Give Jefferson County your Feedback on Apex Park!
Jefferson County Open Space (JCOS) managers recently contacted COMBA to inform us they are beginning a public input process to consider opportunities and methods to improve visitor experiences at Apex Park. Their goal is to increase the safety of park users, and provide more positive experiences for visitors.
The public input process has four parts that require your participation and awareness:
1) Written Input: JCOS is soliciting pubic input on visitors' preferred management techniques. To streamline the submission of requested feedback from the cycling community to Jefferson County, an electronic version of the JCOS feedback form has been made available by the Colorado Mountain Bike Association (COMBA) and the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA). Please go here to participate. Upon submission, a copy of your answers and comments will be automatically emailed to Thea Rock, Jefferson County's Manager of Citizen Outreach. The deadline for submitting Feedback Forms is June 30, 2009.
2) Open Houses: Two open Houses will be held in June at the Open Space Ponderosa Meeting Room located at 700 Jefferson County Parkway in Golden. A large turnout from mountain bikers will help ensure our standing in these important discussions! Mark your calendars and attend if you can: Thursday, June 18, 2009 from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m; Saturday, June 20, 2009 from 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
3) OSAC Report: Findings from public input will be reported at the Open Space Advisory Committee’s regular meeting on July 2, 2009 at 7:00pm. COMBA will be there to make sure our input was captured fully, and hope you will be too!
4) Spread the word! Please forward a link to this post to everyone you know who values their mountain biking experience at Apex, who will want to be part of this important process. Our voices matter!
COMBA is encouraged that JCOS is conducting extensive outreach in this process, and appreciates that its managers are asking all park visitors and stakeholders to take an active part. Open Space managers want to put as many ideas as possible on the table for consideration before any decisions are made. COMBA has been assured by all levels of JCOS management that the public input process now underway is meant to generate ideas and foster outreach, and that no changes in Apex Park management are expected this year.
As always, thank you for your support of COMBA, and being an active member of our Front Range mountain biking Community. (PS to Facebookers: Stay in the loop by joining COMBA's Facebook Group!)
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just to let you know, I took the survey, and when I hit Submit, it went to an imba.com page. Only when I scrolled down did I realize it was an error page; the last two fields had been dropped and it said it needed my County and email address. I re-entered them and everything went through fine, but if I hadn't scrolled down I wouldn't have known that my survey wasn't submitted.
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