{"id":22426,"date":"2020-04-15T17:34:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T23:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=64223"},"modified":"2020-04-15T17:34:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T23:34:28","slug":"grand-lake-gets-clean-audit-as-trustees-give-water-customers-50-credit-ok-grand-lake-center-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/grand-lake-gets-clean-audit-as-trustees-give-water-customers-50-credit-ok-grand-lake-center-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Lake gets clean audit as trustees give water customers $50 credit, OK Grand Lake Center agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/VirusTesting-shn-031820-1-1024x692.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/VirusTesting-shn-031820-1-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/VirusTesting-shn-031820-1-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/VirusTesting-shn-031820-1-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/VirusTesting-shn-031820-1-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/VirusTesting-shn-031820-1-2048x1385.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>A driver goes through the COVID-19 response site at the Grand Lake Center in Grand Lake. Tests for the flu and the COVID-19 virus are being collected at the Grand Lake Center and other sites in Grand County, but only if the person seeking the tests has a health care provider&#8217;s recommendation.<\/strong><br \/><em>Eli Pace \/ epace@skyhinews.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Going through Grand Lake\u2019s 2019 audit, Steven Dazzio of Dazzio &amp; Associates gave the town a squeaky clean report on Monday and thanked Town Clerk Jennifer Thompson, whose attention to detail, he said, made his job easy.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the Grand Lake\u2019s bookkeeping, Dazzio told the board the town had a good audit without any inconsistencies or irregularities, though he felt compelled to point out one important item: Grand Lake is leaving tens of thousands of dollars uncollected by choosing to levy property taxes below the maximum rate.<\/p>\n<p>Dazzio acknowledged that it\u2019s a conscious decision town trustees have made, but he wanted to attach a dollar figure to the lost revenue. Grand Lake has levied property taxes $126,391 below the limit in 2019 and $70,527 below the maximum this year, he told the board.<\/p>\n<p>Further into his report, Dazzio complimented the town\u2019s use of federal funds, saying Grand Lake had another clean audit for its use of federal money with no findings two years in a row. He also noted the town has healthy balances in its general, water, pay as you throw and marina funds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row shn-donation shn-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cJust keep doing what you\u2019re doing on those funds,\u201d Dazzio told the board.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the general fund goes, while Dazzio said the town has adequate cash reserves, he added that the COVID-19 business closures could cut into Grand Lake\u2019s coffers next year.<\/p>\n<p>In other business:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The town approved a $50 credit on water customers\u2019 bills. After pitching the idea the week before, Trustee Cindy Southway acknowledged that $50 might not be a huge amount, but she said it could help some people weather the economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I proposed it is because, obviously, we\u2019re all in a financial crunch, some more than others, and it seems like something we can do for our townspeople and for our businesses, for everyone who pays a water tap,\u201d Southway said, explaining that the rebate is more like delaying a water rate increase and the water fund is in good shape. \u201cFifty dollars may not seem like much, but it\u2019s $50.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Realizing renters might not see the water credit, trustees strongly encouraged Grand Lake landlords to pass the savings on to their tenants. If units aren\u2019t occupied, owners were encouraged to spend their $50 credit at any one of Grand Lake\u2019s local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Grand Lake approved a memorandum of understanding with Grand Lake Fire and Middle Park Health regarding use of the Grand Lake Center for a COVID-19 response center and test site.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement allows the town to terminate the arrangement at any time, though Crone said the town has no intention of doing that as long as the facility is serving the people of Grand Lake during the COVID-19 pandemic. The agreement will now go to Middle Park Health and Grand Lake Fire for their approval.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/grand-lake-gets-clean-audit-as-trustees-give-water-customers-50-credit-ok-grand-lake-center-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver goes through the COVID-19 response site at the Grand Lake Center in Grand Lake. Tests for the flu and the COVID-19 virus are being collected at the Grand Lake Center and other sites in Grand County, but only if the person seeking the tests has a health care provider&#8217;s recommendation.Eli Pace \/ epace@skyhinews.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 06:56:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}