CTAC Creates New Community Development Committee

At the August meeting of the Community Transition Advisory Council (CTAC) on Thursday, August 12, Golden Sunlight Mine lead Chuck Buus announced a new committee to be created in order to assist GSM in allocating funds to local projects.

The Community Development Committee’s primary goals are to engage with the community, partner with community entities, invest in the community, sustain the community and adapt the committee to community changes as necessary.

The areas the committee will look to fit grant applications into are as follows: cultural heritage, environment, health, economic development, and education. Most projects should be able to fit into these general categories.

“GSM doesn’t want to stifle anything. This is committee run, not GSM run, and we want to better Whitehall as much as we can,” Buus said.

The committee is modeled after the Nevada Mines/Barrick Community Development Committee that was created earlier this year.

The next meeting of the new committee will be held immediately following the September CTAC meeting. Board assigments will be made - any and all wishing to participate in this committee are invited to attend.

OTHER CTAC NEWS:

• Buus announced 1595 hours of no lost time due to injuries.

• GSM currently has 17 full time employees and 62 contractors onsite.

• An environmental audit will begin in the next 2 weeks.

• Eric Siedensticker with JLDC commented that they are looking into paving the roads at the Golden Sunlight Business Park.

• County Commissioner Leonard Wortman said the commissioners approved a basic format for expenditure of the ARPA funds and that they are hiring an ARPA administrator who will be shared with the Boulder community for grant writing.