County Commissioners yesterday and got the initial approval for $10,000 dollars for our THING at the rodeo.”
“THING”?
Burt proceeded to explain some of the funding involved was from the “Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) and confirmed the contract with the promoter still needed to be signed. He stated: “We don’t have a signed contract, but we have VERBAL approval from Claude to do this.”
Without any further discussion, Burt stated: “I would entertain a motion to approve using the TOT Funds and agreeing to the contract.”
Directors Julia Randall and Richard Ebers interjected, triggering some interesting discussion between Burt and various Directors.
VIDEO SNIPPET of SPECIAL MEETING Attached
SOME HIGHLIGHTS:
Director Ara Erdekian weighed in and asked some well thought out questions. He stated: “Got many emails back and forth, a few questions, did you, when you went after funds, we talked about how much the TOT tax stems from people driving on and off the Ranch. Did you ask, by any chance if there was anyway we could spend some of our TOT Funds on the infrastructure on the Ranch, like our road division, in the future...?” Burt responded: “No, it’s promotional only” and Erdekian commented: “So, the infrastructure continually gets used by people coming on, paying the tax and nothing goes back to the Ranch or the infrastructure they’re driving on?”
