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Senate Transportation & Energy
Senate Transportation & Energy took up Senator Byron Pelton's resolution urging attention to Morgan County's deteriorating state highways, where two county commissioners and a dairy industry director testified that 70% of the county's roads are effectively at the end of their life — but the measure drew a split vote over whether one county deserved its own resolution.
Key Actions
·SR26-001No vote
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“70% of approximately 145 miles of state highway excluding I 76 that runs east and west through Morgan county have low drivability pursuant to a 2023 CDOT assessment.”
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The meeting of Senate Transportation and Energy Committee will now come to order. Ms. Forbes, can you please call the roll? Senators Baseley. Present. Catlin. Here. Exum. Good afternoon. Linstadt. Present. Malika. Here. Pelton. Present. Sullivan. Here. Ball. Here. And Madam Chair. Present. Okay, thank you. So today we are here to HEAR Senator Pelton's Resolution 001 on Morgan county road improvements. Please, please begin. Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, committee, for your patience. I do appreciate it. I was just presenting another bill in Judiciary and it took me a little bit of time to get through the whole discussion. So thank you so much for listening to me. So this bill, this, this bill resolution came to me via the Morgan County Commissioners. It is probably the number one issue in my district. Morgan county is just one of seven counties in my district, and it is probably the number one issue is the. The road maintenance issues that we have in northeastern Colorado. One of the things that we talk about, and CDOT has already sent us a letter about this and talks about has how much of our heavyweight agriculture, transportation is contributing to…
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