A Zoom meeting of the Routt County Board of Health held in November. The board consists of the three commissioners, but a new bill in the state legislature seeks to change that, instead having commissioners appoint members to the board. (File photo)
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS The Routt County Board of Commissioners and Board of Health have the same three members, but a bill soon to be introduced in the Colorado Legislature seeks to change that.
Rep. Cathy Kipp, a Democrat from Fort Collins, plans to introduce a bill she said will take politics out of county boards of health by removing commissioners from those boards. A 2008 law required counties to have an independent board of health but left a carve-out for commissioners from counties with populations less than 100,000 to double as the board of health.