Waverly group adopts bylaws, sets meeting

By JoAn Bjarko
North Forty News

The Waverly Community Group is moving forward, though not without controversy, now that it has officially adopted bylaws to set the course of the volunteer group.

The next step is a work session set for Aug. 18 at the Waverly Fire Station at 7 p.m. Those attending will be planning the group's first annual meeting, to be held Sept. 15.

The new bylaws lay out how the group will elect representatives at large and from designated quadrants of the Waverly area. That election will take place at the annual meeting.

In the past few months, there's been lots of debate around the Waverly area about what the community group is and what it intends to accomplish. The bylaws state that the group wants to provide a balanced, moderate, representative voice to Larimer County on issues that affect Waverly.

One thing is certain, however, the new group will not get any financial help from Larimer County government, not even for postage.

Earlier this year, the county commissioners acknowledged a geographic boundary which could represent the Waverly area, but that's where it ended, said Commissioner Kathay Rennels. "We stopped with setting a definitive boundary," she said. "... There's no plan to do a plan."

The boundary--County Road 72 on the north, CR 11 on the east, CR 64 on the south and CR 21 on the west--is somewhat similar to the attendance area once drawn for the Waverly Elementary School, which closed in 1992.

The fact that the Waverly group will serve as a "point person" to receive mailings on county issues will not affect how the county has always notified people, Rennels added. The county will still send notices to affected adjacent property owners, she said.

Copies of the proposed bylaws were mailed to 388 households, but several people turned up at a July 14 meeting saying they had not received the bylaws in time to vote by mail, if they received them at all. After votes were cast at the meeting, and tallied with the mailed votes, the bylaws passed 49-23.