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Cortez Police Chief Roy Lane is requesting the council\u2019s support for a Department of Local Affairs grant application that would help pay for new equipment.<\/p>\n The council will vote on that request, as well as a resolution setting a time limit on public comment periods that was tabled at the July 10 council meeting.<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall, after a 5:30 p.m. workshop that is also open to the public.<\/p>\n In a memo to the council, Lane said the police department\u2019s communication equipment, which is used to operate emergency dispatch for the entire county, is nearing the end of its life.<\/p>\n The equipment was installed in 1996, and Lane said the department is having difficulty finding replacement parts for it.<\/p>\n If approved, its grant application would seek $750,000 from the state to help pay for an upgrade.<\/p>\n A another communications-related issue, the council will vote on a memorandum of understanding under which the state of Colorado radio equipment located in the old Montezuma County Justice Building would be moved to the Cortez Police Department tower.<\/p>\n The agreement stipulates that the state would pay for the equipment\u2019s move.<\/p>\n Another item on the agenda is a resolution regulating public comment during council meetings.<\/p>\n One version of the resolution, which council members have been discussing for months, was tabled July 10 because its wording failed to address opportunities for comment during public hearings.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, the council will vote on a new version, which clarifies that \u201cno time limit will be set during public hearings for the proponent\u2019s presentation.\u201d<\/p>\n If approved, the resolution would establish a four-minute time limit for all other types of public comment during meetings, and allow speakers to address the City Council twice per agenda item.<\/p>\n The meeting on Tuesday also will include a public hearing, in which the council will vote on the final reading of an ordinance setting Municipal Judge Jim Shaner\u2019s salary at about $18,000 per year.<\/p>\n Also during Tuesday\u2019s workshop and meeting, the council will:<\/p>\n Discuss emergency training for the police department.<\/em>Hear an update on the Public Arts Advisory Committee. <\/em>Review draft public survey questions for the fiber project.<\/em>Vote on a letter of support for a statewide \u201csingle filing portal\u201d that would allow businesses with multiple locations to file taxes from one website.<\/em>Set a public hearing date to vote on a new liquor license for Jimmers, a restaurant on 439 E. Main St.<\/em>Vote on a contract for municipal judge services.<\/em>Vote on whether to appoint Rachel Medina to the Board of Adjustments and Appeals.<\/em>Hold a public comment period.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday meeting features vote on communications, discussion of training<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,318,13,51],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-98648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-cortez-municipal-government","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-police"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98648"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=98648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}