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<br />MR. SUNDBERG: Mr. Chairman and members of the Board, my name is 'John: <br />Sundberg. I am the Mayor of Hayden, pro tem, and I have with me <br />Edward Carpenter, our consulting engineer from Grand Junc~ion. <br /> <br />I have a few notes that I would like to present. Some of this, I think, <br />the members of the ~oard 'have .in the short resume of the "onnnunity. .But <br />to begin with, I have just a brief history for anybody that is not I <br />familia: with Hayden. ,It's a small comll!lmity located: i~ ~he Y~a . <br />Valley ~n the western part of Routt County at an e1evat~on of s~x thou- <br />sand three hundred and thirty-six feet in a semi-arid area. . The <br />connnunity was founded in 1874 and incorporated in 1906. Our first . <br />water system was constructed in 1913, the same year that the Moffat <br />Railroad reached the cOmmUnity." Some ,of this water system is still fn <br />existence.' " ." - ' , ' <br /> <br />Transportation and access in this area, as you know, i~on u. S.- High- <br />way 40, the D&RG Railway and the yampa Valley Airport. We have scheduled <br />passenger service by way of the continental Trai1ways Bus :Sy.stem and, <br />Frontier Airlines at the Yampa Valley Airport. <br /> <br />- <br />In the nearby community of Hayden, we have a public school 'system and a <br />small private .schoo1 system, ,both .of, w~icq'offer' "K" thro~gh ~we1ve. . <br />We have a total enrollment in the school system of five hundred and <br />forty-eight and a total employment o~ sixty-eight withi~_the :school <br />system.., Hayden is the sc~oo1 for -the RE1 -Dist;.rict of Routt CO).lIlty, <br />which are three districts. ' . ". ' '.,' <br />, -. . ... <br /> <br />In Hayden: we have fire prot.ect~on :provided by the West Routt' Fi,re Pro-, <br />tection District, which is an'expe!ise to the community at'a: fixed <br />yearly rate. We have very limited medical facilities :i,n the cQnnnuniJ::y. <br />At the present time efforts are currently under way to develop and <br />staff a full-,sca1e clinic. . - <br /> <br />, ' <br />The pppu1ation of Hayden has been:very:st;.atic from the years, of 1950 <br />through,1970~ ijowever, in the 1a~~'three to four years, the increase : <br />has been very drastic. SO}lle of the past ,census figures, for :instance, , <br />1950 is 767, in 1960,764, and in .1970, 763. 1976 as near as we can" , <br />estimate right ~ow i,s approxima~el,y 1,950. Yo.\! ment,ioned tl).at; Craig has <br />doubled in population. In the same time, Hayden has nearly tripled. <br />. . . -- <br />The corporate: boundaries of the town of Hayden includes approximate1y <br />874 acres. Four hundred ninety acres of this Hayden area are in a ,new <br />subdivision adjoining the town to the southwest. 'Development in this <br />subdivision began, in the fall ,of '1975, and at the present, there are <br />forty-three new homes either'comp1eted or nearing completion. ' <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />, . <br />As a comparison, the per~od.from 1960 to 1970.saw approximately twenty <br />new homes constructed in Hayden. From 1970 to the present date, of <br />which the bulk of the development has 'beenin t.he last three years, we <br />have added one 54 mobile home unit park; one 14 unit mobile home park; <br />one apartment development fo.r low income with eight more units to be <br />added in the near future; one eight unit apartment, twenty-six trailers <br />and double wides, which we have .allowedto, be' established .on lots within <br />the community en permanent foundations; seventy-four new homes and one <br /> <br />~14,- <br />