Move is a response to state’s decision to put two group homes close to Stukey Elementary
BY MONTE WHALEY MWHALEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMNorthglenn City Council Monday night voted unanimously to lengthen the distance from where convicted
sex o enders can live from schools.
e council voted 8-0 at their Apri 8 meeting for an emergency ordinance amending the city’s current ordinance that states sex o enders my reside within 750 feet of schools. e amendment stretches the restricted space to 1,000 feet.
City o cials said the change was to block convicted sex o enders from moving into two state-run group homes at 11255 and 11275 Grant Drive in Northglenn. e distance of the proposed two facilities is 815.9 feet from Stukey Elementary School,
according to a sta report to the city council.
e ordinance went into e ect Monday night. So far, the city said, no one has moved into the two Grant Drive facilities.
Council members said the ordinance change was just about the only hand they could play after the Colorado Department of Human Services decided, with little or no notice, to open the two facilities for out-patients from mental health facilities in the city.
e two homes would have 32 beds
and could house four sex o enders. Residents have loudly protested that the sex o enders pose a danger to neighborhood children, especially at Stukey Elementary.
“We don’t like the way this has been done,” said councilmember Katherine Go . “Hopefully, this outcome will make us feel safer.”
e state is seeking to open Mental Health Transition Facilities across the state to house 125 patient beds.
A Colorado legislator is launching a last-ditch e ort to introduce a bill to x a measure passed two years ago that Northglenn residents fear
will place registered sex o enders into a local neighborhood.
State Representative Jenny Willford, who represents Northglenn and ornton, said she has submitted a request to produce a bill that would x HB2-1303, which has at-
tracted the ire of Northglenn locals and city o cials.
But the legislative session ends in May and leaders at the capitol are usually reluctant to add more bills at the last minute, Willford said.
“
ere are roughly 34 days left in the legislative session, so yes there could be a bill introduced. e question is, however, if a late bill will be approved,” Willford said via email.
“Every legislator is entitled to introduce ve bills and anything else requires a sign-o from leadership. I have submitted a request and am waiting to hear from the leadership,” Willford said.
e older bill was passed to allow patients previously being treated for mental health problems into residential homes under strict supervision. O cials said the patients would be treated and then be released into the general population.
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e state wants to put some of the patients into two Mental Health Transitional Living Facilities at 11255 and 11275 Grant Drive in Northglenn.
But many Northglenn residents are furious that some of the patients are convicted sex o enders who will live near two schools that house over 500 students, adjacent playgrounds, and an in-home daycare.
Valerie Carter said the two units will be close to Stukey Elementary, where her daughter attends classes. At least 40% of the Stukey students qualify for free and reduced lunch-
es and are especially vulnerable to potential contact with a sex o ender, Carter said this week during a public meeting.
“I don’t understand what they were thinking putting this place next to a Title 1 school,” she said. “A lot of these kids have already gone through trauma. Why do they want to put them through more trauma?”
Residents plan to protest the decision to place transition facilities at the two sites Saturday at 10 a.m.
“Our protest aims to address the state’s lack of transparency and disregard for our city o cials and residents by pushing this through without our consent and to advocate for a late bill to put some parameters around House Bill 22-1303,” said resident Danielle Luciano via email.
The number of sellers opting to sell without a listing agent was surprisingly low even before the NAR settlement, which will have the effect of cutting in half the commission charged by listing agents thanks to the removal of a co-op commission for buyers’ agents, .
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has reported that only 7% of homes sold during 2023 were sold without the services of a listing agent. Another 4% of sellers began without an agent but ultimately changed their minds and decided to hire a listing agent.
mission cannot include the offer of compensation to a buyer’s agent, so listing commissions will henceforth be 2.5% to 2.8%, seriously reducing the appeal of trying to sell one’s house without professional assistance.
The main argument for going FSBO (for-sale-by-owner) has been to avoid paying the typical 5 to 6 percent listing commission. But that commission included the 2.5 to 3 percent commission shared with the agent representing the buyer. Under the NAR settlement (if approved by the courts), the listing com-
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In my real estate classes as a new agent at Coldwell Banker back in 2002, it was drummed into us that “listors last,” so we should focus on working with sellers instead of buyers. The NAR settlement has struck a serious blow to anyone who specializes in working with buyers.
In light of this, NAR is offering its Realtor members a free “Accredited Buyer’s Representative” (ABR) course, and, even though Golden Real Estate specializes in working with sellers, all of us have signed up for this course so we can receive the advice which it will offer when representing buyers in the changed landscape of real estate transactions.
Of course, I will share with you what I learn from that course, which I’m taking on June 17th. Hopefully, the court will have confirmed or rejected the NAR settlement by then, so we’ll know for sure what lies ahead.
As I wrote last week, the inevitable
I can’t take credit for this idea. Last year Pro Builder magazine had an article in its May/June issue about new ideas in kitchen design, and one in particular caught my attention: adding a “back/ messy” kitchen.
Nowadays, especially with open floor plans, the kitchen has become a center of entertaining. Guests gather around the host or hostess as they prepare and deliver various courses of food.
A back kitchen allows for dirty dishes to be out of sight immediately. This keeps the kitchen area clean and attractive — and quiet — throughout the evening. There could even be a second dishwasher in the back kitchen.
The back kitchen could also be where prepared courses are staged for bringing out during the party. Think of it as a “butler’s pantry” that is off the kitchen instead of between the kitchen and the dining room.
Most people nowadays have both a walk-in pantry and what’s being called a “Costco closet” for those bulk purchases so many of us are making these days. A larger pantry big enough to satisfy both needs could be attached to the back kitchen instead of the main kitchen, cleaning and simplifying the main kitchen design.
Another feature which makes a lot of sense is to have seating on two sides
(adjoining, not opposite) of the kitchen island instead of just one. This facilitates guests talking to each other, while still including whoever is at work on the business side of the island.
Open floor plans typically show the kitchen open to the family room, but not the formal dining room. How about an Lshaped open floor plan in which the dining room is open to the kitchen on the side, with the family room open to it at a 90degree angle?
Here’s a floor plan from Pro Builder showing this concept, in which ‘A’ is the island with 2-sided seating, ‘B’ is the pantry/Costco closet, ‘C’ is the back kitchen, and ‘D’ is a barn door for closing off the back kitchen/pantry.
effect of the NAR settlement will be that many or even most buyers will call listing agents directly instead of hiring an agent to represent them as a buyer. Only time will tell how that process will shake out.
If I worked solely as a buyer’s agent, I would be very nervous about what the future holds for me.
Buyer agents will still be able to earn a commission by selling new homes. Because the new home market is so competitive, builders are unlikely to reduce the commissions they currently offer to agents. Most builders, I have found, offer a 3% commission to agents who bring them a buyer, although that commission is applied to the base price,
not to the price after adding upgrades of flooring, appliances, counters, etc.
The challenge for real estate agents has always been getting buyers to call them before registering at a builder’s sales office, because most builders will not pay agents who did not register along with their buyer. We tell buyers to visit as many new home communities as they wish but not give their names until they are serious and want us to represent them. Then we can go with them on a return visit where they and we register together. That way, the buyer has the advantage of professional representation, and we are compensated for being their agent.
This column and the ’Back Kitchen’ article appeared in last Thursday’s Denver Post.
For most of 2023, the number of closed transactions fell while the number of active listings surged until some of them either expired or were taken off the market for the holidays. Starting in January there was a marked increase in sales, combined with more sellers putting their homes on the market.
The charts at right are from Denver’s MLS and cover the 15-month period from January 2023 through March 2024 for REcolorado listings only, limited to a 20mile radius of downtown Denver.
The second chart shows how sharply the median days a listing was active on the MLS rose through most of last year, peaking at over 30 days in January but plummeting, just like last year, in February and March. Meanwhile, the median sold price, which had been slumping slightly during the last half of 2023, turned sharply upward in January, February and March.
From studying current MLS data, this trend is continuing in April.
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shopping cart issue, ornton Planning Director Mike Garrott told the council.
ornton wants to make the wrangling of wayward shopping carts a top priority as it is for many cities in Colorado and nationwide.
Councilors agreed during an update session Tuesday night that the city should craft an ordinance that adds abandoned shopping carts as a public nuisance and require shopping cart owners to retrieve their property.
e city would o er to hire a contractor to return the cars to the retail establishment.
e proposed ordinance – which the council did not vote at the April 9 meeting – came after city sta members met with 32 people representing numerous local and national retailers to solve the abandoned
e retailers agreed that the loss of carts has caused a signi cantnancial loss for them and they are looking at ways to reign in the losses, Garrott said.
“Everyone agreed this has become an ongoing problem in the city,” he told the council.
ere is no national data on shopping cart losses, but U.S. retailers estimate that they lose tens of millions of dollars every year replacing lost and damaged carts, according to a 2013 CNN report. Retailers pay vendors to rescue stray carts and fork over nes to municipalities for violating laws on shopping cars, CNN said.
Some ornton retailers have retro tted carts with locking devices,
adding on-lot signs to discourage potential cart thieves and hiring third-party companies to canvas the city to retrieve carts. Some provide smaller carts to their customers or rely on city sta to return carts to their properties, the report states.
Most customers will return their shopping carts to cart corrals located in parking lots, to the front of the store or elsewhere on the site, city sta members said. But some shoppers roll the cars o the property and abandon them.
ey then become a nuisance to other property owners, impede sidewalks and become obstacles or hazards to tra c and parked cars, Garrott said. “ ey can quickly become a problem,” he said.
City crews have collected abandoned carts from public streets, near bus stops, parks, open spaces,
drainage ways, oodways and in alleys. When abandoned on private parcels, the owner of that property can be cited for rubbish even if they did not leave the cart on their land, according to a city sta report to the council.
Shopping carts are also used by the homeless to carry their belongings and as shelter, the city said.
Some Colorado cities require retailers to pick up carts at abandoned locations generally within 48 hours or less. Cities also ne retailers up to $1,000 if carts are not picked up by the retailers within 48 hours, according to the sta report. ornton does not want to assess nes to retailers or create a large shopping car impound lot, which can also contribute to blight. ornton’s approach would allow retailers to pick up their carts.
Reuse discussion is scheduled for April 18
BY MONTE WHALEY MWHALEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMResidents ursday will get a chance to o er their ideas for the reshaping of the tattered ornton Shopping Center site, located at the northeast corner of 88th Avenue and Washington Street.
e city’s O ce of Economic Development, together with representatives of EPA’s Technical Assistance for Brown elds program, will host the rst Community-Based Reuse Visioning Session for the shopping center on ursday, April 18. e session will go from 6-8 p.m. at the Community Connections
Building, 94711 Dorothy Blvd.
“ e public is encouraged to attend to help us develop a shared vision for the future uses…at the site,” according to a city website dedicated to the center redevelopment.
“ is is a really important step toward redevelopment, so I hope a lot of people come,” said City Council member Kathy Henson at a recent council meeting.
City o cials have said that the redevelopment of the shopping center is ornton’s top priority.
“ is is the City of ornton’s number one economic development goal,” ornton redevelopment administrator Chad Howell told the Northglenn- ornton Sentinel last year. “It’s a good site with a lot of potential. And it’s very important to the community.”
Plans call for the demolition of the shopping center later this year at the 15.6-acre site. Crews continue to clean up asbestos within the primary building from west to east and Xcel contractors are slowly deactivating the electrical systems, according to the city website.
A demolition permit for the western half of the of the main structure has been submitted to the State of Colorado, which will be followed by an on-site inspection within the next two weeks, and subsequent approval assuming no issues delay the permit, according to the city.
Also necessary for demolition, the sanitary sewer line will be sealed at the eastern edge of the property so the system can be removed during the cleanup phase of the project later this year, the
city said in a written statement.
In March, a valuation commission ruled that the ornton Development Authority owed the property owner of the shopping center parcel $3,065,067, according to the city. At a ve-day trial, the development authority argued that “just” compensation should be $0 due to extensive environmental contamination of the property and the cost to clean it up.
e owner – Jay Brown and his company ornton, LLC – said he should be compensated $6.3 million. e authority previously paid $2.5 million as a deposit in the city’s early eminent domain action, the city said.Over the next several weeks, the TDA will submit payments of the remaining compensation along with other costs and fees required under state law.
Ezeadi hopes to be the Democratic nominee for Senate District 19 seat
BY MONTE WHALEY MWHALEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMWestminster City Councilor Obi Ezeadi is heading into the Colorado Democratic Party’s multi-county assembly next week with a sizeable collection of delegates in his bid to win the Senate District 19 race.
Ezeadi emerged as the winner of the Je erson County Democratic
Party Assembly on March 30 with a 58.4% majority for the SD 9 seat, currently held by Rachel Zenzinger. Zenzinger is running for the open Je erson County Commissioner seat held by Tracy Kraft- arp, who is not seeing a second term, according to Colorado Politics.
e win in the March 30 Je erson County assembly means he is allotted 43 delegates at the multi-county assembly on April 10.
Ezeadi thanked the community for his win. “We know there is more work to do to win the primary on June 25 and protect out district from those seeking to take our rights away in November’s General elec-
tion,” Ezeadi said in a news release. Ezeadi will share the Democratic primary ballot with State Rep. Lindsey Daugherty.
Campaign statement
Ezeadi began his state senate run last June at a local movie theater, raising more than $50,000 in the rst month of campaigning. More than 80% of donations to Ezeadi’s campaign came from individuals, according to the news release.
In the press release, Ezeadi said his priorities for SD19 revolve around creating a space where families thrive with access to affordable housing, fully-funded
public education, and a clean economy.
“I’m running for State Senate with the unwavering belief that together, we can build a brighter future for my daughter, your children, and generations to come. We can challenge a system that takes necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few,” said Ezeadi. “I’m dedicated to preserving your personal freedom to read, learn, and love on your own terms.”
Ezeadi’s campaign has collected endorsements from elected ocials, unions, activists, and organizations across Colorado, the news release states.
vided by the city.
Northglenn’s annual spring extravaganza featuring shing and bicycle skills is set for April 27 at E.B. Rains Jr. Memorial Park, 11800 Community Center Dr.
e shing portion of the event is speci cally for kids, ages 2-to 14-years-old. No registration is required and the city provides goodie bags for the rst 300 entrants.
Young anglers will compete for prizes.
O cial shing times are 8:30 to 10 a.m. , with awards for the longest sh in each of six age divisions, with an overall prize for the longest sh caught that day. Each contestant should bring their own pole and tackle and bait. None are being pro-
Awards will be presented at 10:30 a.m. in six age categories and for the overall longest sh. Each winner will receive a shing pole, tackle box and trophy.
ere will be goodie bags and snacks for participants,
Meanwhile, the city’s Healthy Eating Active Living Committee is hosting a free bike derby and obstacle course for youth. Northglenn will provide the bikes and helmets for the derby. You can also learn how to make minor repairs to your bike during a free workshop.
e obstacle course and bike clinic both begin at 8:30 a.m. and run until 10 a.m. A limited number of refurbished bicycles and new bike helmets will be given away at the event.
Local artists will get a showcase April 20 at Westminster’s Orchard Town Center as the city’s annual Arts Week begins.
e kick-o event at the Orchard Town Center, 14697 Delaware St., will feature activities from 1-5 p.m. April 20, including live music performances, pottery demonstrations, a painting project hosted by Whimsy Paint & Sip, chalk art participatory opportunities and a community mural where attendees can leave their mark.
“We’re thrilled to be part of this fantastic community event hosted by e City of Westminster at e Orchard Town Center,” Kate Heckman, marketing director at e Orchard Center, said.
e week continues with events across Westminster.
e city’s College Hill Library hosts the 25th Annual Colorado Visions Art Exhibit from 2-5 p.m. at the library, 3704 W 112th Ave.
Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Westminster hosts art demonstrations with local artist Yazmin Atmore from 5-7 p.m. April 22. e venue is located at 8905 Westminster Blvd.
e Westminster Historical Society hosts trivia night from 5-7 p.m. April 23 at Kokopelli Beer Company 8931 Harlan St. featuring Westminster-
speci c trivia.
Westminster Public Schools is hosting an Art Reception celebrating student art across the district. Students compete in categories that include visual arts, lm, digital art, spelling bees, singing, drama, science fair, Lego building, and more. e reception runs from 4:30-7 p.m. April 24 at Westminster High School, 6933 Raleigh St.
e Paletteers Art Club hosts a reception and art display at the MAC, 3295 W 72nd Ave. from 5-8 p.m. April 28 and Fuse Box Container Art Gallery hosts a reception and dance party from 5-8 p.m. at 8900 Westminster Blvd. featuring dancing, demonstrations and art on display.
e week wraps up from 1-5 p.m. April 27 in the historic Westminster area, featuring local art galleries, coffee shops and retailers. Aar Gallery, will host the reception featuring the Jive Bombers from 4-6 p.m. People attending the reception are encouraged to park at Westminster High School.
A shuttle will run between the school and gallery regularly until after 6 p.m.
Westminster Arts Week is the culmination of e orts involving key partners such as the North Metro Arts Alliance, Westminster Public Schools, the Paletteers Art Club, e Orchard Town Center and over 30 local businesses.
The airport is responsible for lead contamination and noise pollution, according to Charlene Willey
BY MONTE WHALEY MWHALEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMWhen Charlene Willey and her husband Jim built their home in the Green Knolls subdivision in Westminster over 30 years ago, she said she had no idea that her new nextdoor neighbor would eventually try to kill her.
Willey is more clear-eyed these days about the dangers posed by Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport. e piston-powered aircraft that take o and land from the airport are fueled by the lead that now dusts her home, schools, and playgrounds all under RMMA’s ight path, she said.
Exposure to lead can lead to brain and organ damage, seep into bones and be especially damaging to children, say health o cials. Willey’s worry about lead exposure prompted her to get tested and she found lead levels in her bloodstream were 3 times higher than normal.
ally jolt you.”
Noise generated from low-level ights from RMMA is just as bad or even worse than the threat from lead, she said. Persistent noise levels can destroy sleep and worsen conditions such as Alzheimer’s and other disorders, Willey said.
“Lead is certainly easier to understand than the noise from constant touch-and-go operations at Rocky Mountain,” Willey said. “But the damage from noise to people who
demanded that city councils and state lawmakers curtail activities at
“To be dismissed,” Willey said, “is maybe the biggest stress I deal
“It’s been awful and overwhelming,” she adds. “But I also want to contribute to this society around me, I want to leave a legacy of working hard and not giving up.”
“And in some ways, I guess I have kind of gotten used to it…the ghting,” Willey said. “I still think this is the best way to spend my time.”
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ink of it as a compounding effect,” she said.
As the airport has grown, so has the damage it has rained down on residents, Willey said.
“It’s noisy and dangerous and I am right under the ight path,” she said.
Almost as disheartening, she said, is that local and state o cials have often brushed o the perils posed by the airport. is is even after Willey and other airport critics have
Her husband Jim died in 2008 of esophageal cancer from exposure to radon at the now-shuttered Rocky Flats Plant near Golden, Willey said. Rocky Flats once produced nuclear weapons parts. Willey said she battled a tangle of su ocating red tape to wrest a claim over Jim’s death from a reluctant federal government.
She eventually won and she used the money to place a downpayment on a condo in Broom eld for her daughter who has lifelong disabilities. Willey said her daughter’s condition is not unlike those seen in children exposed to lead early in life and she continues to depend on Willey for support.
“I speak as one who truly understands the lifetime harm that aviation causes to those of us who must endure its toxic e ects. My entire family lives that life,” Willey recently told a state legislative committee. Willey is among neighbors of local airports pushing for the passage of HB24-1235 which allows the state to give a state income tax credit for owners of aircraft who transition from using lead fuel to unleaded. e bill would also call for the state’s aeronautical board to expand from seven to nine voting members by requiring the appointment of two residents who are a ected by general aviation tra c.
In her testimony last month, Willey said the RMMA, which is owned and operated by Je erson County, “...has a long and checkered history
of ignoring public welfare in its relentless pursuit of growth.,”
She told lawmakers that Je erson County failed to buy up surrounding land in 1960 for the airport and in 1979, the facility expanded resulting in several homes being placed in the airport’s critical zone, where most plane crashes occur.
Operations have increased by over 80% since 2017 and the increased air tra c includes regularly scheduled commercial ights that operate under a regulatory loophole without TSA security or qualied crews, Willey said.
“Clearly, the community needs help from this legislature to bring this disregard for public welfare under control,” Willey told the lawmakers.
Anslow called people critical of airport operations “nut jobs” and brushed away concerns about airport noise, according to a 2021 transcript of a private conversation given to KUNC News as part of a public records request.
ADK o cials said the new airport director must work well with the surrounding communities and be transparent in any decisions regarding the airport.
e Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment recently told the Westminster city council that children living within two miles of 12 airports in Colorado - including RMMA - had only slightly heightened levels of lead in their blood.
Willey has also asked the Westminster city council to exert more in uence over operations at the airport. Councilmember David
ADK Consulting and Executive Search are currently working to hire a new director for RMMA, after the abrupt departure of Paul Anslow in November. Anslow left his position after disparaging comments he made about neighbors of the airport were disclosed to county ofcials.
DeMott, a member of the RMMA Community Noise Roundtable, said via email: “I appreciate our citizens’ input on any issue and welcome their involvement.”
Donna Urban said Willey’s work has in uenced other airport naysayers. Urban is a member of Quiet Skies Over Arapahoe County & Elected O cials, which is critical of operation at Centennial Airport.
“…Charlene has been doing a really good job of communicating what has been happening to the communities around RMMA,” Urban said via email. “She’s also been very helpful to our area, as we are experiencing the same situation with lead and noise pollution.”
e irony is not lost on Willey that Jim had a memorial service at RMMA, a place he loved since he was a “pilot wannabe,” she said.
“I didn’t think the airport was such a big deal, but Jim really loved it,” she said. “I told him, ‘Oh, ok’ whatever.”
City Attorney Corey Ho man said that any registered sex o ender who currently lives more than 750 feet but less than 1,000 feet from a school will not be required to move. eir residency was established before the amended distance requirements went into e ect, Ho man said.
Ho man told the council the state might preempt the new requirement. However, Northglenn Police Chief James May has indicated that the state may adhere to local residency restrictions.
“So, the opportunity is there” for a new ordinance, Ho man said.
Mayor Pro Tem Shannon Lukeman-Hiromasa said that Mayor Meredith Leighty has been in touch with Gov. Jared Polis’s o ce but a meeting to talk about the state’s move into
Northglenn has not been scheduled. Council members said the ght against the two facilities has quickly galvanized the community, a heart-
ening consequence of the state’s decision.
“I am proud of our residents and their peaceful protests,” said coun-
cilmember Jay Jaramillo at Monday’s meeting. “ is was a good example of how we are coming together as a community.”
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In the middle of a nothing-inparticular phone call, my dad in Indiana suddenly asked me: “Where is Columbine High School?”
“Four or ve miles southwest of here — why?” I said from our westfacing back porch in Denver’s south suburbs on a beautiful spring day in 1999.
My hyperactive dad, who had been watching a cable news channel while we talked, replied: “Somebody is shooting kids there.”
Within seconds, two air ambulance helicopters thundered low and fast directly over our house and streaked southwest.
I was a copy editor at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and as I watched the helicopters race toward Columbine, I knew that I should expect to be called in early for my night shift at the newspaper. I wanted to see our young sons before getting ready for work, so I got o the phone and trotted the block and a half to their elementary school.
In those pre-smartphone, lesswired days, the sta at our sons’ school didn’t yet know about the attack a few miles away. I walked past the open door of the teachers’ lounge, where a teacher I liked was
nishing his lunch break.
With less than a month left in the state legislative session, our state legislature has yet to bring forward any bills for promised property tax relief. Remember, what the legislature did last year was strictly to “tone down” the 2024 property taxes on a temporary basis. Nothing else was done. So, tick, tock, tick, tock. e clock is ticking away.
Where is the legislation for the needed relief? e Democrats have been too busy with their agenda on gun control measures, usurping local land use matters involving so-called “a ordable housing”, an attempt to eliminate oil and gas extraction as of
“What brings you here?” he asked. When I told him the little I knew about what was happening at Columbine, he responded, “ at will de nitely be on Channel 9 tonight.”
Word of the attack reached the school administrators about that same moment, and a lockout began. I was a familiar volunteer at the school, and I was allowed to stop by our sons’ classrooms to see them for a few minutes before I returned home to prepare for work.
I wanted to listen to breaking news about Columbine while getting ready for work, so instead of showering, I lled the bathtub and placed a radio on the bathroom oor so I could hear updates. I was sitting in the tub when the Je erson County sheri con rmed that several kids had been murdered, and I broke into a series of uncontrollable sobs.
Work that rst night was frantic, with uid news stories changing as reporters and editors tried to distill
reliable information from the deluge of impressions, sights and interviews, plus the gut-punching images from our photographers. e ensuing nights at the newspaper were a slog through the bad nondream of Columbine, including a night when I worked the “makeup” editing shift in the composing room, making sure through multiple editions that yearbook photos of the children who had been killed were paired with the right captions: Cassie Bernall is the girl with the wide smile and hair parted on the side; Corey DePooter is the boy with the pronounced straight eyebrows; Rachel Scott is the girl who looks like my sister as a kid ... at was the night I ate a mayonnaise-heavy sandwich that had sat atop my warm computer terminal for hours before I was able to take a break, and the resulting case of brutal food poisoning felt bizarrely welcome because I needed so badly to puke my guts out.
All that was 25 years ago. Now, low- ying helicopters still ash me right back to the moment just after my dad told me about the attack in progress. ese days, I still can’t talk about the Columbine attack for more than a few seconds before my voice breaks. Our little
suburb has its markers of the tragedy — the trauma center where the most grievously wounded children were own, the pawnshop where a paralyzed girl’s mother asked to see a revolver and then hurriedly inserted a bullet that she used to kill herself at the counter — and I see those places many times each week and remember.
But I got o light. I got o easy. I’m an outgoing person who is always getting to know more people, and here in Denver’s south suburbs, that means I’ve gotten to know many people who were hit intimately by the Columbine attack, people who were there, people who helped save terribly wounded children, people who tried to save children who died, people who lost dear ones, people whose dear ones survived but were damaged in ways that can’t be undone. Every year I know more people with lifetime memberships in that undesired club.
People I trust tell me good things have been forged from the pain of that horrible day. I want to believe they’re right.
Scott Gilbert is an editor in our newsroom who worked for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver at the time of the Columbine attack.
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2030 and a lot more. Too often, the party in power holds o until the end of the session to bring forth legislation on tough issues.
Hey, we need help so don’t wait until the 11th hour like you did last year only to have voters turn down your illconceived plan. e proposed 2024-2025 state budget - which has been passed by both houses and is going to conference committee - does not have a penny in
it for tax relief. Last year, they had set aside $200 million for much needed help. If the legislature was to repeat what they did for 2023-2024, one source said it would cost $250 million. But again, out of the proposed $40.6 billion state budget for 20242025, which is a $2 billion increase, there is no money for tax relief! ey painted themselves into a corner with too generous spending.
A key issue in any solution is to keep state K-12 public school funding whole. Last year, the state legislature carved out $200 million to reimburse school districts and some heavily-dependent
property tax local government agencies - i.e. re districts - to o set reduced property taxes to home owners. It seems the few choices mentioned by legislators to reduce property taxes all have signi cant downsides. First, let’s look at the TABOR refund. An estimated $1.9 billion chunk of taxpayers’ money is earmarked to be refunded. e state cannot spend this money on public services.
Some legislators are eyeing these funds to play some role for reducing property taxes. We know the hell that idea raised last year and doesn’t seem viable.
A second possibility is to tap the State Education Fund. While it is sitting on a record $1.5 billion balance, revenue projections show the fund could be depleted to as little as $150 million within the next four years if the tax cuts are extended.
A third choice is the state’s $2.4 billion in reserves. However, Democrats and their allies want to keep “hands o ” the reserves fearing it could lead to K-12 or higher education cuts in the next economic downturn.
Who gets the tax relief?
Who receives the bene t of any property tax cuts is up for grabs this time.
Progressive legislators are suggesting that this time relief would be focused on those who actually need it. is would be in contrast to cutting taxes equally for all homeowners regardless of where they live i.e. mountain towns, how fast their taxes are escalating or how wealthy they are. Also, the tax commission, which was established last year to come up with more permanent ideas to reduce the impact of much higher property values, had a possible idea: It would be to extend a version of the senior homestead exemptions to non-seniors. at would allow more homeowners to claim a tax break from their primary residence.
Regardless, we shouldn’t assume that ALL of us will end up receiving some type of a TABOR refund.
Given the constraints of crafting property tax cuts while keeping K-12 funding intact, the possibility of working a deal with conservative outside groups looks slim.
Colorado Concern, a nonpro t alliance of state business leaders and Advance Colorado, a conservative political non-pro t have introduced measures that would cut assessed property values back to 2022 levels and limit property tax growth to 4%. More than likely, these two groups and probably others will work to put their proposals on the November ballot.
is could easily become a “three ring circus.” What is scary is one or more of the petition-initiated proposals would be voted in by the public which does not include back lling
shortfalls to schools, re districts and others.
With what is known at this time, I would surmise that the legislature’s commitment to fully fund the backlog of obligated state funding for K-12 will have to be walked back and not happen in 2024-2025.
As you can see the issue of reducing the leap in property taxes is not simple and there are various “players” at the table wanting to get their issue solved.
Whatever gets passed could be tied up in litigation - just like Donald Trump with the tangled web he has woven.
Northglenn extends sex o ender bu ers
e Northglenn City Council took swift action this past week at their regular meeting to approve an emergency ordinance addressing the possible addition of sex o enders by the state agency which owns the two buildings in question.
It was a simple but strategic change in city code regarding the mandatory minimum distance where sex o enders can reside from schools.
e previous minimum distance of 750 feet now becomes 1,000 feet. City Council unanimously approved the ordinance on an 8-0 vote.
Northglenn sta stated the reason for the emergency change was to address public safety risk associated with the Mental Health Transitional Living facility located at 11255 and 11275 Grant Drive. Sta pointed out that “someone who currently lives more than 750 feet but less than 1,000 feet from a school will not be required to move because residency was established before the distance limitations were amended.
However, no one has yet moved into 11255 and 11275 Grant Drive in Northglenn, so subject to being preempted by the State, the distance limitation would otherwise apply because the emergency ordinance if adopted would be e ective immediately on April 8.
By expanding the distance of 1,000 feet, it does not negate locations in the city where sex o enders may reside. It was an e ective move by Northglenn o cials to address the neighborhood’s concerns with sex o enders.
Hopefully, the state agency involved will have learned from this speci c experience and be more transparent in their dealings on such proposed facilities with local municipal o cials and the neighborhood in question. eir current approach is unacceptable!
Dennis Michael Gonzales
October 1, 1965 - April 6, 2024
e world said goodbye to a wonderful man, a loving husband, father, father-in-law, grandfather, brother, brother-in-law, uncle, cousin and friend. Dennis Michael Gonzales, 58, ascended to heaven on April 6, 2024, with his family by his side, peacefully with his wife and daughter holding his hands.
He was born October 1, 1965, in Gonzales Ranch, NM to the late Placido and Maria Rita Gonzales. He was the youngest of thirteen. He worked the land for many years with his father until his daughter, Kelly was born. From there, he worked construction. He lived in New Mexico until after his rst son, Julian was born. He then travelled for work until he landed in Colorado, making Colorado his home. In 2003, he married Christina (Kerr) Gonzales, welcoming two more sons, Michael and Christopher.
Dennis led a full life, enjoying metal detecting, gold panning, eating his “Chef” Michael’s food, hanging out with his kids, teasing everyone he met and spending time with his grandson, Cameron. Dennis also found great comfort in his Catholic faith. He fought valiantly against pancreatic cancer. His bravery can be seen in his children.
Sue Spangler Singleton
He was preceded in death by his parents Placido and Maria Rita Gonzales, siblings Henry and Benji Gonzales, Tori Padilla, and Corrine Hurtado, Brother-in-laws Ernest Hurtado, Rubel Romero, and sisterin-law Sylvia Gonzales.
Dennis is survived by his loving wife of 20 years Christina Gonzales. Four children which include daughter, Kelly (Zachary Schmaedeke), sons Julian, Michael, Christopher and grandson Cameron Schmaedeke.
He is also survived by his siblings, that he loved deeply, Camilla, Seferino (Margie), Fermin, Frank (Helen), Martha, Annabelle (Danny), Carol (Charles), Roseanne (David), brother-in- laws, Locario Hurtado, Ernest Padilla, Ricky Bodine, sister-in-laws, Angie Gonzales, Lisa Fox-Sore , Brandy (Joe) Garland, mother-in-law Elizabeth Daniels and father-in-law Charles Kerr. As well as numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 2:00 pm at the Longitude Clubhouse at the TAVA Waters Apartments. Reverend Kelly will be the a ant.
Sue (Spangler) Singleton
April 21, 1937 - April 3, 2024
Died peacefully in her home on April 3, 2024. She is proceeded in death by her parents, her husband John and her youngest son Craig. She is survived by her sons Scott and Reed and 6 grandchildren. She was a faithful member of Westminster Presbyterian Church where
she found solace in her fellowship and faith. Sue donated her body to science, so a Celebration of Life will be held on April 20th from 1:00 to 3:00 at the Westminster Presbyterian Church. In lieu of owers, the family requests donations to FISH of Westminster.
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Community invited to vote on new school name finalists
27J Schools is asking community members to share their top name choices for the district’s planned new high school and middle school.
Earlier this year, the district put out a call for name suggestions for both new schools. e community responded with over 400 responses and more than 200 unique name suggestions. e district’s Facility Planning Advisory Committee has narrowed these suggestions to a group of six nalists for each school and now community members can again provide their input.
Community members can vote at bit. ly/3U3QZrS online.
e 27J Schools Board of Education is expected to select names for both schools in June.
e design and construction of the district’s fourth comprehensive high school - in Commerce City - and the district’s sixth middle school - in ornton - are both being funded thanks to voter support of a 2021 Bond Program.
e new middle school is scheduled to open in Fall 2026 with the high school completed and opening in Fall 2027.
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e fair includes a wide range of practitioners, including massage and body care providers and jewelry, crystals, gemstones, and other gifts. For more information, visit HolisticFairs.com on the internet or call 970472-0200.
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e Northglenn Community Foundation o ers utility bill assistance to Northglenn households that have lived in the city for at least six months and meet certain income thresholds. Funds are paid directly to the city utility account.
e program is funded by fundraisers throughout the year as well as by individual contributions from people who want to help their family, neighbors, and friends who may be having di culty making ends meet. Applications for assistance are reviewed and grants are awarded monthly based on a number of criteria. e grants are paid directly to the recipient’s City of Northglenn Utility account.
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Adams County is looking for feedback and opinions regarding the series of farmers markets they helped o er in 2023. Information from an online survey, located at https://bit.ly/4879uzr, will help determine how the markets will operate in 2024.
In 2023, the Adams County Health Department and Human Services partnered to provide Healthy Farmers Markets for residents. e departments are planning to provide those again in 2024, and they’d like to hear from you.
e county helped schedule the markets on Tuesdays and ursdays at the Anythink Library Wright Farms and Huron Street branches. e survey asks about location preferences, dates and timing preferences and what kinds of o erings and other services should be o ered.
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e city also o ers assistance in disposing of mattresses and box springs. For information on both programs, visit the Northglenn Community Foundation website at https://northglenncf. org/utility-assistance-program.
e Alliance Business Assistance Center is excited to announce that 2024 business grants are now available to support your business endeavors. Sta at the center can assist residents by helping to identify grants that align with their business goals and industry, providing guidance through the application process, ensuring that they have the best chance of success and providing other valuable resources for local business.
Psychics, astrologers, aura readers and other holistic practitioners will be on hand April 20 and 21 at the Adams County Regional Park, 9755 Henderson Road, for the 8th annual Colorado Holistic Fair.
e fair runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. One-day passes cost $10 and a full weekend pass is $15. Children 12 years old and younger are ad-
e event is a special occasion dedicated to recognizing the vital role of our local businesses and their signi cant contributions to our thriving community.
e city is taking nominations online at https://businessinthornton. com/2024-city-thornton-businessawards-2/. e nominations deadline is March 1 in several nomination categories, including People’s Choice, Community Spirit, Small Business of the Year and Retailer of the Year.
e city also encourages residents to spread the word within their business network and invite their colleagues and peers to participate.
Water World hiring for 2024
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Quali ed Listeners, a veteran and family resource hub serving northern Colorado and southern Wyoming, has several power chairs, scooters, and electric wheelchairs available.
e VA o ers urgent care services to eligible veterans at VA medical facilities or in-network urgent care clinics closer to home. Use this bene t to treat minor injuries and illnesses that are not life-
Water World is now accepting job applications for the 2024 season. ere are nearly 1,000 positions available across a variety of teams including Lifeguard, Food and Bar Service, Landscaping and Horticulture, Guest Service, Safety and Security, Water Quality, Slide Inspection, and more. Applicants must be 14 years old by May 1, 2024. Jobseekers may apply online and/or attend Water World’s Job Fair from 11 a.m.– 2 p.m. March 27 at 8801 N. Pecos St., Federal Heights.
Summer jobs at Water World offer school-friendly schedules and a one-of-a-kind work environment. Employees enjoy competitive hourly wages, an end-of-summer bonus program, after-hours social activities, free fountain drinks while on-duty, and discounted dining. Team members also receive a free season pass and access to discounted day tickets for friends and family.
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Amazing Athletes @ 7pm
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Colorado Avalanche vs. Edmonton Oilers @ 7:30pm / $82-$1150 Ball Arena, Denver
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Cookie Decorating for Beginners with The Sugared Canvas @ 12:30am
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25 years later, the tragedy is a study of recovery, resilience and triumph
BY MICHAEL DE YOANNA EDITOR IN CHIEF
Twenty- ve years have passed since that April day that etched sorrow into the hearts of Columbine High School. Two armed students took the lives of 12 of their peers and a cherished teacher and then their own lives. e reverberations of that tragic day have rippled through the years, leaving a sad narrative of killers and victims often repeated in the mainstream media.
But what that narrative misses is Columbine’s story of recovery, resilience and triumph.
It is in the school’s very fabric, where the emphasis is that every individual, from the principal to the rst-day freshman, matters.
As Columbine sophomore Madison Price told us, “It’s just the kind of thing that you can feel.”
It’s kind of a soft nding for a newsroom that spent months parsing through stories of grief and perseverance in our interviews with survivors, past and present school o cials, teachers, security experts
and even media critics.
Our newsroom sought the answer to a simple question: How has the 1999 Columbine shooting changed the school over the years — and everything else?
On one hand, nothing has changed. Gun violence is rampant in the United States. Take, for instance, the stunning tally of deaths and injuries provided by the Atlas of American Gun Violence, tracking incidents across the country down to the neighborhood level. Such an atlas is only necessary because of the almost-daily barrage of headlines chronicling shootings. Yet some are so large and horri c that everyone knows them by name, like Sandy Hook, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas.
e specter of violence is woven into the lives of children in schools at an early age.
And schools across the country have increased security measures in the years since the Columbine shooting, which took the lives of students Cassie Bernall, Steven Curnow, Corey DePooter, Kelly
Fleming, Matthew Kechter, Daniel Mauser, Daniel Rohrbough,Rachel Scott, Isaiah Shoels, John Tomlin, Lauren Townsend and Kyle Velasquez, and teacher William “Dave” Sanders.
e Je erson County School District, which oversees the high school, points to classroom doors that lock from the inside. ere are single-point entry systems at schools that ensure students, sta and visitors pass through controlled checkpoints. Add to that security cameras, once a rarity, metal detectors and scanners.
Much of the changes are meant to ferret out people carrying guns. Yet our reporting did not take us to the raging debates over guns, like whether background checks are enough or if teachers should be armed.
Instead, we explored how chaos among rescuers during the Columbine incident led to improved coordination today, working to bridge gaps to make all schools safer.
And we looked at the media’s role during and after the shooting. One harsh takeaway from University of
Our series will run this week and next week.
This week, we focus on the stories of those closest to Columbine High School — the survivors and students and teachers. Next week, our series will look at how security has changed and the lessons learned from how the media covered events.
To read our entire series, go to www.ColoradoCommunityMedia .com.
Colorado Boulder professor Elizabeth Skewes was that news coverage of shootings can desensitize Americans and even be harmful to survivors. Knowing that helps explain the goals of Je erson County schools at the district’s recent media day for press organizations looking to report on the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.
Reporters who went to that event heard many of the same things we learned in our reporting, which often involved initially-reluctant sources opening up to trust our reporters and editors with their stories. ey wanted us, and our readers, to know that the shooting doesn’t de ne Columbine. Instead, what de nes it is a kind of indomitable spirit that emerged and evolved with intentionality since 1999. It plays out for many every April 20, the anniversary of the shooting, in the school’s Day of Service, now in its eighth year.
“We have turned that day into something so positive,” teacher Mandy Cooke told us. “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.”
And Cooke knows. She was a student at the school in 1999 and is among three survivors we interviewed who returned to the school to help it turn the page of the adversity to a brighter chapter.
In the days following the shooting at Columbine High School, its principal, Frank DeAngelis, started leaving his shoes untied. e loss of his students and a teacher, who was also a friend, left him feeling he had no control over his life.
“People would say, ‘Tie your shoe!’ and I said, ‘ at’s the only thing I have control over,’” he said. But piece by piece, and with the help of his community, DeAngelis started his journey toward healing. It was just like tying his shoes, one lace over the other.
He still thinks of the tragedy every day — reciting the names of the victims who were killed before he gets out of bed. But his journey to heal hasn’t been lonely. In the years following the tragedy, he has leaned on his community and channeled his energy to help others — and still does, even in retirement.
DeAngelis started working at Columbine in 1979, right after he graduated from college. Before he became the principal, DeAngelis had been a history teacher, football coach and baseball coach there.
He worked closely with students, and enjoyed that his role gave him the chance to get to know so many of them — in the cafeteria, on their sports teams and on the stage.
On the day of the shooting, like so many others, he said, his life changed forever.
After the tragedy, he led the school until every student in the area who was in class on April 20, 1999 — down to the preschoolers — graduated.
“Because they were impacted by it,” he said. “Even though they were not there, they saw everything.”
His leadership in those years is a common theme among students and sta connected to the school.
ey say DeAngelis helped the community to heal, and they call his leadership a model for how to live. ey consider him a bedrock for the community and say he brought people together in the wake of tragedy.
One Je erson County School District sta member said the community would not have recovered without DeAngelis — and that his impact goes far beyond Columbine.
We found a community guided by those who became united in shared pain with a erce determination to heal.
In that regard, no name came up more often than former Princi-
pal Frank DeAngelis, who led the school, its sta and generations of students out of the shadows of tragedy.
“People said that Columbine really needed me — I needed them,” he said.
For many, he is a beacon of hope, even in his retirement, as he aids others a ected by similar hardships.
Now, as it has been for decades,
Columbine is just another high school. People look forward to football games. ey’re studying for tests. Students are discovering who they are and who they might be when they become adults.
To Cris Welsh, a student at the time of the shooting who is now a teacher at Columbine, it’s all very ordinary, except for one thing.
“We exist to extend the notion that
one can recover,” he said. “ at the awful things that happened to us are outside of our control, but how we respond to those awful things is totally within our control.”
Columbine is a symbol of hope, he said, not only to itself but well beyond.
“If you are determined to overcome the things that happen to you, you can do it,” he said.
On a mild Monday afternoon, Mandy Cooke was walking on a path near the high school where she teaches social studies. Nearby, a few students were warming up for track and eld practice. e team’s coach spotted his colleague and shouted, “ ere’s Mrs. Cooke!” and the students waved.
It was like any high school in America. e school’s colors — navy and white — accented the track as teens ran, stretched and laughed. Behind them, the word “Rebels” was painted on a shed near the eld. A coach blew a whistle and the kids came into a huddle, as others walked through the nearby parking lot with backpacks on.
But unlike other high schools in America, this scene happened close to a memorial with the names of 12 students and a teacher who were killed in a mass shooting on April 20, 1999.
Cooke sometimes gets concerned reactions when she tells people she works at Columbine High School.
“I still have teacher friends who are like, ‘I don’t know how you walk into that building,’” Cooke said.
She probably gets asked this question more than some other teachers, as Cooke is a survivor of the shooting. She was a sophomore at Columbine in 1999.
Twenty- ve years later, she works alongside several other survivors, hoping to support and care for students in the same way teachers and sta supported and cared for them in the wake of the tragedy.
Cooke works with friends she grew up with, including fellow teacher Cris Welsh and Noel Sudano, a school counselor.
Cooke and Welsh went to preschool together, and Cooke took piano lessons from Sudano’s
mom. ey all attended Dutch Creek Elementary School and then graduated together from Columbine in 2001. All three now live in the same neighborhood, where they are raising their own kids.
A similar call led them all back to their high school.
For Welsh, who teaches social studies, there was no other choice.
“I wanted to be there for my students in the same way that teachers had been there for me — I wanted to kind of pay that forward,” Welsh said.
In a time of “total, complete chaos,” he said, the teachers at Columbine represented stability. He drew a lot of strength from his relationships with his teachers in the months and years that followed the tragedy.
“ ey had gone through exactly what we had gone through,” he said. “ ey showed us kindness,
and consideration and compassion at a moment where so much of that seemed to be lacking in the world … I think, in each of us, there was a desire to extend that to another generation in what, regrettably, seems like an increasingly unstable world.”
Sudano said the adults at school were willing to show students their humanity, which was healing for her. One teacher, who was usually rather intimidating, gave her a hug a few days after the shooting.
“I just remember thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, this helps me understand the magnitude of what we went through,’” she said. “And, it also helped me feel that safety of like — even this authority gure, we’re all in the same situation, and we can all depend on each other.”
ese connections, the trio said, were a critical part of the healing journey for not just them, but
many of the Columbine survivors.
“Our generation grew up where we could only process through genuine communication with each other,” Welsh said. “And I think it made a big di erence.”
He said he wonders if social media — with its inherent social pressures and opportunities for criticism and damaging words — has prevented some victims of school shootings from processing their experiences e ectively.
“I would not want to have posted my opinions and ideas and emotions online for the world to see” after the shooting, he said. “I wanted friends, not the world.”
Because of the closeness and familiarity of being among people who understood what she had gone through, Cooke said she remembers never wanting to leave the Littleton area after she graduated.
“I was so comfortable because we bonded and came together, and I knew I was protected there,” she said. “And then, I knew going to school in Fort Collins, I wasn’t.”
Cooke started college at Colorado State University. She said the rst page of her psychology textbook was about the Columbine shooting.
“Going out of that bubble was very di cult for me,” she said.
Sudano had a similar experience as an undergraduate student at DePauw University in Indiana, where she learned “very quickly how just saying the word ‘Columbine’ triggered all sorts of reactions.”
Cooke, Welsh and Sudano said the students who attend Columbine are generally aware of the history, but mostly don’t think about it unless adults mention it. For them, Columbine is just their school. Going there is “not something that seems abnormal to
them until people around them tell them that it is abnormal,” Sudano said.
“I think their rst thought is not the shooting,” Welsh said. “ eir rst thought is, you know, the history test that I just made them take.”
So, for all three, working at Columbine is not strange. In the decades since the tragedy, they have come to know it as a tight-knit, service-oriented — and otherwise completely regular — high school.
“It was a high school, it always has been,” Welsh said. “If there is any special nature to Columbine, it has been the family or community atmosphere that we have created. It’s been the desire to aid and support and service others. If there is a di erence between us and other high schools, that’s it.”
Welsh said Columbine has been portrayed in many negative ways by the media. He, Cooke and Sudano said they want people to see Columbine as a wonderful place instead of the site of a national tragedy.
e Columbine community re-
members and honors the victims, but they do it in a way that is forward-thinking and hopeful, they said.
Sudano said she wants people to know that Columbine is “a school that’s thriving.” e employees say they don’t let the shooting de ne their experience there.
“It is such a hub in our community for everybody, kids and adults,” Cooke said. “( ey) go to basketball games, go to football games. It’s just such a rallying point for me, that I don’t think of the shooting every single day.”
“We have a job to do,” Welsh added. “I can’t be thinking about my students and getting ready for the AP test or whatever it is we’re focused on at the moment if I’m constantly obsessing about the past. I’m not saying it’s not there, to a certain extent, but you don’t walk in and immediately have ashbacks to April 20.”
Cooke said the employees are in a place where they are ready to never forget, but still move on with their lives. She is a mother and wants to spend her time and
energy focusing on her kids.
“I’m in a really good place in my life,” she said. “I don’t want to be sad.”
Her kids — who are in fth and seventh grade — look forward to going to Columbine someday.
It’s a place where students study for history tests and do chemistry experiments. ey laugh in the hallways and are late to class. Students change in the locker rooms for practice after school and look forward to things like football games and prom.
Columbine is like any high school in America, only it is stronger than it was before 1999. To Welsh, the school is a symbol of hope.
“We exist to extend the notion that one can recover,” he said. “ at the awful things that happened to us are outside of our control, but how we respond to those awful things is totally within our control … If you are determined to overcome the things that happen to you, you can do it. ere are people out there who have done it, and you need to look to them.”
In her home in Parker, Cindy Woodman gazed at trinkets that people sent to her daughter, Crystal Woodman Miller, following the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School. On the walls and a large wooden bookshelf — surrounding the ornaments, small sculptures and decorative boxes — paintings showcase columbine owers.
When Cindy looks at the knick knacks in her “Columbine Room,” named for both her favorite ora and the high school, they sometimes remind her of the day that would change their lives forever.
“Just to walk through there every single day is just a quick reminder, but it’s not that it puts me in pain or agony — it’s a happy reminder that I still have Crystal,” Cindy said.
Although the interview with Columbine survivor Crystal was conducted through FaceTime, her emotion was felt as she nodded in agreement with her mother and delved into the intricacies of how her life was in uenced after she went to school on April 20, 1999.
“I am so much of who I am today because of what I went through,” Crystal said. “ ough I am not de ned by Columbine, I am more of the woman, the mom, the wife, the friend, the philanthropist, the speaker, the author that I am today because of what happened that day.”
After the tragedy, Crystal had a decision to make: Fall apart or forge ahead. She chose the latter, and embarked on a journey that has spanned decades, where she helps the “survivors community.”
At the beginning of her journey, following the shooting, Crystal started sharing her story and eventually found her voice.
source for others,” Crystal said. “My work has been toward that e ort for almost 25 years, and so I want to continue to walk with this community and link arms with them and let them know that they’re not alone.”
Over the last several years, she’s been a speaker at schools and communities impacted by shootings. In addition, she’s assisted in opening a therapy retreat for survivors of mass shootings.
Additionally, Crystal has written three books: “Marked for Life,” which is about her journey, and two children’s books: “A Kids Book About School Shootings” and “A Kids Book About School Shootings: For Survivors.”
Her children’s books o er tools and advice for both students who survived a shooting or other trauma and parents and other adults to help them talk with children.
Crystal said among other things in her life, her experience at Columbine has impacted her perspective as a mother.
“Because of my perspective on life and how I view each day as a gift, I love being a mom and I love that I am given the opportunity in life to be able to raise and shape these young people to go far beyond anywhere I’ve been,” Crystal said.
As a mother, Crystal said she takes on the joy and responsibility to teach her children “what it looks like to live courageously in a crazy world.”
“I know what it’s like to have fear so rip your life that you can become paralyzed, and I want my kids to not have to walk through that,” Crystal said.
Crystal was thinking of her children and her perspective as a teenager in 1999 when writing her books. She wanted to re ect how she would address things with her children and how issues were addressed when she was younger.
“As school shootings and mass shootings became more commonplace, I saw myself really
starting to respond and just be there for others and to just be a re-
“We want to make sure kids are talking about the hard things and we’re giving them the language and the space to do so,” Crystal said. “We want to give them tools when they face their little fears and anxiety and we want to empower them to use their voice.”
Crystal said she has shared pieces of her story with her children and will continue to do so until they’re ready to hear it completely.
Cindy’s perspective
Cindy said the weeks and months following the shooting were hard for Crystal and their family, but over time, she saw Crystal overcome.
“I went through my tough times after that, but Crystal was always strong. She would amaze me,” Cindy said.
the screen, with tears in her eyes.
Like Crystal, Cindy said the Columbine shooting in uenced a lot of elements in her life.
“I am a di erent person today than I would’ve been had I not gone through that, and I think overall I am a better person because of that,” Cindy said. “I think one of the biggest things I mostly just learned is that I need to give myself grace.”
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Crystal listened to Cindy’s words through Facetime during the interview happening at her home.
“I thank God that we still have her,” Cindy said while looking at her daughter, on the other side of
As a survivor of the Columbine shooting, Crystal said she has been “asked every question under the sun” about that day.
“I think the thing that I like to tell of (is) the hope and the goodness,” Crystal said. “I like to tell of the stories of resilience and the stories who’ve gone on to be impacted greatly, but have gone on to make an impact greatly.”
“He’s the reason today that schools all over this country are able to move forward after tragedy,” said John McDonald, who was the executive director of school safety for Je co Public Schools from 2008 to 2022.
DeAngelis recognizes that his community leaned on him for hope and survival, but said this relationship went two ways.
Crystal believes various elements have led to this point including families, culture, the media, guns and mental health.
“Just talking about one facet isn’t the end date of a much deeper, much greater conversation,” she said. “So, we really need to come to the table not screaming and yelling at each other because I think we’re closer on the issues than we are apart.”
For Crystal, it’s hard to visit communities and see that these tragedies keep happening.
“It’s so heartbreaking that this continues to be an epidemic that has swept the world,” Crystal said. “ at there’s countless … people who’ve had to now experience this — people who know the pain, who know the heartache.”
“People said that Columbine really needed me — I needed them,” he said. “If I would have gone somewhere else, I would always be concerned about them.”
Since retiring in 2014, DeAngelis has dedicated his life and career to helping others face tragedy in their own lives. He is a member of the Principal Recovery Network, a group of “current and former school leaders who have experi-
During her senior year, following the shooting, Crystal said she felt the community really come together.
Crystal now lives in Edmond, Oklahoma and she explained that the teachers, administrators and faculty of Columbine High School created a camaraderie and closeness that continues to reign in the hallways of the school today.
enced gun violence tragedies in their buildings” across the country.
“You can’t determine what happens to you, but you can determine your response,” DeAngelis said. “No one would ever wish that a Columbine (would) happen, but it did. And, so, how can I go out and help others?”
In the 25 years since the shooting at Columbine, mass shootings at schools have become tragically common.
DeAngelis has reached out to other school leaders in the wake of some of those tragedies, sharing advice on things that helped him — like going to counseling, nding a support system and taking care of one’s family and spouse.
umbine’ echoes in the halls of our school and in our hearts forever.”
Cindy said to this day, people will ask her how she and Crystal are doing and she’s grateful for the thoughtfulness of the community.
“ at just says how wonderful the community is,” Cindy said. “ at they still remember and they still have a heart for it all and still feel the pain and joy of it.”
“Our kids were on trajectory to go there,” Crystal said. “ ey were in the Columbine school district and there was a lot of pride even in my kids, sporting their Columbine sweatshirts and T-shirts, going to the football games and still showing up at Columbine because we love Columbine. ‘We are Col-
“I just talk about my journey and taking care of yourself,” he said. “(I talk) about where we were and lessons learned, but then also the recovery piece.”
Crystal said it’s important to remember that not all stories are “bright and cheery and happy.”
“ ere’s a lot of pain and people are still hurting deeply so we can’t forget those who are still thinking about it every single day,” Crystal said.
Crystal encourages people, especially in the Columbine community, to continue to reach out and support each other.
“Don’t do it alone, and know there are still people ghting on their behalf, love them and are here for them,” Crystal said. “We don’t forget the 13 beautiful lives that were lost. We don’t forget their families. We don’t forget to remember them because we carry them with us every single day. We carry their stories. We carry their legacies.”
the school for so many years, and what still drives his work in supporting and educating others today.
DeAngelis lives by his own advice. He still goes to counseling to take care of his well-being. Getting help and leaning on others are the main pieces of advice he gives to people recovering after tragedies.
“You’re not in the journey alone,” he said.
He said his remembrance of the 13 victims each morning helps drive him forward.
“ ey give me a reason to do what I’m doing,” he said.
He is also part of the Je Co/ DeAngelis Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting school and community safety. DeAngelis travels around the country, sharing wisdom with rst responders, administrators and students.
Part of the foundation, the Frank DeAngelis Center for Community Safety, trains law enforcement and school safety o cials to respond to emergencies in a real school environment. e center conducts about 200 training sessions a year, he said.
DeAngelis said his Catholic faith is a large part of what drives his work. He said there is no clear reason why his life was spared, but he believes God has a plan for it. at’s what drove him to stay at
He laments the world’s obsession with returning to the topic of the shooting at the school. DeAngelis said Columbine and the community that surrounds it, including its alumni, are focused on helping others, moving forward and working to make the world better.
Although he is not the principal anymore, DeAngelis is still intimately involved with the school and its community.
“I can assure you, 25 years later, our community is stronger than what it was,” he said. “Because that’s what happens when families go through troubled times or tragedy — they come together.”
Most theaters take a similar approach to their seasons –it’s a blend of musicals and stage plays that usually run for about a month each. But at Littleton’s Town Hall Arts Center, they wanted to try something di erent.
Matthew Kepler, programming director, thought a wider audience could be reached by removing one of the six musical titles that make up their season and adding limited engagement productions that were more nuanced and intimate.
“I wanted the opportunity to produce titles that were powerful pieces of theatre, intrigued our current audience, appealed to audiences who didn’t view our typical o erings as interesting, and really spoke about the human condition, speci cally through the lens of the arts and how the arts a ect our humanity,” wrote
Kepler in an email interview. “ ese productions aim to provoke deeper emotions, prompt critical thinking from alternate perspectives, and foster engagement with diverse communities that audience members may not typically encounter or understand.”
e latest entry in this series is “Red,” written by John Logan and directed by Kepler. It runs at the theater, 2450 Main St. in Littleton, from ursday, April 25 through Sunday, May 5. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. ursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday and Sat-
urday, May 4.
e show is about Latvian-American abstract painter Mark Rothko (Andrew Uhlenhopp) and his young, new assistant Ken (Josue Miranda). At the time of the show, Rothko is at the height of his powers but struggling with his latest commission – a series that will be showcased in New York’s brand-new Four Seasons restaurant.
“ roughout the narrative, Rothko and Ken engage in conversations about the essence of artistic creation and its connection to the human experience,” Kepler wrote. “Moreover, the play delves into generational tensions, exempli ed by the decline of Rothko’s Abstract Expressionist movement in the face of the rising popularity of Ken’s generation’s Pop Art movement. Rothko and Ken deliberate on themes such as the commercialization of visual art and its impact on the artist’s spiritual expression.”
“Red” is the perfect show for the Town Hall’s limited engagement approach, because it tells the story of a massively important creative person and highlights the importance of art in daily life. Plus, it’s just a very well-told story.
“In this modern day of technological distractions, there really is something so pure and precious about having actors bear their soul
in front of you. If you open yourself up to it, it truly is a moving experience,” Kepler explained. “I hope they engage intellectually with what they see and allow it to open a dialogue. You don’t have to be an artist to dig into these questions. Our interests and passions and hobbies are a part of our human expression and all play into the ideas that are confronted in the play.”
For information and tickets, visit https://townhallartscenter.org/.
Abigail Osborn Brings Intimate Performance to Northglenn ere’s a reason music from the bedroom pop movement has become so popular in the last several years. ere’s an intimacy and relatability to the sounds these artists create, especially when paired with the fact that they are composing and writing everything themselves (often in, you guessed it, their rooms). One such artist is Abigail Osborn, who was born and raised in the Denver area and now lives in Los Angeles.
Osborn will be performing at the In the Studio, 1 E. Memorial Parkway in Northglenn, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 19. Get tickets at https://northglennarts.org/.
Walker Fine Art Strips the Creative Process Down
“Stripped,” the latest exhibition at the Walker Fine Art gallery, 300 W. 11th Ave., No. A, in Denver, explores the act of “reducing, distilling, tearing, removing and shredding,” as part of the creative process and what can be made because of
these actions.
e show features the works of eresa Clowes, Doug Haeussner, Lee Heekin, Sandra Klein, Morgan Robinson and Zelda Zinn, and will be on display through Saturday, May 11. e artists work in a variety of mediums, including photography, mixed media, collage and steel, and provide a stirring window into the power of transformation.
More information can be found at www.walker neart.com/stripped.
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Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Bluebird Music Festival at Macky Auditorium
I’d be hard-pressed to think of a better way to welcome the warm seasons of the year than with the beautiful folk music you’ll nd at the annual Bluebird Music Festival. is year’s festival features Gregory Alan Isakov, Je Tweedy (of Wilco), Joy Oladokun, Langhorne Slim, Andy Shauf and many more. is year’s Bluebird Music Festival runs on Saturday, April 20, and
Sunday, April 21, at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St. in Boulder. e festival bene ts the Future Arts Foundation, which aims to improve communities through arts, music and environmental programs.
Find all the details and tickets at www.bluebirdmusicfestival.org.
Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@ hotmail.com.
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Thornton takes strong position against high density land use
e ornton City Council has made itself quite clear in its opposition to House Bill 24-1313, which is the proposed state legislation which usurps local elected o cials from determining land use, along transit corridors.
Certainly, the bill would bulldoze home rule powers including local determination on land use and zoning - which have been in the State Constitution and statute for over 100 years. ornton’s resolution encourages the state to partner with local governments to improve transit opportunities and promote a ordable housing development instead of threatening to take away state Highway Users Tax
In ornton’s case, the HUTF funds amount to $4.5 million annually which is half of their street maintenance and improvements funds. It also points out that the state mandate could impose a zoning capacity of 65,462 additional dwelling units which could add at least an additional 100,000-plus residents.
I doubt that ornton residents would favor such an outlandish increase in density as well as that many additional units above their Comprehensive Land Use Plan.
ornton urges their state legislators to vote NO on the legislation as well.
In contrast, Westminster’s City Council recently expressed a position to “amend” HB 1313 implying they would live with the basic premise of breaking home rule authority but require diluting some of the speci c provisions.
Westminster city sta projects a combined 150% increase in population. I have been surprised that Westminster citizens have not jumped on the council’s thinking.
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is school year has been overwhelming for teachers like Joel Mollman.
As an English language development teacher at Hamilton Middle School in Denver, Mollman has had to take on more work to keep up with the growing number of students who need help learning English.
In previous years, for example, his school might have only received three students a month who needed to be screened for English uency. is year, he screens at least three new students each week — a process that takes one to two hours per
student.
“It could quickly take up two of my mornings where I could be in classrooms,” Mollman said.
Across the state, English language development teachers describe similar scenarios.
As many schools have experienced an in ux of new students with limited English skills all year, their roles have been changing.
Traditionally, these teachers are tasked with screening new students, teaching English as a second language, administering English uency tests, and coaching other classroom teachers.
Now they must also support many students who are new to the country
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As of the end of February, seven of Colorado’s districts — Denver, Aurora, Cherry Creek, Greeley, Adams 12, Je co and Mapleton — told Chalkbeat they had enrolled more than 5,600 students new to the country after October count.
Some schools, in particular ones where there haven’t traditionally been large numbers of English learners, have relied on their English language development teachers to be the main support for children new to the country. Some of the teachers describe helping students and their families navigate a new country, and even taking in a child whose family was living in a car, during a bout of chickenpox.
Often, they say, certain parts of their job have fallen to the wayside, and state advocates say that in small districts, even screening students to identify their English needs, a crucial step, gets skipped.
Cynthia Trinidad-Sheahan, president of the Colorado Association for Bilingual Education, said districts don’t have the manpower, and often don’t know what to do. “ e expertise is lacking with some of the districts,” TrinidadSheahan said. “How do we get training to the teachers that are in these rural districts? And it’s not just on the paraeducators and teachers. e administrators leading these buildings do not have a clear understanding of language acquisition.”
When a student who is suspected of not being uent in English is enrolled in school, the district is re-
quired to screen them to identify their language level and needs for services. at screening is supposed to happen within two weeks of enrollment.
In a typical year, that occupies time in the beginning of the school year for English language development teachers. is year, with some schools receiving new students every week, that process has taken up a lot more time.
At Hamilton Middle, where Mollman is also team lead for the school’s multilingual team, he’s taken on the role of screening all students this semester. O cial state numbers show 40% of Hamilton’s 700 students have been identi ed as English learners.
In addition to administering the tests, Mollman has to block o a few hours per week to do the paperwork for the district. at requires entering scores and other information into the computer, and three school sta members to sign o .
Last semester, another English language development teacher on his team was sharing the load, but with so many new students, that teacher had to take on another class, giving up one of her free periods. Mollman now does all the screening.
Each Monday, he starts his week preparing for testing, doublechecking the schedules given to new students to make sure they’re in the right classes, tracking down Chromebooks if they haven’t received them, and sometimes making calls as he tries to gure out what pro ciency the new students
have in their native language. Kayli Brooks, a teacher at Tollgate Elementary in Aurora, said screening new students didn’t consume her job only because her school was able to get help from Aurora district leaders who stepped in to do that work.
But she recalls how many of the students arrived just before the annual testing window for ACCESS tests, the tests English learners take each year to measure their progress in English uency. ose students had to take both tests within days or weeks.
“Every o ce or room was lled with testing,” Brooks said. She said it was heartbreaking to pull students and have them realize they had to take yet another English test they wouldn’t be able to do well on.
It’s hard to find time to help more students
Both Brooks and Mollman said that in their schools, giving students a block of English language instruction — a legally required practice — has not stopped.
But other help for students and sta has.
Brooks, for instance, said she used to pull groups of students such as those new to the country out of class for extra English instruction where she would let them practice speaking. She used to cater those sessions to phrases and vocabulary the students might encounter in other content classrooms such as science or social studies so they might feel more able to participate.
“All of that stopped,” Brooks said. “It came to an absolute screeching halt.”
In recent weeks, as the number of new students has slowed, she started back on a rhythm of reconvening some small groups of students.
“ ey are so happy,” Brooks said. “ ey want to learn. I taught them
last week some basic advocacy: I need water. I need the bathroom. I need food.”
Still, she isn’t doing as much as she would like. And she hasn’t been able to help other classroom teachers in her school. At Tollgate, she said, about 60% to 75% of students are considered level 1 English learners, which means they don’t have any English uency.
“We have a little over half of every classroom lled with students who don’t speak English, so half of their students are understanding what they say,” Brooks said. “Our team wants to — and should be — supporting teachers and having professional development around this. It’s just been such an overwhelming time that it’s not something that’s happening.”
Trinidad-Sheahan said districts need to allow English language development teachers to coach other teachers so the responsibilities for teaching students gets shared.
At the schools seeing an in ux of emerging bilingual students, she said, instructional coaches should be teachers with experience in teaching English learners.
Mollman said at his Denver school, his team is trying to help other content teachers, but “we’re still trying to gure out the best way to do this.”
In other years, teachers may have paired new students with other students who also speak the same language. But with so many students, including some who speak Spanish and others who speak Arabic, it’s not always possible.
He’s also trying to get teachers to adapt how they grade students who don’t yet speak English. But it’s all a challenge.
“Some teachers are very good at adapting,” Mollman said. “Some have really struggled with it and we haven’t quite found the solution.”
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New area women’s soccer team starts in December
BY STEVE SMITH SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIATalk about hitting the ground running.
e Colorado Bucks SC women’s soccer team, which won’t play its rst game until later this year, already signed two players to contracts: Audrey Osgood and Samantha Murray.
Major League Indoor Soccer announced three new teams for its inaugural season of women’s indoor soccer, including Colorado. e other franchises are in Chicago and Omaha, Nebraska.
“Colorado has a wealth of talent when it comes to female soccer players, and we plan to showcase that talent when the season starts in December,” said Owner Joshua P. Craver-DeCredico. “We are very excited that little girls now can dream to be a part of professional soccer in our great state. is is an amazing opportunity, and we will cherish every moment.”
As for the new Bucks, Murray played college at Regis University. e school’s website said she started her career at Laramie County Community College and earned all-region and rst-team All-American honors. She split her high
e next sessions are May 8, June 12 and Aug. 14. Home games are at the Lakewood Foothills Fieldhouse. Despite playing games in Lakewood, the Bucks claim Northglenn as their home.
“Everything that we do, besides playing home games, is based out of the Northglenn area,” CraverDeCredico said. “We feel so strongly about the Northglenn community, and I wanted to keep it up in this area because there’s nothing around this area when it comes to indoor professional soccer.”
Tryouts are in September and October. Preseason camp begins in October as well. Questions? Visit coloradobuckssc@gmail.com. e league called the initiative “a signi cant milestone in the world of indoor soccer .. it brings a longoverdue professional platform for women to showcase their talent, skills and passion for the sport.”
school career between Utah and Japan, where she earned Far East Defensive Player of the Year three times.
Osgood played at Frontier Academy in Greeley. In four seasons, she scored nine goals and tallied 22 points. She also played one sea-
son at the University of Northern Colorado.
Last year, e Colorado Bucks Soccer Club men’s team joined Major League Indoor Soccer, making Colorado the westernmost team in the league.
Kick-arounds began this month.
“We are excited to introduce a professional indoor soccer league for women and provide a platform for talented female athletes to compete at the highest level,” said MLIS Commissioner Dominic Tourcotte in a statement “Women’s soccer has seen tremendous growth and success in recent years, and we believe it’s time to bring that same level of recognition and opportunity to indoor soccer for women.”
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Stephanie Devries was more than a mom to her children Anthony and Lizzie and their dad, Chad. In her memory, Anthony now
plays for her. Since his mom — who died two years ago in June — was always the light of his life, the former Pomona football standout has tried to carry on her legacy, spreading her light through his football career. “My mom was unlike any other,”
Anthony, a redshirt junior o ensive lineman for McPherson College in Kansas, said. “Obviously, there are many mothers that are willing to do anything for their kids/family, but that’s what my mom’s entire life was. She made her life about my
sister, Dad and I. ere was nothing that she did for herself almost ever, everything she did was for somebody else. e most sel ess person I will ever meet was my mother.”
e love Anthony and Lizzie had for the matriarch of their family could be seen and felt from as far away as South Dakota — where the famous American Moms’ faces are spiritually etched in stone with Mount Rushmore’s greats.
“She was present,” the 6-foot-2, 290-pounder said. “She was always doing something to put a smile on my face, she never let me or my sister feel like we were alone in anything. My dad does the same thing. Any day of the week, regardless of how she felt, she was always there to help make my day better. e bond my mom and I had was special and I still feel her around today.”
A son’s promise to his mom
“She had battled breast cancer for about two years, this being the second time she’d gone through it,” Anthony said. “She had never let anyone know how truly bad it was until she was on her deathbed. Some of her closest friends didn’t even know she had passed six months after she did. She really tried to ght on her own, although we wouldn’t allow her to actually do it. It was a very hard time for my family as she was really the rock for all three of us.”
Anthony said his mom hadn’t been great for a few months when the family was in Oklahoma City for a weekend softball tournament.
“She just went downhill so quickly, you wouldn’t have been able to see it coming,” Anthony said. “As we were in the hospital with her for the week she was there, all I could tell her was how much I loved and appreciated her. ere’s nobody on this earth that could replace what she meant to me, she truly was my best friend.
“I let her know that everything I do from there on out I’d do with her in my mind. Her wish to me was for me to nish all the way through school and to take care of the family that I was soon to build, and I promised her that I’d do so.”
Anthony spent as much time in the hospital with her as possible in those nal days of her life.
“Her last couple days she was unable to talk due to her illness, but I would just let her know I loved her,” he said. “I knew she could
hear me because every time I’d tell her she’d squeeze my hand.”
She died on June 15, 2022.
“I just remember being numb for so long, like I was oating and nothing felt real,” Anthony said.
His mom was just 52. Her death came one day before Anthony’s 19th birthday on June 16.
“After she died, I fell into a deep depression, I couldn’t do anything without the image of her on the bed in my head,” Anthony said. “I was also the rock for all of my family during this time so I didn’t allow myself to be soft around them, I was there for everybody. It was like my mom had taken over my body for a while because I was taking care of everybody emotionally.”
He continued.
“I wasn’t truly myself again until recently, probably about ve or six months ago when I really started to seek God in my life.”
‘Honor my mom through football’
As football practice started up in August 2022, Anthony decided he was playing the game he so loved in his mom’s honor.
“ at following fall, I began to pray to her and God before games,” he said. “I also wrote her name on the backs of every new pair of cleats I bought. She is still a huge part of my life even though she can’t be here physically.”
Anthony elaborated.
“I pray to them right before kicko and let them both know how thankful I am that I have the ability to play the game I love with her still in my life,” he said. “After every prayer right before kicko , I stand up and blow a kiss to her up in Heaven. I wear a chain with her birthstone and locket that contains her ashes every day, it lets me know that she’s close. I also have a tattoo on my left pec with her initials on it so she’s always close to my heart.”
“He is de nitely a one-of-a-kind dude,” Bulldog redshirt freshman halfback/tight end Brayton Dewell said. “As I came into college playing fullback, Anthony and I had the same position coach because o-line, tight ends and full backs were all together for meetings and that’s where we got to know each other.”
A friendship was quickly born.
“It didn’t take very long before we had become very good friends,” Dewell noted. “When I rst learned about what had happened with his
mom … I was shocked because it is very hard to go through that, especially as a college athlete and being away from home. But then knowing Anthony, I knew he could overcome it. He definitely puts everything into the game of football and I know he is doing it for his mom and family and for the love of the game.”
Sophomore running back Brysen Kerby feels the same way.
“The way I see Ant is: If you didn’t know about his story, you never would,” Kerby said. “He’s always a light and constantly making you laugh. The strength in his character definitely shines through whether that be on the football field or in everyday life. I’m positive that anyone who is and or was close to Anthony would be proud of the man he is today.”
So does redshirt junior halfback/tight end Harley Blaske.
“That’s amazing because I know what it’s like to lose a loved one,” Blaske said. “It’s tough but dedicating his game to his mom is unforgettable.”
Anthony’s team continues to rally around him.
“Anthony is an amazing guy,” redshirt freshman linebacker Kennedy Batchelder said. “He puts his all into everything he does. The man has nothing but love in his heart and spills it out on and off the field.”
‘The best version of myself’
“I’d hope she’d be very proud of me and the man I am becoming,” Anthony said. “I try hard every day
to become what she’s raised me to be. I’m not perfect as an individual and I make mistakes as all humans do, but I strive to be the best version of myself that I can be. I feel that she’d take pride in knowing that she played a huge part in what I’m trying to become.”
That includes continuing her legacy as a beacon of light to others, just like his mom was.
“Her legacy can only be carried by my sister and myself so it’s important to me because she was such an amazing woman, the most selfless, loving, endearing person you’d ever meet,” Anthony said. “I can only hope to be half of who she was. There wasn’t one person she said ‘no’ to helping and she did everything in her life with love in her heart. I can only try to replicate who she was.” If he could see his mom one more time?
“I’d give her the tightest hug I could and tell her I loved her,” Anthony said. “There’s nothing in this world I’d want more than to be able to hug her one more time.”
Anthony’s Mom’s Day Story concludes with this message to his mom who’s now among the Mount Rushmore of Mom Greats in Heaven.
“My message to her is I love her and I’m trying my hardest to be great,” Anthony said. “It’s been hard the last few years without her, but I’m trying to learn and grow up to be the man I need to be. I know she knows that, and I know she’s still around because angels and souls from the past are absolutely real.”
Grants will create 46 sites with a total of 290 ports
BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUNColorado will spend $21 million to expand fast charging networks for electric vehicles throughout the state, with new grants awarded for 46 sites encompassing 290 charging ports, state o cials announced. e expansion will boost Colorado’s existing public fast chargers by nearly 30%. Private companies and governments will build the fast chargers to ll gaps federal o cials identi ed along alternative fuel corridors considered keys to smooth transportation ow. Direct-current fast chargers can give EVs a signi cant mileage
boost within 15 to 45 minutes of plugging in, depending on electrical service and how many other cars are plugged in at the same time.
State and federal EV boosters are scrambling to assure consumers about “range anxiety” — fear of running out of battery charge before nding a convenient charging station — and vehicle pricing. EV sales have stagnated after climbing quickly in some states, with observers citing continuing high prices despite federal and state tax credits, and consumers reluctant to learn new fueling systems and locations.
More than 100,000 EVs are now registered in Colorado, the Colorado Energy O ce said, and with “the pace of adoption growing, the expansion of the charging network is necessary to meet consumer demand.”
“Colorado is building one of the
most comprehensive EV charging networks in the country,” Colorado Department of Transportation Executive Director Shoshana Lew said, in the release announcing the grants. “We believe that nearly every Coloradan will have access to DC fast-charging within a matter of years.” e new charging stations will be funded jointly by federal money from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the state Community Access Enterprise. Future rounds of grant funding will continue to build out the public charging network, with an emphasis on guaranteeing charging access in communities disproportionately impacted by historic air pollution.
Most of the charging stations should be online by the end of 2025, state o cials said. is story was printed through a
A set of DC fast electric chargers on the east side of Limon adds some much-needed firepower to Colorado’s I-70 charging network, but the actual charging speeds experienced vary widely.
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On February 13, 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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s) NORMA B. GRIJALVA
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.
provided by law.
First Publication4/18/2024
Last Publication5/16/2024
Name of Publication Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
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: 02/13/2024
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 06/05/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
First Publication4/11/2024
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DATE: 02/06/2024
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado
By: Treasurer and Public Trustee
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(A) FEE CALCULATION:
(1) An applicant for a water tap shall pay the fees set forth hereinafter, the total of which shall be known as the “water tap fee,” or those components that are applicable to the type of tap required by this chapter. The water tap fee or portions thereof are due and payable upon issuance of the water tap utility permit unless earlier paid as provided in subsection 8-7-2(C), W.M.C. The water tap fee may consist of the following individual fees:
(a) Water resources service commitment fee, being the share of the cost to provide adequate raw water supply to be utilized by the tap;
(b) Water infrastructure service commitment fee, being the share of the utility system related to treating and distributing water to be utilized by the tap;
(c)Meter connection fee, being the actual city cost for installation of a meter with electronic remote readout device, when applicable; inspection of the tap, service line, and meter and meter pit installation; meter testing, when applicable; account and billing activation and other administrative procedures; and
(d) When applicable, a fire connection fee, being that charge associated with a tap providing fire protection.
8-7-1. DEFINITIONS:
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in the chapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
City manager shall mean the manager of the City of Westminster, Colorado, or their his designee.
Consumer or customer shall mean any person, firm or corporation receiving water or wastewater services from the City.
Dwelling unit shall mean a single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
Kgal shall mean a volumetric unit of 1,000 gallons of water or wastewater.
Mains shall mean the main pipes and connections forming a part of the City waterworks.
Meter shall mean the device, appropriate to the premises served, installed to measure the amount of water passing through it, with an accuracy of between 95 percent and 101 percent of actual quantities delivered. The term shall also include detector devices for water passing through fire service lines.
Mobile home shall mean any dwelling unit built on a permanent wheeled chassis exceeding either eight feet in width or 32 feet in length and designed for long-term residential occupancy in a temporary or permanent location that is capable of being towed over public streets or highways as a unit or in sections and duly licensable as such.
Multifamily shall mean any residential housing other than single-family detached or single-family attached.
Residential irrigation, apartment, townhome/condo, public/quasi-public users shall mean a class of water user that includes homeowner’s associations, townhouses (four units or more) and condominiums with master meters, apartments (four units or more) city facilities, and other public agencies, including special districts formed under Colorado law, schools and churches.
Service pipe shall mean a branch pipe with its fittings and connections through which water is taken.
Single-family attached shall mean a single dwelling unit contained in a free-standing structure that has party walls with other structures in which each unit extends from foundation to roof with open space on at least two sides. Single pass cooling system shall mean air conditioning or air handling systems, including evaporative or refrigerated cooling systems, that deliver used water to a drain or other discharge facility without recycling or further use.
Single-family detached shall mean a single dwelling unit contained in a free-standing structure that has no party walls with other structures.
Street shall mean any street, avenue, alley, lane or other thoroughfare.
Submeters shall mean two or more non-city owned meters installed to measure the amount of water used by individual premises or uses in a multi-premises building that are placed on the private side of the City meter in order to facilitate individual premises billing or encourage water conservation.
Utilities Service Rules shall mean the rules and programs governing the operation and use of the City’s water distribution, wastewater collection, and reclaimed water systems, as approved and adopted by the Director of Public Works and Utilities who is hereby granted the authority to enact, amend, and propagate such rules as are necessary for the protection of health, welfare, and the safe operation of the City’s utilities, and that are in compliance with, or more stringent than, all applicable state and federal regulations, and the City Charter and the Westminster Municipal Code.
Water infrastructure service commitment shall mean 20 gallons per minute of water flow.
Water resources service commitment shall mean 140,000 gallons of annual water use.
Water tap shall mean an opening or connection in the mains through which water is taken.
Water utility infrastructure fixed charge shall mean the fee for fixed infrastructure and recurring costs not related to volumetric water production costs.
8-7-2. TAP PERMIT REQUIRED:
(A) No water tap shall be made on any water main, either public or private, or any other portion of the waterworks of the City without first securing approval therefor. The application for a water tap permit shall be made in writing upon a form furnished by the City and shall clearly state the tap size, address, and person applying for the tap and any other information as the City may reasonably require.
(B) Service lines and water meter pits may be installed as part of water main construction, if prior approval has been received from the City. The installation of these service lines and meter pits are subject to inspection and approval by the City and shall be in accordance with adopted City standards and specifications, and Service Rules. Every applicant for a tap permit shall be required to obtain a building permit prior to the installation of a water meter by the City.
(C) Payment of the water tap fee shall be made upon the date that a building permit is issued, and payment of such fee shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy or the establishment of a permanent water account. The amount of such fee shall be calculated according to the fee schedule in effect at the time payment is made. Payment of the water tap fee for an irrigation system, or for any other installation or construction not requiring issuance of a building permit, shall be made at the time of the water tap utility permit application. When the calculated water tap fee, based on the tap fee schedule in effect at the time of the water meter installation, is different than the water tap fee paid at the time of the issuance of the utility permit, the difference in such fees must be paid prior to the installation of the water meter. Water taps may not be made without a utility tap permit.
(D) For existing units that do not require a certificate of occupancy, if the tap fee paid for the tap permit is lower than the tap fee in effect at the time the water meter is to be set, an additional fee equal to the difference between the fee paid and the fee then in effect shall be paid prior to the installation of the water meter. (E) All newly constructed buildings and irrigation systems within the City of Westminster that require water service must connect to the City’s water supply system. Private or alternate water supplies are not allowed.
Any property within the City serviced by a private water source must connect to the City’s water supply system upon a change of use of the property that requires a change in the land use designation.
(2) Water taps, water tap lines, and meters for the same service shall normally be the same size. If otherwise approved and/or required by the City, the tap and meter may be of different sizes, in which case the fee for the meter size shall be paid. Water taps cannot be issued prior to building and/or tap entitlement approval. Any exceptions must be approved by the City Manager, i.e., conversion from well to the City water system, pursuant to Section 8-7-15, W.M.C.
(3) The base components of the 20242022 water tap fees are as follows:
(4) The connection fees based on meter size are as follows:
*Single-family attached and detached connection fees for meters up to one and one-half inch include the cost of the water meter, which is supplied by the City. All other connection fees do not include the cost of the water meter, which is supplied by the consumer at the consumer’s cost.
(5) Each year, the water tap fee and its individual components in subsection (3) shall be automatically increased in accordance with the annual construction cost index for construction costs as of December of each year, as reported in the construction economics section of the Engineering News-Record (ENR) as published weekly by BNP Media. The annual construction cost index shall be at all reasonable times available at the City Department of Public Works and Utilities. The meter connection fee in subsection (4) may also be adjusted separately at any time, when necessary, to reflect the full cost of said connection to the City.
(6) Reserved. A surcharge of 25% will be added to all tap charges and fees related to the provision of water service to customers located outside the City limits, unless provided otherwise by contract or agreement with the City.
(7)The water resources service commitment fee and water infrastructure service commitment fee components of the water tap fee for City-owned facilities may be implemented at rates below 100 percent at the direction of the City Manager or his designee.
(7)(8) For all commercial and irrigation utility permits, a “Service Commitment Agreement” detailing the service address, tap size, water resource service commitments purchased, and square footage of water use type shall be signed by the property owner in advance of building permit issuance. Accounts that consistently use more water resources than originally purchased for three years in a row will be required to purchase additional water resources service commitments.
(B) RESIDENTIAL WATER TAPS: The following regulations apply to residential water taps:
(1) The single family residential water tap fee is based on a five-eighths standard one-quarter inch meter size and is assessed on a per-dwelling-unit basis.
(2) The outdoor water tap component for any single family home is based on the irrigable area at an annual irrigation demand of 12 gallons per square foot. Non-irrigable areas must be permanently installed hardscapes that cannot be planted in the future. Unplanted, mulched areas are not considered hardscapes.
(3) Water taps for indoor single-family detached buildings are charged based on number of bathrooms in the home Bathrooms are defined as a room containing a toilet and sink, and any unfinished stub outs for same.
(4) Water taps for indoor single-family attached and residential multifamily buildings are charged based on number of rooms available for bedrooms in the building, regardless of the actual use of the room. Bedrooms are defined as a room with a built in closet, not
(5) Separate irrigation taps are required for all multifamily and
(6) The residential tap fees shall be calculated as listed in the above table plus any applicable fire connection charge. If a tap and meter larger than the standard one inch meter is requested for reasons other than to meet residential fire sprinkler demand for any residential unit, the tap fees shall be calculated using the nonresidential treated water investment calculation and SC factor in subsection (C)(2) below.
(7) Tap fees for clubhouses, swimming pools, and other common buildings or structures shall be assessed as provided hereinafter under subsections (C) or (D) below.
(C) NONRESIDENTIAL WATER TAPS: The following regulations apply to nonresidential water taps:
(1) The City shall review and evaluate each applicant’s requested water tap and meter size, and may adjust the requested tap and/or meter size, if it determines the projected water usage will be greater than that requested.
(2) Every meter size has a corresponding water infrastructure service commitment factor (SC factor). The water infrastructure service commitment fee portion of the tap fee shall be calculated by multiplying the water infrastructure service commitment fee, in subsection (A)(3) above, by the respective SC factor in the following chart:
service commitment credits shall be calculated based on the most recent ten-year average annual water consumption through the former water tap.
(3) The amount of credit shall be fixed at the issuance of the first new service tap and may be used for payment for additional service taps that are used on the same property.
(4) When a credit is used for full or partial payment for a new water tap, all other applicable charges shall be assessed using the then current fee schedule in effect.
(5) In no instance shall cash refunds be granted.
(6) No credit shall be given for the meter connection fee or fire connection fee portions of the water tap fee.
(7) If any tap is installed and completed without receiving a utility permit and the proper inspection and approval by the City, no tap fee credit shall be given.
(8) If a demolition or vacation of a unit results in an abandonment of an associated water tap as defined in Section 8-7-5, W.M.C., no tap fee credit shall be granted at the time a new tap permit is issued.
(9) Any water resources or infrastructure service commitments associated with water taps to serve buildings demolished in established urban renewal areas may be transferred as tap credits to an urban renewal authority or the City for use in approved redevelopment projects within that same urban renewal area.
8-7-4. SPECIFICATIONS:
(A) The City will specify all materials that the applicant is to furnish pursuant to adopted city standards and specifications, and Service Rules. All work furnished by the applicant shall be performed by, or under the supervision of, a master plumber. Meters shall be located only within public rights-of-way, public easements, or city easements. Location and grade shall be subject to approval by the City.
(B) Authorization to install any tap or meter may be withheld by the City if the applicant is in violation of any law of the City or in default in any agreement with the City, related to the provision of utility service. It shall be unlawful to use, or permit to be used, any water tap installation until the meter has been set or approved by the City. Upon approval, the entire installation, including the water meter, shall become the property of the City, regardless of the size of the meter.
(C) Except as may be provided elsewhere in this paragraph, each separate structure shall have a separate water tap and water meter. A separate tap and meter must be installed for each single-family detached and single-family attached unit. An exception may be granted by the Public Works and Utilities Director or their designeeCity Manager if an additional structure is an accessory use of the principal structure and the accessory use does not exceed one water resources service commitment. If any additional accessory water fixtures require the upsizing of an existing water tap, any associated water tap fees will be due.
(D) A separate tap must be installed for each premises, unit or structure served, except where two or more premises, units or structures are located on a single subdivided lot under single or condominium ownership, in which case one tap may be permitted. In this instance, all units must be individually metered or submetered. An exception may be granted if an additional structure is an accessory use of the principal structure and the accessory use by itself does not exceed one water resources service commitment. If any additional accessory water fixtures require the upsizing of an existing water tap, any associated water tap fees will be due.
(3) The water resource fee portion of the tap fee shall be calculated based upon the estimated annual consumption, business type, and tap size required using methods and estimates developed by the public works and utilities department to determine the appropriate water resources service commitments required, which shall be multiplied by the water resources service commitment fee in subsection (A)(3) above.
(D) IRRIGATION WATER TAPS: The following regulations apply to taps for irrigation:
(1) Separate irrigation taps and meters shall be required for:
(a) All residential developments, other than a development whose land area consists entirely of single-family detached lots; and
(b) All nonresidential developments having any irrigated landscaped areas.
(c) This requirement may be waived at the discretion of the Public Works and Utilities Director or their designee if water use is below 0.25 service commitments.
(2) Irrigation tap fees are required based on the area and type of landscaping. Landscape types are defined as either high-water, medium-water or low-water.
(3) An irrigation water tap shall be used only for irrigation purposes. Each irrigation water tap shall be assigned a service address and billing account in the name of the property owner or manager.
(4) The irrigation tap fee consists of the meter connection fee plus the following square footage fees based upon landscape type; fees per landscape type are derived from a per gallon volumetric proportion of the water resources and water infrastructure service commitment fees, and increase annually per Section 8-7-3(A)5, W.M.C.:
(a) Irrigation tap fees (residential and nonresidential).
(E) FIRE PROTECTION:
(1) For any size tap that is determined by the City Manager, or their his designee, to provide solely fire protection, only the fire connection charge, in the amount provided for in subsection (A)(3) of this section, shall be collected. The applicant for a fire protection tap shall furnish all materials and labor as specified by the City, including any device required to detect any use of water for purposes other than fire protection.
(F) CONSTRUCTION WATER METERING: If any water is required for construction purposes, construction water meters must be installed, deposits collected as per Section 8-7-11, W.M.C., and water usage billed at commercial rates as per subsection 8-7-7(D), W.M.C. It is prohibited to install any by-pass or jumper to provide water service without the installation of a water meter pursuant to Section 8-7-12, W.M.C.
(G) PROVISION OF MATERIALS AND LABOR: For all water taps, the applicant shall furnish all labor and all materials as specified by the City, except as provided by this paragraph. The City shall provide the applicant with a list of required materials and approved suppliers at the time of application. The City shall provide all five-eighths inch by three-quarter standard one inch single family meters. All other metersmeter sizes shall be provided by the applicant as specified by the City at applicant’s sole cost and must be tested for accuracy by the City before installation. After payment of all required fees and charges, the City shall inspect installation ofinstall all meters.
(H) TAP CREDITS:
(1) Upon issuance of a tap permit for the first new service tap, a tap fee credit shall be given in an amount to be calculated by subtracting the cost of the current water resources fee and treated water investment fee of the original tap from the current value of the water resources fee and treated water investment fee of the first new service tap.
(2) Water infrastructure service commitment credits shall be calculated based on the tap size of the former tap. Water resources
(E) The provisions of this paragraph and Section 8-7-3, W.M.C., notwithstanding, new developments other than singlefamily detached or single-family attached shall provide private water meters for each individual unit, commonly referred to as submeters, to encourage water conservation, equitable distribution of utility expenses, and timely correction of plumbing problems. Submeters shall be the property of the owner, who shall be responsible for maintenance, repair and use of submeters.
(F) All meters shall be kept in good repair by the city and shall be and remain the property of the city and under its control. No meter shall be set so that there shall be more than two feet of exposed unmetered service pipe.
8-7-5.
A water tap, once installed, is associated with the building and property that it serves. No person shall disconnect, modify or change said tap in any way, except as provided below and in compliance with the Utilities Service Rules:
(A) CHANGE IN USE CONSTITUTING EXPANSION: A change in use is subject to the following requirements:
(1) A change in use must be reviewed by the City’s building division using the applicable plumbing code. Such review will include a fixture unit count evaluation, a water velocity evaluation, and an AWWA guidelines review. A change in use is presumed to occur when:
(a) The use of the served property is changed to a different use category for zoning or land use purposes; or
(b) Any modifications to the landscape are made that require an ODP, ODP amendment, or ODP waiver; or
(c) Any building or plumbing modifications that require a permit are made to the served property; or
(d) A new or additional water use is introduced on the served property; or
(e) A water tap is relocated and applied to a different use or building on the served property; or
(f) A water tap is relocated to a different property.
(2) If the review of the change in use determines the need for a larger water tap and/or meter than previously purchased for the property, or additional water resources, the use will be considered an “expansion of use” and the provisions stated in paragraph (3) below apply.
(3) When an expansion of use occurs, a water tap fee in an amount equal to the difference between the current water tap fee for the existing tap and the current water tap fee for the new tap, including the connection fee, serving the new location and/or use shall be paid.
(B) BUILDING DEMOLITION:
(1) When any building currently having a water tap is demolished and a building permit for a new building on the same parcel is issued within three years of the last registered water consumption and the new building maintains the same use with the same pattern and amount of water use as the pre-existing building, no new water tap fee shall be required. The new building shall be regarded as being served by the tap in service prior to demolition of the pre-existing building. However, if the new building requires a water meter installation, the then currently applicable connection fee shall be paid by the property owner.
(2) When any building currently having a water tap is demolished and no new building permit on the same parcel is issued within three years of the last registered water consumption, abandonment will be presumed pursuant to subsection (C) below.
(C) ABANDONMENT:
(1) Water resources and infrastructure service commitments are associated with a tap. Abandonment of any tap will result in the forfeiture of the associated service commitments.
(2) Any building having a water meter not registering usage for more than 36 consecutive months, and for which payment of the non-volumetric billed charges has not been made continuously, shall constitute an abandonment of the associated water tap and service commitments and the meter may be removed by the City in its discretion. Notification of the effective date of the abandonment of the water tap shall be mailed to the last known address of the property owner or manager. Any subsequent water usage by that building shall require purchasing new service commitments and the purchase of a new water tap.
(3) Upon abandonment of a tap, the property owner may be responsible for removing the existing service line from the meter pit to the corporation stop at the water main, if the City determines such removal is necessary to preserve the integrity of the main.
(4) Payment of all past due non-volumetric billed charges will prohibit abandonment procedures.
8-7-6. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER; RULES GOVERNING SUBDIVISIONS:
(A) The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all applicants. In the case of subdivisions, housing developments, or other areas where water mains and installations must be extended from the existing water mains to the area of use, the applicant must provide and install the necessary water mains, fire hydrants, valves and fittings for the extension, in addition to complying with all of the provisions of this chapter. All such extension installations shall be made under the inspection and supervision of the City. Upon completion and final approval by the City, all such water mains, fire hydrants, valves and fittings incorporated in the extension shall become the property of the City.
(B) This formula shall be applied to property owners or developers on each side of the main. The City of Westminster will be responsible for the fractional cost of that portion of any water main that exceeds 16 inches in diameter.
8-7-7. WATER RATE SCHEDULE:
(A) Except for fire hydrant use for municipal purposes and water used by the utilities division of the public works and utilities department, all water delivered from the City water system shall be metered, including water used by the City or departments thereof, and the charge therefor shall be as hereinafter set forth. Per Section 8-7-8 below, water meters are to be read to the nearest 1,000 gallons. Any meter reading containing a portion of 1,000 gallons shall be rounded down to the nearest 1,000 gallons.
(B) RESIDENTIAL: Three dwelling units or less, served by one meter, primarily used for residential occupancy shall, in 2022, be charged a monthly water utility infrastructure fixed charge based on meter size as listed in Schedule A plus the monthly charge per kgal listed below $13.57 per month water utility infrastructure charge, and shall, in 2023, be charged a $13.57 per month water utility infrastructure charge plus:
(E) CONTINUANCE OF CUSTOMER CHARGES: Monthly customer charges shall be assessed in all cases including where no water is consumed until such time as City personnel are specifically requested to discontinue water service at the meter, pursuant to Section 8-7-10, W.M.C.
(F) INCOME-QUALIFIED BILL CREDITRebate: A creditrebate in an amount to be set by the City Manager or his designee shall be given to eligible income-qualified low-income residential customersusers.who submit an application on a form prescribed by the Public Works and Utilities Director.
(1) The Public Works and Utilities Director or their designee shall prescribe forms and administrative procedures for the application process, determination of “income-qualified” status, credit amount, and distribution of credit. For purposes of this paragraph, “low income” shall be 60 percent of the current area median income (AMI).
(2) The Director of Public Works and Utilities is authorized to prescribe and accept such forms of eligibility as the Director may deem sufficient to demonstrate an applicant’s eligibility for the rebate provided for in this section.
(2)(3) Such creditrebate will be paid in the form of a credit applied to the water account of the eligible residential user.
(3) Customers who have been assessed a fee for tampering associated with their water meter within the last three years are not eligible for this credit. Customers who provide false information or are in violations of other policies established by the Public Works and Utilities Director shall be removed from the program.
(G) OUT-OF-CITY CUSTOMERS: A surcharge of 25 percent will be added to all charges and fees related to the provision of water service to customers located outside the City limits, unless provided otherwise by contract or agreement with the City. 8-7-8. COMPUTATION OF RATE:
(A) The schedule of water rates shall be applied to water used or consumed as determined by the water meter readings that are made by the City, except as provided in Section 8-7-7, W.M.C.
(B) Water meters are to be read to the nearest 1,000 gallons. Any meter reading containing a portion of 1,000 gallons shall be rounded down to the nearest 1,000 gallons. The City will charge fees according to Schedule B for meter investigations.$30.00 to test a residential water meter upon the customer’s request. Test of commercial and industrial meters by customer request will be as listed in Schedule B. FeesThis fee will be waived if the meter is over-registering or if a leak is found at the meter or on the City’s portion of the distribution system. If the meter is over-registering, the customer will receive a credit for excess charges on the prior 12 months’ consumption. If city records indicate a meter change or accuracy test during the 12 months, the credit will apply from the date of the meter change or test.
(C) RESIDENTIAL IRRIGATION, TOWNHOME/CONDOMINIUM (CONSISTING OF FOUR UNITS OR MORE), PUBLIC/ QUASI-PUBLIC USERS: Shall, in 2022, be charged a monthly water utility infrastructure fixed charge based on the meter size as listed in Schedule A plus the monthly charge per kgal listed below., and shall, in 2023, be charged a monthly water utility infrastructure charge based on the meter size as listed in Schedule A plus the monthly charge per kgal listed below.
Non-irrigation accounts for multiple residential units consisting of four units or more that are not individually metered and that are classified as town homes or condominiums and can demonstrate that they are 80 percent owner occupied on a complex wide basis shall, in 2022, be charged a monthly water utility infrastructure fixed charge based on the meter size as listed in Schedule A plus the monthly charge per kgal listed below., and shall, in 2023, be charged a monthly water utility infrastructure charge based on the meter size as listed in Schedule A plus the monthly charge per kgal listed below, for all water delivered through the meter. The Public Works and Utilities Director or their designee of Finance is authorized to prescribe and accept such forms of documentation as the Director may deem sufficient to demonstrate an applicant’s eligibility for the rate described in this paragraph. For purposes of this section, a town home or condominium is a residential unit physically attached to another residential unit and separately owned.
(D) COMMERCIAL: Commercial users shall, in 2022, be charged a monthly water utility infrastructure fixed charge based on meter size as listed in Schedule A plus the monthly charge per kgal listed below., and shall, in 2023, be charged a monthly water utility infrastructure charge based on meter size as listed in Schedule A plus the monthly charge per kgal listed below. All consumption above the amount in kgal sold to the customer based on the signed service commitment agreement (provided at the time that the tap fee is sold), or an average of the previous ten years’ water use if no service commitment agreement was created, shall be charged a monthly surcharge rate per kgal.in addition to the rate per kgal listed below:
(C) The City will charge $45.0025.00 to reread a water meter at the customer’s request, which will be added to the customer’s next bill. This fee will be waived if the first reading was incorrect. The City will charge $25.00 for all service trips, including a trip to check the water meter for evidence of a leak. This fee will be waived if a leak is found at the meter or on the City’s portion of the distribution system.
8-7-9. DELINQUENT PAYMENTS, SUSPENSION OF SERVICE, AND SERVICE CHARGES; PAYMENT RESPONSIBILITY AND LIEN ON PROPERTY:
(A) DELINQUENCIES:
(1) Water service charges are due 21 calendar days following the billing date. This due date is stated on each bill. A late fee shall be assessed each month to any account on which all charges are not paid by the due date as stated on the monthly bill.
(2) Statements for the water service charges shall become delinquent 24 days from the date posted as the due date and a non-payment fee can be assessed and added to the account.
A customer may choose to continue to pay the surcharge on a monthly basis or may contact City staff to purchase additional water resources.
(B) SUSPENSION OF SERVICE:
(1) In the event an account becomes delinquent, the City Manager or their designee, shall be authorized to forthwith disconnect service, provided that the City shall give at least 7 days’ notice before actually turning off the water for nonpayment. Such notice shall be sent to the owner or occupant. The obligation to pay promptly for water service is not in any way affected by the failure of the owner or occupant of the premises served to receive a statement for the service.
(2) Prior to water service being restored, all non-payment charges, late charges, tampering charges, and any other Utility applied charges must be paid.
(3) Assessment of non-consumption based fees and charges will continue during any shutoff period.
(C) SERVICE CHARGES:
(1) If an unauthorized water turn-on occurs at a property, a service charge shall be applied, in addition to tampering fees as described in Section 8-7-12, W.M.C. Damaged equipment charges are as listed. Additionally, labor is charged at the then current rate for actual hours
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(A) Statements for the rates and charges for the water service shall be dated and sent out to users at regular intervals. Water meters shall be read within a time frame of 27 to 33 days. In the event a water bill is not paid by the 45th day following the date of the bill, the City Manager, or his designee, shall be authorized to forthwith disconnect service; and the water so disconnected shall not again be reconnected until the delinquent bill and a disconnect charge of $45.00 for turning the water off (“turn-off”) and for turning the water on (“turn-on”) along with any other outstanding charges, fees, and penalties have been paid. Assessment of non-consumption based fees and charges will continue during any shutoff period.
If an unauthorized water turn-on occurs at a property, an additional turn-off/on fee shall be applied. Damaged equipment charges are as listed. Additionally, labor is charged at the then current rate for actual hours of the installation. The charges for finals (service transfers), and damaged equipment are as follows:
any reasonable method to determine the amount of water so used including, but not limited to, previous account history, the account history of similar accounts, pipe size and water pressure.
(D) No new tap and/or meter installations will be allowed for any property where there are outstanding unpaid utility fees or charges for any properties within the City under the same ownership. The City may terminate a person’s water service for a prohibited use of the water system.
(E) Advisement to the property owner of charges or expenses for payment shall include the procedure to schedule a hearing if requested. If a hearing is requested, it shall be scheduled as soon as practical before the City Manager or theirhis designee. 8-7-13. DUTY OF CONSUMER:
(A) It shall be the duty of the water consumer to use all necessary precautions to keep the meter from freezing and from injury and, if the meter shall be injured by freezing or by carelessness of the consumer, then such consumer shall pay all necessary cost of repairs occasioned by such injury, and failure to pay such cost of repairs shall warrant and authorize the city in turning off the water.
(B) No person owning or possessing, or responsible for the maintenance of, the property on which a meter or fire hydrant is located shall obstruct the meter or fire hydrant in any manner so that access to the meter or fire hydrant is prevented. If such obstruction is not removed within the period of time prescribed in the notice required in subsection (C) below, the owner or possessor shall be deemed to have consented to the City’s entry onto the property for the purpose of removing the obstruction and gaining access to the meter or fire hydrant. All costs incurred in the removal of the obstruction shall be charged to the water consumer, owner or possessor as prescribed in subsection (D) below. For the purposes of this section, the word “obstruct” shall include but not be limited to:
(1) Failure to maintain landscaping around the meter pit or fire hydrant so as to provide at least three feet of unobstructed access to the meter or fire hydrant from the public right-of-way and at least five feet of vertical clearance above the meter pit or fire hydrant;
(2) Failure to maintain landscaping that exceeds four inches in height if said landscaping is located within six inches of the meter pit or fire hydrant;
(3) Allowing any landscaping to cover the meter pit lid or fire hydrant; or
Equipment damaged, but not listed above, will be charged at actual cost to repair and/or replace, plus any labor required at the then current rate for actual hours of the installation.
(2)(B)Any account paid with a check, debit card, credit card, or any other payment type subsequently returned by the bank will be charged a service charge equal to the service charge assessed by Section 1-8-3, W.M.C. The City may require the customer to make any subsequent payments using cash, certified or bank check, or money order.
(D) PAYMENT RESPONSIBILITY:
(1) Statements for water service charges shall be dated and sent out to users at regular intervals based upon meter readings.
(2) Regardless of the occupancy of a property served by the city, the owner of every premises, building, lot, house, or dwelling unit is liable for all charges for the water services associated with said premises, building, lot, house, or dwelling unit. The owner may designate another person to whom bills containing the water charges and the notices of the proposed disconnection of water service shall be sent. Mailing of a bill for water service to any address shall in no way affect the power of the city to enforce payment of charges or to take any other action provided in this chapter authorized by law or equity.
(3) The Public Works and Utilities Director or their designee may accept any partial payment made and apply such payments towards the billed charges or allow for payment of a total billed charges on an installment basis. Payment of part, but less than the total billed amount, shall first be applied to Sewer Service, if any, second to Storm Water fees, if any, third to Infrastructure fees, if any, fourth to any Loans, if any, fifth to Service Charges and Fees, if any, and lastly, to the Water Service charge itself. Deposit of such payments shall not in any way imply that the remaining balance is or has been abated.
(E) LIEN
(1)(C) The City shall have as security for the collection of such water service charges and penalties a lien upon the real property served by such water service, which lien shall become effective immediately upon the supplying of such water and shall not be discharged until the payment is made of all the water service bills, penalties and charges as herein provided. Such liens shall be governed by Title I, Chapter 31 of the Westminster Municipal Code.
(2)(1) The lien shall include all charges prescribed by this Code relating to the provision of water services, together with the cost of collecting such charges, including court costs and attorneys’ fees. The lien shall be first and prior to all other liens, claims, titles, and encumbrances, whether prior in time or not, except liens for general taxes, and shall remain a lien upon the real property served by the water connection from the date such charges and the cost of collecting them, if any, become due, until they are paid.
(3)(2) The City may enforce the lien against the property or the liability against the property owner in any action at law or an action to enforce the lien. If any person in possession of any premises, building, lot, house, or other dwelling unit pays the entire charges due and owing, the payment relieves the property owner from such liability and the premises from the lien. However, the City is not required to look to any person other than the owner of the premises, building, lot, house, or other dwelling unit for the payment of the charges.
8-7-10. INACTIVE ACCOUNTS; REACTIVATION:
An account may be declared inactive if a request is made in writing by the customer to the City. Upon being declared inactive, the City shall remove the water meter and the customer shall pay the then currently applicable connection fee for the disconnection Inactive accounts will not accrue monthly fees. The customer or current property owner shall have 36 months to reactivate their account, at which time the meter shall be reinstalled and the customer shall pay the then currently applicable connection fee. If the account is not reactivated within 36 months, abandonment will be presumed and subsection 8-7-5(B), W.M.C., shall apply.
8-7-11. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION METER; DEPOSIT REQUIRED:
The Department of Public Works and Utilities shall collect a deposit fee in an amount equivalent to the value of the metering device. Water use through such meter may be billed as needed based on consumption patterns.
8-7-12. UNAUTHORIZED USE OR TAMPERING PROHIBITED:
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper with any meter, or to connect to, use, or take any water from the City water or reclaimed water systems without a valid water utility permit and prior payment of all required fees and user charges. Prohibited use shall include, but shall not be limited to, the use or acquisition of water from fire hydrants, any unauthorized connections to the water system, any unauthorized turn on of a water meter turned off by the City, and straight through or bypass pipes at the water meter pit.
(B) The charge for unauthorized use of water is a charge of $500.00 for the first occurrence, $750.00 for the second occurrence, and $1,000.00 for the third and additional occurrences within any 12-month period to the owner of the property, or, in the case of a fire hydrant, the entity or individual benefiting from the unauthorized water use, and is in addition to any other charge by the City for water service, including estimated labor as described in Section 8-7-9, W.M.C. Any reasonable expense incurred by the City as a result of unauthorized use or meter tampering will be charged at actual cost for equipment and materials, plus any labor required at the then current rate for the action.
All charges for unauthorized use of water and expenses incurred by the City in response shall be assessed to the property owner as lienable amounts as described in subsection 8-7-9(E)8-7-9(C), W.M.C. The charges increase based on the number of occurrences at all properties under the same ownership within the City.
(C) In billing the property owner or entity benefiting from the water use for water used without authorization, the City may use
(4) Placement of a fence or retaining wall in such a location that the fence or wall will obstruct access to the meter pit or fire hydrant from the public right-of-way.
(C) If the City Manager finds that any person has failed to comply with any of the requirements of subsection (B) of this section, the City Manager shall notify the water consumer, owner or possessor of the property by hand delivery or certified mail that he shall be required to comply within 15 days of the date of delivering or mailing the notice. In the event of an emergency or shutoff for non-payment, the City may require immediate compliance and assess all charges and expenses to the property owner as described in Sections 8-7-9 and 8-7-12, W.M.C.
(D) If the person so notified fails to comply with the requirements of the notice, the manager may cause the work to be done and charge the costs thereof together with an administrative fee to the person so notified. Such costs and fees shall be added to the charges for water service, and failure to pay such charges shall warrant and authorize the City in shutting off the water.
8-7-14. BUILDINGS OCCUPIED BY MORE THAN ONE TENANT; OWNER TO PAY; EXCEPTIONS:
Owners or agents in charge of business blocks or other buildings occupied by more than one tenant using water from the same service pipe shall be required to apply the water rate for the whole of such buildings, unless a separate meter is installed for each tenant.
8-7-15. VARIANCE; CITY MANAGER AUTHORITY:
The City Manager or the manager’s designee may vary the requirements of Sections 8-7-2, 8-7-4, or 8-7-5, W.M.C., for a particular property, upon a finding that good cause exists to grant said variance. Any such request for a variance shall be in writing and shall state the grounds for said request, and any variance granted will be in writing signed by the City Manager or the manager’s designee stating the basis therefor.
8-7-16. USING WATER FROM ANOTHER CONNECTION PROHIBITED; ADDITIONAL FEE:
It shall be unlawful for any consumer to permit water to be taken through theirhis service pipe for the use of any person whose premises are not connected for the use of water from the City’s mains, unless the consumer shall pay to the City one additional minimum fee for each premises so accommodated, except as provided herein.
8-7-17. POLLUTION OF WATER PROHIBITED:
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or cast any substance into any reservoir, well, trench, pipe or drain used in and necessary for the construction, maintenance or operation of the City waterworks system that may tend to fill up such reservoir or well or to obstruct the flow of water in such trench, pipe or drain, or to pollute the water therein.
8-7-18. USE OF WATER: SUPERINTENDENT TO SUPERVISE:
No water shall be used from the fire hydrants except for the extinguishment of fire or other municipal use and then only under the supervision of the City. The council reserves the right to cause the water to be shut off from the mains when they deem it necessary. The City may, for the purpose of cleaning the same, shut off the water at any time; provided that, before the water shall be turned off from any school or other public buildings, the City shall notify the occupant or person in charge of such building.
8-7-19. USE OF WATER DURING FIRE:
It shall be unlawful for any person to use water for anything except domestic purposes while the Fire Department is using water for the purpose of extinguishing a fire. During a period of one hour from and after the sounding of a fire alarm through the use of a fire siren, it shall be unlawful for any person to use water for anything except domestic purposes.
8-7-20. WHEN TAPPING PROHIBITED:
No water taps upon water mains of the City shall be permitted for domestic purposes unless the property for which the tap is made and the residence thereon shall have bath and toilet facilities within the residence so constructed as to comply with all of the requirements of the City regulating the disposal of sewage.
8-7-21. ACQUISITION OF WATER RIGHTS:
(A) No municipal water and sewer service will be provided to any undeveloped tract of land within the City if the owner of such land now or hereafter owns water rights that might be acquired and used by the City, unless the land owner agrees to sell such water rights to the City at a price not to exceed the then prevailing fair market price.
(B) If for any reason the City does not wish to acquire the water rights under conditions of subsection 8-7-21(A), W.M.C., the City Manager shall notify the owner of such rights in writing. The owner will then be free to sell such rights on the open market.
(C) There is hereby imposed upon the owner of any undeveloped tract within the City the affirmative duty to reveal to the City all such water rights as he may own.
(A) The City Council may adopt by resolution a Drought Management Plan, which authorizes the City Manager to declare a drought or water shortage emergency and to implement a response consistent with the Drought Management Plan. Upon the declaration of a drought or water shortage emergency, and pursuant to the Drought Management Plan, the City Manager’s authority shall include, but not be limited to, the ability to order and enforce the following:
(1) Limiting lawn watering to certain days of the week or times during the month.
(2) Prohibiting wasteful water use as determined by City Council and further described in subsections 8-7-25(A), and 8-1216(A), W.M.C.
(3) Prohibiting noncommercial car washing and/or sidewalk and driveway washing.
(4) Prohibiting new lawns from being planted or installed.
(5) Rationing the amount of water that can be used by each customer, household and/or business.
(6) Prohibiting any outside irrigation use of water.
(7) Implementing a major public information program on the need to conserve water.
(8) Any other similar restrictions the City Manager deems necessary.
(B) The person billed for water service to a property, whether owner or occupant, shall be responsible for compliance with this section. Any person, corporation, partnership or association who violates any of the provisions of the Drought Management Plan as adopted by resolution may be punished by a fine or penalty not to exceed $1,000.00, which may be added to the water bill for the property where the violation occurred and/or the installation of a flow restrictor device to limit usage. Any violation of the Drought Management Plan as adopted by resolution may, alternatively, be cited into the Westminster Municipal Court as a noncriminal offense pursuant to and subject to the penalty provisions of Section 1-8-1, W.M.C.
(C) A notice of violation under this section may be appealed in writing within 30 days of the date the notice was issued. The appeal hearing shall be before the City Manager or theirhis designee who shall serve as hearing officer. If an appeal hearing is requested, the hearing officer shall respond to the appellant within 30 calendar days of receiving the written appeal, with a notice stating the date, time, and location of the hearing which shall be scheduled as soon as reasonably practical after such notice. Such appeal hearing is to be informal in nature, and formal rules of evidence and discovery do not apply. The City bears the burden of proof at an appeal hearing to establish a violation by a preponderance of the evidence. The party protesting the notice of violation shall be given the opportunity to present documents and testimony which shall be kept as part of the record of the proceeding. The appeal hearing shall be recorded. The hearing officer shall render a written decision, accompanied by findings of fact and conclusions based thereon.
(D) Should the City Council or City Manager declare a drought or water shortage emergency pursuant to the Drought Management Plan, the City Manager shall, as soon as practicable, inform the City Council of the declaration, and provide supporting information. The City Manager shall thereafter provide such periodic updates as the City Council sees fit and appropriate.
(E) The City Council may, at any time, override, modify, or reverse the City Manager’s declaration of a drought or water shortage emergency by resolution.
8-7-25. WASTE OF WATER:
(A) WASTE OF WATER IS PROHIBITED: Waste of water is defined as the intentional or non-intentional use of water for a non-beneficial purpose, and includes:
(1) Continuous application of water to any lawn, turf, sodded, or landscaped area resulting in the pooling or flowing of water into drainage or storm drainage facilities;
(2) Failure to repair any irrigation system that is leaking;
(3) The use of hoses for washing of vehicles and other outdoor uses, other than irrigation, that are not equipped with a shutoff valve that is normally closed and necessitates hand pressure on the valve to permit the flow of water; and
(4) Single-pass cooling systems.
Notwithstanding the enforcement provisions set forth in this section, the City Manager, or their his designee, may order the installation of a flow restrictor device and/or a shut off of water service to a property if the City Manager, or their his designee, reasonably finds that an extreme waste of water is occurring on the premises.
(B) The Director of Public Works and Utilities is hereby authorized to enforce this section. The person billed for water service to a property, whether owner or occupant, shall be responsible for compliance with subsections (A) and (B) within 30 days of the violation notice, unless otherwise specified by the Director of Public Works and Utilities, and shall be subject to the following actions and penalties:
(1) Upon a first violation, the person billed will be advised in writing of the violation and issued a warning for the violation. The warning shall be in effect for a period of one year from the date of issue.
(2) A second violation within a one-year period shall result in the person billed being advised in writing of the violation and a charge of $50.00 will be added to the water bill for the property. Advisement shall include the procedure to schedule a hearing, if requested.
(3) A third or additional violation within a one-year period shall result in the person billed being advised in writing of the violation and a charge of $100.00 will be added to the water bill for the property. Advisement shall include the procedure to schedule a hearing, if requested. In addition, the City Manager, or their his designee, may order a suspension of service to the property until all outstanding fines are paid. Restoration of service shall occur as detailed in Section 8-7-9, W.M.C.
(4) Upon any notice(s) of violation of this section, a copy of such notice shall also be mailed to the owner(s) of the real property served, if the owner’s address differs from the subject property address.
(C) A notice of violation under this section may be appealed in writing within 30 days of the date the notice was issued. The appeal hearing shall be before the City Manager or their his designee who shall serve as hearing officer. If an appeal hearing is requested, the hearing officer shall respond to the appellant within 30 calendar days of receiving the written appeal, with a notice stating the date, time, and location of the hearing which shall be scheduled as soon as reasonably practical after such notice. Such appeal hearing is to be informal in nature, and formal rules of evidence and discovery do not apply. The City bears the burden of proof at an appeal hearing to establish a violation by a preponderance of the evidence. The party protesting the notice of violation shall be given the opportunity to present documents and testimony which shall be kept as part of the record of the proceeding. The appeal hearing shall be recorded. The hearing officer shall render a written decision, accompanied by findings of fact and conclusions based thereon.
8-7-26. METER SET INSTALLATION REINSPECTION FEE:
Water tap fees provide for customary inspection of the meter set only once. Where additional inspections are made necessary by incomplete or faulty work or incorrect posting, a fee will be charged for any additional inspections, as specified in the Utilities Service Rules. No additional inspections will be made until said fees are paid.
8-7-27. CROSS CONNECTION AND BACKFLOW CONTROL:
(A) DEFINITIONS: The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this section, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Auxiliary water supply shall mean any water supply on or available to the premises other than the approved public potable water supply, including water from another purveyor’s public potable water supply or any natural source, such as a well, spring, or stream.
Back pressure shall mean backflow caused by a pump, elevated tank, boiler or other means that could create pressure within the system greater than the supply pressure.
Backflow prevention device shall mean a device or other means designed to prevent backflow or back-siphonage, as follows:
(1) Air gap shall mean the unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere between the lowest opening from any pipe or faucet supplying water to a tank, plumbing fixture, or other device and the edge of the vessel from which water overflows, which shall be at least double the diameter of the supply pipe, measured vertically above the top of the rim of the vessel and, in no case less than one inch. When an air gap is used at the service connection to prevent the contamination or pollution of the public potable water system, an emergency bypass shall be installed around the air gap system and an approved reduced pressure principle device shall be installed in the bypass system.
(2) Reduced pressure principle device shall mean an assembly of two independently operating approved check valves with an automatically operating differential relief valve between the two check valves, tightly closing shut-off valves on either side of the check valves, plus properly located test cocks for the testing of the check and relief valves. The device shall operate to maintain the pressure in the zone between the two check valves at a level less than the pressure on the public water supply side of the device. At cessation of normal flow, the pressure between the two check valves shall be less than the pressure on the public water supply side of the device. In case of leakage of either of the check valves, the differential relief valve shall operate to maintain the reduced pressure in the zone between the check valves by discharging to the atmosphere. When the inlet pressure is two pounds per square inch or less, the relief valve shall open to the atmosphere.
(3) Double check valve assembly shall mean an assembly of two independently operating approved check valves with tightly closing shut-off valves on each side of the check valves, plus properly located test cocks for the testing of each check valve. Back-siphonage shall mean the flow of water or other liquids, mixtures or substances into the distribution pipes of a potable water supply system from any source other than its intended source caused by the sudden reduction of pressure in the potable water supply system.
Check valve shall mean a self-closing device that is designed to permit the flow of fluids in one direction and to close if there is a reversal of flow.
Cross-connection shall mean any physical arrangement connecting a public water supply, directly or indirectly, with any other water supply system, sewer, drain, conduit, pool, storage reservoir, plumbing fixture, or other device that contains, or may contain, contaminated water, sewage, or other waste of liquid of unknown or unsafe quality that may be capable of imparting contamination to the public water supply as a result of backflow. The term includes bypass arrangements, jumper connections, removable sections, swivel or changeover devices, and other temporary or permanent devices through which, or because of which, backflow could occur. A controlled cross-connection means a connection between a potable water system and a non-potable water system that includes an approved backflow prevention device that has been properly installed that will continuously afford the protection commensurate with the degree of hazard.
Industrial fluids system shall mean any system containing a fluid or solution that may be chemically, biologically or otherwise contaminated or polluted in a form or concentration such as would constitute a health, system, pollutional or plumbing hazard if introduced into an approved water supply, including: polluted or contaminated waters; all types of process waters and “used waters” originating from the public potable water system that may have deteriorated in sanitary quality; chemicals in fluid form; plating acids and alkalies; circulated cooling waters connected to an open cooling tower that are chemically or biologically treated or stabilized with toxic substances; contaminated natural waters; oils, gases, glycerine; paraffins; caustic and acid solutions and other liquid and gaseous fluids used for industrial, fire-fighting, or other purposes.
Vacuum breaker, atmospheric nonpressure type shall mean a vacuum breaker designed so as not to be subjected to static line pressure or installed where it would be under pressure for not more than 12 hours in any 24-hour period.
Vacuum breaker, pressure type shall mean a vacuum breaker designed so as not to be subjected to static line pressure. Water service connection shall mean the terminal end of a service connection where the City loses jurisdiction and sanitary control over the water at its point of delivery to the customer’s water system. If a meter is installed at the end of the service connection, then the service connection shall mean the downstream end of the meter. The term shall also include water service connection from a fire hydrant and all other temporary or emergency water service connections from the public potable water system.
Water supply system shall include two parts: the utility system and the customer system. The utility system shall consist of the source facilities and the distribution system and shall include all those facilities of the water system under the complete control of the utility, up to the point where the customer’s system begins. The source shall include all components of the facilities utilized in the production, treatment, storage and delivery of water to the distribution system. The distribution system shall include the network of conduits used for the delivery of water from the source to the customer’s system. The customer’s system shall include those parts of the facilities beyond the termination of the utility distribution system that are utilized in conveying utilitydelivered domestic water to points of use.
(B) REGULATIONS:
(1) No water service connection shall be installed or maintained by the City unless the water supply is protected as required by state laws and regulations and this Code, as required by the City Manager or theirhis designee. Service of water to any premises may be discontinued by the City, pursuant to subsection 8-7-28(B) of this chapter, if a backflow prevention device required by this section is not installed, tested and maintained, or if it is found that a backflow prevention device has been removed, or bypassed, or if an unprotected cross-connection exists on the premises. Service shall not be restored until such conditions or defects are corrected.
(2) The customer’s system should be open for inspection at all reasonable times to authorized representatives of the City Manager to determine whether cross-connections or other structural or sanitary hazards, including violations of these regulations, exist.
(3) The type of approved backflow prevention device necessary shall be determined according to the existing degree of hazard as set forth in paragraph (4) of this subsection. Such a device shall be installed at or near the property line or immediately inside the building being served. Such a device shall be installed before the first branch line leading off the service line wherever the following conditions exist:
(a) The premises have an auxiliary water supply that is not or may not be of safe bacteriological or chemical quality and that is not acceptable as an additional source as determined by the City Manager;
(b) Any industrial fluids or any other objectionable substance is handled on the premises in a fashion that creates an actual or potential hazard to the public water system, including the handling of process waters and waters origination from the utility system that have been subject to deterioration in quality;
(c) The premises have internal cross-connections that cannot be permanently corrected and controlled or intricate plumbing and piping arrangements or the entry to all portions of the premises is not readily accessible for inspection purposes, making it impracticable or impossible to ascertain whether or not dangerous cross-connections exist.
(4) The type of protective device required under paragraph (3) of this subsection shall depend upon the degree of hazard that exists, as follows:
(a) In any premises that has an auxiliary water supply that is not subject to any of the following rules, the public water system shall be protected by an approved air gap separation or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention device.
(b) In any premises where there is water or any other substance that would be objectionable if introduced into the public water system, but would not be hazardous to health, the public water system shall be protected by an approved double check valve assembly.
(c) In any premises where there is any material that is dangerous to health that is handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to the public water system, the public water system shall be protected by an approved air gap separation or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention device. Examples of premises where these
conditions may exist include sewage treatment plants, sewage pumping stations, chemical manufacturing plants, hospitals, mortuaries, and plating plants.
(d) In any premises where there are “uncontrolled” cross-connections, either actual or potential, the public water system shall be protected by an approved air gap separation or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention device at the service connection.
(e) In any premises where, because of security requirements or other prohibitions or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete in-plant cross-connection survey, the public water system shall be protected against backflow or backsiphonage from the premises by the installation of a backflow prevention device in the service line. An approved air gap separation or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention device shall be installed in each service to the premises.
(f) All facilities with a high hazard rating may be required by the City Manager or their his designee to submit, for approval, plans showing all cross-connection control devices to be installed before a tap permit is granted.
(5) Any backflow prevention device required pursuant to this section shall be of a model and size approved by the City Manager or their his designee. In order to be approved, the device shall:
(a) Be manufactured in full conformance with the current standards established by the American Water Works Association;
(b) Comply with all of the laboratory and field performance specifications of the Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research of the University of Southern California; and
(c) Be certified to be in full compliance with the standards set forth in this paragraph by a testing laboratory that has been approved by the City Manager or their his designee.
(6) The customer-user at any premises where backflow devices are installed shall have certified inspections and operational tests made at least once per year. In those instances where the City Manager deems the hazard to be great enough, he may require certified inspections at more frequent intervals. These inspections and tests shall be at the expense of the customer-user and shall be performed by a certified inspector/tester as outlined in the Utilities Service Rules. Backflow prevention devices shall be repaired, overhauled or replaced at the expense of the customer-user whenever they are found to be defective. Records of tests, repairs and overhauls shall be kept for a period of two years and made available to the City Manager or their his designee. A copy of the annual inspection is to be sent to the City.
(C) CROSS-CONNECTIONS: No cross-connection between a public water system and any secondary water system shall be permitted. No person shall permit or maintain a cross-connection between a public water supply and any secondary water system, unless said connection is protected by means of an approved backflow prevention device.
(D) SPECIFIC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: The requirements for irrigation systems, fire systems, and any vehicles or equipment taking water from the City’s water utility system are set forth in the Utilities Service Rules.
(E) BACKFLOW ASSEMBLY SERVICE FEES: The consumer at any premises where system containment backflow control assemblies are installed shall be charged a monthly backflow control service fee based on backflow assembly size as listed below:
FOGG shall mean fats, oils, grease and grit.
FOGG retention device shall mean any grease trap/interceptors, sand and oil trap/interceptors, or hair trap/interceptors intended to reduce the TSS and BOD into the collection system.
Garbage shall mean the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods, and from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
Industrial Wastes shall mean the wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
Kgal shall mean a volumetric unit of 1,000 gallons of water or wastewater.
Metro district shall mean the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District, located at 6450 York Street, Denver, Colorado, 80229.
Metro facilities fee shall mean that portion of the sewer tap fee intended to cover expenses associated with the metro wastewater reclamation district treatment facilities.
Mobile home shall mean any dwelling unit built on a permanent wheeled chassis exceeding either eight feet in width or 32 feet in length and designed for long-term residential occupancy in a temporary or permanent location that is capable of being towed over public streets or highways as a unit or in sections and duly licensable as such.
Natural outlet shall mean any outlet, including storm sewers, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater.
Person shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
pH shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen-ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogenions in grams per liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of seven and a hydrogen-ion concentration of 10 -7
POTW shall mean publicly owned treatment works.
Properly shredded garbage shall mean the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch, (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
Sanitary sewer shall mean a publicly controlled sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface waters that are not admitted intentionally.
Service sewer shall mean the extension from the building drain to the sanitary sewer or other place of disposal.
Sewage shall mean the spent water of the community.
Sewer shall mean a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
Single-family detached shall mean a single dwelling unit contained in a free-standing structure that has no party walls with other structures.
Slug shall mean any discharge of water or wastewater that in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five (in case of heavy metals—Three times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation and may adversely affect the wastewater facilities).
Storm drain (sometimes termed “storm sewer”) shall mean a drain or sewer for conveying water, ground water, drainage water, or unpolluted water from any source, excluding sewage and industrial wastes.
Storm water shall mean the surface runoff from rainfall and other storm events.
10” $2.50
8” $2.00
6” $1.50
3” & 4” $1.00
1 ¼” to 2 ½” $0.75
½” to 1” $0.50
Single-family detached dwelling units with irrigation backflow prevention assemblies are exempted from the service fees, unless fertilization occurs through the irrigation system connected to the backflow assembly in which case the fees shall apply.
8-7-28. VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES:
(A) The cost to clean up a contamination of the City’s water supply, up to and including the waterline replacement, shall be the sole responsibility of the person causing the contamination.
(B) The City shall notify the owner, or authorized agent of the owner, of the building or premises in which there is found a violation of this chapter. The notice shall set a specific time for the owner to have the violation removed or corrected. If the owner fails to correct the violation in the specified time, the City Manager may, if in his judgement an imminent health hazard exists, request that the water service to the building or premises be terminated. Additional fines or penalties may also be invoked following termination of service.
(C) Any person, corporation, partnership or association who is found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment or both such fine and imprisonment pursuant to the limits established in Section 1-8-1, W.M.C. Any violation of this chapter shall be a criminal offense. Each and every 24-hour continuation of any violation shall constitute a district and separate offense.
Section 2. Section 8-8 W.M.C., is hereby AMENDED to read as follows:
CHAPTER 8. SANITARY SEWERAGE 8-8-1. Definitions:
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Average monthly water consumption (AWC), which is based on the average monthly water consumption per user billed during the sewer rate calculation period (January through March).
Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedures in five days at 20 degrees Centigrade, expressed in parts per million.
Building drain shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system that receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the service sewer, beginning five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
City Manager shall mean the Manager of the City of Westminster, Adams and Jefferson Counties, Colorado, or their his designee.
Dwelling unit shall mean a single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
Easement shall mean an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
Floatable oil shall mean oil, fat, or grease in a physical state, such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. Wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
Tap shall mean an opening or connection between the service sewer and the sanitary sewer through which sewage is discharged. Total suspended solids (TSS) shall mean total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater” published by the American Public Health Association, and referred to as nonfilterable residue. Transport facilities fee shall mean that portion of the sewer tap fee intended to cover expenses associated with the collection and transport of wastewater, including pipes, pumps, lift-stations and related facilities.
Treatment facilities fee shall mean that portion of the sewer tap fee intended to cover expenses associated with the City of Westminster treatment facilities.
Unpolluted water shall mean water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect, or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
Utilities Service Rules shall mean the rules and programs governing the operation and use of the City’s water distribution, wastewater collection, and reclaimed water systems, as approved and adopted by the Director of Public Works and Utilities who is hereby granted the authority to enact, amend, and propagate such rules as are necessary for the protection of health, welfare, and the safe operation of the City’s utilities, and that are in compliance with, or more stringent than, all applicable state and federal regulations, and the City Charter and the Westminster Municipal Code.
Wastewater shall mean the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any incidental groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present.
Wastewater facilities shall mean the structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, convey, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
Wastewater treatment plant shall mean any arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and sludge.
Watercourse shall mean a natural or artificial channel for the passage of water, either continuously or intermittently. 8-8-2. USE OF SANITARY SEWERS REQUIRED:
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said City, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
(B) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said City, any wastewater, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(C) It shall be unlawful to construct, or reconstruct any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater when the site is within 400 feet of an existing sanitary sewer with sufficient capacity.
(D) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings, or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, situated within the City and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there is not located or may in the future be located a sanitary sewer of the City, is hereby required, at the owner(s)’ expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to
(A) No unauthorized person(s) shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use or commence use, alter, or disturb any sanitary sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a utility tap permit from the City Manager. The application for a utility tap permit shall be made in writing upon a form furnished by the City containing the information required by the Utilities Service Rules.
(B) No one shall be entitled to purchase or pay for a utility tap permit prior to issuance of a building permit for the premises for which the tap is to be used; provided, however, that the foregoing restriction may be waived by the City Manager upon a finding that the proposed utility permit will not require the issuance of a building permit.
(C) All costs and expense incidental to the installation, connection and maintenance of the service sewer, from and including the tap on the sanitary sewer, shall be borne by the owner(s). The City will specify all materials that the owner is to furnish pursuant to adopted City standards and specifications. The sewer tap and service line shall be installed in accordance with adopted City standards and specifications. The owner(s) shall indemnify the City from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the service sewer.
(D) It shall be the duty of the owner to use all necessary precautions to assure that there is no ground or surface water infiltration into or exfiltration from his service sewer. If such infiltration is found to be present, the owner shall, at his own cost, correct the condition upon order of the City Manager. Yard, roof or parking area drains or non-sanitary sewage sump pump discharge lines shall not be connected to the sanitary system.
(E) All connections to the sanitary sewer system shall conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Code, adopted City standards and specifications, the Utilities Service Rules, and other applicable rules and regulations of the City and the Denver Metro district.
(F) No person(s) shall make connection of roof downspouts, foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or ground water to a service sewer or building drain that, in turn, is connected directly or indirectly to a sanitary sewer, unless such connection is approved by the City Manager for purposes of disposal of polluted surface drainage.
(G) The installation of any tap may be withheld by the City if the applicant is in violation of any law of the City or in default in any agreement with the City related to the provision of utility service. It shall be unlawful to use, or permit to be used, any sewer tap installation until the work is approved by the City. Upon approval, the maintenance of the service sewer shall be the responsibility of the property owner.
(H) When required by the City Manager, the owner(s) of any property serviced by a service sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install a control manhole, together with such necessary meters and other appurtenances in the service sewer to facilitate observation, sampling, and measurement of the wastes, in accordance with Chapter 8-10, W.M.C.
(I) The installation of new, replaced or rehabilitated wastewater infrastructure shall require the final acceptance by the City prior to the inclusion of any such piping and appurtenances into the wastewater operations and maintenance program. 8-8-4.
(A) The discharge of wastes listed in this subsection into the sanitary sewer system, whether directly or indirectly, is prohibited, and where investigation reveals the presence in the system of such wastes emanating from any lot, land, building, or premise, the owner, lessor, renter, or occupant of same shall, at his own expense, treat, neutralize or in any other way prepare the nonacceptable wastes to the satisfaction of the city manager, in order to convert the same into acceptable wastes. No person(s) shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to the waste treatment system from any source:
(1) Any solid or viscous material that could cause an obstruction to flow in the sewers or could interfere in any way with the treatment process, including as examples of such materials but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, significant proportions of ashes, wax, paraffin, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, lint, feathers, tars, plastics, wood and sawdust, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails, lime slurries, beer distillery slops, grain processing wastes, grinding compounds, acetylene generation sludge, chemical residues, acid residues, food processing bulk solids, snow, ice, and all other solid objects, material, refuse and debris not normally contained in sanitary sewage.
(2) Sludge or other material from sewage or industrial waste treatment plants or from water treatment plants, unless agreed to by the City Manager.
(3) Water accumulated in excavations or accumulated as the result of grading, water taken from the ground by well points, or any other drainage associated with construction.
(4) Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150 degrees Fahrenheit or exceeding any lower limit fixed by the City to prevent odor nuisance where the volume of discharge represents a significant portion of the flow through a particular sewer.
(5) Any water or waste having a five-day BOD, which may contain more than 1,000 parts per million (PPM) by weight as averaged during any 12-hour period.
(6) Any water or waste having a pH lower than five and one-half or higher than ten or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to the sewerage system.
(7) Any water or waste containing grease or oil or other substances that will solidify or become discernibly viscous at temperatures between 32 degrees Fahrenheit and 150 degrees Fahrenheit.
(8) Any water or waste containing emulsified oil or grease exceeding 75 ppm of freon-soluble matter.
(9) Any waste with phenolic compounds over ten ppm, expressed as phenol.
(10) Any waste with sulfides over ten ppm, expressed as hydrogen sulfide.
(11) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded.
(12) Any cyanides or compounds capable of liberating hydrocyanic acid gas over two ppm, expressed as hydrogen cyanide from any individual outlet. The discharge of any cyanides in lesser amounts shall be permitted only upon evidence of satisfactory and continuous control of the concentration and the volume of the discharge.
(13) Any water or waste that contains a corrosive, noxious, or malodorous gas or substance that, either singly, or by reaction with other wastes, is capable of causing damage to the system or to any part thereof, of creating a public nuisance or hazard, or of preventing entry into the sewers for maintenance and repair; included in this prohibition are pollutants that create a fire or explosion hazard in the POTW, including, but not limited to, wastestreams with a closed cup flashpoint of less than 60 degrees Centigrade (140 degrees Fahrenheit) using the test methods specified in 40 C.F.R. 261.21.
(14) Any pollutants that result in the presence of toxic gases, vapors, or fumes within the POTW in a quantity that may cause acute worker and safety problems.
(15) Any waste that contains concentrated dye waste or other waste that is either highly colored or could become highly colored by reacting with any other waste.
(16) Any water or waste containing a toxic or poisonous substance in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, facility or sludge, to constitute a hazard to humans or animals, to create a public nuisance, or to create any hazard in the receiving waters of the wastewater treatment plant, which substances include iron, chromium, copper, zinc and similar objectionable or toxic substances, such that the composite wastewater at the wastewater treatment plant exceeds the limits established by the City Manager to comply with current metro district, state or federal regulations.
(17) Any water or waste containing suspended solids of such character or quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle such materials in the sewerage process.
(18) Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the City Manager to comply with current state or federal regulations.
(19) Quantities of flow, concentrations, or both that constitute a “slug” as defined herein.
(20) Any material or substance not specifically mentioned in this section that is in itself corrosive, irritating to human beings and animals, toxic, noxious, or that by interaction with other wastes could produce undesirable effects, including deleterious action on the system or on any part thereof, could adversely affect any treatment process, could constitute a hazard to humans or to animals, or could have an adverse effect upon the receiving stream.
(B) If any waters or wastes are discharged, or are proposed to be discharged to the sanitary sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in subsection (A) of this section, and which in the judgment of the City Manager may have a deleterious effect upon the wastewater facilities, processes, equipment, or receiving waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the City Manager may:
(1) Reject the wastes,
(2) Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for discharge to the sanitary sewers,
(3) Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge, and/or
(4) Require payment to cover the added cost of handling and treating the wastes not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges under the provisions of Section 8-8-5, W.M.C.
If the City Manager permits the pretreatment or equalization of waste flows, the design and installation of the plants and equipment shall be subject to the review and approval of the City Manager.
(C) Grease, oil, and sand interceptors shall be provided when, in the opinion of the City Manager, they are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing floatable grease in excessive amounts, or any flammable wastes, sand, or other harmful ingredients; except that such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the City Manager and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. In the maintaining of these interceptors, the owner(s) shall be responsible for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate means the captured material and shall maintain records of the dates, and means of disposal that are subject to review by the City Manager. Any removal and hauling of the collected materials not performed by the owner(s) must be performed by currently licensed waste disposal firms.
(D) Where pretreatment or flow-equalizing facilities are provided or required for any water or waste, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner(s) at their expense.
(E) The city manager may require a user of sewer services to provide information needed to determine compliance with this chapter. These requirements may include:
(1) Wastewaters discharge peak rate and volume over a specified time period.
(2) Chemical analysis of wastewaters.
(3) Information on raw materials, processes, and products affecting wastewater volume and quality.
(4) Quantity and disposition of specific liquid, sludge, oil, solvent, or other materials important to sewer use control.
(5) A plot plan of sewers on the user’s property showing sewer and pretreatment facility location.
(6) Details of wastewater pretreatment facilities.
(7) Details of systems to prevent and control the losses of materials through spills to the municipal sewer.
(F) All measurements, tests, and analysis of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this chapter shall, where applicable, be monitored using analytical procedures specified in 40 C.F.R. Part 136, “Guidelines establishing test procedures for the analysis of pollutants.” For pollutants for which analytical procedures are not included in 40 C.F.R. Part 136, analysis is to be performed in accordance with the latest edition of either the “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater”, or the “ASTM”, Annual Book of Standards or the “Methods for Chemical Analysis of Waters and Wastes”, published by the environmental protection agency. Sampling methods, location, times, durations, and frequencies are to be determined on an individual basis, subject to approval by the City Manager.
(G) No statement contained in this section shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the City and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the City for treatment; except that such wastes accepted under these agreements or arrangements shall not (1) violate any federal minimum pretreatment standards and requirements or (2) violate any user discharge limits promulgated by the metro district. 8-8-5. SERVICE AND USER CHARGES WITHIN THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER AND SHAW HEIGHTS; LIEN ON PROPERTY:
(A) [Reserved.]
(B) RATE SCHEDULES:
(1) SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL EQUIVALENT (SFRE): A single-family residential equivalent is based on a three-quarter inch water service tap and meter and is equal to one single-family unit, which means a building or structure used or designed to be used as only one residential unit (including a detached dwelling [single-family house] and a mobile home); each residential unit in a duplex; and each residential unit having water service separately connected to the water main or private water distribution system in a building or structure with three or more residential units. Residential single-family and single-family attached units with other than three-quarter inch water service taps and meters due solely to meet residential fire sprinkler demand shall be considered one SFRE. All residential five-eighths inch by three-quarter inch residential taps and meters currently installed, shall be considered one SFRE.
(2) NON-SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL EQUIVALENT. All connections that are not single-family residential units, or are single-family residential units with larger than a five-eighths by three-quarter inch water meter service, except as noted above, shall have the number of single-family residential equivalents (SFRE’s) determined through the size of the water service taps serving the building, structure, or premise, and in certain cases (determined by the water service tap size) shall use the alternate calculation method, including estimated quantities of flow, BOD, SS, and TKN to be discharged to the system.
(3) ACCESSORY USE EQUIVALENT: Tap fees for clubhouses, swimming pools, and other recreation or accessory uses in single-family detached, single-family attached, and multi-family developments are not included in the individual unit sewer tap fees listed herein. Tap fees for these uses and the uses in (2) above shall be calculated at the rates listed in the following SFRE Table:
Use alternate calculation method in (5) below
(4) BASE COMPONENTS: The following sewer tap fee calculation method shall be in effect for all tap fee payments made on or after January 1, 20242022:
Sewer tap fees shall be determined from based on two of three base components per SFRE Costs of the 2019 base components of the sewer tap fee per SFRE are as follows:
Transport facilities fee $2,307.00
Treatment facilities fee $4,710.00
Metro facilities fee $4,710.00
The residential transport facilities fee shall be calculated as the base transport facilities fee times the number of units times the service commitment (SC) factor associated with the dwelling type as defined below. The nonresidential transport facilities fee shall be calculated as the base transport facilities fee times the number of SFREs.
Commercial users shall be allowed to install a separate meter to record evaporative and non-wastewater production water use, or wastewater production, as the City directs, during the AWC sewer rate calculation period, of which consumption will not be assessed a sewer use charge. The monthly sewer charge for commercial users may be appealed to the Utility Billing Division for user charges resulting from the average monthly water billed during the period of January through March and may be adjusted if the water billed during the months of July through September is less than the meter readings taken during the standard AWC sewer rate calculation period.
For all residential and commercial accounts, for the first month of ownership sewer charges shall be prorated based on the number of days remaining in the property’s billing cycle. For all accounts, individual reviews of indoor water consumption may be made on a case-by-case basis to assess adjustments to consumption charges.
(E) The City will determine average numeric criteria for the quality and quantity of sewage collected from commercial users. The City will assess a surcharge rate for nonresidential users discharging waters and wastes with quality characteristics greater than the average commercial user. Such users will be assessed a surcharge sufficient to cover the costs of treating such users the higher strength wastes.
(F) FOGG RETENTION DEVICE INSPECTION FEE: Each customer with a FOGG retention device shall be charged $2.00 per month per device for the implementation of the FOGG inspection program, pursuant to Section 8-10-14, W.M.C.
Each year, the transport facilities fee shall be automatically increased in accordance with the annual construction cost index for construction costs as of December of each year, as reported in the construction economics section of the Engineering NewsRecord (ENR) as published weekly by BNP Media. The annual construction cost index shall at all reasonable times be available at the City Department of Public Works and Utilities.
The treatment facilities fee shall be calculated as the current base treatment facilities fee times the number of SFREs. In addition and at any time, the treatment facilities fee shall be adjusted to reflect the City of Westminster’s treatment facilities costs.
The metro facilities fee shall be calculated as the current base sewer connection charge set by the Metro District, multiplied by the number of SFREs. In addition and at any time, the metro facilities fee shall be adjusted in accordance with any changes to the base sewer connection charge set by the Metro District.
(5) Alternate calculation method. A new sewer connection, which serves multiple new water service taps with a combined service commitment of greater than or equal to 205, shall have its number of service commitments determined in the same manner that connections for service taps for water meters six inches or larger are determined.
For service taps for water meters six inches or larger, the number of service commitments for calculating the sewer tap fee shall be determined from the following formula:
Where: flow = estimated flow in gal/day (peak month); BOD = estimated biological oxygen demand in lbs/day (peak month); SS = estimated suspended solids in lbs/day (peak month); TKN = estimated total nitrogen in lbs/day (peak month).
At minimum, the following values shall be used in the above formulas:
The City shall make the final determination of the estimated flow, BOD, SS and TKN used to determine the number of service commitments for each new connection, which is subject to the above formula.
The City shall review applicant’s determination of water tap size and may adjust sewer tap fee charges, if the projected water use is more than the maximum service commitment for the corresponding water meter size listed.
(6) Reactivation charge. A reactivation charge shall be charged to any reactivated connection that has not registered metered water use for a period of ten years. The reactivation charge is due for each SFRE for each year beyond ten years that the connection has been inactive. The reactivation charge shall be adjusted as part of the base sewer tap fees to equal the metro district charge for reactivation, in the event the metro district charge is revised.
Reactivation Charge$120.00 per year beyond ten years
(C) Payment of the sewer tap fee shall be made no earlier than the date upon which the application is approved for a building permit and no later than the date upon which the water meter(s) are installed for the property. In any event, payment of such fee shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy. When the calculated sewer tap fee, based on the tap fee schedule in effect at the time of the water meter installation, is different than the tap fee paid at the time of the issuance of the utility permit, the difference in the sewer tap fee must be paid to the city prior to the installation of the water meter. Payment of the sewer tap fee for any other installation or construction not requiring issuance of a building permit shall be at the time of sewer tap utility permit application.
Where additional units are to be served by a sanitary sewer previously installed and currently serving the original units, the sewer tap fee for said additional units shall be at the current rates.
(D) The rates for user charges hereinafter set forth are based generally upon the quantity and quality of sewage collected and they are subject to change periodically as circumstances require. Sewer rates are charged based on the average monthly water consumption (AWC), which is based on the average monthly water consumption per user billed during the sewer rate calculation period (January through March). If the water consumption for any month during the AWC calculation period is less than 2,000 gallons, the calculation amount used will be 2,000 gallons. If the water consumption for any month during the AWC calculation period is over 2,000 gallons, the actual water consumption will be used in the AWC calculation process.
The AWC is multiplied by the rate per 1,000 gallons (kgal) for that class of property (residential or nonresidential) to calculate the monthly sewer charge.
SEWER RATE SCHEDULE: The monthly sewer charge is calculated by multiplying the AWC times the rate per customer category:
(G) Statements for sewer service charges shall be dated and sent out to users at regular intervals. Such statements shall be added to and made a part of the water bill, if customers receive water service from the City or by separate billing if water service is not provided by the City.
(H) Delinquent sewer bills shall be collected in the same manner as delinquent water charges, including the discontinuance of water service for nonpayment of sewer charges. Any payments received for combined water and sewer bills that are for less than the sum of water and sewer bills shall be first applied to the sewer charge and any remainder to the water charge. For customers not receiving City water service, these same provisions shall apply, except that, instead of discontinuance of water, a $10.00 late fee shall be assessed each month to any account on which all charges are not paid by the due date.charge shall be added to the next bill at the time of billing to cover additional accounting charges. If a sewer charge is not paid in nine months, a lien may be recorded against the property for the balance then due, plus a $30.00$25.00 filing fee. If the lien is not paid in 15 months, the service line may be disconnected from the City’s main and plugged. Service shall not be restored until the account is paid in full, plus the actual cost to the City of disconnecting the service line. Reconnection shall be the responsibility of the owner. If such disconnection is required, the City shall notify the Health Department and agency furnishing water to the premises of the action to be taken.
(I) The City shall have as security for the collection of such sewer service charges and penalties a lien upon the real property served by sewer service, which lien shall become effective immediately upon the supplying of such sewer service and shall not be discharged until the payment is made of all the sewer service bills, penalties and charges as herein provided. Such liens shall be governed by Title I, Chapter 31 of the Westminster Municipal Code.
(1) All charges prescribed by this Code relating to the provision of sewer service, together with the cost of collecting such charges, including court costs and attorneys’ fees, are a lien that is first and prior to all other liens, claims, titles, and encumbrances, whether prior in time or not, except liens for general taxes, and shall remain a lien upon the real property served by the sewer connection from the date such charges and the cost of collecting them, if any, become due, until they are paid.
(2) The City may enforce the lien against the property or the liability against the property owner in any action at law or an action to enforce the lien. If any person in possession of any premises, building, lot, house, or other dwelling unit pays the entire charges due and owing, the payment relieves the property owner from such liability and the premises from the lien. However, the City is not required to look to any person other than the owner of the premises, building, lot, house, or other dwelling unit for the payment of the charges.
(J) Owners or agents in charge of business blocks or other buildings occupied by more than one tenant using water from the same service pipe and/or discharging sewage through the same service sewer shall be required to pay the same rate for the whole of such building, unless a separate water meter is installed for each tenant.
(K) These rates and charges are established so that each user class pays its proportionate share of the costs of wastewater treatment services, and the City Manager is hereby directed to annually review the charge structure to assure that proportionality between user classes is maintained and to recommend modifications as appropriate. Each user shall be notified annually by the City of its user charges.
(L) Reduction of Tap Fee: A nonresidential customer requesting a reduction in the assignment of the tap fee may apply for such reduction to the building division. The request must provide calculations showing the actual sewage discharge level. If approved, the reduction in tap fee may only be reduced to the next lowest full water tap size.
8-8-6. PROTECTION FROM DAMAGE:
It shall be unlawful to maliciously, willfully, or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface, or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment that is part of the wastewater facilities.
8-8-7. POWERS AND AUTHORITY OF INSPECTORS:
(A) The City Manager and other duly authorized representatives bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing pertinent to discharge to the municipal wastewater collection system in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. If the owner or occupant refuses to consent to such inspection, the City Manager may apply to the municipal court for an administrative search warrant.
(B) The City Manager or other duly authorized representatives are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes that have a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the wastewater collection system. Any confidential material received by the City shall be kept confidential by the City upon request of the industrial user to the extent permitted by applicable law.
(C) While performing the necessary work on private properties, the City Manager or a duly authorized representative shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company. The City shall provide insurance coverage against liability for injury or death of City representatives while on the premises of the company, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in subsection 8-8-4(E), W.M.C.
(D) The City Manager and other duly authorized representatives of the City bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the City holds an easement for the purposes of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, repair, and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater facilities lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the easement.
8-8-8. PENALTIES:
(A) Any person(s) found to be violating the provisions of this chapter, except Section 8-8-6, W.M.C., shall be served by the City with written notice stating the nature of the violation. The offender shall permanently cease all violations.
Any new occupant of an existing non-residential property shall be charged the property’s current sewer rate through the AWC sewer rate calculation period.
Any new occupant of an existing residential unit or newly constructed single family residential units shall be charged based on the average AWC of all single family homes billed by the City from the most recent calculation period. Any new multi-unit accounts shall be charged the average AWC for existing multi-family units billed by the City from the most recent calculation period.
New commercial accounts shall be charged based on the indoor water service commitments purchased divided by 12 to establish an initial AWC.
For all customers, a new AWC will be calculated based on actual usage during the next AWC calculation period.
(B) Any person found to be in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined and/or imprisoned for each violation as specified in Section 1-8-1, W.M.C., and may also be subject to civil remedies provided by Chapter 4 of Title IX of this Code. Any violation of this section shall be a criminal offense. Each day in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.
(C) Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall become liable to the city for any expense, loss, or damage occasioned the city by reason of such violation.
(D) All persons connected to a sanitary sewer owned and maintained by the city outside of the boundaries of the city shall be subject to the requirements of this chapter and shall be subject to the enforcement procedures authorized by this chapter, to the extent such enforcement is authorized by law and pursuant to any applicable contracts with the interested counties or other governmental agencie
8-8-9. COMPLIANCE:
Any person(s) having a connection to the sanitary sewer system upon the effective date of this ordinance shall have ten days thereafter within which to comply with the requirements hereof.
8-8-10. RESERVED:
8-8-11. ANNUAL AUDIT:
At the end of each calendar year, an audit shall be made of revenues and disbursements associated with the wastewater collection and treatment system. The audit shall be based on a full calendar year and shall be approved and signed by the City Clerk.
8-8-12. CREDIT FOR OVERCHARGE:
The City Manager or their designee may give credit to any utility customer who has been overcharged at any point in the preceding 12 months.
8-8-13. SEWER TAP FEE CREDITS:
(A) Upon issuance of a tap permit for the first new service tap, a tap fee credit shall be given in an amount to be calculated by subtracting the cost of the current sewer tap fee of the original tap from the current value of the sewer tap fee of the first new service tap.
(B) The amount of credit shall be fixed at the issuance of the first new service tap and may be used for payment for additional service taps that are used on the same property.
(C) In no instance shall cash refunds be granted.
(D) If any tap is installed and completed without receiving a utility permit and the proper inspection and approval by the City, no tap fee credit shall be given.
(E) If a demolition or vacation of a unit results in an abandonment of an associated sewer tap as defined in Section 8-8-14, W.M.C., no tap fee credit shall be granted at the time a new tap permit is issued.
(F) Any service commitments associated with sewer taps to serve buildings demolished in established urban renewal areas may be transferred as tap credits to an urban renewal authority or the City for use in approved redevelopment projects within that same urban renewal area. Sewer service commitment credits shall be calculated based on the tap size of the former water tap. When a credit is used for full or partial payment for a new sewer tap, all other applicable charges shall be assessed using the then current fee schedule in effect.
(G) In any case where sewer tap fees are paid by the City to the metro district for sewer service at a location, the use of SFRE credits may be limited in use and amount by the agency due payment. In no case shall the city issue credits more than the amount issued by the metro district.
8-8-14. MODIFICATION OF SEWER TAPS:
A sewer tap, once installed, is associated with the building and property that it serves, and no person shall disconnect, modify or change said tap in any way, except as provided below and in compliance with the Utilities Service Rules:
(A) CHANGE IN USE CONSTITUTING EXPANSION: A change in use is subject to the following requirements:
(1) A change in use must be reviewed by the City’s building division using the applicable plumbing code. Such review will include a fixture count evaluation, a water velocity evaluation, and an AWWA guidelines review. A change in use is presumed to occur when:
(a) The use of the served property is changed to a different use category for zoning or land use purposes; or
(b) Any modifications to landscape are made that require an ODP, ODP amendment, or ODP waiver; or
(c) Any building or plumbing modifications that require a permit are made to the served property; or
(d) A new or additional water use is introduced on the served property; or
(e) A water tap is relocated and applied to a different use or building on the served property; or
(f) A water tap is relocated to a different property.
(2) If the review of the change in use determines the need for a larger water tap and/or meter than previously purchased for the property, the use will be considered an “expansion of use” and the provisions stated in paragraph (3) below apply.
(3) When an expansion of use occurs, a sewer tap fee in an amount equal to the difference between the current sewer tap fee for the existing tap and the current sewer tap fee for the new tap serving the new location and/or use shall be paid.
(B) BUILDING DEMOLITION:
(1) When any building currently having a sewer tap is demolished, and a building permit for a new building on the same parcel is issued within three years of the last registered water consumption, and the new building maintains the same use with the same pattern and amount of water use as the pre-existing building, no new sewer tap fee shall be required. The new building shall be regarded as being served by the tap in service prior to demolition of the pre-existing building.
(2) When any building currently having a sewer tap is demolished, and no new building permit on the same parcel is issued within three years of the last registered water consumption, abandonment will be presumed pursuant to subsection (C) below.
(C) ABANDONMENT:
(1) Sewer service commitments or SFREs are associated with a tap. Abandonment of any tap will result in the forfeiture of the associated service commitments.
(2) Any building having a water meter not registering usage for more than 36 consecutive months, and for which payment of the monthly water meter charge has not been made continuously, shall constitute an abandonment of the associated sewer tap service commitment and SFREs. Notification of the effective date of the abandonment of the sewer tap shall be mailed to the last known address of the property owner or manager. Any subsequent sewer usage by that building shall require receiving a new service commitment and the purchase of a new sewer tap.
(3) Upon abandonment of a tap, the property owner shall be responsible for properly abandoning, or for the cost of abandoning, the sewer tap and service sewer. Such service sewer shall be sealed with a stopper and filler material at the tap as specified by the City. No person shall commence or complete said abandonment work without first obtaining a permit under the building regulations of this Code. An appropriate street cut permit shall be required to assure proper inspection and reconstruction of the street. In the event the sewer tap and service sewer is not appropriately abandoned, the City may appropriately abandon the sewer tap and service sewer and charge the cost thereof to the real property formerly served and may collect said charges in the same manner provided for in Section 8-7-9, W.M.C.
8-8-15. CHANGE IN SEWER USE:
Any change in customer sewer use that results in an additional assessment by the metro wastewater district shall result in those assessments being charged to the customer by the City.
Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage after second reading. The title and purpose of this ordinance shall be published prior to its consideration on second reading. The full text of this ordinance shall be published within ten (10) days after its enactment after second reading. INTRODUCED, PASSED ON FIRST
PUBLISHED this 8th day of April, 2024. ATTEST: _______________________________
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Manager
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.
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202480317
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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
Deborah L Sutton AND Sally W Miller
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICA’S WHOLESALE LENDER, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR HARBORVIEW MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-2, MORTGAGE LOAN PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-2
Date of Deed of Trust
February 17, 2005
County of Recording
Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust
March 03, 2005
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or
Book/Page No.)
20050303000216350
Original Principal Amount
$138,750.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$119,959.33
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 12, BLOCK 3, THORNTON MEADOWS, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO
Purported common address: 12242 Jackson Place, Thornton, CO 80241.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF
the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
JAMES ALl BAKER
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR BROKER SOLUTIONS, INC., DBA NEW AMERICAN FUNDING, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
New American Funding, LLC
Date of Deed of Trust
August 18, 2022
County of Recording
Adams
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
August 19, 2022
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
2022000070913
Original Principal Amount
$334,248.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$330,130.15
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 NO. 7, BUILDING G, SUNSET RIDGE CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED FEBRUARY 15, 1974, UNDER RECEPTION NO. 31273, AND CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR SUNSET RIDGE CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED FEBRUARY 13, 1974, IN BOOK 1913 AT PAGE 218, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 3061 W 92ND AVE UNIT 14A, WESTMINSTER, CO 80031.
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.
Is Hereby Given that I will
public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday,
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and 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 PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 23-029881
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.
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202480315
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On February 6, 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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
Angel Flores
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR BROKER SOLUTIONS, INC., DBA NEW AMERICAN FUNDING, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY
Date of Deed of Trust
July 22, 2022
County of Recording Adams
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
July 26, 2022
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
2022000063643
Original Principal Amount
$349,680.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$345,753.62
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 WEST 62 1/2 FEET OF LOT 7, PLOT 12, BUCHHOLZ RESUBDIVISION
DATE: 02/06/2024 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado
By: Treasurer and Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: David R. Doughty #40042 Janeway Law Firm PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 24-031791
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.
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202480262
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On January 11, 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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
Juan Carlos Martinez AND Maria Teresa Borjas Sibaja Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR MEGASTAR FINANCIAL CORP, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY
Date of Deed of Trust November 04, 2021
County of Recording
Adams
Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 09, 2021
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
2021000131383
Original Principal Amount $373,117.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $362,281.21
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 121, COTTONWOOD VISTA SECOND FILING, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 3265 Mather St., Brighton, CO 80601.
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
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. First Publication4/11/2024 Last Publication5/9/2024 Name of Publication Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF
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-24-984186-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.
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On February 6, 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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
JACOB F. LEE AND MADISON L. CALLAHAN
Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt BANK UNITED N.A.
Date of Deed of Trust
February 27, 2019
County of Recording Adams
Date of
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, FOSTER TRACT EXEMPTION SURVEY, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
THAT PART OF LOTS 1 AND 2, FOSTER TRACT, A SUBDIVISION OF A PART OF THE SOUTHEAST ONE-QUARTER SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 1 SOUTH, RANGE 65 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO, DESCRIBED AS: BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 1; THENCE S00°05’00”W ON AN ASSUMED BEARING ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOTS 1 AND 2 AND PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE SOUTHEAST ONE-QUARTER
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 06/05/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
First Publication4/11/2024
Last Publication5/9/2024
Name of Publication
Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
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: 02/06/2024
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado
By: Treasurer and 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 PC 9540 Maroon
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 06/05/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
First Publication4/11/2024
Last Publication5/9/2024 Name of Publication Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
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: 02/06/2024
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and 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 PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 24-031756
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. COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS
To Whom
Purported common address: 1804 ASPEN MEADOWS CIRCLE, FEDERAL HEIGHTS, CO 80260.
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 05/22/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
First Publication3/28/2024
Last Publication4/25/2024
Name of Publication
Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
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: 01/23/2024
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and 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, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711
Attorney File # 00000010023513
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.
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202480306
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On February 6, 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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
Garrett Taylor Noakes AND Maria G Melendez
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
July 26, 2022
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or
Book/Page No.)
2022000063899
Original Principal Amount $598,290.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $592,424.42
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 19, LINDEN FILING NO. 1, AMENDMENT NO. 1, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 12975 E 107TH PL, COMMERCE CITY, CO 80022.
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 06/05/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
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 2, BLOCK 2, FRONTERRA VILLAGE FILING NO 3, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO
Purported common address: 9918 Lewiston Street, Commerce City, CO 80022.
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 05/22/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
First Publication3/28/2024
Last Publication4/25/2024
Name of Publication Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER
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 18, Vanderpool Subdivision, Except that part described as follows: Beginning at the Northeast comer of Lot 18, Vanderpool Subdivision; then South along the East line of said Lot 18, a distance of 4.59 feet; then West to a point on the West line of said Lot 18, said point being 5.04 feet South of the Northwest corner of said Lot 18; then North along West line of said Lot 18, a distance of 5.04 feet to the Northwest comer of said Lot 18; then East along the North line of said Lot 18, a distance of 95.25 feet to the Point of Beginning, County of Adams, State of Colorado.
PARCEL ID NUMBER: 0182305429001
Purported common address: 6600 DORIS COURT, COMMERCE CITY, CO 80022.
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 05/22/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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
Original Grantor(s)
Nicholas County AND Jennifer Nolte
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt MIDFIRST BANK
Date of Deed of Trust
July 23, 2019
County of Recording
Adams
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
July 26, 2019
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
2019000059241
Original Principal Amount $374,099.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $330,958.20
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 5, BLOCK 15, RIVER RUN SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO.
APN #: 0172102110029
Purported common address: 11850 E 117th Ave, Commerce City, CO 80640.
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 05/15/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
First Publication3/21/2024
1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000010035954
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. COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 30, 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 Adams records.
of Trust April 19, 2006
No.)
2019000040331
Original Principal Amount $382,936.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $354,104.78
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 5, BLOCK 3, EXPLORADOR VISTA, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 920 DOWNING WAY, DENVER, CO 80229.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
20060419000399880
Original Principal Amount $84,000.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $60,334.64
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 4, BLOCK 1, NORFOLK PLACE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 1791 Norfolk St Unit A, Aurora, CO 80011.
THE PROPERTY
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On January 25, 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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
JOSEPH CATLIN
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY
Date of Deed of Trust
December 21, 2017
County of Recording Adams
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
January 11, 2018
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
2018000003635
April 13, 2018
Re-Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
2018000029865
Re-Recording Date of Deed of Trust
Original Principal Amount
$319,113.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$284,187.83
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 12, BLOCK 3, VALLEY VISTA FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO.
*CORRECTIVE AFFIDAVIT OF SCRIVENER’S ERROR RECORDED ON JULY 31, 2018 AT RECEPTION NO. 2018000061470 TO CORRECT THE DATE ON THE DEED OF TRUST. Purported common address: 960 ERIE STREET, DENVER, CO 80221. 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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 05/22/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the
DATE: 01/25/2024
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado
By: Treasurer and 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 PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 22-028441
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.
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202480304
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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
Eric J. Whitcomb
Original Beneficiary(ies)
PUBLIC SERVICE CREDIT UNION
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
CANVAS CREDIT UNION
Date of Deed of Trust
May 22, 2018
County of Recording
Adams
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
May 31, 2018
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
2018000044085
Original Principal Amount $100,000.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $50,068.71
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 12, BLOCK 1, AURORA EAST PLANNED COMMUNITY SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 19612 E Batavia Drive, Aurora, CO 80011.
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,
DATE: 01/23/2024
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado
By: Treasurer and 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 PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 23-031513
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.
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202480318
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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
Adrian Rogge
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GENEVA FINANCIAL, LLC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC
Date of Deed of Trust
November 30, 2020
County of Recording
of Publication
Sentinel
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
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado
By: Treasurer and Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
David R. Doughty #40042
Janeway Law Firm PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 23-029571
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.
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202480288
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On January 25, 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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
JOSEPH F. SELLARS AND JEREMY SELLARS
Original Beneficiary(ies) INDYMAC BANK, F.S.B
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB NOT INDIVIDUALLY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE AGGREGATION TRUST
Date of Deed of Trust August 26, 2003
County of Recording
Adams
Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 04, 2003
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
C1203993
Original Principal Amount
$172,500.00
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 88, SHAW HEIGHTS SEVENTH FILING, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO
as provided by law.
First Publication4/4/2024 Last Publication5/2/2024
Name of Publication Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
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
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado
By: Treasurer and 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, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000010020147
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.
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202480284
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On January 23, 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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
JOSHUA OCHOA
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR PRIMARY RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’
by law.
First Publication3/28/2024
Last Publication4/25/2024
Name of Publication
Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
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: 01/23/2024
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and 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 PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 24-031661
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.
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202480291
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On January 25, 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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
Dolores M. Vitco AND Bobbi Jo Vitco
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN ADVISORS GROUP, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES LLC
Date of Deed of Trust
September 17, 2018
County of Recording Adams
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
September 21, 2018
Recording Information
(Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
2018000076912
Original Principal Amount
$493,500.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$151,733.62
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 28, BLOCK 11, SUB: VICTORIA HEIGHTS
DATE: 01/25/2024
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of
9772 Cathay Street, Commerce City, CO 80022.
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 05/22/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
First Publication3/28/2024
Last Publication4/25/2024
Name of Publication
Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
DATE: 01/23/2024
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and 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
S. Miller & Associates, P.C. 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710
File # 23CO00538-1 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.
as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 05/22/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
First Publication3/28/2024
Last Publication4/25/2024
Name of Publication
Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
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: 01/23/2024
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado
By: Treasurer and 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
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 06/05/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
First Publication4/11/2024
Last Publication5/9/2024
Name of Publication
Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
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: 02/06/2024
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado
By: Treasurer and Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Amanda Ferguson #44893
Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155
Attorney File # CO22760
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.
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 18, 2024, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to
THE
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 05/22/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
First Publication3/28/2024
Last Publication4/25/2024
Name of Publication
Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
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
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado
By: Treasurer and Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
David R. Doughty #40042
Janeway Law Firm PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 24-031623
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.
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202480267
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On January 18, 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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
Diane Stillman
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for JFQ
VILLAGE MULTIFAMILY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION RECORDED ON OCTOBER 25, 2004, AT RECEPTION NO. 20041025001067720, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ADAMS, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE DECLARATIONS OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS, AND RESTRICTIONS OF FRONTERRA VILLAGE MULTIFAMILY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, RECORDED OF NOVEMBER 21, 2003, AT RECEPTION NO. C1242399 IN SAID RECORDS, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO.
Street Address of Property 9758 LAREDO STREET 27D, COMMERCE CITY, CO 80022
NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS
I sold at public auction, at 10:00 AM on 1/10/24, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, to the highest and best bidder for cash, the real property described above. An overbid was realized from the sale and the funds must be claimed by the Obligor/ Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust or other persons entitled thereto within six months from the date of sale. THE STATE OF COLORADO REQUIRES US TO NOTIFY YOU THAT YOUR PROPERTY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE STATE TREASURER IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT US BEFORE 7/10/2024 as part of the “Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act”, pursuant to Colorado law.
First Publication4/11/24
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On January 25, 2024, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to
provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 05/22/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
First Publication4/4/2024
Last Publication5/2/2024
Name of Publication
Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
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
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado
By: Treasurer and 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 PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 24-031679
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.
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202480305
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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s)
Juan M. Rodelo Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR METRO FUNDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS
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 REAL PROPERTY, TOGETHER WITH IMPROVEMENTS, IF ANY, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 06/12/2024, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
First Publication4/18/2024
Last Publication5/16/2024
Name of Publication
Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
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
Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado
By: Treasurer and Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
David R. Doughty #40042
Janeway Law Firm PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood,
Publication: April 18, 2024
Publication: April 18, 2024 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
ing on March 26, 2024, reviewed the Petition for Annexation and various documents submitted in support of the Petition for Annexation; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has examined the record in this case; examined the various exhibits; considered the request and the recommendations of the City staff; considered the applicable requirements of the Municipal Annexation Act of 1965, as amended; and based upon the record which has been made concerning the request, has arrived at its decision.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF THORNTON, COLORADO, AS FOLLOWS:
Notice is hereby given that the Thornton City Council will hold a public hearing concerning the Snydal Subdivision Blocks 1-3 Annexation for approximately 4.8 acres of land generally located south of East 120th Avenue and east of Holly Street at 5820 East 120th Avenue. A copy of the Resolution initiating annexation proceedings and the legal description of the property proposed for annexation are attached.
This hearing will be held on May 14, 2024, at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers at the Thornton City Hall, 9500 Civic Center Drive, Thornton, Colorado. Thornton is also offering remote access to the public hearing. To attend online, register in advance at https://thorntonco.zoom.us or call 669-900-6833 and enter meeting ID 881 2487 0439. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting and the process for providing testimony.
All interested parties are invited to attend the public hearing or present their views by providing written comments in advance of the public hearing. Written comments sent via email must be received at Kira.Stoller@ThorntonCO.gov prior to 4 p.m. MDT/MST on the day of the public hearing. Written comments sent via mail to Thornton City Hall, City Development Department, 9500 Civic Center Drive, Thornton, CO 80229 must be received prior to 5 p.m. MDT/MST on the Friday preceding the public hearing. If you have any questions concerning this matter, please contact the City Development Department at 303-538-7295.
If you have any questions regarding attending the Zoom Meeting, please email CityDevelopment@ ThorntonCO.gov prior to 4 pm on May 14, 2024. Qualified individuals with a disability may contact Thornton’s ADA Coordinator to request and arrange for accommodations. Requests for accommodation should be made as far in advance as possible, but preferably no less than five business days prior to the date needed. Please contact Thornton’s ADA Coordinator via telephone 303-538-7334 or email adacoordinator@ ThorntonCO.gov.
ATTEST: Kristen N. Rosenbaum, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM: Tami Yellico, City Attorney
R E S O L U T I O N
A RESOLUTION ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF THE SNYDAL SUBDIVISION BLOCKS 1-3
ANNEXATION PETITION AND ESTABLISHING
MAY 14, 2024 AS THE DATE FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE REQUESTED ANNEXATION OF PROPERTY LOCATED AT 5280 E. 120TH AVENUE TO THE CITY (SNYDAL SUBDIVISION BLOCKS 1-3 ANNEXATION).
WHEREAS, North Forest Office Space – Denver LLC is the owner (Owner) of the unincorporated property legally described in Exhibit A (the Property) and comprises 100 percent of the owners of the area proposed for annexation; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Title 31, Article 12, Section 107, Colorado Revised Statutes, the Owner has submitted a petition for annexation of the Property to the City and the Petition for Annexation is attached hereto as Attachment B and incorporated herein; and
WHEREAS, Title 31, Article 12, Section 108, Colorado Revised Statutes, requires that the City establish a date, time, and place that the City will consider the annexation and various requirements of Title 31, Article 12, Colorado Revised Statutes; and
WHEREAS, the City Council, at its regular meet-
1. The Petition for Annexation is in substantial compliance with the requirements of Title 31, Article 12, Colorado Revised Statutes, and in particular Section 107 thereof. The City Manager is directed to follow the procedures outlined in Sections 31-12-108 to 110, Colorado Revised Statutes.
2. Consideration of the Annexation is scheduled for the City Council meeting on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Thornton, Colorado, on , 2024. CITY OF THORNTON, COLORADO Jan Kulmann, Mayor ATTEST: Kristen
COUNCIL MEMBER’S BILL
ORDINANCE NO. No. CB-2022 1863
Series of 2024 Series of 2024
A BILL FOR AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 4-3-3, SUBSECTION
(a) OF THE NORTHGLENN MUNICIPAL CODE
REGARDING THE DISTANCE LIMITATIONS
FROM SCHOOLS APPLICABLE TO RESIDENCY BY REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTHGLENN, COLORADO, THAT:
Section 1. Legislative Findings. The City Council hereby finds and determines as follows:
A. It is in the best interests of the health, safety and welfare of the residents, visitors and school children of the City of Northglenn that the City expand the distance limitations set forth in Section 4-3-3 of the Northglenn Municipal Code applicable to residency of Registered Sex Offenders and the distance where they may reside relative to schools from 750 feet to 1,000 feet from any such school.
B. Specifically, the City Council previously found and determined as follows in Section 4-3-1 of the Northglenn Municipal Code:
“(a)The City Council hereby finds that sexual predators and the specified sex offenders who use physical violence or who prey on children present an extreme threat to the public safety. Sexual predators and the specified sex offenders have a high rate of recidivism, making the cost of sex offender victimization to society at large extremely high. Removing such offenders from regular proximity to places where children are located and limiting the frequency of contact is likely to reduce the risk of an offense.
(b) This Article is intended to serve the City’s compelling interest to promote, protect and improve the public health, safety and welfare by creating areas, around locations where children regularly congregate in concentrated numbers, where sexual predators and specified sexual offenders are prohibited from establishing temporary or permanent residence.”
C.In furtherance of the City’s previous findings, and taking into account the City Council learning of the State of Colorado proposing to locate a Mental Health Transitional Living Facility at 11255 and 11275 Grant Drive in Northglenn and in close proximity to Stukey Elementary School, the City Council finds it necessary to expand the distance limitation from 750 feet to 1,000 feet in Article 3 of Chapter 4 of the Northglenn Municipal Code.
D. The City Council further finds and determines that because of the public safety risk associated with the proposed location of the Mental Health Transitional Living Facility at 11255 and 11275 Grant Drive in Northglenn and its close proximity to Stukey Elementary School, that such ordinance is necessary to be adopted as an emergency to cause the provisions of this ordinance to take effect immediately, and prior to any Registered Sex Offenders being housed at 11255 and 11275 Grant Drive in Northglenn.
Section 2. Section 4-3-3, subsection (a) of the Northglenn Municipal Code is amended to read as follows:
Section 4-3-3. Prohibitions.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any Registered Sex Offender to establish a permanent residence or temporary residence within ONE THOUSAND (1,000) feet of any school, and five hundred (500) feet of any park, playground, licensed day care center, recreation center or swimming pool (other than pools located at private, single-family residences), or any property located adjacent to any designated public or private school bus stop.
Section 3. The City Council finds and determines that this ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of public property, health, peace, or safety in that the existence of sex offenders residing together is an immediate public safety risk. Accordingly, pursuant to Section 4.11 of the Northglenn City Charter, this ordinance shall take effect immediately upon enactment.
tion to the Colorado Division of Housing (DOH). The purpose of this application is to request $2,800,000 to develop 70 units of rental homes at 2880 W. 88th Avenue, Westminster, CO 80030
The request of funding from DOH is to benefit persons with low and moderate incomes by increasing the availability of affordable housing in the Maiker Uplands Project. It is not with 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 Maiker Housing Partners at 3033 W. 71st Ave, Ste 1000, Westminster, CO 80030 or kkemp@maikerhp.org 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. NTS3531
First Publication: April 18, 2024
Last Publication: April 18, 2024
Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton
team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor, or any of his subcontractors, in or about the performance of said Work, may at any time up to and including said date of such Final Settlement, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claims.
2. All such claims shall be filed with the City Clerk at 9500 Civic Center Drive, Thornton, CO 80229.
3.Failure on the part of the creditor to file such a statement prior to such Final Settlement will relieve the City of Thornton from any and all liability for such claim.
NOTICE is hereby given that Adams 12 Five Star Schools will make final settlement on: May 3rd, 2024, with Metro Pavers, 7230 Gilpin Way, Unit 180, Denver, CO 80229 for, work performed on a project known as: ESC East Parking Lot Upgrades, Adams 12 Educational Support Center, 1500 E 128th Ave, Thornton, CO 80241” Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor,
the claims may be forever barred.
Richard R. Stensgaard Personal Representative 15314 Quince Circle Thornton, CO 80602
Legal Notice No. NTS3510
First Publication: April 11, 2024
Last Publication: April 25, 2024
Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
PUBLIC NOTICE
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before August 4, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Geoffrey Boyd Personal Representative 4515 West Mineral Drive Apt 336 Littleton, CO 80128
Legal Notice No. NTS3493 First Publication: April 4, 2024 Last Publication: April
and excused.
The minutes of the March 25, 2024, meeting was approved as written.
Council presented the following: United Power 85th Anniversary Proclamation; and Proclamation for National Volunteer Week.
hearings
Council approved the following: Second Reading of Councillor’s Bill No. 8 Re: Water/Sewer Updates to Westminster Municipal Code; Official Development Plan for Uplands Filing 3, Block 2 (PA-C2) Located East of the Intersection of Clay Street and West 87th Place.
Council adopted the following: Resolution No. 7 Appointment of Alternate Members and Regular Members on Boards and Commissions.
City Council passed on first reading: A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 11-2-1(A) AND SECTION 11-4-6(B)
Notice is hereby given to all interested persons that a Concept Plan Review will be held by the City Council of the City of Westminster on Monday, April 29, 2024 at 6:30 p.m., at Westminster City Hall, located at 4800 West 92nd Avenue in Westminster, Colorado. The public is welcome to attend in person. See below for additional information.
The property owner of the vacant land at the southeast corner of Lowell Blvd and W 86th Ave has submitted a concept plan to the City for review. The proposed development includes the construction of 41 single family detached homes and 86 single family attached homes on the 20.21acre property. A 5-acre detention pond and about 1 acre of publicly accessible, private parks is also included in the proposal.
City Council Action: City Council will review the proposed concept plan and provide comments to the applicant. No official actions will be taken. Any comment, suggestion, or recommendation made by the City Council on any concept review plan is entirely gratuitous and does not bind or otherwise obligate city staff, the planning commission, or the City Council to any course of conduct or decision after an applicant makes an official submittal of a development plan to the city for technical review.
NOTE: A Concept Plan Review does not include a public hearing or public comment. Members of the public are allowed and encouraged to attend the meeting, but no public comment will be taken.
If you want to view the City Council Study Session agenda, agenda memo, and other materials for
this meeting, they will be posted prior to the concept plan review at https://www.westminsterco. gov/agendas
If you want to view the live meeting, it will be streamed live via the City’s traditional webcast at www.youtube.com/user/WestminsterCO/live.
If you have any questions regarding this application, please contact Jacob P. Kasza, Senior Planner, with the City of Westminster Planning Division at jpkasza@westminsterco.gov or 303-658-2123.
John McConnell, AICP Interim Planning Manager City of Westminster
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