Logan County Commissioners to Review Veterans Budget, Humane Society Fees March 17

Logan County commissioners will convene Tuesday, March 17, for back-to-back sessions that span veterans funding and humane society fees, a potential end to the county's wind energy moratorium, and a slate of administrative agreements covering everything from ballot printing to child care across county lines.

The day begins at 9:00 a.m. with a work session at the Logan County administration offices at 315 Main Street in Sterling, where commissioners are expected to take up a veterans budget review and a humane society fee request. No dollar figures or staff report language for those two items were available in posted agenda materials ahead of the meeting. Residents seeking details can contact the commissioners' office at 970-522-0888 or visit logancountyco.gov.

The regular business meeting follows at 9:30 a.m. in the second-floor meeting room at the Logan County Courthouse, also at 315 Main Street. That session carries the weightiest policy item on the day's schedule: a public hearing on amended Wind Energy Regulations that could lift the county's existing moratorium on wind energy facility special use permit applications.

Among the most significant proposed changes, the amended regulations would require a location map, drawn to scale, illustrating all property within the site and within one-half a mile of the exterior boundary of any proposed wind facility, expanding the prior threshold from 500 feet. Conceptual site plan requirements would shift to that same expanded distance. The regulations would also require a map identifying all military installations within one mile of a proposed facility. A new decommissioning and ownership-transfer section would require any successor owner or operator to assume all obligations of the existing use permit and decommissioning plan in writing, and to notify the Planning and Zoning Department, the Board of County Commissioners, and all neighboring landowners within 60 days of any ownership change. Action on the wind energy regulations is listed as the final item on the board's agenda for the day, coming roughly one month after the commissioners approved separate regulations governing data center facilities, battery energy storage systems, and solar energy facilities.

Beyond the wind energy hearing, commissioners are set to consider Resolution 2026-10, which would formally accept Belaire Circle in Mission Hills Subdivision, Fourth Filing, into the county road maintenance system. The board will also weigh an agreement with KP, LLC dba KP Elections Services to handle printing and mailing of ballots and other election materials for the 2026 and 2027 elections held in Logan County, and an intergovernmental agreement under which Logan County Social Services would extend CCCAP program services to Kiowa County residents, covering Low-income Child Care, Colorado Works Child Care, and Child Welfare Child Care.

Two operational agreements round out the consent-style items: a contract with Stormy Productions for live video streaming of the 2026 Livestock Shows at the Logan County Fair, and a rental agreement with SinglePoint LLC, doing business as Sharp Business Innovations, Great Copier Service, and Journal Office Supply, for a Sharp BP-C535WD copier at the Logan County Extension Office.

The full agenda and any accompanying staff reports are posted at logancountyco.gov. Tuesday's public hearing begins at 9:30 a.m. on the second floor of the courthouse.