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Gunshot detectors will be in place this summer
BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLOROADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMAlthough residents at the top and bottom of Lookout Mountain Road had hoped so, the planned overnight closure gateswon’t be installed before summer.
In a recent email to interested community members, Je erson County Open Space con rmed the gates are scheduled to be installed around Nov. 11, weather permitting. is winter, Open Space and its partner agencies hosted public meetings about closing a 4-mile stretch of Lookout Mountain Road that crosses Je co and Denver parklands. e gates would close the road after park hours to help curb illegal gun re, vandalism, drinking, littering and other problem behaviors. No residences would be impacted. e Board of County Commissioners, the Sheri ’s O ce, the City of
Golden, local re districts and other partners support the plan.
Dozens of residents at the top and bottom of Lookout Mountain Road also want the gates installed. In February, they asked o cials to expedite the process and install automated gates before summer, emphasizing concerns about gun re and other illegal activity on the mountain.
“Waiting for next winter for implementation is not acceptable,” Beverly Heights resident Julie Clark wrote. “ … I fear that someone may be injured by an errant bullet. e longer o cials wait to install (the gates), the greater likelihood that this fear may become reality.”
Even at a public meeting last December, Open Space projected installation wouldn’t be until late 2024.
Mary Ann Bonnell, visitor services & natural resources director, explained how the project scope includes building turnaround sites outside the new gates, installing the gates themselves, and running electricity to them as they can’t run o solar power alone.
As a steward of public dollars, she said Je co must have a “fair and
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transparent process” in bidding for contractors and hiring one for the project. Plus, after the recent snowstorms and windstorm, she said Xcel Energy has a long queue of projects to complete before helping Je co with the gates.
“I look at it as: ‘I’ve been waiting for this (project) for 10 years; I can wait a few more months,’” Bonnell continued.
In the February letters to Je co ofcials, residents’ greatest concern by far was illegal gun re along Lookout Mountain Road.
Several said they’ve found bullets on their properties, with one resident saying his camper — which was parked 15 feet from where his children sleep — was hit by a bullet.
She explained how the gunshot detection contract had a six- or sevenmonth lead on the gate installation, and thus will be completed rst. e gunshot detectors are a partnership
with the Sheri ’s O ce and will allow deputies to respond to the area faster, Bonnell explained, adding, “It’s another part of managing that mountain in a much safer and more thoughtful way.”
Although the gates won’t be installed until late fall, Bonnell con rmed Open Space is installing gunshot detectors in the area this summer. She hoped they would be in place by mid-June.
Regarding installing temporary barriers to help curb issues this summer, Bonnell said that wouldn’t be feasible. Open Space has put up temporary barriers before, but people just move or disregard them. It also creates safety risks for anyone trying to leave the barricaded area.
Unfortunately, she continued, there isn’t an interim solution. e gates are the only reasonable way to prevent people from accessing the park after hours, but they won’t be ready until fall, Bonnell said.
Over the last 20 years, I have listed many homes on the MLS, and when doing so it’s important to list the energy and water-saving appliances of the home in the MLS. Advertising a “high efficiency washer and dryer” became more and more common.
But now there are three generations of high efficiency that I can think of.
20 years ago, high efficiency meant front-loading. This reduced the amount of water needed compared to the old top-loading washers. New detergents were introduced for them.
Then, unexpectedly, a top-loading machine with no agitator took the title. Who knew that you could clean clothes that way? The washing machine saved water because it sensed the amount of clothes in the machine and adjusted the water use accordingly.
But what about the clothes dryer? Over the years you really could only choose between gas dryers and electric dryers, although I loved to point out the “solar dryer” in the backyard — a clothesline for drying clothes outdoors.
Meanwhile, it has always bothered me
how much hot air a dryer exhausts to the outdoors in the dead of winter instead of using that heat inside the house. An analog solution to that is the indoor lint trap. It is filled with water which traps the lint, and the warm air is exhausted into the room. The device is typically used when a vent to the exterior of the house is unavailable, but you might choose to use one because you want to capture the dryer’s heat instead of sending it outdoors. Remember, too, that the air which your home exhausts must be replaced by outside air coming in through cracks, bathroom/kitchen exhaust piping, etc. So you are not only losing that heat in the winter, you are drawing in cold air from outside. There are multiple solutions to this dilemma. In addition to using the lint trap described above (in which case you’ll want to seal the exhaust pipe to outdoors), you can replace your existing dryer with what’s called a condensing dryer, typically using a heat pump instead of gas or traditional resistancebased electrical heating.
A condensing dryer has the ability to keep the heat within your house through
Before putting your home on the market, there are things you can do, not only to help it show better, but to prepare it for the inevitable buyer inspection.
My friends at Alpine Building Performance, LLC, offer this short checklist:
Gather maintenance records, receipts and service manuals
Replace inoperable light bulbs
Change furnace filter if dirty and vacuum the cabinet which holds the filter
Clean the home
Ensure smoke detectors & carbon monoxide detectors are in place and operable
Clean roof gutters
Check for plumbing leaks and water damage
When the time comes to show your home, here are some basic staging principles to adopt.
Clear kitchen counters of all but essential items, including small appliances
Remove all refrigerator magnets, etc.
Thin all storage cabinets and areas, including closets, preferably to half full.
Hire a listing firm like us that provides a free staging consultation Broker associate David Dlugasch, 303908-4835, is a certified staging consultant. I hire him to provide that free consultation to my sellers. Call him for “free advice.”
The manufacture of cement, the binding component for concrete, is reportedly responsible for 8% of the earth’s carbon dioxide emissions, the main contributor to climate change. Next month, a company in California will begin shipping bags of cement which were manufactured creating 10% less CO2 emissions.
An Associated Press article on April 11 reported on Fortera’s innovation, which “intercepts carbon dioxide exhaust from the kilns where cement is made and routes it back in to make additional cement,” according to the article, for which I provided a link on our blog, http://RealEstateToday.substack.com
According to the article, “Initially Fortera will produce enough to mix with about one-fifth of CalPortland’s product in a blend that reduces carbon by about 10%. [Fortera CEO Ryan] Gilliam said there is a strong demand for higher blends that reduce carbon by 40-50%, and for a pure product the company makes, which has 70% lower carbon.”
Because Fortera’s technology can be applied to every cement factory on the planet and uses the same material the industry already uses, they claim their technology is an economically competitive option to quickly reduce carbon emissions that are warming the planet.
internal processing. It’s also called a ventless dryer. Google it to learn more and to see where you can buy them (everywhere) and what they cost.
Heat pump dryers use less electricity than conventional dryers because they use an evaporator to remove the moisture and then recycle the warm air so they don't have to heat the ambient air again.
Because a heat pump dryer is ductless, you don’t have to worry about lint buildup in the vent pipe, which could lead to a fire. There are 13,000 household fires caused by clothes dryers every year in the U.S.
Because heat pump dryers are ductless, they can be installed in any room. Perhaps you’d like to have one in your walk-in closet or ensuite bathroom.
A secondary benefit is that because heat pump dryers operate at a lower temperature, your clothes will last longer.
If you want to save space and don’t like stackable washers/dryers, you can buy an all-in-one machine that does both.
TheCoolDown.com offers other suggestions for saving energy and water, and reducing your personal carbon footprint. The single biggest savings is by using cold water unless absolutely necessary.
Also, dryer sheets and fabric softeners, they say, work by adding petroleumbased chemicals to your clothing, which can cause eczema. Dryer balls are a onetime purchase that work better. (We use them.)
We buy detergent in gallon-size plastic jugs, but they suggest buying powder instead since it’s questionable whether that jug, made from petroleum, will be recycled, even if you put it in the your recycling cart.
This article and the one below appeared in last week’s Denver Post column.
You’d be amazed how many older building materials included asbestos. If you disturb asbestos, making it airborne, you endanger the health of yourself, your workers and your children.
Because asbestos doesn’t burn, it was used to wrap pipes and ductwork in older homes, and in other less obvious materials. If your home has popcorn ceilings which you want to remove, you should definitely test for asbestos first.
Asbestos is also present in older adhesives used with vinyl flooring. Older gas fireplaces had inserts made of asbestos. It is also found in older roof shin-
gles and siding, in certain Chinese drywall boards, in vermiculite insulation, and in some ceiling tiles.
Although asbestos materials are safe when left alone, disturbing them can be hazardous. See my post of this at http:// RealEstateToday.substack.com for useful links on this topic.
Over the past two decades this column has appeared in the Denver Post, and during that time I’ve written about every conceivable topic related to real estate, You can find and search that archive online at www.JimSmithColumns.com
Nearly 25 years after a mass shooting plunged Columbine High School into the national consciousness, a former principal and two current teachers sat down for interviews with news reporters ahead of the tragedy’s anniversary.
Media Day, organized by the Jefferson County School District as a way to shield teachers and students from a barrage of reporters, o ered them a chance to re ect on where journalists went wrong in covering the shooting.
One frustration that still sticks in their minds: News coverage can amplify rumors and misinformation, including the narrative that the two students committed the shooting because they were bullied.
“I think a lot of times, the narrative that was given was not accurate,” said Frank DeAngelis, who served as Columbine’s principal at the time. “And unfortunately, 25 years later, that narrative is still out there.”
In the years since the attack, few events have stopped America in its tracks like that day.
e intervening years have seen school gun incidents on the rise and, in turn, a rise in the frequency in which such events are covered in the news media. And while mass school shootings haven’t necessarily become more common, they’ve taken on a higher death toll.
e way that media covers traumatic events has been debated by readers, scholars and journalists alike, but a few lessons have become clear, as highlighted by those who study coverage of shootings and by those in the Columbine community like DeAngelis: Don’t make the shooters into legends. Don’t unwittingly inspire future killings. Don’t turn the tragedy into myth and misinformation.
mass shootings, and survivors and those impacted indirectly have been retraumatized.
Unfettered access to news at America’s ngertips through smartphones “can make it so that when everything feels dramatic, nothing is dramatic,” Skewes said.
“Any mass shooting is awful,” she said. “Unfortunately, we have so many that they have become almost routine.”
Shooters in the years after the 1999 attack emulated the Columbine killers. University of Connecticut assistant professor Amanda Crawford said that is partly because reporters, whether they meant to or not, glori ed the killers. She said journalists should avoid that.
“You can’t underestimate the impact of that news coverage — of that media attention — on our larger ideas about mass shootings, about school shootings, about youth perpetrators, about this ongoing mass shooting crisis,” Crawford said.
Covering the Columbine shooting e Columbine attack remains a singular event in the canon of mass shootings in the United States, due to a number of factors: the advent of 24-hour news, police protocols of the time period and news coverage that sensationalized the shooters, Skewes said.
“Columbine was really the rst televised mass shooting,” Skewes said, adding: “I think a lot of journalists didn’t quite know what to do, even though there had been other mass shootings to some degree.”
Skewes added that the police protocol of the time was to assume criminals take hostages and wait, meaning that news outlets had time to mobilize to the scene but lacked concrete information — leading to rampant speculation.
ty from 2008 to 2022, now the chief operating o cer for the Council on School Safety Leadership, said the rush to get information out led to the dissemination of faulty narratives, such as incorrect theories about the killer’s backgrounds, becoming widespread.
“ e other problem with Columbine is the facts and circumstances surrounding it and the narrative out of the media was so di erent from the truth because everybody was trying to make sense of the unimaginable,” he said.
listened to was telling you something di erent. It was one person or two shooters, or many shooters and the body count was three, eight, whatever. Everything was all over the place.”
Graphic images circulated widely, while cell phones enabled a urry of calls to local stations from people promising information to journalists who needed to ll airtime and newspaper pages. at included callers who told TV news stations they were on campus as the incident unfolded, according to a case study by Alicia Shepard, who wrote for the American Journalism Review. One caller who had claimed to be a student at the school turned out to have called from Utah, where he was a 25-year-old snowboarder.
University of Colorado Boulder professor Elizabeth Skewes, a media scholar, posits that people have become desensitized to news of
“ is unfolded over hours,” Skewes said. “News organizations could be there to see it unfold and to photograph it as it unfolded too … ere was so much misinformation initially.”
John McDonald, formerly executive director of Je co School Securi-
Tom Fildey, who was a senior at Evergreen High School and a photojournalism intern at Evergreen Newspapers — which published the Columbine Courier, the area’s local paper, at the time — said that while he rushed to cover the attack, radio stations provided spotty information.
“I raced down the hill, listening to the radio the whole way,” said Fildey, who now works in the production department in our newsroom, which produces two dozen metro area newspapers, including the Littleton Independent. “No information was really becoming available; every station you
ings were reported “breathlessly” without being properly fact-checked, Skewes said.
In the days and weeks following the shooting, some of the coverage turned toward the shooters — the cover of Time magazine shortly after the massacre and the corresponding spread centered the perpetrators, not the victims.
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As to whether the sheri ’s O ce and its partners plan to increase patrols on Lookout Mountain Road this summer, spokesperson Jacki
Kelley said deputies will continue to respond to any calls there and proactively patrol the area when possible. However, she said Lookout Mountain is only one of several high-crime areas the Sheri ’s O ce is addressing, along with its usual call volume.
Kelley con rmed, though, that law enforcement will close Lookout Mountain Road on the Fourth of July as it has for the past 20-plus
years. Although the City of Golden isn’t doing Independence Day reworks this year, Kelley said Lookout Mountain Road is a “landing spot” for people who want to see reworks all over the metro area, which unfortunately leads to crime on the mountain.
Bonnell hoped that merely getting the word out, especially about the forthcoming gunshot detectors, would motivate people to not visit Lookout Mountain Road after hours and “hold themselves accountable this summer.”
Although she recognized many residents won’t like the November timeline, Bonnell said the project wouldn’t have been possible without their support, adding, “It’s made all the di erence in the world.”
Dance company Flamenco Vivo performed “Fronteras” for a packed opening matinee on April 17 at the Lakewood Cultural Center. e show’s theme was boundaries, but the illusions to the COVID-19 pandemic experience were undeniable.
According to the Flamenco Vivo company’s founder Carlota Santana, the connections to the pandemic are not a coincidence.
“ e choreographers started (“Fronteras”) during COVID,” Santana said. “Folklore” is de ned by the American Folklore Society as “cultural DNA.”
“It includes the traditional art, stories, knowledge, and practices of a people,” the American Folklore Society wrote on its webpage.
e Fronteras show explores those exact themes in a lively and sometimes moving performance.
“ e artists are boxed in,” Santana explained. “And the question is, how do people relate to each other in this kind of boxed-in atmosphere, this boxedin world? Do they ght, do they get along?”
e cast uses props to bring this internal struggle out onto the stage.
e characters are performed by dancers Emilio Ochando, Fanny Ara, Adrian Dominguez, Lorena Franco, Ricardo Moro and Rebeca Tomas.
“ ere’s a fan and there are castanets and there’s the amenco shawls and amenco hat,” Santana added. “ ey switch them back and forth. ey trade and sometimes they trade happily, and sometimes they’re angry at each other. So, you can watch that happen and watch how they develop.”
e company’s performance of a boxed-in theme hails back the to COVID-19lockdown when the world was boxed-in. After months of exploring new hobbies and rediscovering talents, people were released into the world. Boundaries once again became a dilemma. It’s also explored in “Frontera.”
e show introduced the audience to each character individually before pairing them with one of the objects. e process symbolizes nding one’s own talent or skill. e songs sung during each discovery are soulful Spanish
ever, there are still some adjustments to overcome. is is another way that “Fronteras” places the COVID-19 pandemic into the realm of folklore.
“While folklore can be bound up in memory and histories, folklore is also tied to vibrant living traditions and creative expression today,” Santana said. “Folklore adapts, and folklore endures.” e show raises one of the world’s most recent worldwide events and the psychological aftermath to the level of folklore through its performance.
For example, Emilio Ochando performed a solo dance with castanets to the song “Mas Que Manos” which translates to “More than Hands.” His character slowly discovers the percussive sound of the handheld instruments before playfully matching them to movement. By the end of the dance, Ochando’s moves, and the castanets’ sound are in sync for a uid sound and movement blend.
Each character interacts with the props in this way, with a few words and some sounds of surprise and laughter.
The Flamenco Vivo company was swarmed in the lobby of the Lakewood Cultural Center after a matinee performance of “Fronteras”. The show ended with and extended standing ovation that lasted until the company was o stage, only ensign when the theater lights went up.
edge to make new more magical movements and visuals.
A hint is that everyone fades into one being when the light comes on.
COVID-19 is never mentioned, but audience members will get the symbolism alluding to the pandemic. e themes also work to conjure memories of being locked down, even though the words are never spoken. Instead, a dance, props and song are all that’s needed to recreate the historic event.
at’s folklore, and Flamenco Vivo successfully executes that in a performance that garnered an extended standing ovation in a packed house, during a Lakewood Cultural Center’s matinee showing.
“Fronteras” was choreographed by Jose Maldonado and Karen Lugo. Music director Jose Luis de La Paz created the original score for the show. Carlota Santana and Emilio Ochando are artistic directors for the Flamenco Vivo company.
For more information, go to FlamencoVivo.org.
Gov. Jared Polis recently announced a collaboration with Google.org and the nonpro t Rewiring America. ey launched a tool to help Coloradans calculate their energy savings, the Colorado Energy E ciency Upgrade Savings Calculator. e tool is funded by a $5 million grant from Google.org. “With this new tool, Coloradans can easily access discounts on heat pumps, electric vehicles, solar power and more. ese clean energy upgrades save Coloradans money, potentially thousands of dollars, and will help Colorado achieve our climate goals to help future generations,” said Gov. Polis.
e calculator was created to help families calculate their savings from upgrading to a more energy-e cient
lifestyle. ose savings come from the many incentives and credits available from federal, state and local sources, according to the governor’s press release announcing the project.
“Tens of thousands of dollars in local, state, utility, and federal incentives make these zero-emission technologies more a ordable and accessible,” said Colorado Energy O ce Executive Director Will Toor. “ is easy-to-use tool will help Coloradans maximize these incentives to pay the lowest possible cost for home energy upgrades, which reduce pollution and save them money on utility costs.” e calculator was the brainchild of the nonpro t Rewiring America and the Google.org Fellows. Rewiring America is an organization that promotes electrifying communities.
“All of the focus was on the shooters,” Skewes said. And “then I think as the days unfolded, there was such an attempt to explain the actions of (the shooters) by who they were — they were goth, they were trench coats, they were this, they were that — and they were none of it.”
e portrayal of the shooters as victims of bullying, ampli ed by news coverage, may have helped inspire more killings. In his manifesto, the 2007 Virginia Tech shooter referred to the Columbine killers as martyrs.
“Shooters and attempted school shooters followed the Columbine model, so it created this social script,” said Crawford, the assistant journalism professor.
“Of the 12 documented school
rampage shootings in the United States between Columbine in 1999 and the end of 2007, eight (66.7%) of the rampagers directly referred to Columbine,” Ralph Larkin of the City University of New York wrote in a 2009 study.
And of the 11 rampage shootings outside the U.S. in that time, six had direct references to the Columbine shooting, the study says.
News outlets like the Rocky Mountain News and Washington Post wrote about bullying, or a culture of mistreatment, at Columbine as a motivation for the shooting. But mental health experts from an FBI summit focused on the conclusion that one of the shooters was a psychopath, according to Dave Cullen, who wrote the book “Columbine,” an examination of the shooting. DeAngelis, Columbine’s former principal, said he viewed the socalled “basement tapes” — home videos made by the shooters —
and said they talked about being “superior.”
“The reality is that lots of people are bullied who don’t commit a mass murder, so that’s not a real answer as to why the shooting happened, right?” Crawford said.
Mass shootings by the numbers
The history of modern mass school shootings in the U.S. stretches back at least to the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting, and a number of school shootings occurred in the 1990s before Columbine.
“But Columbine was really the incident that brought this phenomenon into the public consciousness,” Crawford said.
And the way news media covered the Columbine shooting likely fueled imitators.
“A lot of these shooters are trying to become famous. For instance, even with the Las Vegas shooter, the FBI found no motive
for the shooting other than a quest for infamy,” Crawford said. “Why do they think mass shootings make you famous in the media? Because it made the Columbine gunmen famous in the media.”
U.S. school gun incidents have become more frequent in the past 25 years and are now at their highest recorded levels — and school mass shootings, although not necessarily increasing in frequency, have become more deadly, according to a March 2024 study in the journal Pediatrics.
An initiative called The Violence Project, with support from the U.S. Department of Justice, created a database of mass shootings from 1966 to 2019. Some main takeaways include:
• The database spanned more than 50 years, yet 20% of the 167 mass shootings in that period occurred in the last five years.
Members and supporters of the Je erson County transgender community are praising the school board for the second time in two months for its support of the district’s transgender student policy. e policy protects students from genderidentity-based discrimination and directs sta to use a student’s preferred name regardless of whether their name has legally changed. e community’s show of support comes amid calls from two organizations, Gays Against Groomers and the Alliance Defending Freedom, to rescind or change the policy.
e policy also allows for case-bycase consideration of the sleeping arrangements of transgender students attending overnight activities or athletic trips with the goals of “maximizing the student’s social integration, providing equal opportunity to participate in overnight activity and athletic trips, ensuring the student’s safety and comfort, and minimizing stigmatization of the student.”
Richard Guggenheim of the Gays Against Groomers Colorado Chapter issued a press release last month calling for “all media and concerned parents to make their voices heard to bring an end to these abusive policies” during an organized rally outside the school board meeting.
According to Guggenheim, the policy “manipulates federal law to create unsafe spaces for students under the guise of LGBTQIA+ ‘rights.’”
e March rally was postponed until April after a snowstorm caused the board to switch to a virtual meeting.
Attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom representing the parents of a Je erson County female student assigned to room with a transgender classmate during a summer trip to Washington D.C. sent a demand letter to the district in December asking for immediate clari cation on whether district parents will receive noti cation regarding the sex of their children’s assigned roommates before the trip and if they can “opt their children out of any policy that rooms children by gender identity rather than sex.”
According to reporting by e Denver Post and other media outlets, a private travel organization made the room assignments, and the district claims it didn’t know about the student’s transgender status at the time.
Despite the attention brought to the policy by the lawsuit and Gays Against Groomers, April’s rally only gathered around 10-15 protestors, according to Morgan Richards from Wheat Ridge for Equity. She also said an equal number of people gathered in support of the district’s policies for trans students.
“To the people here to argue against board doc JBR (the transgender student policy), I’m sorry that my son is nothing more to you than a political pawn in some game of morality that you’re playing that seeks to erase his existence,” said Nicole, who didn’t give her last name when speaking to the board.
“School board, thank you for prioritizing the rights and the life of my young son,” she continued. “ ank you for caring more about his right to an education than making your job easier. ank you for doing the work we know is necessary to protect the lives of a group of students all too prone to suicidal ideation.”
Zephyr James Orr, a parent of two Je erson County students and a representative of Wild Child Parenting, where he works with LGBTQ youth, also urged the board to keep the policy intact and to consider increasing sta training around protections for trans kids in the face of such attacks.
“Removing protections from trans youth does not erase trans people. It simply puts this vulnerable population at higher risk and undermines Je Co’s mission of preparing all students for bright and successful futures,” Orr said.
e school district did not respond to a request for comment regarding attacks against its transgender student policy.
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• e death toll has risen sharply, particularly in the last decade. In the 1970s, mass shootings claimed an average of eight lives per year. From 2010 to 2019, the end of the study period, the average was up to 51 deaths per year.
Of mass shootings in the database, about 8% occurred at a K-12 school, with about 5% happening at a college or university.
The impact of covering mass shootings e advent of smartphones has made it so that large numbers of people are noti ed when a mass shooting happens — whether it directly impacts them or not. But the rushed-out, breaking stories aren’t always the best versions of the stories. And, though news organizations have learned lessons since Columbine, initial accounts of stories can still be wrong, or triggering.
“I think slower journalism is better journalism,” Skewes said. “I teach at CU and if I get an alert on my phone that says ‘Something is happening on campus, you need to lock down’ and I’m on campus, that’s helpful information because then I know it’s a safety issue.
“But if I get an alert on my phone that is about something at (another CU campus), I can’t do anything about it,” Skewes continued. “All I can do is worry and speculate.
Skewes said she would instead prefer well-vetted information about what happened that a reporter has taken their time to discern and fact-check.
She also discussed the impact that the Columbine shooting and the mass shootings that have occurred in the wake of it may have had in creating more such events.
“ ere’s two things they talk about in the literature: One is the contagion e ect and the other is the copycat e ect,” Skewes said.
Skewes said the “contagion e ect” is the noticeable increase in mass shootings in the wake of a prominent one — “a ripple e ect, if you will,” she said.
Copycat e ects typically refer to imitation of a person’s behavior, while contagion is based on the idea that behaviors can “go viral” and spread through society like diseases, according to an article in the journal American Behavioral Scientist. McDonald said the fascination with the Columbine shooting still follows the school around, 25 years later.
“Every media story about a school shooting is a Columbine-style shooting,” McDonald said. “So, we have struggled for years to try and get o the radar and it’s a big lift. ey still come from around the world, they want to come to the school, it’s a place of fascination for people and all we want to do is educate kids.”
Less emphasis on perpetrators
At Media Day by the Je erson County School District in early April, Je Garkow, a Columbine social studies teacher who was a student at the school from 2002 to 2006, said it seems like there’s less emphasis on perpetrators in media coverage of school shootings now,
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If you are old enough you grow to realize that most everything in life ebbs and ows. Markets of all sorts rise and fall. Teams that were winners one season can be losers the next. It is the same in politics. Back in 1937 after Roosevelt’s reelection landslide, there were 105 Republicans in total in both houses of the United States Congress. Republicans were in a super minority status. ey barely had 20 percent of all the seats. Ten years later they were in a majority for the 80th Congress. Fortunes rise and fortunes wane.
What happened from 1937-1947 was that some dedicated action on the part of volunteers and donors occurred to turn the tide. It was intelligent action that persuaded others to help the GOP gain a majority in Congress to push good policy. It did not happen overnight, but happen it did. When I wrote the rst draft of this column out last week, my intention was to state that I have every belief that the Colorado GOP will rise again and gain seats.
After Saturday’s State Convention in Pueblo I cannot say that honestly
JOE WEBB
What does it mean to be a true ally? Like many people, Denver playwright Je rey Neuman found himself pondering this question following the 2020 murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter movement.
“I always thought of myself as a really strong ally, but I began to wonder what does true allyship mean and look like,” Neuman said. “I started thinking about how I could tell a story about this and kept feeling the pull of Greek mythology. When you’re thinking about white saviors, what white saviors are more problematic than the Greek gods?” at’s how Neuman came to write “ e Road to Lethe,” which makes its world premiere on Friday, April 26 at the Benchmark eatre, 1560 Teller St. in Lakewood. e show
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or keep a straight face being optimistic about the future of limited government in Colorado.
e Republicans in the 1930s and 1940s were intelligent and dedicated about getting out of the minority. If today’s Colorado GOP is intelligent about getting out of the minority, as a rst step they should avoid ejecting reporters from their conventions.
Many think the mainstream media has bias and there are ample amounts of tangible evidence in that regard. But if you have nothing to hide then you certainly do not get sheri ’s deputies to eject a reporter from the Colorado Sun who is reporting. is should be common sense. It was for me. I let MSNBC into one of my assemblies and did not bother them. Nothing bad happened. It is an unsavory image ejecting someone that gives rise to the worst thoughts in those who read
about it. Among those thoughts are thinking the worst about Republican or conservative candidates.
It was thinking the worst about Republicans that led to the beginning of this little column. I wrote a letter to the then-editor of the Columbine Courier, Michael Hicks about the shooting at the Capitol Baseball Game in 2017 that wounded Steve Scalise. Michael invited me to write for the Canyon and Columbine Courier after we met. It has been an enjoyable and interesting experience.
is is my last column. For a few reasons, I need to turn the page on a few chapters in my life. I have enjoyed it immensely. When I was rst asked to write, the best advice I received was from my great friend Joy Ho man. She told me to keep it positive and I think I have. My reason for soft selling was that I wanted those who read me to see conservatives as people rather than the harsh unfeeling troglodytes that some would make us believe we are. I got personal and shared stu with the readers because conservatives have hard times too. We care about
our communities and our neighbors. We wish to make them model places in which to live. We are real people.
I ended my rst column by paraphrasing former Speaker Paul Ryan’s quote about conservatives and Republicans. Here is something that I would like for everyone to remember about conservatives and Republicans. We are young, old and in-between. We have all sorts of religious beliefs and some of us have none at all. We are male and female. We encompass every sociological de nition imaginable. We are your friends, coworkers and neighbors. You know us. We are Americans just like you and we have a right and duty to in uence the future of our country. We do this because we want what is best not just for ourselves and those we love, but everyone in our community. anks for listening to me, Je co. ank you Colorado Community Media (support it!) and thank you to editor Kristen Fiore.
Joe Webb is the former chairman of the Je co Republican party.
runs through Saturday, May 18, with performances at 8 p.m. on ursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.
Directed by Betty Hart and featuring Arthur McFarlane III, eden origin, Jennifer Condreay, Christine Kahane and Barbara Porreca, the show is based on “ e Judgement of Paris,” also known as “ e Golden Apple,” a famous story in Greek mythology, but given a contemporary twist. It follows what happens when a mysterious Amazon package arrives at the home of three white women and they hire a black man to assemble what’s in-
side.
Audiences don’t need to be familiar with the myth to connect to the story, which explores issues of systemic racism and white saviorism in a thoughtful and challenging way. And while it may sound very heady and heavy, there is also humor and a tender heart beating beneath it all.
“What theater does so powerfully is allows audiences to go on a journey and move their perspective from seeing someone as ‘the other’ to putting them in the actor’s shoes,” Hart said. “ eater is an amazing tool for sparking increased empathy, which audiences are able to feel viscerally, instead of just intellectually.”
Watching a play he’s written come to life for the rst time is a profound experience for Neuman and he enjoys being part of the collaborative
process, while at the same time giving the director, actors and designers plenty of room to create as they see t.
“Every single production of your play is going to look and feel different,” he said. “ ere’s something alchemical about the theatrical collaboration process. I’m creating a blueprint for a structure that may not look how I thought it would in the end.”
One of Hart’s favorite things about theater is its ability to create and foster conversations, and she believes “ e Road to Lethe” will leave audiences with plenty to discuss.
“I want people to have conversations about how ordinary interactions can be much more than what they seem on the surface.
I also hope they think about language and how we treat each other,” she said. “I think this show really wants us to get together by showing how far apart we currently are.”
For information and tickets, visit www.benchmarktheatre.com/.
JCC Denver hosts Queer Seder
e holiday of Passover is one of the most important events on the Jewish calendar, one that brings people together to celebrate the Jewish people’s escape from Egypt. e Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center, 350 S. Dahlia St. in Denver, is using the holiday as an opportunity to bring in even more of the community with a Queer Seder from 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 28.
According to the provided information, the seder will be led by local Rabbis and LGBTQIA+ leadership, and will feature “a mix of Passover traditions and relevant readings, songs and prayers to celebrate our LGBTQIA+ community.”
Get tickets at https://www.jccdenver.org/portfolio-items/queer_seder/.
Comedy fans ‘Can’t’ miss Daniel Sloss in Denver
In my estimation, real comedy legends do more than just chase
According to the governor’s announcement, the Google.org Fellows are a team of engineers, program managers, and other IT experts who work on pro bono projects. “Collaborating with Rewiring America enabled our Google.org Fellows to support the creation of a cross-country impact by helping American households take advantage of these new electri cation incentives,” said Bhavna Chhabra, senior director of software engineering and Google’s Boulder o ce lead. “It’s a great example of how advanced technology, like AI, can be leveraged in a bold and responsible way. As a Coloradan, I’m proud that our state is leading on climate solutions at the household level.”
punchline after punchline. Scotland’s Daniel Sloss is one of the best out there right now because not only can he have you in hysterics, but he’s also interested in humanity and connection. His specials — like “Dark” and “SOCiO” — are true examples of how great modern comedy can be.
Sloss is bringing his latest show, “Can’t,” to the Paramount eatre, 1621 Glenarm Place in Denver, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1. Buy tickets at www.ticketmaster.com.
Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at Mission Ballroom
Not many musicians can deliver searing wordsmithing and true classic rock musical chops album after album, but Alabama’s Jason Isbell has an uncanny ability to do this with almost every release. Last year he and his band, the 400 Unit, released “Weathervanes,” one of 2023’s best albums, full of storytelling that both moves and invigorates. In support of the album, Isbell and the 400 Unit will be stopping by the Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St. in Denver, at 7:30 p.m. on ursday, May 2. A venue of this size is a great place to see someone like Isbell, so purchase tickets at www.axs. com.
Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@hotmail. com.
e savings calculator also has language translation capabilities and is designed to be easy to operate. e collaborators hope that the tool helps households reduce their climate impact without economic compromises.
“We’re thrilled to launch this new tool in a state that is truly leading the way on residential electri cation, thanks to Gov. Polis’ leadership and the e ort of so many advocates,” said Ari Matusiak, CEO of Rewiring America. “We look forward to continuing to work in partnership to make these important home upgrades more a ordable and accessible to all. With this calculator, households in Colorado are only a few clicks away from the next steps on their electri cation journey.”
To access the calculator, go to https://homes.rewiringamerica. org/calculator.
Last week, our newsroom released the rst part of our two-week series “How Columbine changed us.” It looks back on the 25 years since the tragic shooting at Columbine High School, where two armed students took the lives of 13 people before ending their own. e narrative often repeated in the media focuses on the killers and victims, but, as we reported in week one, it overlooks Columbine’s journey of re-
covery, resilience and triumph. In week two, we touch on the issues of safety in “How Columbine changed response.” In the aftermath of Columbine, schools across the country have increased security measures. ese include classroom doors that lock from the inside, single-point entry systems, security cameras, metal detectors, scanners and drills. And, rst responders have changed how they communicate.
Our biggest nding is that the de ning aspect of Columbine is not the shooting, but the response of the community. It is the indomitable spirit that has emerged and evolved at the school and surrounding area since 1999. is spirit is evident in the school’s Day of Service, held every April 20, the anniversary of the shooting. As teacher Mandy Cooke, a survivor of the 1999 incident, puts it, “We have turned that day into some-
thing so positive… making sure that our current students know how to be better humans in the world, instead of this awful, tragic thing that happened to us.” us, inclusive school culture is perhaps the most critical way Columbine changed us.
View the whole project online at coloradocommunitymedia.com/ columbine-at-25.
– Michael de Yoanna and Kristen Fiore, editors
BY HALEY LENA AND SUZIE GLASSMAN
Today, it’s common across the country for children as young as 4 and 5 to participate in active-shooter drills and shelter-in-place lockdowns about as often as they take standardized tests. at includes the Je erson County School District, where Columbine High School resides.
e Columbine of today has classroom doors that lock from the inside and a single-point entry for students, sta and visitors. It’s equipped with many visible and invisible ways to prevent and/or limit the impact of a mass-scale emergency, a kind that had not been on the national radar before the mass shooting.
While many people may believe school security is about physical barriers and policing threats, those working in the building today, including principal Scott Christy and social studies teachers Sam Bowersox and Je Garkow, say safety at Columbine is also about culture. As a result, the sum of those safety measures is far greater than the parts.
“Kids can’t learn if they don’t feel safe, and teachers can’t teach if they don’t feel safe. And so it’s everything. It’s incredibly important,” said Christy. “I think Columbine is the safest school in the world. My hope is that sta and students don’t think about what happened 25 years ago. ey see it as they see their school as a home, a place that they’re proud to be a part of, and a place that they know that they’re loved and cared for.”
Still, security has changed since the April 20, 1999 shooting.
John McDonald wasn’t at Columbine that day, but like countless others, his life was forever changed by the tragedy. Nine years later, he became the executive director of school safety for the Je erson County School District, including Columbine, and, since moving on, has continued to work to make schools safer.
“I hate to say good came out of it,”
said McDonald. “But what came out of (the Columbine shooting) was the commitment to protect kids.”
Before the tragedy, school o cials and security o cers focused on the potential dangers outsiders might in ict on their buildings. Overnight, they had to shift their thinking to consider that students could be threats, too, and how that might impact school safety plans.
Doing so took its toll. Between 1999 and 2008, the school district had multiple executive directors of school safety.
“ e job was di cult,” said McDonald, who held the position for 14 years starting in 2008. “It was overwhelming for people.”
McDonald, who is now the chief operating o cer for the National Council of School Security, was recognized internationally as the architect of the Columbine High School security and emergency management plan.
In April 1999, with no incident command structure in the district, school security consisted of a handful of cameras outside the school and a few school resource o cers. ere was a disconnect with local law enforcement agencies, who were unfamiliar with the insides of the school, critical information that would be useful for saving lives during an incident.
According to a 2018 Federal School Safety Commission report, there was a rush by leaders across the country to add security o cers and speed up response times, among other measures. Security experts also began considering how students, who often hear rsthand about planned attacks or suicidal ideations, might help tip them o . As a result, the Colorado Trust awarded a $375,000 grant to establish the anonymous 24/7 hotline Safe2Tell.
It’s di cult to know precisely how the immediate security changes impacted students. Walking into Columbine in August 1999, Kelley Kellogg said she didn’t focus on the
added security or the changes to the school other than being relieved that the library where the majority of the deaths occurred had been walled o .
Instead, she felt the typical nerves and excitement of any student on their rst day of high school. As a freshman, she hadn’t been there on the day of the shooting, but she knew several classmates who had, including one whose sibling had died.
“Mostly, we didn’t talk about it, even my friend who’d been directly impacted,” said Kellogg. “But I felt incredibly safe. Everyone was super vigilant and protective. Frank DeAngelis (the principal at the time) and all of the teachers took such good care of us, shielded us from the media attention and made us feel loved and cared for.”
A 2021 Students’ Reports of Safety and Security Measures Observed at School published by the National Center for Education Statistics indicated four measures became more prevalent in the ensuing years, from 2009 to 2019.
Students saw an increase in the use of one or more security cameras, a locked entrance or exit door during the day, student identi cation badges and security guards or assigned police o cers.
e sitting Je erson County School District Executive Director for the Department of School Safety, Je Pierson, said that in addition to more alarmed doors, secure classrooms, and vestibules to check identi cation, more information and security is coming with added cameras and security guards.
“I think it sends a message to our kids and our parents that we’ve got an additional set of eyes that are highly trained individuals watching out for and keeping an eye on what’s going on in our buildings,” said Pierson.
Six years ago, McDonald hired Pierson as the district’s director of safe school environments. In this role, he focused on enhancing part-
Columbine High School Principal Scott Christy stands on April 4 outside the Frank DeAngelis Community Safety Center in Wheat Ridge. He spoke to reporters there as part of the Je co Public Schools “media day” in connection with the 25th anniversary of the Columbine shooting.
nerships between schools, district leadership, and the Department of School Safety, seeking to establish a more proactive approach.
Before taking on this role, Pierson was the principal at Standley Lake High School in Westminster and trained in federal and police safety and policing programs. Pierson said having rst responder training and the lens of an educator has helped him break down barriers to how schools should operate.
Far more than the enforced wearing of student IDs and the additional patrol cars posted outside, Kellogg said safety came from a sense of belonging.
“I feel like everyone just kind of tried to get along,” she said. “Because even though this really tragic thing happened, I felt like we were a part of a family. Kids are kids, and stu still happens, but I felt like everyone tried their best to take care of each other.”
After more than 25 years of build-out, Colorado’s Digital Trunked Radio System has made a di erence, first responders say
BY DEBORAH GRIGSBY DGRIGSBY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMIn the years before the shooting at Columbine High School, Colorado had already started to address challenges within its radio communications system for rst responders. Primarily directed at helping rural and mountainous towns mitigate dead spots in coverage, these e orts were a promising step forward, particularly during wild res, when aid spanned multiple jurisdictions.
But on April 20, 1999, when more than 40 separate agencies descended upon Columbine High School, communication broke down.
As police, re and medical personnel responded to the shootings that took 13 lives, radio frequencies overloaded because so many di erent agencies were all trying to talk at once.
At one point, radios had become so useless that messengers on foot had to relay critical information between agencies, as then-chief of the state Fire Safety Division Kevin Klein told e Denver Post in 2011.
“Go back to Columbine — di erent responding agencies on di erent radio systems that couldn’t talk to each other,” Klein told the Post. “You had paralysis in the initial phase of the incident. We had to use runners to go back and forth to talk about what we’re going to do.”
But a quarter of a century later, many rst responders say that challenges aside, the state’s Digital Trunked Radio System (DTRS) has made a di erence.
Experts describe DTRS as a “system of systems” that connects re, law enforcement, medical, military
Colorado’s interoperable radio communication system for first responders has undergone continuous build-out over the past 25 years since Columbine. More commonly known as the digital trunked radio system (DTRS), this “system of systems” connects firefighters, law enforcement and other responders across a network of radios, both handheld and vehiclemounted. While it has seen its share of problems from inconsistent funding to technology glitches, Larkspur Fire Protection District Fire Capt. Chad Campagnola says he’s confident in the system and in its ability to perform in the event of a largescale emergency.
and federal assets with a network of radios, antennas and specialized software patches to bridge gaps between newer hardware and legacy equipment.
And even school districts can be part of the DTRS system.
“Any agency within the state can go to the system and connect with any other law enforcement or rst responder group that is on the scene of a critical incident,” Jacki Kelley, spokesperson for the Je erson County Sheri ’s O ce, said of the DTRS.
Fire Capt. Chad Campagnola said the Larkspur Fire Protection District has been a part of the state’s DTRS systems since Douglas County transitioned to it in the early 2000s.
Campagnola, who has been with the department since 1992 and styles himself as the “district radio guy,” said that although the DTRS system added more capabilities for his team, the early roll-out was not without frustrations.
As in most jurisdictions, Campagnola cites the standard funding and technology challenges as the most troublesome.
Not only is the radio expensive, but there are also fees for each radio to be on the system and for certain types of software upgrades.
However, with more than two decades of build-out complete, Campagnola says he’s con dent in the system and feels it has evolved into a dependable asset that can help save lives and protect property.
Prior to DTRS, Larkspur had often experienced radio communication di culties due to its local geography and terrain. ings are much better now.
“It’s de nitely an improvement from 24 years ago,” said Campagnola. “It’s also an improvement from two years ago. In our district speci cally, Douglas County has added more (radio) towers in the past ve years and that’s made an impact, especially for responders in the southern part of the county, as it a ects not just re but law enforcement, but roads and bridges, and the Douglas County School District — anyone operating within the DTRS coverage area.”
Nine months after the Columbine massacre, then-Gov. Bill Owens signed an executive order creating the Columbine Review Commission in response to public outcry for answers. e 10-member board, chaired by retired Colorado Supreme Court Justice William H. Erickson, was charged with identifying lessons learned and how those lessons could prevent future tragedies.
e Columbine Review Commission Report was released in May 2001, nearly a year and a half later.
Anger and accusations ensued in the days after the report’s release as parents, school o cials and others demanded answers, saying the 174page report completely “glossed over” the events that led up to the attack and failed to properly investigate police response.
e commission o ered its recommendations but made no requirements for mandatory implementation. e commission was disbanded after its report was released, further infuriating the public.
However, among the commission’s top recommendations was the need to improve communications and, as a byproduct, more coordination among emergency response agencies. It recommended continuing development of the Digital Trunk Radio System.
Speci cally, the Columbine Commission recommended that “agencies in parts of the state not yet within the statewide system receive funds for the purchase of TRP 100 or similar systems, enabling them to be available in the event of a serious catastrophe in any part of the state.”
While much has changed since 1999, improving the rst responder radio system has been di cult in the decades since. e challenge in building out — and sustaining — Colorado’s interoperable communication system seem to be consistent among agencies and falls
into three distinct buckets: funding, planning, and training.
Colorado amply followed up with heavy investment in the DTRS program.
Putting a nger on exactly how much has been invested in Colorado’s DTRS program year-to-date is complicated as multiple sources of funding have been and continue to be employed. A 2016 memo from the Colorado Legislative Council provides an insight into the program’s early nancial history, nearing $250 million at the time.
But piles of money aside, what most didn’t realize is that this project would be far more than just buying new radios and issuing them to rst responders.
Building a statewide interoperable radio system would include the construction of multiple antenna towers — some of them in hard-toget-to mountainous terrain — to bridge growing technology gaps between new and legacy systems. State technology experts would also have to identify and manage radio frequencies, as well as convince jurisdictions to collaborate and share resources.
Legislation to provide interoperable communication funding for schools
In 2011, more than 10 years after the mass shooting, then-Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law Senate Bill 11-173. e bill addressed the lack of interoperable communications between schools and rst responders during an emergency. It augments the Colorado School Response Framework, created in 2008, to improve school crisis response by clarifying that interoperable communications are included in a school district’s school safety, readiness, and incident management plan.
Senate Bill 18-158 created the School Access for Emergency Response program, which provides schools with grant funding to purchase interoperable communication hardware and software, pay for equipment maintenance and provide training. e goal was to facilitate “seamless communications between existing school communications systems and rst
responder communications systems.”
e state placed the SAFER program within the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and initially funded it with a $5 million transfer from the Department of Public Safety for the 2018-19 scal year. Subsequent years were funded by State Public School Fund transfers through July 1, 2023.
Colorado’s O ce of Information Technology currently oversees the state’s public safety communications network and the DTRS.
But even with millions in local, state and federal dollars invested in the DTRS program, completing — and sustaining — a statewide interoperable radio system still has a few bugs.
While most emergency management and public safety experts say the state’s system has improved dramatically and local governments are more organized and collaborative since the Columbine shooting, there is still work to do.
Other jurisdictions have a similar take.
e Je erson County Sheri ’s O ce — an early adopter of DTRS, joining Douglas County and Arapahoe County in the program in the late 1990s — was among the rst to arrive on the Columbine scene in 1999.
e agency understands, rsthand, what can go wrong when rst responders are unable to communicate. Brad Ingermann, a commander with the Je erson County Sheri ’s O ce Patrol Division, said that while the state’s DTRS still has its challenges, his agency is far better o than it was at the time of the Columbine shooting and now clearly believes it has an interoperable radio system that works.
“While large-scale incidents such as Columbine are far more common than they used to be, they are still very rare compared to events such as wildland res,” he said.
Every day Je rey Garkow frequents the halls of his alma mater. Garkow graduated from Columbine High School in 2006 and now works there as a social studies teacher.
He is one of the rst people to help reshape how the school honors the 13 lives taken on April 20, 1999.
Prior to 2017, the school wouldn’t hold classes on April 20.
“My experience with April 20 on the professional side of things was that it was just a day o ,” Garkow said. “I think that was hard for a lot of people, especially for the sta who were here on April 20, 1999.”
So, in 2016, Garkow said he and other Columbine educators decided to reimagine the day o and launched Day of Service.
“ is, I think, is kind of giving us the chance to control the narrative a little more about what Columbine has been through and what we are now,” he said.
e rst Day of Service was held in 2017. Garkow said about 400 students volunteered to participate. Last year around 1,500 of the school’s 1,700 students participated in the event.
Students, alumni, sta and community members participate in various projects on the Day of Service including volunteering at nursing homes, spending time at animal shelters, cleaning up parks, working with younger students in the district and cleaning up the campus.
In 2019, Gov. Jared Polis signed a proclamation declaring that Colorado will observe a Day of Service and Recommitment on April 20 each year.
Over the years, more alumni have gotten involved with the day and even planned their own versions of the event at other schools or their places of employment.
Frank DeAngelis, former Columbine principal, said people have participated in the Day of Service from beyond the state — even as far
away as Tanzania.
“It’s stu like that that I think is so important,” he said. “Because here’s the thing. ere are kids now that weren’t even born, but there’s certain messages — kindness, saying thank you … How do we make the world a better place?”
Mandy Cooke, a Columbine High School employee and survivor of the shooting, said the Day of Service reects the school’s current attitude of moving forward with hope.
“We have turned that day into something so positive,” she said. “And that is what I am most proud of — is making sure that our current students know how to be better humans in the world, instead of this awful, tragic thing that happened to us.”
For Garkow, the best aspect of Day of Service is the reactions from students who he says have loved participating in the celebration and carry that impact long after they graduate or leave.
“It’s just a really cool thing to hear students talk about that and how much of an impact that made on them and how much they continue to want to do that now,” Garkow said.
Garkow was in fth grade at Governor’s Ranch Elementary School on April 20, 1999. All he really remembers is learning the impact that day had on the community.
Sometimes students ask him about the shooting and Garkow said he is as open as possible with them and does his best to answer their questions.
“ ere is so much misinformation online and on social media or on ReddIt or in news articles about our school and the culture of our school that I think students pick up on,” Garkow said.
Garkow feels protective of his students. He feels they should not have to answer to people who are curious about the school.
“What responsibility do our kids have to own that story when they weren’t even alive during it?” Garkow said. “I think a lot of our kids
have a di erent take on it now because they didn’t experience any of it.”
As a student himself, Garkow didn’t fully comprehend what had happened but did witness how tight-knit the community became.
“I came into the school already as a kid with a lot of pride in seeing what the community did after that and seeing how the community responded,” Garkow said.
He said DeAngelis became the center of that community in many ways.
“I think so much of why we are the community we are today is because of Frank,” Garkow said. “ at guy absolutely gave up everything for himself to take care of the community and made sure every kid felt valued and welcomed.”
Garkow said DeAngelis later hired him to teach at the school. He worked with DeAngelis for a few years before DeAngelis retired.
“I absolutely love being in the school,” Garkow said. “ ere’s 20plus alumni who I think work in the building and I think that speaks a
lot to the strength of the community (and) how much the school means to people.”
Garkow said the community of the school feels almost like a family.
“I think it’s rare to work in a place where so many of the people you were with are just dear friends,” Garkow said. “It’s pretty rare that I feel like I’m coming here just to work.”
Garkow works with a lot of his own former teachers.
“( ey) are mentors and friends and people who I hope I can model myself after as an educator just because they meant so much to me when I was a student here,” Garkow said.
Garkow said he hopes more stories about where the school is now are told rather than only re ecting on the past.
“
ere is so much tragedy but there have also been so many beautiful moments that’ve come out since, that I think it gives a much better picture of who we are now and where we are as a school,” Garkow said.
As Ingerman points out, wildland res can quickly spread across multiple jurisdictions and require a medley of rst responders and mutual aid partners — all arriving on the scene and many operating on di erent radio systems and channels.
DTRS helps solve this.
It does so by connecting rst responders by the use of pre-coordinated channels assigned to both day-to-day and emergency operations. Speci c talk groups are allocated based on responder function and assignments, freeing up channels and organizing incident information among multiple agencies and partners.
Hardware alone does not create interoperability
the purchase of equipment hardware: things like handheld radios, car radios, repeaters, antennas and tower systems.
Some experts in the eld recall “radio spending sprees” to purchase the 800-MHz radios — quickly spending grant money to avoid getting caught up in product shortages and back-order delays.
Fran Santagata, a retired U.S. Department of Homeland Security regulatory analyst and former Douglas County emergency manager, said the same was true for Colorado.
But interestingly, over the past 25 years, much of the federal dollars made available to states and local jurisdictions initially went toward
McDonald noted that school districts across Colorado struggled to create cohesive security plans until 2008, when state lawmakers passed a law creating the Colorado School Safety Resource Center “to assist schools in preventing, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies and crisis situations and to foster positive learning environments.”
“But equipment alone doesn’t create interoperability,” she said. “ ere is a speci c element of coordination and planning required, as well as training. Prociency and comfort in using the equipment are just as important.”
For most jurisdictions, Larkspur included, a signi cant portion of their daily radio tra c occurs over the DTRS, as designed.
emergency channels.
“I think the DTRS got built out, the towers have helped tremendously, and all of the training has helped, but I think we still struggle at every event with the lowest common denominator, which is the individual rst responder only being comfortable using the frequency they use day to day,” she said. “Almost every after-action report usually has a paragraph — or a chapter — on how communications broke down.”
But, as Santagata suggests, many rst responders tend to be more comfortable with their daily comms channels than they are with their
energy at Columbine is relaxed and playful. e school’s 1,668 students walk the halls with ease, chatting with friends and making their way to class.
Additionally, the Standard Response Protocol, created by the I Love You Guys Foundation, was released in 2009 and is now used by countless districts across states. e guidelines made a di erence for the school district because they were an “emergency prepared, not emergency scared program” that everyone understood.
On a bright Tuesday morning, mere days before spring break, the
“I think there’s de nitely truth to that,” said Campagnola. “Dealing with, like, a uni ed command with three agencies where we are, we are very comfortable with our primary work zone or operational zone.”
But Campagnola notes the solution to that is not just the responsibility of the individual radio user.
He said agency leadership also plays an important role in developing good muscle memory for users, looking at the bigger picture and developing relevant training exercises to reinforce those skills.
ey aren’t worried about potential threats or the possibility of something terrible happening. at’s because safety is baked into the very fabric of the school’s culture, and the students know it, explains Columbine SRO Eric Ebling.
Columbine is the only school in Je erson County with two SROs, Ebling and Dan Wonner, who have been there since 2017 and 2019. SRO Joella Gallegos works at one of the feeder middle schools and communicates constantly with Ebling and Wonner. Because of its storied past, Columbine also has more unarmed campus supervisors than others in the Je erson County School District.
recruits in the county’s law enforcement academy and continues with day-to-day use as the recruit enters the force, and with annual exercises that help reinforce radio competency.
“But we are a think-outside-ofthe-box agency,” said Jacki Kelley, spokesperson for the Je erson County Sheri ’s O ce. “We have an initial plan and a backup plan, but as you know, emergencies don’t always go the way you plan or the way you train.”
For the Je erson County Sheri ’s O ce, DTRS training for its personnel begins as early as with new
(Wonner) and me, the sheri ’s o ce or even campus security. If you’re on this property, your job is safety and security.”
But as communities continue to expand and population density increases, more funding will obviously be needed to support and maintain the state’s program.
Overall, most users seem to agree the DTRS system has made a di erence.
Is it perfect?
Not really.
“But I think it’s all good,” said Campagnola. “Like, I have no complaints about anything with our system. We’re continually improving it as a county and as a state, which is allowing for better interoperability.”
Pierson adds that “culture is one of the biggest mitigators.”
“If you have a culture that embeds safety, connections, knowing your student by name, strengths and needs and making sure they have a reporting mechanism for when they hear or see something, those things are easy to implement, and they’re free,” Pierson said.
Columbine sophomore Madison Price sees the school’s security measures but also feels safe because, like Kellogg, who graduated long before her, there’s a sense that everyone in the school is dedicated to taking care of them.
that gives feedback to legislators. Part of the culture is balancing the ne line between having too much of a physical environment that creates a prison-like mentality and keeping the physical presence there while maintaining a calm, inclusive and safe atmosphere.
“It has to be completely controlled internally,” said Pierson. “Which means student voices, teachers’ voices, parents’ voices, all those stakeholders have to be completely involved and not just involved but invested in what looks like a safe school environment.”
Yet, safety doesn’t come only from the number of o cers.
“It’s people. It’s communication, and it’s philosophy,” said Ebling. “It’s not mind-reading technology or drones. e only reason we can make this work every day is with the mindset that everyone’s job is safety and security. Security is not just Dan
“I do feel safe at school,” Price said. “ ere’s people here to protect us.”
Today, the district’s Department of School Safety, which has over 100 security sta working round the clock, continues to work directly with law enforcement and speak with other districts. It established a group of school safety administrators who meet once a month to discuss hot topics and are also part of a group
e measures in place at Columbine are “night and day from what the security measures were back then,” said Pierson. “But our job is to continue to stay up with the times and keep our buildings as safe as they can be.”
e Columbine tragedy forever changed school safety and security measures as we knew them. Yet, the one thing the massacre couldn’t change was the unbreakable spirit of the Columbine community, which continues to embody former principal DeAngelis’ rallying cry: “WE ARE COLUMBINE.”
which he thinks is “hugely positive.”
DeAngelis, who served as Columbine’s principal at the time of the shooting, is glad to see more caution in news coverage of tragedies.
“Media are saying ‘we can’t conrm this,’ and they’re waiting for information,” DeAngelis said.
Sam Bowersox-Daly, another current Columbine teacher, expressed concern that today’s media coverage of shootings often becomes tied to a political issue and what politicians are doing.
“Focusing on Washington after it happens, does that take away from — these are still people,” Bowersox-Daly said.
Garkow remembers the fth anniversary of the shooting, when
MTV News reporters o ered to pay for Qdoba burritos if students would do an interview, he said. “ e media was chasing kids around, like trying to corner us at lunch,” Garkow said.
DeAngelis and Christy, the current principal, both sighed with relief when asked whether Media Day helps them. DeAngelis said the phone used to ring o the hook, especially during the 20th anniversary. is year, he’d only received one call from a national reporter as of Media Day. For Christy, it’s helpful for keeping reporters away from the campus and preventing them from interrupting the school day.
‘A time for extreme sensitivity’
“Back then, it wasn’t the same as it is now,” Fildey said. “I think (journalists) bring a lot more empathy to our work (now).”
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“Great photo,” Fildey said. “But man, that’s kind of an invasion.”
Skewes is working with University of Dayton Professor Katie Alaimo on a book about media coverage of mass shootings, and said she was prompted to do so after the 2012 Aurora theater shooting.
In the immediate aftermath of that shooting, Skewes turned on the local news and saw an anchor say that out of respect for the families of the victims and survivors, the network would not talk about the shooter unless there was some major court case and development that necessitated coverage.
“I was caught by that in the sense that I thought it made perfect sense in many ways,” Skewes said. “And then I kind of thought, ‘Well, except that if we can’t talk about the shooter, we can’t talk about the systemic failures that occurred and what prevented people from reporting concerns that they had.’”
But “most of the stories should not include the shooter’s name, and there is no reason to use the name repeatedly in a story,” said Crawford, who thinks the news media has gotten better about not focusing on the killers.
Despite some improvement, the media still shows up and “inundates a town” after a mass shooting, as it did covering the Columbine tragedy, Crawford said.
She advises against “endless hours of news coverage, even when there is almost no con rmed facts or new information to share. at kind of coverage serves no one and just extends the trauma of the event.”
Skewes recommends giving the families of victims time in the aftermath of shootings but keeping them in the loop about a news outlet’s future plans for coverage.
“In the immediate aftermath, or coming up on an anniversary of a shooting, is a time for extreme sensitivity,” Skewes said. “Beyond that, when you need to do these kinds of stories (about the shooter), reach out to victims’ advocacy organizations and say ‘We’re going to do this, do you want to be a part of the story?’ And if not, that’s OK.
Journalists may not want to entirely avoid a shooter’s name since it can provide a reference point for researchers and historians in the future, Crawford said.
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“As someone who studies misinformation, I also recognize that if the media failed to ever identify a shooter, that could feed the inevitable conspiracy theories about these tragedies even more,” Crawford said.
“But we want to let you know we’re doing it so that when you see it when it comes out, you’re not surprised and you’re not caught o guard,” Skewes continued. “Give them as much of a heads up if you can, because I think there’s kind of a gut punch to picking up a paper and nding your life in it again, or seeing something on the news.”
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The homes will not house sex o enders at least for the next two years
BY MONTE WHALEY MWHALEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMBesides Northglenn, Westminster and Lakewood are among cities in the metro area that will soon open Mental Health Transitional Living facilities – group homes that drew the ire of Northglenn residents for housing convicted sex o enders. A MHTL home is currently open in Littleton.
Northglenn protests from residents and local o cials prompted the Department of Human Services to amend their plans for the transitional facilities. DHS dropped the proposal to place sex o enders in the facilities and to allow only residents deemed nonviolent.
No registered sex o enders will be housed at any MHTL homes, at least for the rst two years of the program, said Mark Techmeyer, spokesman for the Colorado Department of Human Services.
“To ensure this program is successful for both communities and clients, we are engaging in a twoyear pilot admissions process, in which the goal will be to admit those individuals who are most likely to safely transition to the
MHTL Homes,” Techmeyer said via email.
e homes will not admit populations with a lower likelihood of succeeding in the homes, “…Including individuals with a recent history of eloping/escaping from other treatment facilities, individuals with any recent assaultive behaviors, individuals with behaviors that require restraints or seclusions, any behaviors that may require a locked facility, as well as registered sex o enders,” Techmeyer said.
Techmeyer said it is a programwide policy that no sex o enders, even if the program is expanded to include them after this two-year pilot, will be housed within 1,000 feet of a school.
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planned for Colorado Springs, three in Lakewood, two homes in Northglenn, two homes in Denver, two homes in Pueblo West and one home in Westminster. One home is currently open in Littleton.
Techmeyer did not say exactly where the homes will be located. DHS is currently reaching out to the cities involved to “ensure partnership with each community,” he said.
Security has also been posted at the Northglenn facility – located at 11255 and 11275 Grant Drive – as there have been threats and concerning messages aimed at the homes.
“We expect the security needs to decline and don’t expect to have outside security at the homes fulltime,” Techmeyer said.
ARVADA — A double-overtime 2-1 loss to Chat eld last season cost Ralston Valley’s girls soccer team the Class 5A Je co League championship.
“ at loss in overtime was brutal,” Ralston Valley junior Holly Engelking said of last year’s loss to the Chargers. “Part of our pregame speech was we had to get on them early.”
e Mustangs got a measure of revenge Tuesday night on a windy pitch at the North Area Athletic Complex. Ralston Valley took a 3-1 victory to stay undefeated in conference play heading into likely the biggest league game of season.
“We have been right in a running,” Ralston Valley coach Kamee Morwood said of the Mustangs’ decadelong drought from their last league title in 2013. “ ey want it really bad.”
e Mustangs captured six straight Je co 10 (4A Je co) girls soccer titles from 2002 to 2007, but have just captured one league title since moving up to the 5A classi cation more than a decade ago.
Ralston Valley (8-2-1, 3-0 in league) will have a huge 5A Je co showdown against Valor Christian (6-1-1, 3-0) at 8 p.m. Friday, April 19, in Highlands Ranch. e winner will be in the driver’s seat for the conference title heading into the nal two weeks of the regular season.
Valor and Ralston Valley played to a 1-1 double-overtime draw last season. e Eagles staked claim to their third straight 5A Je co League title with a 5-0-2 conference record in 2023.
“I’m just super excited to play Valor,” Ralston Valley senior Raleigh Greason said of the monster league game Friday. “ ey are a really good team.”
Ralston Valley has some good momentum with a 5-game winning streak and kept the good vibes going early against Chat eld. Engelking gave the Mustangs a 1-0 lead 39 seconds into the game when her direct free kick bounced into the top far corner of the net.
“I’ve scored o a few of them this
season,” Engelking said of her goal on the direct free kick from near mideld in the opening minute. “I was hoping one of my teammates could get a touch on it. It took a big bounce and went into the upper nine. I actually hit it toward the front post and it shifted all the way to the far post.”
Greason sealed the victory in the second half with her 22nd and 23rd goals of the season. e leading goal scorer in 5A used the wind to score back-to-back goals to push Ralston Valley’s lead to 3-0.
e junior beat Chat eld goalie Aly Green in almost the exact same spot on hard shots that edged inside the far post.
“I just knew I had to hit it as hard I could,” Greason said of her back-toback goals three minutes apart in the second half. “I was trying to get it to that back post.”
Chat eld (3-6-1, 1-2) prevented the shutout with junior Harper Roser scoring in the 78th minute for the lone goal for the Chargers. Chat eld will try to end its 2-game league los-
Chatfield senior Ava Erickson (11) and Ralston Valley senior Taryn Messingham (12) battle for the ball during the first half Tuesday, April 16, at the North Area Athletic Complex. Ralston Valley won 3-1 ahead of its huge Class 5A Je co League showdown against Valor Christian on Friday, April 19, in Highlands Ranch.
ing streak when it faces Pomona (110, 0-3) on Friday night at Lakewood Memorial Field.
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LAKEWOOD — For the rst time in nearly a decade, boys lacrosse returned to Lakewood Memorial Field on Wednesday night.
Lakewood Memorial Field will host more than 60 varsity girls soccer games this spring season. For the rst time since March 2016 the historic eld at 10th and Wadsworth, it was all about boys lacrosse with a tripleheader of action.
“It’s cool. It’s a little di erent, but it’s got a good vibe to it,” Poudre School District senior Colton Pawlak said of LMF. “It brings me back to my childhood. Playing on grass. Playing at the park. It’s cool.”
Fittingly, Lakewood hosted twotime defending Class 5A League #2 champion — Poudre School District Stars — to start the three games at LMF. Poudre is coached by 2005 Lakewood High School graduate Will Cantwell who played lacrosse for Golden High School and is still the Demons’ career leading goal scorer.
“As a Lakewood native, it’s pretty cool to play on this eld,” Cantwell said. “It’s one of the last places with grass. It’s nice to play on grass. It’s a nice venue. Very happy to be here for sure.”
Poudre grabbed an 8-1 victory over Lakewood. It was the fourth straight victory for the Stars (6-4, 2-0 in league). Pawlak led the way with three goals for PSD as the Stars look to go
undefeated in conference play for the third straight year.
“We’ve gone back-to-back. Obviously, we want to do it again,” Pawlak said. “We are just looking to the next step ahead. We don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves.”
Lakewood (2-8, 0-2) has dropped six games in a row, but the Tigers showed positive signs against PSD. After trailing 6-1 at halftime, Lakewood allowed just two goals in the second half.
“To hold (Poudre) to two goals in the second half was great,” Lakewood coach Darin Denton said. “We have some great plays by individuals. As soon as we put it all together for four quarters we are going to be a force.”
e Tigers are a young squad that is anchored by junior goalie Ethan Branscom. Sophomore Murphy Shanley scored the lone goal for Lakewood in the loss.
“We are really young,” Denton said. “We have a bright future for sure. It seems like every week we are learning, but the other teams are learning too.”
PSD is clearly focused on the now and winning another league title despite graduating seven starters from last year’s squad that advanced to the 5A state semi nals.
“ at is our sole focus,” Cantwell said of the Stars winning a third straight league title. “We got o to a tough start playing some of the best teams in the state. We always want to measure ourselves against them. We know we have aways to go.”
e Stars took losses to Valor Chris-
tian, Cherry Creek and Grandview before going into league play.
Cantwell, who was also Lakewood’s starting varsity quarterback for four years on the Tigers’ football team two decades ago, is excited to bring his lacrosse team to Je co Stadium in a few weeks.
“It is de ntely a little bit nostalgic for me for sure. It feels a bit full-circle,” Cantwell said about his team playing at Je co Stadium against Chat eld coming up May 3 in the Stars’ league nale. “I always thought you should play lacrosse at Je co Stadium. It’s such a cool venue. I’m looking forward to that.”
Columbine 8, Fairview 3
In the second game, Columbine got a much-needed 8-3 victory over Fairview.
e Rebels (4-6, 1-1) had dropped their league opener to Monarch last week.
“ is was a really big win for us, especially after the loss against Monarch,” Columbine senior Chase Pacenta said. “It red up the guys a little bit. It was good for us.”
Columbine and Fairview (3-5, 1-2) were tied 3-3 early in the second quarter, but the Rebels outscored the Knights 5-0 for the remainder of the game to take the win.
“We have a special group and seniors and they fought hard,” Columbine coach Nick Lewis said. “It was Senior Night tonight and we told them to go out there and not let any setbacks outweigh their passion. eir passion
won tonight.”
e Rebels’ defense was outstanding shutting out Fairview in the second half. Columbine senior goalie Max Stadelmaier got the win in net for the Rebels.
“Max is outstanding. I’ve got a great defensive coordinator in his dad, Marty Stadelmaier,” Lewis said. “We’ve got great leaders down there with Cruz Maynes, Elijah Lamb, Trey Minch and Reilly Bruzas. ose are four really, really good defenders.”
Pacenta, senior Spencer Houle and freshman Lucas Gwinner all had two goals each in the victory. Pacenta was also a big fan of the natural grass playing surface of LMF.
“I like the grass. It’s soft,” Pacenta said. “It is nice on my knees. It’s nicer on the body.”
Columbine has another big conference game against Poudre School District to wrap up the week.
“Ton of respect for Poudre and Will Cantwell, a great coach and a good guy,” Lewis said of the Rebels facing the Stars up in Fort Collins on Friday. “We’ll see what happens.”
e nal game at LMF on the night featured a massive comeback win for Dakota Ridge. e Eagles trailed Evergreen 6-3 at halftime. Dakota Ridge outscored seven unanswered goals in the second half to pull out a 10-6 victory.
Dennis Pleuss is the sports information director for Je co Public Schools. For more Je co coverage, go to ColoradoPreps.com and CHSAANow.com.
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CONDOMINIUM UNIT 7181, BUILDING A, COLUMBINE TOWNHOUSES FOUR, ACCORDING TO THE MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON JANUARY 26, 1973, AT RECEPTION NO. 73545266, IN THE RECORDS OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR COLUMBINE TOWNHOUSES FOUR, RECORDED ON
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THAT PORTION OF THE E ½, E ½, NE ¼ OF SECTION 21, TOWNSHIP 3 SOUTH, RANGE 69 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., DESCRIBED AT: BEGINNING AT A POINT THAT IS 734.55 FEET NORTH AND 304.3 FEET WEST OF THE EAST QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 21, THENCE SOUTH 114.6 FEET, THENCE WEST 101.6 FEET, THENCE NORTH 112.5 FEET, THENCE EAST 37.6 FEET, THENCE NORTH 2 FEET, THENCE EAST 64 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING,
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Purported common address: 10065 W. 44th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, CO 80030.
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THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/16/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: This is a Home Equity Conversion Deed of Trust or other Reverse Mortgage. Borrower has died and the property is not the principal residence of any surviving Borrower, resulting in the loan being due and payable.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 4, BLOCK 2, SUN VALLEY WEST, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
APN: 49-164-03-049
Purported common address: 856 S Miller Street, Lakewood, CO 80226.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/23/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
Date of Deed of Trust
03, 2004 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) F2017754 Original Principal Amount $163,800.29
Outstanding Principal Balance $120,357.32
Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 1, BLOCK 4, CHATFIELD COMMONS, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON STATE OF COLORADO
Purported common address: 9199 W. Phillips Dr., Littleton, CO 80128.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/06/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 4/18/2024
Last Publication: 5/16/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
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;
DATE: 02/08/2024
Jerry DiTullio, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado
By: Barbara Lyons, Deputy, for Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Ilene
Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
PARCEL A: A TRACT OF LAND BEING A PART OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 71 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 24, FROM WHENCE THE CENTER OF SAID SECTION 24 BEARS SOUTH 89 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 36 SECONDS WEST, 862.81 FEET; THENCE ALONG SAID NORTH LINE NORTH 89 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 36 SECONDS EAST, 400.00 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 24; THENCE NORTH 00 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 59 SECONDS EAST, 832.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 53 DEGREES 20 MINUTES 56 SECONDS EAST, 822.17 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 59 SECONDS WEST, 330.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 82 DEGREES 26 MINUTES 09 SECONDS WEST, 1024.32 FEET; THENCE NORTH 20 DEGREES 49 MINUTES 33 SECONDS WEST, 125.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
PARCEL B: THOSE EASEMENT RIGHTS AS CREATED IN EASEMENT AGREEMENT RECORDED OCTOBER 4, 1982 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 82068816. APN #: 51-241-00-007 Purported common address: 6519 Jungfrau
Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/06/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 4/18/2024
Last Publication: 5/16/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
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;
DATE: 02/08/2024
Jerry DiTullio, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado
By: Lyndsay Smith, Deputy, for Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L. Berry #34531
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (855) 263-9295
Attorney File # 23-031553
The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that
OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/23/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 4/4/2024 Last Publication: 5/2/2024
of Publication: Golden Transcript
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;
DATE: 01/25/2024
Jerry DiTullio, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado
By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/16/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 3/28/2024
Last Publication: 4/25/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
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;
DATE: 01/18/2024
Jerry DiTullio, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado
By: Barbara Lyons, Deputy, for Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Aricyn J. Dall #51467
Randall S. Miller & Associates, P.C. 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710
Attorney File # 23CO00444-1
The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.
©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado
Revised 1/2015
Legal Notice No. J2400009
First Publication: 3/28/2024
Last Publication: 4/25/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2400027
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On February 1, 2024, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.
Original Grantor(s)
Ryan R Brassell
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for ZB, N.A. dba Vectra Bank Colorado, Its Successors and Assigns
Current
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
2022018174
Original Principal Amount
$261,250.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$253,662.93
Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
CONDOMINIUM UNIT 1, NEWLAND PARK TOWNHOMES, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED APRIL 21, 1978 IN BOOK 9 AT PAGE 11 AND AT RECEPTION NO. 78035313 AND CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR NEWLAND PARK TOWNHOMES RECORDED APRIL 3, 1978 AT RECEPTION NO. 78028984, AND AMENDMENT TO CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED FEBRUARY 25, 1980 AT RECEPTION NO. 80014114, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 6550 W 14th Ave 1, Lakewood, CO 80214.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/23/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower’s failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 19, BLOCK 4, KEN CARYL RANCH NORTH "PLAINS" PHASE 1, AS AMENDED BY KEN CARYL RANCH NORTH "PLAINS"
PHASE 1 EXEMPTION SURVEY, RECORDED NOVEMBER 28, 1979, AS RECEPTION NO. 79107172, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
PARCEL ID NUMBER: 59-294-03-021
Purported common address: 12104 WEST VAIL PASS, LITTLETON, CO 80127.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: PURSUANT TO AFFIDAVIT OF SCRIVENER''S ERROR RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 AT RECEPTION NO. 2014080958 TO CORRECT LEGAL DESCRIPTION.
CO 80128
Recording Date of Deed of Trust October 31, 2016
Recording Information 2016113558
Legal Description of Property
CONDOMINIUM UNIT 209, CONDOMINIUM BUILDING 5, THE REEF AT MARINA POINTE CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON DECEMBER 10, 1986 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 86152734, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR THE REEF AT MARINA POINTE CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED APRIL 23, 1984 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 84036350 AND ANNEXATION RECORDED DECEMBER 10, 1986 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 86152733, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Street Address of Property 8341 South Upham Way #209, Littleton, CO 80128
NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS
I sold at public
Amount $249,592.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $231,347.32
Pursuant to CRS §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.
LOT 23, BLOCK 6, STONY CREEK FILING NO. 7, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 6799 S. DUDLEY COURT, LITTLETON, CO 80128.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/06/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 4/18/2024
Last Publication: 5/16/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
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
Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY
Pursuant to CRS §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.
LOT 14, ARVADA PLAZA, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 9409 GRANDVIEW AVE, ARVADA, CO 80002-2953.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/16/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 3/28/2024
Last Publication: 4/25/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
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;
DATE: 01/18/2024
Jerry DiTullio, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado
By: Lyndsay Smith, Deputy, for Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Carly Imbrogno #59553
Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700,
Pursuant to CRS §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.
ALL THE REAL PROPERTY TOGETHER WITH IMPROVEMENTS, IF ANY, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON AND STATE OF COLORADO, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS LOT 20, BLOCK 2, STONY CREEK FILING NO 8 AMENDMENT NO 1, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE F COLORADO Purported common address: 9018 W PLYMOUTH AVE, LITTLETON, CO 80128-4074. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
$690,392.94
Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof.
NOT BE A
DATE: 01/18/2024
Jerry DiTullio, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado
By: Barbara Lyons, Deputy, for Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
N. April Winecki #34861
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (855) 263-9295
Attorney File # 23-030335
The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.
©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado
Revised 1/2015
Legal Notice NO. J2400012
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On February 8, 2024, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.
Original Grantor(s)
Jack J.
Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 3, BLOCK 4, SUPPLEMENT TO PETERSON`S SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 4/18/2024
Last Publication: 5/16/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
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;
DATE: 02/08/2024
Jerry DiTullio, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado By: Lyndsay Smith, Deputy, for Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Aricyn J. Dall #51467
Randall S. Miller & Associates, P.C. 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710
Attorney File # 23CO00524-1
The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.
©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado
Revised 1/2015
Legal Notice NO. J2400036
First Publication: 4/18/2024
Last Publication: 5/16/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-10
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2400037
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On February 8, 2024, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.
Original Grantor(s)
Jeffrey Kiefer and Melinda Kiefer
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for Universal Lending Corporation
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
SERVIS ONE, INC.
DBA BSI FINANCIAL SERVICES
Date of Deed of Trust
October 16, 2020
County of Recording
Jefferson
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
October 28, 2020
Recording Information
(Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
2020142051
Original Principal Amount
$403,000.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$380,888.07
Pursuant to CRS §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
all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
vided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
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purpose
the indebtedness provided
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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday,
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/23/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 4/4/2024
Last Publication: 5/2/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
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;
DATE: 02/01/2024
Jerry DiTullio, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado
By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L. Berry #34531
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/23/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 4/4/2024
Last Publication: 5/2/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript IF
DATE: 02/01/2024 Jerry DiTullio, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado
Lyndsay Smith, Deputy, for Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Pursuant to CRS §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.
LOT 17, BLOCK 4, WESTBOROUGH - FILING NO.2, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 3057 S GARLAND CT, LAKEWOOD, CO 80227.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/06/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 4/18/2024
Last Publication: 5/16/2024
Name of Publication:
Balance
Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 11, BLOCK 3, SKYLINE ESTATES FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO
Purported common address: 5398 OWENS ST, ARVADA, CO 80002.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/16/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 3/28/2024
Last Publication: 4/25/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
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;
DATE: 01/18/2024
Jerry DiTullio, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado
By: Barbara Lyons, Deputy, for Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2400051
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On February 22, 2024, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records. Original Grantor(s) Christina L. Macleod Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Principal Balance
Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
THE NORTH 75 FEET OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY: THAT PORTION OF TRACT 10 MOUNTAIN VIEW ACRES, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID TRACT 10, THENCE NORTH 195 FEET, THENCE WEST 137 FEET, THENCE SOUTH 133 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID TRACT 10, WHICH POINT IS LOCATED 150 FEET NORTHWEST OF THE POINT OF BEGINNING, THENCE SOUTHEAST ALONG SAID BOUNDARY LINE TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 4, ELYSIAN HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 8505 West 63rd Place, Arvada, CO 80004.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY
DATE: 02/22/2024
Jerry DiTullio, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado
By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755
McCarthy & Holthus, LLP
7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122
Attorney File # CO-24-984470-LL
The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado
thereof inconsistent or conflicting with this ordinance or any portion hereof are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict.
Section 6. This ordinance is deemed necessary for the protection of the health, welfare and safety of the community.
Section 7. This ordinance shall become effective five (5) days after publication following passage in accordance with Section 5.9 of the Charter for the City of Golden, Colorado.
INTRODUCED, READ, AND PASSED AS AN ORDINANCE, ON FIRST READING, AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, THE 9TH DAY OF APRIL, 2024.
READ, PASSED, AND ADOPTED AS AN ORDINANCE ON SECOND READING, FOLLOWING A PUBLIC HEARING, AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, THE ____ DAY OF APRIL, 2024.
Laura M. Weinberg, Mayor
ATTEST:
Monica S. Mendoza, CMC, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sandra Llanes, City Attorney
I, Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a certain proposed ordinance introduced and read before the City Council of the City of Golden at a regular meeting thereof held on the 9th day of April, 2024, and ordered by said City Council to be published as the law provides, and that a public hearing is declared for the 23rd day of April, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 911 10th Street, Golden.
WHEREAS, the City of Golden submits to annex the Property, pursuant to the Municipal Annexation Act of 1965 (the “Act”) C.R.S. § 31-12-101, et al., and specifically the provisions of C.R.S. § 31-12-106(3), because the Property is owned entirely by the City of Golden, does not consist solely of a public street or public right-of-way, and the rights-of-way are not being used to achieve the one-sixth contiguity requirement; and
WHEREAS, the Property is eligible and meets the requirements of section 30(1) of Article II of the Colorado Constitution, C.R.S §31-12-104(1)(a), §31-12-105 and §31-12-106(3) because:
1. the area is solely owned by the City of Golden;
2. the area’s perimeter is at least one-sixth contiguous with the existing boundaries of the City, as the area is an enclave within current city limits;
3. the area is less than 20 acres, not held in identical ownership, being divided, or included without written consent of the owner;
4. there are no annexation proceedings related to the area that have been commenced by another municipality;
5. the annexation will not result in the detachment of an area from a school district;
6. the annexation will not result in the extension of the municipal boundary more than three miles;
7. the City of Golden has an Annexation Study Area Plan addressing annexations within said distance;
8. and there are no platted streets or alleys included in the area to be annexed; and
WHEREAS, upon annexation, the Property shall be subject to all ordinances, resolutions, and other regulations of the City, as they may be amended from time to time; and
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/13/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of
WHEREAS, the 2023 budget included funds for projects that were not completed in 2023; and,
WHEREAS, these projects will be completed in 2024 and therefore require supplemental appropriation into the 2024 budget; and,
WHEREAS, other circumstances have occurred requiring changes to the 2024 budget.
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO:
Section 1. The recitals contained above are incorporated herein by reference and are adopted as findings and determinations of city council.
Section 2. Expenditure appropriations shall be increased by $9,030,360 as shown below and in Attachment A: Expenditures:
ATTEST: MONICA S. MENDOZA
Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado
Legal Notice No. 418384
First Publication: April 25, 2024
Last Publication: April 25, 2024
Publisher: Golden Transcript
Public Notice
WHEAT RIDGE URBAN RENEWAL AUTHORITY
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO ADOPT A SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET ADJUSTMENT
A public hearing will be held by the Wheat Ridge Urban Renewal Authority on Tuesday May 7, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. regarding supplemental budget adjustment for the year end 2023 for fund 120. This meeting will be held via Zoom and the link can be found on the City’s website at www. ci.wheatridge.co.us. View the City’s Calendar or Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85798840111?pwd=0 kqaWcDL1wADi8KryG3zCalVNbPuQY.1
Any interested citizens are invited to attend the public hearing. Information on log in information is available on the City’s website at www. ci.wheatridge.co.us. The budget amendment will be available for inspection by emailing Steve Art at sart@ci.wheatridge.co.us.
Steve Art, Executive Director Wheat Ridge Urban Renewal Authority
Legal Notice No. GT3001
First Publication: April 25, 2024
Last Publication: April 25, 2024
Section 3. Contingency appropriations shall be decreased by $589,000 as shown below and in Attachment A:
Contingency: Storm Drainage Fund<$589,000>
Total change to Contingency appropriations <$589,000>
Section 4. If any article, section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is held to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each part or parts hereof irrespective of the fact that any one part or parts be declared unconstitutional or invalid.
Section 5. All other ordinances or portions
Publisher: Jeffco Transcript
Public Notice
ORDINANCE NO. 2232
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, ANNEXING CERTAIN TERRITORY KNOWN AS THE SOUTH NEIGHBORHOODS PROPERTY ANNEXATION TO THE CITY OF GOLDEN
WHEREAS, the real property generally described as the South Neighborhoods Property Annexation, consisting of approximately 5.77 acres, generally located at 152 Heritage Road, and which is more particularly described in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference (the “Property”), is currently located in an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado; and
Section 1. The recitals contained above are incorporated herein by reference and are adopted as findings and determinations of Council.
Section 2. The City Council finds and concludes regarding the annexation of the Property, that the Property complies with the requirements of C.R.S. § 31-12-106(3) because the Property is owned entirely by the City of Golden, does not consist solely of a public street or public right-ofway, and the rights-of-way are not being used to achieve the one-sixth contiguity requirement.
Section 3. The City Council further finds and concludes that it also complies with section 30(1) of Article II of the Colorado Constitution because the Property is solely owned by the annexing municipality (City of Golden).
Section 4.The City Council further finds and determines that the annexation complies with C.R.S. § 31-12-104(1)(a) as required by C.R.S. § 31-12-106(3) because not less than one-sixth of the perimeter of the area proposed to be annexed is contiguous with the existing boundaries of the City.
Section 5. The City Council further finds and determines that the annexation complies with C.R.S. § 31-12-105 as required by C.R.S. § 31-12-106(3) because the Property is less than 20 acres, not held in identical ownership, being divided, or included without written consent of the owner; there are no annexation proceedings related to the area that have been commenced by another municipality; the annexation will not result in the detachment of an area from a school district; the annexation will not result in the extension of the municipal boundary more than three miles; the City of Golden has an Annexation Study Area Plan addressing annexations within said distance; and there are no platted streets or alleys included in the area to be annexed.
Section 6. Based on the foregoing findings, the City Council concludes that the proposed annexation complies with section 30(1) of Article II of the Colorado Constitution, C.R.S §31-12-104(1) (a), §31-12-105 and §31-12-106(3) and that the Property is eligible for annexation to the City of Golden.
Section 7.Annexation of Property Approved. The Property, as more particularly described in Exhibit A, is hereby annexed to, and included within, the corporate limits of the City of Golden, Colorado, in accordance with law.
Section 8. Direction to City Staff. City Council hereby directs City staff to complete all necessary procedures required for annexation
of the Subject Property to the City, including: (1) filing for recordation of three certified copies of this Ordinance and the map(s) of the Subject Property containing a legal description (“Annexation Map”) with the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder; (2) filing the original of this Ordinance together with a copy of the Annexation Map with the City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado; and (3) taking the post-approval actions specified under Section 31-12-113, C.R.S.. Prior to submitting the Annexation Map to the Jefferson County Clerk for recordation, the City Clerk shall verify with the City of Golden Director of Community and Economic Development and the City Attorney that any and all technical corrections to the Annexation Map have been made, if and as applicable.
Section 9. If any article, section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is held to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each part or parts hereof irrespective of the fact that any one part or parts be declared unconstitutional or invalid.
Section 10. All other ordinances or portions thereof inconsistent or conflicting with this ordinance or any portion hereof is hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict.
Section 11. The repeal or modification of any provision of the Municipal Code of the City of Golden by this ordinance shall not release, extinguish, alter, modify or change in whole or in part any penalty, forfeiture or liability, either civil or criminal, which shall have been incurred under such provision. Each provision shall be treated and held as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any and all proper actions, suits, proceedings and prosecutions for enforcement of the penalty, forfeiture or liability, as well as for the purpose of sustaining any judgment, decree or order which can or may be rendered, entered or made in such actions, suits, proceedings or prosecutions.
Section 12. Safety. This ordinance is deemed necessary for the protection of health, welfare, and safety of the community.
Section 13. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective five (5) days after publication following final passage in accordance with Section 5.9 of the Charter for the City of Golden, Colorado.
INTRODUCED, READ, AND PASSED AS AN ORDINANCE, ON FIRST READING, AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, THE 26TH DAY OF MARCH, 2024.
READ, PASSED, AND ADOPTED AS AN ORDINANCE ON SECOND READING, FOLLOWING A PUBLIC HEARING, AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, THE 9TH DAY OF APRIL, 2024.
Laura M. Weinberg, Mayor
ATTEST: Monica S. Mendoza, CMC City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sandra M. Llanes, City Attorney
I, Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on first reading and read at a regular business meeting of the City Council of said city, held on the 26th day of March, 2024 and was published as a proposed ordinance on the city website as the law directs seven days or more prior to its passage. A public hearing was held on the 9th day of April, 2024, and the said proposed ordinance was read on second reading. The ordinance was passed by the City Council and ordered published on the City of Golden website, as the law directs on the 9th day of April, 2024.
Witness my hand and official seal of the City of Golden, Colorado, on the 9th day of April, 2024.
ATTEST:
MONICA S. MENDOZA
Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado
EXHIBIT A Legal Description
South Neighborhoods Property Annexation
A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE EAST ONE-HALF OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP
COMMENCING AT THE EAST ONE-QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 10; THENCE N. 88° 55’ 22" W. ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 10, A DISTANCE OF 656.99
FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER (SW1/4 SE1/4 NE1/4) OF SAID SECTION 10; THENCE N. 00° 00’ 23” E. ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID SW1/4 SE1/4 NE1/4 A DISTANCE OF 345.34 FEET TO A POINT ON THE NORTHERLY RIGHTOF-WAY LINE OF U.S. HIGHWAY 40 AND THE SOUTHEASTERLY CORNER OF THE LANDS DESCRIBED IN THE CITY OF GOLDEN ANNEXATION ORDINANCE NO. 1899 RECORDED AT RECEPTION 2011093386; THENCE ALONG THE BOUNDARY OF SAID ANNEXATION THE FOLLOWING THREE (3) COURSES:
1) WESTERLY ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE, ALONG A CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 1196.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 59° 00’ 56”, A CHORD WHICH BEARS S. 37° 21’ 27” W. A DISTANCE OF 1178.16 FEET, FOR AN ARC DISTANCE OF 1231.90 FEET TO THE CENTERLINE OF COLORADO HIGHWAY 93 (ALSO KNOWN AS HERITAGE ROAD);
2) THENCE N. 10° 20’ 07” W. ALONG SAID CENTERLINE A DISTANCE OF 450.13 FEET;
3) THENCE DEPARTING SAID CENTERLINE, N. 50° 11’ 17” E. A DISTANCE OF 30.60 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THIS DESCRIPTION;
THENCE CONTINUING ALONG SAID ANNEXATION BOUNDARY THE FOLLOWING NINETEEN (19) COURSES:
1)THENCE N. 6° 51’ 47” W.
A DISTANCE OF 109.65 FEET;
2)THENCE N. 43° 30’ 24” E.
A DISTANCE OF 6.11 FEET;
3)THENCE N. 23° 34’ 57” W.
A DISTANCE OF 23.03 FEET;
4)THENCE N. 26° 52’ 39” W.
A DISTANCE OF 85.13 FEET;
5)THENCE N. 26° 09’ 26” W.
A DISTANCE OF 107.95 FEET;
6)THENCE N. 25° 02’ 25” W.
A DISTANCE OF 65.03 FEET;
7)THENCE N. 26° 11’ 10” W.
A DISTANCE OF 100.93 FEET;
8)THENCE N. 25° 12’ 26” W.
A DISTANCE OF 100.61 FEET;
9)THENCE N. 25° 38’ 00” W.
A DISTANCE OF 85.52 FEET;
10)THENCE S. 78° 46’ 02” E.
A DISTANCE OF 374.71 FEET;
11) THENCE S. 87° 48’ 00” E.
A DISTANCE OF 265.50 FEET;
12)THENCE S. 89° 18’ 03” E.
A DISTANCE OF 108.07 FEET;
13)THENCE S. 00° 00’ 23” W.
A DISTANCE OF 130.00 FEET;
14)THENCE S. 46° 53’ 14” W.
A DISTANCE OF 65.98 FEET;
15)THENCE S. 28° 28’ 18” W.
A DISTANCE OF 113.49 FEET;
16)THENCE S. 45° 35’ 56” W.
A DISTANCE OF 83.63 FEET;
17)THENCE S. 45° 23’ 12” W.
A DISTANCE OF 223.40 FEET;
18)THENCE N. 86° 54’ 06” W.
A DISTANCE OF 97.51 FEET
19)THENCE S. 50° 11’ 17” W.
A DISTANCE OF 86.42 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THIS DESCRIPTION.
THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PARCEL CONTAINS 5.77 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.
Total acreage (approximate): 5.77 acres,
hearing to be held on Tuesday, April
posted at the following website, https://www.jeffco.us/2079/ Meetings-Agendas.
The proposed Resolution is available for inspection on the County’s Website at https://www.jeffco. us/779/Finance
Legal Notice No. 418407
Section 1. The recitals contained above are incorporated herein by reference and are adopted as findings and determinations of City Council.
Section 2 City Council adopts the Planning Commission’s findings of fact as detailed in Resolution PC 23-44, in accordance with Section 18.48.050 of the Golden Municipal Code.
shall be considering the adoption of Resolution No. CC24-113 regarding the
Budget – April Supplementary Budget and Appropriation and shall take action on said Resolution at a public
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, APPROVING ESTABLISHMENT OF INITIAL ZONING FOR THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE SOUTH NEIGHBORHOODS PROPERTY ANNEXATION AS CO (CONSERVATION)
WHEREAS, the City of Golden (the “Property Owner”) submits an application to establish initial zoning (“Application) for approximately 5.77 acres of property generally located at 152 Heritage Road and generally known as the South Neighborhoods Property (the “Property”), as more particularly described in Exhibit A, to be established as CO (Conservation); and
WHEREAS, the Property Owner seeks to initially rezone approximately 5.77 acres of the Property from Jefferson County Agricultural District (Agricultural-One or A-1 and Agricultural-Two or A-2) to Conservation (CO); and
WHEREAS, the Property Owner is the record fee owner of the Property; and
WHEREAS, a properly noticed neighborhood meeting was held on the proposed zoning on January 10, 2024, in accordance with Chapter 18.48 of the City of Golden Municipal Code (the “Code”); and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission, after considering the Application during a duly noticed public hearing on February 7, 2024, recommended approval of the Application to City Council in Resolution PC 23-44; and
WHEREAS, notice of the public hearing before the Council on the Application was properly given by posting the Property, publication of the notice on the City’s website, and notification to nearby owners and residents in accordance with applicable provisions of Chapter 18.48 of the Code; and
WHEREAS, on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, following the conclusion of a duly noticed public hearing, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2232 (the “Annexation Ordinance”) approving the annexation of the Property into the City of Golden; and
WHEREAS, at the same public hearing held and concluded on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, the City Council considered establishing the initial zoning for the Property under Chapter 18.48 of the Code, specifically City Council considered rezoning the Property from Jefferson County Agricultural District (Agricultural-One or A-1 and Agricultural-Two or A-2) to Conservation (CO) under the procedures for initial zoning and rezoning set forth in the Code; and
WHEREAS, as required by C.R.S. § 31-12115(2) and Section 18.48.010(2)(b) of the Code, the City must zone annexed property within ninety (90) days of the effective date of the Annexation Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, City Council has considered the Planning Commission record relating to the Application; the written findings and recommendations of the Planning Commission, including Resolution PC 23-44; any written and oral objections to the findings and recommendations of the Planning Commission; and testimony and evidence presented to City Council for consideration at the April 9, 2024, hearing; and
WHEREAS, City Council desires to approve the Application.
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN,
Section 3. Establishment of Initial Zoning Approved. Based on the Planning Commission’s findings of facts as detailed in Resolution PC 23-44, the Planning Commission record relating to the Application, and the staff report, testimony and evidence presented to City Council for consideration at the public hearing on April 9, 2024, City Council finds that the standards for zoning in Section 18.48.060 of the Municipal Code have been met and hereby grants and approves the establishment of the initial zoning of the Property in the City of Golden as: CO (Conservation). Specifically, the City Council finds that proposed zoning promotes the health, safety, and welfare of the inhabitants of the City and the purposes of Title 18 of the Golden Municipal Code, and the proposed zoning promotes the goals of the comprehensive plan.
Section 4. Direction to City Staff – Zoning Map. Following the date on which the Annexation Instruments have been recorded in the County Records, the City of Golden Zoning Map (“Zoning Map”) shall be amended to conform to and reflect the Property’s CO zoning designation. City Staff is directed to change the zoning of the Property on the Zoning Map and to make any technical corrections to the Zoning Map necessitated by the initial zoning of the Property established by this Ordinance.
Section 5. If any article, section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is held to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each part or parts hereof irrespective of the fact that any one part or parts be declared unconstitutional or invalid.
Section 6. All other ordinances or portions thereof inconsistent or conflicting with this ordinance or any portion hereof is hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict.
Section 7. The repeal or modification of any provision of the Municipal Code of the City of Golden by this ordinance shall not release, extinguish, alter, modify or change in whole or in part any penalty, forfeiture or liability, either civil or criminal, which shall have been incurred under such provision. Each provision shall be treated and held as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any and all proper actions, suits, proceedings and prosecutions for enforcement of the penalty, forfeiture or liability, as well as for the purpose of sustaining any judgment, decree or order which can or may be rendered, entered or made in such actions, suits, proceedings or prosecutions.
Section 8.Safety. This ordinance is deemed necessary for the protection of health, welfare, and safety of the community.
Section 9. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective five (5) days after publication following final passage in accordance with Section 5.9 of the Charter for the City of Golden, Colorado.
INTRODUCED, READ, AND PASSED AS AN ORDINANCE, ON FIRST READING, AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, THE 26TH DAY OF MARCH, 2024.
READ, PASSED, AND ADOPTED AS AN ORDINANCE ON SECOND READING, FOLLOWING
A PUBLIC HEARING, AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, THE 9TH DAY OF APRIL, 2024.
Laura M. Weinberg, Mayor
ATTEST: Monica S. Mendoza, CMC
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sandra M. Llanes, City Attorney
I, Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on first reading and read at a regular business meeting of the
City Council of said city, held on the 26th day of March, 2024 and was published as a proposed ordinance on the city website as the law directs seven days or more prior to its passage. A public hearing was held on the 9th day of April, 2024, and the said proposed ordinance was read on second reading. The ordinance was passed by the City Council and ordered published on the City of Golden website, as the law directs on the 9th day of April, 2024.
Witness my hand and official seal of the City of Golden, Colorado, on the 9th day of April, 2024.
ATTEST: MONICA S. MENDOZA
Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado
EXHIBIT A Legal Description
South Neighborhoods Property Annexation
A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE EAST ONE-HALF OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 4 SOUTH, RANGE 70 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
COMMENCING AT THE EAST ONE-QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 10; THENCE N. 88° 55’ 22" W. ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 10, A DISTANCE OF 656.99 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER (SW1/4 SE1/4 NE1/4) OF SAID SECTION 10; THENCE N. 00° 00’ 23” E. ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID SW1/4 SE1/4 NE1/4 A DISTANCE OF 345.34 FEET TO A POINT ON THE NORTHERLY RIGHTOF-WAY LINE OF U.S. HIGHWAY 40 AND THE SOUTHEASTERLY CORNER OF THE LANDS DESCRIBED IN THE CITY OF GOLDEN ANNEXATION ORDINANCE NO. 1899 RECORDED AT RECEPTION 2011093386; THENCE ALONG THE BOUNDARY OF SAID ANNEXATION THE FOLLOWING THREE (3) COURSES:
1) WESTERLY ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE, ALONG A CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 1196.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 59° 00’ 56”, A CHORD WHICH BEARS S. 37° 21’ 27” W. A DISTANCE OF 1178.16 FEET, FOR AN ARC DISTANCE OF 1231.90 FEET TO THE CENTERLINE OF COLORADO HIGHWAY 93 (ALSO KNOWN AS HERITAGE ROAD);
2) THENCE N. 10° 20’ 07” W. ALONG SAID CENTERLINE A DISTANCE OF 450.13 FEET;
3) THENCE DEPARTING SAID CENTERLINE, N. 50° 11’ 17” E. A DISTANCE OF 30.60 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THIS DESCRIPTION;
THENCE CONTINUING ALONG SAID ANNEXATION BOUNDARY THE FOLLOWING NINETEEN (19) COURSES : 1)THENCE N. 6° 51’ 47” W. A DISTANCE OF 109.65 FEET; 2)THENCE N. 43° 30’ 24” E. A DISTANCE OF 6.11 FEET; 3)THENCE N. 23° 34’ 57” W. A DISTANCE OF 23.03 FEET; 4)THENCE N. 26° 52’ 39” W. A DISTANCE OF 85.13 FEET; 5)THENCE N. 26° 09’ 26” W. A DISTANCE OF 107.95 FEET; 6)THENCE N. 25° 02’ 25” W. A DISTANCE OF 65.03 FEET; 7)THENCE N. 26°
A DISTANCE OF 97.51 FEET 19) THENCE S. 50° 11’ 17” W.
A DISTANCE OF 86.42 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THIS DESCRIPTION.
THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PARCEL CONTAINS 5.77 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.
Total acreage (approximate): 5.77 acres, as more particularly shown in the annexation map(s) on file with the City Clerk.
Legal Notice No. 418385
First Publication: April 25, 2024
Last Publication: April 25, 2024
Publisher: Golden Transcript LEGAL NOTICE
RESOLUTION CC24-112
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THAT THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO, shall be considering the adoption of Resolution No. CC24-112 regarding the 2023 Budget – Year End Supplementary Budget and Appropriation and shall take action on said Resolution at a public hearing to be held on Tuesday, April 30, 2023, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. through a hybrid meeting platform. Meetings are held in Hearing Room One in the Courts and Administration Building located at 100 Jefferson County Parkway in Golden or through a virtual WebEx platform, details for accessing the public hearing will be posted at the following website, https://www.jeffco.us/2079/Meetings-Agendas.
The proposed Resolution is available for inspection on the County’s Website at https://www.jeffco. us/779/Finance
Legal Notice No. 418406
First Publication: April 25, 2024
Last Publication: April 25, 2024
Publisher: Golden Transcript
Public Notice
The Lakewood Housing Authority (Metro West Housing Solutions) will submit an application to the Colorado Division of Housing (DOH). The purpose of this application is to request $4,400,000 to develop 44 Units of rental homes at 1530 & 1550 Youngfield Dr., Lakewood, CO 80215. The request of funding from DOH is to benefit persons with low and moderate incomes by increasing the availability of affordable housing in Lakewood. It is not the intent to cause displacement from any existing housing; however, if persons are displaced from their existing residences reasonable housing alternatives shall be offered.
All interested persons are encouraged to contact the applicant for further information. Written comments should be sent to Brendalee Connors, 575 Union Blvd., Ste. 100, Lakewood, CO 80228 and will be forwarded to DOH for consideration during the application process.
Members of the public may request a public meeting and should arrange a request with the Applicant. Applicant shall post notice of meeting (Date, Time, and Location) to ensure other members of the public are aware of meeting. If reasonable accommodations are needed for persons attending the public meeting, please contact the Applicant.
Legal Notice No. 418399
First Publication: April 25, 2024
Last Publication: April 25, 2024 Publisher: Golden Transcript
NO. 2234 AN
WHEREAS, Lot 26 of the Canyon View Business Park Filing No. 1 Final Plat (the “Property”), is located within the Existing PUD/ODP and is affected by the Application; and
WHEREAS, the Application seeks to amend the Existing PUD/ODP by introducing Multi-family residential as a new allowed use to the Site; and
WHEREAS, development of the site using the new proposed use would be deed restricted to “Workforce Housing Units” as defined in the proposed amended ODP for the first 15 years; and
WHEREAS, the Kilgroe Property Annexation No. 2 PUD Amendment 3 PUD/ODP is attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference (the “PUD/ODP Amendment”); and
WHEREAS, the PUD/ODP Amendment does not qualify as a minor modification pursuant Section 18.28.370(1) of the Golden Municipal Code (“GMC”) and therefore requires a new official development plan pursuant to GMC Section 18.28.370(3). The procedures and requirements include a neighborhood meeting prior to application submittal followed by consideration of the Application by Planning Commission and a final decision on the Application by City Council; and
WHEREAS, a properly noticed neighborhood meeting was held on the requested Application on June 15, 2022, in accordance with GMC Section 18.48.020; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to its authority under GMC Section 18.48.040, the Planning Commission considered the Application at a properly noticed public hearing on February 7, 2024, and adopted Resolution PC22-14b, recommending denial of the Application finding that the standards were not met; and
WHEREAS, after reviewing the record of the Planning Commission public hearing, and after considering the testimony and evidence presented at the City Council public hearing, City Council finds and determines that the Application is complete, that the Applicant has met the procedural requirements for PUD Zoning contained in Section 18.28.320 and rezoning in Chapter 18.48 of the Code, and that the Application meets the standards set forth in Section 18.28.350 (Standards for approval of ODP), in that the proposed development:
a. Will be in harmony and compatible with the character of the surrounding areas and neighborhood in terms of use, scale, site design, and operating characteristics or which are made compatible through appropriate transitions at the boundaries of the PUD district plan;
b. Will be in accordance with of the Golden Comprehensive Plan and also result in positive benefits for the surrounding area or an improvement in the quality of the project not possible under existing zoning;
c. Will not result in an over-intensive use of land;
d. Will not have a material adverse effect on community capital improvements programs;
e. Will not require a level of community facilities and services greater than that which is available;
f.Will not result in undue traffic congestion or traffic hazards;
g.Will not cause significant air, water, or noise pollution;
h. Will be landscaped, buffered, and screened to be compatible with the surrounding neighborhood; and
i. Will not otherwise be detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of the present or future inhabitants of Golden.
WHEREAS, the City Council further finds and determines that the Application meets the standards of Section 18.48.060 (Standards for zoning and rezoning) of the Code, in that the proposed zoning:
WHEREAS, Mr. Ben Maxwell of HM Capital Group (the “Applicant”) has submitted an application (the “Application”) to amend that certain Kilgroe Property Annexation No. 2 PUD, approved by the Golden City Council on August 24, 2000, and recorded on January 11, 2001 in the real property records of Jefferson County, Colorado, at Reception No. F1169332, as amended by that certain P.U.D. Amendment No. 1 to Kilgroe Property Annexation No. 2 P.U.D., approved by Golden City Council on February 14, 2002, and recorded on August 29, 2002, in the real property records of Jefferson County, Colorado, at Reception No. F1554272, and as amended by that certain Kilgroe Annexation No. 2 Planned Unit Development, Amendment No. 2 approved by Golden City Council on October 11, 2007, and recorded on December 20, 2007, in the real property records of Jefferson County, Colorado, at Reception No. 2007138391 (collectively, the “Existing PUD/ODP”); and
a. Promotes the health, safety or welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Golden and the purposes of Title 18 of the Golden Municipal Code; and
b. At least one of the following additional factors exist:
1. The proposed zoning promotes the goals of the comprehensive plan, or the proposed rezoning demonstrates an improvement over the existing zoning in implementing the goals of the comprehensive plan; or
2. There has been a material change in the character of the neighborhood or in the city generally, such that the proposed zoning would be in the public interest and consistent with the change; or
3. The property to be rezoned was previously zoned in error.
WHEREAS, public notices of the public hearings before the Commission and City Council were properly given by, as applicable, posting the Property and written notification to nearby owners and residents in accordance with applicable provisions of Chapter 18.28 and Chapter 18.48 of the Code.
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO:
Section 1. The City Council declines to adopt the Planning Commission’s findings of fact in this case, as detailed in Resolution PC2214b.
Section 2. The above Recitals of the City Council are hereby incorporated into this ordinance.
Section 3. The Kilgroe Property Annexation No. 2 PUD Amendment No. 3 Official Development Plan, attached hereto as Exhibit A, is hereby approved, subject to the following conditions of approval:
(a) Prior to and as a condition of recordation of the PUD/ODP Amendment, the Applicant shall resolve and make any technical and grammatical corrections to the PUD/ODP Amendment as directed by City staff.
(b)
Section 4. The zoning classification of the Property is hereby rezoned to the Existing PUD/ ODP, as amended by the PUD/ODP Amendment.
Section 5. This ordinance is deemed necessary for the protection of the health, welfare, and safety of the community.
Section 6. If any provision of this ordinance should be found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions or applications of this ordinance that can be given effect without the invalid portion, provided that such remaining portions or applications of this ordinance are not determined by the court to be inoperable. The City Council declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, despite the fact that any one or more section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion be declared invalid.
Section 7. The repeal or modification of any provision of the Code by this ordinance shall not release, extinguish, alter, modify or change in whole or in part any penalty, forfeiture or liability, either civil or criminal, which shall have been incurred under such provision. Each provision shall be treated and held as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any and all proper actions, suits, proceedings and prosecutions for enforcement of the penalty, forfeiture or liability, as well as for the purpose of sustaining any judgment, decree or order which can or may be rendered, entered or made in such actions, suits, proceedings or prosecutions.
Section 8. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective five (5) days after publication following final passage in accordance with Section 5.9 of the Charter for the City of Golden, Colorado.
INTRODUCED, READ, AND PASSED AS AN ORDINANCE, ON FIRST READING, AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, ON THE 26TH DAY OF MARCH 2024.
READ, PASSED, AND ADOPTED AS AN ORDINANCE ON SECOND READING, FOL-
LOWING A PUBLIC HEARING, AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, THE DAY OF ______________, 2023.
Laura M. Weinberg, Mayor
ATTEST: Monica S. Mendoza, CMC
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sandra M. Llanes, City Attorney
I, I, Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a certain proposed ordinance introduced and read before the City Council of the City of Golden at a regular meeting thereof held on the 26th day of March, 2024, and ordered by said City Council to be published as the law provides, and that a public hearing is declared for the 28th day of May, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 911 10th Street, Golden.
ATTEST: MONICA S. MENDOZA
Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado
EXHIBIT A
Kilgroe Property Annexation No. 2
PUD Amendment No. 3 ODP
Legal Notice No. 418386
First Publication: April 25, 2024
Last Publication: April 25, 2024
Publisher: Golden Transcript
Metropolitan Districts
Public Notice
Notice is hereby given that final settlement will be made on or about May 10, 2024, on the Genesee Reservoir No.1 Expansion Project between the Genesee Water and Sanitation District and Zak Dirt of Longmont, Colorado.
Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by the contractor identified above or any subcontractor thereof in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that has supplied rental machinery, tools, or other equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim thereof has not been paid by the contractor or subcontractor, may in accordance with section 38-26-107 (1) C.R.S., file with the District Manager, Genesee Water and Sanitation District, a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, which statement must be filed on or before May 6, 2024. Claims must be submitted to: Genesee Water and Sanitation District, Attn: District Manager, 2310 Bitterroot Lane, Golden, CO 80401.
The Town of Bow Mar is accepting bids for the 2024 Roadway Improvement Project. The anticipated scope of work consists of the roadway reconstruction and shoulder improvements for ~3,400 SY of Sombrero St from Bow Mar Dr to Sunset Dr, ~2300 SY of Longhorn from Sunset Dr to Sheridan Blvd, ~3,700 SY of Bow Mar Dr from Sheridan Blvd to Yellowstone. The work generally includes mobilization,
of the proposed 2023 Budget Amendment, inspect the
A 5% bid bond is to accompany the bid. The successful contractor will be required to provide a payment and performance bond and a 2-year materials and workmanship warranty bond for the work.
A prebid meeting will be conducted on Friday, May 3, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.
Bids are due by and will be publicly opened on Friday, May 10, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. at the office of Miner & Company, Ltd. Interested contractors can obtain the bid documents by contacting the Town Clerk via email to townclerk@bowmar.gov, with copy to bids@ miner-co.com, and referencing 2024 Bow Mar Roadway Improvements.
will be received and opened by the Green Mountain Water and Sanitation District at 13919 West Utah Avenue, Lakewood, CO 80228, until 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 1, 2024.
DIRP #1 & DIRP #2
includes work within the Green Mountain Water and Sanitation District, located within Jefferson County, Colorado.
NOTE: These are 2 separate bid schedules to be bid separately.
The work generally consists of:
• Removal and replacement of approximately 3,930 lineal feet of 6-inch water main, 3,660 lineal feet of 8-inch water main, and removal of 1,418 lineal feet of 8-inch and 12-inch cement asbestos pipe.
• Associated temporary water service, valves, fire hydrants, connections, and asphalt pavement replacement.
The schedule is as follows:
• Wednesday, April 10, 2024 – Contract Documents with Exhibits/Details, Specifications and Bid Forms may be obtained online at www. bidnetdirect.com or by contacting the district manager.
• Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 10:00 am – Bids will be received and opened at 13919 West Utah Avenue Lakewood, CO 80228.
• Friday, November 22, 2024 –Project Completion.
This Plan Set contains TWO Projects that will be bid in two different bid schedules contained in the contract documents. Based on the bids, the two projects may be awarded to one or different contractors.
• 2024 DIRP #1 - Projects 1W, 2W, 3W, 4W and 8W
• 2024 DIRP #2 - Projects 5W, 6W and 7W
Copies of the Bidding Documents may be found at www.bidnetdirect.com or requested from the Green Mountain Water and Sanitation District, District Manager. No payment required. Reproductions are prohibited. No pre-bid conference is scheduled; however, interested Bidders are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the area where the work will be performed.
Bids may not be withdrawn for a period of fortyfive (45) days after the time fixed for bid closing.
The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any errors or irregularities, and to require statements or evidence of Bidders qualifications including financial statements.
The Owner also reserves the right to extend the Bidding period by Addendum if it appears in its interest to do so.
All questions and addendums can be viewed at www.bidnetdirect.com or requested from the Green Mountain Water and Sanitation District, District Manager.
Sincerely, GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT
Sam R. McKay
cc: Josh Stanley, District Manager
You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.
If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.
This is an action: quiet title to real property located in Jefferson County, Colorado. Dated:
KILLIN BRITTAN & RAY, LLC
signature on file at office of counsel By: Caleb E. Ray, #56636
not receive further notice about court filings and events. You are still required to obey any orders the Court issues.
4. Automatic Court Orders (Temporary Injunction)
As soon as you receive this Summons, you must obey these orders:
1) Do not disturb the peace of the other parent or parties in this case.
2) Do not take the children in this case out of the state without permission from the Court and/or the other parent (or party).
3) Do not stop paying, cancel, or make any changes to health, homeowner’s, renter’s, automobile, or life insurance policies that cover the children or a party in this case or that name a child or a party as a beneficiary.
Exception: You may make changes to insurance coverage if you have written permission from the other parent or party or a court order, and you give at least 14 days’ Notice to the other party. C.R.S. §§ 14-10-107, 108. You must obey these orders until this case is finalized, dismissed, or the Court changes these orders. To request a change, you may use form JDF 1314 – General Motion.
5. Note on Genetic Testing
You can request genetic testing. The Court will not hold this request against you when deciding the outcome of the case. You must do testing and submit the results before the Court establishes who the parents are (parentage) and issues final orders. After that time, it may be too late to submit genetic testing evidence. The law that directs this process is C.R.S. § 14-10-124(1.5).
DATED this 8th day of January, 2024.
Respectfully Submitted, The Law Offices of Rodger C. Daley and Associates
S/ Carrie Vonachen
Carrie Vonachen, Atty. No. 34844
Attorney for Petitioner Legal Notice No. 418251
Plaintiff: CERISE ENTERPRISES, L.L.C,
Legal Notice No.418310
First Publication: April 4, 2024
CAMPBELL KILLIN BRITTAN & RAY, LLC
Caleb E. Ray, #56636 270 Saint Paul St., Ste. 200
Attorneys for Plaintiffs Phone: (303)322-3400
Fax: (303)322-5800
Email: cray@ckbrlaw.com
1. Family Case You (the Respondent) are now a part of a court case to resolve a family legal matter. Along with this summons, you will get a document called a Petition. The Petition will let you know more about the case and what the Petitioner wants the Court to do.
2. Your Next Steps You must file a written response to that Petition.
1) You may use form JDF 1420 – Response to the Petition.
2) Forms and resources are found online at www. courts.state.co.us/Forms/family.
3) Your response is due within 21 days of receiving this summons.
Note: That deadline extends to 35 days when served outside of Colorado or if notified of the case by publication.
3) File online at www.jbits.courts.state.co.us/efiling. Or, File by mail or in-person. (The Court’s address is in Box above.)
4) Include the filing fee ($116). Or, File the Response by mail or in-person with a fee waiver (forms JDF 205 & JDF 206).
3. Consequences
If you do not file a Response, the Court may decide the case without your input. You may
the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.
If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.
This is an action:
CERISE ENTERPRISES, L.L.C,
Defendants: KELLIE S. MALLONE; PATRIC GALVIN; ALBERT L. STRUCKOFF (OR THE ESTATE OF ALBERT L. STRUCKOFF); ANNA STRUCKOFF (OR THE ESTATE OF ANNA STRUCKOFF); MOSES WALTON; KATHRYN S. MAXWELL (OR THE ESTATE OF KATHRYN S. MAXWELL); and ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS ACTION
CAMPBELL KILLIN BRITTAN & RAY, LLC
Caleb E. Ray, #56636 270 Saint Paul St., Ste. 200
Attorneys for Plaintiffs
Phone: (303)322-3400
Fax: (303)322-5800
Email: cray@ckbrlaw.com
Case Number: 2024 CV 30287 Division: 7
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE DEFENDANTS NAMED ABOVE:
You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.
If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.
This is an action: quiet title to real property located in Jefferson County, Colorado.
Dated:
CAMPBELL KILLIN BRITTAN & RAY, LLC
Original signature on file at office of counsel By: Caleb E. Ray, #56636 Legal Notice No.418303
six, range seventy-one West, according to Plat of Red Wing Park, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.
known as 26824 Rascal Lane, Conifer, Colorado 80433, also informally known as 10761 Kitty Drive and Vacant Land, Conifer, CO 80433, Jefferson County Parcel ID Nos 61-232-01-006 and 61-232-01-007
YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE THE AMOUNTS DUE TO THE HOLDER OF THE JUDGMENT. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, ARE ATTACHED HERETO. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. (C.R.S. §§ 38-38-103, 38-38-104, 38-38-301, 38-38-302, 38-38-304, 38-38-305, 38-38-306, and 38-37-108).
A notice of intent to cure filed pursuant to section 38-38-104 shall be filed with the officer at least fifteen calendar days prior to the first scheduled sale date or any date to which the sale is continued.
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. A notice of intent to redeem filed pursuant to C.R.S. § 38-38-302 shall be filed with the officer no later than eight business days after the sale.
Denver, CO 80203 (720) 508-6000
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau PO Box 2900
Clinton, IA 52733-2900
(855) 411-2372; TTY/TDD: (855) 729-2372
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a Writ of Execution issued by the District Court for the County of Jefferson in Case No. 2013CV31588, directing and commanding me to make the sum of Three Hundred Fourty Four Thousand, Fourty Two and 55/100ths Dollars ($344,042.55), plus additional interest, attorneys’ fees, and costs, the amount of a certain Judgment obtained against Judgment Debtor Kristin K. Meyer and in favor of Judgment Creditor, Coe D. Meyer, from any property of Judgment Debtor Kristin K. Meyer legally subject to levy.
I have levied upon the full interest in the following real property to satisfy the Judgment in the aforementioned action:
Lots 11, 12, 13, 14 and 39 of and in Red Wing Park, a Subdivision of the Northeast quarter of Northwest quarter (NE ¼ NW ¼) and a portion of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NW ¼ NE ¼) of section 23, township six, range seventy-one West, according to Plat of Red Wing Park, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.
Also known as: 26824 Rascal Lane, Conifer, Colorado 80433, also informally known as 10761 Kitty Drive and Vacant Land, Conifer, CO 80433, Jefferson County Parcel ID Nos 61-232-01-006 and 61-232-01-007
The lien foreclosed may not be a first lien.
THEREFORE, according to said command, I shall expose said real property for sale, at Public Auction, to the highest and best bidder for cash, on Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 10:00 a.m., at the County Building at Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Civil Unit 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Suite 1520, Golden, CO, 80419, in the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.
**BIDDERS
2. Your Next Steps
You must file a written response to that Petition.
a) You may use form JDF 1015 – Response to the Petition.
b) Forms and resources are found online at [www. courts.state.co.us/Forms/family]
c) Your response is due within 21 days of receiving this summons.
Note! That deadline extends to 35 days when served outside of Colorado or if notified of the case by publication.
d) File online at: [www.jbits.courts.state.co.us/efiling]
Or file by mail or at the courthouse. (The Court’s address is in Box A above.)
e) Include the filing fee ($116).
Or request a fee waiver. (Use forms JDF 205 and JDF 206) Jefferson
3. Consequences
If you do not file a Response, the Court may decide the case without your input. You may not receive further notice about court filings and events. You are still required to obey any orders the Court issues.
4. Automatic Court Orders (Temporary Injunction)
As soon as you receive this Summons, you must obey these orders:
a) Do not sell, transfer, assign, borrow against, hide, or get rid of any marital property without permission of the other party or the court. You may use your income for your usual business expenses and life necessities.
b) Do not disturb the peace of the other parent or parties in this case.
c) Do not take the children out of the state without permission from the Court or the other party.
d) Do not stop paying, cancel, or make any changes to health, homeowner’s, renter’s, automobile, or life insurance policies that cover the children or a party in this case or that name a child or a party as a beneficiary.
Exception: You may change insurance coverage if you have written permission from the other parent or party or a court order and give at least 14 days’ Notice to the other party. C.R.S. §§ 14-10-107, 108. You must obey these orders until this case is finalized, dismissed, or the Court changes these orders. To request a change, you may use form JDF 1314 – General Motion
5. Note on Genetic Testing
You can request genetic testing. The Court will not hold this request against you when deciding the case's outcome.
You must do testing and submit the results before the Court establishes who the parents are (parentage) and issues final orders. After that time, it may be too late to submit genetic testing evidence. The law that directs this process is C.R.S. § 14-10-124(1.5).
So Summoned By: AnnePierson, Attorney for Petitioner
Dated: March15, 2024
Legal Notice No. 418344
First Publication: April 11, 2024
Last
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, the Council on Environmental Quality regulations for implementing NEPA (40 CFR Parts 1500 through 1508) and the HHS General Administration Manual Part 30 Environmental Protection (February 25, 2000), HRSA has Savio House will have no significant adverse impact on the quality of the human environment. As a result of this FONSI, an Environmental Impact Statement will not be prepared.
The Health Resources and Services Administra-
tion (HRSA) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides discretionary grant and cooperative agreement awards to support health centers expand their capacity to provide primary and preventive health care services to medically underserved populations nationwide.
Savio House in Denver, CO has applied for HRSA grant funding. The applicant proposes to use grant funds to construct the Savio family residential townhomes at 9820 W. 21st Ave, Lakewood, CO 80215. The applicant has submitted an Environmental Assessment (EA) that documents impact of the proposed action. This EA is incorporated by reference into this FONSI.
Additional project information is contained in the Environmental Assessment for this project, which is on file at the following address for public examination upon request between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Savio House
325 King Street Denver, CO 80219
Attn: Mary Laidley
Phone: 303-225-4100
Email: info@saviohouse.org
No further environmental review of this project is proposed prior to final approval from HRSA.
Public Comments
Any individual, group, or agency disagreeing with this determination or wishing to comment on these projects may submit written comments to Savio House, Attn: Joshua Pruyn, Development Coordinator, at 325 King Street, Denver CO 80219.
HRSA will consider all comments received within 15 days of this “Notice” prior to final approval from HRSA.
Legal Notice No. 418365
First Publication: April 18, 2024
Last Publication: April 25, 2024
Publisher: Golden Transcript
Public Notice
Court Summons – APR / Custody Case District Court Colorado County: Jefferson 100 Jefferson County Pkwy.
1.Family Case
You
2.Your Next Steps
You must file a written response to that Petition.
1)You may use form JDF 1420 –Response to the Petition.
2) Forms and resources are found online at www. courts.state.co.us/Forms/family.
3) Your response is due within 21 days of receiving this summons.
Note!That deadline extends to 35 days when served outside of Colorado or if notified of the case by publication.
3)File online at www.jbits.courts.state.co.us/efiling. Or, File by mail or in-person. (The Court’s address is in Box A above.)
4)Include the filing fee ($116). Or, File the Response by mail or in-person with a fee waiver (forms JDF 205 & JDF 206).
3.Consequences
If you do not file a Response, the Court may decide the case without your input. You may not receive further notice about court filings and events. You are still required to obey any orders the Court issues.
4.Automatic Court Orders (Temporary Injunction)
As soon as you receive this Summons, you must obey these orders:
1) Do not disturb the peace of the other parent or parties in this case.
2) Do not take the children in this case out of the state without permission from the Court and/ or the other parent (or party).
3) Do not stop paying, cancel, or make any changes to health, homeowner’s, renter’s, automobile, or life insurance policies that cover the children or a party in this case or that name a child or a party as a beneficiary.
Exception: You may make changes to insurance coverage if you have written permission from the other parent or party or a court order, and you give at least 14 days’ Notice to the other party. C.R.S. §§ 14-10-107, 108.
You must obey these orders until this case is finalized, dismissed, or the Court changes these orders. To request a change, you may use form JDF 1314 – General Motion.
5.Note on Genetic Testing
You can request genetic testing. The Court will not hold this request against you when deciding the outcome of the case.
You must do testing and submit the results before the Court establishes who the parents are (parentage) and issues final orders. After that time, it may be too late to submit genetic testing evidence. The law that directs this process is C.R.S. § 14-10-124(1.5).
So Summoned
Dated: 12/21/2023
Alex Holmes Petitioner’s Attorney*
* See Box C on page 1 for the attorney’s name, registration number, and contact information.
If you were served outside of the State of Colorado or you were served by publication, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.
Your response must be accompanied by the $116.00 filing fee.
After 91 days from the date of service or publication, the Court may enter a Decree (final order) affecting your marital status, distribution of property and debts, issues involving children such as child support, allocation of parental responsibilities (custody – decision making & parenting time), maintenance (spousal support), attorney fees, and costs to the extent the Court has jurisdiction.
If you fail to file a Response in this case, any or all of the matters above, or any related matters which come before this Court, may be decided without further notice to you.
This is an action to obtain a Decree of: Dissolution of Marriage (Divorce) or Legal Separation as more fully described in the attached Petition, and if you have children, for orders regarding the children of the marriage.
Notice: §14-10-107, C.R.S. provides that upon the filing of a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage or Legal Separation by the Petitioner and Co-Petitioner, or upon personal service of the Petition and Summons on the Respondent, or upon waiver and acceptance of service by the Respondent, an automatic temporary injunction (temporary order) shall be in effect against both parties until the Final Decree (order) is entered, or the Petition is dismissed, or until further Order of the Court. Either party may apply (request) to the Court for further (additional) temporary orders, an expanded (increased) temporary injunction, or modification or revocation (change or cancel current temporary injunction) under §14-10-108, C.R.S.
A request for genetic tests shall not prejudice (compromise) the requesting party in matters concerning allocation of parental responsibilities (custody) pursuant to §14-10-124(1.5), C.R.S. If genetic tests are not obtained prior to a legal establishment of paternity and submitted into evidence prior to the entry of the final decree of dissolution or legal separation, the genetic tests may not be allowed into evidence at a later date.
Automatic Temporary Injunction (Temporary Court Order) – By Order of Colorado Law, You and Your Spouse are:
1. Restrained (prohibited) from transferring, encumbering (burden), concealing (hide) or in any way disposing of (get rid of), without the consent of the other party or an Order of the Court, any marital property (property acquired during the marriage), except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life. Each party is required to notify the other party of any proposed extraordinary expenditures (expenses beyond the normal) and to account (notify, give reason and description) to the Court for all extraordinary expenditures made after the injunction is in effect;
2. Enjoined from molesting (bothering) or disturbing the peace of the other party;
3. Restrained (prohibited) from removing the minor children of the parties, if any, from the State without the consent of the other party or an Order of the Court; and
4. Restrained (prohibited) without at least 14 days advance notification and the written consent of the other party or an Order of the Court, from canceling, modifying, terminating, or allowing to lapse for nonpayment of premiums, any policy of health insurance, homeowner’s or renter’s insurance, or automobile insurance that
which the hearing may be continued: Date: May 17, 2024 Time: 8:00 a.m. Courtroom or Division: 11 Address: 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80401
***** IMPORTANT NOTICE*****
Any interested person wishing to object to the requested action set forth in the motion/petition and proposed order must file a written objection with the court on or before the hearing and must furnish a copy of the objection to the person requesting the court order. JDF 722 (Objection form) is available on the Colorado Judicial Branch website (www.courts.state.co.us). If no objection is filed, the court may take action on the motion/ petition without further notice or hearing. If any objection is filed, the objecting party must, within 14 days after filing the objection, contact the court to set the objection for an appearance hearing. Failure to timely set the objection for an appearance hearing as required will result in further action as the court deems appropriate.
aka Carl Garver, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30165
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before Monday, August 26, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Sasha Garver, Personal Representative 6856 Wilderness Pt. Bettendorf, IA 52722
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before September 5, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred. Brian D. McCleary, Personal Representative
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