Mayor hopeful about master plan

Mayor Ed Glode attended meetings last week regarding Saratoga’s master plan, to be completed by Community Builders, Inc. (CBI). Representatives working on the plan were in town last week to work on the first steps of the plan. “I think it was a great visit,” Glode said of CBI’s time in town. “We have five people helping us and I think all five of them are real good.

“The early work went real well so we should get a good plan out of it,” Glode said.

“I said ‘If nothing else comes out of your master plan other than solving our seasonality issue, that’s our number one goal,’” Glode said of the effort to bring business into town. “We’re going to get a good town map, know what the town owns, what the town needs to keep and know what the town needs to sell, turn into money, or whatever.” Glode explained that Engineering Associates have been looking into other areas in town to add more light industrial.

Glode, with the Saratoga Town Council, agreed to support Police Chief Tom Knickerbocker as he works to gather support against the legalization of marijuana. “It’s something Tom [Knickerbocker] wants to do. As a Council, I’ll sure back it,” Glode said regarding the police effort for support against legalizing marijuana. “I know our governor feels that way too. Every state’s a little different, and we’re not as open to that as maybe Colorado or Washington.”

Glode mentioned that they had been working on the issue at the landfill since the Landfill Board meeting on Aug. 5. “We do plan to move the one cattle guard right up to the landfill,” Glode said the cattle guard project at the landfill. “And keeping it cleaned out as a cattle guard. Right now, they’re full and there’s cows wandering around the landfill. So, we do want to get that done. As far as the second one, we’ll talk to [Bureau of Land Management] and some others and we can decide what to do with it.”