Valley Voices
Mountain Recreation is evolving as a district, and we hope you are seeing the changes we’re making every day to better serve you. Since reopening post-COVID, the Mountain Rec staff have been finding ways to keep our facilities clean, operational, and welcoming to everyone.
Janet Bartnik
The benefits of this effort are clear: Memberships are once again on the rise, many youth summer camps were sold out with waitlists upon waitlists, our sports leagues had more growth than we’ve ever seen before, and our three pools have seen thousands of guests this summer. On top of that, we’ve held a ribbon cutting ceremony for our new Eagle Sports Complex building, we’ve partnered with Small Champions to bring new Adaptive Rec programming to ensure all youth feel like they belong, and, even more, we’ve been working on ourselves to revisit how to create welcoming and inclusive spaces and programs.
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Eagle Town Council member Matt Solomon announced last week that he will be stepping down from the Town Council, a decision which officially took effect last Wednesday.
The decision is not necessarily Solomon’s swan song as a local public servant, but rather an opportunity to “pass the torch” and take a “time out” to enjoy life in the community he holds so dear, he said.
“I turned 47 this weekend,” Solomon said in a meeting of Town Council members last week. “… And I realized I have been in public service in this town and county for 20 straight years, five and a half of which on this council.
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After opting out of an updated Climate Action Plan prepared by the Climate Action Collaborative, the town of Eagle on Tuesday came out with its own, seemingly more ambitious sustainability goals.
The Eagle Town Council passed a resolution Tuesday evening adopting a goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in town government’s internal operations by 2028 and in the “greater Eagle community” by 2030.
“To move forward as a full squad and not be split on something that is probably the biggest existential threat to the town and to the species, I think it’s a big deal and we’ve got a lot of smart people to try to figure out how to get to 2030,” Town Council member Geoff Grimmer said following the meeting. “Maybe we even get there six months early and have time for some Champagne.”
Kelli Duncan/kduncan@vaildaily.com
Eagle Town Council members progressed toward the development of a sustainability plan Tuesday, a discussion which centered around how going green can be financially feasible and maybe even beneficial for the town.
The council held a sustainability work session Tuesday evening that helped members form ideas on potential next steps after some voiced concerns around the financials and logistics of big-picture changes, Mayor Scott Turnipseed said.
“We want to think about what are our grandkids are going to inherit, and that’s like a basic thing that governments are thinking about is: How do we leave this better than we found it?” Council member Geoff Grimmer said.