The Golden Downtown Development Authority met on August 17, 2026, at 5:30 PM at 911 Tenth Street. The board discussed and voted on project priorities from an August 5 strategic meeting, approved three new committed projects, and identified four additional priority efforts. Commissioners also provided updates on recent events, subcommittee work, and upcoming activities.
Things but we are just officially recording that okay to do pilot error. Um we had a really good discussion on August 5th about our committed projects and a discussion of some potential projects that had already been discussed before and then some new ones that were discussed that day. As an offsite meeting, the three projects that were advanced to committed projects preliminarily would require your endorsement this evening because we are not able to take official action outside of a regular business outside of a business meeting. It could be a special business meeting. So what I would propose to do is we can give you some update, including some exciting update about the three that we're just adding and then get into the prioritization of other projects that you'd like the DDA and the staff members to be working on. So some of this is redundant, but prospector alley 14th to 15th is to be scheduled for September. The specialty paving contractor that can do it was not previously under contract with the city, and it was earlier going to go on the 11th, but I believe it's going on the 25th this month for that contract. So sorry, uh we continue to um work planning with the 12th Street Plaza subcommittee for October 10th event, and in fact the subcommittee has a meeting tomorrow with some of the participating stakeholders. Oh, can you send out an invite to the board for that to save it? 11 to 3 October 10th, 2026. Over on 12th Street. Um we have a new plan for Santa. And Tim will be meeting with a different contractor who we think can um handle the job this week and meeting up with the shops with our street maintenance folks who know Santa and the reindeer quite quite well. Um for the Miners Alley Lighting Project, um, we are now under contract with our master services agreement for electric work. Who also Tim will comment on how that affects Parfa Park, and so I'm working with them. Starting with looking to see if there are some fixtures that would work in Miners Alley between 12th and 13th that are solar, and also thinking about character of downtown. Um I think we would want to not only talk to the neighboring stakeholders but also the board about the fixture choice. Um the benefit of solar uh for one thing, it would be a lot easier than boring electric to seven five different poles up and down there from the middle of the block where the parking district is paying for some electrical work in that surface parking lot. Uh but the other one is to be more sustainable, and the standards for a pedestrian light like that. Um, you know, one of the things you think about is will it last all night on December 21st, the shortest day of the year, and that's something to think about, but personally I don't think that it really has to last from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. in the middle of the winter because there are lights and the lights in the north half of the parking lot will all be operational at that time. Promise. It won't be as well. That's where the electricity is coming from for the for the design of the creek corridor east of Fourth Street. That project is underway. Um there would be some level of update. It's mostly a technical review of the potential to do the Tucker Gulch channel change to lay back the slopes and create the park areas. Um there'll be an update to be later on this fall. Um for wayfinding, we're working on the maps and some wayfinding directional wayfinding. You're also working on two other projects with planning on wayfinding. Yes, they're going to be updating the uh parking structure signage, um, and they'll have like an indicator of how full they are and that would be I think a really nice addition to let people know that there is almost always availability in our downtown garages, and then we are working on uh side street weight finding for businesses that are not on Washington to try to reduce um congestion and also do a better job of uh distributing our crowds uh off of off Washington. So formally the DDA had helped with those signs in the past, and we'll be coming to you once we have like actual designs for your consideration. Do we do we know since we'll have a digital re of availability in the garage, will there also be an online resource for that too? There has been three years.com. I think so. Yep, that's it. Park Bolton Co. It also includes the what's called the Clear Creek Lots, the free lots up on 10th Street. Awesome. For Parford Park, Tim and Abdullah and the Parks folks will be meeting with our master electrical services people to last time we looked at it. We were trying to figure out what would be the right level and product for event support if we wanted to reduce generator use, maybe not totally eliminated, but the parks folks have some other interests in upgrading electricity there. So Tim and Abdullah are working on that one and trying to get a meeting set for soon. For the Ford Street undergrounding, I spent a good amount of time myself and the Clayworks people and Excel working on that, but I think they're close to an estimate. The driver for the estimate is the block from 9th to 10th where Clayworks indicates they want to build some residential. I don't know if they'll actually start next year, but they are they're hoping to see their portion of the undergrounding by next spring. One question for later this year will be whether this is a 20. Excel generally wants the money way up front. So whether this is a 26 contribution or 27, and you've not formally agreed to do it until you see the cost, of course. Um Trash Recycling Pilot Project, I don't think we have any update from two months ago when we spoke to you.