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RESOLUTION NO. 925
Series of 1984
TITLE: RESOLUTION TO FORMALLY RECOMMEND TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CORREC-
TIONS, THE GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE OF COLORADO TO APPROVE
AND SITE A NEW CORRECTIONAL FACILITY ON STATE LAND LOCATED AT
THE LOWRY BOMBING RANGE
WHEREAS, the final summary report of the DRCOG Jail Needs
Task Force work in 1983 identified housing costs for state prisoners
in county jails to be approximately $l.6 million per year. The task
force report also indicated five of the six metro area counties are
currently transporting approximately 6,000 state prisoners a year to
and from facilities at Canon City and Buena Vista; and
WHEREAS, the Denver Regional Council of Governments created a
Corrections Facility Siting Task Force in August 1984 to locate a
site in the metropolitan area for formal recommendation by DRCOG; and
WHEREAS, the Task Force as a result of work in developing a
correctional facility site proposal, recommends DRCOG's formal
approval and support for the correctional facility site proposal for
land in the Lowry Bombing Range; and
WHEREAS, Arapahoe County and Arapahoe County Sheriff formally
support this proposal; and
WHEREAS, the State Board of Land Commissioners has assisted In
identifying this state land; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Wheat Ridge,
Colorado, recommend that the Department of Corrections, the Governor
and Legislature of the State of Colorado approve and site the new
correctional facility on Sections 3, 33 and 34, Range 6SW, Township
5 South, Arapahoe County, State of Colorado, on state land in the
Lowry Bombing Range; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that such a new corrections facility
at the Lowry site contain a diagnostic unit so as to maximize benefits
to the public and the facility itself.
DONE AND RESOLVED this l7th day of December, 1984.
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Frank Stltes, Mayor
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