ELK CREEK FIRE

asked that the documents be made available to the public by Aug. 4. It included a wide-ranging list of documents, emails, meeting minutes, contracts and any other documents pertaining to consolidation from the re chief, the consolidation committee, the re board and the two consulting rms hired to help with consolidation e orts: Magellan Strategies and Turn Corps Commu- nications Strategies.

Other board members said Newby’s motion was too broad and would be burdensome to ful ll. In addition, many of the meetings to discuss consolidating the departments have not been public as de ned by the Colorado Open Meetings Law, such as meetings of the three re chiefs and of the consolidation committee, which consists of two members of each of the three re boards.

Colorado Open Meetings Law says a public meeting is a meeting with three or more members of an elected public body. Public meetings are required to have minutes taken and provided to the public.

After the vote, Greg Pixley, president of the Elk Creek Fire board, said he would take Newby’s concerns to the consolidation committee, and the group would start to address some of the concerns Newby brought up.

“We can get more information out for everyone,” Pixley said.

Newby responded: “It’s ne for you to do that, but we will get this information. I … and the public are going to request formally through CORA that this broad level of information be disseminated.”

Newby, who has voted against the pre-consolidation agreement and other issues regarding consolidation, has said that consolidation would severely diminish re and emergency medical services to Elk Creek residents.

Board member Dominique Devaney, who abstained in the vote, said she did so because she believed contracts, available meeting minutes and documented discussion items

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