John Scarffe, Black Hawk. The Black Hawk City Council approved an amendment to the water storage agreement between the City and the Town of Georgetown during a virtual, regular meeting on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, at 3 p.m. The Council also approved a change of location for Chicago Dogs Eatery, Inc.

Jim Ford introduced the ordinance approving an amendment to the water storage agreement between Black Hawk and the Town of Georgetown. The agreement is similar to the original agreement for154 acre feet with an additional 5.6 in acre feet for a total of 161 acre feet. 

Ford said this is the result of a dredging project they did on Georgetown Lake. Black Hawk will have full use of Georgetown Lake, and it doesn’t cost anything except for the dredging they have already done. 

Georgetown Lake is owned by the Town of Georgetown. In 2007, Black Hawk acquired the right to store 100-acre feet of Vidler Water in Georgetown Lake from the City of Golden through the “Assignment and Water Delivery Agreement,” according to background. 

In 2012, Black Hawk acquired the right to store an additional 54.5 acre feet of water in Georgetown Lake through the “Intergovernmental Agreement Between the Town of Georgetown and the City of Black Hawk Regarding Supplemental Water Storage in Georgetown Lake.”

Black Hawk owns the right to store 154.5-acre feet of water in Georgetown Lake. This amendment to the supplemental storage agreement allows Black Hawk to store an additional 5.6-acre feet in Georgetown Lake, giving Black Hawk a total of 160.1 acre feet of storage in Georgetown Lake. This additional 5.6 acre feet of storage is a result of the City’s participation in the dredging operation two years ago.

“We are free to do what we want on future projects,” Ford said and asked the Council to approve the agreement and get a little more water in the Clear Creek basin. The Council approved.

City Attorney Corey Hoffmann introduced a liquor license change of location for Chicago Dogs Eatery, Inc., at 488 Main Street, Unit A. On July 1, 2019, the Clerk’s Office received an application for a Permanent Modification of Premises due to boundary shifting for construction from Chicago Dogs Eatery, Inc. 

The State LED approved it on August 2, 2019. This is more than a boundary shift due to construction and the licensed premise is physically moving its location from the existing valet parking area to the new hotel lobby area. 

On December 18, 2020, the Clerk’s Office received the Change of Location application from Chicago Dogs Eatery, Inc. On January 14, 2021, a Public Hearing was posted at the new location and a Public Hearing Notice was published in the paper, according to background.

On January 13, 2021, the City Council waived the petitioning requirements for the needs and desires of the neighborhood, since it is still on the same floor and in the same building of the Monarch Casino. Hoffmann said that at the Council’s last meeting they approved waiving petitioning requirements regarding whether Chicago Dogs can move its liquor license 1,000 feet away. 

The purpose of the hearing today is to approve a Findings and Decisions document allowing Chicago Dogs to move. The Council approved the Findings and Decision document.

The next meeting of the Black Hawk City Council will be on February 10, 2021. For more information go to https://site.cityofblackhawk.org/.

(Originally published in the February 4, 2021, edition of The Mountain-Ear.)