WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
8:30AM-6PM Team Penning and Ranch Sorting Competitions @ the Jeffco Fairgrounds (map)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
10:15-10:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
12-12:30PM Mondays with Mayor Weinberg (Virtual)
12-4PM Stitch’n B*tch @ Golden Quilt Company
2-3PM Active Minds Mondays (Virtual)
6-9PM Teach Me to Play @ Golden Game Guild
7-9PM Golden Concert Choir Spring Rehearsals Begin @ Calvary Episcopal Church
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
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NOMINATE A WORTHY BUSINESS!
The Rotary Club of Golden is conducting the 19th annual Ethics in Business Awards program in 2024. Each year we seek nominations from the public of those organizations in our community, both for-profit and not-for-profit, that demonstrate the highest standards of ethical business practice, integrity, and civic and social responsibility.
All nominations received by Feb. 29, 2024 will be evaluated by students in tEthics class at the Colorado School of Mines. They will choose the winners, who, along with all nominees, will be recognized and honored at an Awards luncheon on May 17, 2024 at the Denver Marriott West hotel.
To make a nomination, go to ethics.goldenrotary.org/nominations. This Ethics in Business Awards website also gives more details on the Ethics awards program, which has been an important and popular event since its founding in 2006.
Please pass this message along to friends and associates who may want to nominate their most-ethical business.
CITY MEETINGS
5:30PM Golden Urban Renewal Authority (GURA) @ City Hall
NOTE: The start time is a little uncertain because the Agenda Page says 4PM, but the Agenda itself says 5:30.
In the Central Neighborhoods, GURA staff is discussing improvements to the community garden at Natural Grocers. In West Colfax, they have hired consultants to analyze a TIF deal with Confluence Companies regarding their property at 17270 W. Colfax (map).
The numbers are still changing, but here are the near-final 2023 totals for the various GURA areas.
West Colfax
Revenue $1,883,766.58
Expenditures $1,089,304.71
Use/Accumlation of Surplus Funds $794,461,87
Ending Balance $2,627,498.71
Parfet-Briarwood
Revenue $304,204.69
Expenditures $97,063.07
Use/Accumlation of Surplus Funds $207,141.62
Ending Balance $645,121.09
Central Neighborhoods
Revenue $138,348.51
Expenditures $83,408.23
Use/Accumlation of Surplus Funds $54,940.28
Ending Balance $384,696.03
GURA Downtown Budget
Revenue $43,356.90
Expenditures $516,805.03
Use/Accumulation of Surplus Funds $473,448.13
Ending Balance $39,388.87
GURA Operating Budget
Revenue $100,850.52
Expenditures $60,641.50
Use/Accumlation of Surplus Funds $40,209.02
Ending Balance $49,906.58
TRIVIA
7-8PM Colorado Trivia League @ Morris & Mae
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
33 Years Ago
The January 8, 1991 Golden Transcript reported that two sites were finalists for locating Golden’s planned new Community Center.
They had considered re-building on the site of the then-current Community Center. The chief disadvantage to that site was that it stood in the flood plain. That Golden Library later moved into that building.
They had also looked at some property adjacent to the High School, on 24th Street. These two had been eliminated by January.
One of the two semi-finalists was the city-owned vacant land on the south side of the Creek. This later became the Golden History Park.
The other was the former running track and football field for Golden Junior High. The Junior High had closed in 1988 (the students moving to Bell Middle School), so the School District no longer needed that property. That was the winning site, and the location for the current Golden Community Center.
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!
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