Recap: August Board Meeting + Community Cleanup
Save the date for a GLO Park Community Meeting September 9!!
The Pleasant View Board held its regular monthly board meeting at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, August 19. The board also held a study session (no votes are taken) on August 26th, so I’ve included information from that as well. The next board meeting is a special board meeting addressing the Camp George West GLO Park project on September 9 at 7:00 p.m.
I’m a recently elected board member who started these updates as a private citizen to help the community stay informed. Reach out to me any time at lauraforpleasantview@gmail.com or 720-675-8093.
The Short Version
The fire department is still working on an agreement with the City of Golden for fire inspections on new buildings and annual inspections on existing buildings.
The district manager and I tried to solve the blind spot on the eastern edge of Wolf Park’s sidewalk.
New sprinkler lines have been added to Orchard Park to adequately cover the grassy areas.
Staffing challenges prevented the district from further pursuing buying our own deck mower. The same challenges have prevented opening up the bathrooms at Orchard Park.
As of the meeting, the state is moving forward with its housing project proposal where the GLO Park was supposed to be built for Camp George West. Save the date for a community meeting on September 9 at Camp George West at 7 p.m.!
The fire department is working on a plan to improve wildfire response in Pleasant View.
The Long Version
General Metro District Updates
If you are confused about what the metro district is (hint: we’re not a city), go to my About page for a quick reminder!
Financial Reports
The district asked the board for feedback on how to make the monthly financial reports more helpful. The board asked for more accurate, contextualized reports to show how the district is tracking against its annual budget.
GLO Park/Camp George West Update
Despite the outpouring of public response at the county commissioner’s meeting, the state is still moving forward with its proposal.
The governor’s advisor working on the proposal asked for a board meeting to address the community, so please show up to on September 9 at 7 p.m. at Camp George West. You can hear the latest from the state and make public comment just like at the commissioner’s meeting.
Please make sure to keep making your voice heard! I’ll send out an email by Friday August 29 with all the meeting details, but for now, save the date and be ready to make a public comment again.
Pleasant View Parks Updates
Wolf Park
The district manager and I got together to look at the blind spot on the east side of Wolf Park. This was part of an effort to encourage people to use the sidewalk. Unfortunately, the blind spot is so far down the hill as you walk east that we couldn’t find a suitable mirror solution to fix it.
There are new signs for cyclists to slow down (please, cyclists, slow down!). I also passed along the idea from one neighbor to install boulders along the sidewalk to make it appear narrow and naturally slow folks down. We don’t currently have the budget for that, so if you have a construction site with some big rocks you’re trying to get rid of, please let me know!
Orchard Park
New sprinkler lines have been installed at Orchard Park to adequately cover the grassy areas. The steps leading down to the tennis courts have also been replaced, as well as the chain link fence lining the service road.
Last winter, before I became a board member, there had been discussion of opening the bathrooms at Orchard Park to people who rent the pavilions. Our previous parks maintenance person really spearheaded this effort and unfortunately as he moved onto a new job, we don’t have the same momentum or staffing capacity to make that happen.
Similarly, the same previous employee had the idea to purchase a deck mower and dedicate district staff time to doing some park mowing ourselves to ultimately save money. However, once the district looked at it, we also didn’t have the staffing capacity to handle that. Food for thought for the 2026 budget!
Pleasant View Fire Department Updates
Wildfires
Pleasant View responded to 27 grass/brush fires in 2024, up from only five in 2023. Our district is a prime example of the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) - residential areas and wildland vegetation - which makes us especially vulnerable to wildfires.
Pleasant View firefighters all got their “red card” certification this year to be fully trained on wildfire responses. Training Captain Oran Tool is also developing a program to deploy Pleasant View firefighters on other fires to gain valuable experience and generate supplemental income for the district.
The program is very much in the early planning stages, but it was exciting to see Pleasant View taking a proactive approach to improve our firefighters’ ability to protect our community. Captain Tool will have another update at the September board meeting.
Fire Inspections
Pleasant View is still working on an agreement with the City of Golden to provide a fire inspector for new construction and annual inspections on commercial buildings in our community.
The board had some concerns to the hourly fee rates provided by the city, particularly that the district would have to pay penalty rates if a business owner missed their appointment or needed to reschedule. The Pleasant View fire chief will revisit those terms with Golden and have another update at the September board meeting.
Community Clean-up Day
Thank you to everyone who joined my family and me at Westblade Park to clean up trash! My family and I were walking home from La Huacha a few weeks ago when my son commented that he wanted to have a community clean-up day. I thought I’d try to make it happen, and was so happy to see other neighbors join us!
Westblade Park has a lot of trash cans and free dog poop bags at park entrances, so we didn’t have a huge amount to clean up fortunately (but I did clean up several bags worth of dog poop!). A few of us reconvened for brunch at La Huacha afterward. It was a great to get to know more neighbors and see a few familiar faces too! Stay tuned for the next one!
GLO Park/Camp George West Meeting
Save the Date for September 9!
The state is still moving forward with its proposal to build housing instead of research labs (the GLO Park). The governor’s advisor working on the proposal has asked for a community meeting on September 9 to share more information and invite public feedback. Please join us at 7 p.m. on September 9th at Camp George West. We’ll be in the stone building at the main parking lot. More details to come!
Next Regular Board Meeting
The next regular board meeting is September 16th at 955 Moss Street. I’d love to see you there, but if you have to pick one, come to the September 9th meeting!
Questions? Comments? Feedback?
I love hearing from you! Reach out at lauraforpleasantview@gmail.com or 720-675-8093 (call or text). I am admittedly quite far behind on getting back to people from the GLO Park survey I sent out, but I will always answer you even if it takes a while!! Thanks for your patience, the Pleasant View board is a volunteer position in addition to my job elsewhere, so I appreciate you understanding!