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“We want these to be residentsubmitted. We want cool little town stories, especially about things people have done and awesome achievements of local residents,” said Snively. “We also want to highlight local merchants and businesses. We want to show that Elizabeth is a desirable place to shop and work.”

Preserve Elizabeth Initiative e Town of Elizabeth is working toward launching its Preserve Elizabeth Initiative, kicked o by a large event.

As a part of the Community rough Communication plan, Snively wants to continue to bring the history of the Town of Elizabeth to the residents of the area. However, the town needs the help of longtime residents to make this happen.

“We’re thinking of holding an event where residents bring their old pictures, clippings, and old stu that they’ve held on to for decades and collect as a group all the history we have of Elizabeth so we can scan it, document it, bring it all together, and then do some sort of unveiling, whether it’s on the website or whatever,” said Snively. “We have a lot of cool pictures. But think about all the cool stu we don’t have yet that’s out there. I want it to be a collective social experience. I think there is so much cool stu out there. I want to bring more pride to the community through that. How do we preserve the town’s history? Well, we want to recruit the town.”

Civics Academy

Like the Elizabeth Police Department Student Academy, the Town of Elizabeth is considering the start of a “Civics Academy” that is designed to teach local residents about the inner workings of the town.

“We had such a good turnout with the Water 101 class, and we had such great feedback. I want to broaden that education to learning about our public works, giving tours of our facilities, leaning about how our wells work and going to see them,” said Snively. “Instead of jumping into that yet, we want to o er more classes like Water 101. What does public works do for you? What are their processes? How do they take care of the town? I want to do more exposure to the town operations. It helps ll those knowledge gaps and let’s get local people more involved.”

Town website and livestreaming e Town of Elizabeth website is in need of a serious facelift. One of Mayor Snively’s goals is to modernize the website. e plan also calls for making video livestreaming of town meetings an available option for people on the new website.

“ e rst phase would be to clean out all the bad links, bad info, and stu that’s outdated. We just started the process. It will all be revamped,” commented Snively. “As for access to the meetings, we want to livestream the Board of Trustees meetings, Planning Commission meetings, Historic Advisory Board meetings, all of it. If even just one person watches the live video, that’s one more person being involved in the community.”

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Costs and timeline e cost of the Community rough Communication plan is little to none. e largest component of this plan is the time commitment to make it work. As for a timeline to carry out the plan, social media is already up and running, reaching thousands of people each day.

Snively hopes the town can have resident and business spotlights regularly posted by the end of June. Other pieces of the plan will be developed throughout 2023 and into 2024.

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Twitter: twitter.com/ElizColorado.

Facebook: facebook.com/ townofelizabethcolorado.