After months of semi-weekly meetings with city and town officials, Ouray County commissioners are planning to discontinue the recurring joint policy group meetings.

Newly elected Commissioners Jake Niece and Lynn Padgett and Chairman Ben Tisdel intend to meet more frequently as the Board of Health, where they’ll get regular updates from Public Health Director Tanner Kingery and Emergency Manager Glenn Boyd. Those meetings would be held as part of the board’s regular public meetings, instead o...