Roche wins South Metro Fire election

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e winners of the South Metro Fire Rescue Board of Directors election are Sue Roche of District 1, Jim Albee of District 3, Bruce Stahlman of District 4 and Renee Anderson of District 5, according to uno cial election results.

e re rescue authority, which serves approximately 560,000 people total in the south Denver metro area, is governed by a seven-member board of directors who are publicly elected and oversee an annual budget of more than $127 million, according to the agency’s website.

Each board member represents a speci c geographical portion of the overall re district, known as a director district, the agency explained in a 2020 governing body document.

Four of the directors’ seats were up for the May 2 election in District 1, District 3, District 4 and District 5. e elected directors will serve a four-year term expiring May 2027.

Only one seat, District 1, was contested. Roche, the incumbent, ran against Randy Perlis, former president of the Cherry Creek School District Board of Education.

According to the election judges’ uno cial abstract of votes for the South Metro Fire Protection District, there were 3,607 votes counted for Roche and 1,552 votes counted for Perlis.

Albee, Anderson and Stahlman ran uncontested. Albee and Anderson were both incumbent candidates, and Stahlman was appointed as the director for District 4 before the spring election. ere will be a canvass board meeting to certify the o cial abstract of votes cast at 9:30 a.m. May 11 at the South Metro Fire Rescue’s headquarters, located at 9195 E. Mineral Ave., according to the agency’s website.

All three of those candidates received more than 5,000 votes, according to the uno cial abstract of votes.