2025 Special District "Transparency Notice"

Notice to Electors 32-1-809 C.R.S.

Legal Name of Special District: Delta County Fire Protection District #4

This information must be provided annually to the eligible electors of the district between November 16 and January 15.

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Office Information:

Address and telephone number of district’s principal business office:  193 W. Hotchkiss Ave., PO Box 522, Hotchkiss, CO 81419, 970-872-3311

Name and telephone of manager or other primary contact person for district: Diane Walker 970-872-3311

Email address of primary contact: hotchkissfireoffice@gmail.com

District’s website address: hotchkissfiredistrict.org

Time and place designated for regular board meetings: 6:30 pm, second Monday of each month, 193 W. Hotchkiss Ave., Hotchkiss, CO 81419

Posting place designated for meeting Notice:  193 W. Hotchkiss Ave., Hotchkiss, CO 81419

Names and Contact Information of Board Members:

  • Board Chair: William C. Long
    • Contact Info: PO Box 522, Hotchkiss, CO 81419
    • Is this member up for election on the next regular election: Yes, Four Year Term
  • Member: Kathleen Welt
    • Contact Info: PO Box 522, Hotchkiss, CO 81419
    • Is this member up for election on the next regular election: No
  • Member: Cresta Pene
    • Contact Info: PO Box 522, Hotchkiss, CO 81419
    • Is this member up for election on the next regular election: No
  • Member: Daniel Miller
    • Contact Info: PO Box 522, Hotchkiss, CO 81419
    • Is this member up for election on the next regular election: No
  • Member: Zachary Hotchkiss
    • Contact Info: PO Box 522, Hotchkiss, CO 81419
    • Is this member up for election on the next regular election: Yes, Four Year Term

Elections:

Date of Next Regular Election:  May 6, 2025

Self-nomination forms to be a candidate for district board member may be obtained from and should be returned to the Designated Election Official (or Board Chair or Secretary if no DEO). [per C.R.S. 1-13.5-303]

Self-nomination forms for the next regular election must be received by the district by:  Feb 28, 2025, no later than 4 pm

Applications for absentee voting or for permanent absentee voter status are available from and must be
returned to the Designated Election Official. [per C.R.S. 1-13.5-1003]

Designated Election Official:  Diane Walker

Address:  PO Box 522, Hotchkiss, CO 81419

Phone: 970-872-3311

Election results will be posted on these websites:  hotchkissfiredistrict.org

Department of Local Affairs: https://dola.colorado.gov/lgis

District Mill Levy: 4.8 mills, for collection in 2025

Total ad valorem tax revenue received in the previous year (note if unaudited or otherwise incomplete): 216,147.00 (unaudited)

File copy of this Notice with:

  • Clerk and Recorder of each county in which the district is wholly or partially located
  • Assessor of each county in which the district is wholly or partially located
  • Treasurer of each county in which the district is wholly or partially located
  • Board of commissioners of each county in which the district is wholly or partially located
  • Governing body of any municipality in which the district is wholly located
  • Division of Local Government
  • District’s principal business office where it shall be available for public inspection

1 Notice must be provided in one or more of the following manners:

a) Mail Notice separately to each household where one or more eligible electors of the special district resides (Note: Districts with overlapping boundaries may combine mailed Notices, so long as the information regarding each district is separately displayed and identified);
b) Include Notice as a prominent part of a newsletter, annual report, billing insert, billing statement, letter, voter information card or other Notice of election, or other informational mailing sent by the district to the eligible electors;
c) Post Notice on district’s official website (Note: You must also provide the Division of Local Government
(http://www.colorado.gov/dola) with the address of your district’s website in order to establish a link on the DLG’s site. Please use our Contact Update form available on our website or by request.);
d) Post Notice on website of the Special District Association of Colorado (http://www.sdaco.org) (Note: Your district must be an SDA member. Send Notice to SDA by mail or electronic transmission); or
e) For a special district with less than one thousand eligible electors that is wholly located within a county with a population of less than thirty thousand, posting the Notice in at least three public places within the limits of the special district and, in addition, posting a Notice in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of the county in which the special district is located. Such Notices shall remain posted until the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of the following May.

Special District Transparency Notice for Delta County Fire Protection District #4. Date:  2025