Hello,

This is my contribution to Citizen's Discussion at Tuesday's City Council meeting:

Good morning,

Rocky Mountain Field Institute started doing $40,000 a year of work on the lower section of the Barr Trail in 2013.

That means that by the time the public comment process for the land swap began in the winter of 2016, RMFI had done $120,000 of work on that land in the previous three years.

That fact was not disclosed during the public comment process.

Was the city not aware of this?

Was the Broadmoor not aware of this?

I can prove that I asked the City Council, the Broadmoor, and our Parks Dept many times for the total estimated cost of all needed repairs on that land before the land swap was approved.

Does the city claim that they still did not know about the work being done on the Cog Railway's land when the land swap was approved?

Has RMFI done $400,000 of work on that land over the last ten years?

In the winter of 2018 Kurt Schroeder of our Parks Dept told me that RMFI had done $211,128 of work on that land since 2013 at a rate of approximately $40,000 per year.

How much work has RMFI done on that land since 2013?

At best the city and the Broadmoor made a terrible "mistake" during the public comment process.

They failed to research the land fully in advance and then they failed to learn the answers to the questions that I was asking during the public comment process.

Might the land have appeared less desirable if the public had been told that this land would need $400,000 in repairs over ten years and that even with those repairs some in our trails community would still feel that this section of the Barr Trail was beyond repair?

This constitutes a "missing piece" in the Broadmoor's "appraisal puzzle".

Thank you, Carl Strow