The Western Slope’s lone representative in Congress, Lauren Boebert, was joined by local and state elected officials on a coattail tour of the mud-slide damage in Glenwood Canyon following Gov. Jared Polis’ Wednesday visit and…
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Glenwood Springs Mayor Jonathan Godes watches as Active Energies Solar technician Erik VanWagenen does roof measurements at Godes home.
Glenwood Springs Mayor Jonathan Godes is taking advantage of local and federal incentives to install solar panels at residential buildings in Garfield County.
After having several estimations done over the years since he’s lived in Glenwood Springs, Godes said it made financial sense to pull the trigger and have solar installed.
“I’ve never pulled the trigger because it’s always been 15 or 17 years of payback,” Godes said. “I think I’m going to do this one, it’s down to 12 years. The financing option is $20 more a month, then in 12 years it goes to $0.”
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At the last Glenwood Spring City Council meeting, Glenwood Springs Mayor Jonathan Godes offered up a rare thing for a politician in this day and age an apology.
Earlier in January, Godes was one of many people to distribute a photo of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) posing with some members of the III-percenter movement, a loose band of far-right militia types who erroneously believe that just 3% of colonists fought against the British in the Revolutionary War, among other things.
While Godes and many others purported that the photo was taken at the U.S. Capitol the day before the Jan. 6 insurrection, it was in fact taken over a year prior at the Colorado Capitol in Denver.
Garfield County’s “rainy day” reserve funds, as Glenwood Springs Mayor Jonathan Godes referred to them this week, might best be described as a chance for isolated cloudbursts here and there.
While it’s true that Garfield County government is sitting on a projected $81.8 million in reserves come the end of 2021, County Manager Kevin Batchelder said it’s important to point out that the vast majority of those funds are committed for very specific purposes.
From $43,408 sitting sitting in a special “livestock auction fund” to $16.5 million in the county’s “oil and gas mitigation fund,” most of that unallocated money is either restricted in its use by law, or committed by resolution of the county commissioners, Batchelder explained.