County GIS Organizational Conflict of Interest.

 

Subject: Larimer  County GIS Organizational Conflict of Interest. Acts

Date: 9/2/2024

Larimer County Manager Volker,

This letter requests that you urgently address a significant issue with the County's GIS road data. The data incorrectly reports Monroe Avenue's (below) road's owner as PUBLIC, GENERAL, which is inaccurate, illegal, and a significant conflict-of-interest. This misreporting by the county operations department, responsible for the GIS database, is tantamount to theft of private property and unlawful use of general funds. Any County works that illegally use general funds is a conflict of interest and a public trust crime.

In the United States, all possessed property is private property except when the government has the recorded title and deed for public property. The correct data value for all private residential or commercial subdivision planned development roads  is "PRIVATE, COMMON INTEREST" The current value of PUBLIC, GENERAL is a misrepresentation and essentially a form of property theft by voice of authority. The GIS road color, which is the same for general street systems, perpetuates this misrepresentation. To avoid such misrepresentations, the database must give every PRIVATE, COMMON INTEREST road segment a distinctive color.

Roads have always had three designations: navigation, private, and public. With the advances in digital aerial maps, private and public designations are no longer navigation constraints. GIS data is the government's official route and property map. Instead of using the term public property for land, the current recommendation is  the term public domain, and with any official use, pubic domain means the government is the record tile and deed. Government real property means pubic domain plus attachments.  In use.public property is overloaded. In a planned community with common interest property, the property is the community's public property.

As taxpayers, we pay extra for the County's paid professional staff to manage and protect property ownership. In any county documents, especially with land, the word public has significance, implying the County has the recorded title and deed ownership for public property.

When the County accepts a developer's subdivision contractor proposal to divide the developer's land to divide their land into multiple units of private servient estates and one common interest private property servient estate; the common interest property is the community's public land use, such as roads and parks. By law, subdivision private roads must have private by-way access to the general street system. Each unit owner has public access to the subdivision's common interest private road. The developer plat drawing's name for the road is "private property public access."  

(Your County Planning Department refuses to protect private property. I recently could not believe what I witnessed at a public land use meeting; one of your paid professional planners held up a plat with the words 'private property public access' written on the road and claimed public access permitted public street drivers to use the private road freely. When Planning approved Cottonwood Elementary,  the access roads are private property, forcing parents to trespass when transporting their kids to school. The school buses are trespassing. The PID Act establishes each district as a homeowners' association with one unit and one vote, but Planning denied property rights, including conspiring with the City Attorney. )

As a taxpayer and joint tenant owner of the Mangrove CT private property road, I formally request under open documents that you provide specifications from the County's GIS documenting the owner's metadata values. When looking in the database at other PUDs, the "general public value" appears system-wide. In the database, a details request should list the subdivision name.

WManager Volker, you have an immediate stewardship duty to protect private property and to audit and initiate procedures for the County GIS database.

The County has another major private property conflict. When the County accepted a developer subdivision agreement, it became the trustee for the common interest property. At the signing, the County is run-with-the-land responsible for protecting future unit owners' private property. To protect the property from trespassers, at the contract signing, the County has the immediate duty to post private road signs at general street system entrances immediately. The private road signs may not stop trespassers, but they remove any liability risks for the county and future owners. Intentionally exposing the County to unnecessary liability risks is a significant conflict of interest. Logic suggests that the GIS data would be correct if the County had performed its trust duty at the development agreement signing.

The County Planner claims the HOA is responsible for common interest property title and deed. That is legally impossible because an HOA can never be a joint tenant owner. A developer agreement is a two-party contract between the developer and the County. Future owners do not exist. The County has run-with-the-land stewardship authority, duty, and responsibility for the contract's CC&R.

Government organizational conflict of interest works speak for themselves, eroding public confidence while criminally misappropriating funds from the public trust.

Joseph Flanigan

A collection of Joseph Flanigan's drawings

 

A collection of Joseph Flanigan's drawings.

Bicycle: Newbility

The Newbility Bicycle

This is the story of Newbility - the new ability to ride my bicycle

When I started riding in 2007, because of the MS in the left leg I was unable to do a standing bike mount. 

After practice, to mount/dismount, I would lay the bike left side down, extend my left arm and put the handlebar, once stable, I could wing the right leg over the frame placing it in the space between the crank and front wheel. The handlebar dropdowns, while a little rocky on the ground, acting as a balance and stabilizing aid. Once both feet were between the bike frame and wheels, I could lift the bike, clip in and ride. 

In January 2016, a new relapse affected the right leg preventing me from stepping over the frame. For many reasons could not ride my road bike safely. One day feeling confident, I decided to ride my mountain bike on the local bike path. In the driveway, leaning on the car, I mounted the bike, I figured a short ride and home to dismount. 

After about a half-mile, slightly fatigued, I decided to turn around and fell. The spot was an open space, nothing to grab to help me stand, and nobody was around. Wishfully, I said, it’s the mountain bike, I can do the laydown mount. My leg would not go above the saddle. Determined not to call my wife, I began walking. After a while, I remember another MSer mentioning he did rear bike mounts by lifting the front wheel straight up and then was able to walk forward over the rear wheel and saddle. The idea was worth trying, but I could not slip over the mountain bike's saddle. After repeated attempts and blooding shins from hitting the metal pedals, I managed a clumsy rear mount. . While the saddle height on the mountain bike is lower than my road bike, the saddle was too high for me to slip over.

Back home and after weeks of thinking, a new bike design emerged. 

Black Sheep Bikes is a Fort Collins custom bike builder is nationally known for handmade steel and titanium bikes. I took the new design idea to his shop, 

The new bike frame would use a dropper seat tube, as step-over frame, a new handlebar design, a chainring guard, and a trekking poke carrier. In Fort Collins is a custom bike builder renowned for custom titanium bikes, His shop also does custom steel frames. We made a deal to build a new steel bike based on my ride requirements. 

The name Newbility was a typo in the design's description. I typed the bike would give a new bility to ride again. 

Biden sweeping new green initiatives

 Biden sweeping new green initiatives

In 1984, GM started Saturn as an independent business to bring robotics into automobile manufacturing. Labor feared the job loss.  The Wang word processor replaced thousands of legal secretaries, and their IBM Selectric typewriters. Horseshoes changed shipping loads distances.  Technology advancements create an interloper phenomena event disrupting established secure social norms: the story repeats and repeats. 

The wagon with wheels and axle technology breached Native lands. The wheel and axle, the horseshoe, the robot, the computer are just things. Technology is the applied use of things and the source of the interloper phenomena. 

Since before WWII, the automobile industry has been on notice to save energy and reduce pollution. The interloper waits for presentation in the corporate board rooms, and greed defected the breach. GM claims to have all cars electric by 2035. That power demand will be a breach on the power grid—the workforce balance changes from automobile assembly plants to distributed grids of alternative energy power plants. 

The interesting effect of a technology interloper phenomenon is the return on investment. If the return on the investment is positive, the technology demand expands, and job growth expands. The interloper phenomenon becomes and sustainable enterprise.  

Thoughts on God

 Thoughts on God

God’s Gifts and His Teaching

God’s first gift was a diverse place to live.
            God’s second gift was a diverse life.
            God’s third gift was the ability to survive in diversity.
            God’s fourth gift was rational thought.
            God’s fifth gift was free will.
            God’s sixth gift was the ability to learn.
            God’s seventh gift shared His wisdom.

God began teaching lessons about using His gifts.

God’s first lesson teaching is respect for others. The Garden’s lesson teaches the difference between public and private property and the respect for each. The apple is another person’s private property. The free will assault by word (Eve), and deed (Adam) on private property is trespass. The consequences of a person’s trespass are misplaced respect. 

God’s second lesson expands rational thought to teach community development by acts of respect, restitution, and forgiveness.  

God continues His teaching with Moses and the 10 articles of respect, three to honor God’s property, and seven to honor others' property. 

Jesus, Himself, tells us and demonstrates that respect for others begins with respect for oneself. At His death, He teaches forgiveness is a quality of respect. 

In all the philosopher’s writings and in all the prayers, respect is the thread that binds each word and thought to God’s first teaching. 

To understand His teaching, God gives us rational thought as his greatest gift. With rational thought and learning, His teaching of respect became thought’s permanent anchor for rational acts. 

God’s wisdom knew Adam and Eve would trespass. By leaving the Garden, He knew that his grant of rational thought and respect would allow His people to grow in knowledge and honor diversity. He knew rational thought requires reminding.  

This explanation of the Bible’s verses perceives God as Devine Wisdom. God never teaches hate or hell. These are rational thought constructs to explain the loss of self-respect and disrespect for others. 

Divine Wisdom is self-complete. Why are we aware of His creation, gifts, and teachings? Our notions of heaven and the ends of time are wishful misconstrued atonements for trespass and a plea to return to God’s garden.  

 

The Garden parable recalls the loss of respect consequences. God fills His Garden with His gifts and teachings. The only nourishment required is respect.

~ The Creation and Garden stories are parables to understand diversity, respect, and survival within diversity. The Garden of Eden story chronicles His Divine Wisdom plan to adapt diversity by respect. But what about those who do not know the Garden story. What happens to His teaching and gifts?  

Devine Wisdom foresaw some human cultures will need the Creation and Garden stories to understand respect. Other cultures and worlds will have other stories. The Devine Wisdom themes for respect, diversity, and survival remain as His Nature's goodwill grant.

Josephism

Josephism

This my list of Josephisms; many are mine; some are borrowed; some are quoted. Years ago, an MS sponsor asked me to sign bandannas for a team event. The team had 25 riders. The sponsor asked that I give each team member have a different quote with my signature. Over the years since,  here and there, I started collecting Josephism quotes and thoughts,

Josephism Quotes 

• Peace on earth did happen, once. Our challenge is to make it happen again.
• Live, Ride, Believe.
• HERO means Help Everyone, Respect Others—time, talent, treasure, and tenacity.  Tenacity – never give up.
• Every step forward loses where it came from. 
• Even to turn around and look behind is a different memory. 
• Every step forward loses time. 
• To turn around and look behind loses time.
• Every step forward is a new precious present. 
• Our challenges grant us the gift of many precious presents.  So happy you are collecting them. 
• Thinking creates thoughts for stories. 
• You can only use one sense at a time.
• My brain is the perfect chaos engine, happily enjoying every distraction. 
• My writing, like my thoughts, is a scatter diagram of incomplete articles.
• My brain is happy as a chaos generator.
• Once I had a dollar. Once I wished for a dollar.  Once I earned a dollar.
• The term money means title, value, use, and asset. In the bank (use), I have (title) 10 (value) dollars (asset). 
• An invoice is a demand for money; a payment is a transfer of title.
• Space and time are artworks of the mind. 
• Ideas are always ideas.
• A found penny is a treasure and a misfortune. 
• Family first. 
• A term is more than a language artifact. It is a stakeholder of ideas.
• A term is the end of a thought and the beginning of communication.
• Failing because of quitting is not the same as quitting because of failing.
• I am me, an individual. 
• A horse my refuse water, my job is to provide the water.
• No one gets an education. Education gets you.
• To thrive is to change.
• The future and the past are stories.
• A life is many lives.
• Devote time to the people you love.
• Every intention is a precious present.
• Thrive with determination.
• When chasing rain mills, you know the direction of power.
• The universe of men and the universe of women are two dimensions.
• The mind’s eye sees its heart’s perspective.
• Only we can determine our fatigue.
• Three, one, two, one, three. 
• WWJD - What would Joseph do?
• Left, right, left; count, cadence count; 1 - 2 - 3 - 4; 1 - 2 - 3 - 4.
• Peddling up-hill is life-affirming. Peddling down-hill is fun.
• A rock in the road is a signpost to a clear path.
• Don't look at the pothole.
• In every happy heart, there is love.
• Love is a great spin that lasts forever.
• Bikers ride in the sky because the sky starts at our tires on the road.
• Remember to breathe from the gut.
• The brain is a discrimination engine. The mind is a biased engine. 
• I do not accept racism. 
• The reason for war is economic power. 
• Tomorrow you may wake up dead.  
• Courage is only required for something you fear.
• Bicycles are energy star rated.
• Another name for the future is life.
• A bicyclist always has the wind in their face.
• I was disabled; now, I am adaptive.
• In every happy heart, there are beats for at least two people.
• Real men have happy hearts.
• To speak for itself, someone must hear it speak.
• Here in the hell is the bathroom? I gotta piss.
• First, learn 3 words, “I love you.” Then learn 2 words, “I surrender.” And one word, “OK.”
• Smile! Display your happy heart.
• Biking, like wisdom, is applying the right leverage in the right place at the right time.
• Sternum up, smile, see the world, shake it off, suck the gut, set intentions.
• SAFE: Strength, Agility, Flexibility, Endurance; the finite wellness elements of conditioning.
• Fatigue equals vigor minus endurance.
• What not is the truth? What is not is an opinion.
• Ability-to-thrive equals quality-of-life and quantity-of-life.
• We are eccentric beings in an eccentric universe.
• The mind is a bucket full of moods.
• To overcome one challenge challenges all challenges.
• When walking, what foot moves first?
• To see is the hardest part of the picture.
• “Last one, best one.”
• All exist in the Goodwill Grant.
• Failure to thrive is not an option.
• I am this for now, and that already passed.
• Time is a learned concept of the human mind.
• Time is absent in nature. 
• Truth enables space.
• Not am I not.
• Honesty is the power of movement.
• I refuse to be depressed. 
• Respect permits identity.
• Trust is the first principle of a relationship.
• Love, faith, and hope bond family.
• The trinity of fatigue: physical prowess, neurological coordination, cognitive planning.
• A broken stick has 3 parts, 2 pieces of wood, and a break.
• When filling up, make sure to clean the headlights.
• 40 squats a day.
• The mind trains the brain; the brain trains the body.
• I am what I see I am. 
• Behind the mind of a great engineer is a great artist.
• Thanks for your service.
• The axle conquered the American West.
• Frustration is the grantor for inspiration. 
• A coin and a prayer are both collaterals.
• When sitting, the toes are the first to stand.
• Federal and state civil statutes are business rules for contracts and the use of money.
• The word money means value, use, asset, and title. Payment is the transfer of title. -- I have (title) 5 (value) dollars (asset) in the bank (use).
• Fear threat reactions: fight, flight, freeze, fawn, fade, fold, forget, finesse.
• Volunteering is a coin with two sides.  The head side is a risk to the organization. The tail side is a risk to the person.  Volunteering for a charity is a risk for the organization. Volunteering of the draft is a risk to the person.
• Apostle's Challenge: form, fit, function, finance, fabrication, family, fix, feature, fact, fear, fubar.\
• Wellness modifies yesterday, connected by empathy, grow with affinity, live through change, the journey for oneself, together, experience life, remodel is an adventure.
• A value is more than money: Abundance, Accountability, Achievement, Action, Adventure, Ambition, Awareness, Balance, Beauty, Being the Best, Calmness, Cheerfulness, Clarity, Comfort, Compassion, Competition, Connection, Contribution, Control, Courage, Creativity, Curiosity, Determination, Discipline, Effectiveness, Empathy, Energy, Enthusiasm, Excellence, Fairness, Faith, Fame, Family, Flexibility, Freedom, Friendship, Fulfillment, Fun, Harmony, Happiness, Health, Honesty, Honor, Humility, Independence, Integrity, Intelligence, Intimacy, Inspiration, Kindness, Knowledge, Liveliness, Love, Money, Nature, Passion, Peace, Perfection, Persistence, Philanthropy, Power, Respect, Security, Simplicity, Significance, Spirituality, Spontaneity, Strength, Stability, Success, Status, Teamwork, Tolerance, Tradition, Truth, Vitality, Volunteering, Wealth, Wisdom.
• On a family member's death. My heart is sad and touches your grief as my grief too. Our family is blessed with many experiences of birth, life, and death. At each, we gather to sing a promise, a praise, and a memory. Each song is a prayer to each other and a whisper to God for His blessing. A touch of grief is God's whisper to spark memories of joy.