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Improved golf cart path due for Coyote Creek
Fort Lupton council approves repairs to paths, other items at regular meeting
BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM


e golf cart tracks at Fort Lupton’s Coyote Creek Golf Course will get a $300,000 upgrade, City Councilors agreed on March 21.
Colorado Paving, Inc was awarded the contract for about $300,000 for its repaving project at the golf course. e funds would be dispersed from the Golf Course Maintenance Fund.
Much of the asphalt paths throughout the course are pocked with potholes.
“We advertised for a bid in February 2023, and on March 10, we received four bids,” said Public Works Director Roy Vestal. “ e low bidder was Colorado Paving and we are looking to execute a contract with them for the golf cart path replacement and asphalt paving.”
Mayor Zo Hubbard if the city has had experience with Colorado Paving. Vestal said it does.
In other business, council members approved the $1 million grant from the Colorado Department of Local A airs DOLA for improvements of Fort Lupton wastewater systems. All told, those improvements are forecast to cost about $25 million.
“It’s an application with the Energy and Mineral Impact fund for a $1 million grant to help apply towards our construction of a lift station conversion of the wastewater treatment plant connecting its ows with Metro Water’s Northern Treatment Plant in Brighton,” Vestal said. e mayor and council members also approved purchasing six shares of Fulton Irrigation from Howard Binder for $360,350 to add to the city’s water rights inventory.
Chris Cross, Fort Lupton City Administrator, said, the six shares will continue to improve Fort Lupton’s water portfolio.
“We have a 120-day due-diligence time that we can utilize with this agreement to ensure we get the acrefootage deed necessary out of them,” Cross said.
Council also approved hiring for two positions for the City of Fort Lupton for about $165,550.
City Clerk Mari Pena said her ofce will be hiring for a marketing and communications specialist.
Councilors also agreed to let the Public Works Department hire a public works sanitary supervisor.
Councilman Carlos Barron asked when will the position be advertised.
“We are currently working on the job descriptions, then we will move forward,” Pena said.
