The Greene County Board of Supervisors met Monday in regular session.

The Board approved a fireworks permit for Norm Fandel and the Westlaw contract for the County Attorney’s office for $423 as presented.

The Board then held three public hearings for projects in drainage district two. In the engineer’s report from Bolton and Menk, they proposed doing three projects. Those projects include removing trees south of the railroad tracks in Grand Junction, installing a pipe in the Sunset Drive area and cleaning out the open ditch. The Board only approved the engineer’s report, which is valid for ten years.

The next public hearing was on annexing 41 acres into the drainage district that wasn’t included when the district was first created in 1902 or when it was last reclassified in 1956. The Board approved the annexation.

The Board then held a public hearing on the possible reclassification of the district. Bolton and Menk said they use three primary factors in determining how to reclassify a drainage district. Those factors include how wet a landowner’s property was, how much use does an acre get from the district drainage system and how close an acre is to the drainage tile. Another factor that was used for drainage district two was land use in how that relates to the number of acres of agricultural land was in the district compared to someone in the City of Grand Junction. Bolton and Menk proposed splitting the district into three subsections with north, east and south. For the proposed projects, the acres closer to the work that would be done in Sunset Drive, would pay more than those further away from the area. Currently, when work is done in the district, all landowners are assessed. The reason why reclassification was discussed was because the Board received a petition asking for it to be changed. There was another $70,000 of work done to correct a problem in the district this spring and summer, which was mentioned that payment would be assessed to all landowners in the district.

The Board chose not to close the hearing, but extend it to as far as December 5th before they make their decision on the reclassification. The Board also approved going ahead with Bolton and Menk to get bids to clean out the ditch because that portion of the projects will be assessed to all landowners, regardless if the Board decides to reclassify the district.

Due to the public hearings running long, the Supervisors had to reschedule to another meeting the completion public hearing with Carroll County Board of Supervisors for work done in drainage district 150-86.

Finally, the Board heard a workforce housing study presentation from Economic Development Director Ken Paxton.