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The council interviewed eight candidates in public before voting. After paper ballots and staff tallying, five candidates received six votes each. Council used a random draw (the mayor described it as a hat draw) to decide which five of those tied candidates would receive three-year initial terms. The council then voted 6–0 (roll call recorded as unanimous) to appoint the seven candidates to the board.

Mayor Keith Case opened the process by reminding the public that the council’s role is to forward appointees to Main Street; the board itself will elect officers (president, vice president, secretary, treasurer) at its first meeting. Kimberly and Anita from city staff described the Main Street roles and told council the Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) allows a Main Street entity to have five to seven members; council chose the larger seven-member option to provide capacity for committees and to reduce risk from early turnover.

Candidates interviewed included Tim Miller (Rampart Library District director), Jeffrey Lee Bilsland (Woodland Park resident, small-business background), Caitlin Gonzales (studio administrative director, Dana’s Dance), Andrea Connolly (owner, Hunt & Homestead Marketplace), Michelle Gillespie (project manager / interior design background), Nicole Demers (Zoom applicant; Woodland Park resident), Derek Wagner (Zoom), and Joseph Perea (arrived later and interviewed). Applicants discussed local experience, fundraising, business-support ideas, walkability and place-making, and how Main Street could help recruit and support businesses.

Tim Miller said his Main Street experience includes serving on Main Street boards in other communities and work on place-making; he described Main Street’s purpose as \"creating or making a place into a locality that people want to spend money\" and emphasized economic development through place-making. Andrea Connolly described offering marketing and training resources for small businesses; Nicole Demers and others emphasized fostering collaboration among businesses and improving downtown tidiness and walkability.

After interviews, councilmembers used paper ballots listing up to seven candidates. Staff tallied the votes; the six top vote-getters (each with six votes) were Tim Miller, Caitlin Gonzales, Andrea Connolly, Nicole Demers, Joseph Perea. Michelle Gillespie received five votes and Jeffrey Bilsland received four; Derek Wagner received three. Because five candidates were tied for the highest vote count, council used a random draw to determine which of the tied candidates would receive three-year initial terms. The draw assigned three-year initial terms to Tim Miller, Joseph Perea, Andrea Connolly and Caitlin Gonzales (announced at the meeting), and the remaining appointees received two-year initial terms.

Council then approved a single motion to appoint the seven members: Joseph Perea, Tim Miller, Jeffrey Bilsland, Caitlin Gonzales, Michelle Gillespie, Andrea Connolly, and Nicole Demers. The roll-call vote recorded the motion as carried unanimously.

Council also named Council member George as the council liaison to the Main Street board. Mayor Case administered the oath of office to the appointees in a public swearing-in during the meeting; Derek Wagner, who had the fewest votes, offered to serve on a Main Street committee instead of the board.

Ending — The council’s action creates a seven-member Main Street board with staggered initial terms (three- and two-year openings). The board will meet and elect officers, and the city liaison will aid coordination between council and the new board.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","City Council Meeting | August 21, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","After interviewing eight candidates for a new Main Street board, City Council appointed seven members and assigned staggered initial terms; selection used paper ballots and a random 'hat draw' to resolve equal vote counts for three 3-year seats.","taxTitle","Woodland Park, Teller County, Colorado","taxId",45828,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6504434,"Woodland Park to mail public notice after state finds record-keeping lapses at water plant",237,69000,306000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5671249-dbdd2164c4cffd9500a770ae961fbe16&start=69&end=306","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5671249-dbdd2164c4cffd9500a770ae961fbe16/thumbnail_69000.jpg","/articles/6504434/Woodland-Park/Teller-County/Colorado/Woodland-Park-to-mail-public-notice-after-state-finds-record-keeping-lapses-at-water-plant","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6504434-72cbad9f29db007c3d8463deedf08007/orig.mp4?Expires=1771147696&Signature=NlJZkoad6wE8G260PiBm22amWZPW~~zunWHVxaB8bYtpZBLvHTnhElmMFGV0Fd~9RIf4FG43ttdmjlN-CdJFZDZafO2Y7cgYl4LUB2rtz~4~unhS2SB-8pAnGycUSmo0~1op8tTt1-KVh3nAVng4iU9aIAk~uF8O1St15X2TvFeF3KsrEfA0p~vXsQWTjEpy-qUEbeIPD5WGW~z9WbjPwyrTx6wrKDSfNKpmB13U1kpequvICEUjvpFpn~tTAQVJVD4UtY3DIadESpxOVnoNRlCT2rXMsojfR3EYFJtvNIdi9HcWoN4BInO18DgQ4vGK8E~WgVODn2FBAC1kutIfIg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","City officials said Thursday they will mail a public notice to every household after a state sanitary survey on July 3 identified two record-keeping deficiencies at Woodland Park’s water treatment plant.

Kip, a city staff member who spoke to council, said the state categorized the findings as one tier-2 and one tier-3 violation under Colorado’s three-tier structure. He said the first finding involved documentation for periodic storage-tank inspections and the second related to calibration records for a turbidity meter.

The city’s notification requirement for the tank-inspection recordkeeping is 30 days, and Kip said the notice will be mailed on August 22 with a public-deadline of August 30. \"We failed to document those inspections,\" Kip said, adding that staff had in fact inspected tanks monthly during the prior year but had not retained or presented the paperwork the state expected.

Kip said city staff are going \"above and beyond the state's requirements\" by using the regular mailer plus social media and website posts. He told council that the tanks had been inspected and that paperwork had been completed for the period immediately before the state inspection; the older period that triggered the notice was not fully documented.

On the turbidity-meter issue, Kip said the plant has three turbidity meters and that daily verification checks are performed even though the manufacturer's calibration schedule is less frequent. He said staff replaced and had the new meters calibrated by the manufacturer before the state inspection. \"They’re all within the tolerances of what the other ones were,\" he said in response to a council question about whether the new meters read similarly to the old units.

Council members asked clarifying questions about what a turbidity meter measures and whether inspections had occurred but not been logged. Kip and others confirmed inspections and meter checks were performed; the deficiency cited by the state was the absence of the paperwork for some months in the prior 12-month cycle.

The mayor and council were told the public notification envelopes were already prepared, postage applied, and mailings scheduled. City staff said they will continue to answer resident questions through the city website and social channels while the required public timeline runs.

The city emphasized that the issues cited were procedural (recordkeeping and calibration logs) rather than operational failures that left water quality outside regulatory limits. Council did not take a separate vote beyond receiving the briefing; staff indicated they would return if further follow-up was needed.

Ending — The city will send the mailed notice on Aug. 22 and post follow-up information publicly while it finishes any remaining paperwork requested by the state. Councilmembers said they appreciated the extra outreach and the prompt steps to have manufacturer-calibrated meters in place.
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