The design review board and the Town of Mountain Village Town Council recently approved a helipad for the planned Medical center. Recently the current director of the Telluride Medical Center gave extremely compelling reasons why we need it at a public hearing. I for one was in near tears, listening to her experiences with  several cases just in the last few months  where as she said several times  “minutes matter”. The land was donated by the Town of Mountain Village and is located on the lot behind the current Mountain Market and Town of Mountain Village offices. It will be ski in, ski out enabling ski patrol to bring people in need of medical attention directly in to the center. It will be state of the art and will offer extended services.  It is a very exciting and added benefit for our county and beyond. Voters still need to approve a bond issue, although it has been stated that there are some large donations to assist in the funding.  The future of the medical center will be in the hands of the voters in the end and will be a county wide bond issue.  Certainly there are several parties that still would like to to be located in the Town of Telluride and as in all small or large development becomes a heated debate with many opinions.