Citizen comments and involvement are always welcome!
The Board of Directors of the Estes Valley Recreation and Park District believes that a regular and active dialogue with interested citizens is vital to effective and informed management of the District. This type of regular interchange helps to ensure that projects and priorities of the District most closely match with those of the broad public. Citizens are always welcome and encouraged to attend any and all meetings of the Board.
The Board regularly reserves time on the agenda for Citizens' comments of a general nature (the Public Comment Section of meeting agenda). Citizens may provide comments on any given agenda item during the meeting. These comments may be at the invitation of the Board or staff because the citizen has been involved in helping work a specific issue or project. Citizens are encouraged to be concise with these comments, and keep them to a maximum of 5 minutes each. Citizens are asked to not reiterate comments already made by other citizens.
Regardless of the types of comments offered by citizens as discussed above, the Chair always reserves the right to limit time and discussion in order to expeditiously move through the agenda during the evening to fulfill the business needs of the District.
Citizen Initiated New Business Item: Submit the issue or topic in writing to the Executive Director. The Executive Director and staff will conduct any necessary research concerning the subject matter. If the staff determines the matter should be presented to the Board, staff will provide the Board with a recommendation placement of the item on a future Board meeting agenda. Once the Board has determined to add the matter to a future agenda, an agenda item will be assigned. Staff will advise the Citizen and request hard copies of the presentation materials for distribution to Board Members and District staff. The Citizen presenting the matter at the Board meeting will be allotted 15 minutes on the agenda.
If a citizen desires to initiate a new business Item directly at a board meeting without prior notice, the following stipulations will be made:
• Presentation must be made during the Public Comment portion of the agenda.
• Presentation is restricted to a maximum of 10 minutes.
• Only one speaker is allowed on the matter.
• If the citizen has items to present (i.e. handouts, maps, survey data), he/she must provide the recording secretary with a clean copy. The preferred method of
presentation material is paper form in order to be distributed to the Board Members and District staff.