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Don’t count out Tri-County Health yet, leaders say Health chief, Adams Co. officials see collaboration possibility past 2022

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

13. The review showed that candidates in 20 school district contests in the election that ended Nov. 2 had raised more than $1.9 million, about $672,000 more than candidates in the same districts raised in all of 2017.

In five districts — Cherry Creek, Windsor, Summit, Falcon and Eagle — candidates are raising tens of thousands of dollars in races that

The formal bonds that hold the public-health partnership among Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties together may be loosening, but the complete demise of the TriCounty Health Department, which has served them for decades, may be less certain to happen than it has appeared.

“My best-case scenario is, after a couple months, Adams County works with us and figures out they can provide what they want in terms of local control and (for their residents) in a two-county infrastructure,” John Douglas, executive director of Tri-County Health Department, told Colorado Community Media in an interview, expressing hope that Adams and Arapahoe could still work together.

He also envisioned a future where Arapahoe County partners with TriCounty “as some kind of independent entity” that Arapahoe might contract with — or even that Greenwood Village-based Tri-County gets “evolved” into a department of Arapahoe County.

He said he hopes that whatever Tri-County becomes could also work with Adams and Douglas counties at least in a transitional role to provide services and help them plan for what their evolution to new health agencies might look like.

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The fountain at The Streets at SouthGlenn outdoor mall at East Arapahoe Road and South University Boulevard in a 2019 file photo.

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BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Nearly three years after plans to redevelop Centennial’s flagship shopping center met the public eye,

the city council will decide whether to approve changes to dramatically reshape The Streets at SouthGlenn outdoor-commercial and residential complex.

After developers submitted plans to the City of Centennial this June 22, the developers were given a chance to respond to feedback from citizens and the city, and they resubmitted the plans to the city on Oct. 18.

Now, the plans face a vote by the

Centennial City Council, which will hold a public hearing on Dec. 6-7, where the public can give comments in person before the council vote.

The Centennial Planning and Zoning Commission, a body of citizens who make development recommendations to city council, will first hold a public hearing scheduled for Nov. 9-10.

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Colo. school board election spending skyrockets Douglas, Jeffco, Denver, Cherry Creek among top districts for donations

BY SANDRA FISH THE COLORADO SUN

More cash flowed into Colorado school board contests this year than in previous election cycles

as teacher unions, charter school advocates and wealthy individual donors opened their purse strings to influence closely contested races across the state.

The spending is part of a national trend of contentious school board elections, supercharged by COVID19, the social justice movement and other hot-button concerns.

The Colorado Sun analyzed candidate and committee campaign finance filings through Oct.

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Homelessness: How can metro Denver grapple with problem?

CU Denver and a think tank offer ways to help

BY TATIANA FLOWERS THE COLORADO SUN

Homelessness is pervasive and costly, and has worsened and grown more complex in metro Denver, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

There’s no single solution to resolving the crisis affecting more than 6,000 people in the sevencounty metro region, according to researchers who spent months interviewing formerly homeless people and the leaders of organizations that serve them.

Expensive housing, a shortage of paid human services staff and mistrust in the system are among the factors making the homelessness problem even more intractable, researchers said.

A major recommendation by the researchers studying homelessness in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties is adding more affordable housing options.

People clean up their encampments along Lincoln Park in Denver ahead of its closure by authorities in January 2020, because of PHOTO BY JESSE PAUL/THE COLORADO SUN public health concerns.

The report cited Denver’s Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative, which has provided housing and case management services to about 300 people experiencing chronic homelessness, who were frequently involved with

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When those people were offered housing and wrap-around services, they remained housed and interacted less frequently with costly emergency services, according to an analysis published on the city’s website.

The report includes several other ideas that researchers at the Common Sense Institute and University of Colorado Denver identified as successful in other communities and held promise for use locally.

“There are a variety of programs doing impactful work in meeting the different needs of people experiencing homelessness,” said Kristin Strohm, CEO and president of the Common Sense Institute, a research organization dedicated to protecting and promoting Colorado’s economy, which partnered with CU Denver to produce the report.

“Our goal with this phase was to document what’s working, where there are opportunities, where there might be gaps and ultimately learn from them to solve this crisis,” Strohm said.

The Common Sense Institute and CU Denver released a nearly 70-page report Oct. 25, the second to emerge from their research.

The first report, released in August, analyzed the economic impact of homelessness in metro Denver.

Researchers estimated that almost $447 million a year is spent on shelters, supportive services, health care and other public assistance for people experiencing homelessness in metro Denver.

The researchers are also urging community leaders to find additional ways to support providers, who are short-staffed, yet offer critical support to people who are homeless or at risk for homelessness.

Amplifying awareness of providers and their work can help achieve that goal, and encouraging formerly homeless people to become entrepreneurs, who offer peer services in the system, can also help address the crisis, study leaders said.

Mistrust in the system can steer some people away from accessing the services they need, so finding new ways to build trust in the system is also crucial, researchers said. Clarifying eligibility require-

ments can help achieve that goal.

The process to receive services often involves many forms and complex structures that make it difficult for homeless people to navigate, extending the amount of time before people in need can get help.

More self-navigation tools could reduce the time spent during the process, researchers said.

The report said it’s critical to improve access to online or electronic information for homeless people who don’t have reliable phone and computer devices.

Homeless people can often miss vital connections to information related to their health, employment, housing, transportation and financial needs because they lack consistent access to the internet, electricity, phones or computers. As a result, providers often struggle to deliver services to their homeless clients, the report said.

“The issue of homelessness in our communities is an incredibly complex and challenging one, and requires a clear understanding of the ways to both prevent people from experiencing homelessness in the future, and providing faster ways to recover from homelessness now,” said Dan Griner, director of design, innovation and strategy for the CU Denver Inworks Innovation Initiative, a collaborative of leaders working to solve humanity’s most pressing problems, according to the organization’s website.

Metro Denver’s population has grown by 21% over the past decade, and grew by 1.6% in 2019, alone.

Denver’s growth rate is higher than that of the state, which saw a 15% increase in population growth from 2010 to 2019, according to the report.

The number of people experiencing homelessness in Denver grew by 25% from January 2017 to January 2020. While the number of homeless people likely grew in the last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is unknown by how much.

Metro area leaders typically count the number of homeless people on a single night each year. But the annual point-in-time survey, or PIT count, did not occur this year because of the pandemic.

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The state has a housing deficit of more than 175,000 homes since 2019, the report said, and while Colorado is “a fairly progressive state” at implementing new initiatives, the housing shortage in Colorado means it’s ranked the fourth worst in the nation behind Washington, D.C., Oregon and California.

One affordable housing real estate developer interviewed in the report said zoning challenges and community pushback have prevented them from moving forward any new projects in Colorado in seven years.

Similarly, a Denver Department of Housing Stability leader said it costs more than $300,000 to develop a new single unit for affordable housing in the metro Denver area.

With rising rental costs and a housing shortage, many voucher programs are unable to close the gap between current prices and what people can afford, according to the report.

The report said a major precursor for homelessness is vulnerability — the possibility of being attacked or emotionally or physically harmed.

Vulnerable people experiencing mental illness, family instability, substance use disorders, repeat experiences of incarceration or domestic violence, for example, are at higher risk for losing their housing and may need immediate shelter services.

Many people who are currently or formerly homeless are considered vulnerable, and the perception of vulnerability is often considered

a risk factor by many landlords or rental agencies, who can be reluctant to lease to them because of that factor, according to the report.

One service provider included in the report framed the issue of homelessness as “a loss of community.”

“When homelessness is a result of loss of community, then finding ways to welcome individuals into a new community is necessary,” the person said.

Although CU Denver and the Common Sense Institute have completed their research for this homelessness project, at least for now, leaders from both organizations said they hope to continue working toward solutions.

“The providers in this space and many of the people who are working in this every day — this is common knowledge for them, as to how these things are working,” Griner said.

“But the general public and the community — we all have a part in helping to alleviate this problem and understanding it to a greater degree,” he said. “We’re hoping with education, more people are able to make informed decisions around policy, and around how they interact with this issue.”

To read the full report, go online to commonsenseinstituteco.org.

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun. com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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didn’t record a single political contribution four years ago.

School board candidates in Colorado aren’t subject to fundraising limits like candidates for state legislature, governor and Congress.

“It’s just a continuing escalation of out-of-control money in these local races,” said state Rep. Emily Sirota, a Denver Democrat who lost a 2011 Denver school board race and last year tried in the state Legislature to limit contributions in school board contests. “It’s pretty staggering.”

The increase in spending is most dramatic in the Douglas County School District, where four of the seven seats on the board were up for election. (Visit ColoradoCommunityMedia.com for election results.)

Eight Douglas County candidates, four of whom were endorsed by the Colorado GOP, raised more than $444,000 through mid-October, nearly double the $231,000 raised by the eight candidates who ran in the district four years ago.

The four GOP-endorsed candidates this year raised 71% of the total.

Although school board contests are nonpartisan, both Democrats and Republicans endorsed candidates this year.

In the Cherry Creek School District, six candidates who were vying for two seats had raised nearly $156,000 through the middle of the month. Four years ago, the election was canceled because the two seats drew only one candidate each.

November 4, 2021 But it isn’t just suburban Front Range districts seeing more money pour into school board contests this year. Through Oct. 13, candidates in Mesa County raised four times the total raised in 2017. And candidates for the Montrose County School District board raised more than three times the amount candidates raised in all other previous Montrose County school board elections combined, according to The Montrose Press.

Big money from teachers unions, individuals Teachers unions have been the biggest spenders in school board contests. Their candidate contributions focused mostly on districts in Denver, Jefferson, Adams and Larimer counties.

But individual donors also spent big this year.

Lone Tree real estate developer Eric Garrett donated $30,000 each to four Douglas County school board candidates — Mike Peterson, Christy Williams, Becky Myers and Kaylee Winegar, running as the “Kids First” slate — who were also being supported by the Republican Party.

Mike Slattery, who co-owns The Emporium in Castle Rock with his wife, Andrea, gave $20,000 each to the same candidates, while Andrea Slattery gave $10,000 each.

And R. Stanton Dodge, who lives in Castle Pines and is the chief legal counsel for DraftKings, gave $12,500 to each of those four Douglas County “Kids First” candidates.

Stephen Keen, a Fort Collins lawyer, donated $40,000 to Jefferson County school board candidate

Paula Reed and $10,000 each to Mary Parker and Danielle Varda in the same district. All three candidates were supported by the Democratic Party.

This year’s large individual contributions stand out compared to prior contests.

The Colorado Sun looked at contributions of $10,000 and more in school board contests statewide in 2017 and 2019. There were five individual contributions of $10,000 to school board candidates in 2017 and 21 in 2019.

That compares with 26 such donations by individuals this year through mid-October, a statistic that doesn’t include donors who gave multiple times that added up to $10,000 or more.

Teachers unions’ small-donor committees made seven donations of $10,000 or more to school board candidates in 2017 and 14 in 2019.

That compares with 14 such donations so far this year.

Outside cash focused on Denver, Aurora contests Independent expenditure committees — similar to federal super PACs — also spent heavily this year.

Ten such groups spent nearly $1.5 million on mailers, digital ads and other campaign efforts in 13 districts around the state, including Denver, Aurora, Jefferson and Douglas counties.

Most of the independent spending — nearly $818,000 — was in the four Denver Public Schools contests.

The top spender among the committees was Students Deserve Better, which spent in Denver, Jefferson County, Aurora, Cherry Creek,

Brighton and two Larimer County districts. That group is funded by teacher unions.

Parents for Great Schools, another committee that spent large sums this year, was focused on the Denver1 races. It’s funded by Denver Parents s for Public Schools, a new nonprofit f group that doesn’t have to report its donors.

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Last year of limitless fundraising?

Sirota, the Democratic state representative from Denver, said her 2020 bill to limit individual contributions to school board candidates at $2,500 “failed because of COVID.” Lawmakers took a more than two-month break in mid-session and severely altered the agenda upon returning in late May. Sirota’s bill died in a Senate committee.

She said she is considering bringing the legislation back in 2022, but hasn’t made a decision yet.

“It’s probably a better bill to run during an even year,” she said. “It’s less likely to disrupt the middle of a campaign cycle in an even year.”

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When the dust settles, he suggested, the outcome of the three counties’ transition may be that each county gains its own board of health — the policy-making body that issues public health orders such as mask mandates, for example — thus freeing them from the need to contend with the political differences among the counties when shaping health policy.

And at the same time, the counties may end up with agreements to keep receiving day-to-day public health services from Tri-County Health, at least for some period of time, or they may partner with different entities.

Aside from COVID-19 mitigation, Tri-County provides services such as restaurant inspections, nutrition counseling, maternal and child health services, and disease control, among other functions.

Taking politics out of health After the end of 2022 — when Douglas County could end its agreement to continue receiving services from Tri-County Health and when Adams County expects to move to a new health department structure — the costs of Arapahoe and Adams counties pulling away from Tri-County could be in the millions, according to a consulting firm studying the benefits and drawbacks of the counties’ potential decisions to handle public health services alone.

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mask — County Commissioner Eva Henry said at the time that she agreed with the intent of the order and supports mask-wearing.

“It’s unfortunate, you know, that politics got into our public health system — it shouldn’t be there,” Henry told Colorado Community Media. “And that was one of the reasons I voted to opt out of the mask order, to put it back in TriCounty’s hands, to take politics out of the public health orders. Commissioners shouldn’t be making public health decisions.”

Douglas told CCM that he felt the pandemic wasn’t the only factor that led to the three counties starting to split up.

“I think if we wouldn’t have had COVID, I think we would have continued with a three-county relationship,” Douglas said, but he added that the counties — all of which are much more populous now that when they joined the agency — have differences that eventually may have led them to break Tri-County up anyway.

But “I don’t think it would have been right now if it hadn’t been for COVID and public health orders,” he said.

Adams County Commissioner Emma Pinter felt that the breaking up of Tri-County isn’t just tied to mask wearing.

“I think there’s been fractures for some time between the three counties,” Pinter told CCM. “It just wasn’t as heightened until we

November 4, 2021 entered the pandemic and tried to do pandemic (policy) together.”

Asked whether there are moments during the pandemic she looks back on and wishes Adams had its own health department, Henry said: “Almost weekly.” She said she wanted to have the conversation “long ago” of Adams having its own health agency.

“Once a year, all the county commissioners get together and they talk about the budget,” in the three counties, Henry said. “And talk about what we’ll fund and not going to fund. With Arapahoe County’s budget restrictions they have, and Douglas County’s views, it made those decisions very hard.”

Adams has different budget policies than Arapahoe County because Arapahoe is “not de-Bruced,” meaning the county has different restrictions under Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, Henry said.

Adams’ industrial sites and environmental health concerns are important to that county’s leaders, one example of a unique county aspect that lends itself to being handled by local leaders alone, according to Henry.

“Other counties shouldn’t be influencing the public health of another county,” Henry said.

Difference in ‘consistency’ For Adams County’s Pinter, watching other counties give less support or less-consistent backing to John Douglas’ policy recommendations was part of what motivated her to want to break from TriCounty.

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Dr. John Douglas, executive director of Tri-County Health Department since 2013, at PHOTO BY ELLIOTT WENZLER his home.

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“If you watch the votes of the duly appointed board of health members, those three Adams board of health members consistently voted together and in the interest of public health, in favor of Dr. Douglas’ recommendations,” Pinter told CCM. She added: “If you look at the votes on the board of health members of Arapahoe and Douglas, the same consistency is not true.”

She added that she wants to have a board of health “that always puts the wellbeing of our residents first.”

Before Douglas County exited Tri-County, the agency’s board of health consisted of nine members — three each from Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas.

Christa Bruning, an Adams County spokesperson, signaled that the county plans to enter into some type of partnership for public health services in the future.

“Adams County intends to contract with a local health agency for many of its public health services starting in January 2023,” Bruning said. “It’s too early in the process to know who that health agency is.”

Henry said Adams County is looking at Denver’s health department model, in which Denver contracts to receive nonprofit services for “a lot of its programs.”

Adams could hypothetically partner with Broomfield or Jef-

ferson counties, too, Henry said as an example. Those counties have their own public health agencies.

“And if Tri-County really wanted to survive, what they could look at is becoming a nonprofit and … contracting out to the three counties,” Henry said.

Douglas, the Tri-County health chief, said he has heard of the idea that his agency could become a nonprofit, but the legal ins and outs of that weren’t immediately clear.

In Arapahoe County, where TriCounty’s headquarters currently sit, Douglas said that “it could be we go away entirely and they (Arapahoe) hire our staff to work for them, or we stay as some kind of independent entity and they might contract for us, or we get evolved into a department of the county.”

Echoing Douglas, Pinter expressed support for leaning on Tri-County in some way as Adams transitions to a new public health structure.

“I think that in that transition, we have the opportunity to use the expertise of the staff of TriCounty Health. They’ve carried us through a pandemic … we owe a great debt of gratitude to the staff,” Pinter said, noting that the staff have faced a contentious and combative atmosphere toward public health officials amid the pandemic.

She said that over the next year, the county will need to think about whether it wants to contract with Tri-County for some period of time.

‘Too early to speculate’ Arapahoe County commissioners Nancy Jackson, Nancy Sharpe and Jeff Baker declined through a spokesperson to be interviewed for this story. Luc Hatlestad, spokesperson for Arapahoe County, told CCM that Arapahoe’s leaders preferred not to “go into the political” aspects of the situation regarding the counties transitioning to new public-health structures.

Hatlestad said he didn’t know whether there have been specific conversations among county leaders about the idea of Tri-County becoming Arapahoe’s health department, but that the physical headquarters being there and employees living in or around Arapahoe “would contribute to possibility of that happening.”

Regarding contracting public health services with a specific county or agency, Arapahoe hasn’t gotten to the point where its leaders are planning whether to do that, but if that becomes a beneficial option, the county could consider that, Hatlestad said.

Still, he emphasized that Arapahoe County isn’t at the stage where it has firm plans of how to transition to a new public-health structure. The county said in a statement that it’s “too early to speculate how things will unfold.”

“Our board is going to use this an opportunity to explore whatever options we have to keep services at the level that our residents expect and deserve and also looking for ways to make intelligent fiscal decisions,” Hatlestad said.

Douglas County’s elected leaders formalized the decision to leave

Tri-County in a meeting Sept. 7, opting to form their own board of health — including two of the county’s three elected commissoners — in charge of matters such as countywide public health orders.

But the county decided to continue to receive all services from TriCounty through 2022, approving an agreement on Sept. 28.

However, on Nov. 1, CCM reporter Elliott Wenzler reported that Tri-County Health was handing off various COVID-19 services it performed for Douglas County to the state Department of Public Health & Environment. That action came after a Tri-County official called a county order letting people opt out of mask-wearing rules “greatly concerning.” A federal judge later temporarily blocked Douglas County’s opt-out order at the request of the county school district, which had previously mandated masks inside its schools.

The Adams commissioners brought forward a resolution at an Oct. 26 public hearing to provide notice of Adams’ decision to leave Tri-County. The vote was unanimous, Pinter said.

Arapahoe has appeared less keen to cut ties with the health agency, saying in an Oct. 19 statement: “The Arapahoe County Board of Commissioners is saddened that our neighboring counties have chosen to end the productive 55-year partnership with the Tri-County Health Department.”

“The Board intends to do what it can to support the many dedicated employees of Tri-County Health throughout this process,” the statement said.

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t s PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD f w the opposite end of the SouthGlenn m complex closed near the end of 2018. o Because the developers want to r change the mix of types of proper- t ties allowed, their plans need the i city’s approval.

The Streets at SouthGlenn is one o of the top sources of sales-tax rev- 6 enue for the city compared to other a shopping centers, but it hasn’t been r performing as well as it used to.

S The former Sears property is a owned by Northwood Investors, f which wants to add apartments there. Alberta Development Partp ners — which controls nearly all of c the rest of SouthGlenn — wants to A put in apartments and office space, m and retail and entertainment estab- i lishments, where Macy’s stands. c The two developers want to make T the following changes: i • Increase the allowed number a of residential units from 350 units t to a total of 1,125 units. Currently, i there are 214 residential units in the existing Portola at SouthGlenn t apartment building. New units a would likely be high-end like at the J Portola. m (Previous information before the June plan submittal indicated that S developers wanted to increase the

A woman walks two dogs past diners at Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar at The Streets at SouthGlenn in an Oct. 9, 2020, file photo.

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Not much changed between the first submittal and the resubmittal in October, but some numbers in a study of the redevelopment’s potential effects on traffic saw some notable revisions.

Area residents in 2019 primarily voiced concerns about the potential for more traffic around the outdoor mall, located at East Arapahoe Road and South University Boulevard, a major intersection in the south metro area. They also objected to the possibility of new apartment buildings across the street from the less-dense neighborhood nearby.

The redevelopment plans have proved to be one of Centennial’s most visible civic issues in recent years. A crowd of more than 100 came to the empty former Sears at SouthGlenn at a March 2019 meeting that introduced the plans to area residents. Roughly 400 people filled the seats at a November 2019 meeting at Powell Middle School in a second community meeting about the plans, an unruly gathering that underscored the continued frustration some residents feel toward the

project.

At least some members of community groups have expressed support for the plans, though. The Centennial Council of Neighborhoods — or CenCON, a coalition of homeowners’ associations and similar neighborhood groups — thanked the developers for some compromises.

“CenCON wants to thank and applaud both Northwood (Investors) and Alberta (Development) Partners for the opportunity to sit down (and) address all concerns — not only with CenCON but also with the Southglenn neighborhood group,” CenCON wrote in an Aug. 13 letter to the city. “During our discussions our ideas were seriously considered and the compromise that was reached is one that CenCON can fully support.”

Here’s a look at what could change at SouthGlenn, what the coalition of neighborhoods cited as compromises and what a revised study said about potential traffic impact in the area.

What could change Developers want to revitalize the mall, which has fought recent vacancies and is facing the expectation that its Macy’s store could close in coming years. The Sears store at

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How Centennial will make its SouthGlenn decision

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Because the City of Centennial approved a “master development plan” in 2006 that deviates from normal zoning, the developers — Northwood and Alberta — need the city’s approval to make certain changes at The Streets at SouthGlenn.

Zoning is a local government’s rules for what can be built where. enerally, the city’s planning and zoning commission, and city council, must base the decision on whether they feel it will benefit

the public and whether it “will not materially and adversely affect existing development on adjacent properties, or measures will be taken to substantially buffer or otherwise substantially mitigate any incompatibility or adverse impacts,” according to the city website.

The proposal must be consistent with the mixed-use concept of SouthGlenn’s master development plan and must not conflict with the requirements of the “master development agreement” or financial obligations regarding the project.

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refers to areas where a combination of residential and commercial w spaces — or different commercial T spaces together, such as office and r C retail — are located on the same development.)

E The city entered into the 2006 y master development agreement with the developer to establish the process by which SouthGlenn was A redeveloped, and the MDA is tied to E the master development plan.

The proposal also must be consis- “ tent with the city’s comprehensive t plan, Centennial NEXT, which sets goals for future development and t n land use in the city.

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allowed number of residential units to a total of 1,273 units. The formal submittal proposed an overall lower number of new units than some earlier versions of the plan.)

• Modify the allowed height on the former Sears land and the Macy’s land from 50 feet to 75 feet. The current allowable building heights in The Streets at SouthGlenn vary across the site. No building is allowed to exceed 100 feet. For context, the current tallest building is the office building north of the existing Sears land at 85 feet, according to the city’s website.

• The core of the Macy’s redevelopment is expected to include three new five-story mixed-use buildings, according to details from the proposal’s traffic study. The Sears redevelopment would consist of a smaller retail building and three new five-story residential buildings.

• Provide an open-space area along the north side of Easter Avenue to serve residential development at the former Sears land. The developer would be required to provide a minimum of 25,000 square feet of public open space, green space, “passive recreation” or common public space to serve that development, according to the city website.

• Decrease the required amount of retail from 909,815 square feet to 621,000 square feet. Currently, there are 948,853 square feet of leasable retail area, including the former Sears and Macy’s buildings, which are approximately 307,000 square feet combined.

• The city’s website shows that the plan would rezone the 1.3-acre parcel at the northeast corner of Easter Avenue and Race Street to accommodate the redevelopment. (Changing zoning means changing what can be built on a particular area.)

The property at 2001 E. Easter Ave. is a three-story office-style building, according to plan documents, and the building is expected to be demolished under the plan.

Alberta and Northwood submitted plans to the city on June 22. The application was deemed complete on July 20 before the developers resubmitted the plans in October.

Some compromises cited Back in 2019 or late 2018, the developers’ original proposal was to have up to 1,600 residential units, according to city staff. Now, the plan envisions 911 new units to get to the proposed new limit of 1,125 units.

CenCON, the coalition of neighborhoods, listed “areas of compromise” in the plan including: • A tiered, “step-back” in heights with lower heights at the perimeter.

The step-back in height approach resulted in fewer units, according to CenCON’s letter.

• Cuts into the building along Easter Avenue “provide little courtyards and space for tenants.”

• A small park bordering Easter Avenue was included. o • Proposed landscaping along Easter Avenue and Race Street will “soften” the buildings as it matures, the letter says.

Some comments the public sent to the city at its at southglenn@centennialco.gov email address asked for

the plan to include affordable housing units.

The developers’ Sept. 17 responses to comments, given through a company called Farnsworth Group, made clear that desires for affordable housing likely wouldn’t move forward.

“In most cases, the inclusion of affordable housing at a project like the Streets at SouthGlenn requires subsidies or other government involvement which the applicants are not contemplating at this point,” read the letter from Brad Nelson, an architectural manager.

Traffic numbers shift The proposal came with a newly revised companion study on the impact the redevelopment would have on traffic — and it lowered some estimates of increased traffic, while other estimates grew.

Along Arapahoe Road, Race Street, University Boulevard and Easter Avenue — which form SouthGlenn’s perimeter — most of the changes in the morning and afternoon would be less than a 10% increase and “do not represent significant changes to traffic flow,” according to the study by Felsburg, Holt and Ullevig, an engineering and planning firm. That version of the study is dated October 2021.

But traffic changes along Race Street would be “significant,” the revised study notes. The increase would range from 37% to 49% depending on the time of day and whether looking at short- or longterm effects.

“This reflects the fact that Race Street has the lowest levels of background (existing) traffic of the surrounding roadways, so volume changes are more pronounced,” the study says.

The version of the traffic study that was revised July 2021 showed much lower numbers for Race Street, ranging from 7% to 10%.

Most increases for all roads in that version were estimated at 9%. Compared to that version of the study, the October 2021 revision shows many lower increases for the roads, aside from Race Street.

The version of the traffic study dated November 2019 showed even higher estimates for growth on Race Street, up to 65%. Generally, the November 2019 numbers appeared to be closer to the October 2021 than the July 2021 revision.

Asked what caused the back-andforth in the numbers, a City of Centennial spokesperson deferred questions to the developers. Donald Provost, founding principal with Alberta Development Partners, also deferred the questions on Nov. 1 and said he would forward them to the traffic engineers. Colorado Community Media did not receive answers as of press time.

The study also notes that the residential communities surrounding The Streets at SouthGlenn have expressed concerns regarding SouthGlenn traffic using neighborhood streets to avoid congestion along adjacent roadways — sometimes referred to as “cut-through” traffic.

“A review of existing traffic counts indicates that less than 5% of the trips from the Streets at Southglenn currently travel between the development and each of the neighborhoods surrounding the project site,” the study says.

HOW TO GIVE YOUR INPUT See the formally submitted documents for The Streets at SouthGlenn redevelopment proposal — including the study on how the plan would impact traffic — at tinyurl.com/SouthGlennDocuments.

The public can submit comments and questions about the project on the city’s website at tinyurl.com/SouthGlennFeedback.

The comment period closes on Nov. 28.

Comments received before Nov. 2 were to be included in official information packet for the Centennial Planning and Zoning Commission public hearing on Nov. 9-10. At that meeting, the commission will either recommend approval or denial of the proposal to city council.

Comments received by Nov. 28 will be included in the official information packet for the city council public hearing on Dec. 6-7, where the council will vote to approve or deny the proposal.

The public can also provide comments about the proposal at the public hearings. Visit tinyurl.com/CentennialCityMeetings, scroll down to the small “meetings & agendas” heading, and click one of the agendas for more information about those meetings.

The public may also email southglenn@centennialco.gov and can sign up for project updates through a newsletter via the city’s website at tinyurl.com/CentennialNewsletterSignup.

The study adds: “We believe that the potential for traffic from the new development to travel through the adjacent neighborhoods to avoid congestion is low.”

The study also says based on other data, less than 3% of trips from the Streets at SouthGlenn are anticipated to travel between the development and each of the neighborhoods surrounding the project site.

“This is a significant reduction when compared to the 7% to the west and 5% to the east considered in (an) October 2005 study,” it says.

That sentence appears to imply that, because the percentage of cars coming from SouthGlenn that travel to surrounding neighborhoods would be lower than the percentage was in 2005, less SouthGlenn traffic overall is expected to go through the neighborhoods.

But overall, the raw number of cars that drive to and from SouthGlenn could be larger in 2021 — and in the future — than it was in 2005.

Asked whether the raw number of trips through adjacent neighborhoods after the redevelopment would be larger than the number is now, the city also deferred that question, and Provost also deferred that question to traffic engineers.

The traffic counts conducted for the study represent “AM and PM” peak-hour conditions for a typical commuter day, according to the study. The intersection counts were collected in 15-minute increments during the hours of 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Counts along Easter Avenue were taken in December 2018 for an earlier evaluation of the Sears redevelopment. A second set of counts was completed in July 2019. Two supplemental counts were conducted once schools opened in August 2019. Additional “AM peak hour” counts were taken in February 2020, the study says.

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Personal growth precedes, boosts professional growth

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ast week I had the privilege to participate in a professional development program for salespeople delivered by my good friend and mentor WINNING Bryan Flanagan.

Although I have WORDS seen Bryan and many other corporate trainers deliver quality programs for more than 20 years, I still pick up something new, or a lesson that needed to be reinforced.

I listened to this Michael Norton one sentence, and I was immediately transported back to hearing Zig Ziglar talk about how important it is to develop the person, not just the skill set. Here is what was said: “Personal growth always precedes professional growth.” Having spent most of my professional career in the personal and professional development industry, I know this to be an accurate statement.

Working with companies of all sizes, one of the questions I receive is around guidance for a sales training program or leadership development program that can help compa-

nies accelerate growth. And before I answer, I ask a question in return, “What have you done so far to build the people in your organization?” Almost everyone will answer with a list of courses or companies that they have worked with to address or focus on a specific skill set such as sales training, time management, communication skills, customer service training, presentation skills, etc.

When this happens, I pause and reframe the question. I acknowledge that those skills absolutely help develop capabilities, and then I ask them to think about some of the other character traits that can impact their people personally and professionally while still helping the company to grow. Some understand my question as they recognize that when we work on building our people, the people will in turn help us build our business.

Equally, if not more important than the skills mentioned above, are the softer skills training such as confidence, developing a positive attitude, building winning relationships at home and at work, goal setting and achievement, and learning to work and live with hope. When we can instill or work to strengthen

these qualities, our people will be in a much better frame of mind to receive the other skills-based training that can further their career while contributing to their team and the organization.

Having been in the people building business for most of my life, I can share with you that unfortunately many organizations miss this opportunity. This is a shame because there is so much available data that supports the fact that when we work on the personal growth aspects of our people, the professional growth always follows. Companies who overlook investing in personal development opportunities often find themselves paying substantially higher replacement costs.

Sometimes we fall into the trap of believing that all the people we hire or who are already a part of our team don’t need any help in their personal growth. This is flawed thinking because each of us will go through life’s challenges, and we may not always be prepared for the impact or toll those challenges can take on our lives. Even some of our people whom we see as strong and capable may be going through a hardship that can cross over into

their professional work. We all bring our home life to work and our work life home, both the good and the bad.

Self-confidence helps us to develop a positive outlook and attitude. A positive attitude contributes to building winning relationships. Confident and positive people who work well with others become goals oriented and results focused. And when we can help develop all these character traits in our people, hope abounds.

And as John Maxwell says, “If there is hope in the future, there is power in the present.”

Personal growth precedes and accelerates professional growth. If you have questions about how to go about this for you and your team, I would love to hear from you at mnorton@tramazing.com. And when we can live and work with confidence, a positive attitude, establish winning relationships, realize our goals, and become filled with hope, it really will be a better than good year.

Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager, and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

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s you age, you may start to notice changes in your balance, or may have already experienced a fall. Noticing changes in your balance can feel intimidating or even scary at times, but it’s important to remember that you’re LIVING & not alone in this journey to mainAGING WELL tain or improve your balance. In fact, most falls are preventable. With the proper education and training for balance, you can achieve significant improvement in Sadie Schanbacher your balance and reduce your risk of falling.

A common misconception about balance is that it relies mostly on your body’s strength. The truth is, balance is just as much of a challenge for your brain as it is for your body, and strength only plays a small part. There are many things that impact your balance in addition to strength, such as vision, lighting

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changes, medications and more. For example, if you need to use your hands to get out of a chair, this may be a sign your coordination has changed, or that your strength has declined.

Balance is a reflex, and you can improve your balance through physical exercises (such as onelegged stands) and cognitive exercises (such as solving math problems or playing memory games).

What’s most effective is combining these exercises at the same time, also known as “dual-tasking.” Dualtasking challenges you to think and move at the same time, which helps your balance reflexes and better prepares you for the world and its many uncertainties. One real-life example of dual-tasking is being asked a question while walking — oftentimes if this happens to an older adult, they’ll typically stop walking in order to answer the question.

This is because the part of the brain that controls balance has declined.

The good news is that dual-tasking balance training can significantly improve balance after just a few weeks of training.

There are also plenty of things you can do at home to help improve your balance in your everyday routine. Try some of these helpful tips in your free time around the house: • Adjust your stance.

• Every time you brush your teeth, challenge yourself to stand with your feet closer together.

• Focus on your footing.

• Focus on stepping from heel to toe when you’re walking. This gives your brain the information it needs to assess the walking surface.

• Talk while moving.

• Train your brain and body to work together by counting items around a room or carrying on a conversation. Listening to music is a great distraction as well.

• Lift your feet over imaginary objects.

• Practice lifting your feet over imaginary objects to prepare yourself for everyday trip hazards, such as rugs. Trip hazards exist everywhere — learning to safely and consistently step over them is better than avoiding them long-term.

• Shift your weight.

• Hover your hands inside a sink

for safety and shift your weight from one leg, then the other. If this is too easy, try it with your eyes closed.

The state of Colorado cares about its older adult residents and their health and wellness needs. Part of your health and wellness includes your balance, which is why Colorado provides helpful resources for balance training. One program that is offered to older adults is free access to Nymbl (website: co.fallsfree.com), a dual-tasking balance training app that can be done in the comfort of your home. If you have questions about your balance or fall risk, you can always start by talking to your doctor about these topics.

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Littleton council OKs new downtown historic district Designation seeks to bring new grant funding, safeguard preservation

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Littleton City Council voted 6-1 on Oct. 26 to approve a new downtown historic district designation. Patrick Driscoll, who represents District 1, which includes downtown Littleton, was the only councilmember who voted against the proposal.

The decision overhauls the current district designation along Main Street that property owners have had the option of joining since 2005.

- The new designation will automatically apply to all properties within the district’s boundary, which will also be expanded beyond Main Street to include Alamo Avenue and several side streets.

The move is intended to better protect the downtown area, with some buildings that date back to the 1870s, from development and demolition that city staff said could threaten its community character.

City staff members also believe that an all-inclusive historic designation, as opposed to the current opt-in model, will better position Littleton to secure new grant funding from the state.

Before council’s vote, Driscoll pushed an amendment that would have approved the new designation’s boundaries while preserving property owners’ ability to opt-in for the next five years. The amendment failed 5-2, with Driscoll and Littleton Mayor Jerry Valdes being the only votes in its favor.

Driscoll had raised concerns about the all-inclusive designation following pushback from several property owners during the meeting’s public comment period.

Brad Manske, who owns several properties around Littleton, including the ViewHouse on Main Street, said the district’s expansion would put new parking pressure on businesses and residences outside the boundary.

Scott Wagner, who said he owns a building in the current historic district, feared that more stringent regulations on buildings could drive away business owners and called the move an “overreach.”

“There are other owners of businesses in downtown Littleton that I think would have a hard time making their investment work if they had to adhere to all the requirements,” he said.

Under the new designation, 69 of 82 buildings within the expanded boundary would be considered “contributing buildings,” meaning the buildings contribute historically

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or architecturally to the downtown area’s character. These buildings would be subject to more stringent regulations regarding updates and renovations.

Driscoll, as part of his objection to the new designation, also pointed to negative feedback from some property owners who were sent ballots by city staff to gauge their support for an expanded, all-inclusive historic district.

Of the 53 ballots that were sent to various property owners, 22 were returned. Of those 22, only eight were in support of the new district while 14 were opposed.

But Mayor Pro Tem Scott Melin said the 31 property owners who did not return ballots could not be disregarded and called the 22 figure a “trivial sample size.”

While most property owners in attendance opposed the decision, other community members voiced their support.

Gale Keeley, president of Historic Littleton Inc., a nonprofit that promotes downtown preservation by designating properties as local landmarks and recognizing preservation efforts, said the new historic district will improve the area’s identity.

“People love Littleton because of its historic downtown. … By expanding the historic district to include the buildings on Alamo we can do even more,” she said.

Littleton resident Iftin Abshir said the new designation would bolster protection for downtown Littleton and called the move “just the beginning” for preservation efforts.

“Historic buildings are physical reminders of what came before us and help to create a sense of culture in our neighborhood,” she said.

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LETTING

IT FLY Isaac Smith, of Highlands Ranch, draws his bow while target-shooting at Quick Draw Archery’s indoor range on Oct. 15.

PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN

Littleton-area resident Adrian Evangelista practices target-shooting archery on Oct. 15 at Bear Creek Archery near Englewood.

Castle Rock’s Chris Treloar, a staff shooter at Quick Draw Archery in Highlands Ranch, draws his bow while target-shooting at Quick Draw’s indoor range on Oct. 15. Treloar started practicing archery about three years ago and has competed in tournaments across the country.

Conifer-area resident Dave Cenedella, right, looks to buy a new compound bow at Bear Creek Archery near Englewood on Oct. 15.

Cenedella has been practicing archery for about six years and made a range in his yard.

Archers find their own aims, outlets on indoor ranges

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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a V rchery is more than how Katniss Everdeen won the p Hunger Games. s It’s whatever the archer wants it to be — a friendly competi- c tion; a therapeutic outlet for one’s a a frustration; a challenging, physical exercise; a mental game; a way s to hunt; a way to make friends; a discipline; a skill; a sport; and much s a more. s Littleton-area resident Adrian Evangelista said shooting every day s s at Bear Creek Archery, in unincorporated Arapahoe County near Englewood, is a way to get out of the w p house. t “(Archery) teaches you how to a manage your frustration … and learn from your mistakes,” he said.

U “ … Life could be boring without sports.”

As the weather turns colder and s the days get shorter, many archers p r have moved indoors for targetshooting and tournament season, o c which runs until March.

Archery in general has become more mainstream in recent years, w and its popularity has grown during b the pandemic because it’s a “COVID a friendly” activity, Bear Creek Ar- M chery owner Dave Marsh said.

Kevin Lewis, who owns Quick Draw Archery in Highlands Ranch, said the sport usually sees an uptick in interest after the Summer Olympics. But, Hollywood is also responsible for archery’s increasing popularity, especially among girls.

After 2012’s “The Hunger Games” movie came out, Lewis said everybody wanted to be like Katniss. He also wondered whether Disney’s upcoming “Hawkeye” TV show will likewise generate interest in the sport.

Evangelista, who started archery in 2013, recommended people give it a shot at least once, saying, “If you like it, you like it.”

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Setting their sights on indoor competitions This time of year, Lewis said indoor ranges see a mix of people doing it for fun, children learning the sport, and archers practicing for tournaments.

For a serious archer, he said, indoor and outdoor archery are two completely different games. There are more options outdoors, including hunting and 3D target courses; but indoor has its own world of events and specialists too, Lewis explained.

Conifer-area resident Dave Cenedella said he and his wife plan to compete in the Thursday night league at Bear Creek Archery.

Cenedella, who’s been practicing archery for six years, said he enjoys bow-hunting and shooting in his backyard range. Like rifleSEE ARCHERY, P17

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shooting, archery requires selfreliance, he continued, but it doesn’t impact one’s hearing like rifleshooting does.

“It’s super-challenging,” Cenedella said of archery. “There are so many variables, and you have to do everything the same way every time.”

Right now, Colorado’s best archers are preparing for this February’s Vegas Shoot, the annual indoor “Super Bowl of archery” in Las Vegas.

Castle Rock’s Chris Treloar, a staff shooter at Quick Draw Archery, said the tournament world is a lot of fun. He’s competed in indoor and outdoor competitions, winning several across Colorado.

Treloar also enjoys the ritualistic side of archery. The state has a huge archery community, with lots of shops and organizations, so there’s something going on every night, he said.

Fellow staff shooter Rick Typher, who lives in Highlands Ranch, appreciates how archery is therapeutic and a mental game, stating, “It’s a battle against yourself.”

Un-bow-lievable fun Whether archers only recently started shooting or have been practicing it for years, local indoor ranges have something for everyone, including private lessons and classes for all experience levels.

Many rent out recurve bows, which are generally easier to draw but harder to hold, local professional archer Steve Marsh explained.

Meanwhile, compound bows are

Littleton’s Nathan Hartford, 14, takes aim while target-shooting at Quick Draw Archery’s indoor range on Oct. 15. Nathan and his PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN dad, Ben Hartford, started practicing archery a few months ago.

individualized and end up being harder to draw but easier to hold, he said.

“You can’t expect to master (archery) overnight,” he said.

Marsh, who works at Bear Creek Archery and shoots for the Matthews Archery team, described how he started archery at age 8 but didn’t become proficient until he was 20.

Littleton’s Ben Hartford and his son Nathan, 14, started archery

Castle Rock resident Chris Treloar, a staff shooter at Quick Draw Archery in Highlands Ranch, pulls arrows out of his target while shooting at Quick Draw’s indoor range on Oct. 15.

earlier this fall. Ben used to do it at camp, and revisited it when his cousin gifted him a bow. Since then, he and Nathan have been practicing how to sight their targets.

“It’s a skill,” Hartford continued.

“The more you do it, the better you get.”

Isaac Smith, a college student from Highlands Ranch, started five or six years ago and described it a fun hobby that he revisits whenever he can. He enjoys both indoor and

outdoor archery, and likes setting up makeshift ranges whenever he goes camping.

“It can be relaxing if you don’t stress about it,” he said.

Madison Myles, who lives in the Parker area and started archery when she was 10, also has an outdoor range at home and tries to shoot at least once a week.

“I like the joy of it — the adrenaline rush,” she said. “It’s fun. Just try it out.”

Parker-area resident Madison Myles, foreground, and Highland Ranch’s Isaac Smith shoot a compound bow and a recurve bow, respectively, on Oct. 15 at Quick Draw Archery. The business features a 20-yard indoor range and retail for archery supplies.

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he Butterfly Pavilion at 6542 W. 104th Ave. in Westminster, a unique Colorado facility that claims to be the first accredited, stand-alone nonprofit invertebrate zoo in the world, is celebrating MonSONYA’S arch Magic, an event that started SAMPLER with the release on Nov. 1 of more than 300 monarch butterflies in the Wings of the Tropics butterfly conservatory.

Monarchs are a popular symbol in the Mexican tradiSonya Ellingboe tion of Dia de los Muertos and are recognized for their 3,000-mile migrations from Canada and the northern United States to the oyamel fir forests in the mountains of Mexico, where they are expected about now.

What a treat to be in the midst of these lovely creatures, who actually don’t travel here much on their own when migrating. Appreciation of all pollinators is in order. Tickets: $13, $11, $9, with some discounts available for multiple tickets. See butterflies.org, 303-469-5441.

Curtis Center The Of Order and Chaos Art Collective was launched in 2019

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Our note says the group originally planned to explore the visual idea of “Equalization,” working with repeated patterns and textures to find order, but has expanded to mark a journey through the chaos wrought by COVID and a year in lockdown ... The first two years of working in community weren’t as expected.

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Arts guild workshop Well-known area artist Victoria Kwasinski will return to lead a workshop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 20 for Heritage Fine Arts Guild members and guests at Littleton First Presbyterian Church, 1609 W. Littleton Blvd. in Littleton.

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Boulder Dinner Theater Boulder Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, is offering performances of Irving Berlin’s classic “White Christmas,” playing Nov. 13 to Jan. 8, 2022. Older readers will happily recall the early movie with Big Crosby and Danny Kaye and younger ones will know the music to this award-winning show.

See bdtstage.com for reservations or call 303-449-6000. Into 2022, watch for The Glenn Miller Orchestra to appear Feb. 22-23. Formed in 1956 and touring worldwide since.

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‘Firekeeper’s Daughter’ author Young adult thriller author Angeline Boulley, a member of the Sault Ste. Marie tribe of Chippewa Indians and author of “Firekeeper’s Daughter,” will talk via Zoom at 6 p.m. Nov. 12. Books are available at Book Bar, 4280 Tennyson St., Denver, and will include a signed bookplate while copies last. Her talk, sponsored by Arapahoe Libraries, requires registration at arapahoelibraries.org or call 303-LIBRARY (303-542-7279.) The book is about a Native teen who must root out corruption in her community.

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Pop-up shows Groups of Littleton Fine Arts Guild artists will host pop-up shows at the Depot Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave., Littleton, through Nov. 7: Linda Birch, Ivy Delon, Karen Shaw, Kathy Triplett, Loren Gilbert. Nov. 9-14: Teri Hendrix, Pam O’Mara, Chris Johnson, Sally Vander Kamp, Rebekah Griffith. Open 11 a.m. to 4 .m. Tuesday through Sunday. 303-795-0781, depotartgallery.org. Admission free.

Denver Art Museum Opening Nov. 14 at the Denver Art Museum: “Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France” with more than 100 artworks from 1855 to 1913. This exhibit is curated by Timothy Standring, curator emeritus at the Denver Art Museum and presented on Level Two of the Hamilton Building. Through March 13, 2022. 720-865-5000, denverartmuseum.org.

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Church keeps arts scene lively Nov. 19 free concert will feature Colorado Chamber Orchestra String Quartet

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Seven really happy-looking musicians swung into “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” on Oct. 22 as pianist Purnell Steen and the Five Points Ambassadors presented the first concert of Littleton United Methodist Church’s Fine Arts Series, a local treat that has been sorely missed around here since the entertainment world stopped spinning, in our area and just about everywhere!

The audience enjoyed a piano, bass, two guitars, drums, sax and trumpet, as well as a vocalist. Steen, a member of a musical Denver extended family, was last heard at LUMC when he played at a memorial service for longtime friend and jazz fan Charlie Carroll, an active member of this church.

Church members have contributed over the years to bring a series of free concerts to LUMC and we’ll hope they can be extended. At present the Master Artist Series includes the Steen group plus the Colorado Chamber Orchestra String Quartet, which will perform “two monuments of chamber music by Beethoven and Mendelssohn” in a free show at 7:30 p.m. on

Nov. 19, according to David Kates, the church’s director of Music and Fine Arts Ministries.

The professional chamber orchestra has been directed by Thomas Blomster and has appeared as a group in the metro area at various venues over past years. We’ll hope to see more of it in the near future. In the meantime, the upcoming evening with the principal string players will be a “don’t miss” for classical music lovers.

Next Fine Arts Series supported listing will be at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 12 with the LUMC Choirs and Orchestra: “A Festival Service of Carols.”

The final listing at present is “Close n’Counter” at 2:30 p.m. January 30, 2022, which presents an eclectic guitar trio playing favorite standards with a blend of steel and gut strings.

We’ll watch and hope for additions, and are thrilled to find lots to report now.

Also programmed at this busy church are a number of other concerts ...

LUMC is home base for the Littleton Symphony Orchestra, which played a sold-out concert on Oct. 15, featuring pianist Katie Mahan performing “Rhapsody in Blue.” On Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. the symphony will perform a holiday concert: “Vivaldi, Dvorak and Other Favorites” with violinist Laura Anderson. These are ticketed at reasonable prices, but no

tickets will be sold at the door, due to COVID restrictions, so buy in advance!

Longtime LSO Maestro Jurgen DeLemos, who plans to retire, will conduct a New Year’s Eve concert at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 31. The orchestra will host guest conductors in the new year as it searches for a new leader on Feb. 18 (David Brussel), April 8 (Scott O’Neill) and May 20 (Bill Hill).

Also planned in the new year (Feb. 7 and March 18) are a pair of concerts by Voices West, which was once the Littleton Chorale, started by the late Bud Nicholson.

Dr. Michael Todd Krueger is director and we will look for more information about these performances soon. The February concert will be a benefit for Littleton Public Schools’ music program, which the chorus has long supported, and the title for the March event is “Sing Out My Soul,” a time to “remember, mourn, celebrate and sing ...”

On April 23-24, the Littleton UMC Arts Festival will return with visual art, music and hopefully theater.

A newly commissioned work by internationally recognized choral composer Thomas Keesecker will be performed. Watch for more information on this festive weekend.

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The Colorado Chamber Orchestra String Quartet will give a free concert at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 19 in Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St. Members are, clockwise from top, Naomi Smith, Summer Rhodes, David Short and Javan Carson.

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Arapahoe, runner-up a year ago, won the Class 5A girls team title with defending champion Cherry Creek coming in second.

PHOTO BY JIM BENTON

State cross country titles decided in Springs South metro athletes from Creek, Chaparral take individual firsts

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Riley Stewart of Cherry Creek High School won another Class 5A girls individual cross country

title and Tanner Brown of Parkerarea school Chaparral captured his first 5A boys championship on Oct. 30 at the Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs.

In the 5A team competition, Centennial school Arapahoe won the girls title and Mountain Vista edged crosstown Highlands Ranch school Valor Christian by two points to take home the boys title.

Arapahoe, a runner-up to Cherry Creek in last season’s girls state

meet, reversed places with Creek’s Bruins as the Warriors had 42 points while second place Cherry Creek finished with 60 points.

The 5A boys team chase was close as Vista had five runners in the top 20 to garner 59 points.

Valor’s fifth runner was 22nd and the Eagles had 61 points.

Stewart won her third straight individual title and couldn’t say if anybody pushed her during the race, which she won with a

time of 17:20.9. Valor Christian’s Brooke Wilson was second in 17:47.4 with Emily Lamontagne of Arapahoe finishing third with a time of 18:01.3.

Aidyn Woodall of Castle Rock school Douglas County was sixth.

“It feels amazing,” said the Stanford-bound Stewart. “The conditions were nice. It was nice and cool and there wasn’t a lot of SEE COUNTRY, P23

Arapahoe misses chance against Grandview Warriors come out of loss with three-way tie for regular-season top spot

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Arapahoe High School, of Centennial, had an opportunity to outright win the Centennial League football regular season championship on Oct. 28 in a game against Grandview, of Aurora.

However, the Arapahoe Warriors started slow and nothing much went much better in a 32-13 loss to the Wolves at Legacy Stadium in Aurora.

Both Arapahoe and Grandview finished the regular season with 8-2 records and tied for first place in the Centennial League with 4-1 records.

It wound up being a three-team tie

for first place after two-time defending state champions Cherry Creek, of Greenwood Village, beat Aurora school Smoky Hill 35-10 on Oct. 29.

Arapahoe surrendered an 81-yard touchdown run to Grandview sophomore quarterback Liam Szarka on the Wolves’ third play of the game.

Then a snap over the punter’s head and a blocked punt produced safeties that pushed Grandview ahead 11-0 in the first quarter.

The teams played even until Grandview’s Moosah Alsafarr, who rushed for 134 yards, scored on a 1-yard run in the third quarter to increase the Wolves’ lead to 25-7.

Arapahoe scored late in the third quarter on a 12-yard run by DJ Montoya but any comeback hopes were exhausted when Grandview’s Kahden Rullo scored on a 10-yard run after a recovery of a muffed punt runback with 70 seconds remaining in the game.

Pyreese Miller tallied Arapahoe’s

other TD on a 22-yard run with 41 seconds left in the first half.

First-year Warriors coach Joe Nuu praised Grandview before getting into the mistakes by his own team.

“They were just the better team tonight,” he said. “They played great. We felt like we could do some things. You can’t give up a blocked punt, a missed field goal and think we’re going to win the game.

“Even at the end when they stripped the ball from us. It should have been a lot tighter game than it was.”

Arapahoe now awaits to see whom it will play in the playoffs “We’re in the playoffs,” said Nuu. “We just don’t know if we will be in the top eight. The kids are not happy when I told them that.

They’ll get over it. We’re 8-2. Holy cow. It’s a great record. We’ll come back but we held our own destiny in our hands.”

Arapahoe’s Pyresse Miller (10) tries to turn the corner against the Grandview defense in the Oct. 28 game. Miller scored on a 22-yard run later in the second quarter but the Warriors wound up losing the game, 32-13. PHOTO BY JIM BENTON

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State prep playoffs open with Arapahoe win Warriors score 3 goals in 8-minute span against Chaparral

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Arapahoe High School boys soccer coach Mark Hampshire is well aware how the games and preparation change once the regular season ends and the state playoffs begin.

Playoff games have more emotion and intensity and the Class 5A firstround state playoffs games were held Oct. 27.

“Playoffs are remarkably different,” said Hampshire. “The first 15 games of the season you want to give yourself an opportunity to get into the playoffs. You start figuring out players, what players can do, what systems can do, but the playoffs start and mentally everything shifts because you know you are one and done. If you don’t win, you don’t get another chance. The emotions are higher.

“This is year 30 for me,” Hampshire continued. “There are things through the later part of the regular season we hope we can do when we get into the playoffs. We back off a lot in the amount of time we train, we target specific things we need to work on in our training. At this point, the kids own it. We can do a little bit of the chess game and that kind of thing as coaches. We want the kids to have fun and experience

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wind. This title was pretty amazing because it was a way to finish my high school career before I head to college.”

Wilson was the closest runner to Stewart but her dreams didn’t come true.

“In my dreams I was hoping to compete with her but I was really happy with where I was compared to her,” she said. “I was really happy with my race. Everything that I was planning before all kind of fell into of what actually I wanted it to be.”

Brown, a sophomore, ran in a time of 15:44.7 to edge Valor Christian’s Ty Garrett who was second in 15:48.3.

Brown exceeded his hopes.

“I came I here hoping to get a Top 5 but I was feeling good and able to keep up with the pack until the end,” said Brown. “Going up that final hill into the stadium, I knew I could take it because I’ve always felt so strong on that hill when we would come down to practice and in last year’s race. I felt great. It was the best race I’ve run.”

Arapahoe’s girls had their five scoring runner place in among the top 18 individuals.

“We won freshman year but we have improved a lot since then,” said the Warriors’ Emily Lamontagne. “As a whole we had a really

this and own whatever happens.”

Arapahoe, of Centennial, owned Parker-area school Chaparral in its first-round match, scoring early and often in a 7-0 victory at Littleton Public Schools Stadium.

The Warriors scored in the first 14 minutes of the contest and tallied three goals in an eight-minute span to take a 5-0 halftime lead.

“Chaparral is a good team,” said Hampshire. “Because we jumped on them so early, all of a sudden it was hard for them. Their boys battled and they continued to battle.

“Down the stretch of the season they did some great stuff against Mountain Vista (5-1 win) and against Regis (3-2 win) so we just played extremely well. We needed to because the last three games we did not play well. This was good for us. It was a really good game for us offensively.

Once you score goals it relieves a little pressure off our defense.”

Senior Caleb Ballard led the way for Arapahoe with two goals and two assists for six points to give him 35 points for the season.

Will Grauberger had two goals while Ramzi Maalout, Blake D’Agostino, Clark Roe and Marshall Gueller each scored once.

Goalie Alex Bissett had to make just two saves as he notched his ninth shutout of the year.

At press time, Arapahoe was slated to face Colorado Springs’ Rampart in the second round on Nov. 2.

In other first-round games involving south metro teams, secondseeded Valor Christian’s Zac Brooks got the goal in a 1-0 win by the

good team. We were definitely hoping for a good showing down here.

We definitely wanted to run the best that we could.”

Lamontagne’s third-place finish led Arapahoe with Ava Mitchell coming in fourth, Anna Bridges 11th, Ava Escorcia 16th and Karli Holmes 18th.

The 5A boys team chase was close as Vista had five runners in the top 20 to garner 59 points.

Valor’s fifth runner was 22nd and the Eagles had 61 points.

Vista’s boys knew they had come in either first or second but didn’t know they had won until it was announced over the public address system that Valor was second, which set off a celebration among the Golden Eagles athletes.

It was the third straight title for the Golden Eagles and seventh overall boys cross country state championship.

Vista’s Jayden Nats was fifth in the individual race with a time of 16:01.6, Tyler Downs was eighth, Benjamin Anderson 11th, Luke Urban 20th and Aaron Yoccom 21st.

“We knew it was close,” said Nats. “I was nervous. When I finished I looked back and saw Valor was just alternating finishes. I had faith in my teammates. We’ve had a tough season with injuries and sickness. We have lots of alumni and fans in the stands to cheer us on and it was good to get the win.”

Connor Kennedy of Littleton school Heritage was sixth among the Top 10 in the 5A boys race.

Arapahoe’s Marshall Gueller races off the field after scoring a goal in the Warriors 7-0 first round playoff win over Chaparral on Oct. 27. Clark Roe (16) and Gabe Haughton PHOTO BY JIM BENTON (3) follow Gueller.

Highlands Ranch school against Doherty, of Colorado Springs. Rock Cayon’s Owen Barnett had a goal and three points in the Highlands Ranch school’s victory over Poudre, of Fort Collins. Matt Relijanovic and Bailey Voit scored for Castle View, of Castle Rock, in a 2-0 triumph over Chatfield, of Jefferson County.

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Ranch, used goals by Kyle Atkinson, Tristan Larsen and Diego Ramirez to down Aurora Central, 3-1. Cherry Creek, of Greenwood Village, lost a shootout 4-1 against Fossil Ridge, of Fort Collins, after the game ended in a 1-1 tie. Luke Williams scored in the second overtime period to lift Grandview, of Aurora, to a 2-1 win over Regis Jesuit, also of Aurora.

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Sheridan police, along with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, have identified the victim of a 33-year-old homicide case.

Akram Bada’an was believed to have been murdered at the age of 36 on Aug. 27, 1988, police said during a press briefing Oct. 27. His body was found in the 2800 block of West Oxford Avenue.

Police had previously referred to the victim only as John Doe. “The most important thing in this case, aside from giving the victim justice, is giving the victim his name back,” said Bryan Penry, detective for the Sheridan police, who said identifying Bada’an was the “first step of many’’ in solving the case.

With advances in DNA analysis, authorities were able to use genetic genealogy to trace Bada’an’s family back to Israel, who they said have been notified.

Audrey Simkins, an analyst for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said the agency has been involved with the case since 1989. In 2020, Sheridan police asked the bureau to review the case, Simkins said, which promoted more fingerprint analysis from previously preserved evidence.

This led investigators to determine the victim was Israeli, a turn-

Akram Bada’an is believed to be the victim in a cold case dating back to 1988.

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Chris Wilcox, senior chief deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, urged those with information about Bada’an to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers, which is offering a $2,000 reward. Go to metrodenvercrimestoppers.com or call 720-913-7867.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0053-2021 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 24, 2021, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) JonPaul Aragon and Patricia J. Aragon Original Beneficiary(ies) Colorado Credit Union Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Colorado Credit Union Date of Deed of Trust January 02, 2015 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 06, 2015 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D5002461 Original Principal Amount $27,599.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $26,776.00 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Lot 4, Block 14, Southglenn, Third Filing, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 6730 South Downing Circle West, Centennial, CO 80122.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 12/15/2021, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and

best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 10/21/2021 Last Publication: 11/18/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

legals@coloradocommunitymedia.com

colorado.com. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. by a vote of 8 in favor and 0 against.

(First published October 21, 2021) By:Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 529700-61151 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL

DATE: 08/24/2021 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, November 1, 2021, the Centennial City Council approved the following ordinance on second and final reading:

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-18

Harry L. Simon, P.C. #7942 Harry L. Simon, P.C. 10200 East Girard Avenue, Building B, Suite 120, Denver, CO 80231 (303) 758-6601 Attorney File # 6730 S DOWNING CIRCLE W The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO. 0053-2021 First Publication: 10/21/2021 Last Publication: 11/18/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

City and County PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, November 1, 2021, the Centennial City Council approved the following ordinance on second and final reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-21 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO EXTENDING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM IMPOSED BY ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-09 ON THE ACCEPTANCE OR PROCESSING OF APPLICATIONS OR APPROVALS OR LICENSES, INCLUDING ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMITS AND BUSINESS LICENSES, FOR SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES AND FOR BUSINESSES THAT SELL OR RENT ANY AMOUNT OF ADULT NOVELTY INSTRUMENTS, DEVICES, OR PARAPHERNALIA The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk and is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennial-

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO APPROVING INITIAL ZONING OF PROPERTY WITHIN THE DOVE VALLEY V ANNEXATION KNOWN AS THE SEMSWA PROPERTY FROM ARAPAHOE COUNTY MIXED USE (MU) TO CITY OF CENTENNIAL PUBLIC OPEN SPACE AND RECREATION (OSR) UNDER THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AND AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk and is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. by a vote of 8 in favor and 0 against.

(First published October 21, 2021) By:Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 529702-61152 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, November 1, 2021, the Centennial City Council approved the following ordinance on second and final reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-16

by a vote of 8 in favor and 0 against.

by a vote of 8 in favor and 0 against.

(First published October 21, 2021)

(First published October 21, 2021)

By:Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk

By:Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 529703-61153 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Legal Notice No. 529704-61154 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

PUBLIC NOTICE

Bids and Settlements

CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, November 1, 2021, the Centennial City Council approved the following ordinance on second and final reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-17 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO APPROVING INITIAL ZONING OF PROPERTY WITHIN THE DOVE VALLEY V ANNEXATION KNOWN AS THE AVORIC PROPERTY FROM ARAPAHOE COUNTY MIXED USE (MU) TO CITY OF CENTENNIAL ACTIVITY CENTER (AC) WITH MODIFICATIONS UNDER THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AND AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk and is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. by a vote of 8 in favor and 0 against.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT City of Centennial Quebec Street at County Line Road Intersection Improvement Project No. 21-09-02 CDOT Project No. SHE M193-016 Construction Code No. 22034 Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Section 3826-107(1), C.R.S., that the City of Centennial, Colorado (the “City”) will make final payment on 11/19/2021 (the “Final Settlement Date”) to the following contractor: GoodLand Construction Inc. (hereinafter, the “Contractor”), for and on account of all work completed by the Contractor on City Project No. 20-09-02 – Quebec Street at County Line Road Intersection Improvement (the “Project”).

The Project was completed within the boundaries of the City, in Arapahoe County, Colorado at 13133 E. Arapahoe Road, Centennial, Colorado 80112.

(First published October 21, 2021) By:Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk

1. Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has an unpaid claim against the Project for and on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, or other supplies used or consumed by the Contractor or any subcontractor in or about the performance of the Project, may at any time up to and including the Final Settlement Date, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim.

Legal Notice No. 529705-61155 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, November 1, 2021, the Centennial City Council approved the following ordinance on second and final reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-20

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO ANNEXING CERTAIN TERRITORY TO THE CITY KNOWN AS THE DOVE VALLEY V ANNEXATION

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO, APPROVING AN ANNEXATION AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE AVORIC PROPERTY WITHIN THE DOVE VALLEY V ANNEXATION

The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk and is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324.

The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk and is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324.

2. Any such claim(s) shall be filed with the City Clerk at 13133 E. Arapahoe Road, Centennial, Colorado 80112 prior to the Final Settlement Date.

3. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to the Final Settlement Date shall relieve the City from any and all liability for such claim(s).

Legal Notice No. 529706-61156 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

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