WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
9-10AM Women’s Exercise and Bible Study @ First United Methodist Church
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic (Virtual)
10AM, 1PM, and 4PM Wild West Walking Tour
1PM and 4PM Wild West Short Tour
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time @ Golden Library
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1-1:45PM Silver Sneakers Yoga (Virtual)
1:30PM Triad Senior Safety @ Jeffco District Attorney’s Office
5PM CSM Baseball – Orediggers vs. Northern Colorado @ Jim Darden Field
5:30PM Tuesday Night Ride around North Table Mtn @ The Golden Mill
5:30-7:30PM Golden Elite Rockstar Connect Networking @ Buffalo Rose
6PM New World Disorder Movie Night @ Pedal Pushers Cyclery
See the complete calendar of events.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
5PM City Council Study Session @ City Hall
In an effort to make downtown Golden more pedestrian-friendly, city staff plans to test a plan to change the traffic lights on Washington Avenue from the normal green-yellow-red to flashing reds in all directions. In addition to the flashing reds, they will place temporary stop signs at each intersection. They will do this at Washington and 11th, 12th, and 13th.
They propose running this test over a series of 3 to 4 hour intervals at increasingly busy times.
The goals are to “improve pedestrian and bicycle access and quality of multimodal operation” and to degrade “vehicle operations…to achieve multimodal goals.”
Staff will be available to direct traffic or reinstate traffic signals in case the test goes badly. Learn more….
6:30PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall
Council has a lengthy consent agenda tonight. These items will be approved as a group unless a councilor requests discussion of one or more topic. They will approve a contract for $146,340.82 to improve a pedestrian crossing near Golden High School. They will adopt a Community Wildfire Protection Plan. They will approve licenses for outdoor seating in Miners Alley for the Golden Moon Speakeasy and the Miners Saloon. They will approve supplemental expenditure appropriations totaling $4,794,900 plus contingency appropriations totalling $114,800. They will consider an ordinance making breweries responsible for ensuring that their food trucks are licensed with the city and collecting/remitting city sales tax.
They will read proclamations regarding National Therapy Animal Day, National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, National Small Business Week, and Earth Day.
They will present the 2023 Sustainability Awards.
They will announce this year’s appointments to City Boards & Commissions.
They will consider adopting a Drought Management Plan that authorizes city staff or council to declare drought stages and require water use reductions.
They will hold a public hearing regarding an ordinance regarding wastewater which is intended “to minimize waste of water and add clarity to allowable and prohibited water uses.”
They will consider raising parking fines on 10th Street from $30 to $100.
They will update the fee schedule that covers most of the city fines, fees, and taxes.
They will consider adopting a new Boards and Commissions Manual. The red-lined version is available for review.
If you want to submit comments on any of these topics, be in City Council chambers at 6:30 or submit them via email to PublicComment@cityofgolden.net.
PUB GAMES
6PM Trivia Tuesdays @ Golden Mill
6:30-8:30PM Team Trivia Tuesdays @ Buffalo Rose
6:30-8:30PM Bar Bingo Night @ VFW Post 4171
6:30-8:30PM Music Bingo @ Mountain Toad Brewing
LIVE MUSIC
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Open Bluegrass Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
146 Years Ago
The April 25, 1877 Colorado Transcript reported on the doing of Golden’s board of trustees (the City Council of the time).
A recurring concern at that time was “animals running at large.” In 1871, they had enacted an ordinance requiring the town constable to impound unpenned hogs. In 1877, they expanded the law to include loose horses. The constable was instructed to secure the animals and impose a fine on the owner. If the owner wasn’t found, or was unable to pay the fine, the constable would sell the animal at public auction.
They were scheduled to inspect the new Ford Street bridge. The old bridge appears in the 1873 Birdseye View Map of Golden. It looks quite basic–lacking, apparently, even railings.
The 1882 Birdseye View Map of Golden shows the new bridge, which is quite a step up. “It is a three-arch bridge, the two road-ways being floored with 4-inch plank, laid diagonally and on each side a foot-walk protected by iron railings.” The Transcript staff believed it was only iron wagon bridge in the state. It cost $1400, of which $600 was raised by subscription of citizens. “Subscription” was a common way to fund public improvements at the time. If somebody wanted something the City couldn’t fund, they would make the rounds of the citizenry and take up a collection.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
