LOCAL NEWS
Delta County Independent
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
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Relocated Burmese fill ag housing DOWNTOWN PAONIA
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BY HANK LOHMEYER
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The Alta Vista de la Montaùa ag worker housing project in North Delta is filling to capacity, a housing official has told the DCI. Ty Coleman, a field representative for the project’s non-profit owner, Community Resources and Housing Development Corporation (CRHDC), in a presentation to the county commissioners Monday said the 40-unit complex was about half full and expected to reach 100 percent full soon. Later that day, after checking his information with apartment manager Nadine Tayan, he called and corrected himself, telling the DCI that the three- and four-bedroom units are at 100 percent occupancy. The complex reached the 100 percent occupancy level with the relocation of a group of
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The new North Delta ag worker housing project, Alta Vista de la MontaĂąa, has all 40 of its three- and four-bedroom units leased.
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Jungle Scouts Montrose Cub Scouts Kenny Gifford and David Mertz aim carefully before pulling the trigger on their BB guns. They were among 81 Cub Scouts attending a day camp held at Confluence Park in Delta Aug. 3 and 4. Camp director Jenni Neill said 37 volunteers helped the boys complete the requirements for merit badges in knots, leather, fishing, geocaching, Duty to God, first aid, archery and more. The theme of the day camp was “Jungle.� Boys from Delta, Cedaredge, Montrose, Crested Butte, Gunnison and Ouray were divided into groups named for the turtles, frogs, rhinos and other creatures of the jungle.
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FROM PAGE A1 inspection was conducted . . . . On a hot day such as (we have had), you sit in (the) driveway, and look to the west between 7 and 8:30 p.m. just as the sun is setting. Some nights (the dust) is blowing directly towards (homes). Some nights, it is blowing down valley towards Hotchkiss and Willow Heights. (The hen house) is discharging this (dust) during the days as the fans kick on, but it is just harder to see.� In response to the video and the complaints about dust and odor from Western Slope Layers, the commissioners agreed to
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of up to 30 percent of their annual income for the year leases. Coleman said the new Burmese residents will join others “working in the orchards.â€? Non-profit CRHDC receives funding from various federal programs through the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Coleman told the BoCC. The Alta Vista de la MontaĂąa complex cost $7.9 million to build, with the 40 units costing an average of $197,500 each. That is well above the median price of Delta County housing, observed commissioner Olen Lund. Coleman accounted for the cost to a high water table on the site and “cost overrunsâ€? during construction. Commissioner Bruce Hovde expressed concern that the Burmese would encounter a “language barrier.â€? Coleman told the DCI that instructors from Head Start and other agencies are being used for language instruction.
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ethnic Burmese (Myanmar) relocated to Delta from Denver, Coleman said. They were the second group of ethnic Burmese to be relocated to the facility from Denver, Coleman added. The units are occupied 90 percent by ethnic Burmese. The balance of the occupancy is white and Hispanic, Coleman said in a telephone call to the DCI office. Coleman is director of rural field operations for CRHDC, a Westminster company that also owns ag worker housing projects in Alamosa and Center. Coleman said that Delta is the only one of the company’s projects that is “focusing on Burmese.� Among the original goals of the project was to provide family housing for ag workers, including transient and migrant workers. Tenants sign one-year leases, Coleman said. They must derive more than half of their family income from agriculture to qualify for residency. Tenants pay rent
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Nordstrom’s recommendation that a professional air quality consulting firm be hired to do some air sampling. The county health department is staffed with credentialed professionals who have done air quality sampling in the past, but no one in the office has the type of certification in the air quality monitoring trade that a court review of the results will require. The county was stung by district judge Patrick’s July 5 finding that the county isn’t properly certified to monitor or evaluate the operating conditions it had placed on Western Slope Layers. The air quality tests will cost the county $2,375, with follow-up surveys costing extra. Rice agreed with Nordstrom’s assessment that Western Slope Layers was complying with the county’s requirements. “From my standpoint (the owner) appears to be in compliance. He has not constructed the concrete pad (for manure load out) but he has indicated that he would do so . . . next year.� Western Slope Layers owner Edwin Hostetler and his attorney have responded to operational deficiencies found in previous county inspections, county attorney Christine Knight told the BoCC. Nordstrom, reporting on the Aug. 2 inspection, said, “I looked over the facility and all of the plans and found (the owner) to be in satisfactory compliance� with all of the county’s requirements. “Some things in my inspection report were minimal as far as compliance,� Nordstrom continued. “The feed didn’t have some certifications. He had a little bit different plan regarding salmonella; (but) it was in compliance. We (observed) very, very little odor, very little dust from the facility. We found very few flies.�
Family Fun Night Friday, August 10 * 5-8 p.m. Cedaredge Golf Club
* Metamoocil Mountain Boys * BBQ sponsored by WildďŹ re * Kids Games * Silent Auction items sponsored by Pro Space
Wyatt Tietz Memorial Golf Tournament Sponsored by Delta & Surface Creek Bank
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