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Candidates for GV City Council on November 2, 2021; Seated: Kendall Kappler, Jeff Reiman, Victoria Aguilar, Mathew Schulz. Standing first row: Libby Barnacle, Paul Wiesner, Donna Johnston, Anne Ingebretsen, Judith Hilton Standing back row: Tom Stahl, Bob Doyle, Jeff Leitner, Paul Baumann, Dave Kerber

Good, Bad, Indifferent and even an “F Bomb”

BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENTAL REPORTER

The first reenwood illage City Council forum in six years, sponsored by The South etro Denver Chamber of Commerce, the League of omen oters of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties, and The Villager Newspaper, included 14 out of 15 people running for office and

drew over 100 people live and by oom. any more will see it since it was recorded and is available to watch anytime on YouTube. com by entering South etro Denver Chamber of Commerce in the search box.

It came as no surprise that candidates differed on the impact of last year’s city council resolution fully indemnifying

any police officer found liable in a civil case for up to $25,000 originally $50,000 or 5 of the judgment, whichever is less, in a case where the officer’s employer, which would be the City of reenwood illage, “determines the officer did not act upon a good faith and reasonable belief that the action the officer took was lawful.” hile incumbent council

members strongly defended the action as being necessary to prevent the resignation of seven officers who were threatening to quit because of the new law, several challengers in the race pointed to the fact that was the only city in Colorado to pass a resolution promising to fully indemnify its officers even if it had determined that they had acted in bad faith, which sent an

especially chilling message to members of diverse communities. The resolution was passed on uly 6, 2020, six weeks after the murder of eorge loyd in inneapolis that drew attention to unequal treatment of minorities by some police officers.

District two incumbent Dave erber, explaining his support

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GV wants voters to let it stop publishing its laws in a newspaper

BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENTAL REPORTER

Before a bill becomes a law in Greenwood Village, it must be approved by a majority of the city council at two separate meetings. The GV City Charter requires that a proposed new law be published in the next issue of the city’s legal newspaper after it receives a yes vote from the majority of the city council both times.

The first publication notifies members of the public of the council’s planned action so that they may weigh in before the new law is voted on for the second and final time.

The Charter requires that the new law be published a second time after it is passed to make sure residents are aware of the new law. These rules, which are consistent with Colorado Revised Statutes § 31-116-105, are to promote transparency in government and have been followed since Greenwood Village became a city.

Recently, courts in Colorado decided that the manner in which home rule cities publicize their new laws is “a matter of local concern,” thus they need not follow state law and can make their own rules.

So as to avoid having to

publish its laws in a local newspaper, printed or online, Greenwood Village will ask its voters on November 2 if it can delete the “reference to legal newspaper and allow the City Council to establish the publication requirements for ordinances, by ordinance, which may (emphasis added) include electronic publication.”

If this ballot question wins voter approval, the only thing residents will know for sure is that they cannot expect to see new laws passed by their city council published in any newspaper. The language on the ballot question says nothing definite about how, when, or where new GV laws will be published. It merely gives the sitting city council the authority to decide whatever publication method it chooses. Since the method would be determined by ordinance, that city council or a new one could change it any time and any number of times. fmiklin.villager@gmail. com Editor’s note: This report was published in the interest of transparency in government. The legal newspaper of the City of Greenwood Village is not published, based, or widely available in Greenwood Village hence it is not this newspaper.

THOMAS DORRANCE - JUNE 18, 1941 - AUGUST 30, 2021

Thomas (Tom) Dorrance, 80, died peacefully on August 30, 2021 in Blacksburg, VA, surrounded by family. Tom was born in Wagon Mound, NM to Sam and Alice Dorrance on June 18, 1941. Raised in Pueblo, CO with his younger siblings, Alice Vivoda and Charlie, he married his first wife, Edie, shortly after high school and had 3 children Michael (Pam), Theodore (Stacey) & Susie (Michael), 9 grandchildren, and 8 great grandchildren. He is also survived by his brotherin-law James (Kathy) Ridley. Tom was predeceased by his wife Edie in 2009 after fifty years of marriage and married Kay Selnes on April 17, 2010. With this union, he welcomed stepdaughter Lori (Scott) Fairburn, 2 step grandsons, and Kay’s siblings Rex (Judy) Selnes, Wayne (Debi) Selnes, and Joy Selnes.

Tom loved his family and friends, was devoted to his Church, and was outgoing and people-oriented. He worked in supplying doors, windows and interior trim to custom, residential homes for most of his life and had a great appreciation for the beauty of fine woodworking. Tom was an avid golfer and loved to boat and fish the lakes of Colorado.

Funeral services will be held at St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church at

5555 S. Yosemite Street, Greenwood Village, CO 80111. The Trisagion (Wake) Service will be held on Thursday, September 30th at 7:00 pm, and the Funeral will be on Friday, October 1st at 10:30 am followed by a lunch reception in the church hall. As an honorably discharged navy veteran, the internment will be at Fort Logan National Cemetery at 2:00 pm with full military honors.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Wounded Heroes Fund: https://www.thewoundedheroesfund. org/

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Somewhere else & back I recently learned that a third former student of mine has moved to Taiwan to teach English, and I couldn’t be happier for all these young people who have heard the call to escape their comfort zone and seek opportunity beyond the borders of the familiar. One of these students lived with her husband on the island nation off the coast of China for nearly five years, embracing the expat experience and even raising their first child there. The experience of living abroad, of immersing ourselves in a new culture, of becoming a part of another community, can be an invaluable education, and it was an opportunity I pursued nearly thirty years ago. It’s also a piece of advice I highly recommend to anyone who has the chance.

Get out of your country for a while. Go somewhere else and see what the world has to teach you.

In the summer after my college graduation, I interviewed for a teaching job at my former high school in the small town of Alton, Illinois, and then I promptly moved eight thousand miles across the world to teach English at a buxiban, or “cram school,” in Taipei, Taiwan. It was one of the boldest moves I ever took, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

Of course, I had help in the choice, specifically because the young woman I was in love with was heading to Taiwan to teach, and I didn’t really have any other plans.

It was 1992, and English teaching jobs weren’t exactly falling into my lap, not that I was searching too diligently.

The 1991 recession and state spending cuts to education didn’t help either. Additionally, my wife’s former college roommate, who was Taiwanese, was returning home to live with her parents and mentioned the idea of us teaching there. So, after a visit to the Educational lacement ffice of the University of Illinois, where we found a rather basic yer offering teaching positions in Taipei at the Hess Language School, Julie and I bought our tickets and boarded a plane.

Since our time in Southeast Asia, the idea of moving abroad has been one of the most consistent pieces of advice I give my students: go somewhere else for a little while. Take leave of your bubble and ee the familiar.

Get out of your country; if you love, leave it. This leap of faith may simply be a semester abroad during school, or it could be a work-study program or a job-swap. It

might be a single gig for your company or a one-year appointment. Whatever it is, when the opportunity to travel is available, take it. My wife and I ended up staying in Taiwan for five years, teaching and traveling the world.

We went to Hong Kong for weekends, lived a month in a bungalow on the Greek isle of aros, spent a week surfing and lounging on Bali, and got engaged in the botanical garden of Rome. Eventually,

we made our way back to the United States and lived for a short time in the city of Chicago, where she worked as a pastry chef and I taught middle school. A few years later we made our way to Colorado, a place we’d never been before.

Moving home after our time abroad was also equally important and refreshing. Following years as expats, the Midwest of our youth actually became exciting and new again simply as a result of our time away. While it may be cliche to believe that absence makes the heart grow fonder, it’s fairly certain that being somewhere else for a while can make everything about home seem all the more special. Going without familiar conveniences and feeling like an outsider can be a truly

While it may be cliche to believe that absence makes the heart grow fonder, it’s fairly certain that being somewhere else for a while can make everything about home seem all the more special. Going without familiar conveniences and feeling like an outsider can be a truly enlightening experience. It’s eyeopening to be in a place where no one looks like you. It’s disorienting to be in a place where no one sounds like you. It’s also worth it.

enlightening experience. It’s eye-opening to be in a place where no one looks like you.

It’s disorienting to be in a place where no one sounds like you. It’s also worth it.

Mary Smirch, the Chicago Tribune columnist known for her graduation piece entitled Wear Sunscreen, advised young people to “Live in New York once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in LA once, but leave before it makes you soft.” I fully support that advice, as well as the subtle sarcasm directed at both cities. I would extend that advice to include moving beyond your national borders.

Michael P. Mazenko is a writer, educator, & school administrator in Greenwood Village. He blogs at A Teacher’s View and can be found on Twitter @mmazenko. You can email him at mmazenko @gmail.com

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The Villager

Business is the lifeline of American success

The South Metro Denver Chamber held their 100th anniversary gala at Wings Over the Rockies museum Friday evening Sept.

24. Chamber CEO Jeff Keener and wife Mary, and staff, including Footers catering know how to throw a party. An enthusiastic crowd of 300 free enterprisers joined by supportive business elected officials saluted Brian ogt as the honoree. Brian was Chamber CEO for 14 years, following in the footsteps of iconic leader Richard Harrison, who’s widow Carolyn was in the audience.

Brian, who grew up in Englewood, related how his dad, who was the sheriff, would race south down unpaved Broadway with his young son bouncing over the ruts and hills on the unpaved road.

Vogt is the CEO of the Denver Botanic ardens where he has done a spectacular job since leaving the chamber. He is a founding father of the city of Centennial that is currently celebrating their 20th anniversary since being founded by Vogt, Randy Pye, who became the cities first mayor, ohn Brackney, and South Subur-

I’m still relishing the fun and enjoyment from the South Metro Denver Chamber 100th anniversary gala. We’ve been in the newspaper business in Arapahoe County for 40 years this November and during the gala program Tony Rossaci’s Meat Market was acknowledged for 43 years.

Founder Tony Rossaci related to the audience how he had to mortgage his home to start his very successful grocery operation in 1978.

The stores today are family operated and very successful.

Businesspeople have had to scramble during COVID-19 and we note most of the family operations have struggled, but by hard work and effort they have kept their doors open. Sometimes we have to realize that while it is the free enterprise system it is not

ban CEO David Lorenz and others. It has always been my thought that Vogt could, and should seek higher office such as governor or U.S. senator.

Centennial leaders, led by Mayor Stephanie Piko, turned out in force for the gala purchasing two tables and the council showing up in tuxedoes. A class act from this

business firms is the lifeline for metro and suburban cities. Absent from the event were reenwood illage and Cherry Hills officials. If not for sales tax from our business community and resident shopping dollars, schools and police could not and would not be able to function, and residential and commercial property taxes would skyrocket. Chambers, all of

Jeff Keener, Brian Vogt and Bob Sweeney at Wings Over the Rockies Museum

growing and in uential city of 130,000 proud residents.

They respect and realize that sales tax collected by local

always the “fair” enterprise system at work. Competition is keen in the business world and it makes us jump higher, work longer, and try harder. *** Halloween is approaching and I see that reg einke has his haunted house marquee up hailing the opening of his haunted house tour at Reinke brothers unique store in downtown Littleton. Visiting the store is an awesome treat with rows of costumes, unique spooky merchandise, and the haunted house tour is world class. It’s every bit as good as a Disneyland trip and you can experience this right in downtown Littleton. Take the tour and have dinner at one of the local restaurants.

Don’t miss the haunted house tour. You can park free in his large parking lot off Prince St. *** This is a busy week with

them in Englewood, Lone Tree, Aurora, Denver, South Metro, and smaller business groups such as Littleton, all

candidate forums for city council races being held in reenwood illage, Aurora, and Littleton. You can review them via zoom and read a full report in The Villager on candidate remarks and visions.

School board elections are heating up with races in both Cherry Creek and Littleton school districts. Stay tuned as those races draw closer. *** I was at a barbecue recently where the attendees were completely in the dark about local elections. There is a certain amount of apathy that seems to abound. My advice is to turn off Net ix, CNN, and Fox news and attend a forum in your city. Find out who the candidates are, what they stand for, and why they want to serve. Read a local newspaper that works hard to round up news on the candidates. Write out a donation to a candidate and put a sign

work to support local business and bring events, commerce and industry to their cities. They do more, they welcome these business firms and employees to the area with seminars, job training, and networking. They work to support legislation that eases creeping government control of the free enterprise system, realizing that freedom to own and operate a business is the foundation of our American way of life. Immigrants arriving in America legally found a land where they could own land, open stores, and do the heavy lifting of mining gold and laying railroad ties. The success stories have been staggering and still exist today because of the freedom of people to create jobs, to work hard, and to be successful raising families, buying homes and cars.

Those in the business world as employees and owners realize that customer service is the key to success. It takes a total team to survive in today’s business world and we salute all the business firms represented at the gala in supporting the role that chamber of commerce organizations provide to make our cities better.

in your yard. America is a free country and we need to keep our elections fair and square. While we laud that these local city council and school elections are non-partisan, that is not entirely true.

You can find these candidates listed on political web sites by both parties and folks holding fund raisers for their party choices. Everything is political these days including your choice about vaccines. At least the political motivated citizens spark interest and turn out voters. *** The good news is the Broncos smoked the ets and we have our football team back winning. We can all cheer together for this team regardless of political affiliation. We really can come together on some things.

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Reverend Martin Niemoller “In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time there was no one left to speak for me!”

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people think that poor people are stupid.

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resolution, said he told someone, “All people should be treated with respect, as decent people…

Our parents of children of color, they want to have safe ways to come home from school too. It’s not just for the white kids. When you make the rules, you have to make the rules for everybody. They want to be safe, too. They want to have parks, too. They want the same things that we all make (sic) and it’s very important that we recognize that and not treat them differently just because of the color of their skin.”

District two incumbent Anne Ingebretsen talked about how GV police already had many of the reforms in place required by the Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Act (SB20217) and how GV “has not had a sustained complaint of excessive force used by a police officer since 2007.”

She did not explain why, if it was so unlikely that a GV officer would ever be subject to the financial risks of the law, it was necessary for them to be fully indemnified when no other city in Colorado had done so, except to agree with others that seven officers threatened to quit over the issue.

District three incumbent Libby Barnacle, after saying, “I would concur with [Anne] Ingebretsen and [Victoria] Aguilar that civility goes a long way,” talked

The GV CITY COUNCIL FORUM was held at the Dome at AMG NATIONAL TRUST BANK with over 100 in attendance.

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about the importance of a “fully staffed and supported police department.” Describing something that happened after the resolution was passed, she said, “False and irresponsible reckless linking of our Resolution 40-20 to racism and fascism, despite death threats received, attempted character assassination…”

Then Barnacle said, “I think that some of the dialogue has stalled because of some of the messaging behind the scenes about, ‘F*** (she said the word)

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these pigs. We want all police unions to burn.’

This is the messaging I’m getting.”

After the meeting, Barnacle gave The Villager copies of what appeared to be pictures of screen shots of nasty tweets with comments added from someone who assembled them. Barnacle was asked what it represented and she said she did not know, that someone, who she did not identify, gave the papers to her and she was giving them to this newspaper.

None of the nasty tweets in

the purported screen shots and unidentified narrative claimed to be from any of the people running for the city council.

District three candidate Paul Baumann talked about activities that occurred after Resolution 40-20 was passed, saying, “Our community’s strength is its diversity…My neighbors put together a proposal and sent it to our councilmembers (Barnacle and Donna Johnston) for a very low-cost, low-threat citizen-led commission on diversity, equity,

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and inclusion that would study that issue in our city…

We were waved off.”

District One candidate Mathew Schulz said, “I’m a military veteran.

I have police officers in my family, and I’m about as pro-police as you can be. But the fact that this council had no public debate or comment on that (resolution) upset a lot of people of…diverse backgrounds…I believe it’s discouraging to diversity.”

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On a question about housing challenges in Greenwood Village, Victoria Aguilar, candidate for city council district one, said, “If we’re going to attract businesses, especially large businesses, we need to recognize that there needs to be more affordable housing including young families…We want our teachers, we want our firefighters, we want our police to be able to live in our city.

Many of them cannot afford to do so given the high price of entry.”

Several other challengers for the council, including Mathew Shulz and Jeff Leitner (district four) talked about the importance of teachers and first responders being able to afford to live in the city in which they work, which they said was very challenging in Greenwood Village.

Several incumbents, including Ingebretsen in district two, said that Greenwood Village has more multi-family housing per capita than Denver, a mix of 54 percent single-family housing and 46 percent multi-family housing, something that seemed to surprise some people. Dave Kerber, also a district two incumbent, agreed that Greenwood Village has a higher rate of multi-family housing than every city in the State of Colorado except Glendale, which “has one single-family home.” District Three candidate Kendall Kappler said, “A functioning com-

munity includes…economic diversity… Crime increases when there is more commuting, people don’t live in the neighborhood they’re working in. Our community is safer and stronger… if more people can afford to live here District one candidate Paul Wiesner, who was born in Greenwood Village, said, “The reason it is expensive here is because of the principles that…make all of us want to live here.” I don’t know what…you can do about it.”

District three incumbent Donna Johnston said that GV has “a really good mix of affordable housing.”

The subject of Orchard Station and the 2017 referendum came back around when several city council challengers pointed out that, four years later, there has been virtually no redevelopment there and the area continues to deteriorate.

Several, including district four candidate Jeff Reiman, tried to say on multiple occasions that current councilmembers, including Kerber and Barnacle, misconstrued the vote as meaning that residents didn’t want to see anything developed there, rather than that they were against the oversized dense plan that they believed was coming if they didn’t vote no. Incumbents, including Barnacle, strongly argued back that people knew what they were voting for. Reiman, who said he voted no, kept trying to explain that he wasn’t saying the voters misunderstood the

issue, the council did. That, he and others believed, is why there has been virtually no redevelopment of any kind there in the four years since the referendum.

One candidate, Bob Doyle in district two, focused mainly on the city’s continuing to ignore virtually all issues around climate change. He pointed to multiple opportunities that are available for cities to take advantage of, to help reduce greenhouse gases, noting that the current council had ignored the issue. Doyle has been a well-known environmentalist for many years. n the topic of vacant office space in Greenwood Village as a result of the pandemic, district four challenger Tom Stahl, who is in the commercial real estate business, said, “The office market has been hard hit with people working remotely.” He noted that one 1970’s two-story office building in GV was recently approved for redevelopment, but that, “Commercial real estate is a very complicated issue. Over time, I think different property owners that have vacant office space will figure out solutions as time goes on.”

On the issue of communication, district four incumbent Judith Hilton said she had sent quarterly newsletters since being elected four years ago. Her opponents, Jeff Reiman and Jeff Leitner, talked about holding regular town hall meetings to get input from constituents instead of telling them about decisions already made in newsletters.

In district one, Aguilar and

Schulz, both challenging incumbent Dave Bullock, also talked about the importance of asking for residents’ input before taking action. Aguilar said, “Sending letters after the fact isn’t really the point…I want to know what’s on your docket. I learn about decisions after the fact. Transparency needs to happen. The technology is there. You can Zoom these things. That’s transparency. That’s access. Let our voice be heard instead of the city council send us a letter after it’s made a decision without any input from us. I promise you, I will bring listening back and I will be respectful, even listening to those I don’t agree with.”

Schulz said, “Quarterly newsletter? Nothing in it that Freda [Miklin] hasn’t already reported on. I don’t need to know why you voted the way you did. I’d rather you seek my opinion…before you vote.

I met with my councilmember.

I reached out to him. He said, ‘If my constituents don’t like the way I vote, they won’t reelect me.’ That is too late. This council operates reactionary.

Newsletters, that’s great, but it’s nothing new. Televising, live feeding these meetings.

That’s the point.”

As the meeting ended, Kerber said, “If you like your city, continue those people who have kept it this way. If you want a change and go into another direction, vote for the other people.”

More to come from the forum next week and the entire video can be seen on YouTube. com by searching for South Metro Denver Chamber. fmiklin.villager@gmail.com LEFT: Front Row: Jeff Keener, President & CEO South Metro Denver Chamber, Freda Miklin, Governmental Reporter - The Villager; Vicki Harimon and Irma Princic, League of Women Voters of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties.

Back Row: Gerri and Bob Sweeney, Co-Publishers - The Villager; Susan Sweeney Lanam, Creative Marketing Director - The Villager; Paula Moore, League of Women Voters of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties. Not featured: Mina Hall

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Meet Victoria

ictoria Aguilar, the Founder and Managing Director of the AR Group, LLC - - a law and HR consulting firm headquartered in Greenwood Village is running for GV city council. A 14-year resident of The Preserve, mother of four, and an active community member, Victoria is running because she wants to drive engagement through collaboration both within the council and amongst and between community members.

As an AV-Preeminent rated employment lawyer with more than 28 years of experience counseling Fortune 500 companies, including GE, Time Warner Telecom, US WEST, and small business clients alike, Victoria has earned a reputation for providing insightful guidance and creative solutions to complex problems.

Active in Colorado’s legal community, Victoria serves on the United States District Court Committee on Conduct and the Ethics Committee of the Colorado Bar Association. She was also recently asked to represent the Colorado Bar Association as a Delegate to the American Bar Association.

HER TOP ISSUES INCLUDE • Transparency • Health & Wellness • Waste Management • Climate • Unity TRANSPARENCY Our work within the city council needs to and must be open, allowing for community and cross-platform input. As a smaller community, we can and should better coordinate efforts with regional government, local businesses, fire departments, police, and first responders at a bi-partisan level. I am running because we deserve representatives who rise above partisanship and who work with everyone to build a stronger, healthier, more connected community.

MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS Studies show that more walkable communities promote health and wellness and a great-

er sense of connection. While Greenwood Village already has a significant network of biking and walking trails, I will take steps to enhance utilization of these assets by promoting safety, accessibility, and convenience both on the streets and the trails.

It is undeniable the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically increased demand for mental, emotional, and physical professional support services. When elected as your councilwoman, I will work with mental health providers and community members already leading to bring available funding grants to our community and drive the issue into the open, where it belongs.

WASTE MANAGEMENT Local representatives are uniquely positioned to message on ways to serve as better stewards of our natural resources.

More importantly, the local leadership can and should model such stewardship. I will actively

work to increase our community recycling programs, promote the opportunity to participate in a robust compost system, facilitate access to locally placed electric vehicle charging stations, and work with City vendors to reduce the City’s carbon footprint.

CLIMATE Living beneath smoke for months at a time has become the new norm, and longer “fire seasons” are something we’ve come to accept. City leadership can and must do more to confront climate change and actively look for ways to mitigate our contribution to that change. The time is now.

UNITY In recent years, our nation and community have been divided in so many ways. I believe division threatens the very fabric of not only Democracy but what it means to be American. Our

community deserves leadership that will listen respectfully to input from everyone, not just those who agree with them and work together to ensure a vibrant future for the Village.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION Victoria has received numerous awards and recognition as a top attorney, community leader, and successful business owner.

Given her unique background, she is often called to serve as an expert witness in litigation involving HR policy and/or process compliance.

Victoria holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Boston College, graduating with the honor of Summa Cum Laude while also being recognized as a Scholar of the College. Victoria earned her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and is licensed to practice law in Colorado, Minnesota, and New Mexico.

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“We need leaders on the City Council who will represent our community. I’m running for City Council to serve you and to ensure that

EVERY RESIDENT IN OUR COMMUNITY IS HEARD.” — M AT H E W S C H U L Z

Mathew Schulz EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP F O R TH E G REEN WOO D V I LL AG E CIT Y COU N CI L • Served from 1997–1999 in the U.S. Navy where he attained the rank of 3rd class petty officer

• Small business owner of a mortgage consulting firm • Served as President of the Board of Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association

• On the Church Finance Council at St. Thomas More Catholic Church and active in charitable work with the St. Vincent de Paul Society

VOTE FOR MATHEW SCHULZ FOR GREENWOOD VILLAGE CITY COUNCIL

“I’d love to earn your vote as I run for Greenwood Village City Council in an effort to promote the safety, well-being and prosperity of all families in the Village while bringing back an inclusive and transparent City Council.”

— MATHEW SCHULZ Concerns I have as a Greenwood Village resident the City’s Comprehensive Plan that would support an 1. Lack of council accessibility. expansion of the commercial tax base while bringing Our council is one of the last in the state that does not further restaurants, entertainment venues and busitelevise or live feed our meetings. nesses to our community, yet keeping with our small, Our council does not elicit public comment nor diversivillage feel. ty of viewpoints.

4. I would encourage renewable energy resources, not 2. I want to give a voice to our firefighters and police offistifle them as our present council is working to do, limcers, not take them away iting or banning certain solar panels, rather than work• I want to support our officers by raising pay thereing with the city code to promote these resources in a fore increasing the likelihood that our officers can respectful way to the community and our neighbors. live in the community they serve and I am deeply 5. I would work to develop greater relationships with our concerned to hear present council members state surrounding communities and the State rather than “our police department doesn’t need any more pay”. alienate them.

–Dave Kerber, 09.27.2021 • I am appalled when I hear words like “I for one feel no • I want to give our firefighters a voice, not take them connection or commitment to anything our legisaway as our present council has done disregarding lature does because there’s many people in Greenconstructive input by South Metro Fire District when wood Village that don’t agree with what the legislait comes to community and traffic safety going so ture passes”. As part of a representative democracy, far as recommending the removal SMFD input or we are not allowed to pick and choose our laws by approval when it comes to any city related fire, traffic what we like and don’t like. It is attitudes like this and safety issues. within our Council that continue to put Greenwood 3. I want to support responsible development inline with Village further and further out of the fold.

• Served from 1997–1999 in the U.S. Navy where he attained the rank of 3rd class petty officer • Served as President of the Board of Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association • On the Church Finance Council at St. Thomas More Catholic Church and active in charitable work with the St. Vincent de Paul Society VOTE FOR MATHEW SCHULZ FOR GREENWOOD VILLAGE CITy COUNCIL

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Feast, football and Ferraris – That’s Amoré!

Italian VIP Celebration Party for A Precious Child The calendar indicated fall, but summer lingered for a splendid celebration at the manse and expanse of the Corley residence. Fellow neighbors in Cherry FLEURISH A Precious Child CEO and Founder Carina Martin with Co-Hosts Hills Village, Kristine and David Robertson David and Kristine (Women’s Guild member) Robertson co-hosted the Italian Co-Host and Board of soiree with Lisa and Tom CorTrustees member Tom ley – including a themed spread Corley with Tom Melton from Three Tomatoes inside and outside. Ferrari of Denver had the exotic vehicles on display and John Elway’s 7Cellars featured hosted bars with a percentage of special order revenue going to A Precious Child. This local non-profit has been providing wrap-around services, resources, basic essentials and opportunities to underserved Colorado children within its eight county service areas for more than 12 years. Its 11 programs focus on cradle to career initiatives ensuring every child has the resources needed to achieve full potential and that they become secure, self-reliant Hayley Mustin and her dad Tom Mustin with Co-Host and members of the community. For Board of Directors member Lisa Corley further information www.apreciouschild.org or 303-446-4272.

LEFT: Mike Consendine, Women’s Guild Co-Founder Gwenivere Snyder and Board of Trustees member Aaron Hess

ABOVE: Women’s Guild Co-Founder Maura Johnson and hubby Bruce, daughter Audrey and friend Hannah Crean From Cuvée, Kristin Westberg and Kellie Donnelly “toast” the custom-made wine shaped cookies Jason and Heidi Ganahl with Sharna and John Coors

RIGHT: Leslie Rogakis gave a touching testimonial about the help she received for her family from A Precious Child LEFT: Karen and Dale DeLeo Spinphony entertained on the outdoor stage

September 30, 2021 • THE VILLAGER | PAGE 11

Harvard Women’s Studies in Religion Program meets in-person CU Assistant Professor Samira K. Mehta is featured speaker

LEFT: Arlene Hirschfeld, featured speaker Dr. Samira K. Mehta,Nicole Seawell, Elana Light and Kathy Borgen

he Colorado Steering Committee of Harvard Women’s Studies in Religion Program (Harvard WSRP) held its annual Fall Coffee in-person at Denver Country Club. Featured speaker was Dr. Samira K. Mehta, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and of Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, and also holds degrees from Swarthmore College and Emory niversity. Dr. ehta’s first book, Beyond Chrismukkah:The Christian-Jewish Blended Family in America (University of North Carolina Press 2018) was a National Jewish book award finalist. She shared her latest work, “Debating the Diaphragm: Protestants, Catholics, Jews and a Changing Culture of Contraception.”

BELOW: Harvard WSRP Colorado Steering Committee members Vicki Myhren, Jennifer Gilbert-Kaufmann, Pat Cooper, Barbara Bridges, and Elaine Asarch surround Director of Leadership Giving at Harvard Divinity School Steve Ragno

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DA John Kellner keynote for Cherry Creek Republican Women

Cherry Creek Republican Women (CCRW) welcomed back members and guests after a summer break at Doubletree by Hilton, Denver Tech Center in Greenwood Village. Featured speaker was DA John Kellner (18th Judicial District that includes Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties with more than 11 million people). Kellner was celebrating a birthday that day. CCRW VP Mary Wenke who introduced him, was also celebrating her birthday.

He began his presentation by saying: ”Without you, I wouldn’t have the privilege of being DA and here today. He grew up in a military family and joined the Marine Corps in earnest after 9/11. His deployments included one to Afghanistan, as a Judge Advocate and prosecutor for five years abiding by the law of war. He also recalled his own military family had lived in Chile and saw the overthrow.

They were also one of the first families to return to see socialists run dictatorship. “There is no place like America when it comes to the rule of law,” he said. “Being a DA is about justice.” He resigned from active duty in 2011 and accepted a commission in the Marine Corps Reserves where he still serves. He works with NORAD-USNORTHCOM in Colorado Springs providing support for disaster relief operations. He was a prosecutor in the Boulder County DA’s office before coming to the 18th Judicial District in 2012 to head up the Cold Case Unit. In 2016, he was recognized by the Colorado District Attorneys’ Council as “Prosecutor of the Year.

He talked about putting fascinating resources in place for the Cold Case Unit, crime trends and the dire state of what is going on in legislation. “I am proud to be the voice of victims and safety,” he concluded.

Former Judicial District 18 DA George Brauchler (now with advancecolororado.org), CCRW VP Mary Wenke and Judicial District 18 DA John Kellner (Wenke and Kellner shared birthdays on the meeting day) Photos by Scottie Iverson

“Early support from Cherry Creek Republican Women put me on the glide path of success for this office.” – District Attorney John Kellner Leader of Arapahoe County Republicans Suzanne Staiert, Hon. Nancy Spence (former Colorado Senator and former CCRW president) with Greenwood Village Council member Donna Johnston, District 3

Cherry Creek School District Board President Karen Fisher and VP Kelly Bates

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Three games down, 14 more to go.

Can the unbeaten Broncos keep winning? Will they make the playoffs? How far above .500 will they finish These are among the questions on the minds of hopeful but anxious Orangeand-Blue diehards following Sunday’s dominating 26-0 victory over the Jets—the team’s 20th shutout in its long history (14th at home).

The inconclusive answer is that it gets harder from here.

The three teams Denver defeated in September played to a combined record of 0-9 the first three weeks of this season. But the five October opponents won nine games and lost six, and played in some tough matchups.

The hated Raiders matched Denver’s 3-0 start, winning overtime games against the Ravens and Dolphins, both at home, and beating the Steelers in Pittsburgh. After losing to the Raiders, Baltimore beat the Chiefs in Kansas City.

The Browns’ loss was by four points to the Chiefs, also in KC. (The Steelers and the Washington Football Team—Why not call them just the ‘Skins?—both went 1-2.)

Looking at the October gauntlet, 2-3 would be pretty good, considering that the two road games are in Pittsburgh and Cleveland, with the trip to western Pennsylvania wrapped by home games against Baltimore and the Raiders.

There are reasons for

hope and optimism.

The Broncos defense hasn’t yet allowed more than 13 points in any 2021 game—six, three and 12 in the preseason, and 13, 13 and ip the first three games that count. This suggests the Broncos might be able to hold their own in the stiffer tests that await.

On the other side of the ball, Teddy Bridgewater has awlessly directed an offense that has dominated time of possession: 35:08 to 24:52 in Game One, 38:52 to 21:08 in Game Two, and 35:55 to 24:15 in Game Three. This makes a defensive unit’s job a little easier.

Teddy himself has been spectacular, with quarterback ratings of 115.7, 125.6 and 104.6. Against the Giants, Jaguars and Jets, he completed 73 of 95 (76.8%) for 827 yards and four touchdowns—WITH NO INTERCEPTIONS. He is the fourth quarterback in the history of the National Football League with two touchdown passes, no interceptions and 75% completions in each of the first two games of a season.

What we’re seeing so far is how stability and consistency at quarterback breeds confidence throughout a team. The defense believes that its efforts will not be wasted. The offense has no doubts that it will sustain its drives.

All is not perfect, though.

Jerry Jeudy, one of the passing game’s biggest threats, will miss October, and maybe November, with

a high ankle sprain, and one of those counted on to pick up some of Jeudy’s slack, KJ Hamler, went out Sunday with a knee injury and is lost for the season with a torn ACL. As good as Bridgewater has been, he needs targets. Kendall Hinton and Diontae Spencer are not Jeudy and Hamler.

On defense, Bradley Chubb, who underwent arthroscopic ankle surgery last week, won’t join Von Miller in harassing the other guys under center for about as long as Jeudy is sidelined.

Defensive back Ronald Darby, an off-season free agent addition, has been sidelined but will return, but Josey Jewell is done for the season with a shoulder injury that was obvious as soon as he made contact with punt returner Jamal Agnew midway through the second quarter of the Jacksonville game. (That’s the risk when a starting linebacker also plays on kick coverage.)

If the Broncos can make it to November with at least a 5-3 record, they should be no worse than 6-5 by the first Sunday in December.

And 7-4 seems plausible, depending on the injury situation, with only one road game (Dallas), followed by home games against Philadelphia and the Chargers wrapped around their bye week.

The expanded regular season, which extends to January 9, concludes with a home game against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, bookend to the stretch run’s start on December 5 when the Broncos play at Kansas City. IF, by the second Sunday in 2022, they’re 9-7, as seems possible, Game 17 will decide whether or not Denver makes the playoffs.

That Chiefs game in Kansas City is followed by winnable games at home against the Lions and Bengals, who have started 0-3 and a surprising 2-1, respectively. In this case, wild horses must prevail over lions and tigers because Games 15 and 16 are AT the Raiders and AT the Chargers. (A victory in either of these would be cause for real celebration.)

Add it all up, and you get 10-7 or 9-8. The former very likely makes the playoffs; the latter probably doesn’t.

Denny Dressman is a veteran of 43 years in the newspaper business, including 25 at the Rocky Mountain News, where he began as executive sports editor. He is the author of 13 books, seven of them sports-related. You can write to Denny at info@ comservbooks.com.

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Littleton is asking voters to approve a $9.8 million sales tax increase

BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENTAL REPORTER

The City of Littleton has been struggling and failing to meet its infrastructure needs with its available revenue. After considering other alternatives, including closing facilities and raising other taxes, the city council concluded it could not raise the amount of money needed to solve its problems with anything other than a sales tax increase.

The long list of deferred maintenance and current needs in Littleton consists of: • Major street maintenance and reconstruction in neighborhoods and significant corridors; • Mineral and Santa Fe intersection improvements; • Downtown streetscape and parking improvements; • Public Works facility replacement; and • maintenance and improvements to cityowned facilities at the Littleton Museum, Bemis Library, Municipal Courthouse and others; and • Public Safety facility improvements; • Enhanced environmental stewardship improvements such as sustainable landscape irrigation and conservation improvements.

After long debate about the amount of money necessary to address the city’s infrastructure needs in a responsible and sustainable way, the city council finally agreed unanimously on August 26 that the rate increase needed to be 0.75 percent, which would bring the total city sales tax to 3.75%. The 0.75 percent increase is projected to raise $9,773,087 annually.

Combined with all other applicable sales taxes, the total tax rate in Littleton will be 8.00% if the voters approve Ballot Issue 3A on November 2.

Some business owners in the city have expressed concerns that the 8 percent sales tax rate could cause shoppers to take their business elsewhere. fmiklin.villager@gmail.com

Mary “Molly” Murphy Rosenkrans December 1935-August 2021 Mary “Molly” Murphy Rosenkrans passed away peacefully August 12, 2021 at Swedish Medical Center in Denver, Colorado. She fought her hardest to overcome the consequences of a stroke and subsequent seizures.

Molly was born December 2, 1935 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania to John and Mary (Quigley) Murphy. She spent her childhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attended boarding school at St. Margaret’s High School in Tappahannok, Virginia graduating in 1954. She attended the University of Pittsburgh where she received a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education in 1958. While she was at the University of Pittsburgh, she met the love of her life, Don Rosenkrans, who was attending neighboring Carnegie Mellon University. They married on August 16, 1958 and together

raised two children. After multiple moves around the country, they settled in Colorado in 1973 and built their home in the Sundance Hills neighborhood in Greenwood Village where she lived for the past 48 years. Molly was a dedicated homemaker and gardener, spending many hours creating a warm and beautiful home. She was most proud of her long and happy marriage and the joy she found in being a wife, mother and grandmother. She lived by her motto “Family First”. Molly was also devoted to her “family of friends”, enjoying every moment she spent with them. She was deeply loved and admired by her family and her many friends and will be greatly missed.

Molly began her teaching career as a 4th grade teacher in Rochester, New York. After having children, she returned to teaching and ultimately became a Reading Coordinator. After moving to Colorado, Molly substituted for the Cherry Creek School District for

many years, specializing in long term teaching contracts. Molly was a life-long learner and an avid reader. She would stay up late at night, curled up with a good book. She especially enjoyed reading with children and committed many hours a week for several years to teaching reading to children and adults through the local library outreach program.

Molly was a dedicated volunteer in Greenwood Village serving nine years on the Greenwood Village Board of Adjustments and Appeals. She was as an active member of the Centennial Airport Citizen Advisory Committee, the Centennial Airport Legislative Task Force, and served as Vice President of UCAN. She spent countless hours and several years advocating for the Sundance Hills perimeter sound wall; advocating, designing and seeing through the completion of the sound wall that still stands today. Molly was

passionate about politics and was involved with local and national political issues and served as an election judge until the decline of her health.

Molly is survived by her husband of over 60 years, Donald DeForest Rosenkrans. She is also survived by her children, Donald (Kathy) Rosenkrans, Jr. of Castle Pines, Colorado and Nancy (James) Sutton II of Sun Valley, Idaho and five grandchildren, Thomas (Kaylar) Rosenkrans, Sean Sutton, James (Hailey) Sutton III, Sarah (Austin) Bowles and Samantha Sutton.

Visitation will be Thursday, October 7, from 4:30-6 p.m. at Horan & McConaty 5303 E. County Line Rd., Centennial. A Committal Service is Friday, October 8 at 11:15 a.m. at Fort Logan.

Donations can be made in memory of Molly Rosenkrans to the American Stroke Association (www.americanstroke. org) or to the Arapahoe Library Friends Foundation 12855 E. Adams Aircraft Circle Englewood, Colorado 80112.

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After 33 years as the city’s recreation manager, a title that belies the enormous difference she made in the lives of its residents, Cathy Delap (formerly Cathy Pate) retired from the City of Greenwood Village on September 9.

When Delap started with GV on April 5, 1989 as recreation coordinator, she told The Villager, “the only programs they had were maybe two nights of basketball in the gym at West Middle School in the winter, Arbor Day, and, I was told there was a celebration on the 4th of July at Carson Park, but I never could find any evidence of it.” She was hired “to create youth programming,” having come from a YMCA where she oversaw and taught youth sports including aquatics, tennis, and basketball for six years.

We asked Delap what she felt was her most important accomplishment over a 33-year career with the city. Without the slightest hesitation, she said, “When I started, I was told GV didn’t have a sense of community...My goal was to build that sense of community for GV families like the one that I grew up with in Northbrook, Illinois.” After the first reenwood Village Day, which Delap had in 1989 three months after she arrived, she added half a dozen more seasonal events. “I started with the Fishing Derby, then we added Fall Fest with hayrides and pumpkins at Cherry Creek State Park.

In 1994, at the urging of Mayor David Hull, we brought in the Holiday Lighting. Next came egg hunts in the spring and Art in the Park camps in the summer. Along the way, the Youth Triathlon got thrown into the mix.”

It was the generosity of GV city councils and mayors over the years that allowed Delap to create and expand the most well-known and loved of all city parties,

Only the chosen few get a GV street sign with their name on it when they retire. Department Director Suzanne Moore presented this one to Cathy Delap.

Photos by Freda Miklin

Greenwood Village Day, although it was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic and again in 2021 due to uncertainty. It is not known at this writing whether the current city council, several members of which have questioned its value, will bring back Greenwood Village Day in 2022.

During the pandemic, Delap created a half-dozen brand new family friendly socially-distanced fun events like the Spring Illumination, a Storybook Walk Through a Pretend Village, and the Golden Egg Hunt. She even hid a leprechaun for St. Patrick’s Day in the Sundance Hills tot lot and a cupid

Arapahoe County Commissioner and former GV Mayor Nancy Sharpe (on right) came to thank Cathy Delap for her 33 years of service to the people of Greenwood Village.

for Valentine’s Day at Silo Park and put out clues for kids to try to find them. Delap has a special place in her heart for GV’s seniors, who she will continue to lead in activities every Monday even though she has retired.

Delap recalls all the six or seven mayors she served under as saying, “Let’s provide a sense of community with memorable experiences for all the residents. Have fun. Make memories.”

Why did she decide it was time to move on? She told us, “There’s only so many days in your life. My health is extremely important to me. I want to enjoy my grandkids.

I want to travel.” Delap is also a newlywed, having married her husband Chip just five years ago.

They are both avid golfers and spend much of their time, when they aren’t playing with grandchildren, playing golf locally and around the country.

What advice would she give her replacement? “Build relationships, internally and externally.

Get to know the school district folks, local gym teachers, everyone on the maintenance crew and don’t forget the irrigation people.

You need to know who to call if the sprinklers come on in the middle of an event!” fmiklin.villager@gmail.com

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We sat down with Randy to learn more about the new Randy Ross Tennis Center (RRTC) and how he is creating a unique tennis experience here in South Denver.

You’ve been coaching tennis in Denver for 45 years - what is your favorite thing about the Denver tennis community?

This is my 45th year being a tennis pro/coach in the Denver area starting at Ken-Caryl Ranch in 1976. I have also been the head tennis coach for the Kent Denver Men’s Tennis Team for 25 years. The Denver tennis community has always been vibrant and passionate about their tennis. Despite it being a relatively small market, Denver is the second largest adult league district in the country. And there have been some very high level junior players developed here.

What is your favorite part about teaching tennis?

Ever since I started playing at age 12, I have known that tennis is the greatest game ever invented. However, it didn’t take too many years for me to realize that if I was going to stay in the game it was going to be as a coach - not a player. So being able to spend time with people of all ages and abilities and help them find the same passion and challenge is what really fuels me.

What sets the Randy Ross tennis Center apart from the other tennis clubs in the area?

First of all the facility is only 8 months old and clean, bright and spacious. The courts are full-sized with the best lighting and a 49 ft ceiling height. The viewing deck is one-of-a-kind and is 2900 sq ft and open on both sides to have the ability to look down on the courts from 16 ft in the air. There is a fitness room, locker rooms, 2 ping pong tables and a pool table all inside the clubhouse. No other facility in town has all that. Plus air conditioning! We also offer a unique membership structure and focus on providing the best tennis experience to our players every day.

What is your coaching philosophy?

My coaching philosophy is that tennis is a game and games are supposed to be fun. Someone said, “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary, but fun comes before both of those.” As a team, we believe in the tool box philosophy — that tennis is such a great game because of all the different shots we get to hit. Introducing those shots to players along the way is what keeps it interesting and what keeps learning exciting.

How do you decide which coaches to add to the RRTC Team?

When hiring a tennis coach I look not only for someone who has passion for the game, but specifically passion about teaching the game. Ideally, this person has spent time playing the game, but have also spent time learning the nuances of teaching the game and furthered their education in tennis coaching. These people are not easy to find. The current coaching team at the RRTC meets this criteria.

What levels and age ranges of players can take lessons at the RRTC? The RRTC has lesson programs for players from 4 yrs old to any age - for all ability levels. Coach Kenny Orive is our Junior Development Coordinator and he does a great job with Red-Orange-Green-Yellow groups. I am in charge of our Junior Excellence programs. Coach CJ Colburn focuses on High School level programs.

Coach Gay West is League coordinator and adult drills. We have a very wellrounded team to meet each player right where they are.

Why is the RRTC a membership based club? Can someone try it out before joining?

Being a membership based club builds a strong community of players where they get to know each other and share their passion for tennis. We do allow prospective members to experience the club before making the commitment to join. They can rent a court, take a lesson, or do a drill to get a feel for the club before signing up.

I also developed a unique membership structure that allows members to customize the perfect fit for them. We have membership options as low as $25 per month which is unheard of in the Denver area.

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How to manage an inherited IRA from a parent

Dear Savvy Senior, W hat are the rules regarding inherited I R A s? W hen my mom died this year, I inherited her traditional I R A and would like to know what I need to do to execute it properly.

C onfused Daughter

SAVVYSENIOR

sibling or friend you cannot roll the account into your own IRA or treat the IRA as your own. Instead, you’ll have to transfer your portion of the assets into a new IRA set up and

BY JIM MILLER formally named as an inherited IRA – for example, (name of deceased owner) Dear Confused, or t e enefit o your name .

I’m very sorry about the loss If your mom’s IRA account of you mother. Inheriting an IRA as multiple enefi iaries it an from a parent has a unique set of be split into separate accounts for rules you need to know, which ea enefi iary. plitting an a will help you make the most of ount allo s ea enefi iary to the money you inherit and avoid treat their own inherited portion a tax-time surprise. Here are as i t ey ere t e sole enefisome basics you should know. ciary.

You can set up an inherited Set-Up Inherited Account IRA with most any bank or broMany people think they can erage firm. o e er t e easiest roll an inherited IRA into their option may be to open your own IRA. B ut if you inherit an in erited it t e firm t at IRA from a parent, aunt, uncle, held your mom’s account.

10-Year Withdrawal Rule ue to t e e ure t i was signed into law in December 2019 , most (but not all) IRA enefi iaries must deplete an inherited IRA within 10 years of the account owner’s death. This applies to inherited IRAs if the owner died after Dec. 31, 2019 .

There’s no limit on when or how often you withdraw money from the account, as long as the account is empty by the end of the 10 years. That is, you can choose to withdraw all of the money at once, you can leave it sitting there for a decade and then take it all out, or you can withdraw distributions over time. B ut be aware that with a traditional IRA, each withdrawal will be counted as income and subject to taxes in the year you make the withdrawal.

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Exceptions to the Rule There are several exceptions to the IRA 10-year rule, including for a surviving spouse, minor child, disabled or chronically ill enefi iary or a enefi iary who is within 10 years of age of the original IRA owner. These enefi iaries may e a le to receive more time to draw down the account and pay the resulting tax bill.

For example, when you inherit an IRA from a spouse, you can transfer the IRA balance into your own account and delay distributions until after you turn age 72.

Minor children must start required minimum distributions from an inherited IRA but don’t become subject to the 10-year rule until they reach the “age of majority,” which is 18 in most states. Disabled and chronically ill enefi iaries and t ose it in

10 years of age of the original account owner have the option to stretch required withdrawals over their lifetime.

Minimize Your Taxes As tempting as it might be to cash out an inherited IRA in a lump-sum withdrawal, tread carefully. This option could leave you owing a hefty sum when it s time to file your taxes. it drawals from a traditional IRA generally are taxable as income, at your income tax rate.

For some people, it can be a smart tax move to gradually draw down the account over the 10year period to avoid a large tax bill in a single year and potentially being bumped into a high tax bracket. Or, if you’re approaching retirement say in fi e years you may want to wait to start withdrawing from the account until you are retired, and your income drops potentially putting you into a lower tax bracket.

Close any probate estate with appropriate pleadings.

What to do when a loved one What are the four dies. (Part 2 of 2) key medical/estate In my last article, I covered plan documents you some of the immediate steps to need now? be taken upon death and shortly Many of my clients afterward. This week’s article have asked what are pertains to important additional the critical documents steps to administer the estate. It is needed, particularly in helpful to set an early meeting with view of the COVID-19 pandemic. a probate attorney, to go over the Simply being married does not give legal requirements regarding estate you the legal right to gain access administration with and without to your spouse’s medical records a Living Trust, as well as the law or make medical decisions on your which applies when there is a Will spouse’s behalf, even in an emerand where no Will exists. gency. To avoid this problem and The following steps apply when to help others care for you and to a Will nominates a Personal Repreachieve your overall estate planning sentative, or a Trust names a Trustee DETERMINE AND SETTLE goals, the following documents crewho is responsible for handling the TAXES ate an effective medical/estate plan estate after death of the one creating There are numerous options package: the Trust. An initial determinawhich may be used to reduce both 1.

Healthcare Power of Attion to be made is whether there income and estate taxes. These torney; is a need to open a probate estate must be considered by the successor 2.

General Financial Power through the Court, which depends Trustee, attorney and accountant; of Attorney; on a number of factors, including File income tax returns for part 3.

Advanced Directive for the titling and value of assets, of the year prior to the decedent’s Medical/Surgical Treatment (“Livwhether or not a trust exists and if death; ing Will”); and so, whether or not assets, including File returns of estate of trust for 4.

Will (or a Will with a real property, have properly been the period after death; Trust). transferred to the trust prior to the Review returns open to audit and Careful medical/estate planning owner’s death. consider the possibility of a refund should include preparation and claim; signing of these documents, to COLLECT AND INVENTORY repare and file estate tax reaccomplish your goals and protect ASSETS AND LIABILITIES turns, if required; you, both during your lifetime, and Collect all cash held by, or in the Take steps to obtain tax releases at the time of passing. The Power name of the decedent; on all real and personal property of Attorney documents allow you Collect life insurance informawherever located. to designate those agents whom tion payable to the estate; you authorize to help you on your Arrange for supervision and DISTRIBUTE ESTATE/FINAL behalf during your lifetime, and the management of business interests; ACCOUNTING Will/Trust documents allow you to Obtain custody of securities and Distribute assets per the terms of nominate others to help with your any checks or information regarding the Will or applicable Living Trust; estate after your passing, as well as interest and dividends; Prepare a Final Accounting, to identify the beneficiaries and the Review leases, check taxes consisting of a detailed statement of distributions to them, to accomplish against and loans on real estate and receipts, disbursements and distriyour estate planning goals. other loans. Arrange for managebution of assets.

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Decide which assets will be sold if needed for immediate funds; If real estate is to be sold, determine the asking price and offer for sale; If all of the decedent’s assets have been properly titled or transferred to a living trust, no probate is necessary. However, an inventory will have to be taken of the assets in the trust and value determined. Accurate records must be kept.

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Cherry Hills Land Preserve invests in our community COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTER

hotos cannot deHills Village. scribe the lovely On August 31st, the Cherry setting for the Hills Village City Council Cherry Hills Land agreed to retain ownership of Preserve’s Village Quincy Farm as it explores Lawn Party on options for its fuSept 11th, hosted ture. The CHLP at the beautiful Board thanked City home of Bill and Council members Liz Armstrong. for their leaderAttendees arrived ship and shared at a hidden garden its belief that this and were greeted decision will allow by live music, Epthe City to explore och Estate wines, partnership options and delectable hors to manage and d’oeuvres for the operate the farm With Allison Crouder evening to celewhile ensuring it brate community and local remains a gift to the commuopen space. The CHLP board nity. In its 16th year as a local welcomed and more impornonprofit, CHL is committed tantly educated guests about to mobilizing private support its mission of raising awareto Quincy Farm to preserve its ness on the importance of historic nature and open it to open space and inspiring land the public for education and conservation through educarecreation. tion to benefit CH residents.

CHLP is strategizing ways Board members also shared to raise money for the Farm that a current focus of CHLP using their nonprofit 501c3 is finding ways to operate and status and Friends of Quincy enhance the historic property Farm Fund. CHLP has raised known as Quincy Farm for 40 of the funds needed community recreation and ed- to keep the farm going for ucation which represents 26% the next three years and is of the open space in Cherry seeking financial support and

Residents Chris and Lindsay Hand enjoying a quiet moment at the party

Klasina Vanderwerf, writer of “High on Country”, a history of Cherry Hills Village, with her husband Tom Thomas

Board of CHLP (L to R) Goca Weis, Laura Paul, Kevin Schwall, Kathy Fessler, Judith Judd, Janney Carpenter, Dino Maniatis, Richard Swomley, not present Phillip Seawalt.

in-kind donations to provide education, conservation, and youth programs. It was noted that Quincy Farm will require a mix of city funding, private donations, and grants to keep it up, but CHLP feels very fortunate that this historic farm will remain public open space and enhance the natural

Board Pres Janney Carpenter speaking on behalf of CHLP

and rural character of Cherry Hills Village.

Recently CHLP members and volunteers have invested time and energy to bring the historic farm to life through community beekeeping, bird and wildlife programs, stargazing, and more. It is envisioned that the west side

would remain a quiet and tranquil nature preserve and wildlife habitat, while the east side would be used for a small farm, education and community recreation. To learn more, volunteer and get involved with Cherry Hills Land Preserve contact www.cherry hillslandpreserve.org.

Guests at the party (above and below)

Photos by Allison Crouder

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GV Public Safety Event

FAR LEFT: Maiyra, 10, a 5th grader at High Plains Elementary, Riyansh, 5, who attends Skyview Elementary, and Riavan, 6, a Heritage Elementary student talked to GV Officer and SRO Reilly Altenborg LEFT: 18th Judicial District Attorney John Kellner came out to see the displays and catch up with his partner in fighting crime, GV Police Chief Dustin Varney.

BELOW: Officer Max Addante, an SRO at the Cherry Creek High School campus, told us that GV got this robot, that can see around corners and has infrared capability, from the U.S. government. It was military surplus from Afghanistan.

Photos by Freda Miklin

GV Officer Wes Cordova showed D’Angelo, 5 ½, who attends Greenwood Elementary, how handcuffs work. D’Angelo was there with his grandma Melissa Gallegos, GV’s Public Information Officer.

Noah Schmidt, 8 and Caleb Schmidt, 6, students at Cherry Creek Academy had fun with GV’s Public Safety Bros Rodney and Mike

GV K-9 Officer Juan Villalva and his dog Miner (aka Chewie because some people think he looks like Chewbacca the Wookie from Star Wars) entertained the Whitesman brothers, Astor, 3, and Barron, 2.

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Highlights from the GV 2022 proposed budget

BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENTAL REPORTER

On September 21, at the annual review of its proposed budget for the coming year, the Greenwood Village City Council heard from City Manager John Jackson that, as of August 31, GV is ahead of its projected 2021 revenues and its operating expenses are less than what it anticipated. As a result, he expects the city, which begins each year with a balanced budget, to end 2021 with a $6.7 million surplus.

On December 31, 2022, GV expects to have a total fund balance (the amount of money remaining in the bank after all expenses have been paid) of $50.7 million. That includes almost $2 million in 2021 revenue and the same amount in 2022 revenue that GV was allocated from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) for cities to use as they see fit.

Options include helping needy citizens and/or businesses and making up for city revenue budget shortfalls (see article on page X).

The proposed 2022 budget points to GV’s dependency on sales and use tax, which comprises over 60 percent of its revenues, “making the organization especially… susceptible to patterns in consumer and commercial spending.” Finance Director Shawn Cordsen told the city council that although there has been less spending in restaurants, city revenues are benefitting from “more spending on technology that allows people to work remotely.”

He also noted a large increase in sales tax collections “from remote sales.” He never said the word Amazon, but he didn’t have to.

Anyone who orders from Amazon is well aware they have been collecting local sales tax for years.

The increase in remote sales since the pandemic has no doubt been a boon to the coffers of this city and many others.

Cordsen talked about the impact of the building material use tax, which is a small part of GV’s budget but directly re ects the level of development in the city.

He noted that expected revenue from the building material use tax in 2022 is below that of 2021 due to less anticipated development.

Less development leads to lower future taxes. Similarly, the city’s occupational privilege tax (head tax), while comprising only four percent of total revenues, carries with it implications for sales tax collections. Before the pandemic, Greenwood Village’s permanent population of 15,000 quadrupled to 60,000 every weekday due to employees at places like Charter Communications, Fascore LLC (Empower), CoBank and Fidelity Funds coming to work in GV from Denver and other locations in the metro area, then going home. While they were here, they ate, shopped, and played. With so many employees working from home now, Cordsen said that it is as if, “Some employers are essentially moving out of the city.”

As City Councilmember Jerry Presley pointed out, “People who

don’t come to Greenwood Village to work in offices don’t go out to lunch and they don’t shop at Target or Home Depot.”

One revenue category that has drawn attention in recent years is the money generated by automated red-light tickets in the city.

A few years ago, the city council said that this activity would not be a profit-maker but it has become one. To address that, the council committed to set aside those profits in a separate fund to use for traffic safety improvements.

By the end of 2022, that fund is projected to have a balance of $2.35 million, meaning it is generating revenue faster than the council can identify traffic safety measures on which to spend it. At the budget meeting, City Councilmember Tom Dougherty asked Dustin Varney, GV’s police chief, if the city was correlating the data to determine if the red-light camera tickets were having the desired effect, meaning, were they causing offenders to change their behavior? Varney said there was some evidence of that at the corner of Orchard Road and Quebec Street but not enough to warrant removing the cameras. The police chief pointed to a decrease in the severity of accidents overall where red-light cameras are used.

On the expense side of the ledger, Suzanne Moore, Parks, Trails and Recreation coordinator announced that Greenwood Village Day would finally return in 2022, after a two-year hiatus, but it would be scaled down to 50 percent of its cost. Moore explained that the savings would come from starting the event at 4:00 pm in-

The proposed 2022 GV budget contains 200 pages.

stead of 2:00 pm, eliminating art instructors, having fewer art tents and only one band playing music.

With an anticipated $6.7 million surplus in 2022, it was unclear why the budget for this highly popular event needed to be cut by $78,000. No council member asked Moore that question so she did not address it.

When the council looked at the list of 18 new vehicles planned to be purchased in 2022 at a cost exceeding $1 million, Councilmembers Dougherty and Anne Ingebretsen inquired whether the city was looking at electric vehicles and/or hybrids. Public Works Director Jeremy Hanak said, “We’re integrating them,” to which Ingebretsen responded, “Are we looking at hybrids and electric vehicles or are we buying them?” Hanak said, “We have two patrol vehicles and we are buying a pick-up

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with officers as a co-responder in 2022 on mental health calls, noting the current co-responder is enormously helpful to citizens and in saving police officers’ time.

The person who has been working with D for five years has only been available for day shifts. Varney noted that police officers receive many calls during evenings and nights that would be better handled with a co-responder. The council took steps to make it possible to fulfill that request immediately using available funds in the 2021 budget in addition to adding the position to the 2022 budget.

Ingebretsen noted that the number of crimes against property had jumped from 1,086 in 2020 to 2,100 in 2021 but were projected to decrease to 1,593 in 2022.

When she asked the chief why he expected that reduction in 2022, Varney said, “We are using new tactics that are working to apprehend criminals.” One tool that was discussed was a license plate reader being used to spot vehicles of wanted criminals in an area of GV where property crime is very high. arney shared that in the first seven months of 2021, using that tool, GVPD had gotten 1,760 hits on license plates for which there were felony arrest warrants outstanding for the vehicle owner.

The city council is scheduled to adopt the proposed budget at its regular meeting on October 4. It is listed in the agenda as a public hearing, thus residents or any member of the public can attend and be heard on any aspect of it if they wish to do so. fmiklin.villager@gmail.com

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BOOK REVIEW

BOOK REVIEW

Small Great Things

This book was published in 2016 by Jodi Picoult. This pick was for a book club in which I participate. We had a lively discussion when we meet, and all in attendance gave the book a 4 or 5 rating out of 5.

The book has three voices.

The first is an African American labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital. The second voice is from a white supremacist father, and the third is from a white, female public defender, who takes on the case of the infant’s death.

I listened to this book on Audible, and it was difficult to hear the hatred from the supremacist character. When that person read his part, I was nauseated and contemplated quitting. I realize that the author was intentional in wanting me to feel awful, so I pushed through it. I wanted to see how it would end. I recommend finishing the book as it helps heal the trauma of reading

truck next year.”

On a hunch, The Villager asked Hanak if that was perhaps the new much anticipated electric Ford F-150 pick-up truck. He said it was. On the idea of the city buying electric or hybrid vehicles, Councilmember Dave Bullock advised Hanak, “I think it’s prudent to move slowly.”

On the topic of tax rebates at the Arapahoe Entertainment District, it was reported that GV expected to give $350,000 of its sales tax collections in 2022 to two businesses to repay them for the cost of improving their private properties. Those businesses are Pindustry and the new food hall just opened on Greenwood Plaza Boulevard, The Grange. If both businesses’ sales over the next four years continue at the same level, the city will end up paying them $1,050,000 from its sales tax collections at those businesses.

During that discussion, Cordsen shared that the sales tax rebates at the Landmark development, which have been used to pay for bonds sold for public improvements, including the underground public parking lot, will end in 2027.

The police chief asked the city council to provide a second mental health professional to work

The Lost Apothecary

To learn more about Lisa and her books, visit her website, www.LisaJShultz.com.

To read more book reviews, follow her on Goodreads, www.goodreads.com/ LisaJShultz. Lisa loves speaking to groups, and she would be happy attend your book club.

Call her at 303-881-9338. the first part. The book is bravely written by a white woman to tackle racism issues. The story was effective in bringing to the surface systemic racism. If you are open to looking at this tough topic, I recommend it.

This book is a new release in March 2021 from a debut author, Sarah Penner. The setting is London and oscillates between two time periods and three stories. In 1791, a female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to women desperate to liberate themselves from men who have wronged them.

In the present-day story, an aspiring historian finds herself spending her tenth anniversary alone in London after finding out about her husband’s affair.

While mudlarking along the Thames iver, she finds an old apothecary vial and begins to investigate its origins. Soon she uncovers bits of the unsolved mystery of apothecary murders and begins to piece together events with research at the library and a bit of detective work.

The stories, past and present, interlace well and kept me engaged and interested from start

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Call her at 303-881-9338. to finish. The writing had ow and suspense. The book would appeal to women readers and book clubs. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will be watching this author to see what she writes next.

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Probiotics Do Not Correct The Cause For Why You Take Them (Dysbiosis)!

Through the work of Elie Metchnikoff, Father of Cellular Immunology (1845-1916), Probiotics have been around for at least 100 years. However, its popularity is more recent.

PROBIOTICS are live microorganisms of friendly bacteria (or Flora) taken in supplement form to combat DYSBIOSIS. To understand Dysbiosis, you must first understand Eubiosis.

EUBIOSIS is the state of sufficient intestinal Flora, i.e., friendly intestinal bacteria produced in the small and large intestines for many health benefits, such as angiogenesis (development of new blood vessels). Some food preparations, such as fried vs. steamed, and certain fast foods can inhibit the growth of friendly Flora.

Flora also has an important role in the management of intestinal debris, especially in the large intestines. This debris consists of metabolic waste, food particles, parasites (germs and worms), toxins and any substance the body moves through the large intestines to exit the body. Substances that if remaining in the body could cause infection, organ deterioration, in ammation pain , etc.

Friendly bacterium (Flora) also helps prevent the viruses, yeast, harmful bacteria, and other toxins from damaging the intestines on their way out.

LEAKY GUT SYNDROME: Flora also maintains the mucosal barrier integrity. Like soldiers’ shoulder-to-shoulder form a barrier of defense, Flora lines the intestinal wall to prevent the above debris from breaking through it and infecting the whole body. The term, for when this breakthrough occurs, is “Leaky Gut Syndrome.”

DYSBIOSIS, then, is the lack of Eubiosis. Drugs, such as antibiotics, tetracyclines, steroids, and cortisones (prescribed or over-the-counter), to name a few, damage the small and large intestines’ ability to produce their own friendly bacteria (Flora). In this state, parasites are not neutralized and then removed, but multiply within the intestines causing more damage, as well as permeate the intestinal wall (Leaky Gut), developing infestations throughout the body.

Dysbiosis is a core cause in the development of Immune Diseases and Disorders, such as Cancer, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Celiac Disease, and all other Auto-Immune Diseases, as well as Candida (Yeast/Fungal Overgrowth), Skin conditions, etc.

GV and CHV treat American Rescue Plan Act funds differently

BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENTAL REPORTER

On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), including $350 billion in direct aid to states, cities, tribal governments, and U.S. territories to facilitate the recovery from the devastating effects of the pandemic.

It was described by the U.S. Treasury as, “providing fast and direct economic assistance for American workers, families, small businesses, and industries.”

The guidelines for use of the funds were described in an interim final rule effective May 17, 2021 and outlined more broadly in a 42-page United States Treasury FAQ issued July 19, right after the period for commenting on the interim rule ended.

One of the permitted uses for the funds was, “for the provision of government services to the extent of the reduction in revenue due to the COVID–19 public health emergency relative to revenues collected in the most recent full fiscal year prior to the emergency.”

The July 19 FAQ contained more expanded information on how the funds received by cities could be used, including, “supports for vulnerable populations to access medical

or public health services; support for prevention, mitigation, or other services in congregate living facilities (e.g., nursing homes…homeless shelters, group living facilities) and other key settings like schools; job training to address negative economic or public health impacts experienced due to a worker’s occupation or level of training.” ARPA funds could also be used for loans or grants to small businesses and non-profits “to mitigate financial hardship such as declines in revenues or impacts of periods of business closure; aid to support safe reopening of businesses in the tourism, travel and hospitality industries; educational services like tutoring or afterschool programs, and supports for students’ social, emotional, and mental health needs.” The money could also be, “provided to small businesses, including loans, grants, in-kind assistance, technical assistance or other services, to respond to the negative economic impacts of the COVID19 public health emergency.”

Also, “These initiatives also may support small business startups and individuals seeking to start small businesses.”

On June 7, Deputy City Manager John Sheldon informed the GV City Council that GV would be receiving $3.95 million, half in 2021 and half in 2022. After Sheldon said, “Staff is

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PROBLEMS WITH PROBIOTIC SUPPLEMENTS – [1] People take Probiotics to combat the harmful effects of Dysbiosis. However, Probiotics do not correct the cause of Dysbiosis because Probiotics cannot heal the intestines so it can grow its own Flora.

[2] So, Probiotics provide limited and temporary help, but only when taken.

(And even that is dependent upon knowing which brands actually work; many sold directly to the public are ineffective.)

Yes, friendly bacteria (Flora) are essential to Health. However, who wants to commit to taking Probiotics daily, forever, to maintain their limited benefits, which are void the moment you stop taking them? Not me!

SOLUTION TO DYSBIOSIS – I’d rather correct the cause and I did! So, the real solution is to correct Dysbiosis by providing the specific nutrients the intestines need to heal themselves, so they can grow their own friendly bacteria (Flora), again. And, at the same time, save all that money and time taking Probiotic supplements. To be clear, these nutrients are not the same as those provided to improve intestinal function;

participating in many calls and webinars on the eligible uses of the funds,” Councilmember Tom Dougherty, pointing to previous testimony from Shawn Cordsen, finance director, asked, “Is it possible to simply put it into our budget to replace the shortfall that we incurred in 2020?”

Sheldon replied, “I would say yes.”

On September 13, without its agenda stating that a public hearing would be held about how the funds would be used, and no discussion by any of its members prior to voting, the GV City Council voted unanimously to simply add the $1.98 million it had received in June from ARPA to its 2021 budget. The proposed 2022 GV budget anticipates doing the same with the second allocation of $1.98 million that will be received by the city in June 2022. GV’s total fund balance (the amount left after all expenses are paid) is anticipated to be $49.5 million at December 31, 2021 and $50.7 million at December 31, 2022.

The city council of neighbor city Cherry Hills Village voted unanimously on July 20 to amend its 2021 budget by creating a new separate fund in its financial records, the American Rescue Plan Act Fund.

CHV Director of Finance and Administration Jessica Sager told the city council, “Between 2021 and 2022, the city will receive just over $1.6 million from the United States government in response to the COVID 19 pandemic. The ARPA funds can be used to mitigate COVID-19 efforts, replace lost revenue, provide premium pay for essential workers, and invest in water, sewer and broadband infrastructure. (This separate fund) will allow the city council time to explore the projects that will have the greatest impact to the Village. Creating the ARPA Fund provides greater transparency for how the funds are spent as they will be tracked separately from the general fund expenditures and will allow a more streamlined reporting to (the U.S.) Treasury.”

CHV’s total fund balance was $21 million as of December 31, 2020 and is expected to be $19.6 million at December 31, 2021. Numbers for 2022 are not yet available. fmiklin.villager@gmail.com

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ARAPAHOE COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 10, 2021, the Board of County Commissioners for Arapahoe County adopted Arapahoe County Resolution Number 21-263 which contains an open spaces sales and use tax reauthorization proposal and ballot measure. The entirety of the resolution, which includes the sales and use tax proposal and ballot measure, is set forth in the following: ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO RESOLUTION NO. 21-263

5.

The Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder shall publish the text of the ballot title and question four separate times, a week apart, in the official newspaper of Arapahoe county and each incorporated municipality within Arapahoe County.

6.

Subject to approval of the above-referenced ballot issue by a majority of the registered Arapahoe County electors voting at the November 2, 2021, election, the open space sales and use tax, as originally specified in Arapahoe County Resolution Number 030381, and as subsequently extended and amended as specified in Arapahoe County Resolution Number 10637, shall be further extended, amended and restated as specified below.

7.

General Provisions.

A RESOLUTION REAUTHORIZING ARAPAHOE COUNTY’S SALES AND USE TAX DEDICATED TO OPEN SPACES AND REFERRING A BALLOT MEASURE TO VOTERS TO CONTINUE THE PROGRAM RESOLUTION NO. 21-263 It was moved by Commissioner Sharpe and duly seconded by Commissioner Jackson to adopt the following Resolution:

(a)

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners, on June 17, 2003, adopted Resolution Number 030381, which authorized the submission of a ballot issue to the eligible electors of Arapahoe County, proposing the imposition of a one quarter of one percent (0.25%) sales and use tax for open space and trails purposes; and WHEREAS, on November 4, 2003, a majority of the eligible Arapahoe County electors approved the ballot issue authorizing the sales and use tax as specified in Resolution Number 030381; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners, adopted Resolution Number 110637 on August 30, 2011, which authorized the submission of a ballot issue to the eligible electors of Arapahoe County, to extend the existing one quarter of one percent (0.25%) sales and use tax for open space and trails purposes; and WHEREAS, on November 1, 2011, a majority of the eligible Arapahoe County electors approved the ballot issue extending the sales and use tax and making amendments as described in further detail in Resolution Number 110637; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution Number 110637, the sales and use tax is set to expire on December 31, 2023; and WHEREAS, since establishing the open spaces program, Arapahoe County has built or improved 70 miles of trails, supported 168 park, trailhead, and heritage-area projects, conserved 31,000 acres of open space, and invested nearly $360 million in open spaces, parks, trails and heritage areas, with nearly 71% of funding provided directly to the County’s cities and special districts for local needs; and WHEREAS, Arapahoe County recently updated its open spaces master plan, which serves as a blueprint for the program’s future, identifying opportunities for: conserving and enhancing natural lands, wildlife habitats and water resources, closing the gaps in the County’s outdoor recreation network, and setting County priorities for educational programming and the stewardship of existing resources; and WHEREAS, Arapahoe County sought and received substantial input from residents, businesses, municipalities, nonprofits, and special districts about the future of open spaces, parks, and trails within Arapahoe County as well as whether it is in the best interests of County residents to extend the sales and use tax past December 31, 2023; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners established a reauthorization committee to evaluate options regarding a potential sales tax extension, engaging the public and the Open Spaces Citizen Advisory Board to make recommendations to the Board for consideration; and WHEREAS, public feedback received demonstrated overwhelming support for extending the sales and use tax; and WHEREAS, based upon input received, the Board of County Commissioners has determined that it is in the best interests of the residents of the County that the county-wide sales and use tax at the rate of one quarter of one percent (0.25%) be extended, the receipts from which will continue to be used for open space and trails purposes in the manner set forth in this resolution, which incorporates the provisions of both Resolution Numbers 030381 and 110637, as well as modifications to such provisions that extend the tax beyond its current expiration date of December 31, 2023, until repealed, increase the amount of funds available to municipalities and the County for maintenance, reduce funds available for acquisition, allow the County to allocate funds to active open space and park uses, allow for the re-distribution of unspent funds to other open space, park and trail uses, and makes some other revisions and clarifications to the County’s open space tax program, as set forth in further detail below; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Colorado Constitution Article X, Section 20, an extension of an expiring tax requires voter approval; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section IX. A. of Resolution Number 030381, some of the proposed amendments are permitted only if approved by a vote of the registered electors of Arapahoe County; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners has determined that a ballot issue regarding the extension of the sales and use tax and modifications to the program, should be submitted by the Board of County Commissioners to the eligible electors of the County at the November 2, 2021, election; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 1-5-203(3) C.R.S., the Board of County Commissioners through the adoption of this resolution certifies the ballot issue to the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder for said November 2, 2021, election.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, as follows:

1.

The ballot issue title and issue contained in Exhibit A, attached and incorporated herein, shall be presented in substantially such form to the registered electors of Arapahoe County at the coordinated election to be held on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, in accordance with all applicable laws. The Board of County Commissioners hereby directs that a copy of this Resolution be certified and filed in the Office of the Clerk and Recorder immediately and authorizes and directs the Clerk and Recorder to certify the ballot issue and ballot content as provided by law.

2.

The name of the designated election official who will be responsible for conducting the election pursuant to the Uniform Election Code is Joan Lopez, Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder.

3.

Pursuant to C.R.S. § 1-11-203.5, any election contest arising out of a ballot issue or ballot question election concerning the order of the ballot or the form or content of the ballot title shall be commenced by petition filed with the proper court within five days after the title of the ballot issue or ballot question is set.

4.

The officials and employees of Arapahoe County are hereby authorized and directed to take all actions necessary or appropriate to effectuate the provisions of this resolution.

8.

Purpose. The purpose of this Resolution is, upon the approval of a majority of registered electors voting on such proposal, to extend continuously beyond its current expiration date of December 31, 2023, until repealed, an existing sales tax of one quarter of one percent (0.25%) upon the sale at retail of tangible personal property and the furnishing of certain services in the County, and to extend continuously beyond its current expiration date of December 31, 2023, until repealed, an existing use tax of one quarter of one percent (0.25%) for the privilege of use or consuming in the County any construction and building materials purchased at retail, and for the privilege of storing, using or consuming in the County any motor and other vehicles, purchased at retail on which registration is required, all in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of Title 29, C.R.S., which provisions are incorporated herein by this reference, and to modify the provisions of the sales and use tax program as set forth herein.

(b)

Statutory Definitions Incorporated. For purposes of this Resolution, the definitions of the words contained herein shall be as defined in Sections 3926-102 and 39-26-201, C.R.S., which definitions are incorporated herein by this reference.

(c)

Effective Date: The provisions of this Resolution shall become effective immediately upon approval by a majority of registered electors voting upon such proposal, and once effective, shall supersede Arapahoe County Resolution Numbers 030381 and 10637.

Sales Tax. The imposition and collection of a one-quarter of one percent (0.25%) sales tax on all sales of tangible personal property at retail or the furnishing of services in Arapahoe County, as provided in Section 29-2-105(1)(d), C.R.S., effective throughout the incorporated and unincorporated portions of Arapahoe County, such tax having been originally imposed by Arapahoe County Resolution Number 030381, shall hereby continue to and beyond its current expiration date of December 31, 2023, until repealed, subject to the following terms and conditions: (a)

iii.

Such sales tax will not be imposed upon the sale of tangible personal property at retail or the furnishing of services if the transaction was previously subjected to a sales or use tax lawfully imposed on the purchaser or user by another statutory or home rule county equal to or in excess of that sought to be imposed hereunder by Arapahoe County. A credit shall be granted against the sales tax imposed hereunder by Arapahoe County with respect to such transaction equal in amount to the lawfully imposed local sales or use tax previously paid by the purchaser or user to the previous statutory or home rule county. The amount of the credit shall not exceed the sales tax imposed hereunder by Arapahoe County.

Transactions Subject to the Sales Tax. i.

The tangible personal property and services taxable hereunder shall be the same as the tangible personal property and services taxable pursuant to Section 39-26-104, C.R.S., subject to the same exemptions as those specified in part 7 of article 26 of title 39, C.R.S. and Section 29-2-105, C.R.S. expressly including the exemption allowed by section 39-26-709 (1), C.R.S., for purchases of machinery or machine tools; the exemption for sales of electricity, coal, wood, gas, fuel oil, or coke specified in section 39-26-715 (1)(a)(II), C.R.S.; the exemption for sales of food specified in section 39-26-707 (1)(e), C.R.S.; the exemption for vending machine sales of food set forth in section 39-26714 (2), C.R.S.; the exemption for occasional sales by a charitable organization set forth in section 3926-718 (1)(b), C.R.S.; the exemption for sales and purchases of farm equipment and farm equipment under lease or contract specified in section 39-26-716 (2)(b) and (2)(c), C.R.S., excepting from the definition of “farm equipment” the sales and purchases of parts used in the repair or maintenance of farm equipment, all shipping pallets or aids paid for by a farm operation, any visual, electronic identification, or matched pair ear tags and electronic identification readers used to scan ear tags that are used by farm operators to identify or track food animals including animals used for food or in the production of food as specified in section 39-26-716 (1)(d), all sales and purchases of dairy equipment, and aircraft designed or adapted to undertake agricultural applications; and the exemption for sales of low-emitting motor vehicles, power sources, or parts used for converting such power sources as specified in section 39-26-719 (1), C.R.S.; the exemption for sales of machinery or machine tools specified in section 39-26-709 (1), C.R.S., used in the processing of recovered materials by a business listed in the inventory prepared by the department of public health and environment pursuant to section 30-20-122 (1)(a)(V), C.R.S.; the exemption for sales of wood from salvaged trees killed or infested in Colorado by mountain pine beetles or spruce beetles as specified in section 39-26-723, C.R.S.; the exemption for sales that benefit a Colorado school specified in section 39-26-725, C.R.S.; the exemption for sales by an association or organization of parents and teachers of public school students that is a charitable organization as specified in section 39-26-718 (1)(c), C.R.S.; the exemption for sales of property for use in space flight specified in section 39-26-728, C.R.S.; and the exemption for manufactured homes set forth in section 39-26-721 (3). ii.

All sales of personal property on which a specific ownership tax has been paid or is payable shall be - exempt from the sales tax imposed by Arapahoe County when such sales meet both of the following conditions: (1) the purchaser is a non-resident of or has his principal place of business outside of Arapahoe County, and (2) such personal property is registered or required to be registered outside the limits of Arapahoe County under the laws of the State of Colorado.

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(b)

Determination of Place at Which Sales are Consummated. For the purposes of this Resolution, all retail sales are sourced as specified in section 39-26-104 (3), C.R.S. The amount subject to the sales tax imposed hereunder shall not include any Colorado state sales or use tax imposed by Article 26 of Title 39, C.R.S.

(c)

Collection, Administration, and Enforcement. The sales tax imposed hereunder shall be collected, administered and enforced by the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Revenue (“Executive Director”) in the same manner as the collection, administration and enforcement of the Colorado state sales tax. The provisions of Article 26 of Title 39, C.R.S., and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the Executive Director shall govern the collection, administration, and enforcement of the sales tax imposed hereunder.

Distribution of all sales tax collected by the Executive Director, pursuant to this Resolution, shall be to Arapahoe County.

(d)

Vendor’s Fee. The vendor shall be entitled as collection agent for the County to withhold an amount equal to one-half of one percent (.50%) of the total amount to be remitted by the vendor to the Executive Director each month to cover the vendor’s expense in the collection and remittance of the Sales Tax. If any vendor is delinquent in remitting the Sales Tax, other than in unusual circumstances shown to the satisfaction of the Executive Director, the vendor shall not be allowed to retain any amounts to cover his or her expense in collecting and remitting said Sales Tax, and an amount equivalent to the full amount of the Sales Tax imposed by this Resolution shall be remitted to the Executive Director by any such delinquent vendor.

Use Tax. The imposition and collection of a one-quarter of one percent (0.25%) use tax in accordance with the provisions of Article 2, Title 29, C.R.S., for the privilege of using or consuming in Arapahoe County any construction and building materials purchased at retail and for the privilege of storing, using, or consuming in Arapahoe County any motor and other vehicles, purchased at retail on which registration is required, effective throughout the incorporated and unincorporated portions of Arapahoe County, such tax having been originally imposed by Arapahoe County Resolution Number 030381, shall hereby continue to and beyond its current expiration date of December 31, 2023, until repealed, subject to the following terms and conditions: (a)

Exemptions from the Use Tax. i.

Storage, use, or consumption of any tangible personal property the sale of which is subject to a retail sales tax imposed by Arapahoe County.

ii.

Storage, use or consumption of any tangible personal property purchased for resale in Arapahoe County either in its original form or as an ingredient of a manufactured or compounded product, in the regular course of a business.

iii.

Storage, use or consumption of tangible personal property brought into Arapahoe County by a nonresident thereof for his own storage, use, or consumption while temporarily within the County; however, this exemption does not apply to the storage, use, or consumption of tangible personal property brought into this State by a nonresident to be used in the conduct of a business in this State.

iv.

Storage, use, or consumption of tangible personal property by the United States government, or the State of Colorado, or its institutions, or its political subdivisions in their governmental capacities only or by religious or charitable corporations in the conduct of their regular religious or charitable functions.

v.

vi.

Storage, use, or consumption of tangible personal property by a person engaged in the business of manufacturing or compounding for profit, or the use of any article, substance, or commodity, which tangible personal property enters into the processing of or becomes an ingredient or component part of the product or service which is manufactured, compounded, or furnished and the container, label, or the furnished shipping case thereof.

Storage, use, or consumption of any article of tangible personal property, the sale or use of which has already been subjected to a legally imposed sale or use tax of another statutory or home rule county equal to or in excess of that imposed by Arapahoe County. A credit shall be granted against the use tax imposed by Arapahoe County with respect to a person’s storage, use, or consumption in Arapahoe County of tangible personal property purchased in another statutory or home rule county.

The amount of the credit shall be equal

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(c)

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(b)

The use tax imposed hereunder shall be applicable to every motor vehicle for which registration is required by the laws of the State of Colorado, and no registration shall be made of any motor or other vehicle for which registration is required, and no certificate of title shall be issued for such vehicle by the Department of Revenue or its authorized agents until any tax due upon the use, storage, or consumption thereof pursuant to this Resolution has been paid.

Collection, Administration, and Enforcement Except as provided by Section 39-26-209, C.R.S., the use tax imposed hereunder shall be collected, enforced and administered by Arapahoe County, consistent with Arapahoe County’s guidelines, policies and procedures, which exist or may hereafter be promulgated not inconsistent with this Resolution. The use tax on construction and building materials shall be collected by the County’s Public Works and Development Department, by each municipality or, as may be otherwise provided by intergovernmental agreement, based upon an estimate of building and construction materials costs submitted by the owner or contractor at the time a building permit application is made. All use tax collected on construction and building materials pursuant to this Resolution shall be distributed to Arapahoe County. All use tax collected on motor or other vehicles pursuant to this Resolution shall be distributed to Arapahoe County.

................................................................ 50% Total distribution by percentages of Open Space Fund created by Open Space Sales and Use Tax ........................................................ 100% (b)

(c)

County Administrative Costs are those costs necessary for the County to administer the distribution of funds, to include distribution of Shareback Funds; development, creation, oversight and monitoring of and compliance with Intergovernmental Agreements (“IGAs”); grant review and distribution of grant funds; site reviews for grants and review of certified Annual Municipal Reports, as well as to administer the County’s own Open Space Program, excluding maintenance, as set forth more fully below.

(b)

Each County Commissioner shall appoint one resident of his/her commissioner district to serve as an OSTAB member.

(c)

The Board of County Commissioners shall appoint two Arapahoe County residents as at-large members.

(d)

OSTAB members shall serve three-year terms of office. Members may be re-appointed to no more than two successive terms.

(e)

OSTAB members shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of County Commissioners.

(f)

Members shall not be compensated for their services.

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ii.

iii.

OSTAB shall continue to meet as provided in its bylaws to review proposed projects and perform other duties in accordance with this Resolution.

(i)

OSTAB shall make recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners regarding the distribution of revenue collected from the Open Space Sales and Use Tax, in accordance with the guidelines set forth in this Resolution.

Distribution of Sales and Use Tax Revenue. The revenue collected from the Open Space Sales and Use Tax shall be distributed and administered in the following manner and subject to the definitions and conditions as set forth in this Resolution: (a)

The annual revenue from the Open Space Sales and Use Tax shall be distributed according to the percentages as set forth below. Expenditure of said

OSTAB and County staff shall review the grant applications and make recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners regarding the approval, conditional approval or denial of each application.

c.

The Board of County Commissioners then shall approve, conditionally approve, or deny the grant application.

d.

If the County distributes less than 12% of the Open Space Sales and Use Tax as designated for grants, the remaining portion shall be retained by the County to be used for purposes set forth in Section 12 (d) (v) below.

Designated Heritage Areas. The Board of County Commissioners shall authorize expenditure of funds for Designated Arapahoe County Heritage Areas (“Designated Heritage Areas”) located in unincorporated Arapahoe County. a.

A Designated Heritage Area is defined as lands or structures which have a cultural or historical significance to Arapahoe County, such as a historic property or the fairgrounds.

b.

The Board of County Commissioners shall consider designating land or a structure as a Designated Heritage Area after OSTAB and County staff have reviewed and made recommendations on a proposal for such an area.

c.

Before it designates a Designated Heritage Area, the Board of County Commissioners shall conduct a public hearing on the proposal.

d.

Funds allocated to Designated Heritage Areas may be used for maintenance of structures and grounds, as well as for future improvements and operations. Funds may not be used for construction of new buildings.

e.

If the County uses less than the allocated funds for Designated Heritage Areas, the remaining portion shall be retained by the County as set forth in Section 12 (d) (5) below.

These funds will be distributed to each incorporated municipality within or partially within Arapahoe County based on the population within said jurisdiction in Arapahoe County and the total incorporated population of Arapahoe County.

The population figures will be updated annually based on the official figures provided by the Demography Section of the Colorado Department of Local Affairs or any state agency which takes over the duties and responsibilities of said Demography Section.

The Shareback Funds will be distributed on an annual basis to each incorporated municipality, wholly or partially within Arapahoe County, provided that: a.

The incorporated municipality has entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the Board of County Commissioners.

b.

Such required IGA reflects the terms, conditions, intent and purpose of this Resolution consistent with the guidelines as set forth in Section 12(c) and (e) below.

c.

Shareback Funds may be used for the open space uses as set forth in Section 12(e) below.

d.

Further, an incorporated municipality may use up to the percentage of its Shareback Funds designated in the IGA with the Board of County Commissioners, which designated percentage shall be at least 20% of the annual allocation, to maintain existing or new open space properties, trails, neighborhood and regional parks, and sports fields.

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g.

Members shall act in accordance with law, including Colorado conflict of interest laws applicable to public bodies. No member shall vote or participate in the application process regarding an acquisition or expenditure in which he or she has a financial or ownership interest, or where he or she has an ownership interest in an adjacent property.

(h)

ii.

Shareback Funds are those monies distributed to the incorporated municipalities wholly and/or partially in Arapahoe County for open space uses as more fully set forth below.

Interest from Revenues and Income Generated from Acquired Lands. Interest generated from the revenues of the sales and use taxes imposed herein shall be used for the purposes stated herein. Income generated from the use or lease of preserved lands, natural areas, wildlife habitats, and parks acquired with the sales and use taxes imposed herein shall be used for the purposes stated herein.

OSTAB shall consist of seven members.

b.

Maintenance of County Open Space .... 9.9% Acquisition of open space and/or interests in open space to include for the development of multi-use trails ................................................... 20%

For purposes of Colo. Const., Art. X, Section 20, the receipt and expenditure of revenues of the sales tax and use tax shall be accounted for, budgeted and appropriated separately from other revenues and expenditures of Arapahoe County and outside of the fiscal year spending of the County as calculated under Art. X, Section 20, and nothing in Art. X, Section 20, shall limit the receipt and expenditure in each fiscal year of the full amount of such revenues of the sales tax and use tax, nor shall receipt and expenditure of such revenues affect or limit the receipt or expenditure of any and all other revenues of Arapahoe County for any fiscal year.

(a)

Those entities having proposals consistent with the guidelines as set forth in this Resolution may submit their grant applications to OSTAB.

Designated Arapahoe County Heritage Areas ....................................... 4.1%

Open Space and Trails Advisory Board. The Open Space and Trails Advisory Board (“OSTAB”) shall continue to operate and advise the Board of County Commissioners on Open Space fund uses.

(g)

12.

Storage, use, or consumption of any construction and building materials required or made necessary in the performance of any construction contract bid, let, or entered into any time prior to the effective date of the use tax imposed hereunder

a.

County Administrative Costs .................... 4% Available as grants to incorporated municipalities and special districts within Arapahoe County.................................... 12%

Storage or use of a motor vehicle if the owner is or was, at the time of purchase, a non-resident of Arapahoe County and he purchased the vehicle outside of Arapahoe County for use outside of Arapahoe County and actually so used it for a substantial and primary purpose for which it was acquired and he registered, titled, and licensed said motor vehicle outside of Arapahoe County.

Storage, use, or consumption of any construction and building materials and motor and other vehicles on which registration is required if a written contract for the purchase thereof was entered into prior to the effective date of this use tax resolution.

Said grants shall be used for the purposes specified in Section 12 (c) (iii) (d) or 12 (e) (i), and in accordance with the guidelines set forth in this Resolution.

County Open Space Program funds to be used as follows:

Arapahoe County Open Space Fund. A separate fund, known as the “Arapahoe County Open Space Fund” (the “Fund”), shall continue to be maintained, and 100% of the revenue derived from the sales and use tax imposed on the incorporated and unincorporated areas of Arapahoe County shall continue to be deposited thereto to be used solely for the purposes stated herein and as further described more fully below. (a)

11.

Shareback to all incorporated municipalities or portions thereof based on the population of the incorporated municipality or portions thereof in Arapahoe County versus total population of incorporated areas in Arapahoe County ...... 50%

Storage, use, or consumption of tangible personal property and household effects acquired outside of Arapahoe County and brought into it by a non-resident acquiring residency.

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districts, which provide recreational services or amenities; and recreation districts.

h.

Incorporated municipalities may bank Shareback Funds from year to year, as long as such funds are expended in accordance with the purposes set forth in this Resolution, and such is noted in the Annual Municipal Expenditure Report as set forth in Section 12 (iii) (g).

Open Space Maintenance. The County may use funds, as specified in Section 12 (a), for maintenance of County Open Space, to include trails. a.

Open Space maintenance funds may not be used for maintenance of Designated Heritage Areas if said area’s maintenance is funded under the Designated Heritage Areas portion of the County’s program.

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If the County uses less than the allocated amount in the Fund for maintenance, the remaining portion shall be retained by the County as set forth in Section 12 (d) (v) below.

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Every December 31st, each incorporated municipality which received Shareback Funds, must certify and submit in writing, to the Board of County Commissioners, that the funds were used in conformance with this Resolution and must detail the expenditures of its Shareback Funds. Such submission shall be called the Annual Municipal Expenditure Report.

Acquisition of Open Space and Trail Development. The County shall use the percentage of the Fund, as specified in Section 12(a) above, to acquire open space or interests in open space, to restore, improve and protect open space, to acquire and develop trails, and for such other uses set forth in Section 12 (e) (i) and subject to any other applicable restrictions on the use of the funds set forth herein.

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If Shareback Funds are not used in accordance with the provisions and guidelines set forth in this Resolution and/ or are used in violation of the terms and conditions of the IGA, the offending incorporated municipality will be ineligible for future Shareback Funds, unless and until a compliance plan is submitted by the offending municipality to and approved by the Board of County Commissioners.

If the allocated funds for the County administrative costs, grants, Designated Heritage Areas, County open space maintenance and/or acquisition of open space or interests in open space or trail development are not expended by December 3lst of each year, the County shall bank such funds, and such funds may be expended in a future year for such uses. Alternatively, the Board of County Commissioners may reallocate unspent funds to other uses allowed by this Resolution based on recommendations from OSTAB.

vi.

On an annual basis, the County will hire an independent auditor to audit the County’s expenditures of the Fund.

If the offending municipality fails to submit a compliance plan approved by the Board of County Commissioners or fails to meet the requirements of the Board of County Commissioners’ approved compliance plan, then the Share of the non-complying entity will be distributed, based on annual population figures, among the other participating incorporated municipalities.

(d) The County Open Space Program shall have the following components: i.

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Grant Program. The County shall have funds, as specified above in Section 12 (a), available for distribution in the form of grants to incorporated municipalities; special

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Additional Guidelines for Use of Funds: Revenues collected from the Open Space Sales and Use Tax may be used in the following manner: a.

To acquire fee title interest in real property for the purposes provided herein;

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To acquire less than fee interests in real property for the purposes provided herein; such as easements (including conservation and agricultural), future interests, covenants, development rights, subsurface rights and contractual rights, either on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis;

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To acquire water rights for use in connection with the purposes provided herein;

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To acquire lands that preserve urban and rural open space; natural areas; agricultural and ranch lands; water quality; lakes; rivers; streams; corridors of rivers and streams; views; vistas; ridgelines; wildlife habitat and movement corridors; trail corridors; flood plains and wetlands;

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No land or interests acquired with the revenues of the Open Space Sales and Use Tax may be sold, leased, traded, or otherwise conveyed, nor may an exclusive license or permit on such land or interests be given, without such approval by the governing body of the entity having received any portion of the Fund, after conducting a public hearing.

If the Board of County Commissioners sells land or interests as specified in paragraph 2 above, the proceeds shall be deposited with the Open Space Fund.

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To acquire lands that are buffers maintaining community identity;

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To acquire and/or improve lands for neighborhood and regional parks, sports fields, dog parks, and other active and passive outdoor recreation purposes;

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To acquire lands with other important values such as historic sites that contribute to the County’s and County municipalities’ natural and cultural heritage;

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To acquire rights-of-way and easements for trails and access to public lands, and to build and improve such trails and access ways;

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To improve, restore and/or protect open space lands as provided herein;

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To manage, patrol and maintain those lands as provided herein;

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To pay for related acquisition, construction, equipment, and/or improvements;

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ARAPAHOE COUNTY \ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTIFICATION OF LEVEL OF DETERMINATION CASE NO AA21-012, LINE 5457 TRANSMISSION LINE RECONDUCTOR PROJECT PROPOSAL: Public Service Company of Colorado/Xcel Energy proposes replacement of approximately 3.5 miles of electrical conductor and appurtenant equipment on a 230 kiloVolt (kV) transmission line between County Road 221 and Jewell/County Road 18 (Section 20 – Township 5 South – Range 59 West) and 15th Avenue (Arapahoe County/Adams County boundary) in Arapahoe County The applicant has indicated the existing transmission line has been in service since approximately 1980 and the proposed project is necessary because the electrical conductor is approaching the end of its useful life. The applicant has also indicated no additional permanent easements are required for this project.

Per Arapahoe County’s Regulations Governing Areas and Activities of State Interest in Arapahoe County (1041 Regulations), a Level of Determination of the impact of the proposed project is required.

The County has conducted a review and evaluation of the proposed project based on the Level of Determination criteria and a determination has been made that there is a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI). Arapahoe County Public Works has made this determination with the understanding that the project only includes restringing the lines onto the same pole unless the pole is damaged or dilapidated and has to be replaced.

More information about this proposal is available at the offices of the Arapahoe County Public Works and Development Department, Planning Division, 6924 S. Lima St., Centennial, CO 80112 or by calling 720-874-6650 or by emailing planning@arapahoegov. com during regular business hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday).

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board Published in The Villager Published: September 30, 2021 Legal # 10399 ___________________________ ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT To whom it may concern: This notice is given with regard to items in the custody of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office that have been released for public auction.

The Sheriff’s Office will release numerous items including but not limited to, bicycles, jewelry, audio/ visual equipment, automotive parts, tools, sports equipment (such as camping, rafting, skiing gear, etc.), household goods and other items of personal property to a private auction company identified as Propertyroom.com and/or Roller Auction. These items will be released for on-line bidding on the last Tuesday of each month for Roller Auction and the last day

To allow for the funding of environmental education programs in a manner

of the month for Propertyroom. com. Both auctions are open to the public.

If any citizen believes they have property in the possession of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office that can be identified, and for which they can show proof of ownership associated with a written report that has been filed with the Sheriff’s Office prior to this announcement, can contact the evidence section of the Sheriff’s Office.

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board Published in The Villager Published: September 30, 2021 Legal # 10400 ___________________________ ARAPAHOE COUNTY REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL RFP-21-43 IT CONTRACTING STAFFING Notice is hereby given that the Arapahoe County Purchasing Division will be accepting proposals for the purchase of IT CONTRACT STAFFING for the Arapahoe County IT Department.

A pre proposal conference will be held on OCTOBER 14, 2021, 10:00 a.m., local time, via Microsoft Teams. Contractors are encouraged to attend this conference in order to become familiar with the Specifications. Please email Keith Ashby, Purchasing Manager at Kashby@arapahoegov.com if you are planning on attending.

All Arapahoe County solicitations can be obtained from the County’s website. The Request For Proposal (RFP-21-43) document can be obtained by going to the Arapahoe County website www.arapahoegov. com, then go to the Finance Department, and under the Finance Department select Purchasing then go to the Quick Link for the Rocky Mountain ePurchasing website.

Electronic submissions will be accepted online via Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing Systems (RMEPS), www.bidnetdirect.com/colorado.

Submittals must be received, electronically, no later than 2:00 p.m. local time on Thursday October 28, 2021 (our clock).

The County reserves the right to waive any or all informalities or irregularities and to reject any or all submittals.

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board Published in The Villager Published: September 30, 2021 Legal # 10402 ___________________________ ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CASE NO SD21-003, HAVANA WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT / SERVICE PLAN AMENDMENT PROPOSAL: The Havana Water and Sanitation District seeks to amend the District’s Service Plan to add solid waste collection, commonly referred to as trash collection, to the services the District provides to properties in the District.

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If any incorporated municipality; special district, which provides recreational services or amenities; or recreation district, sells land or transfers interests as specified in Paragraph 2 above, the proceeds shall be deposited in a fund to be used for purposes consistent with this Resolution.

Repeal and Amendment (a)

To allow expenditure of funds, consistent with the guidelines set forth in this Resolution, for joint projects between counties and municipalities, special districts which have a recreational component, recreation districts, or other governmental entities in the County;

To implement and effectuate the purposes of the Open Space Program.

If this Resolution is approved by a majority of the registered electors of Arapahoe County at the election to be held on November 2, 2021, its provisions relating to the amount of tax imposed, specifically the one-quarter of one percent (0.25%) sales tax specified in Section 8 and one-quarter of one percent (0.25%) use tax specified in Section 9, the provisions relating to the deposit and expenditure of revenue as set forth in Section 10, and the provisions of Sections 11 and 12, shall not be repealed or amended except by a vote of the registered electors of the County.

Except as provided in subsection A hereof, or as otherwise provided in Article 2 of Title 29, C.R.S., the provisions of this Resolution may be repealed or amended, subsequent to its adoption of the sales and use tax by a majority of the voters of Arapahoe County, by a majority vote of the Board of County Commissioners, and such repeal or amendment need not be submitted to the registered electors of the County for their approval.

If any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Resolution is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or lack of enforceability shall not affect any of the remaining sections, paragraphs, clauses or provisions of this resolution.

The vote was:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on October 19, 2021 the Arapahoe County Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing at 6:30 P.M., or as soon as possible thereafter at 6954 S. Lima St. 80112, Arapahoe Room, Centennial, CO; at which, all interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the above-described SD21003, Havana Water and Sanitation District / Service Plan Amendment.

The agenda will typically be posted by the Friday afternoon preceding the hearing and can be viewed on our website at https://arapahoe.legistar.com/Calendar. You can also listen to, or speak at, the meeting by calling 1-855-436-3656. To join the speaking queue, press *3 on the telephone keypad.

More information about this proposal is available at the offices of the Arapahoe County Public Works and Development Department, Planning Division, 6924 S. Lima St., Centennial, CO 80112 or by calling 720-874-6650 or by emailing planning@arapahoegov. com during regular business hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday).

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board Published in The Villager Published: September 30, 2021 Legal # 10403 ___________________________

SPECIAL DISTRICTS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AMENDED 2021 BUDGET AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Willow Trace Metropolitan District (the “District”), will hold a meeting via teleconference on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at 4:30 P.M. for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Board including a public hearing on the 2021 amended budget (the “Amended Budget”) and 2022 proposed budget (the “Proposed Budget”). This meeting can be joined using the following teleconference information: Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/91 025534042?pwd=Y3RueHBzNmZt VUs3UU5HKzVocHREQT09 (Meeting ID: 910 2553 4042; Passcode: 909403; Call-In Number: 1-720-707-2699) NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Amended Budget and Proposed Budget have been submitted to the District. A copy of the Amended Budget and the Proposed Budget are on file in the office of Simmons & Wheeler, P.C., 304 Inverness Way South, Suite 490, Englewood CO 80112, where the same are open for public inspection.

Any interested elector of the District may file any objections to the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget at any time prior

to final adoption of the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget by the Board. This meeting is open to the public and the agenda for any meeting may be obtained by calling (303) 858-1800.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: WILLOW TRACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT /s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law Published in The Villager Published: September 30, 2021 Legal # 10404 ___________________________ NOTICE OF ELECTION TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the electors of the proposed East Virginia Village Metropolitan District (“District”) of Arapahoe County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on November 2, 2021, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. regarding the question of the organization of the proposed District, the first board of directors and the submission of the proposition of issuing general obligation bonds or creating other general obligation indebtedness or any questions necessary to implement the provisions of Article X, Section 20, of the Colorado Constitution as applied to the proposed District.

The proposed District encompasses approximately 6.8581 acres generally located south of E. Colorado Avenue, north of E. Asbury Avenue, west of Quebec Street, and east of S. Poplar Street, in Arapahoe County, Colorado. The legal description of the proposed District is as follows: A PARCEL OF LAND BEING A PORTION OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 20 AND THE A PORTION OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 29, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 4 SOUTH, RANGE 67 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BASIS OF BEARINGS: THE WESTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE QUEBEC STREET DESCRIBED AS PARCEL 5, PROJECT NUMBER STU-C100-019, RECORDED UNDER RECEPTION NO. B6076510 IN THE RECORDS OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER, BEING MONUMENTED AT BOTH ENDS

BY A 3-1/4” ALUMINUM CAP STAMPED “STU-100019 2007” SAID LINE BEARING S00°54’49”E AS REFERENCED TO COLORADO STATE PLANE CENTRAL ZONE. BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEASTERLY CORNER OF LYNWOOD NO. 9 RECORDED UNDER RECEPTION NO. 67352 IN THE RECORDS OF THE DENVER COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER; THENCE ON THE SOUTHERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF COLO-

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Commissioner Baker, Yes; Commissioner Holen, Yes; Commissioner Jackson, Yes; Commissioner Sharpe, Yes; Commissioner Warren-Gully, Yes. The Chair declared the motion carried and so ordered.

EXHIBIT A CONTINUE EXISTING FUNDING FOR ARAPAHOE COUNTY’S OPEN SPACES, TRAILS, AND PARKS WITHOUT INCREASING THE TAX RATE, SHALL ARAPAHOE COUNTY BE AUTHORIZED TO EXTEND ITS EXISTING ONE-QUARTER OF ONE PERCENT SALES AND USE TAX, OR 25 CENTS FOR EVERY 100 DOLLARS, WHICH WILL NOT BE COLLECTED ON SALES OF FOOD OR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, WITH THE PROCEEDS TO BE USED FOR THE SAME PURPOSES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: CONSERVING LANDS THAT PROTECT WATER QUALITY IN RIVERS, LAKES AND STREAMS; PROTECTING AND MAINTAINING NATURAL AREAS, WILDLIFE HABITAT, AND OPEN SPACE; PROVIDING, MAINTAINING, AND IMPROVING REGIONAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS AND TRAILS; PROVIDING MORE ACTIVE RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH, ADULTS AND OLDER ADULTS; PRESERVING WORKING FARMS AND RANCHES TO ENSURE LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTION; AND MAINTAINING AND PRESERVING HISTORIC SITES; WITH THE CONTINUED REQUIREMENT THAT THE COUNTY’S PROGRAM EXPENDITURES FOR PROJECTS AND GRANTS BE FIRST SUBMITTED TO A CITIZEN ADVISORY BOARD FOR A RECOMMENDATION TO THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS; AND THAT THE PROGRAM BE SUBJECT TO AN ANNUAL INDEPENDENT AUDIT PUBLISHED ON THE COUNTY’S WEBSITE, AND SUBJECT TO SUCH OTHER RESTATED, UPDATED AND AMENDED REQUIREMENTS AS ARE SET FORTH IN ARAPAHOE COUNTY RESOLUTION NUMBER 21-263, AND EXTENDING THE TAX CONTINUOUSLY BEYOND ITS CURRENT EXPIRATION DATE, UNTIL REPEALED, AS A VOTER APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE AND EXCEPTION TO LIMITS WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE APPLY UNDER ARTICLE X, SECTION 20 OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION OR ANY OTHER LAW, THE ABOVE CONSTITUTING NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS, EXCEPT TO: INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING AVAILABLE TO MUNICIPALITIES AND THE COUNTY FOR MAINTENANCE OF OPEN SPACE, PARKS AND TRAILS, REDUCE THE ALLOCATION AVAILABLE FOR ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN SPACE AND TRAILS, ALLOW COUNTY EXPENDITURES TO BE ALLOCATED TO ACTIVE OPEN SPACE AND PARK USES BASED ON RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CITIZEN ADVISORY BOARD, AND TO ALLOW UNSPENT COUNTY OPEN SPACE FUNDS TO BE RE-ALLOCATED FOR OTHER OPEN SPACE, PARK AND TRAIL PURPOSES? Published in The Villager First Publication: September 9, 2021 Last Publication: September 30, 2021 Legal # 10377 ___________________________

RADO AVENUE, N89°36’25”E A DISTANCE OF 252.20 FEET, TO A POINT ON THE WESTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF SOUTH QUEBEC STREET RECORDED UNDER RECEPTION NO. B6076510; THENCE ON SAID WESTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE, S00°54’49”E A DISTANCE OF 1,095.07 FEET; THENCE DEPARTING SAID WESTERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE, THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1. S89°33’44”W A DISTANCE OF 162.43 FEET; 2. S00°11’08”E A DISTANCE OF 185.08 FEET, TO A POINT ON THE NORTHERLY RIGHT-OFWAY LINE OF EAST ASBURY AVENUE; THENCE ON SAID NORTHERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE, S89°33’44”W A DISTANCE OF 98.40 FEET, TO A POINT ON THE EASTERLY LINE OF SAID LYNWOOD NO. 9; THENCE ON SAID EASTERLY LINE, THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1. N00°17’58”W A DISTANCE OF 637.72 FEET; 2. N00°32’38”W A DISTANCE OF 642.59 FEET, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. CONTAINING 6.8581 ACRES MORE OR LESS The election is being conducted as a mail ballot election by the Designated Election Official, Jennifer S. Henry, c/o McGeady Becher P.C., 450 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 400, Denver, Colorado 80203, telephone number (303) 592-4380.

The place of deposit for mail ballots and walk-in polling place for voting at the election will be at said office.

Not sooner than October 11, 2021 and no later than October 18, 2021, the Designated Election Official shall mail to each active registered elector of the proposed District, a mail ballot packet.

Eric T. Dome, Taylor A. Lilly and Cynthia M. Myers are candidates for terms extending to the second regular election and Brian D. Mulqueen is a candidate for term extending to the next regular election.

The walk-in polling place shall be open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. beginning not sooner than twenty-two days prior to the election, October 11, 2021, and from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on the date of election.

The purposes of the proposed District are as follows: water; sanitation; street; safety protection; parks and recreation; transportation; television relay and translation; mosquito control and fire protection improvements; covenant enforcement; design review services; security and all other improvements and services permitted by Article 1, Title 32, C.R.S, subject to any

limitations set forth in the Service Plan of the District.

Pursuant to Section 1-5-207, C.R.S., the estimated operating and debt service mill levies and fiscal year spending for the first year following organization are: Maximum Mill Levy – Debt: .................................55.664 mills Maximum Mill Levy – Operations & Maintenance.............no limit Fiscal Year Spending ..... $50,000 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an eligible elector of said proposed District for the purpose of said election is a person registered to vote pursuant to the “Colorado Uniform Election Code of 1992”; and (i) who is a resident of the proposed District, or (ii) who, or whose spouse or civil union partner, owns taxable real or personal property within the proposed District, whether said person resides within the proposed District or not. A person who is obligated to pay taxes under a contract to purchase taxable property within the proposed District shall be considered an owner of taxable property for the purpose of qualifying as an eligible elector.

Any individual who wishes to know if his or her residence or taxable real or personal property is located within the boundaries of the proposed District should contact the County Assessor’s office with reference to the legal description set forth above. Additionally, a map of the proposed District as included in the Service Plan is available for examination at the office of the District Court for Arapahoe County and at 450 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 400, Denver, Colorado 80203.

Write-in candidates must have filed an affidavit of intent with the Designated Election Official by no later than August 30, 2021.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee voter ballots may be filed with the Designated Election Official at the address set forth above no later than the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election. Return of absentee voter ballots and replacement ballots may be received by the Designated Election Official at the above address, Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. beginning on October 11, 2021, until the day prior to the election, or between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. on the date of the election.

Proposed East Virginia Village Metropolitan District By: /s/ Jennifer S. Henry Designated Election Official Published in The Villager Published: September 30, 2021 Legal # 10405 ___________________________

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ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTICE OF ELECTION Pursuant to C.R.S. 1-5-205, notice is hereby given that a Coordinated Election will be held Tuesday, November 2, 2021 in Arapahoe County.

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AURORA CHAMBER TO HONOR COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS

“We’re All in This Together.”

Nominations of individuals or businesses can be made at www. aurorachamber.org Honor champ-ions that have played a major role in assisting society throughout the global pandemic.

Double Tree by Hotel Denver, 3203 Quebec St., Denver. Oct. 15,11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

THE GREAT COLORADO AIR SHOW

October 16 & 17 at Northern Colorado Regional Airport in Loveland. Featuring the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flying the team’s new aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet which is 25% larger than their predecessor jet. Tickets went on sale July 6 and sold online through The Great Colorado Air Show. Tickets will not be available on site during show days. Visit www.greatcoloradoairshow.com.

WEEKENDS ON LITTLETON MAIN ST.

Main Street will be closed the

second Sat. of every month for “Second Saturdays” on Artisan Market. Handmade market 9 a.m.

- 4 p.m. Oct 9. Handmade jewelry pottery, clothing, fine art, candles, accessories and more. Pickletown Flower Company’s truck will be providing live music.

COLORADO FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN ANNUAL CONVENTION

Oct. 15,16, 17 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in the Denver Tech Center, 10250 E. Costilla Ave., Centennial. Cherry Creek Rep. Women, Douglas County Rep. Women and Elbert County Rep. Women are co-hosting this convention.

FRIENDS OF NURSING 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Sat., Oct. 16 - Celebration luncheon at Wellshire Inn Event Center, 3333S Colorado Blvd. Social - 11 a.m., luncheon & program 12 noon. Come and buy an early Christmas gift at the Old Fashioned Christmas Shoppe and bid on great silent auction items. View nursing school caps once worn by FON members. Recognition of the 2020/2021 scholarship recipients.

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VACANCY IN DENVER JAZZ BLUB YOUTH ALL STARS

Auditions taking place on Sundays for High School musicians who play bass, tuba and Trumpet.

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ARAPAHOE COUNTY JOB FAIR

Arapahoe County Human Services is hiring for positions in Community and Child Support and Child & Adult Protection services.from 9 a.m. -noon at CentrePoint Plaza in Aurora. Visit arapahoegov.com

FOUR MILE HISTORIC PARK PUMPKIN HARVEST FESTIVAL

Friday, Oct. 1, 5-8 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 2, 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 3, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tickets $10-$16, free for children ages six & under.

Pumpkin patch, prairie games, art depot, tractor rides, face painting, & Swallow Hill’s instrument

CHERRY CREEK RETIREMENT VILLAGE HOLIDAY FAIR

Thursday, Oct. 14, 10 a.m.

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Pottery, clothing, ornaments, angels, jewelry, artwork, food & more.

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HEATHER GARDENS FALL ARTS & CRAFT FAIR

Friday, Oct. 15 & Sat., Oct. 16, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. 60 private vendors in the Clubhouse (2888 S Heather Gardens Way.) Pottery, jewelry, Christmas ornaments, metal craft, painting, candles, culinary treats. etc.

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FOUR MILE’S SPIRITS & SPIRITS

Sat., Oct. 23 from 6-10 p.m.

Guests will step into the otherworldly palm of Victorian Spiritualism -the 19th century movement that maintained that spirits of the dead have both the ability and the desire to communicate with the living. Activities include a lantern-lit tour of the Four Mile House

Museum (Denver’s oldest standing structure) to catch a glimpse of a time-honored Victorian mourning ceremony; chilling ghost stories told by the fire, paired with a signature cocktail; a palm & tarot reading; art from Mad Tatters; Victorian Funeral cookies and more. Purchase tickets and learn more at www.fourmilepark.org/ spirits-and-spirits “BE BEAUTIFUL BE YOURSELF FASHION SHOW

Sat., Nov. 13 6 p.m. Fundraiser for people with Down syndrome benefiting the important work of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation. Special Guests: Music Legend Quincy Jones; 2021 awardee Bryan Russell Mujica; Award-winning actor Eric Dane; Grammy-award winner Sara Bareilles; 2021 Ambassadors, Archie & Sevy Eicher. and more. Tickets: 303-321-6277 or development@ globaldownsyndrome.org.

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BY LISA J. SHULTZ

eow Wolf has come to Denver. It opened September 17. Located at 1338 1st St., you may have noticed a new white building next to I-25 and Colfax Avenue. Meow Wolf is an immersive art, interactive experience, and an entertainment company.

If you are like me, this new, popular immersive craze takes getting used to. My first exposure to the concept was with Van Gogh Alive, which I liked very much. Traditional art enthusiasts might feel most comfortable in a museum or art gallery exhibit, where one views one piece at a time in a hushed, reverent atmosphere. Immersive displays will surround you on all surfaces and are often combined with music and video. It can be over-stimulating at first. Meow Wolf is showing us a new way to look at art.

Meow Wolf was established in 2008 as an art collective. Its other locations are Santa Fe and Las Vegas. Meow Wolf Denver worked with over 115 Colorado artists and over 200 internal artists to bring the project to fruition over the last three years. The website says they want to help emerging artists and art communities. “Meow Wolf believes in the power of creativity to change the world.” I love the idea of supporting artistic talents and encouraging creatives to channel their energy into pursuits that provide positive outlets and ways to support themselves doing what they love. The installation has also created over 250 jobs for Denver locals.

Descriptions of the media might seem overwhelming in style and lingo: architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, video production, cross-reality (AR/VR/MR), music, audio engineering, narrative writing, costuming, performance, and extended reality content. That is a lot of lingo and media mixed together.

It may be too much in one place for some people and exciting for others.

The name of Denver’s installation is Convergence Station.

What does that mean? The website says it is a “full commuter service to the Convergence: four alien worlds joined together in a rare cosmic event – a place where memories are currency.” There is a kaleidoscopic mini-cathedral, lush alien habitats, Corinthian catacombs, and vibrant cityscapes, which makes it a surreal experience to tour. Hallucinogenic and mind-bending are words used in promotional releases to describe the installation. At this point you might be intrigued or turned off.

I recently took a tour of the facility, and I couldn’t understand much of the guide’s descriptions of what I was seeing. However, I enjoyed the vibrant colors.

Walking through the various installations was a psychedelic

and trippy experience. I would need to visit again and take more time in the various rooms to fully appreciate all that lies within the building.

I suspect kids will love it, but I can envision that they could easily become lost in all the catacombs. One guide used the phrase social impact art, which I believe it is.

My idea of art expanded with my visit, and I believe Meow Wolf will do well in Denver. It will be a tourist attraction and a Denverite destination for art enthusiasts. If you are open minded and adventurous, I encourage a visit.

The building contains four floors and 79 unique environments to explore.

The Perplexiplex, a 488-person music and private events venue, will projection art by day and musical entertainment by night. The concert line up can be found on the Meow Wolf website. You will also find a small restaurant called HELLOFOOD Café, which features food from local restaurants and breweries. An online community is available that tries to crack codes and interact with the narratives presented in the installations.

Tickets will be timed entry and cost $35 for Colorado residents and $45 for all others.

It will be open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Sunday-Thursday and 10:00am to midnight on Friday and Saturdays. Find out more about it or plan your visit at meowwolf.com Lisa J. Shultz is a book reviewer and an art and culture columnist for The Villager since 2020. Lisa is a Denver native, and she loves to inspire exploration of the city’s treasures in her book Essential Denver. Find out more about her and her book at LisaJShultz. com or call her at 303-881-9338.