Estes Park Town Board approves consent agenda including BEAD grant decline and visitor center change order

The Estes Park Town Board voted Tuesday to approve its consent agenda as a single package. The bundle included routine bills and meeting minutes, along with a resolution declining a Broadband Equity Access and Deployment, or BEAD, grant award and a resolution approving a change order for visitor center parking lot improvement design work.

Mayor Gary Hall read the six-item consent agenda into the record and asked whether any board member or member of the public wanted an item removed for separate consideration. No item was pulled. A trustee then moved approval, Mayor Pro Tem Marie Cenac seconded, and Hall announced that the consent agenda had been approved as written.

The items approved were the expenditure approval list of bills; Town Board meeting and study session minutes from June 23, 2026; Board of Adjustment minutes from June 2, 2026; acknowledgment of Planning Commission minutes from May 19, 2026; Resolution 83-26 declining the BEAD grant award; and Resolution 84-26 authorizing a change order for visitor center parking lot improvements design with Kimley-Horn and Associates.

The Kimley-Horn change order was listed at $46,508.50 and described as budgeted. The two resolutions were part of the consent agenda, meaning they were approved without separate debate before the board moved on to other business.