Fort Lupton youth will see the benefits fromJune’s Jon Mays Memorial Fore Youth Golf Tournament, councilors agreed.

The City Council accepted two checkstotally $10,000 at their Aug. 15 meetingf from Jacobs Engineering Group to the city at the council’s Aug. 15 meeting. 

“It was pretty successful; we raised just over $10,000 this year. We split it between two recipients, the Boys & Girls Club of Weld County and the Rec Center,” said Jacob Engineering Group’s Aaron Richardson.

Julie Holm, Recreation Center assistant recreation director, and Rachel Bigum, Boys & Girls Club of Weld Director Marketing and Engagement, were present to receive the checks.

The annual fundraiser was renamed this year in honor of Jacobs Project Manager Jon Mays. Mays passed away in August 2022 and served as the project manager of the Jacobs team that manages Fort Lupton’s water and wastewater utilities from 2017 to 2022. Mays organized the tournament for many years.

Stephanie Mays, Jon Mays’s widow,thanked the city and the engineering firm for their sponsorship of the tournament and encouraged them to continue doing it.

Setting November’s ballot

In other council business, council members formally set November’s ballot,designating Marcela Pena as the election official for the City and approving an agreement with Weld County to operate the election. Voters will go to the polls Nov. 7 to fill three open seats on the city council.

Attorney Jennifer Gruber Tanaka presented the case to the council the service plan for Sunrise Metropolitan District and an Intergovernmental agreement with the district.Sunrise Metropolitan would be located at the northeast corner of Weld County Road 12 and County Road 29.

The case is to receive approval for the service plan for its district to provide for planning, design, acquisition, construction, installation, relocation, redevelopment, and financing of the public improvements required for the development of the area.

All members Council members approved the service plan.

Flood plain study

Councilors also approved a study of the city’s flood insurance plans. That study will be used to update the city’s flood plain maps for property insurance. The city needs to have the study completed by Oct. 14 to avoid fines from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA.

FEMA notified Fort Lupton that it must enact the new floodplain management regulations with the updated flood insurance study by Oct. 14 and have flood insurance maps approved by the stateand by FEMA before Nov. 30.

David Rausch, development review engineer, said the only real change to the floodplain insurance maps is the area around the wastewater plant.

“Also, south of Highway 52, it shows some flooding that crosses the highway,” Rausch said. “It’s new this year because of culverts cross under Highway 85, it’s been back there for some time, and we saw it this spring.”

Rausch said there are possibly five culverts that need to be sorted out with the Colorado Department of Transporation.

“The floodplain study has been approved by FEMA and public hearings have been done. We are looking at get this enacted to meet the November 30 deadline so can remain on the national floodplain insurance,” Rausch said.

Councilman Barron asked how much it would cost the city. Rausch said the city doesn’t pay for it, but it benefits people in the flood plain it helps them in case floods could impact their properties.

“It’s beneficial for the city to remain in this program even though we don’t have many properties in the floodplain, which is good. It means everybody is thinking ahead,” Rausch said.

The program also helps the city make repairs floods happen.

“There are lots of mitigation techniques with this program,” Rausch said. “We could raise the structure or sub-proofing the structure or something like that.”

Mayor Hubbard asked how far west the flood map extended.

“I’m just a curious, I use to live on the river bottom for the first 6 to 8 year of my life. We got flooded more than once. But we were farther west than that,” Hubbard said.

Rausch said she would have to look again.

Councilors approved the study.