EDITORIAL: Icebergs of Ignorance, Part Three
“I counted about 100 people in the audience at last night’s Pagosa Springs Town Council meeting at the Ross Aragon Community Center, one of the largest turnouts I’ve seen for a regular Council meeting in my 15 years as a political reporter here in Pagosa. Folks had come to testify for or against the creation of an Urban Renewal Authority (URA), or to listen to other audience members testify — and some stayed to the very end to see how the Council voted on the issue.
The vote, at the end of the meeting, was four in favor of forming a URA — Mayor Don Volger and Council members Nicole DeMarco, Tracy Bunning and Maddie Bergon — and three opposed — Council members Mat deGraaf, David Schanzenbaker and Matt DeGuise.
The testimony from the audience broke down in similarly close numbers, with 11 people speaking generally in opposition — to the URA and/or the proposed Springs Resort expansion project that brought the URA issue to last night’s vote. 10 audience members spoke generally in support. Mayor Volger asked the speaker to try and limit their comments to five minutes, but he didn’t cut people off if they went over five minutes. The Mayor assured everyone that the Council wanted to hear their comments, no matter where they stood on the issue.”
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Hudson, Bill. Pagosa Daily Post 6 November 2019.