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The two sides of teacher pay, evaluations District says its system puts best people in place, while some educators say it creates turmoil
By Mike DiFerdinando mdiferdinando@colorado communitymedia.com
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teve Cook, a Douglas County School District assistant superintendent, remembers being a young teacher who gave a lot and got little in return. He spent the first seven of his 25 years in education at a small school where he taught six grades of science classes. “Which meant six different preps
— and in science that means labs and things like that, and at the time I was making $20,000,” Cook said of his time in Kansas during the 1990s. “I was busting my hump to do good by the kids.” The teacher two doors down never got up from his chair. “He was like the guy you saw on ‘Ferris Bueller’ who would read the paper and everyone would drop their packets in the in-box and the next week they would be in the outbox,” said Cook, who will be interim
superintendent when Superintendent Elizabeth Fagen leaves July 4 for her new position in Texas. “He was making twice what I was making and it was just so disheartening. What do you do with that as a new teacher?” Thanks to the district’s marketbased, pay-for-performance system, Cook said, that inequity of effortversus-reward no longer exists in Douglas County. That same system, however, has been a lightning rod of Teachers continues on Page 6
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Former coroner wins GOP primary Lora Thomas will face Democrat Erica Bullock-Jones in November general election By Alex DeWind adewind@coloradocommunitymedia.com
Kristin Hopkins works out at Tour de Fit at F.I.T. Park Meadows on June 18. The event helped raise money for Hopkins to buy a set of prosthetic legs that will allow her to be more active. Photos by Kyle Harding
Survivor moves past the pain Gym hosts fundraising event for Highlands Ranch woman By Kyle Harding kharding@coloradocommunitymedia.com On May 4, 2014, Kristin Hopkins had planned to be challenging herself at a Spartan Sprint obstacle course race. Instead, she was taking a helicopter ride to St. Anthony Hospital after spending six days trapped in her Chevy Malibu, 80 feet off the side of Highway 285 near Fairplay. Just over two years later, the 46-year-old Highlands Ranch mother of four completed her goal. It took her nearly five hours to run, climb and crawl her way through the steep, rocky course that wound its way through five miles of the range area at Fort Carson that made up the course for the Spartan Military Sprint on May 15. But she made it. And she made it running on two prosthetic legs. Hopkins had both lower legs amputated following her crash in April 2014. The crash and loss of her legs was a bump in the road for Hopkins as she worked to get in shape. She had registered for the race as way to kick-start her efforts. “I was out of shape, I was fat, I just kind of needed motivation,” she said. Survivor continues on Page 11
In 2014, Kristin Hopkins lost both lower legs after spending days trapped in her car following a crash. Now she does Crossfit workouts and has competed in a Spartan obstacle course race with the help of her prosthetic legs.
Lora Thomas, the former county coroner, won the Republican primary election for Douglas County commissioner, District 3, by a wide margin. She will now face Erica Bullock-Jones, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, in the November general election for a seat on the three-member board in the heavily Republican county. The winner will replace term-limited Jill Repella. District 3 is largely made up of Highlands Ranch. Thomas won the June 28 GOP primary with 57 percent of the vote in her race against businesswoman Monica Wasden, who had received the endorsement Thomas of many of the county’s leaders. “I am just elated,” Thomas said on Election Night. “We built the most incredible team of volunteers to support us because this is about the future of Douglas County.” Wasden was not immediately available for comment on Election Night. Thomas, 60, is a third-generation Coloradan who grew up in Denver. She has lived in Highlands Ranch for 17 years and in Douglas County for 25 years. Thomas was the Douglas County coroner from 2011-15, often finding herself at odds with then-Sheriff David Weaver, who is now a member of the board of county commissioners. Before that, she attained the rank of major in the Colorado State Patrol, where she served for 26 years. Thomas is the president of A Night With the Coroner, a nonprofit organization for suicide-prevention awareness. In the weeks before the primary election, Thomas said she is not “the party insider.” Election continues on Page 4
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FACES AMONG US Wendy Crichton, front, partners with the Highlands Ranch Metro District for Young Yogis in the Park at Northridge Recreation Center, 8801 S. Broadway, Fridays from 9 - 9:45 a.m. Photo courtesy of Highlands Ranch Metro District
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that no studios allowed them to participate because of their young ages — one was in second grade at the time. I got my yoga teacher certification in 2012. I was just a mom who was interested. That initial training was very empowering. I teach classes through the Highlands Ranch Metro District, the recreation centers, Douglas County School District and CorePower Yoga. During the summer, I teach Young Yogis in the park at Northridge Recreation Center Fridays from 9 to 9:45 a.m. For the younger kiddos, Young Yogi classes are play-based. If we are teaching toddlers, we are singing songs, playing games and sharing. Elementary school classes are more structured. I really encourage that mind-body connection. It’s important to know that kids don’t have to come to the classes calm. We take them from crazy to calm.
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WENDY CRICHTON Founder of Young Yogis shares with children
About me I grew up right outside of Rochester, New York, and I crossed the country and went to the University of Kansas for college. I first came to Colorado to visit my sister and fell in love with it. So I stayed. I’ve been in Highlands Ranch for 15 years now. I have a husband, two boys and two cats. I’ve been practicing yoga for about 25 years. I first got into this old series on VHS. The instructor put the word “power” in front of yoga so I thought I was going to get a really good workout. It was challenging but I also found that practicing yoga made me more peaceful. I practice everyday — sometimes for 10 minutes, sometimes for an hour and a half.
How yoga benefits children Young kiddos are so plugged in and overscheduled. Yoga lets them explore how their mind and body work together. Some kids show up so nervous and think that they are going to do something wrong but there is no wrong in yoga. It’s an hour to smile, relax, try new things and by the time they leave, hopefully, their heart is a little more peaceful. Visit www.youngyogis.net for class schedules.
How Young Yogis came to life My kids were much younger and they loved practicing yoga with me, but I found
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Sheriff’s Office says ‘Lock It or Lose It’ Countywide campaign aims to reduce theft from cars, garages Staff report Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has a message for residents: “Lock It or Lose It.” The campaign is an effort to reduce crime trends through education, social media posts and strategic enforcement efforts, a media release says. From January to May, the sheriff’s office has received more than 404 reports of theft, stolen vehicles, garage burglaries and vehicle break-ins. “Typically, these are out-of-county individuals coming into northern Douglas County between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m.,” the sheriff’s office said in a media release. These criminals tend to target vehicles that have valuables in plain sight, such as a purse or cell phone on the seat. They have been stealing vehicles if keys are left inside and are known to target unlocked vehicles or open garages, the sheriff’s office said. These crimes typically occur at night but the sheriff’s office has received reports during the day.
SECURITY TIPS • Hide/secure valuables before reaching your destination, or take them with you upon arrival. • Lock your car and park in a highly visible area. • Do not leave your keys or garage door opener inside your vehicle. • Close your garage door. • Report suspicious activity immediately. Source: Douglas County Sheriff’s Office
These criminals can be violent, the sheriff’s office says, and may be armed. The sheriff’s office is urging residents to be diligent in removing valuables from vehicles, locking vehicles and closing garage doors. “Many of the crimes being reported are crimes of opportunity and could have been avoided had some precautions been taken,” the media release says. “Don’t let the criminals go shopping in your car,” Sheriff Tony Spurlock said.
Two injured in balloon accident Associated Press Two people sustained minor injuries and a third person walked away after a hot air balloon went down at the Lockheed Martin space systems assembly plant on South Wadsworth Boulevard. Lockheed spokesman Matt Kramer says the tour balloon came down in the parking lot of executive office buildings
at the plant June 22. The facility is used to assemble commercial and defense department space vehicles and satellites. Mark Stokes of Littleton Fire Rescue says the balloon took off from a nearby park and landed hard when the wind shifted. Stokes says the two people who were injured were taken to a hospital for treatment.
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DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS
Tax hike would fund salaries, capital needs Benevento will make pitch to community at July 19 school board meeting
HOW OTHER DISTRICTS COMPARE Adams 12 Five Star
$77,762,118
ter schools): $71,574
By Mike DiFerdinando mdiferdinando@coloradocommunitymedia.com
Mill Levy Override Rate: 17.045
Override $/Student: $1,523
Denver
Mill Levy Override $: $26,997,784
Mill Levy Override $: $35,399,587
Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $67,940
Mill Levy Override Rate: 10.976
Override $/Student B: $1,051
Override $/Student: $960
Littleton
Mill Levy Override $: $145,121,314
Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $48,024
Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $57,561
Mill Levy Override Rate: 17.525
Override $/Student: $1,780
Jefferson County
Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $50,247
Mill Levy Override Rate: 13.937
Aurora
Mill Levy Override $: $26,498,159
Mill Levy Override Rate: 19.894
Override $/Student: $1,815
Douglas
Mill Levy Override $: $113,293,007
Mill Levy Override $: $42,699,062
Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $64,739
Mill Levy Override Rate: 5.999
Override $/Student: $1,420
Override $/Student: $1, 122
Boulder Valley
Mill Levy Override $: $33,714,715
Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $54,923
Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools):$54,230
Mill Levy Override Rate: 11.348
Override $/Student: $558
Average
Mill Levy Override $: $66,412,663
Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools): $51,274
Mill Levy Override Rate: 13.625
Cherry Creek Mill Levy Override Rate: 14.925
Override $/Student: $2,273,94
El Paso
Mill Levy Override $:
Teacher Salary (Includes char-
Mill Levy Override Rate: 10.980
Teacher Salary (Includes charter schools):$57,835
Douglas County school board member Doug Benevento has two new tax proposals that would help raise teacher pay and address high-priority capital needs in the district. “I said let’s take a look at Benevento capital needs and teacher salaries and figure out what the cost of the solution is,” Benevento said. The solution that Benevento will propose at the next board meeting July 19 is two mill levy overrides, which would need voter approval. One worth $28.9 million would go toward raising teacher salaries and another worth $25 million would go to urgent capital needs projects. Benevento said he would not support any money going toward new construction. The recently approved 2016-17 budget for the district includes $9 million that will be spent on a 3 percent average pay increase, including retirement and Medicare, for all district employees and $1.6 million on PERA (retirement savings) rate increases. The district has set aside $3.2 million for technology updates, $750,000 for upgrades and maintenance of the professional development and evaluation software system InspirEd, $1 million for school innovation and growth — which could include some capital improvement needs — and $1 million for general facility needs. On top of that, the district has a $5 million contingency budget to address unexpected breakdowns and other needs, according to DCSD Chief Financial Officer Bonnie Betts.
Benevento said with the help of Betts, he compared Douglas County to eight peer districts to determine the average teacher salary. Benevento’s plan would raise the average salary for a district teacher to the average plus 1 percent. With the new money, the average teacher salary would rise from $51,274 to $58,412. The HOPE Online facilities included in the capital needs override would include only those facilities in Douglas County, according to Benevento. “If we did this, it would raise our mill levy rate to about average for peer (competitor) districts,” he said. The increase would bring the district slightly above the average mill levy override for the peer districts, he said. “Currently the average for what we
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consider our peer or competitor districts is 13.63 (that includes our MLO). Currently Douglas County is at 5.9 MLO. My proposal would bring us to 15.2,” Benevento said. Benevento said the November 2015 school board election — in which three incumbents were ousted — showed him the community supports improvements in these areas and he would like to “put it in front of the voters.” “We had an election and that election told us something,” Benevento said. He said the measures could be separate or combined into a single tax measure if there was support for both. If the measures get on the November ballot and if they pass, the tax increase would be about $75.67 annually per $100,000 of assessed value or about $302.68 annually for an average homeown-
Override $/Student: $1,389
er, according to the district. Board member David ray said he appreciates Benevento’s willingness to support a tax initiative that will improve teachers’ compensation. “This would certainly be a step in the right direction for reversing our high rate of teacher turnover,” Ray said. Board Vice President Judith Reynolds said she has not made a decision about the proposed tax increase since there has been no board discussion on the issue. BOE President Meghann Silverthorn said she would need to see an analysis of the plan’s impact to Douglas County voters before making a decision on the matter. “I’m disinclined to support tax increases in this fiscal environment,” Silverthorn Tax continues on Page 8
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Incumbent Van Winkle wins GOP primary
Highlands Ranch resident wants to serve a second term in House
By Alex DeWind adewind@colorado communitymedia.com Incumbent State Rep. Kevin Van Winkle took a step toward keeping his District 43 seat, garnering 72 percent of the vote in the June 28 Republican primary election. Cindy Barnard received 28 percent in the quest for the post that represents Highlands Ranch. Van Winkle said he looks forward to sitting down with his primary opponent in the weeks ahead to see how the two “can work Van Winkle together to move Colorado forward.” “It has been tremendously rewarding these past several weeks to meet so many new friends and neighbors as we made phone calls and walked Highlands Ranch, street by street, getting out the vote,” said Van Winkle, who is vying
for his second term in the House. “This is truly a special place to live, and it’s an honor and privilege to represent the great people of Highlands Ranch at the state Capitol. I will never forget that I work for the people of Highlands Ranch and that they are my boss — not the other way around. “ Van Winkle will now face Democrat Scott Wagner, who ran unopposed in the primary, in the November general election. Van Winkle was born and raised in Douglas County and attended Metropolitan State College of Denver. He owns a marketing and research firm in Highlands Ranch and has experience as a small business owner and as a senior policy analyst. Barnard has lived in Highlands Ranch for 28 years. She volunteers at a private school serving at-risk students and has been an outspoken advocate for public education. “Although disappointed with the result, I ran my campaign with integrity and I am very proud of my team and volunteers,” she said. “I thank my supporters and everyone that helped with the campaign. I congratulate Rep. Van Winkle on his victory.”
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“I’m the candidate who is ready on day one to manage tax dollars wisely while ensuring government services are provided,” she wrote in a Q&A with Colorado Community Media. “Growth will be balanced so
RESULTS FROM THE JUNE 28 PRIMARY ELECTIONS REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRAT
County commissioner, District 2 Roger Partridge (unopposed)
County commissioner, District 2 Nathaniel Kaiman (unopposed)
County commissioner, District 3 Lora Thomas: 57 percent Monica Wasden: 43 percent
County commissioner, District 3 Erica Bullock-Jones (unopposed)
4th Congressional District Ken Buck (unopposed) 6th Congressional District Mike Coffman (unopposed) State Board of Education, District 6 Debora Scheffel (unopposed) State Senate District 4 Jim Smallwood: 39.04 percent Benjamin Lyng: 38.58 percent Jess Loban: 22.38 percent State House District 39 Polly Lawrence (unopposed) State House District 43 Kevin Van Winkle: 72 percent Cindy Barnard: 28 percent State House District 44 Kim Ransom (unopposed)
4th Congressional District Bob Seay (unopposed) 6th Congressional District Morgan Carroll (unopposed) State Board of Education, District 6 Rebecca McClellan: 62 percent Ilana Spiegel: 38 percent State Senate District 4 Christina Maria Riegel: 66 percent James Clark Huff: 34 percent State House District 39 Richard Opler (unopposed) State House District 43 Scott Wagner (unopposed) State House District 44 Tim Hicks (unopposed)
State House District 45 Patrick Neville (unopposed)
State House District 45 Shantell Schweikart (unopposed)
District attorney George Brauchler (unopposed)
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that the character of Douglas County does not change.” Wasden, 48, held a $60,000 to $26,000 advantage in campaign contributions from donors, but Thomas spent more money on her campaign, according to documents filed with the state. Thomas reported nearly $108,000 in loans that she made to her own campaign, and she spent $118,212. Wasden reported no loans and spent $52,377. Wasden was endorsed by Repella,
District Attorney George Brauchler, Sheriff Tony Spurlock and state Rep. Kevin Van Winkle, among other area leaders, according to her campaign website. She owns PROformance Apparel in Littleton and has been a delegate for the Highlands Ranch Community Association for 16 years. The winner of the District 3 race in November will represent an area primarily made up of Highlands Ranch. However, commissioners in Douglas County are
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elected “at-large,” meaning all county voters can weigh in on each district. The primary races for county commissioner, District 2, featured two candidates who ran unopposed: Republican incumbent Roger Partridge and Democrat Nathaniel Kaiman, who will square off in November. The district includes Castle Rock and nearby areas. Weaver’s District 1 seat is not up for election this year.
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From the post office to the primary Detailing the journey of a mail-in ballot
By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com Though the mail-in ballot process has been in place in Colorado for three years, it has almost completely replaced the traditional system of waiting in line at polling stations in Douglas County. Less than a week before the June 28 primary election, the staff at the Douglas County Elections Building was preparing for its big night. “In the last election, we had 805 polling place ballots out of over 93,000 voters,” said Merlin — Klotz, Douglas Number of ballots County’s clerk mailed in Douglas and recorder. County “That’s less than 1 per— cent.” Number of active Ballots went registered voters out on June 8 and began — returning to Number of registered the elections Democrats building at 125 Stepha— nie Place in Number of registered Castle Rock on Republicans June 10. Since then, a team — of 11 full-time Number of voters employees, six registered in other voter-support parties employees and two temporary support staff have been busy processing the ballots. The Douglas County elections staff is aware of the sentiment among some voters who are reluctant to send their ballot through the mail. Klotz said the “paranoia” is understandable but added that most of the population pays utility and other bills through the mail, and if they trust the post office with their money, they should trust it with their vote. Klotz added ballot boxes, made of plate steel and weighing 650 pounds each, are built to ensure security. “They’re like tanks,” Klotz said, joking that one box “ran into a car” last year. The only damage it suffered was a dented leg, faring much better than the car. Drop boxes, located at libraries and other government buildings throughout the county, are watched over 24 hours a day, seven days a week by an election judge, a camera or both. If a judge or camera views any suspicious activity near one of the boxes, a quarantine protocol is put into place and law enforcement, the district attorney and the secretary of state are notified. Six election judges, working in teams of two, selected from different political parties, collect ballots from drop boxes
BY THE NUMBERS Election judges remove ballots from their envelopes and count, then recount, then recount again the number of ballots and envelopes on June 24 in the Douglas County Elections Building in Castle Rock. Deputy of elections Sheri Davis refers to the teams of three as a “dealer” and two “players” because the process appears similar to a game of blackjack. Photos by Tom Skelley
Staff members take a break from Election Day preparations near thousands of ballots at the Douglas County Elections Building on June 24. Pictured from left to right: election specialist Toni Clark, elections technology coordinator Kyle Rulli, deputy of elections Sheri Davis, Douglas County Clerk and Recorder Merlin Klotz, voter outreach specialist Mary Niblack and election specialist Jennie Kinnaird.
once a day Monday through Friday, placing them in locked bags to deliver them to the Douglas County election facility, which is also monitored around-theclock by cameras. They ramp up their schedule the Monday before election day, hitting each box at least twice, and they make a minimum of five collections on Election Day. All access to rooms where ballots are stored is restricted to certified personnel, and judges can only access ballot storage in groups of two or more, again, from different parties. Klotz said ensuring the team members are registered to different political groups ensures transparency. “Everybody has a bias,” Klotz said. “But we’ve set up a process where everybody is looking over everybody’s shoulder… Nobody can mess with anything.” Cameras, located in every corner of every room at the elections building, are also looking over the shoulders of everyone involved in the process. Once ballots are collected and delivered to the elections building, they are run through a machine that verifies ballot authenticity. A camera takes photographs of each signature to compare it to the existing signature in a voter’s file, and to make sure that only one ballot has been returned by each voter. The signature is then verified by judges from different parties. Deputy of Elections Sheri Davis, who has worked in the department for more than 11 years, said every effort is made to validate signatures in a fair fashion. The machine “marries” each signature to the one a voter has on file, Davis said. If they don’t match, it takes two judges, one Democrat and one Republican, to reject the ballot. The rejected ballot is then evaluated again by a second-tier team that looks at all of the signatures in the voter’s file to see if the current one is
nipulating totals isn’t possible. Once polls close, the images taken from each ballot are uploaded into a machine that rapidly tallies votes and records results. Though the process of collecting the ballots takes weeks, initial results are usually available within 15 minutes. This stage of the process is also monitored by election judges from different parties. Despite an average of 12,000 ballots being processed daily at the center, the atmosphere is surprisingly calm. About 30 employees and judges smile as they “deal” envelopes, carry trays of ballots and finish the afternoon’s work. Four days from now, Klotz said, the environment will be a little different when 52 staff members will work to calculate and report returns as quickly as possible. “You should see it (on Tuesday,)” he said. “This place is going to be packed.”
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Election judges process mail-in ballots in the basement of the Douglas County Elections Building in Castle Rock on June 24. Security cameras are located in every corner of every room of the building to provide security and transparency to the voting process. similar enough to others to allow the ballot to be counted. If it is rejected again, a signature verification letter is sent to the voter, who has up to eight days after the election to clarify the issue. Once ballots are accepted, they are removed from their envelopes and security paper in a three-person process that looks a lot like a dealer and two players playing blackjack. Ballots and envelopes are hand-counted by the “dealers” and “players.” Then they are counted again. And a third time. “I ask them to treat the envelopes like cash,” Davis said. Voters’ choices on ballots are then recorded, but not tallied until the moment polls close on election night. A scanner makes images of each ballot and the information is stored in an encrypted machine. Davis said the machines are all on a closed system, so hacking or ma-
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Effective July 1, 2016 DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT LICENSED SALARY BANDS BAND - 25 BAND - 30 BAND - 35 BAND - 40 BAND - 42 BAND - 45 fifth grade fourth grade freshman transition health e/m/s librarian phys ed e/m/s second grade social studies e/m/s speech middle third grade
art elem/mid/sen business consumer family studies counselor el/ed drama mid/sen first grade grade k homebound home school support math elem music elem music instrumental el/ed music instrumental mid music mid/sen (choral) music orchestra mid/sen science elem speech senior
ACE admin intern counselor mid/sen English mid/sen intervention specialist library media specialist music instrumental sen reading recovery sixth grade elem star/ccp lab STEM mid SWAP lead
agriculture American Sign Language criminal justice early childhood ed engineering ESL/ELL fire science foreign languages industrial arts math mid/sen moderate needs science mid/sen social worker
$36,000 — $67,000
$38,000 — $69,000
$40,000 — $76,000
$43,000 — $86,000
center-based (severe needs) center-based (sed/autism) nurse health services student support technology
$44,000 — $88,000
audiologist autism specialist behavior specialist DHH occupational therapist psychologist speech lang pathol SWAAAC specialist visually impaired
$48,000 — $94,000
Source: Douglas County School District
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controversy among teachers, principals and district officials since its implementation in 2012. District officials say the system not only recognizes hard work and excellence in a fair manner, it also attracts and retains more talented teachers and makes it easier to hire teachers for hardto-fill positions. But many teachers and principals strongly disagree. They say it pits teachers in competition against each other, requires hours of time teachers don’t have to complete evaluations that determine raises, creates inequity in pay and has contributed to a level of dissatisfaction that has driven teachers to leave the district in increasingly large numbers. Jerry Goings, principal of Highlands Ranch High School for 10 years and educator for 32 years until retiring in 2015, believes the pay system and how teachers are evaluated have been the biggest issues affecting teacher morale. “It caused so many inequities and issues within the system,” Goings said. “As principals, we had a hard time defending the way we were evaluating and, thus, impacting the pay of our teachers. There are so many examples of issues that go into that, let alone paying a firstgrade teacher more than a second-grade teacher.” How market pay works Most school districts have a traditional step-and-lane system, in which school district employees are hired and paid based primarily on longevity and their educational background. Douglas County did, too, until the conservativeleaning school board and Fagen introduced a market-based pay system in 2012, the same year longstanding ties with the teachers’ union were severed. The system, district officials say, takes a wider picture of not only a candidate’s education, experience and skill, but also supply and demand of the position, to determine pay. That means teachers of harder-to-fill subjects like science and math are paid at a higher rate than those of easier-to-fill subjects, such as English or social studies. The district evaluates the salary bands several times a year so it can adjust the scale to help find candidates the district needs. In addition, raises are offered yearly based on effectiveness ratings ranging from highly effective to ineffective rather than on tenure and level of education. In DCSD, more than 70 positions are differentiated into five pay bands based on demand and rarity of skill. For the 2016-17 school year, salaries range from $36,000 to $67,000 in the first band for subjects such as physi-
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There is a big difference between a high school business teacher and a high school business teacher that is DECA-certified. That is the kind of flexibility that is very valuable in this system. It gives you the opportunity to zone in on exactly what the needs of the district are,”
cal education, social studies and upper elementary grades. In the highest band, salaries range from $48,000 to $94,000 for specialists like psychologists. Benefits of market pay School district officials maintain that offering different levels of pay based on subject — what they say reflects market economics of supply and demand — has helped recruit new teachers in hard-tofill subjects. The district’s applicant-to-position ratio is 18-1 and the average starting salary for a new teacher is $40,000, said Brian Cesare, chief human resource officer for the district. The district has no set starting salary, and incoming teachers can negotiate their starting pay. “It’s much better than it used to be when you were paying everybody the same,” Cesare said. Cook agreed. “When you are trying to find teachers that are qualified to teach things like automotive tech or cosmetology or fire science, it can really make a difference,” he said. “There is a big difference between a high school business teacher and a high school business teacher that is DECA-certified. That is the kind of flexibility that is very valuable in this system. It gives you the opportunity to zone in on exactly what the needs of the district are.” An October 2015 report by Peter Groff of the Common Sense Policy Roundtable — a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to the promotion of Colorado’s economy — praised the district’s market-based pay system for similar reasons. “Opponents grouse that the system will send good teachers whose positions have been labeled as less important to other school districts, but the argument seems to offend the professionalism of those staff members who are hard workers,” wrote Groff, a Democrat who was former state Senate president and former head of the U.S. Department of Education’s faith-based initiatives center. “General practitioners don’t leave their hospitals or the profession because surgeons or anesthesiologists earn more than they do.” Drawbacks of market pay But for some teachers and principals, a system that bases a pay-scale structure
Steve Cook, assistant superintendent
Douglas County School District
AVERAGE TEACHER SALARIES FOR 2015-16 A look at the average teacher salaries for some area school districts: Elizabeth: $38,419 Lewis-Palmer: $45,929
Englewood: $52,439 Jefferson: $54,923 Adams: $57,561
Denver: $50,247
Littleton: $64,739
State average: $51,204
Cherry Creek: $67,940
Douglas: $51,274
Source: Colorado Department of Education
on subject only, without considering talent or experience, negates a key component to good teaching. In a column to the community posted on social media earlier this year, Goings criticized the system’s development as haphazard, rushed and based on little market analysis. The problems became clear to administrators, who lobbied district officials unsuccessfully for a teacher survey for feedback, soon after its implementation in the fall of 2012, Goings said. “It is complicated, it is subjective and confusing to work with,” he wrote of market pay, “and it is inequitable to staff.” Because teachers coming into the district can negotiate a starting salary, the result is salaries of some teachers with less experience are greater than those of more veteran teachers. “I had an outstanding special education teacher in my building with three years experience who questioned why a newly hired teacher with no experience was making $8,000 more,” Goings said. Starting salaries in some of the bands are considerably less than the average starting salary of other school districts in the area — about $4,000 less for a second-grade teacher, for instance, Goings said. And although level of education, such as master’s and doctoral degrees, are considered when negotiating salaries for new hires, current employees who earn those degrees receive no additional compensation, Goings said. The district does offer teachers up to $2,000 per year in tuition reimbursement, according to Cesare, which he said could improve a teacher’s performance — thus earning him or her a larger raise if they reach the next performance level. The bands also impose a value on
what is taught, some educators say. A first-year, first-grade teacher in the second-level band makes $38,000. The salary for a first-year, second-grade teacher in the first-level band is $36,000. “What can justify this obvious disparity?” Goings said. “The jobs require similar skills, carry similar responsibility and are equally important to the learning progress of a child.” A new evaluation system Any raises to pay are tied directly to the district’s pay-for-performance system. Teacher and principal evaluations are required in all Colorado school districts under 2010’s Senate Bill 191, also called the Educator Effectiveness Bill. Districts were allowed to adopt either the state’s teacher-evaluation program or create their own. DCSD is among six districts that designed its own. Former Douglas County Board of Education president Kevin Larsen, who was on the board when the evaluation criteria and market salary system were implemented, said DCSD wanted to take a broader approach to using the new tool. “Experience is generally going to make you better at your craft, and more education should translate, but a lot of studies have shown that just getting a master’s degree doesn’t necessarily produce the better teacher of a subject,” Larsen said. “The position of the board was that just getting those doesn’t automatically make you better at what you do. The idea is to find ways to measure what is happening and translating that experience and those skills into the kids learning better.” Called CITE, Continuous Improvement of Teacher Effectiveness, the Teachers continues on Page 7
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evaulation tool has six components for measuring teacher effectiveness: outcomes, assessment, instruction, culture and climate, professionalism, and student data. Each of those categories contains a number of standards with a subset of criteria — totaling 31 in all — against which teachers are evaluated, according to the district website. The state’s evaluation tool, by comparison, has five quality standards with a number of subsets totaling 27. Based on self-evaluations, evaluations by administrators and other factors, such as use of the district’s Guaranteed Viable Curriculum — which specifies what students need to know and be able to do — each teacher is rated highly effective, effective, partially effective or ineffective. Mary Lee taught sixth grade at Copper Mesa Elementary School in Highlands Ranch and spent 10 years in the district. She resigned in January because of what she described as philosophical differences with the district. The evaluation system for teachers “does not truly weigh ability and gives no credit for the gifts and talents of teachers,” Lee said. “No one can fit talent into a little box. You can’t find it on the drop-down menus or check it off from a list. It comes from within and the only way to measure it is to watch it work. That’s not happening in Douglas County School District.” Lee contends the process can turn teachers against one another as they try to differentiate themselves in evaluations tied to pay increases. “They feel like they have to hoard their work,” she said. “If they create something great, they don’t typically share it with others because it is what they will be evaluated for and they have to be credited for something.” The process, teachers say, is also incredibly time-consuming, forcing them to use valuable time to document their work rather than create and plan inspiring, meaningful lessons for students. Ann Herrell worked in the district for 30 years and was a professional learning specialist at Flagstone Elementary in Castle Rock when she retired in June 2014. She now works as an independent contractor, coaching and training teachers nationwide. “During my last two years working in DCSD, I was rated highly effective and then effective in the final year,” she said. “I chose not to attempt to be rated highly effective when the CITE criteria changed and were even more vague. It was not worth my time to enter the endless documentation it would have required.” Some teachers also say the work is not worth a raise that they describe as minimal. Howard Wolsky came to the classroom after more than 20 years in mortgage banking. He taught social studies for a year at Sierra Middle School in Parker before leaving for a charter school in the Jefferson County School District at the end of 2014. The logic of using a business model for pay in a school district poses problems, he said. “I came to education from 23 years in business and fully comprehend pay for performance,” Wolsky said. “However, if someone in another industry
proves themselves to be a valuable resource in the business world, (the business) does not usually look to replace them with someone less experienced and less expensive. Companies value top production and reward it with top-of-the-scale compensation. DCSD can talk about their highly proficient tier, but that pay is nominally better.” A look down the road Last November, Douglas County residents elected three new board members who campaigned in opposition to the seven-member board that had led the district since 2011 with a unified, conservative-minded reform approach. Although the board tends to split 4-3 in favor of the reform majority, philosophical differences are apparent in debates over issues before it. Whether those differences — along with the departure of Fagen, who spearheaded the development of the initiatives and is leaving for the superintendent position in Humble, Texas — will affect market pay and the pay-for-performance evaluation metric remains to be seen. In Jefferson County, the election of a new school board in November that opposed the previous conservative-minded board resulted in a return from a short-lived pay-forperformance model similar to Douglas County’s to its previous grid-like, step-and-lane system based on longevity and education, but with the significant addition of a pay-for-performance evaluation component. The change in direction was part of a five-year contract recently negotiated between Jeffco district and teachers’ union officials. But some Douglas County board members said they did not expect any changes to the pay-for-performance system. “I do expect continued, ongoing review and adjustment to the system going forward, as has been happening in the past, and is happening now,” board vice president Judith Reynolds said. “I support pay for performance and the continued efforts to improve the system.” Board president Meghann Silverthorn agreed. “Performance pay has been part of the DCSD compensation package for over two decades,” she said. “I don’t see this changing with a new superintendent.” The school district began incorporating aspects of performance-based pay, such as goal-setting and professional development programs, in 1992 — with the support of the now-sidelined teachers’ union. Silverthorn, however, said she is open to looking at how to improve the teacher-evaluation portion of the system. “I’d like for the evaluation system to reach the point where principals have, in principle and in practice, the autonomy and flexibility to rate their teachers in a resultsoriented manner,” Silverthorn said. “We are working this summer to ensure that principals — those who know their teachers — are able to evaluate them without intrusive thirdparty interference. We must work with our school leaders to ensure that they are entrusted with the autonomy to evaluate and place their teachers.” Board member David Ray, one of the newly elected members and a retired DCSD principal, said he also doesn’t foresee an immediate change to the pay-for-performance system. “However, the fact that this
2015-2016 MERIT INCREASES
Effective July 1, 2016
Licensed Range position First third
HIGHLY EFFECTIVE 4.5 percent
EFFECTIVE 3.3 percent
PARTIALLY EFFECTIVE 1.4 percent
INEFFECTIVE 0 percent
Middle third
4.0 percent
2.8 percent
1.2 percent
0 percent
Final third
3.5 percent
2.3 percent
1.0 percent
0 percent
HIGHLY EFFECTIVE
EFFECTIVE
PARTIALLY EFFECTIVE
INEFFECTIVE
3.65 percent
2.75 percent
1.2 percent
0 percent
Admin/Pro/Tech/Classified
Source: Douglas County School District
How ratings and raises are connected By Mike DiFerdinando mdiferdinando@coloradocommunitymedia.com District officials say the evaluation system allows teachers to take their pay into their own hands and incentivizes them by rewarding effort and excellent work. But some teachers say the raises are marginal in comparison to other districts. Teachers earn raises every year they are rated highly effective, effective or partially effective. For the 2015-16 school year, teachers rated highly effective earned a raise of 3.5 to 4.5 percent. Teachers evaluated as effective received a raise of 2.3 to 3.3 percent. Partially effective teachers earned between 1 and 1.4 percent. The difference in the amount of raise reflects a first, middle and third tier in each category that is tied to the overall point rating of the teacher. Teachers rated highly effective receive an incremental raise as a percent increase of their salary. Raises for teachers rated effective or partially effective are given as a onetime lump sum only. Teachers who are rated highly effective may also choose to submit evidence and work to be evaluated for each of the district’s nine-world class outcomes, which are rigorous outcomes based on the Colorado Academic Standards and require higher-level
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thinking. The names of each submission are redacted and a panel of teachers and administrators decide on a case-by-case basis if the application is worthy of an additional $500-per-outcome bonus. Teachers rated ineffective do not receive raises, but are provided with feedback and resources to improve, said Brian Cesare, the district’s chief human resource officer. The district has no cap on the number of raises or amount a teacher could continue to earn over the years, district officials said. “We have people in the lowest band making $90,000 per year,” Cesare said. But at some point, Cesare said, the district might have to consider capping salaries at $100,000 because the money for salaries is contingent on state dollars and varies each year. Some teachers have said — and at least one principal has told his staff — that the district maintains a cap on the number of teachers who can be rated highly effective. The district refutes these claims. “Last year we had 20.4 percent of people highly effective,” Cesare said. The district has 3,362 teachers. “This is preliminary, and we don’t have the final numbers, but the early data shows that it is at 26 percent for this year (2015-16). So, it’s all criteria based. There is no forced distribution or anything like that.”
I had an outstanding special education teacher in my building with three years experience who questioned why a newly hired teacher with no experience was making $8,000 more,”
is one of the most contentious issues for our teachers, a change has to be considered regardless of who is the superintendent,” Ray said. “The resolution to authentically and meaningfully survey our staff is scheduled to be conducted at the beginning of the school year. My hope is that this feedback will be the catalyst to overhaul our evaluation process to decrease the unacceptable percentage of staff turnover.” As for the market pay structure, Reynolds said it has been positive for the district. “I do believe there is benefit in differentiating jobs based on a number of factors, with scarcity being the most important of those. It is my understanding that it has been a successful strategy for filling more of the most difficult-to-fill positions,” Reynolds said. “Market-based pay and differentiation between jobs does not mean one educator is valued less than an-
Jerry Goings, former principal of Highlands Ranch High School
other, it is simply a reflection of how many other individuals are competing for that position.” Board member Doug Benevento, however, seemed to acknowledge a need for higher pay when he recently announced he will propose a tax increase at the July 19 board meeting to help raise salaries for teachers. He has asked district Chief Financial Officer Bonnie Betts to compile data on mill levies and teacher salaries of eight districts similar to DCSD. “Based upon what I saw in those districts,” he said, “the tax increase would be for a ($28.9) million mill levy override to increase our teachers’ salaries to the average plus-1 percent.” But Ray, a staunch opponent of market-based pay, believes it should be replaced entirely by a salary schedule “that rewards classroom experience, positive student growth, and attainment of advanced training and
education.” Performance pay, he said, should be included as a bonus tier that compensates outstanding performance, taking on extra responsibility and achieving collaborative goals with other colleagues. “Our current system compensates teachers based on the number of applicants there are for a specific position. Third-, fourth- and fifth-grade teachers are paid less because there are more applicants for these positions,” Ray said. “Just because we have 100 applicants for third grade versus five applicants for first grade has nothing to do with whether our current third- and firstgrade teachers should be paid differently. Teachers should be paid based on their experience, skills and performance, not on whether their position has more or less applicants in the candidate pool.”
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New House bill supports high-schoolers, businesses Measure funds grants for on-site job-training opportunities By Alex DeWind adewind@coloradocommunitymedia.com High school students will now have more internship, apprenticeship and other job training opportunities following the passing of House Bill 1288, signed into law mid-June by Gov. John Hickenlooper. Rep. Sen. Jack Tate (R-Centennial) backed the bill, saying it bridges the gap between emerging high school graduates who need skills and businesses that have a growing demand for skilled talent. “The bill incentivizes industry to
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said. “However, as the board liaison to the long-range planning committee, I’m aware that the district has many capital needs that must be addressed. The state of Colorado provides no capital funding for school districts, so we must raise the funds ourselves, which can be a challenge.”
champion creating career opportunities and training for our next generation,” Tate said. HB-1288 creates a public-private grant program within the state workforce development council for businesses — which is responsible for improving the workforce system — and their industry associations that provide on-site training for high school graduates. The bill has a fund for providing grants and the state will match these grants to implement worksite apprenticeships and training programs, Tate said. “The beauty of this approach,” Tate said in a media release, “is that it bridges the gap between emerging high school graduates who need skills and businesses who have a growing demand for skilled talent.”
The Bill will also open a career path to high school graduates who may not be interested in attending a four-year college but still want to excel in the workforce. The signing was hosted by Mikron Corporation, which develops, produces and markets automation and machining systems, at its 70,000-square-foot facility near Dove Valley and Centennial Airport. Mikron initiated a student internship program as a model of the HB 1288 grant program. “In attendance were five high school students from Cherry Creek Schools who are starting their technical careers as interns at Mikron,” a media release says. The programs that will be developed are strongly aligned with the competency and skills that businesses are looking for,
The group community group Douglas County Parents said it “recognizes the need for funding to address capital needs and to pay teachers competitively.” “Capital needs have grown considerably in recent years and DCSD wages are significantly less than neighboring districts,” Jason Virdin of Douglas County Parents said. “We would like to see these issues corrected. The district has conducted a survey to gauge the likelihood of a MLO and bond passing. This is a prudent measure and
we look forward to the presentation of the results. Without knowing the results of the survey or the details of Director Benevento’s MLO and bond proposal, it is difficult to determine the level of support at this time.” Benevento acknowledged tax increases have not traditionally been popular in Douglas County. The community voted down a $200 million bond in 2011 that would have gone toward building three new schools in Castle Rock and Parker and a $29 million mill levy override that would have provided funding for instructional expenses and pay for performance for teachers. In 2008, Douglas County voted down a $395 million bond and a $17 million mill levy override to support building new schools, student achievement, recruiting and retaining the workforce and improving the district’s technological advances in the face of expanded enrollment. “A tax increase is a personal decision for each voter and is decided around each dinner table,” Benevento said.
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Douglas County offices will be closed on July 4 in observance of Independence Day. Many County services are available online at www.douglas.co.us
Visit prehistoric times More than 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, mammoths roamed Douglas County. Learn all about it by touring the worldrenowned Lamb Spring Archaeological Preserve at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 9. For reservations or additional tour dates, please visit www.lambspring.org
Love the County Fair & Rodeo? Looking for a volunteer opportunity? Our community volunteers are a key to the success of the annual Douglas County Fair & Rodeo. Several volunteer opportunities are available for youth, adults and seniors during the 2016 Fair & Rodeo, Aug. 4-7. All volunteers will receive a four-day general admission pass. For more information, please contact Luanne Lee at 720-733-6900, fair@douglas.co.us or visit www.douglascountyfairandrodeo.com/volunteers
Help keep your neighborhood safe Did you know that the simple act of creating a neighborhood watch group can reduce crime in your community? Stop crime before it starts and contact the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office at 303-660-7544 or visit www.dcsheriff.net/community/neighborhood-watch to create a watch program today in your neighborhood.
Are you ready if disaster hits? It takes a matter of seconds for disaster to strike and change your life forever. Thankfully, it also takes only seconds to sign up for free emergency notifications at www.DouglasCountyCodeRED.com ensuring that you will be in the know if an emergency or disaster is on the way or happening near you. The system is set up to contact all residents and businesses in Douglas County via instant text alerts, emails or phone calls, depending on preference.
said Wendy Nkomo, chief operating officer of the Colorado Technology Association. The Colorado Technology Association is a 600-person trade association that represents technology companies in Colorado, including AT&T, Universal Mind, Ping Identity, First Bank and Comcast. “This bill is a public-private partnership,” Nkomo said, “and that’s really important because it will make for a stronger result.” It’s not an education or corporate program — it’s a combination of the two that is mutually beneficial. “These programs are competency based and competency driven,” Nkomo said, “based on what a student is learning in school and what a business is looking for in a job.”
FOUR POINTS OF BENEVENTO’S PLAN • Capital money is for neighborhood school system. No new construction or capacity. “I believe we need to manage our maintenance backlog before we add new capacity,” Benevento said. • A pay increase for teachers this upcoming year (after the tax increase goes into effect). No spreading it out over multiple years • No bonding. “I don’t want debt, this is all Mill Levy Override,” Benevento said. • Charter schools share equally in all the funding and the funding is allocated as all charter funds are currently allocated. Charter schools make their own decision over how funds are spent.
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Ask yourself: What’s the good word? There are so many people who enjoy a good crossword puzzle, word search puzzle or unscrambling a word jumble. There are many folks who love a good play on words, an anagram, a pun or a great riddle. These word games and puzzles help keep our minds sharp and our creativity flowing. As we know, words are extremely powerful. They can be powerfully positive and energizing or they can be powerfully destructive and hurtful. Words can be factual to help transfer knowledge and information or they can be used to mislead or manipulate situations and people. There so many events happening in our own backyard as well as around the globe that leave people thinking about powerfully negative words. We hear people using powerfully negative words like fear, terror, frustration, anger, rage, road rage, hopelessness, doubt, worry, anxiety, cynical, hate, mad, racism, revenge and others that are equally as negative or damaging when we dwell on them or let them change who we are or how we treat other people, especially people closest to us. Obviously we all deal with very real and difficult situations and sometimes those powerfully negative words are just expressing very real feelings, I totally get that and understand how that can sometimes happen. Yet in a world filled with uncertainty and change, we need to take the time to refuel our minds and our hearts with those power-
fully positive words. We need to be deliberate in thinking beyond the fear, doubt and worry and instead focus our thoughts on the good, the possible and the hope for a better and brighter tomorrow. Sounds too simple, doesn’t it, maybe even a little naïve? Maybe Michael Norton so, but stay with me WINNING on this and just try it. Make a list of all the WORDS positive and powerful words that you can think of, words that you may already have committed to your own personal word bank. Keep this list in a visible place, place copies of the lists around your house, your office, your car. Share the lists or even one word at a time with your family, your friends or your co-workers — even when, or especially when, they are using their own negative word banks. I like to leave one-word notes around the house or send one-word texts or emails from time to time. I just simply write or type words like faith, love, hope, encouragement, kindness, truth, happiness, thanks, blessings, appreciated, grateful, forgiveness, success, opportunity, commitment, passion, purpose, XOXO, belief, special, goodness, sunshine, excellence, fantastic, joy, flourish-
ing, achievement, accomplishment, driven or any other powerfully positive words that may come into my mind. I write them down and put them in a visible place, or sometimes a hidden place where they can be found later. Or I quickly type it out and hit send. The initial thought may be that I am doing this for the benefit of others, those who receive my encouraging words. But the reality is this, I am the biggest beneficiary of constantly, and consistently, using and sharing these very powerful and positive words each and every time I write them down, type them out, or allow myself to be deliberate in my thoughts. If we are not deliberate in thinking about the good, the possible and the hope for a better tomorrow, it’s just too easy to go along for the ride on the rollercoaster of negativity, up one side of a big problem and down the other side into the valley. So how about you? What are your favorite words or what are those powerfully positive words you use to recharge your positive attitude and belief in the good and the possible? I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we use the right words and the right time, it really will be a better than good week. Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.
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Results of overtime rule might be ironic The most important thing to know about the Obama administration’s new overtime rule is that it has now disrupted or voided the arrangements 73,000 Coloradans had with their employers. Arrangements, mutually beneficial Tony Gagliardi to employer and GUEST employee alike, that accommodated COLUMN individual lifestyles, family commitments and emergency needs. The 73,000 number comes from the U.S. Department of Labor and is part of the 4.2 million nationally that DOL claims are recipients of its warmly embracing beneficence. Would that life worked so simply. It is worth noting that to explain its new rule, DOL used two cartoon characters, Sam and Mattie, not two human beings. Sam, the voice-over explains, will “have more of his own time” to do the things he likes. “Sure, you might not make more money, but think of all the free time you’ll have to look for a second job,” noted Noah Rothman in Commentary magazine with bull’seye irony. The new rule affects salaried employees, not hourly paid employees. Hourly employees are paid overtime no matter what their annual pay. But certain employees, white-collar workers performing supervisory, managerial or administrative duties, are currently exempt from overtime pay after a $23,660-a-year threshold. The threshold increases to $47,476 on Dec. 1, and it needs no congressional approval to take effect.
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Reaction to Philadelphia’s tax on soda is a big gulp Writer’s block is a myth, unless you are a writer. I mean a real writer. A writer of books. Books are marathons. Laura Hillenbrand holed up for a year to write “Seabiscuit: An American Legend.” Then what? The pressure is on to do it again. That’s not for me. I write the equivalent of a 50-meter dash three or four or five times a week. Then one is chosen for publication. I sometimes wish you could see what isn’t chosen. My editor is wiser than I am, and knows that I might shutter the paper with some of my ideas. I read the news and watch the news and pluck. There were so many topics today that I wrote them on cards and threw them in the air. One landed face up. It wasn’t the one with “Orlando” written on it. Or the Broncos’ off-season theme song, “Show Me the Money.” It had “Philadelphia soda tax” on it. Philadelphia has decided to tax sodas at a rate of 1.5 cents per ounce. A 12-ounce can or bottle will be taxed 18 cents. Taxing sodas will generate about $90 million. It will go to good causes, to pay for
pre-kindergarten, for example. I never went to kindergarten. I was home-crayoned. The reason why I wrote “Philadelphia soda tax” on a card in the first place is because I drink the stuff. The tax is inCraig Marshall Smith tended to cut down on the consumpQUIET tion of sugary DESPERATION drinks. My sugary drink does not contain sugar. I drink diet soda. My nonsugary, sugary drink contains aspartame, an artificial sweetener. According to one website, “Aspartame is, by far, the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods.” Wonderful. Vernors ginger ale was available only in Michigan at one time. We would buy it Smith continues on Page 11
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Parker doctor dies in accident at Chatfield Dr. Hope Cassel overtaken by storm while she was paddleboarding with family By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com Hope Cassel was paddleboarding at Chatfield Reservoir with her three sons, ages 14, 13 and 11, and one of the sons’ friends, also 11, when a violent storm hit the area around 1 p.m. on June 24. Cassel, a doctor who lived in Parker and had a popular practice there, shared her paddleboard with the family dog, Max, during the outing. When the storm hit, she and the boys all capsized. Cassel was wearing a self-inflating life ring that wasn’t inflated, and the boys were all wearing life jackets.
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In the spring of 2013, Hopkins had begun working out, but going to traditional gyms was intimidating. “You go to the gym and you’re overweight, you’re embarrassed, you cry before you go in the gym,” she said. Hopkins got her prosthetic legs in June 2014. The gym that she worked out at donated personal training sessions, and she began lifting weights. She accompanied a friend to a Crossfit gym. “I drank the Kool-Aid,” she said, referring to a common half-joking accusation that Crossfit is a cult.
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If you think this increase only fair, think again. “Entry-level management positions are going to disappear, and those employees will fall back to hourly jobs,” said Juanita Duggan, president and CEO of the National Federation of Independent Business. “Obviously, that means higher costs for millions of small businesses regardless of whether they’re making more sales, generating more revenue or dealing with other rising expenses. Many are struggling now, and they’ll have to make tough choices that might affect the very same workers the Department of Labor thinks it’s helping.” Added NFIB’s senior legal counsel, Beth Milito: “Struggling small-business owners can’t afford to pay more in overtime pay just because the Department of Labor says they should. Businesses can only afford more in payroll if they increase revenue, something the government is powerless to make happen. Most small-business owners will have to limit employees’ hours and career opportunities.” But then, Duggan and Milito would say that, wouldn’t they? That is the tone taken
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fountain-fresh on the way home from my grandmother’s house near Flint. It was nectar, and I was hooked on soda. I have cut back on my non-sugary, sugary drink. Water seems like a good option. As you might guess, sugary drink manufacturers are not happy about this development in Philadelphia. But what if the soda doesn’t contain sugar? Then it becomes a question of what is and isn’t a soda. Carbonation might be the difference between a soda and other sweetened beverages. More than 68 percent of the adults in Philadelphia are overweight or obese, so there are understandable concerns about the causes. Sodas aren’t the only villains. A Philadelphia cheesesteak sandwich contains 620 calories or more. I did some checking. The smallest soda offered at a Philadelphia Phillies game, 20
According to Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mark Techmeyer, one of Cassel’s last acts was a selfless directive to her oldest son. Seeing his mother struggling to stay afloat, Cassel Cassel’s oldest son tried to swim to her when she directed him to get the younger boys to shore instead. He did, and the children landed in a marshy area south of the reservoir’s swim beach. Hail was falling at that time and the boys, who lost sight of their mother, took shelter in a free-standing bathroom until it subsided. Cassel, 45, was pulled from the water by the man who rented the paddleboards, who saw Cassel’s board floating in the water. He didn’t realize she was underwater,
still tethered to the board, until he began retrieving it. The children lost their bearings during their swim to shore, but Cassel’s oldest son eventually led them to the family’s car, where they turned on the engine and heater to warm themselves until they saw emergency vehicles responding and the man who rented the paddleboards directed first responders to their vehicle. Cassel was transported to the intensive care unit at Littleton Adventist Hospital. She was listed in critical condition until she died the night of June 26. “This is such a tragic loss,” said Faith Tirrell, a mother of two who saw Cassel for both pregnancies. “She had that amazing Southern charm; you felt right at home with her. She experienced all of your concerns and your joys along with you.” Tirrell said she found out about the
accident over the weekend and prayed for Cassel to recover. “Like everybody else, I was praying for a miracle,” she said. Tirrell said she occasionally saw Cassel’s sons in her office, and her love for them was apparent. In addition to her condolences for Cassel’s family, Tirrell said she also feels sympathy for the patients in Cassel’s care. “It’s such a personal choice and relationship to choose someone to go through this with you, you want to have someone who really cares,” she said. “She was the one who would laugh and cry with you.” Plans for services have not yet been announced, but there is a sign up for those who wish to donate meals to Cassel’s children, and their father, Tom Cassel, at takethemameal.com/meals. php?t=IGTS2971.
The gym closed, and Hopkins began working out at F.I.T. Park Meadows Crossfit in Lone Tree, finding that gym owner and trainer Nathan Lemon’s bootcampstyle workouts suited her. “I use her as inspiration,” Lemon said. “It’s a great way to tell people ‘yes, you can do this.’” With Lemon’s help, Hopkins prepared for another chance at the Spartan Race. She had planned to run it in 2015, but she didn’t feel ready yet. Hopkins can’t do everything that is included in the gym’s WODs — workout of the day — because her prosthetics don’t flex. For instance, she can’t do full squats, a staple of Crossfit workouts. This also her on the Spartan course, making the downhill running sections especially difficult.
The race wasn’t easy while she was doing it, and she felt it afterwards as well. “My back, my knees, they told me ‘please don’t do this again,’” she said. “I’ll do it again,” she clarifies. “I’ve already forgotten the pain.” Hopkins is raising money to buy a more advanced set of prosthetics, not just in order to further her own workouts, but to become a personal trainer and help other disabled people realize their fitness potential. “She’s really determined,” said Hopkins’ prosthetist, Zach Harvey of Creative Technology Prosthetics in Denver. Harvey said that active patients are challenging because the fit of their prosthetics needs to be precise. Hopkins’ quest for new legs was the beneficiary of the first of four charity
events Lemon’s gyms are hosting. Tour de Fit, as it’s called, kicked off on June 18 at the Park Meadows location as dozens turned out for a friendly team competition. The F.I.T. location in Thornton will host an event later this summer to benefit WOD for Water, an organization that uses workout events to raise funds for clean drinking water in poor countries. F.I.T. Loveland will host an event benefitting a local school lunch program. Lemon is still searching for a beneficiary for an event at his newest location, F.I.T. Littleton. Hopkins is still working toward raising the $10,000 for her new prosthetics. She has a crowdfunding effort set up at www. gofundme.com/footlessgoddess. At the June 18 event, about $3,000 was raised, Lemon said.
by The New York Times in an editorial praising the new overtime rule. “They (employer groups) have said that employers will cut base pay if forced to pay overtime, but that appears to be an idle threat.” Had, however, the Times editorial board read more than its section that day, it would have come across a story by their reporter, Sarah Max, who analyzed the options available to employers: “They (employers) could even cut the base salaries of those who regularly work more than 40 hours ...” Across the political divide from the Times, The Wall Street Journal put it right on the money: “The irony is that salaried workers will enjoy less personal flexibility once they have to record their hours, and those who become hourly wage hands will receive even less.” Indeed, as business owner Kelli Glasser put it in Max’s Times report, “If somebody needs to pick up a sick kid or go to a doctor’s appointment, we let them do it because we know that at some point they’ll make up for it. Once you start tracking hours, all that changes.” Added businessman Lior Rachmany in the same article, “I think you get a better product when people are paid a salary. When a person knows there is a task to get done, it will get done, not on the clock.” Rachmany, reports Max,
“said he would probably end up hiring more entry-level employees and minimizing overtime pay for his affected salaried employees.” Finding real-life portrayers for DOL’s overtime script after Dec. 1 will be a most
difficult casting call. Watch for Sam and Mattie the sequel.
ounces, is $4. (The smallest soda offered at a Los Angeles Dodgers game, 24 ounces, is $6.) That means that a Citizens Bank Park soda will go up by 30 cents, at least. Why point the finger at soft drinks? What about pie? What about cake and ice cream? Candy and cookies and doughnuts? Breakfast cereals? Someone said, “Soda is the tobacco of the 21st century.” There were ways around Prohibition. There will be ways around this too. A soda underground will bubble up in Philadelphia. Families will head to Upper Darby to load up on Squirt. I had a dream that I drowned in an ocean of orange soda, but it turned out to be a Fanta sea. Imagine Rodney Dangerfield, tugging on his tie. “I’m telling you. This new tax. It’s soda pressing.” Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast. net.
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June 30, 2016
CULTURE FA I T H FA M I L Y FOOD HEALTH
Old-fashioned approach Players in local food movement return to healthier connection By Shanna Fortier sfortier@coloradocommunitymedia.com
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s the locally produced and grown food movement continues to gain traction in Colorado, bison rancher Neil Fischer wants to make it easier for residents to buy meat directly from ranchers. “We looked at the landscape of organically and sustainably raised food and there is not great access from the farm to the consumer,” Fischer said. That’s why in 2014 he and his wife, Teresa, launched The Farm2Table LLC Trading Post, a network of farmers, ranchers, local artisans and locals who buy direct. The model offers direct consumer distribution through an online marketplace — www.farm2tabletradingpost.com — and a year-round mobile market. The mobile market is in Parker inside the Parker Garage restaurant on Mainstreet from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m on Sundays and in Castle Rock in front of Briccy’s Coffee on Wilcox Street from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Thursdays. Fischer hopes to expand the Parker market to three days a week over the summer. The Castle Rock market opened in May and resident Monika Wilmer couldn’t be happier. “It’s fresh meat, fresh food and I just love it,” said Wilmer, who tries to buy chicken and farm-fresh eggs every week. “There’s something about chickens straight from the farm.” Wilmer moved to the U.S. from Poland 10 years ago and had been searching for farm-fresh meat and produce to help combat stomach problems she recently developed. “Since I came to America, my stomach stared freaking out,” she said. “So I started reading labels and found out there’s sugar in everything we eat.” Fischer said Wilmer’s story is not unique. “There’s such a disconnect today for people and their foods,” he said. “With the increase of obesity, diabetes and many different forms of food allergies in kids today, people are asking `why?’ If it’s not in what we’re eating in commercial food, then what is it? People are looking to know the source of their food to know what the ingredients are.” Fischer’s solution to eating healthier is knowing your farmer. Marcus McCauley, of the McCauley Family Farm in Longmont, supports that notion, too.
Neil Fischer is hoping to change the way Coloradans eat by offering local, grass-fed meat. Photo by Shanna Fortier
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“There’s no certification that can substitute for knowing your farmer and who is growing your food,” said McCauley, whose farm grows fresh produce and raises chickens. “And that’s what the local food movement really recognizes and embraces.” One distributor who is embracing the local movement is CharcutNuvo, a premium sausage manufacturer owned by fourth-generation Swiss sausage master Eric Cutknecht. The Denver-based company makes sausage in natural casings from premium cuts of meat, including beef, bison, elk, “jackalope” (rabbit, pork
and antelope) and wild boar. The proteins are sourced within 500 miles of Denver and are humanely and sustainably raised on family farms, Roelke said. Fruits and vegetables used in the sausage are organic. No nitrates or chemicals are used. “Sausage has always had a stigma, but transparency is one of our core values,” said John Roelke, sales manager for CharcutNuvo. “We want people to know what goes into their sausage. We think it’s really important for the health of our country that we don’t use chemicals.” CharcutNuvo sausages can be found at Whole Foods, Costco and Biker Jim’s and, this year, their bratwurst and Polish sausage are featured at Coors Field. They also are sold at Fischer’s Trading Post. The company’s way of making sausage is not new, Roelke said. Rather it’s bringing food back to the old days, which is what Fischer is targeting with the Trading Post. “Part of the idea of us being a trading post is going back,” Fischer said. “Our way of raising food is not new, it’s very old. I want to make a point with kids today that this isn’t a new food movement, this is how our grandparents ate — no
McCauley Family Farm in Longmont offers volunteer days so consumers can get more connected with their food. Courtesy photo
processed foods.” In the two years Farm2Table LLC Trading Post has been operating, it has grown from a dozen farms and ranches to more than 30 that contribute on a regular basis. All are from Colorado. “We coordinated with different ranches to provide products, so it’s not just one person with 12 cows trying to feed the public,” Fischer said. The cooperative now carries more than 100 meat items. “There’s no one that has this collection of meat, and it’s because most of us don’t make enough to sell to a King Soopers.” In addition to the online store and mobile marketplace, the cooperative recently started a monthly buyers club, which offers 10 different meat boxes, offering 100 shares of each box. “I think at the end of the day a lot of people think this is really cool, but they haven’t changed their habits of just going to the grocery store and buying meats for food,” Fischer said. “So, until people vote with their dollar, not much is going to change in our food system. It’s the actual involvement of buying your groceries from the local family farm that makes all the difference.”
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June 30, 2016
Nonprofit gives hope to homeless Less fortunate Douglas County students receive scholarships
Douglas County may be one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, but it isn’t immune from homelessness. Despite being named the eighth-richest county in the country by Forbes magazine in 2014, last year 910 students in Douglas County schools met the criteria for homelessness. Joe Roos wants those students to know someone believes in them. “Our intention is to remove any barriers a homeless student would face that would prevent them from getting a post-second-
ary education,” Roos said. In 2015, Roos founded Hide in Plain Sight, a nonprofit that provides college scholarships to homeless Douglas County students with at least a 3.0 GPA and a desire to pursue post-secondary education. Three $3,000 scholarships were distributed last year, and this year five students received $3,000 awards. On June 16, the group held a reception at the Castle Pines Chamber of Commerce to celebrate this year’s recipients and look forward to their future. “We’ve already had success in our first year,” Roos said, mentioning one recipient from 2015 who now has an internship at Disney. Roos said his hope for Hide in Plain Sight’s future is to “spread the vison statewide” in the next five to seven years.
Scholarship arrangements with Arapahoe Community College and the Emily Griffith Technical College are in place, and Roos said more students will be able to attend those schools as a result. The group raised $50,000 through fundraisers, donations and grants, and the state contributed a matching grant. The funds will be used for three disbursements of scholarships in the coming year, and Roos expects Hide in Plain Sight to expand its reach to Denver, Arapahoe, Adams and Jefferson counties. He said the group is also adding a motto: Helping Our Puipls Excel, an acronym he thinks is perfectly suited to its goal. “We want to provide hope,” he said. This year’s five recipients of Hide in Plain Sight scholarships share their stories:
Damian Von Frank, 18, Castle Rock What are the circumstances around your homelessness? “About two years ago I moved from Wisconsin to North Carolina to live with my mother. We lived in a house where people were doing drugs around me.” Von Frank slept on couches as he and his mother bounced around a few different homes. In one, they stayed with one of his mother’s friends who died of an overdose while they were staying there. In another, Von Frank’s mother’s cousin, who had been physically abusing her, pulled a gun on him. Von Frank realized he wouldn’t stop moving anytime soon and he enrolled in an online high school. In 2015, Von Frank moved across the United States to stay with his girlfriend and her family in Castle Rock. “I found out about Hide in Plain Sight around January or February. I got an email from Mr. Roos about getting eyeglasses. I can’t even remember the last time I had had an eye exam, so I went in and got an eye exam and I got glasses.” What do people need to understand about being homeless? “For me it’s not like living on the street and begging for money. Being homeless is more like being helpless … Being 16 or 17 you don’t have the means or the money to take care of yourself … Fortunately, along the way I’ve found good people, second cousins, first cousins, aunts and uncles that let me sleep on their couches.” What are your plans and outlook for the future? “I’ll probably work my job another month, month and a half. I promised my mother I’d visit her before starting school, so I’ll visit her in North Carolina then go to Orlando to see my grandparents. Then college starts in August.” Von Frank will attend the University of Tampa, majoring in international business and marketing. “I think I now have the means to have a really bright future.”
Kyle Gallup, 18, Parker What are the circumstances around your homelessness? “I grew up in Larkspur and moved to Parker in 2012 … My dad ended up leaving, so it was just me, my mom and my brother. Then my mom was diagnosed with a condition somewhere between MS and transverse myelitis. It makes it difficult for her to work and for her to hold down a job … We were evicted from our house in 2012 and moved into an apartment. Then we were evicted from the apartment, then we were evicted from that apartment.” Gallup and his family went from house to house, staying in family friends’ basements. He started working at 15 to help pay for gas, bills and food for his family. What do people need to understand about being homeless? “As a society, when we think of homelessness we think of people on Colfax with signs asking for money, but that’s not the only picture frame that you can look through… As a kid, I didn’t even realize I was homeless, there was always somewhere for us to go, we weren’t on the street. Now I realize that one thing could happen and I would be there … What homelessness is, is not having your own place to call home.” What are your plans and outlook for the future? Gallup will leave Colorado in late July to attend the University of Hawaii and play quarterback for the school’s football team. He plans to major in business. “I plan on riding the wheels of football until they fall off,” he said. “It’s kind of like a 360-degree spin for me … I didn’t think there was much hope for me, then I realized there were people out there who would help me…. Now I want people to hear my story and know what homelessness looks like, and that there are people out there, even though you may not know them, that genuinely want to help you.”
Jessica Reedy, 19, Castle Rock What are the circumstances around your homelessness? “My mom had a boyfriend who moved in with us, then they got married and (there were) drug problems, alcohol abuse and some situations that weren’t quite right. She worked at night and wasn’t home, (I had to) lock my door every night … It was just a really unsafe environment … I just decided I couldn’t do it anymore. About a week after they got married, I moved out.” Reedy moved in with a friend and her family during her sophomore year at Douglas County High School and stayed there until graduation. “They were the only people who knew what was actually going on,” she said. What do people need to understand about being homeless? “I don’t think of having a home as just having a place to live, I think of it as having the love and the nurturing, caring relationships, people who support you and are there for you. Sometimes without that, it makes life difficult. It makes you grow up faster because you have to do all of that for yourself. Even though you may not be on the street, you’re supporting yourself … You’re learning to do it on your own because nobody’s teaching you.” What are your plans and outlook for the future? “I want to be a criminal profiler. I want to get my degree in psychology and forensics, that’s what I’m looking at now, a double major, and ultimately a doctorate in psychology.” Reedy just got her first apartment in Colorado Springs, where she will attend the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs in the fall. Being awarded the scholarship, she says, has allowed her to stop worrying about trying to pay for school and focus on what she’ll be studying. Reedy said that, for her, the award isn’t just about paying tuition. “It makes me really happy that I feel like other people believe in me too, it’s not just myself, and that I have somebody behind me kind of going ‘hey, we’re behind you’ … It just really makes me happy.”
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Joe Roos, founder of Hide in Plain Sight, addresses attendees at the group’s award ceremony at the Castle Pines Chamber of Commerce on June 16. Roos told recipients that he and other members of the group believe in them. Photo by Tom Skelley
Wyatt Kuehster, 19, Castle Rock What are the circumstances around your homelessness? “I’m living in an apartment on my own in Castle Rock.” Due to family conflicts, Kuehster moved out of his parents’ house and started out on his own last year. His parents help pay for food and expenses, but he makes ends meet by teaching trumpet lessons and tutoring math. What do people need to understand about being homeless? “Homelessness, I guess, just means that there isn’t really a place for you anywhere.” What are your plans and outlook for the future? “I’m going to go to the University of Alabama and study math and physics and music. I’m just going to go to college for as long as I possibly can and figure out something to do (for a career) afterwards.” Kuehster said he went through a period of depression while he was finishing high school and living on his own, but a school counselor helped him get through it. He graduated as valedictorian of Douglas County High School. “It just makes me feel a lot less stressed about going to college … I’m not worried that I’m going to be in debt the rest of my life.” Alokik Nayyar The fifth Hide in Plain Sight scholarship recipient, Alokik Nayyar, was in Canada at the time of the ceremony and was unavailable for an interview. In an email, Nayyar said he came to the United States from India on his own and supported himself during high school. Nayyar will attend the University of Colorado-Boulder in the fall, majoring in computer science. His scholarship, he said, will be like “food to a ravenous person.” Nayyar said he hopes to graduate and find a career that will allow him to help others the way Hide in Plain Sight helped him.
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‘Incomplete is complete’ for visual artist A moment in time with painter Tadashi Hayakawa
TADASHI HAYAKAWA Tadashi Hayakawa, one of four children, was born in Tokyo in 1941 and began painting in elementary school. His father singled him out and insisted he pursue art because his own parents had forbidden him from doing so.
By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com The painter sits in an armchair on a drop cloth spattered with drops of dark paint like a negative impression of a night sky. He stares at the canvas standing 10 feet before him, alternately squinting and relaxing his eyes, searching for his vision in the streaks and shapes of oil. Suddenly, all in one motion, he stands and strides forward. His brush, already in his outstretched hand, pulls him to the canvas as an excited child pulls a parent along a sidewalk to show them some new and fascinating thing. The brushstrokes come in quick, noisy bursts, shaking the tripod that holds the work in place. The sound of bristles scraping against the canvas, like a cat scratching at a door, drowns out the noise from the world outside the studio. Once every minute, he takes four steps back, looking intently at the section of the piece he’s just worked on, and looking ahead to the area he’ll go next. After a few seconds, he retraces his steps exactly back to the canvas. An unseen yet tangible connection exists between Tadashi Hayakawa and his work — a tether that pulls him back each time he drifts away. Streaks, swirls and lines spread across the piece like barely-formed storm clouds, pushed and dragged along by a divine hand. The process —
After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Otis Art Institute in 1969, Hayakawa became a graphic artist. He made good money, but the work left him unfulfilled. “I realized that if I died today, I wouldn’t know why I was born,” he says, “because I wasn’t happy with what I was doing.”
Tadashi Hayakawa focuses on his work at the Deep Space Gallery in Parker. Hayakawa hosts an informal painting session each Monday in the building where other budding artists are welcome to work and collaborate. Photos by Tom Skelley retreating, returning, swiping and stroking the brush, creating forms and lines out of a glob of paint — repeats itself again and again for more than an hour. The final time he steps away from the canvas his face changes from squinting skepticism to a wide-eyed smile. “Ah,” bursts from his lips. He knows the work is finished. “To me this one is done. I have just expressed the excitement of being alive,” he says, bringing his arms to his chest then raising them into the air as he says the words. He is asked how he knows when a painting is completed. He closes his eyes as he speaks, then slowly, deliberately, explains the unfinished quality of his work.
Hayakawa applies the finishing touches to his latest work at the Deep Space Gallery in Parker on June 20. Hayakawa says too many artists “explain” every stroke of their work whereas, for his work, “incomplete is complete.” “Many artists explain every brushstroke, but this doesn’t leave any breathing room for the imagination,” he says. He paraphrases Einstein, who once said “imagination is more important
than knowledge.” “In art, imagination is more important than technique,” he says. “For me, incomplete is complete.”
In 1992, he divorced and quit working as a graphic artist to seriously pursue fine art. “My financial situation decreased but my happiness increased,” he says. Health problems led to a premonition in 2006 and, fearing he didn’t have many years left, Hayakawa put all of his energy into a large exhibit, his first major show, in 2011. “A miracle” happened after that exhibit, he says. “Suddenly, I became so relaxed and so happy. Now every day is happy.” Hayakawa feels like he is “living on bonus time,” and his art is an expression of gratitude. “Basically, my art is an expression of my appreciation for being alive, my belief in peace, harmony and love.” Hayakawa holds an open painting session every Monday at the Deep Space Workplace and Event Center. The informal session is open to six people per week for a $10 fee and an RSVP is required.
Western Welcome Week Community Sponsor Western Welcome Week, Inc. is dedicated to carrying on the tradition of celebrating greater Littleton - yesterday, today and tomorrow. The goal is to nurture community spirit by bringing the community together; involving residents and businesses, creating an opportunity for fund-raising and support for our service clubs, non-profits and charities, by providing an annual multi-day festival of fun and entertainment for families, friends and neighbors in the South Metro Denver area.
As a $100 Community Sponsor, Western Welcome Week will provide the following benefits: Listing on the Community Sponsor board displayed at all WWW sponsored events: • 27th Family Night Concert & Fireworks – Friday, August 12 • 37th Family Pancake Breakfast – Sunday, August 14 • 16th Taste of WWW & Silent Auction – Wednesday, August 17 • Festival Day – Saturday, August 20
Receive a listing on the Community Member Sponsor section of the WWW web site with a link to your web site and recognized on WWW social media. Opportunity to purchase 2-for-1 tickets to two WWW sponsored events: Family Pancake Breakfast 2-for-1 $5 and Taste of Western Welcome Week 2-for-1 $20 (a $35 savings)
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Children’s book stems from father’s message Wind Crest concierge was inspired by holiday sermon Staff report Debbie Brewer Binkley, a Highlands Ranch resident and concierge at the Wind Crest retirement community, has published her first children’s book, called “Brown Paper and a Piece of String.” Set in the 1930s, it was inspired by a message that her pastor father, Dr. Fred V. Brewer, preached every year from 1955 until his last Christmas in 2010. “Brown paper is so plain, not used for special occasions. In fact, it was used for everyday ordinary things—to carry purchases from the general store and to wrap messy garbage like old coffee grounds. It sometimes ended up in the compost heap to help with the decomposition process.
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“So why is there a brown paper package sitting under the Christmas tree with all the beautiful packages wrapped in fine, colorful paper and ribbon? Frankie was intrigued. Little did he know the importance of the plain brown paper package and he was horrified when he discovered its recipient …” Brinkley has been involved in children’s ministry in Texas, Hawaii, California, Virginia and Colorado. Together with her husband, Verle Binkley, she recently started Binks Books LLC “to share with others God’s wonderful gifts of hope and life.” She and her husband of 46 years have three adult children and two grandchildren. The illustrations are by Alabama resident J. Gail Aldridge, and are created with chalk and colored pencil as a tribute to the author’s mother, who was an accomplished chalk artist and illustrator.
Debbie Brewer Binkley, concierge at the Wind Crest retirement community, has published a children’s book, “Brown Paper and a Piece of String.” Courtesy photo
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Irish Festival features food, music and fun Clement Park is site for annual celebration
Irish dancers come in all sizes to perform and compete at the Colorado Irish Festival on July 8-10 at Clement Park. Courtesy photo
IF YOU GO The 22nd annual Irish Festival runs July 8-10 at Clement Park, Bowles and Wadsworth, west of Littleton in Jefferson County. Tickets: (12 and under free each day; a Paddy ‘O VIP is available each day at higher price) July 8 $10; July 9 $13/$11; July 10 $13/$11. No dogs, except service dogs. (List of local kennels provided.) No outside food or beverages, marijuana, coolers, pets, roller skates, skateboards, bicycles.
By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@colorado communitymedia.com Gates are open at 5 p.m. July 8 at Clement Park and the Moxie Strings will strike the first note on the Clontarf Stage at 5:15. It’s the 2016 Irish Festival and thousands of Irish and wannabe Irish folks will enjoy a weekend of all things from that Emerald Isle: music, dance, food, drink, storytelling, special athletic events … and big, long-legged, sweet-tempered Irish wolfhounds. Volunteers are sought for miscellaneous jobs — see the website for contacts. At 5:30 on July 8, the Wick School of Dance Irish dancers will begin their intricate highstepping on the Main Stage, followed by a Welcome ceremony at 6 p.m.; the Screaming Orphans from 6:30-7:45 and the High Kings from 8:30-9:45. On the Clontarf Stage, Indigent Row plays 7-8:15 p.m. and Wild Mountain from 8:45-9:45. On July 9, gates open at 10 a.m. and remain open until 10 p.m.,
with Bedlam Boys Irish Dance from 11 a.m.-noon, Mice in a Mug from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then bands continuing through the day. Visitors can also enjoy food and drink, a cultural tent, Irish harpists, Gaelic football (men’s and women’s); Gaelic hurling for men and camogie (for women.) And they have an opportunity to meet some Irish wolfhounds. July 10 begins with a Mass from 8:30 to 9:10 a.m. (free admission), followed by musical acts and other activities, including athletics, until 6:45 p.m. The festival is handicappedaccessible on sidewalks and grass. No skateboards or bicycles admitted. Strollers and small lawn chairs welcome. The 2016 headliners are: • The High Kings, Ireland’s Folk Band of the Year — multi-instrumentalists who each grew up in
an Irish music family. • The Elders are a six-piece band rooted in Americana and Celtic folk rock. • The Mahones are a 26-yearold band, formed on St. Patrick’s Day, 1990, recognized for their own brand of Irish punk and 10 successful albums. Featured in the Academy Award-winning film, “The Fighter.” • The Moxie Strings, which will perform each day, combine a fiddler, cellist and drummer/percussionist in a combination of Celtic and Americana music. • The Screaming Orphans are four sisters raised in County Donegal, where they played and sang traditional music and were able to form a contemporary band. Eleven other bands will share the stages with these headliners.
‘On the Road’ exhibit carries viewers away
By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com Best of Show in the new Depot Art Gallery exhibit “On the Road,” is Jennifer Riefenberg’s small pastel painting, “Road Grader.” Juror Chris Ilitis chose a colorful, appealing work that is about the basics of building or maintaining a road as his first choice, then went on to other vacation memories in the exhibit that will be at the Depot in Littleton until July 31. “Painterly Pickup,” a shiny manipulated photo by Peggy Dietz, won the blue First Place ribbon. Second Place went to oil painter Sheila Marie for her “Torry Casa,” and photographer Joe Bonita’s charming “Najac, French Country Town” took Third Place. Watercolorist Jane Wing won an Honorable Mention for her delicate “Disap-
pearing Road.” During a short visit, imagination can carry the viewer from Colorado’s mountains, lakes and canyons to a weathered farm in Walsenburg — in the subdued colors one sees there. Or, travel from a Southwestern American desert rock formation to narrow old cobblestone streets in Italy and France. Where do they lead a walker? Perhaps to small plazas with a bubbling fountain, potted geraniums and laundry blowing in the breeze outside upstairs windows. A Venetian gondola awaits passengers and a street market awaits shoppers … A selection of pottery, jewelry and small unframed artworks is always available for gift buyers. A really imaginative, one-of-a-kind doll, “Girl With a Monkey,” by Julie Anderson, would interest a collector and small pottery items might be useful for outdoor summer entertaining that Coloradans enjoy on balmy summer evenings.
IF YOU GO The Depot Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave. in Littleton, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is free. 303-795-0781. Volunteer Littleton Fine Arts Guild members operate the gallery in a vintage Santa Fe Railroad Depot that once served Littleton with freight and passenger services.
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“Road Grader,” a pastel painting by Jennifer Riefenberg, was named Best of Show in the “On The Road” travelthemed exhibit at the Depot Art Gallery. Courtesy photo
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Backpacks hold key to great outdoors On May 20, 296 libraries throughout Colorado received a pair of backpacks, filled with a state parks pass hangtag, set of binoculars, a variety of outdoor Colorado guides, a state parks guide and list of activity ideas. Each pass allows free entry to any of Colorado’s 42 state parks, where you can hike and bike. If you have a fishing license and a campground reservation, you can fish and stay overnight. Littleton’s Bemis Library and Englewood Public Library both confirmed they had received them on May 20. (Englewood’s were already checked out later that day.) We assume Douglas County’s libraries have them, but haven’t received confirmation to date. The hope is that people will realize what a treasure they have and purchase their own pass. Veggie venue The farmers’ market that used to be at Littleton’s Broadridge Shopping Center, Broadway and Ridge Road, has returned after a stay at Aspen Grove. It will be open on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or sell-out. Fun with Fitzgerald The Tunes on the Terrace series at Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons Street, Lone Tree, will present comedian Kevin Fitzgerald, who also has a 25-year career as a veterinarian in his background. Opening for him will be Colorado’s popular Chicken Lips Comedy Theater, which was started by Bob Wells. The perfor-
mance will be inside on the Main Stage and tickets cost $30. Lonetreeartscenter. org.
Colorado libraries received two backpacks each to be loaned for a week. They contain a state parks permit hangtag (so one can enter free), a Colorado state parks guide, a variety of Colorado guides, an activity list and a pair of binoculars. Courtesy photo
Wizardly ways Theatre of Dreams’ annual Wizard Camp is underway, with more Sonya Ellingboe sessions scheduled July 11-14, July SONYA’S 25-28 and August SAMPLER 1-4. To reserve a spot, send a check for $175 to cover supplies and props to Dream Masterz at 3721 Starflower Road, Castle Rock, CO 80109, two weeks prior (July 11-14 camp is already less than two weeks away). 303660-6799. Minimum class size: 10. Western art “Art into the Sunset” extends the American Museum of Western Art’s (1727 Tremont Place, Denver) all-day self-guided tours on summer Wednesdays until 6 p.m. On July 11 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., the “Artful Insight” lecture will be about American Impressionists, including landscapes in the museum’s collection. On July 18, Taos painter Ernest Blumenschein will be the topic, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Reservations are necessary ($10). Anschutzcollection.org.
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Call for artists • Heritage Fine Arts Guild invites entries in its annual “This is Colorado” show, Oct. 10-Nov. 3 at Arapahoe Community College Colorado Gallery of the Arts. Juror will be Lian Quan Zhen. Entry form at: heritage-guild.com/shows. (Zhen will also teach a three-day watercolor workshop Oct 19-21 at the Littleton Museum.) Deadline for entries: August 15. • Reminder: Kaleidoscope Juried Exhibition entries (actual artwork) are due from 9 to 11 a.m. on July 9 at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts at Arapahoe Community College/Annex Building. ($10 per entry — cash or check.) Juror is Angela Faris Bell. Information: trish.sangelo@ arapahoe.edu. DLOG Summer Party Denver Lyric Opera Guild, which has members throughout the metro area,
will hold its Summer Party at Mount Vernon Country Club in Golden on July 12, featuring Central City Opera stars. Social hour: 10:30 a.m., program: 11 a.m.; lunch: noon. Reservations: $40 by July 7. Guests and prospective members are welcome. Send check to: Diane Bakke, 8222 S. Peninsula Drive, Littleton, CO 80120 (303-738-9861, dianebakke@msn. com). Reserve by Paypal at denverlyricoperaguild.org. Theater to relocate Cherry Creek Theatre has announced that it will become the resident theater company at the Mizel Arts and Cultural Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver (Jewish Community Center). Its home has been at Shaver-Ramsey Gallery in Cherry Creek, but extensive redevelopment has made this impossible from a cost standpoint, according to board chair Mark Rossman.
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Summer Wizard Camp Learn magic and performance skills by professional magicians Carol Massie and Joe Givan at Summer Wizard Camp at Theatre of Dreams, 735 Park St., Castle Rock. Camp dates are Monday to Friday, July 11-14 and Aug. 1-4 (more dates may be added). Camp runs from 9:30 a.m. to noon each day. Cost includes all supplies and recital show for family. Open to ages 7 and older. Call 303-660-6799 for details and to sign up. Go to www.AmazingShows.com.
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Hudson Gardens Summer Concerts Hudson Gardens presents its 2016 summer concert series at 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Parking is free. Tickets on sale at www.altitudetickets.com. Prices and show times vary by artist. For information, go to www.hudsongardens.org or call 303-7978565. Concert lineup: Sunday, July 3, Super Diamond (with fireworks); Monday, July 4, Firefall (with fireworks); Sunday, July 10, The B-52s; Sunday, July 17, The Robert Cray Band with special guest The Delta Sonics; Sunday, July 24, Boz Scaggs; Sunday, July 31, Travis Tritt; Saturday, Aug. 6, “Weird Al” Yankovic -- The Mandatory World Tour; Sunday, Aug. 14, Los Lonely Boys/WAR; Sunday, Aug. 21, Gin Blossoms with special guest Tonic; Sunday, Aug. 28, Michael McDonald; Sunday, Sept. 4, Foreigner; and Sunday, Sept. 11, Kenny Loggins. Young Writers Guild Aspiring writers ages 12-18 can drop in on the Young Writers Guild to practice their writing craft and perhaps learn a new tool at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 5, at the Douglas County Libraries’ Philip S. Miller branch, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Bring a pencil and paper or laptop. Snacks are provided. No registration is required; contact 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries. org. Nocturnal Wildlife Hike Join the Audubon Nature Center for its popular Bats, Beavers, and More! Program from 7-9 p.m. Friday, July 8, Friday, July 22, and Friday, Aug. 19, at the Audubon Center at Chatfield, 11280 S. Waterton Road, Littleton. Listen for coyote calls, check out the bat houses around the ponds, and see if the beaver are making progress on their South Platte River dam. Topics differ each date and highlight the curious critters of the Colorado night. Registration required at www.denveraudubon.org, by calling 303-973-9530, or via email at info@ denveraudubon.org. Breckenridge Brewery Hootenanny Big Head Todd and the Monsters will headline this year’s Breckenridge Brewery Hootenanny festival Saturday, July 9, at its 12-acre brewery in Littleton. Other headliners are Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Larry & Jenny Keel, and Head for the Hills. The all-day music-fueled celebrations marks the brewery’s 26th year in the craft brewing scene. The event benefits Conscious Alliance, a Colorado-based nonprofit that fights hunger through food collection and hunger awareness programs. For tickets and information, go to www.breckbrew. com/Hootenanny. Tunes on the Terrace: Kevin Fitzgerald Comedian Kevin Fitzgerald performs at Tunes on the Terrace at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 9 at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Fitzgerald has performed as a professional stand-up comedian for more than 20 years. The opening act will be Chicken Lips Comedy Theater. For tickets and information, call 720-509-1000 or go to http://www.lonetreeartscenter.org/showinfo.php?id=393.
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Adventures in Dance Learn a number of dances at Adventures in Dance, 1500 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton. Classes are for adults. Go to www.adventuresindance. com for cost information and to sign up. July class schedule includes: Swing aerobics: Learn swing solo moves while burning the floor with no partners at swing aerobics from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Mondays from July 4 to July 25. Solo a variety of swing dances, such as the jive, the Lindy hop, the Charleston and the hustle in a workout format. Lindy hop swing: Learn the popular retro dance, the Lindy hop from 7-8 p.m. Tuesdays from July 5 to Aug. 23. Dance to blues and popular rock. Swing is always in style and is a popular dance at weddings. Intermediate swing class: Learn how to swing, jive, and rock `n’ roll during intermediate swing class from 8-9 p.m. Tuesdays from July 5 to Aug. 23. Dance to big band and popular rock `n’ roll music. Intermediate salsa: Learn to salsa and meet new people from 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays from July 6 to Aug. 24. Cha-cha: Learn the cha-cha club dance from 8-9 p.m. Wednesdays from July 6 to Aug. 2. Argentine tango: Class is good for beginners to practiced steppers. Learn the Argentine tango from 7-8 p.m. Thursdays from July 7 to Aug. 25. Line dance aerobics: Dance a variety of line dances including the cowboy cha-cha, electric slide, cupid shuffle and the wobble in a workout format. Class offered from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Mondays from Aug. 8 to Aug. 29.
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Nature’s Athletes Nature’s Educators presents Movin’ and Groovin’ in the Wild, during which kids ages 7-12 can discover nature’s amazing athletes and learn from live animal guests. Program is at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Friday, July 1, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Castle Pines, 360 Village Square Lane. Part of DCL’s Summer Reading Program; space is limited. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org. Operation Wedding Gown Compleat Couture Bridals & Formals joins Brides Across America, which honors American heroes with Operation Wedding Gown, a bridal fashion giveaway on Tuesday, July 5. Military and first responder brides-to-be are invited to choose from a number of free designer wedding gowns. To participate, register at www. bridesacrossamerica.com. Members of the military, or their fiances, may qualify with proof of recent or future deployment to hardship areas. Eligible first responders include women in the police force, firefighters, certified first responders and EMTs. Military brides must present proof of online registration, proper identification and deployment papers at participating salons on the day of the event. First responders will be asked to present a valid photo ID and proof of online registration. To further support the cause, Compleat Couture Bridals & Formals will contribute a portion of proceeds from ALL sales from July 5-10 to Brides Across America. American Legion Post Meeting Officers elected in June will assume their positions at the July meeting of the George C. Evans Post 103, American Legion, of Littleton, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, at the Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave., Littleton. The new officers will carry their positions through June 2017. Roger Masse, longtime member of the post, is the new post commander. Updates on the July 22 golf tournament at Raccoon Creek will be on the agenda. Coffee and Coloring Spend an evening with a good cup of coffee, an even better coloring book, and a group of adults finding their Zen through coloring at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, at Douglas County Libraries in Parker, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org. Secrets to Great Phone Photos Well-known travel photojournalist Ron Stern will share tips for taking terrific photos using your iPhone or Android phone at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Learn nine picture taking secrets of your phone and the most useful photo apps. Discover how to properly compose and take beautiful panoramas and time-lapse videos. At the end of the program Stern will take participants outside to practice what they have learned. Why lug around heavy cameras when your phone is capable of so many incredible functions. Call 303-795-3961.
Magic of Reading Magic of Reading, presented by master magician Mark Strivings, is a roller coaster of laughs and amazement for kids while learning about the fun of reading. Show time is 10 a.m. Saturday, July 9, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Louviers, 7885 Louviers Blvd. Part of the district’s summer reading program. Space is limited; register at 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org. Adventures in Storytelling Adventures in Storytelling with children’s author Jessica Lawson gives kids a chance to interact with the author, ask questions, and brainstorm their own adventure tale at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Roxborough, 8357 N. Rampart Range Road, Suite 200. Books will be for sale, and a book signing will follow the program. Registration is required; call 303-791-7323 or go to DouglasCountyLibraries.org. Ice Cream Social Highlands Ranch plans its ice cream social from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, July 13 at Civic Green Park, 9370 S. Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Children and their families can enjoy all-you-can-eat ice cream and snow cones with any toppings of their choice. Food trucks such as El Toro the Tot, Gusto’s Kitchen and Simply Pizza will be on location. Live entertainment will include Paul Borrillo at 6 p.m. and the Highlands Ranch Concert Band at 7 p.m. Littleton Fire Rescue will have an engine on display and will perform a live demonstration using the Jaws of Life at 6:35 p.m. Contact klarese@ highlandsranch.org. Convention History Both the Democratic and Republican parties head into what promise to be historic conventions. Join Active Minds from 3-4 p.m. Wednesday, July 13, as we discuss how the original process (Congressional Caucuses) gave way to conventions and how conventions evolved with the advent of primaries and caucuses prior to the convention. Program will highlight some noteworthy conventions such as the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention and the 1976 Republican Convention in which Gerald Ford faced a challenge from an upstart named Ronald Reagan. Program takes place at RiverPointe, 5225 S. Prince St., Littleton. Call 303-797-0600 to RSVP. Tuesday Morning Women’s Golf League The Englewood Women’s Golf Association is accepting applications for the 2016 season. The women play Tuesday mornings at Broken Tee Englewood golf course. Contact the membership chair for information, ewga18@gmail. com.
HEALTH
Community Blood Drives A number of community blood drives are planned in the area. For information or to schedule an appointment, contact the Bonfils Appointment Center at 303-3632300, unless otherwise noted. Go to www.bonfils.org. Upcoming blood drives are: Thursday, July 7, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m., South Metro Denver Realtor Association, 7899 S. Lincoln Court, Littleton; Sunday, July 10, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E. Parker Road, Parker; Monday, July 11, 9-10:40 a.m. and noon to 2:30 p.m., Cascades Building, 6300 S. Syracuse Way, Centennial; Thursday, July 14, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m., Plaza Tower One, 6400 S. Fiddler’s Green Circle, Greenwood Village
EDUCATION
Conversational English Group Practice your English is a group that allows adults from all language backgrounds to practice speaking English in a conversation group facilitated by a fluent English speaker. Discussion topics vary. Meets at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 2 and Saturday, July 9, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Parker, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive, and at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 9, at the James H. LaRue branch, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. No registration is required; contact 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org. Editor’s note: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. Send listings to calendar@coloradocommunitymedia.com. No attachments, please. Listings are free and run on a space-available basis.
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To advertise your business here, call Karen at 303-566-4091
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Golden Eagles make quarterfinals Mountain Vista advances to final four in Broncos 7-on-7 tournament By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com Mountain Vista emerged from the field of 82 teams and advanced to the June 18 quarterfinals of the Broncos 7-on-7 football tournament. “I am very proud of what we accomplished,” Jaguars Coach Ric Cash said as he watched his team in the finale of the tournament. “We only have nine guys with us today because so many of our guys are multisport athletes and there is a big lacrosse and a big basketball tournament going on. We have offensive guys playing defense and defensive guys playing offense. But they played their tails off and look where it go us.” The tournament ran from June 15-18. The 82 teams in the tournament were divided into four team pools for round robin play during the first three days of the competition. Mountain Vista finished first in pool play and advanced to the June 18 singleelimination tournament played at the Broncos training facility. “Earning a spot in the single elimination tournament is great and quite an experience for our kids to play here at the Bronco training facility,” he said. “It is motivating for the kids and a great day to have the chance to play 7-on-7 football on a beautiful Saturday.” Passing is the name of the game in 7-on-7 football. The game matches backs and receivers against linebackers and defensive backs. The quarterback has four seconds to throw the ball. Yardage is gained by completing a pass and the receiver can add to the yardage by running the ball until he is touched with two hands by a defender. Rough play is penalized. In the Broncos 7-on-7 tournament, teams play 10-minute halves with a run-
Quarterback Judd Erickson looks for a Mountain Vista receiver during the Golden Eagles game against Pueblo South at the June 18 Broncos 7-on-7 single elimination tournament. A total of 82 teams entered the competition and the Jaguars made it to the tournament semifinals. Photo by Tom Munds ning clock for the first eight minutes. The clock in the final two minutes stops for situations like incomplete passes and a player going out of bounds. A touchdown is seven points and an interception is three points. The Golden Eagles opened play June 18 against Pueblo South and won the game, 35-21. They followed that up by beating fourth-seeded Smoky Hill 34-24 to advance to the tournament semifinals, where they lost to Fairview. Cash took time between games to look ahead to the coming season. He
said Mountain Vista has a lot of returning veterans on offense and, while there are holes to fill on defense, there are young guys stepping up to bid to fill those holes. Cash said the makeup of their league has been shuffled. Chaparral and Rock Canyon were on the league schedule and are part of the new alignment. New league opponents this year include Pomona, Cherokee Trail and Hinkley. One of the strengths for the Golden Eagles in the coming season is the fact Judd Erickson returns at quarterback.
“It feels great to return at quarterback. It is a great feeling,” he said. “The coaches have helped me, as I have done a lot of work during the off season, so I feel I am a lot better quarterback now than I was at this time last year.” He said it was awesome to come out and compete at the Broncos training facility. Erickson said the tournament is good for him as he sees teams and their defensive coverages he won’t see during the season. He said his focus for the coming season is to help his team make and go deep in the playoffs.
Valor grad nearly claims match-play title Josh Seiple’s rally in Lone Tree falls just short
THE RESULTS
By Jim Benton jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com
Results for local golfers for the final three rounds in the Colorado Golf Association’s Match Play Championship, which concluded June 14 at Lone Tree Golf Club.
Josh Seiple played his best golf at the end, but it still wasn’t good enough to overcome a slow start. Seiple, from Castle Pines Golf Club, overcame a 4-up disadvantage after the first 18-holes of the 36-hole final of the Colorado Golf Association’s Match Play Championship at the Lone Tree Golf Club. However, he was edged, 1-up, by Nathaniel Goddard, of Ptarmigan Golf Club in Fort Collins, on June 24 in the 116th title match of the CGA’s oldest tournament. “In the morning I just didn’t have my stuff,” said the 20-year-old Seiple, a graduate of Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch. “Nathaniel had his, and I just kind of brought some more energy... I was close, played well in the afternoon, but it wasn’t good enough.” Seiple, who had double hip surgery last August and got a medical redshirt at the University of Mississippi for his sophomore season, never led during the finals after carding a 75 during the first 18 holes. He rallied to make it a close match during the afternoon round, which also included a two-hour rain delay. “After that little hour break between matches, I birdied the first two holes coming out,” he said. “I birdied the fifth after the rain delay so I just got off to a better
Quarterfinals Seiple, Castle Pines Golf Club, def. Chris Korte, Lone Tree Golf Club, 7 and 6; Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club, def. Connor Klein, Lone Tree Golf Club, 1 up; Staiano, Glenmoor Country Club, Def. Hayden Nicholaides, Family Sports, 2 and 1. Semifinals Seiple, Castle Pines Golf Club, def. Nick Nosewicz, Meadow Hills, 2 and 1. Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club, def. Jake Staiano, Glenmoor Country Club, 2 and 1.
Josh Seiple, a 20-year-old Valor Christian graduate who plays out of Castle Pines Golf Club, rallied but was edged by Nathaniel Goddard of Ptarmigan Golf and County Club, 1-up, in the 36-hole finals of the Colorado Golf Association Match Play held June 24 at Lone Tree Golf Club. Seiple is coming off double hip surgery last August and got a redshirt medical hardship at the University of Mississippi and will be a sophomore on the golf team this fall. Photo by Jim Benton start. The momentum seemed to change a little bit in my favor.” Seiple evened the match on the 14th hole. Goddard, a 22-year-old graduate of Colorado Christian University who played on the Lakewood school’s back-to-back Christian University national championship teams, birdied No. 15, but Seiple once again tied the match with a nice up-
and-down birdie on the 16th hole. Goddard’s approach shot on No. 17, set up a 6-foot birdie putt, which pushed him into a 1-up lead and then both players parred the 18th. “He made an awesome putt on 15 and hit an awesome shot into 17 so props to him,” Seiple said. “I just couldn’t get over that hump. He kept the pressure on all day, he putted well and to do that is hard
Finals Nathaniel Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club, def. Joshua Seiple, Castle Pines Golf Club, 1 up.
to beat. I took myself out of it in the first match. “I didn’t make a bogey on the last nine holes. I played my last 11 holes at 3-under. I closed well. It was that morning match that took me out of it. This is about the fourth or fifth tournament back since the surgery. The past few tournaments I’ve started to get into contention. I wish I could have closed this one out but I’ve been there the last few tournaments.”
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Golden Eagles make quarterfinals Mountain Vista advances to final four in Broncos 7-on-7 tournament By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com Mountain Vista emerged from the field of 82 teams and advanced to the June 18 quarterfinals of the Broncos 7-on-7 football tournament. “I am very proud of what we accomplished,” coach Ric Cash said as he watched his team in the finale of the tournament. “We only have nine guys with us today because so many of our guys are multisport athletes and there is a big lacrosse and a big basketball tournament going on. We have offensive guys playing defense and defensive guys playing offense. But they played their tails off and look where it go us.” The tournament ran from June 15-18. The 82 teams in the tournament were divided into four team pools for round robin play during the first three days of the competition. Mountain Vista finished first in pool play and advanced to the June 18 singleelimination tournament played at the Broncos training facility. “Earning a spot in the single elimination tournament is great and quite an experience for our kids to play here at the Bronco training facility,” he said. “It is motivating for the kids and a great day to have the chance to play 7-on-7 football on a beautiful Saturday.” Passing is the name of the game in 7-on-7 football. The game matches backs and receivers against linebackers and defensive backs. The quarterback has four seconds to throw the ball. Yardage is gained by completing a pass and the receiver can add to the yardage by running the ball until he is touched with two hands by a defender. Rough play is penalized. In the Broncos 7-on-7 tournament, teams play 10-minute halves with a run-
Quarterback Judd Erickson looks for a Mountain Vista receiver during the Golden Eagles’ game against Pueblo South at the June 18 Broncos 7-on-7 single-elimination tournament. A total of 82 teams entered the competition and Vista made it to the tournament semifinals. Photo by Tom Munds ning clock for the first eight minutes. The clock in the final two minutes stops for situations like incomplete passes and a player going out of bounds. A touchdown is seven points and an interception is three points. The Golden Eagles opened play June 18 against Pueblo South and won the game, 35-21. They followed that up by beating fourth-seeded Smoky Hill 34-24 to advance to the tournament semifinals, where they lost to Fairview. Cash took time between games to look ahead to the coming season. He
said Mountain Vista has a lot of returning veterans on offense and, while there are holes to fill on defense, there are young guys stepping up to bid to fill those holes. Cash said the makeup of their league has been shuffled. Chaparral and Rock Canyon were on the league schedule and are part of the new alignment. New league opponents this year include Pomona, Cherokee Trail and Hinkley. One of the strengths for the Golden Eagles in the coming season is the fact Judd Erickson returns at quarterback.
“It feels great to return at quarterback. It is a great feeling,” he said. “The coaches have helped me, as I have done a lot of work during the off season, so I feel I am a lot better quarterback now than I was at this time last year.” He said it was awesome to come out and compete at the Broncos training facility. Erickson said the tournament is good for him as he sees teams and their defensive coverages he won’t see during the season. He said his focus for the coming season is to help his team make and go deep in the playoffs.
Valor grad nearly claims match-play title Josh Seiple’s rally in Lone Tree falls just short
THE RESULTS
By Jim Benton jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com
Results for local golfers for the final three rounds in the Colorado Golf Association’s Match Play Championship, which concluded June 14 at Lone Tree Golf Club.
Josh Seiple played his best golf at the end, but it still wasn’t good enough to overcome a slow start. Seiple, from Castle Pines Golf Club, overcame a 4-up disadvantage after the first 18-holes of the 36-hole final of the Colorado Golf Association’s Match Play Championship at the Lone Tree Golf Club. However, he was edged, 1-up, by Nathaniel Goddard, of Ptarmigan Golf Club in Fort Collins, on June 24 in the 116th title match of the CGA’s oldest tournament. “In the morning I just didn’t have my stuff,” said the 20-year-old Seiple, a graduate of Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch. “Nathaniel had his, and I just kind of brought some more energy... I was close, played well in the afternoon, but it wasn’t good enough.” Seiple, who had double hip surgery last August and got a medical redshirt at the University of Mississippi for his sophomore season, never led during the finals after carding a 75 during the first 18 holes. He rallied to make it a close match during the afternoon round, which also included a two-hour rain delay. “After that little hour break between matches, I birdied the first two holes coming out,” he said. “I birdied the fifth after the rain delay so I just got off to a better
Quarterfinals Seiple, Castle Pines Golf Club, def. Chris Korte, Lone Tree Golf Club, 7 and 6; Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club, def. Connor Klein, Lone Tree Golf Club, 1 up; Staiano, Glenmoor Country Club, Def. Hayden Nicholaides, Family Sports, 2 and 1. Semifinals Seiple, Castle Pines Golf Club, def. Nick Nosewicz, Meadow Hills, 2 and 1. Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club, def. Jake Staiano, Glenmoor Country Club, 2 and 1.
Josh Seiple, a 20-year-old Valor Christian graduate who plays out of Castle Pines Golf Club, rallied but was edged by Nathaniel Goddard of Ptarmigan Golf and County Club, 1-up, in the 36-hole finals of the Colorado Golf Association Match Play held June 24 at Lone Tree Golf Club. Seiple is coming off double hip surgery last August and got a redshirt medical hardship at the University of Mississippi and will be a sophomore on the golf team this fall. Photo by Jim Benton start. The momentum seemed to change a little bit in my favor.” Seiple evened the match on the 14th hole. Goddard, a 22-year-old graduate of Colorado Christian University who played on the Lakewood school’s back-to-back Christian University national championship teams, birdied No. 15, but Seiple once again tied the match with a nice up-
and-down birdie on the 16th hole. Goddard’s approach shot on No. 17, set up a 6-foot birdie putt, which pushed him into a 1-up lead and then both players parred the 18th. “He made an awesome putt on 15 and hit an awesome shot into 17 so props to him,” Seiple said. “I just couldn’t get over that hump. He kept the pressure on all day, he putted well and to do that is hard
Finals Nathaniel Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club, def. Joshua Seiple, Castle Pines Golf Club, 1 up.
to beat. I took myself out of it in the first match. “I didn’t make a bogey on the last nine holes. I played my last 11 holes at 3-under. I closed well. It was that morning match that took me out of it. This is about the fourth or fifth tournament back since the surgery. The past few tournaments I’ve started to get into contention. I wish I could have closed this one out but I’ve been there the last few tournaments.”
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Bid for marathon bowling record derailed
Todd Wessels was aiming for a Guinness record to help raise money for his son
Todd Wessels prepares to throw a ball June 23 during his attempt to set a new world record for the number of hours and the number of games bowled. Photo by Tom Skelley
By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com An apparently unthinking and selfish action sabotaged Todd Wessels’ effort to break the Guinness world record for a 10pin bowling marathon. Moe’s Original Bar B Que in Englewood donated the use of the lane and other support to Wessels’ effort, aimed at breaking the existing record of bowling 134 hours and 57 minutes straight — more than five days — and bowling more than 643 games. Wessels, of Thornton, said he decided to do the bowling marathon as a way to bring attention to the needs of children like his son, who has a potentially life-threatening form of epilepsy, and to raise money to provide his son with a seizure-alert dog. He said training a dog depends on how long it takes, and costs could range from about $5,000 to 10 times that amount. His bid to set the world record ended when he was less than 15 hours from his goals. “I was away from the lane on a break when someone who knew what I was trying to do bowled on my lane,” Wessels, 46, said. “I was heartbroken. I haven’t cried since my mother died, but I cried when I found out what happened.” Wessels bowled a while longer after he knew his effort to break the record would not count — he was required to bowl at least five games an hour. Before the unauthorized bowler ended his effort the night of June 24, Wessels had bowled 703 games, exceeding the world record. But it doesn’t count because the marathon record is for hours and games at the same time. He said the score didn’t matter and he threw a lot of gutter balls. His game scores ranged from a 206 to a 1. “I hate the fact this happened, but it definitely was a learning experience,” he said. “I think I will try to break the record
again later this year. I will tape off the area so someone can’t ‘accidentally’ bowl on my lane. I will hire someone as security. And I will put up some banners to let everyone know what I am doing and why I am doing it.” His fundraising effort was online through GoFundMe.com. His specific project was called “A penny a frame.” The idea was to bowl about 7,500 frames, and he was asking for donations of $75 per person to go toward getting his son, Cameron, a dog. When the record-breaking effort came to an end, Wessels began contacting those who had donated to the project, giving the
opportunity to withdraw their support. He said most people said to keep the donations. The total collected was about $1,400. He said he will still accept donations to help get his son the seizure-alert dog. For information on how to make a donation, call 720-670-7881 or go to the GoFundMe page. Wessels brought his plan to break the world record to Moe’s, where he said the management opened the doors and the lane to him. “It is awesome what he is doing and to have him do it on our bowling lanes,” said Moe’s general manager, Josh Alston, the afternoon of June 23. “The entire staff has
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embraced him and he has become part of the Moe’s family. He is doing this for a good cause. He is a very strong-willed individual battling through the struggles he has faced. We are doing all we can to help him get to the finish line.” Wessels praised all that Moe’s has done for his project. “Everyone here has really stepped up to help me anyway they can,” he said. “They let me stay here around the clock. They lock up the place at midnight and leave me here with one other person so I can continue to bowl. They donate the use of the lanes and even donate the meals they provide for me and my family. I really appreciate what they are doing.” Guinness World Records requires that at least two video cameras record an attempt at a record. Wessell said he looked at the video and saw the people who stepped over and bowled on his lane. “I sent an email to Guinness, even though I knew the answer,” he said. “They replied that, even though it was not an authorized act, it was considered illegal substitution so my record attempt was over.” Wessels said Cameron, 14, has had epilepsy since he was 6. “He began having more frequent seizures, we had him tested and found he had a rare form of the disease called SCN8A,” he said. “There is no cure but the only way to keep our child alive is to have a seizurealert dog, which lets us know the child will have a seizure in 45 minutes or less. That would be time to administer medication used to prevent a seizure.” He said he decided on the bowling record attempt because the only sport Cameron could participate in, because of epilepsy, was bowling. The rules to break the world record were fairly simple. Wessels was allowed a five-minute break each hour, he had to bowl at least five games an hour and had to start the five-game set five minutes after each hour. He said you can stockpile the breaks so there was a longer period to eat, rest or take a bathroom break.
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For the 27th consecutive year, commuters in Colorado were encouraged to leave cars, minivans and SUVs parked in the garage and dust off two-wheeled transportation for the Colorado Bike to Work day on June 22. The Denver Regional Council of Governments organizes the annual event to encourage commuters to try riding to work in the hope that cycling will become a regular part of their daily routine and thereby reduce congestion and improve air quality. Cyclists like Scot Szatkowski, who bicycled along the C-470 path from Ken Caryl to United Launch Alliance in Centennial, were invited to take a short break from their morning commute at Bike to Work breakfast stations, such as the one sponsored by the City of Lone Tree at the intersection of the C-470 Bike Trail and the Willow Creek Trail. At the station, volunteers set up tables with muffins and breakfast burritos, sliced fresh fruit, and stocked coolers with bottles of juice and Gatorade. Riders could also pick up buy-one-get-one-free Chipotle coupons and a certificate good for a cold pint at the Lone Tree Brewing Co. after work. In all, more than 148 riders stopped at the station between 6:30 and 9 Wednesday morning. Szatkowski said it was the first time he had made the 17-mile commute on his bicycle and hoped to ride to work again when it is practical. The C-470 station was organized by the city along with Lone Tree businesses the Lone Tree Brewing Company, Starbucks, Safeway, Costco, Target, RidgeGate and the South Suburban Parks and Recreation District. Nationwide Insurance sponsored a second breakfast station at the Lincoln light rail station in Lone Tree. “Lone Tree is committed to the effective use of multimodal transportation,” said volunteer David Lawful, a member of
Cyclists peddle out of the Lone Tree bike-to work-station at C-470 Trail and Willow Creek Trail. Over 100 cyclists visited the station in the first hour on June 22. Photos by Rick Gustafson the Lone Tree Citizens Recreation Advisory Committee. “The city is helping with things like expanding light rail and adding new bike lanes.” The two Bike to Work breakfast stations and three bike party stations in Lone Tree were among 318 stations statewide. For the rest of the country, Bike to Work Day is part of the observance of National Bike Month held on May 20, but unpredictable spring weather throughout Colorado prompted the state Legislature to create Colorado Bike Month in June and Bike to Work Day on the fourth Wednesday of the month. According to Way to Go, a Denver Regional Council of Governments program, 19,112 people throughout the state registered for the event.
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26 Highlands Ranch Herald
MORTGAGE, LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/7/2015 Recording Date of DOT: 4/20/2015 Reception No. of DOT: 2015025007 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $272,127.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $270,893.57
mand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 3, 2016, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.
Public Notices Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2016-0102 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/19/2016 4:21:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: BRIAN J. BRADFORD Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR RBC MORTGAGE COMPANY, AN ILLINOIS CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/24/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 4/8/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005030751 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $238,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $203,644.99 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 130, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 122-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9878 Aftonwood Street, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 10, 2016, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended. If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855-411-2372) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process. First Publication: 6/16/2016 Last Publication: 7/14/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/20/2016 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: SCOTT TOEBBEN Colorado Registration #: 19011 216 16TH STREET SUITE 1210, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (720) 259-6710 Fax #: Attorney File #: 15CO00875-1 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2016-0102 First Publication: 6/16/2016 Last Publication: 7/14/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press
Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof.
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THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 30, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 121-B, 1ST AMENDMENT, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 9731 Mulberry Street, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 The Deed of Trust was modified by a document recorded in Douglas County on 3/28/2016, Reception number 2016018017. Reason modified and any other modifications: Legal Description. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 27, 2016, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended. If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855-411-2372) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process. First Publication: 6/2/2016 Last Publication: 6/30/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/7/2016 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: MONICA KADRMAS Colorado Registration #: 34904 1199 BANNOCK STREET, DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 350-3711 Fax #: Attorney File #: 3850.100210.F01 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2016-0081 First Publication: 6/2/2016 Last Publication: 6/30/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2016-0088 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/12/2016 1:42:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: JEFFREY R SAMPSON Original Beneficiary: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/31/2012 Recording Date of DOT: 6/8/2012 Reception No. of DOT: 2012041446 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $187,903.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $165,660.83 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.
PUBLIC NOTICE
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2016-0081
The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.
To Whom It May Concern: On 4/6/2016 5:21:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.
Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 36 PROVINCE CENTER FILING NO 1H COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO
Original Grantor: JOHN W. DIENER Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR FBC MORTGAGE, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: FBC MORTGAGE, LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/7/2015 Recording Date of DOT: 4/20/2015 Reception No. of DOT: 2015025007 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $272,127.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $270,893.57 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of
Which has the address of: 9011 Sanderling Way, Littleton, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 3, 2016, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended. If you believe that your lender or ser-
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If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855-411-2372) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process. First Publication: 6/9/2016 Last Publication: 7/7/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/13/2016 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JENNIFER ROGERS Colorado Registration #: 34682 7700 E. ARAPAHOE ROAD, SUITE 230, CENTENNIAL, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 952-6907 Fax #: Attorney File #: CO-16-704474-JS *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2016-0088 First Publication: 6/9/2016 Last Publication: 7/7/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2016-0115 To Whom It May Concern: On 5/3/2016 12:37:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: TIMOTHY J STANEVICH AND DEANNA STANEVICH Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR TAYLOR, BEAN & WHITAKER MORTGAGE CORP., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: SELENE FINANCE LP Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 7/26/2006 Recording Date of DOT: 8/4/2006 Reception No. of DOT: 2006067049 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $252,633.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $237,690.31 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to make timely payments as required under the Deed of Trust. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 14, HIGHLANDS RANCH NO. 100M, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 3879 East Garnet Way, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 24, 2016, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended. If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855-411-2372) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process. First Publication: 6/30/2016 Last Publication: 7/28/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 5/3/2016 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: KELLY MURDOCK Colorado Registration #: 46915 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 16-011236 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/
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First Publication: 6/30/2016 Last Publication: 7/28/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 5/3/2016 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee
The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
KELLY MURDOCK Colorado Registration #: 46915 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 16-011236
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*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2016-0115 First Publication: 6/30/2016 Last Publication: 7/28/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2016-0110 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/28/2016 12:24:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: C. MARTIN GLASTETTER Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY MORTGAGE, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 1/6/2014 Recording Date of DOT: 1/15/2014 Reception No. of DOT: 2014002330 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $495,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $107,945.00 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 6, BLOCK 4, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 77A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 7056 Newhall Drive, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 17, 2016, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended. If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855-411-2372) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process. First Publication: 6/23/2016 Last Publication: 7/21/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 5/2/2016 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: SCOTT TOEBBEN Colorado Registration #: 19011 216 16TH STREET SUITE 1210, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (720) 259-6710 Fax #: Attorney File #: 16CO00156-1 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2016-0110 First Publication: 6/23/2016 Last Publication: 7/21/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press
Government Legals PUBLIC NOTICE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) #029-16 PRE-EMPLOYMENT & DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SCREENING AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE SCREENING & ALCOHOL TESTING The Human Resources Department of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests proposals from responsible and qualified firms for the provision of services related to Pre-Employment & Department of Transportation (DOT) Screening, Controlled Substance Screening & Alcohol Testing, Educational Training, and to ensure compliance with Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Controlled Substance and Alcohol Regulations, as specified. Douglas County currently employs approximately one-thousand and fifty (1,050) individuals; 10% of those individuals fall into the DOT Controlled Substance and Alcohol Testing pool. The other percentage could be
#029-16 PRE-EMPLOYMENT & DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SCREENING AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE SCREENING & ALCOHOL TESTING
June 30, 2016
The Human Resources Department of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests proposals from responsible and qualified firms for the provision of services related to Pre-Employment & Department of Transportation (DOT) ScreenPublic Notice ing, Controlled Substance Screening & AlToEducational advertise your and public notices cohol Testing, Training, REQUESTcall FOR303-566-4100 APPLICATION (RFA) to ensure compliance with Department of NO. 031-16 Transportation (DOT) and Department of TRAUMA CARE COORDINATOR, Health and Human Services (DHHS) ConPARENT ADVOCATE, trolled Substance and Alcohol RegulaAND EDUCATIONAL NAVIGATOR tions, as specified. Douglas County currently employs approximately one-thouThe Department of Human Services of sand and fifty (1,050) individuals; 10% of Douglas County Government hereinafter those individuals fall into the DOT Conreferred to as the County, respectfully retrolled Substance and Alcohol Testing quests application responses from qualified providers for the provision of a pool. The other percentage could be Trauma Care Coordinator, Parent Advoctested under non-DOT regulations. After ate, and Educational Navigator. Awards an official job offer letter, all applicants are will be given to individuals or agencies required to successfully pass a drug that are able to demonstrate proficiency in screen as a condition of employment with the goal areas through family centered Douglas County. For a current employee programming and can attend to the deor an applicant, a positive marijuana test tailed qualifications. result is an employee handbook violation based on the fact that marijuana is illegal The initial agreement, issued as a result of under Federal law. this Request for Application (RFA), will be for a period of approximately ten (10) The RFP documents may be reviewed months, beginning in August 2016 to and and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain Eincluding May 31, 2017. All proposed fees Purchasing System website at www.rockyshall be firm and fixed for the initial conmountainbidsystem.com. RFP docutract period. The County shall have an ments are not available for purchase from option to renew this agreement for two (2) Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-menadditional periods of one (1) year each, tioned website. with the same terms and conditions. This agreement and/or extension to the originFour (4) copies of your RFP response al period of a subject agreement shall be shall be submitted in a sealed envelope contingent upon annual funding being applainly marked “RFP No. 029-16, Pre-Empropriated, budgeted and otherwise made ployment & DOT Screening” prior to the available for such purposes and subject to due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed the County's unanimous satisfaction with responses will not be accepted. RFP rethe services received during the precedsponses will be received until 3:00 p.m., ing agreement period. on Friday, July 29, 2016 by the Douglas County Purchasing Division, 100 Third The RFA document may be reviewed Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E80104. Proposals will not be considered Purchasing System website at www.rockywhich are received after the time stated, mountainbidsystem.com. While the RFA documents are available electronically, and any proposals so received will be reDouglas County cannot accept electronic turned unopened. RFA responses. Douglas County Government reserves the RFA responses will be received until 3:00 right to reject any and all proposals, to p.m. on Thursday, July 21, 2016 by waive formalities, informalities, or irreguDouglas County Government, Finance larities contained in a said proposal and Department, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, furthermore, to award a contract for items Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. RFA reherein, either in whole or in part, if it is sponses shall be submitted in a sealed deemed to be in the best interest of the envelope, plainly marked “RFA No. 031County to do so. Additionally, we reserve 16 Trauma Care Coordinator, Parent the right to negotiate optional items/serAdvocate, and Educational Navigator”. vices with the successful vendor. Electronic and/or faxed application responses will not be accepted. RePlease direct any questions concerning sponses will not be considered which are this RFP to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing received after the time stated and any reSupervisor, 303-660-7434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 sponses so received will be returned unp.m., Monday through Friday, excluding opened. holidays. Douglas County Government reserves the Legal Notice No.: 929325 right to reject any and all RFA responses, First Publication: June 30, 2016 to waive formalities, informalities, or irregLast Publication: June 30, 2016 ularities contained in a said RFA and furPublisher: Douglas County News-Press thermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the Public Notice County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items and/or REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) services with the respondents. #030-16 EMPLOYEE SERVICE AWARDS Please direct any questions concerning this RFA to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing The Human Resources Department of Supervisor at 303-660-7434 or Douglas County Government, hereinafter criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 referred to as the County, respectfully rep.m., Monday through Friday, excluding quests proposals from responsible and holidays.Please direct any questions conqualified firms to provide high-quality Emcerning this RFA to Carolyn Riggs, Purployee Service Award gifts for our employchasing Supervisor at 303-660-7434 or ees as they celebrate a five (5) year emcriggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 ployment milestone. As a government emp.m., Monday through Friday, excluding ployer, we are seeking high-quality gifts at holidays. a reasonable price that would not be viewed by the public (taxpayers) as Legal Notice No.: 929328 extravagant. First Publication: June 30, 2016 Last Publication: June 30, 2016 The RFP documents may be reviewed Publisher: Douglas County News-Press and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain EPurchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. RFP documents PUBLIC NOTICE are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING only be accessed from the above-menBEFORE THE DOUGLAS COUNTY tioned website. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Four (4) copies of your RFP response shall be submitted in a sealed envelope A public hearing will be held before the plainly marked “RFP No. 030-16, EmployBoard of County Commissioners on Tuesee Service Awards” prior to the due date day, July 12, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. in the and time. Electronic and/or faxed reCommissioners Hearing Room, 100 Third sponses will not be accepted. RFP reStreet, Castle Rock, Colorado, concernsponses will be received until 3:00 p.m., ing the adoption of the following Ordinon Friday, July 29, 2016 by the Douglas ance: County Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado ORDINANCE NO. O-016-001 80104. Proposals will not be considered which are received after the time stated, THE BOARD OF COUNTY and any proposals so received will be reCOMMISSIONERS OF THE turned unopened. COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, COLORADO
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Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said proposal and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items/services with the successful vendor.
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE 2012 EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE SUBJECT TO THE AMENDMENTS AS SET FORTH IN ATTACHMENT 1 AND APPENDICES B AND C AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS IN CONFLICT THEREWITH
Please direct any questions concerning this RFP to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303-660-7434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Legal Notice No.: 929326 First Publication: June 30, 2016 Last Publication: June 30, 2016 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO A public hearing will be held before the Board of County Commissioners to consider the approval of an agricultural lease agreement between Hay Creek Ranch, as lessee, and the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, as lessor, regarding the real property located at 4620 South State Highway 83 on Prairie Canyon Ranch in southern Douglas County east of State Highway 83 south of Castlewood Canyon State Park. The public hearing will be held on Tuesday, July 12, at 2:30 p.m. in the Commissioners Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado. For more information please contact the Douglas County Office of Open Space and Natural Resources at (303) 660-7495, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Legal Notice No.: 929333 First Publication: June 30, 2016 Last Publication: June 30, 2016 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice REQUEST FOR APPLICATION (RFA) NO. 031-16 TRAUMA CARE COORDINATOR, PARENT ADVOCATE, AND EDUCATIONAL NAVIGATOR The Department of Human Services of Douglas County Government hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests application responses from qualified providers for the provision of a
WHEREAS, Section 30-15-401.5(1), C.R.S., authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt ordinances to provide for minimum safety standards, and;
WHEREAS, Section 30-15-401.5(3), C.R.S., authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt fire code provisions for the unincorporated areas of Douglas County, and;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 30-15401.5(2), C.R.S., the Board of County Commissioners has appointed a permanent commission, known as the Fire Code Adoption and Revision Commission, for the purpose of reviewing and making recommendations for the adoption of a fire code, and;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 30-15401.5(2), C.R.S., the Board of County Commissioners has received a recommendation from the Fire Code Adoption and Revision Commission, and;
WHEREAS, after receiving the recommendations of the Fire Code Adoption and Revision Commission and duly considering the same, the Board of County Commissioners of Douglas County desires to adopt by reference the 2012 International Fire Code (“IFC”) in its entirety, except as modified herein, to protect the safety and welfare of the citizens of Douglas County; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY as follows:
A. The Board of County Commissioners hereby approves the 2012 IFC, subject to the Amendments set forth in Attachment 1 and Appendices B and C.
B. The following properties shall be exempt from IFC coverage, except as provided in Subsection 102.5, as amended herein:
1. Detached one- or two-family dwellings or townhouses; 2. Factory built housing units certified by the State of Colorado; 3. Factory built housing units constructed to federal standards; 4. Buildings or structures accessory to a dwelling or other allowed private use; or
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day, July 12, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. in the
Commissioners Hearing Room, 100 Third June 30, 2016 Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, concerning the adoption of the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. O-016-001 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, COLORADO
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE 2012 EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE SUBJECT TO THE AMENDMENTS AS SET FORTH IN ATTACHMENT 1 AND APPENDICES B AND C AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS IN CONFLICT THEREWITH WHEREAS, Section 30-15-401.5(1), C.R.S., authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt ordinances to provide for minimum safety standards, and;
WHEREAS, Section 30-15-401.5(3), C.R.S., authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt fire code provisions for the unincorporated areas of Douglas County, and; WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 30-15401.5(2), C.R.S., the Board of County Commissioners has appointed a permanent commission, known as the Fire Code Adoption and Revision Commission, for the purpose of reviewing and making recommendations for the adoption of a fire code, and;
unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not affect, impair or invalidate the ordinance as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so declared to be invalid.
105.6.4. e. LP-gas per Subsection 105.6.27. f. Temporary membrane structures and tents greater than 5,000 sq. ft.
E. All ordinances and/or resolutions, including Ordinance No. O-007-002, or parts or ordinances and/or resolutions, which are inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance, are hereby repealed, except that this repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed in violation of any ordinance hereby repealed prior to the effective date of this ordinance.
A new Subsection 102.13 is enacted to read as follows:
ATTACHMENT 1 TO ORDINANCE NO. O-016-001
102.13 Douglas County Regulations. Where any of the provisions of this code are in conflict with any Douglas County code, standard or other adopted regulation, the Douglas County provisions shall control. The Douglas County Wildfire Mitigation Standards shall govern in lieu of the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code. References within this code to the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code shall not apply.
Amendments to the 2012 International Fire Code
Subsection 105.7.13 is amended to read as follows:
Section 1. Adoption of the International Fire Code. That certain document, three (3) copies of which are filed in the office of the Douglas County Clerk & Recorder, being marked and designated as the International Fire Code, 2012 edition, including Appendix Chapters B and C as published by the International Code Council and amended by Douglas County, be and is hereby adopted by the Board of County Commissioners as the Douglas County Fire Code, regulating and governing the safeguarding of life and property from fire and explosion hazards arising from the storage, handling and use of haza r d o u s s u b s ta n c e s , m a te r i a l s a n d devices, and from conditions hazardous to life or property in the occupancy of buildings and premises as herein provided; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Fire Code are hereby referred to, adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this ordinance, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes prescribed in Section 2 of this Ordinance.
105.7.13 Solar Photovoltaic Power Systems. A building permit is required to install or modify solar photovoltaic power systems. Maintenance performed in accordance with the IBC as amended is not considered to be a modification and does not require a permit. Subsection 108.1 is amended to read as follows: 108.1 Board of appeals established. In order to hear and decide appeals of orders, decisions or determinations made by the fire code official relative to the application and interpretation of this code, there shall be created a Regional Fire Code Board of Appeals (“board”) by the entry of various fire districts into an intergovernmental agreement (“IGA”). The board of appeals shall be appointed through the operation of the IGA. The fire code official shall be an ex officio member of said board but shall have no vote on any matter before the board. The board shall adopt rules of procedure for conducting its business, and shall render all decisions and findings in writing to the appellant with a duplicate copy to the fire code official. The Douglas County Board of County Commissioners shall be notified of all appointments made to the board. Said notification shall be in writing and shall be given within 30 days of said appointment(s). Upon 30 days written notice, the County may elect to withdraw from the use of the board at any time and for any reason.
er allowed use to the public or private road. Residential Shared Driveway – Add new definition to read as follows: Residential Shared Driveway – A vehicular access for private use that may serve no more than three lots or parcels for the purpose(s) of ingress and egress to buildings structures or other allowed use. Subsection 503.1 is amended to read as follows: 503.1 Where required. Fire apparatus access roads shall be provided and maintained in accordance with Sections 503.1.1 through 503.1.3 and the Douglas County Roadway Design and Construction Standards ("the Standards”). Should any provision of the fire code conflict with the Standards, the Standards shall control. Where the Standards are silent with respect to fire apparatus access roads, the fire code official and the Douglas County Public Works Engineering Director shall make the final determination as to whether Sections 503.1.1 through 503.1.3 of the fire code shall apply. Subsection 503.2 is amended to read as follows: 503.2 Specifications. Fire apparatus access roads shall be designed and installed in accordance with the Douglas County Roadway Design and Construction Standards (“the Standards”). Should any provision of the fire code conflict with the Standards, the Standards shall control. Where the Standards are silent with respect to roads, both public and private, the Douglas County Public Works Engineering Director shall make the final determination, based on fire code official input. For fire apparatus access roads, other than roads, both public and private, Sections 503.2.1 through 503.2.8 of the fire code shall apply.
County Standard for Water Supplies for Rural Fire Fighting where applicable. The following locations shall not be subject to the standards contained in these Sections and/or Appendix C: 1. Fire apparatus access roads not having an existing water line, except when a new water line is installed to serve commercial or residential development or to convey water to another location. 2. Where access to sufficient water flow is unavailable as determined by the fire code official and the building official. Subsection 507.5.1 is amended to read as follows: 507.5.1 Where required. Where a portion of the facility or building hereafter constructed or moved into or within the jurisdiction is more than 400 feet (122 m) from a hydrant on a fire apparatus access road, as measured by an approved route around the exterior of the facility or building, on-site fire hydrants and mains shall be provided where required by the fire code official and the building official. Exceptions: 1. [No Change] 2. [No Change] Subsection 510.1 Emergency responder radio coverage in new buildings. Exception 4 is added to read as follows: Exceptions: 1. [No Change] 2. [No Change] 3. [No Change] 4. One and two-family dwellings and townhouses.
The Castle Rock Half Marathon kicks off at Fourth and Pearl streets on June 25. This year’s event marked the fourth running of the race. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 30-15Photos by Conner Davis 401.5(2), C.R.S., the Board of County
ficial, existing buildings that do not have Highlands 27 approved radioRanch coverageHerald for emergency
responders within the building based upon the existing coverage levels of the public safety communications systems of the jurisdiction at the exterior of the building, shall be equipped with such coverage according to one of the following:
1. Whenever an existing wired communication system cannot be repaired or is being replaced, or where not approved in accordance with Section 510.1, Exception 1. 2. Within a timeframe established by Douglas County. Exception: Where it is determined by the fire code official or the building official that the radio coverage system is not needed. Subsection 1103.7.6 is amended to read as follows: 1103.7.6 Group R-2. A manual and automatic fire alarm system that activates the occupant notification system in accordance with Section 907.6 shall be installed in existing Group R-2 occupancies more than three stories in height or with more than 16 dwelling or sleeping units.
Exceptions: 1. [No Change] 2. [No Change] 3. A fire alarm system is not required in buildings that do not have interior corridors serving dwelling units, provided that dwelling units either have a means of egress door opening directly to an exterior exit access that leads directly to the exits or are served by open-ended corridors designed in accordance with Section 1026.6, Exception 4, items 4.2 or 4.5.
Matt Gropp, a Denver native, throws up two thumbs as he crosses the finish line.
Full effort for half marathon Commissioners has received a recommendation from the Fire Code Adoption and Revision Commission, and;
WHEREAS, after receiving the recommendations of the Fire Code Adoption and Revision Commission and duly considering the same, the Board of County Commissioners of Douglas County desires to adopt by reference the 2012 International Fire Code (“IFC”) in its entirety, except as modified herein, to protect the safety and welfare of the citizens of Douglas County; and
Section 2. Additions, Insertions, Deletions and Changes. The following sections of the Fire Code are hereby revised as follows:
Subsection 101.1 is amended to read as follows:
Castle Rock event draws hundreds
101.1 Title. These regulations shall be known as the Fire Code of Douglas County, hereinafter referred to as “this code”. 109.4 is amended to read as competed in theSubsection half marathon, and more follows: Subsection 102.5 is amended to read as took part in the 5-mile race Special to Colorado Community Media than 50 more follows: A. The Board of County Commissioners 109.4 a Violation penalties. Persons and rock challenge, grueling run up thewho hereby approves the 2012 IFC, subject to shall violate a provision of this code or 102.5 Application of this code to residenthe Amendments set forth in Attachment 1 shall fail to comply with any of the requireiconic Castle Rock landmark. Hundreds of runners participated in the tial properties and construction. Where and Appendices B and C. ments thereof or who shall erect, install, buildings, structures and portions thereof Mario Macias, a Colorado Springs resifourth annual Castle Rock Half Marathon. alter, repair or perform work in violation of are designed and constructed in accordB. The following properties shall be exthe approved construction documents or dent,Residential won the half marathon a time June more except than 150 ance with the International emptOn from IFC 25, coverage, as runners directive of the fire with code official, or of of a Code, the provisions of this code shall approvided in Subsection 102.5, as permit or certificate used under provisions ply only as follows: amended herein: of this code, shall be subject to fine and/or imprisonment up to the maximum spe1. Provisions of this code pertaining to fire 1. Detached one- or two-family dwellings cified in Section 30-15-402, C.R.S. Each apparatus access roads, water supplies or townhouses; day that a violation continues after due noand fire flow requirements apply to com2. Factory built housing units certified by tice has been served shall be deemed a munity fire protection for residential develthe State of Colorado; separate offense. opments in which four (4) or more new 3. Factory built housing units constructed lots or parcels are created, but shall not to federal standards; Subsection 111.4 is amended to read as apply to individual structures and proper4. Buildings or structures accessory to a follows: ties within those residential developments, dwelling or other allowed private use; or except when specifically required and apused exclusively for private agricultural 111.4 Failure to comply. Any person who proved by the Board of County Commispurposes; and shall continue any work after having been sioners as a condition of the planned de5. Residential developments containing or served with a stop work order, except velopment process. Requirements for fire creating three or fewer lots or parcels. such work as that person is directed to apparatus access roads for new residenperform to remove a violation or unsafe tial development apply per Subsections C. The provisions of the International Fire condition, shall be subject to fine and/or 503.1 and 503.2 as amended herein. WaCode, as adopted herein, and from the imprisonment up to the maximum speter supplies and fire flow requirements for date on which this ordinance shall take efcified in section 30-15-402, C.R.S. new residential development, where adfect, shall be controlling within the limits of equate and reliable water supplies exist the Fire Protection Districts of Castle Section 202 General Definitions and in which four (4) or more new lots or Rock, North Fork, South Metro Fire ResFire Apparatus Access Road- is parcels are created, apply per Subsection cue, Franktown, Jackson 105, Larkspur, amended to read as follows: 507.1, 507.3 and 507.5 as amended Littleton, West Douglas, Mountain Comherein. munities and West Metro Fire Rescue, Fire apparatus access road - Any imalong with the Metropolitan Districts of proved surface, designed or ordinarily 2. Construction permits for fire protection Highlands Ranch, Roxborough Park and used for vehicular travel that provides fire systems and associated equipment in the Castle Pines and those areas of unincorapparatus access, including fire lanes, interior or exterior of the structure, not inporated Douglas County not included withpublic or private streets, and parking lot cluding dwelling unit fire sprinkler sysin a fire protection district. The Fire Code lanes. Fire Apparatus Access Road shall tems installed in accordance with IRC shall be enforced by the chief, commandnot include a private residential driveway Section P2904. er or designated representative of each or a private residential shared driveway as fire protection department or district spedefined herein. 3. Administrative and maintenance provicified in Section 1, or by the Board of sions shall apply. Operational permit reCounty Commissioners in areas not inResidential Driveway – Add new definiquirements shall apply only as follows: cluded within a fire protection district. tion to read as follows: a. Amusement buildings per Subsection 105.6.2. D. Should any section, clause, sentence, Residential Driveway – A vehicular acb. Open burning per Subsection 105.6.30. or part of this Ordinance be adjudged by cess for private use that serves one lot or c. Explosives per Subsection106.6.14. any court of competent jurisdiction to be parcel connecting a house, garage, or othd. Carnivals and fairs per Subsection unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall er allowed use to the public or private 105.6.4. not affect, impair or invalidate the ordinroad. e. LP-gas per Subsection 105.6.27. ance as a whole or any part thereof other f. Temporary membrane structures and than the part so declared to be invalid. Residential Shared Driveway – Add tents greater than 5,000 sq. ft. new definition to read as follows: E. All ordinances and/or resolutions, inA new Subsection 102.13 is enacted to cluding Ordinance No. O-007-002, or Residential Shared Driveway – A vehicuread as follows: parts or ordinances and/or resolutions, lar access for private use that may serve which are inconsistent with the provisions no more than three lots or parcels for the 102.13 Douglas County Regulations. of this ordinance, are hereby repealed, expurpose(s) of ingress and egress to buildWhere any of the provisions of this code cept that this repeal shall not affect or preings structures or other allowed use. are in conflict with any Douglas County vent the prosecution or punishment of any code, standard or other adopted regulaperson for any act done or committed in Subsection 503.1 is amended to read as tion, the Douglas County provisions shall violation of any ordinance hereby refollows: control. The Douglas County Wildfire Mitpealed prior to the effective date of this origation Standards shall govern in lieu of dinance. 503.1 Where required. Fire apparatus acthe International Wildland-Urban Interface cess roads shall be provided and mainCode. References within this code to the ATTACHMENT 1 TO tained in accordance with Sections International Wildland-Urban Interface ORDINANCE NO. O-016-001 503.1.1 through 503.1.3 and the Douglas Code shall not apply. County Roadway Design and ConstrucAmendments to the tion Standards ("the Standards”). Should Subsection 105.7.13 is amended to read 2012 International Fire Code any provision of the fire code conflict with as follows: the Standards, the Standards shall conSection 1. Adoption of the Internationtrol. Where the Standards are silent with 105.7.13 Solar Photovoltaic Power Sysal Fire Code. That certain document, respect to fire apparatus access roads, tems. A building permit is required to inthree (3) copies of which are filed in the the fire code official and the Douglas stall or modify solar photovoltaic power office of the Douglas County Clerk & ReCounty Public Works Engineering Directsystems. Maintenance performed in accorder, being marked and designated as or shall make the final determination as to cordance with the IBC as amended is not the International Fire Code, 2012 edition, whether Sections 503.1.1 through 503.1.3 considered to be a modification and does including Appendix Chapters B and C as of the fire code shall apply. not require a permit. published by the International Code Council and amended by Douglas County, be Subsection 503.2 is amended to read as Subsection 108.1 is amended to read as and is hereby adopted by the Board of follows: follows: County Commissioners as the Douglas 503.2 Specifications. Fire apparatus acCounty Fire Code, regulating and governcess roads shall be designed and in108.1 Board of appeals established. In oring the safeguarding of life and property stalled in accordance with the Douglas der to hear and decide appeals of orders, from fire and explosion hazards arising County Roadway Design and Construcdecisions or determinations made by the from the storage, handling and use of haztion Standards (“the Standards”). Should fire code official relative to the application a r d o u s s u b s t a n c e s , m a te r i a l s a n d any provision of the fire code conflict with and interpretation of this code, there shall devices, and from conditions hazardous to the Standards, the Standards shall conbe created a Regional Fire Code Board of life or property in the occupancy of buildtrol. Where the Standards are silent with Appeals (“board”) by the entry of various ings and premises as herein provided; respect to roads, both public and private, fire districts into an intergovernmental and each and all of the regulations, provithe Douglas County Public Works Enginagreement (“IGA”). The board of appeals sions, penalties, conditions and terms of eering Director shall make the final deshall be appointed through the operation said Fire Code are hereby referred to, adtermination, based on fire code official inof the IGA. The fire code official shall be opted, and made a part hereof, as if fully put. For fire apparatus access roads, othan ex officio member of said board but set out in this ordinance, with the addier than roads, both public and private, shall have no vote on any matter before tions, insertions, deletions and changes Sections 503.2.1 through 503.2.8 of the the board. The board shall adopt rules of prescribed in Section 2 of this Ordinance. fire code shall apply. procedure for conducting its business, and shall render all decisions and findings in Section 2. Additions, Insertions, DeleSubsection 503.4.1 is amended to read writing to the appellant with a duplicate tions and Changes. The following secas follows: copy to the fire code official. The Douglas tions of the Fire Code are hereby revised 503.4.1 Traffic calming devices. During County Board of County Commissioners as follows: design and prior to construction of traffic shall be notified of all appointments made calming devices, fire code official review to the board. Said notification shall be in Subsection 101.1 is amended to read as and comments shall be requested and writing and shall be given within 30 days follows: considered by Douglas County. of said appointment(s). Upon 30 days written notice, the County may elect to 101.1 Title. These regulations shall be Subsection 507.1 Required water supply. withdraw from the use of the board at any known as the Fire Code of Douglas Exceptions are added to read as follows: time and for any reason. County, hereinafter referred to as “this code”. Exceptions: Subsection 109.4 is amended to read as 1. Individual residential lots, parcels and follows: Subsection 102.5 is amended to read as developments legally in existence prior to follows: the adoption of this code. 109.4 Violation penalties. Persons who 2. Developments containing or creating 3 shall violate a provision of this code or 102.5 Application of this code to residenor fewer residential lots or parcels. shall fail to comply with any of the requiretial properties and construction. Where 3. Buildings or structures accessory to a ments thereof or who shall erect, install, buildings, structures and portions thereof dwelling or other allowed private use; or alter, repair or perform work in violation of are designed and constructed in accordused exclusively for private agricultural the approved construction documents or ance with the International Residential purposes. directive of the fire code official, or of a Code, the provisions of this code shall ap4. Developments subject to the Douglas permit or certificate used under provisions ply only as follows: County Standard for Water Supplies for of this code, shall be subject to fine and/or Rural Fire Fighting. imprisonment up to the maximum spe1. Provisions of this code pertaining to fire cified in Section 30-15-402, C.R.S. Each apparatus access roads, water supplies Subsection 507.3 is amended to read day that a violation continues after due noand fire flow requirements apply to comas follows: tice has been served shall be deemed a munity fire protection for residential develseparate offense. opments in which four (4) or more new 507.3 Fire flow. Fire flow requirements for lots or parcels are created, but shall not buildings or portions of buildings and facilSubsection 111.4 is amended to read as apply to individual structures and properities shall be determined in accordance follows: ties within those residential developments, with Appendix B of this code as amended except when specifically required and apor a method approved by the fire code offi111.4 Failure to comply. Any person who proved by the Board of County Commiscial and Douglas County. Where an exist-
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Subsection 605.11 is amended to read as follows:
605.11 Solar photovoltaic power systems. Solar photovoltaic power systems shall be installed in accordance with the International Building Code as amended, the International Residential Code as amended, and NFPA 70.
Subsection 5601.1.3 Fireworks Exception 4 is amended to read as follows:
Exceptions: 1. [No Change] 2. [No Change] 3. [No Change] 4. The possession, storage, sale, handling and use of permissible fireworks as defined by Section 12-28-101, C.R.S.
Subsection 503.4.1 is amended to read as follows: 503.4.1 Traffic calming devices. During design and prior to construction of traffic calming devices, fire code official review Subsection 5704.2.9.6.1 is amended to and comments shall be requested and Subsections 605.11.1 Marking through read as follows: considered just by Douglas 605.11.4 photovoltaic 1:10:30, underCounty. eight minutes overGround his mountedThe winner of the 5-mile race was Ethan arrays, are deleted in their entirety: 5704.2.9.6.1 Locations of above-ground Subsection 507.1 Required water supply. personal record of 1:02:50. Mines. The 18-year-old has been running tanks. Above-ground tanks shall be locExceptions are added to read as follows: Subsection 903.2.7 is amended to read ated in accordance with this section. “I enjoy (running),” he said. “It’s always cross country since he was a freshman. as follows: Exceptions: Subsection 5706.2.4.4 Locations where 1. Individual residential lots, parcels and in903.2.7 good to go out there and stay shape andM. An automatic He wassprinkler on vacation his family from is Group abovewith ground tanks are prohibited, developments legally in existence prior to system shall be provided throughout buildhereby deleted in its entirety. the of this code.yourself, to seeings it’sadoption good to push how fast a Group Florida and decided to do a race while here. containing M occupancy 2. Developments containing or creating 3 where one of the following conditions exSubsection Limitations, and how far you can go. Especially “I honestly don’t know 5806.2 my favorite part is or fewer residential lots or parcels. ist: the older hereby deleted in its entirety. 3. Buildings or structures accessory to a you get, it’s good come of running, but ISubsection run for fitness, for fun and dwelling or other allowedto private use;out or here 1. [Noand Change] 6104.2 Maximum capacity used exclusively for private agricultural 2. [No Change] within established limits, is hereby decompete against runners 15 years younger.” for the glory of God,” Mines said. purposes. 3. [No Change] leted in its entirety. 4. Developments subject to the Douglas 4. A Group M occupancy where the disCounty Standard for Water Supplies for play and/or sales area containing the upAPPENDICES B AND C Rural Fire Fighting. holstered furniture or mattresses exceeds TO ORDINANCE NO. O-016-001 5000 square feet (464 m²). Subsection 507.3 is amended to read Only those appendix chapters of the as follows: Subsection 903.2.9 is amended to read 2012 International Fire Code listed as follows: herein are adopted as follows: 507.3 Fire flow. Fire flow requirements for buildings or portions of buildings and facil903.2.9 Group S-1. An automatic sprinkAPPENDIX B, Fire-Flow Requirements ities shall be determined in accordance ler system shall be provided throughout all for Buildings. with Appendix B of this code as amended buildings containing a Group S-1 occuor a method approved by the fire code offipancy where one of the following condiSubsection B103.3 is amended to read cial and Douglas County. Where an existtions exist: as follows: ing water supply for firefighting is not available within two road miles of the 1. [No Change] B103.3 Areas without water supply sysvehicular entrance of any parcel, the 2. [No Change] tems. In rural and suburban areas in Douglas County Standard for Water Sup3. [No Change] which adequate and reliable water supply plies for Rural Fire Fighting shall apply. 4. [No Change] systems do not exist, the International Fire Residential developments legally in exist5. A Group S-1 fire area used for the storCode as amended shall apply. When ence at the time of the adoption of this age of upholstered furniture or mattresses agreed upon by the fire code official and code are not required to provide minimum exceeds 2,500 square feet (232 m²). the building official, NFPA 1141, NFPA water supplies or upgrade existing water 1142, ISO Fire Suppression Rating supplies to meet this code. Non-residenSubsection 1101.1 is amended to read Schedule or other approved method may tial developments and multifamily developas follows: be utilized to determine fire flow requirements legally in existence at the time of ments. the adoption of this code are not required 1101.1 Scope. Where required by the fire to provide minimum water supplies or upcode official and the building official, the APPENDIX C, Fire-Hydrant Locations grade existing water supplies to meet this provisions of this chapter shall apply to exand Distribution. code, unless there is a change of use or isting buildings constructed prior to this occupancy. Fire flow requirements shall code. Subsection C103.1 is deleted and renot apply to individual residential lots, parplaced as follows: cels or developments listed as exceptions Exceptions: in subsection 507.1. 1. One and two-family dwellings and townC103.1 Fire hydrants available. Where houses. existing water supplies permit, as determSubsection 507.5 is amended to read as ined by the fire code official and building follows: Subsection 1103.2 is amended to read official, the minimum number and distribuas follows: tion of fire hydrants available to a building, 507.5 Fire hydrant systems. Fire hydrant complex, or subdivision shall not be less systems shall comply with Sections 1103.2 Emergency responder radio coverthan that listed in Table C105.1. 507.5.1 through 507.5.6, and Appendix C age in existing buildings. Where required of this code as amended, or the Douglas by the fire code official and the building ofWhere existing water supplies do not perCounty Standard for Water Supplies for ficial, existing buildings that do not have mit, nothing in this section shall be conRural Fire Fighting where applicable. The approved radio coverage for emergency strued so as to require the presence of a following locations shall not be subject to responders within the building based upon minimum number and distribution of fire the standards contained in these Sections the existing coverage levels of the public hydrants as set forth in Table C105.1. and/or Appendix C: safety communications systems of the jurisdiction at the exterior of the building, For the purpose of a complex or subdivi1. Fire apparatus access roads not havshall be equipped with such coverage acsion, fire hydrant number and distribution ing an existing water line, except when a cording to one of the following: requirements in Table C105.1 are to be new water line is installed to serve comapplied to fire apparatus access roads mercial or residential development or to 1. Whenever an existing wired communicand perimeter public streets from which convey water to another location. ation system cannot be repaired or is befire operation could be conducted. 2. Where access to sufficient water flow is ing replaced, or where not approved in acunavailable as determined by the fire code cordance with Section 510.1, Exception 1. Section 3. Applicability and Enforceofficial and the building official. 2. Within a timeframe established by ment: The provisions of the International Douglas County. Fire Code, as modified in Section 2 Subsection 507.5.1 is amended to read Exception: Where it is determined by the herein, and from the date on which this oras follows: fire code official or the building official that dinance shall take effect, shall be conthe radio coverage system is not needed. trolling within the limits of the Fire Protec507.5.1 Where required. Where a portion tion Districts of Castle Rock, North Fork, of the facility or building hereafter conSubsection 1103.7.6 is amended to read South Metro Fire Rescue, Franktown, structed or moved into or within the jurisas follows: Jackson 105, Larkspur, Littleton, West diction is more than 400 feet (122 m) from Douglas, Mountain Communities and a hydrant on a fire apparatus access road, 1103.7.6 Group R-2. A manual and autoWest Metro Fire Rescue, along with the as measured by an approved route matic fire alarm system that activates the Metropolitan Districts of Highlands Ranch, around the exterior of the facility or buildoccupant notification system in accordRoxborough Park and Castle Pines and ing, on-site fire hydrants and mains shall ance with Section 907.6 shall be installed those areas of unincorporated Douglas be provided where required by the fire in existing Group R-2 occupancies more County not included within a fire proteccode official and the building official. than three stories in height or with more tion district. The Fire Code shall be enthan 16 dwelling or sleeping units. forced by the chief, commander or desigExceptions: nated representative of each fire protec1. [No Change] Exceptions: tion department or district specified in 2. [No Change] 1. [No Change] Section 1, or by the Board of County Com2. [No Change] missioners in areas not included within a Subsection 510.1 Emergency respon3. A fire alarm system is not required in fire protection district. der radio coverage in new buildings. buildings that do not have interior corException 4 is added to read as folridors serving dwelling units, provided that Section 4. Repeal of Conflicting Ordinlows: dwelling units either have a means of ances, Resolutions, and Regulations: egress door opening directly to an exteriAll ordinances and/or resolutions or parts Exceptions: or exit access that leads directly to the of ordinances and/or resolutions inconsist1. [No Change] exits or are served by open-ended corent with the provisions of this Ordinance, 2. [No Change] ridors designed in accordance with Secincluding Ordinance No. O-007-002, are 3. [No Change] tion 1026.6, Exception 4, items 4.2 or 4.5. hereby repealed, except that this repeal 4. One and two-family dwellings and townshall not affect or prevent the prosecution houses. Subsection 5601.1.3 Fireworks Excepor punishment of any person for any act tion 4 is amended to read as follows: done or committed in violation of any orSubsection 605.11 is amended to read dinance hereby repealed prior to the efas follows: Exceptions: fective date of this Ordinance. 1. [No Change] 605.11 Solar photovoltaic power systems. 2. [No Change] INTRODUCED, READ AND ADOPTED Solar photovoltaic power systems shall be 3. [No Change] ON FIRST READING on June 14, 2016, installed in accordance with the Interna4. The possession, storage, sale, handand ordered published in the Douglas tional Building Code as amended, the Inling and use of permissible fireworks as County News-Press. ternational Residential Code as amended, defined by Section 12-28-101, C.R.S. and NFPA 70. THE BOARD OF COUNTY Subsection 5704.2.9.6.1 is amended to COMMISSIONERS OF THE Subsections 605.11.1 Marking through read as follows: COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, COLORADO 605.11.4 Ground mounted photovoltaic arrays, are deleted in their entirety: 5704.2.9.6.1 Locations of above-ground BY: David A. Weaver, Chair tanks. Above-ground tanks shall be locATTEST: Subsection 903.2.7 is amended to read ated in accordance with this section. BY: Meghan McCann, Deputy Clerk as follows: Subsection 5706.2.4.4 Locations where ADOPTED ON SECOND AND FINAL 903.2.7 Group M. An automatic sprinkler above ground tanks are prohibited, is READING on July 12, 2016, and ordered system shall be provided throughout buildhereby deleted in its entirety. published by reference to title only in the ings containing a Group M occupancy Douglas County News-Press. where one of the following conditions exSubsection 5806.2 Limitations, is ist: hereby deleted in its entirety. THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY 1. [No Change] Subsection 6104.2 Maximum capacity OF DOUGLAS COLORADO 2. [No Change] within established limits, is hereby de3. [No Change] leted in its entirety. BY: David Weaver, Chair 4. A Group M occupancy where the disATTEST: play and/or sales area containing the upAPPENDICES B AND C BY: Meghan McCann, Deputy Clerk holstered furniture or mattresses exceeds TO ORDINANCE NO. O-016-001 5000 square feet (464 m²). Legal Notice No: 929331 Only those appendix chapters of the First Publication: June 30, 2016 Subsection 903.2.9 is amended to read 2012 International Fire Code listed Last Publication: June 30, 2016 as follows: herein are adopted as follows: Publisher: Douglas County News-Press 903.2.9 Group S-1. An automatic sprinkAPPENDIX B, Fire-Flow Requirements ler system shall be provided throughout all for Buildings. buildings containing a Group S-1 occupancy where one of the following condiSubsection B103.3 is amended to read
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