Holyoke
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Oct 19, 2026
Aaron McKinneyHOST
Today we're headed to Vision Angus in Amherst, Colorado for a preview of their Create-A-Vision Fall Female Sale coming up Saturday, October 24, 2026.
Aaron McKinneyHOST
The sale begins at 1 p.m. Mountain Time at the Beef Barn of Vision Angus in Holyoke, Colorado.
Aaron McKinneyHOST
Featuring Angus, females, embryos, pregnancies, open heifers, show heifers, and they even have a show steer.
Aaron McKinneyHOST
You want to make sure to attend this one, folks.
44 MINS LATER
Austin VieselmeyerGUEST
We're going to bring all of the donors, cows, and bred heifers home tomorrow.
Austin VieselmeyerGUEST
And so they'll be here kind of starting at least Friday for visitors to come through and see those a little bit easier.
Austin VieselmeyerGUEST
But the actual sale we're going to hold in the beef barn in Holyoke.
Austin VieselmeyerGUEST
So that's our retail beef store.
Kim MonsonHOST
Weld County's notice estimates the extension at $517,698 a year and states that the measure does not propose an increase in the 17.205 mill tax rate.
Kim MonsonHOST
City of Holyoke ballot measure 2B in Phillips County asks without raising taxes to extend the city's 2.5% lodging tax from December 31st, 2026 to December 31st, 2032.
Kim MonsonHOST
It carries no Tabor retention clause.
Kim MonsonHOST
Monson's guide entry calls the opening disingenuous language.
Laura SaxtonGUEST
What if? I mean, it was just what if, what if? [gentle music]
Ryan SmithCORRESPONDENT
Kelsi Schelling grew up in the tiny farm town of Holyoke, Colorado.
speaker_5GUEST
Holyoke is around two and a half to three hours away from Denver.
Doug SaxtonGUEST
It's quiet.
Doug SaxtonGUEST
It's kind of have your own way.
Doug SaxtonGUEST
Safe.
Doug SaxtonGUEST
You hope it anyway, you know?
speaker_5GUEST
Holyoke is definitely agricultural.
Lauren BoebertGUEST
And I do get loud, as I am accused of, but when I get loud, Lamar is heard.
Lauren BoebertGUEST
When I get loud, Holyoke is heard.
Lauren BoebertGUEST
When I get loud, we actually deliver on these policies.
Lauren BoebertGUEST
And what really changed my desire to deliver or reinforce it, I should say, is... getting out and meeting with the people i represent hearing from them that it's not always about what the national media is talking about that there are water projects that we can work on together there are infrastructure dollars that need to come back to colorado we have some of the worst roads in the nation and and so when i can go to our senators and talk about these issues when i can go to the entire delegation who who supported and voted for my unique zip code bill Because our small towns need their independence.
Virginia MakaGUEST
And there's a lot going on in this county.
Kim MonsonHOST
Well, and so I want to talk about Holyoke.
Kim MonsonHOST
And I have some very treasured friends that live in Holyoke that have said, guys, we really need this new elementary school.
Kim MonsonHOST
And I get that.
Kim MonsonHOST
I understand that.
Kim MonsonHOST
And they say this is a grant that doesn't have to be paid back as long as you community go out and incur debt.
Kim MonsonHOST
to make the whole picture.
Kim MonsonHOST
And that is the problem right there is people look at free money And, oh, they're giving us in this case, two years ago, the question on the ballot was we'll get the Holyoke would get 42 million from best.
Kim MonsonHOST
This is a Kim Monson Colorado News Briefing.
Kim MonsonHOST
Colorado Best Grants, Thai Plateau Valley, Holyoke Schools to Local Bond Debt.
Kim MonsonHOST
Plateau Valley School District 50's levy rose to 35.843 mills by 2025 after voters backed $40.8 million in bonds to match a $26.7 million state best grant.
Kim MonsonHOST
Voters in Holyoke School District Rewun J decide November 3rd whether to accept a $37.5 million grant below the $42 million their 2024 bond approval required.
Kim MonsonHOST
Voters in Plateau Valley School District 50 approved $40.8 million in bonds in 2023 to supply the local match for a $26,662.97-few grant from Colorado's Building Excellent Schools Today, BEST program, and the school district's property tax levy has since climbed from 13.644 mills in tax year 2022 to 35.843 mills in 2025.
Kim MonsonHOST
Holyoke School District RE1J is asking voters November 3rd whether it may accept a $37,511,924.54 best grant below the $42 million threshold written into the bond measure they approved in 2024.
Kim MonsonHOST
The PK-12 addition and replacement project in Colubrin, a Mesa County town, was budgeted at $67,457.80, with $40,794.108 from the district and $26,662.972 from the state, according to the list of recommended best projects for the 2023-24 fiscal year from the Colorado Department of Education, CDE.
Kim MonsonHOST
The bond measure authorized a repayment cost of up to $76.5 million.
Kim MonsonHOST
Okay.
Kim MonsonHOST
The reason I asked is because I was seeing this scenario as I was going through all of these bills, these ballot questions, and in Holyoke, there is a ballot question where the state had initially dangled $42 million for an elementary school, and they had agreed, this was in 2024, to then issue general obligation bonds to the tune, I think, of about $14 million to backfill that.
Kim MonsonHOST
And then the state did not award the $42 million, but now they're offering $37.5 million.
Kim MonsonHOST
So the ballot question is, can we take this lower amount, but they would still encumber themselves, these farmers and ranchers, with this general obligation debt? And my concern, Bob, is...
Garrett WellbrockHOST
You know, they, they'll get the ball in plus territory, but then they just can't find it, to find a way to get it into the end zone.
Garrett WellbrockHOST
You know, I, I don't, I don't keep that number, you know, points off turnovers off the top of my head or on my charts, but I would imagine it, it, it's only been one time that they've actually scored off a turnover, maybe twice, and I would imagine that was back at the Southwestern Heights game, maybe the Holyoke game.
Garrett WellbrockHOST
So they haven't done it in quite some time.
Ross VolkmerHOST
time.So anyway, tonight you've got Colby and Holcomb on 100.3, The Ride.