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New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit indoor dining, personal gatherings HEADS UP PLAY Commerce City’s Tinklenberg steps down
Deputy Manager Cathy Blakeman to fi ll interim role
Skyview’s Jamiel Ciaravino, center, advances the ball through Brighton defenders, including Jose Serrano, right, and Terrin Lewis, during the fi rst half of a non-league game at Brighton High School Aug. 18. The Bulldogs won, 1-0. PHOTO BY STEFAN BRODSKY
Tracking pollution in state’s most impacted areas
A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent weeks due to high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test positivity rate BY MIGUEL OTÁROLA was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health Department. COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO Brighton and Commerce City’s test positivity rates were both higher than 13 percent. Forty- ve people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have died from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread of COVID-19, at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions that prohibits indoor and Sandra Ruiz-Parrilla has organized walking tours, planted trees and curated art exhibits to draw attention to the envipersonal gatherings. ronmental hazards in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood.
There’s the constant noise and foul smells coming from construction sites, Interstate 70 Photo by Belen Ward and the nearby Purina pet-food plant, she said. There is also the soil under the homes, contaminated by industrial smelters from decades past. But getting state offi cials to go beyond increasing their awareness and taking steps to fi x those problems has been a long process, she said. “It’s hard to really fi ght and raise your voice, because they don’t really hear us in our neighborhoods,” Ruiz-Parrilla said in Spanish. More than a year after Gov. Jared Polis signed the Environmental Justice Act into law, state offi cials say they are working to earn the trust of
Trying to get state to take Coloradans who are disproportionately impacted by pollution action has been lengthy and other environmental risks. The legislation allocated more process than $2.5 million this year for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to target pollution in communities with lower incomes and more people of color by creating a state-level environmental justice program. The department hired a team of workers focused on environmental justice, formed advisory groups and launched a new data tool to track environmental
By Ellis Arnold Colorado Community Media
As Denver metro counties continue to inch closer to local stay-at-home orders under Colorado’s system of coronavirusrelated restrictions, the state announced a new level of rules that prohibits indoor dining and personal gatherings — a change that applies to the majority of the Denver metro area and many counties in other regions. e state’s COVID-19 dial, which has been in e ect since September, is the set of di erent levels of restrictions that each county is required to follow based on the severity of a county’s local virus spread. e dial grew out of the state’s safer-athome order — the policy that came a er the statewide stay-at-home order this spring and allowed numerous types of businesses to reopen. e state recently switched to color identi ers — levels blue, yellow and orange rather than numbered levels — to avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level red — “severe risk” — is the second-
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STAFF REPORT
City Council of Commerce City accepted the resignation of City Manager Roger Tinklenberg during their meeting Aug. 15.
Councilors unanimously approved a separation agreement that took effect immediately, with Deputy City Manager Cathy Blakeman named as acting city manager through Sept. 30.
“I am proud of the work we did to help the city achieve some major milestones, adapt to sweeping changes, and fi nd innovative ways to administer programs and services for our community,” Tinklenberg said in a letter. “I’d like to thank everyone who has been a part of that journey for the past two-plus decades.”
Mayor Benjamin Huseman had good things to say about the outgoing manager.
Tinklenberg joined the city in 2001 as director of fi nance. He was promoted to administrative
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