Christmas Tree Fund-Raiser
Do you need a Christmas tree? Consider buying one from the Golden Optimists Club! Their tree lot is located in the US Bank parking lot at 19th and Jackson. This annual fundraiser supports the Optimists’s service activities, which include sponsoring a local Boy Scout Troop, helping a local Girl Scout troop, sponsoring an annual oratorical contest at GHS, providing school supplies to local schools, helping food banks, and helping the Golden Optimists Bicycle Recycle Program. They are open Mon-Fri from 12-6PM and Saturday-Sunday from 9AM-6PM.
Letters to Santa
The Chamber has a US Postal Box for Santa Claus at the Golden Visitors Center (10th and Washington). Bring your letters to Santa’s mailbox before December 15th and Santa will answer them. Please include a return address in your letter. Questions? Call 303-279-3113.
Golden Investment Task Forum
The Golden Investment Task Forum meets tonight at 6PM in City Council Chambers. This group continues to work through its complicated task of sorting through the long list of “wants” defined in our various master plans. Its current tasks are developing a question for next year’s National Citizen Survey and refining the project descriptions defining Golden’s long-term wants and needs.
The National Citizen Survey will go to a statistically significant sample of Golden citizens. Most of the questions are standardized “how are we doing?”-type questions. We are allowed to add a couple of custom questions. The Task Force is trying to craft a question that would tell us which future expenditures are most important to the community.
The project descriptions will provide a more concrete description, projected costs, and an explanation of why we would want the projects–how they would tie in to our Golden Vision Plan.
The object of all of this study is to provide City Council with solid background for two possible ballot issues in the future. The first would ask Golden voters whether we should institute a lodging tax. Before the issue goes on the ballot, Council will need to decide whether to earmark the proceeds of the new tax for something specific (such as cultural institutions, open space purchases, or affordable housing) or to just put it in the general city fund. The second question will consider a bond issue. This would authorize the City to borrow a substantial sum that would allow us to do many or all of the projects that the task force is defining. Learn more by reviewing the meeting packet….
