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Engerman elected mayor in Castle Pines

SPECIAL REPORT

New council will be sworn in on Jan. 11

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Colorado Center for the Blind in Littleton.

After the final votes were tallied, Tracy Engerman emerged as the new mayor of Castle Pines, beating out incumbent Mayor Tera Radloff and challenger David McEntire.

Residents were notified of the results on Nov. 12 after Douglas County finished counting all ballots.

According to the announcement, voter turnout was over 55% in Castle Pines, with the state average being 36.6%. Overall Douglas County voter turnout was 40%.

Engerman, who said she chose “courage of over comfort,” opted Engerman not to seek re-election in District 3, instead deciding to run for the city’s top seat. In her campaign, Engerman said, “We need a Castle Pines mayor and leader that will fight for the needs of our community, collaborate with local partners, and communicate the city’s plans and its successes to the residents.”

In District 3, Engerman’s term has not expired. City Clerk Tobi Duffey said once Engerman becomes mayor

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They came seeking confidence; they left traumatized Sexual abuses were kept quiet for decades at the world-renowned Colorado Center for the Blind, former students and employees allege

BY DAVID GILBERT DAVID@COLORADOSUN.COM

More than a dozen previously unreported instances of sexual misconduct and abuse spanning at least two decades at the Colorado Center for the Blind in Littleton have surfaced during an internal

investigation of the school’s parent organization.

Among the offenses were the alleged sexual assault of a 13-yearold girl by a summer youth camp counselor in 2001, of which police have no record; a teacher accused SEE BLIND, P6

ABOUT THIS SPECIAL REPORT This project is a collaboration of Colorado Community Media, publisher of this newspaper, and The Colorado Sun. The Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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Outgoing school board directors reflect on tenures Public comment highlights divisions in the community

as board president and will serve as a regular board member going forward. Ahead of the board transition, Ray said he will miss the synergy among sitting directors, who he said could disagree but described as amazing to work with.

“I certainly will not miss the daunting responsibilities that are bestowed on this role,” he said, “nor the target that I oftentimes have had emblazoned on my chest.”

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Outgoing Douglas County school board members said their goodbyes at the district’s last regular board meeting before new leadership assumes office, although divides in the community laid bare by the election were still evident during public comment.

Board directors Kevin Leung and Krista Holtzman lost their bids for re-election and will leave office this month along with the other departing directors, Christina CiancioSchor and Anthony Graziano.

Newly-elected board directors Becky Myers, Mike Peterson, Christy Williams and Kaylee Winegar, all members of the Kids First slate that challenged some policies of the current district leadership, will be sworn in Nov. 29. The election was closely watched across the region.

Several speakers at the Nov. 9 meeting thanked the outgoing directors for their time in office and said they should be proud of their work in the district during tumultuous times.

Holtzmann thanked people who have supported her and thanked her fellow slate member Leung, saying his “brilliant intellect” is only matched by his integrity.

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She commended board President David Ray, calling him the board’s “steady leader,” who she said aptly organized his six colleagues through intense times.

Holtzmann shared a quote by Martin Luther King Jr., saying she believes “the arc in the moral universe is long and that it bends toward justice,” but added she appreciates an update to the phrase from former President Barack Obama: “It doesn’t bend on its own.”

Leung thanked past superintendents, including Erin Kane and Thomas Tucker, for their service, saying a superintendency is not an easy role. He called teachers and

Krista Holtzmann

district staff “the hero during the pandemic,” and said he had hoped to do right by students during his tenure.

The district’s equity policy had been a point of contention for some voters, but the policy was “truly one of the biggest, I think, accomplishments that I have,” Leung said, urging incoming board members to keep the policy in place as written.

“At the bottom of my heart, I have tried, and thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to serve you. Sometimes it’s better to lose and do the right thing,” Leung said.

The Nov. 9 meeting was a transition for Ray, too. He is term-limited

Backlash toward decorum rules The sitting board has been at the center of a firestorm for weeks as parents upset with masking mandates and other COVID-19 policies vowed to vote directors out and called for those not up for election to resign.

Many people upset with the current board have also lamented decorum policies as directors tried — often unsuccessfully — to prohibit conduct like cheering, applauding, standing or laughing at public meetings.

More than once, a public commenter has used theatrics or hyperbole to express disapproval of the rules. On Nov. 9, Matthew Smith began his remarks by looking to Ray and quipping, “Permission to speak, master?” Smith has repeatedly rebuked the board’s stance that displays including jazz hands or spirit fingers by a majority in the room can create an unsafe or intimidating SEE DIRECTORS, P3

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County Offices Closed Nov. 25 & 26 Douglas County offices will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 25 and Friday, Nov. 26 in observance of Thanksgiving.

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A man gives public comment at the Douglas County school board meeting wearing PHOTO BY JESSICA GIBBS American flag apparel.

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environment for people with other perspectives.

At a previous board meeting, another regular attendee, Shawn Benson, knelt on the floor before the dais and made a similar remark about needing Ray’s permission to begin speaking. Benson returned on Nov. 9 to criticize the board again, saying decorum rules infringe on First Amendment rights and are an effort to silence critics.

“You had the audacity to threaten to remove me from the room for cheering for my wife and waving my American flag,” Benson said.

At the previous meeting, Benson’s wife spoke remotely while he sat in the audience. As she finished, he cheered for her and waved a small American flag. Ray had repeatedly asked the audience to refrain from reacting to public comment, and Director Elizabeth Hanson urged Ray to begin removing people who did not follow policy.

Ray told Benson he would be removed if he did not quiet and waited to proceed with the meeting until the room calmed.

On Nov. 9, Benson wore head-to-toe American flag apparel and said it was an outrage that the board would not let him hold an American flag during meetings. As people waited in line for the meeting, Benson carried an American flag attached to a staff.

At past meetings, security personnel have not allowed people to bring in items such as posters attached to boards as handles, citing safety concerns.

Benson told directors they did not know the difference between an unsafe environment and uncomfortable speech, then said they might prefer governments that censor.

“I hear it’s a buyer’s market right now in Afghanistan,” he said.

Disciplinary action taken Both Smith and Benson criticized the board for allowing Sarah Wu to attend Nov. 9 and knit with knitting needles.

At the Oct. 26 meeting, Wu sat through much of the evening knitting, but toward the end yelled at another attendee before walking toward him rapidly. Friends of Wu’s intervened and she left the meeting shortly after. She later apologized for the incident and said she did not intend to confront the man physically.

“There was someone that came up here and spoke and they talked about how they felt unsafe in the room and then an hour later charged a man with a knitting needle in their hand, and they’re in the room right now with a knitting needle in their hand,” Smith said.

A public record request for any complaints submitted to the district against Wu or communications to her from the district’s head of security has not yet yielded results as of press time.

Another matter did garner the security director’s attention. Records obtained by Colorado Community Media through a public record request show the school district’s director of security, Jonny Grusing, wrote to Steve Collier, banning him from attending board of education meetings or district forums inperson.

On Sept. 28, Collier had finished making public comment and on his way back to his seat leaned toward an audience member and quickly motioned toward them.

Grusing’s Oct. 4 letter said “surveillance video and livestream video depicts you aggressively lunging towards another person seated in the middle of a row.”

Collier responded that day and asked how he could appeal the ban, saying it was “taken completely out of context.” He worried the disciplinary action was retaliation for his public comment, in which he had alleged some district staff had violated election laws.

“I’m very taken back by this decision made by the Douglas County School District,” Collier wrote, stating he had also seen screenshots from video of the incident. “I can assure you there was no ‘threatening or intimidating behavior’ against anyone at the meeting.”

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Parents grapple with vaccination question Children ages 5 to 11 join ranks of eligibility for COVID shots

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

While some parents have moved forward with getting their children ages 5 to 11 vaccinated against COVID-19, others are still hesitant.

Dr. Brandi Freeman, a pediatrician for Children’s Hospital Colorado, said she has been addressing a lot of parent concerns, hesitation and anxiety as they struggle to make a decision on whether or not to get younger children vaccinated.

“The hesitancy given the environment and the world we live in today is a normal thing,” Freeman said.

“As a pediatrician, I try to talk to parents and work to understand what their hesitancies are and answer the questions they have.”

The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved the Pfizer vaccination for children ages 5 to 11 in early November. After the approval, the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) followed suit, advising parents to get the vaccination for school-age children.

In the Nov. 5 press release, the CDPHE said, “Vaccines are the safest, most effective way to slow the spread of COVID-19 and help

Calvin Grimes, 8, and Cooper Grimes, 5, receive their COVID vaccinations.

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Until the recent FDA approval, only those 12 and over were eligible for the vaccination.

According to CDPHE data, 10% of the 3.9 million people vaccinated in Colorado range in age from 5 to 19.

Once her children were eligible, Centennial mom Katherine Giuffre said she was “elated” to get her two sons, ages 5 and 7, vaccinated quickly.

Giuffre said she did not have the same level of hesitation as other parents, noting it is all about safety.

“I was so excited and started looking for clinics to schedule the vaccination right away,” she said. “I had been preparing and researching for months. With them vaccinated, I feel safe in having them going to school. We are going to be able to really get out in the world again. We love to travel, and this is important to be able to do that.”

After the vaccinations, Guiffre said her 5-year-old complained of a sore arm, but it did not prevent him from playing tennis and going about his day. Her 7-year-old had zero side effects from the shot, Guiffre said.

Freeman said soreness in the injected arm has been the most common side effect patients are reporting. Children may also feel ill for about 24 hours, Freeman said, noting that the side effect is normal and no cause for concern.

With a vaccination that has become politicized over the last two years, Freeman said not all parents are as excited as Guiffre. Some of the common concerns about getting the vaccinations are what the longterm effects will be, Freeman said.

Freeman said some concerns and hesitancy stem from myths being spread on social media and throughout the internet.

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VACCINATION

VACCINATION QUESTIONS ANSWERED With plenty of questions and concerns around the newly expanded age limit for COVID-19 vaccinations, the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment answered some common questions.

Do children get the same type of vaccine as adults?

Children age 12 to 17 years can get the same kind of Pfizer vaccine as adults.

Children age 5 to 11 years will get a smaller dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. This vaccine is one third of the dose of the Pfizer vaccine used for teens and adults.

How well does the vaccine work for children?

Pfizer’s clinical trials showed that the vaccine for children ages 12 to 15 was 100% effective in preventing COVID-19 infection. The vaccine for children age 5 to 11 years was about 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 infection. Both vaccines were 100% effective in preventing severe disease and death.

What are the side effects of the vaccine for children?

The side effects in children are similar to the side effects experienced by adults.

They can include tiredness, headache, soreness, chills and fever. In clinical trials, children ages 5 to 11 tended to have milder side effects than teens and adults. Most side effects are mild and go away on their own after a day or two.

Will my child need two doses of the vaccine?

Yes. Be sure to schedule your child’s second dose 21 days or three weeks after the first dose.

Can my child get routine vaccines at the same time as the COVID-19 vaccine?

Yes. It is safe for your child to receive other routine vaccines on the same day as a COVID-19 vaccine. You may be able to include other routine vaccinations at the appointment, which are vital for keeping kids protected from other illnesses.

about the vaccination, she is honest that the long-term effects of getting COVID are a lot more worrisome than the short-term impacts of a vaccination.

While each childhood COVID case is different, Freeman said with every diagnosis in children there is a concern it will turn into MIS-C. MIS-C, or multisystem inflammatory syndrome, is a serious condition associated with COVID-19 where different body parts can become inflamed, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes or gastrointestinal organs.

Over the summer, Dr. Anne Job-

man, of UCHealth Primary Care, said the problem with MIS-C is that it can present with a variety of

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cination is brand new with little research or data. In actuality, Freeman said, the mRNA that makes up the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines was developed more than 20 years ago and shelved.

Like a pair of shoes that someone loves but does not have a special occasion or an outfit to match, Freeman said a person may buy them and shelve them until the right time.

“The vaccination is similar,” Freeman said. “The technology was developed and held until we needed it. The vaccine is safe and can help get us back to what we consider normal life.”

Another common myth that has had no actual scientific data to back it up is that the vaccine will cause fertility issues, Freeman said.

The side effects that are common, Freeman said, are no different from other shots.

“Millions of people have received these vaccines without a problem,” she said. “With that, it is important to prepare your child. It is a needle and there is some pain associated with that. Coach them before the shot to settle the anxiety they may have.”

Guiffre said she started preparing both her boys several weeks before the vaccination date. With communication and talking about what to expect, Guiffre said, there were no tears.

Freeman said in advising parents

symptoms and show up weeks after a child is exposed to COVID. Symptoms of MIS-C can include abnormal gut pain, bloodshot eyes, chest tightness/pain, diarrhea, feeling extra tired, headache, low blood pressure and neck pain.

Freeman said she has advised families that the risks associated with the vaccine are less risky than getting COVID. Besides protecting the child against COVID, Freeman said, a vaccination will also protect other people.

“A vaccinated child will not infect other people,” Freeman said. “It will protect their grandparents, people who are immune compromised and the community as a whole.”

As the number of vaccinations among the state’s children increases, clinics have been set up in various counties and select pharmacies, such as Walgreens, have made the shot available to young patients.

To find a vaccine clinic for children, visit the state’s website at covid19.colorado.gov/kids-vaccines.

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of sexually harassing students in 2019 who was hired despite school leadership allegedly knowing he had faced accusations of unwanted sexual contact at another school; and a teacher who admitted he engaged in a sexual relationship with a 19-year-old student in violation of school policy.

The allegations were made public in a report released in June by a special committee investigating misconduct claims in the National Federation of the Blind, the school’s parent organization. The investigative findings bolstered the accounts of eight people associated with the center who told Colorado Community Media that leadership at the world-renowned school covered up sexual offenses for years or simply ignored them.

“I thought if the leaders knew, they would do something,” said Stacy Cervenka, a former counselor at a youth summer camp operated by the Colorado Center for the Blind who told her supervisor in 2001 that she had walked in on a fellow counselor sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.

The counselor was fired, but Cervenka said no one at the school reported the assault to police, raising questions about whether the school complied with a Colorado law requiring teachers and school officials to report the abuse of children.

School officials say they called police in Glendale, where the alleged assault occurred, and that an officer came to the apartment complex where students were staying to investigate. Glendale police, however, say they have no record they were contacted. Cervenka said she and others who were aware of the assault were not interviewed by police.

The National Federation of the Blind, or NFB, an advocacy group for blind and low-vision people, launched the probe at the end of 2020, after former students and their supporters published an open letter calling for reform. The letter said misconduct within the organization and its training centers in Colorado, Louisiana and Minnesota had been hushed up by leaders and allowed to fester for decades.

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In a 2017 file photo, Colorado Center for the Blind director Julie Deden demonstrates PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT how blind people study models of nearby transit stations.

sociated with the Colorado center say the school’s leadership, including longtime director Julie Deden, pressured them to keep quiet about incidents of misconduct. Deden has declined to respond to any specific allegations.

None of the accusations are being criminally investigated, according to Littleton police and the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. Littleton police spokesman Trent Cooper said investigators are unaware of any sexual misconduct complaints at the school.

At least two instances of sexual misconduct discussed in this story involve accusers who decided not to report them to police as crimes, citing the emotional toll of pursuing charges against the men they say were responsible.

‘Don’t call it rape’ Complaints about sexual misconduct — and failures to confront it head on — are startlingly common at NFB training centers and conventions, said Cervenka, who held leadership roles in the national organization before leaving in 2018.

“As long as I was in NFB, I heard stories from friends about sexual misconduct they experienced,” Cervenka said. “I’ve had a few incidents myself that were mishandled.

I thought if the leaders knew, they would do something. That if people knew who was molesting and raping members (of NFB), they would be gone.”

Maria Salazar, 25, told Colorado Community Media she was drugged and raped one year ago by a roommate in an off-campus apartment — then counseled to keep quiet about it by a Colorado Center for the Blind administrative assistant.

“Don’t call it rape,” Salazar says

Maria Salazar

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she was told by a center employee who had personal ties to the roommate, who wasn’t charged. “He didn’t rape you. Don’t say that or you’ll ruin his life.”

Salazar said she went to a hospital where evidence was collected during a sexual assault forensic exam. But after talking with a crisis counselor, she decided not to pursue charges. She feared she wouldn’t be believed and it didn’t help that the school administration didn’t back her, she said.

The woman she accused of trying to cover up the assault remains employed by the school. She did not return a request for comment.

School leadership declined to directly address Salazar’s rape allegation. She said the assault took place in a school-owned apartment in Littleton where Salazar and her

roommate were permitted to stay after both had completed their training programs.

Located in a former YMCA on a bluff above downtown Littleton, the Colorado Center for the Blind, or CCB, draws people from around the world who are blind or losing their sight. Students learn vocational and life skills including cooking, martial arts, woodworking and how to navigate big cities. Outings take students rock climbing and whitewater rafting.

The nonprofit center is funded by foundation grants and donations, and from tuition paid by students, largely covered by federal vocational rehabilitation dollars.

CCB opened in 1988 and serves roughly 60 students a year in a one-year adult independence training program, its primary offering.

Other programs include summer sessions for middle and high school students and a program for the elderly.

Salazar and other former CCB students who spoke to Colorado Community Media say they left the center traumatized by the abuse they suffered and by what they call dismissive and retaliatory responses by the center’s leaders when they made reports.

“They said they were all about community,” Salazar said of CCB. “They said they were here to lift us up and support us, but they were ready to let me be homeless if I was going to make CCB look bad.”

‘People may figure out who you are’ NFB is important in the lives of blind people, Cervenka said, and that has left many accusers reluctant to go public with allegations of mistreatment.

“The blind community is very small,” she explained. “People depend on NFB for services, advocacy and community. When people involved fear retaliation for speaking out, they may fear losing access to housing, to adaptive technology and more. Even if you try to speak anonymously, people may figure out who you are.”

Allegations of sexual misconduct in NFB began to surface publicly in 2017, in the wake of the #MeToo movement that saw survivors publicize allegations of sexual abuse in many industries and organizations.

In late 2020, Cervenka helped spearhead a movement that came to be known as #MarchingTogether.

She collected dozens of stories from those who say they were abused in connection to NFB, including several at the Colorado Center for the Blind.

The result was a letter sent to NFB’s board of directors and the National Blindness Professional Certification Board in December 2020 that was signed by roughly 500 current and former NFB members and their supporters, who called out the organization for tolerating sexual abuse and other misconduct.

“We won’t tolerate sexual, physical or psychological abuse, or those who ignore, deny or perpetuate it,” the letter reads.

The letter also called for an overhaul of the organization, including the removal of known abusers, mandatory anti-harassment training for all NFB staff, review and SEE BLIND, P7

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revision of internal policies, investigation of allegations of misconduct by a third-party investigator, and the creation of a survivor task force to issue further recommendations.

On Dec. 16, Mark Riccobono, the NFB president, responded to the open letter with an apology, published on the organization’s website.

“I am profoundly sorry that anyone has been harmed by experiences in our movement,” Riccobono’s letter reads. “I hurt for the survivors, and I deeply regret that I have made mistakes along the way.”

Riccobono announced a series of steps NFB would take in response: a partnership with the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, or RAINN, to create anti-harassment training programs for NFB members and students; the creation of a survivor task force to issue recommendations on policies and oversight; a special committee of NFB leaders to oversee investigations; the hiring of Maryland law firm Kramon & Graham to conduct interviews with accusers; the hiring of attorney Tonya Baña as an external investigator to make recommendations regarding those accused of misconduct; and extending the reporting window for codeof-conduct complaints.

On Christmas Eve, CCB published a letter endorsing Riccobono’s apology.

“We will move heaven and Earth to see that the verifiable experiences we are reading and hearing about are used to build a safer and better program,” the letter reads.

In an email to Colorado Community Media, Riccobono declined to address specific allegations, but wrote that he is committed to “transforming our movement in ways that allow all of us to heal from past trauma and move forward together.”

“I have and always will continue to listen to and learn from the members of this movement, especially around these critical issues, and the courageous victims, survivors, and allies who have shared their stories publicly and with me personally in the past several months,” Riccobono wrote.

Reports, arrests, reforms The interim report released in June details NFB’s initial findings, progress and recommendations as part of its ongoing review.

NFB had nine complaints filed through its existing code of conduct complaint process before the scandal became public, the report found. Between December and June, though, an additional 60 complaints were filed, alleging 55 separate incidents across the country regarding the actions of 52 people, including eight accused of failing to respond adequately to sexual misconduct. Four of the complaints involve minors as victims.

Many of the complaints involve the Louisiana Center for the Blind, which shares headquarters with NFB in Ruston, Louisiana. Michael Ausbun, a former employee of the Louisiana center, was charged in

The first page of a December 2020 open letter signed by about 500 current and former National Federation of the Blind members and their allies, accusing the organization of SCREENSHOT tolerating sexual abuse and other misconduct.

June with 18 counts of child molestation by an educator, according to reporting in the Gambit newspaper in New Orleans, where reporter Kaylee Pochee has documented the scandal for months.

Of the 60 complaints received since Riccobono pledged reforms, three are from the Colorado Center for the Blind, involving three incidents. The Colorado reports include statements from six people who say they witnessed sexual misconduct or were victims. Outside of the code-of-conduct complaints, the report says, investigators conducted interviews with eight witnesses regarding 16 additional incidents at the school in Littleton.

Though a final report is not expected until later this year, the interim report includes recommendations, such as mandatory information sharing between NFB training centers about abusers, and also extending the time limit to make complaints about codeof-conduct offenses to three years from one. The report also calls for mandatory anti-harassment training, and barring NFB members from holding leadership positions if they are found to have engaged in sexual misconduct.

In response to the report, the American Council of the Blind, another advocacy group, in September passed a resolution urging the federal Rehabilitation Services Administration to stop sending students to NFB training centers that face allegations of sexual misconduct until the claims have been fully addressed. The resolution also urges the federal agency to establish codes of conduct for training centers and to ensure any misconduct claims are reported to the state rehabilitation councils that administer the federal funds.

Schools that receive federal funding, such as for vocational training, are subject to Title IX, a federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in education, said Brett Sokolow, the President of the Association of Title IX Administrators.

Sokolow said the allegations of sexual misconduct and improper responses from school officials against CCB could be grounds for a federal investigation into whether the school exhibited a pattern of neglect, a violation of Title IX.

If an investigation found coverups of sexual misconduct were part of a pattern, federal funding used by students to attend the school could be withheld, though Sokolow called such an outcome extremely unlikely. Investigations more often result in an effort by government officials to bring schools into compliance with the law, he said.

Such an investigation would most likely be conducted by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. The agency is not currently investigating CCB, according to its database of pending investigations.

Though the school has consistently declined to respond to specific allegations, often citing privacy concerns, CCB spokesman Dan Burke said sexual misconduct has been prohibited since the school was founded in 1988.

“We absolutely do not discourage anyone from contacting the police, and in fact, we encourage students to do so,” he wrote. “Like the rest of society, the Colorado Center for the Blind is learning more about how to enhance our policies to be more trauma-informed and survivor-centered, as well as to create the safest and healthiest environment that promotes the prevention of sexual misconduct.”

The center is working with the NFB and other entities on policy revisions and new response protocols, expected to be finished by the end of the year, he said.

‘A chilling effect’ The only person accused of sexual misconduct named in the interim report is Fred Schroeder, a longtime NFB member who held a variety of leadership roles over the years, mostly in Louisiana. Schroeder is accused of engaging in a 40-year pattern of abuse, including grooming and groping students, that was well known among NFB members, the report alleges.

It is not clear whether Schroeder’s conduct was ever reported to police, but NFB leaders were made aware of Schroeder’s misconduct “by 2002 at the latest,” the report found, with former NFB president Marc Maurer accused of ignoring or covering up the allegations.

Maurer did not respond to requests for comment.

In a 2017 file photo, Colorado Center for the Blind spokesman Dan Burke stands behind a model of the Englewood light PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT rail station.

When Riccobono took the helm of NFB in 2014, he asked Schroeder to step down as vice president of the NFB board in response to internal misconduct allegations, according to the report, though Riccobono made no public statement regarding why the change was made.

Schroeder remained president of the board of the National Blindness Professional Certification Board, an arm of NFB, and later, with NFB’s backing, became president of the World Blind Union.

Schroeder’s reputation as an abuser permeated NFB, according to the report. When he was announced at the last minute as a replacement for another speaker at the organization’s national convention in 2019, “dozens of people stood and left the room,” the report said, characterizing the episode as a galvanizing moment in the awakening around sexual misconduct in NFB. Schroeder did not respond to requests for comment from The Sun. Baña, the independent investigator hired by NFB, recommended Schroeder be suspended from membership in the organization for five years, and only be allowed to reapply if he “has complied with several conditions,” though the report does not specify the conditions.

To some in the blind community, the punishment seemed small relative to the decades of allegations against Schroeder.

“It is inconceivable to me why permanent expulsion would not be a more appropriate consequence,” Ryan Osentowski, a former CCB counselor, wrote in a blog post. “I can’t help but think that this will only have a chilling effect on the complaint process going forward.”

Expulsions and suspensions One Colorado Center for the Blind counselor, Rex Schuttler, was permanently expelled from NFB membership in March, according to a report.

Schuttler previously worked as an instructor at the Louisiana Center for the Blind, according to the SEE BLIND, P8

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report, where students reported he groped and sexually harassed them.

Staff there notified CCB about the allegations when Schuttler applied for an apprenticeship in Colorado in 2019, the report says, but CCB hired him anyway.

In December 2019, a CCB student reported to CCB director Deden that Schuttler was sending her sexually harassing text messages.

“When the leadership at the Colorado Center confronted Mr. Schuttler, he confirmed that he had sent the inappropriate text messages and acknowledged he had similar trouble in the past, that this behavior was a compulsion, and that he needed help to deal with this problem,” the report said.

The report does not say what if any action Deden or CCB leadership took in response. Schuttler did not respond to requests for comment from Colorado Community Media.

Deden has declined to respond to specific inquiries regarding Schuttler’s hiring or conduct at CCB, although CCB spokesman Burke wrote in an email: “We do not hire or give other opportunities like internships to those who we know have committed sexual misconduct elsewhere.”

In January, Cervenka, the former counselor, filed a code-of-conduct complaint about the assault she said she witnessed in 2001. In her complaint, she wrote that CCB leadership had been informed a 33-yearold counselor was developing an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old. Leadership warned him not to be alone with the girl, Cervenka wrote.

Cervenka, who shared an apartment with the girl in Glendale, says she came home one afternoon and found the man sexually assaulting the girl on the floor.

Cervenka says she and another counselor reported the incident to CCB leadership, including Deden, who has been the executive director of CCB since 1999, and Melissa Riccobono, wife of NFB president Mark Riccobono, who Cervenka said was co-director of the CCB summer program at the time, and now sits on the board of the National Organization of Parents of Blind Children. Riccobono did not respond to requests for comment.

The counselor was fired, Cervenka wrote in her complaint, alleging that neither Deden nor anyone else at CCB reported the incident to police. Cervenka said the girl later told her that Deden had discouraged her parents from reporting the incident to police, saying doing so would be disruptive to other students and would mean the girl would have to leave the program.

In an email, Burke denied the allegation, saying CCB staff called police, who spoke to the counselor and cleared him to leave the state.

“Our internal records reflect that the Glendale City Police department was called and that a female officer, Officer Yanke, visited the apartments where the summer students were housed and spoke with the alleged perpetrator,” Burke wrote. “Officer Yanke then told CCB

The Colorado Center for the Blind in Littleton.

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line of incidents where (Deden) has discouraged victims of sexual misconduct and parents of minors who have experienced sexual misconduct from going to the police,” Cervenka wrote in her complaint.

NFB has not issued a response to Cervenka’s complaint.

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staff that she had the information she needed and that the alleged perpetrator was free to leave the state of Colorado. His employment was terminated, he was sent to a hotel to stay overnight, and the next morning was escorted to the bus depot to go back to his home out of state. He was also told not to have any further contact with students or staff of CCB.” However, Glendale police do not have any record indicating police were called in the incident, according to Glendale police records clerk Grace Phelps. Further, Phelps said the department has no record of an officer named Yanke, though the department had an officer in 2001 whose name was spelled similarly.

That officer, who is no longer at the department, said she does not remember such a call and had no further comment.

Burke did not respond to a request for corroborating documentation that CCB called police in the incident.

The alleged victim, who is now 34, declined to comment. The counselor, who went on to hold a leadership position at a California chapter of NFB, did not return multiple requests for comment.

Deden said while she did not believe she is considered a mandatory reporter of sexual abuse of minors according to Colorado law, she has always considered herself one, as required by CCB’s bylaws.

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law, enacted in 1987, requires “any public or private school official or employee” to report neglect or abuse of children to law enforcement.)

Many of the accusers’ claims could expose CCB and its leadership to civil liability, said Laura Wolf, the managing partner of Spark Justice Law, a Denver-based, civil rights law firm. She also is an adjunct professor at the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver.

Some claims, including the accusation that CCB leadership failed to report the sexual assault of a 13-year-old, could constitute violations of Colorado’s mandatory reporter law, Wolf said, except that the statute of limitations to pursue charges has expired. Wolf said some more recent accusations may also constitute mandatory reporter law violations, which are misdemeanors under Colorado law.

Cervenka said she also could have — and should have — reported the incident to police, but was unsure what was required of her.

“In my 20-year-old mind, I thought I had done my part by reporting the incident to my superiors,” Cervenka said. “We got no training on mandatory reporting. I had no idea what my legal obligations were. It’s not an excuse, but I naively trusted the people I worked for would do the right thing. I’ve thought back on it a lot, and I regret it.”

“I fear that this is part of a long

‘It’s not enough’ Some instances of sexual misconduct noted in the report fell short of being crimes, but were still based on what investigators described as an abuse of power.

Wayne Pearcy, now 35, says he remains troubled by a sexual relationship with a popular staff member that began in a hotel room during a mandatory school trip.

The son of two employees of the Louisiana Center for the Blind, Pearcy arrived at CCB in 2006 at age 19, and said he found himself an outcast in a cliquish atmosphere among students.

But the young musician found a friend in Brent Batron, then a 35-year-old instructor who taught “cane travel” — how to navigate the world with a cane.

When it came time to attend a NFB national conference — one of the requirements for students in the adult independence program — Pearcy was assigned to room with Batron at the Dallas convention.

One evening, Batron instructed Pearcy to remove his clothes, Pearcy said. Pearcy said he was not sure what would happen if he declined, so he obliged.

“I was just a kid,” Pearcy said. “I knew nothing about sex.”

“I always knew you were gay,” Pearcy said Batron told him after they had a sexual encounter. “This is a secret. People like us are persecuted for feeling this way.”

Pearcy said Batron was a role model at CCB, in part for his seemingly happy family life — he was married and a father, and his wife was pregnant at the time.

“I was totally mixed-up and confused,” Pearcy said. “I told my mom I might be gay. I was so shell shocked I couldn’t tell her I was being manipulated by an older man.”

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of his first sexual relationship and feelings of guilt and shame.

“I was so young and vulnerable. I thought if I don’t finish the program, I’ll be judged by people back home,” Pearcy said. “Because of that, I endured more manipulation.”

Pearcy said Batron grew jealous of his friendships in Littleton’s music scene, at times telling him to stay away from fellow musicians.

When Batron’s child was born, he cut off contact with Pearcy, leaving him hurt and confused. Later that year, Pearcy left for college in Boston and withdrew from NFB. At Cervenka’s urging, Pearcy filed a code-of-conduct complaint earlier this year. Records show that Batron, by then the center’s assistant director, admitted the relationship, which violated the center’s prohibition on intimate relationships between teachers and students.

“Mr. Batron plainly abused his authority as an instructor by exploiting the unequal power dynamic of the student-teacher relationship for his own sexual gratification,” the investigator’s report reads.

“It would have been easy for him to lie,” Pearcy said. “I respect him for admitting it. He realized he made a big mistake, and he owned up to it.”

Batron no longer appears on CCB’s list of staff, though whether he was fired or retired is unclear.

Batron is banned from membership in NFB for three years. After that, he is allowed to reapply for membership in NFB, so long as he proves he has undergone mental health counseling. He is not to be placed in supervision of minors.

Pearcy is bothered that Batron’s punishment wasn’t more severe.

“Why allow him back in at all?”

Pearcy said. “It’s not enough. At this point, even if the directors of the centers resigned, why should anyone trust NFB to replace them with someone trustworthy?”

Batron declined to comment for this article.

‘I didn’t know who was spreading rumors’ Another woman who shared her story with Cervenka, but has not filed an official code-of-conduct complaint, said her experience leaves her questioning the legitimacy of NFB’s survivor task force.

Addie Hugen, 28, moved to Colorado from Iowa for college in 2015.

She hoped to develop her navigational and technical skills at CCB. But before signing up for programs at the center, she looked for friends in a Bible study group hosted by CCB students at the center’s apartment complex in Littleton.

After a few study sessions, another member of the group, a young man who had just started losing his sight, offered to help her navigate home in the dark.

“It seemed nice of him to be concerned,” Hugen said. “I was naive.”

The CCB student called an Uber for Hugen and himself, then told her he needed to stop at his apartment first to pick up a forgotten item. She went inside to use the

bathroom, where Hugen said he sexually assaulted her.

Afterward, he asked for her address to send her home in an Uber.

“I was in shock and wasn’t thinking straight,” Hugen said.

“I gave him my address because I just wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible. He told me if I stopped talking to him, now he knew where to come find me.”

Hugen had a rape kit conducted at a hospital, but decided against pursuing charges after a conversation with a crisis counselor left her concerned the process could be retraumatizing without achieving justice.

Initially, Hugen told no one about the assault, and continued attending Bible studies.

“I thought he shouldn’t be able to take away my connection to friends,” she said.

But she wasn’t the same. Other students in the group noticed she seemed off. Hugen opened up to Sarah Meyer, a CCB student.

Meyer was initially sympathetic, Hugen said, but shifted her tone when Hugen told her who the assailant was.

“She said she couldn’t believe he would do that, because she had slept with him, too, and couldn’t imagine him doing such a thing,” Hugen said.

Meyer told Hugen she would tell Deden about the incident, but Hugen never heard from Deden.

Instead, Hugen got a call from Batron and Kimberley McCutcheon, then the director of student services. McCutcheon retired in 2017.

Hugen said Batron and McCutcheon berated her.

“They didn’t let me speak at all,” Hugen said. “The story the perpetrator gave them was that I was dating him and consented to sex, even though I had only met him once.

They said I was trying to ruin his reputation. They told me I wasn’t allowed to talk about what happened except to a counselor or they would sue me for slander.”

Meyer now sits on NFB’s survivor task force.

“Experiencing sexual misconduct within the blindness community, and being familiar with the harm caused by not having had sound procedures to address this trauma, have compelled Sarah to participate in efforts to make NFB a safer environment that allows blind people to live the lives they want,” a biography of Meyer on the task force’s website reads.

Neither Meyer nor McCutcheon responded to requests for comment.

“It seems like their purpose is to work for NFB, not for survivors,” Hugen said.

A different conduct complaint alleges that Marci Carpenter, who leads the NFB survivor task force, failed to act after a woman alleged she had been sexually assaulted by a youth program director at NFB’s Minneapolis training center, BLIND, Inc. The man involved previously worked in the summer program at CCB. The woman alleges that when she reported the assault, Carpenter, who at the time was the head of NFB’s Washington state chapter, said she felt stuck in the middle and didn’t want to talk about it.

Carpenter declined to comment.

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director, was barred from holding or running for any elected positions in NFB for five years, the report says, and “strongly advised to refrain from conduct that may cause a similar complaint in the future along with notification that additional complaints of this nature may lead to his expulsion from the organization.”

Wenzel remains the director of the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. He did not respond to requests for comment.

‘A person of integrity’ Burke, the CCB spokesman who is married to Deden, said the Colorado center has made big strides toward addressing the concerns raised by accusers. All CCB staff have completed the RAINN anti-harassment training sessions, he said, and the center has partnered with All Health Network to provide ongoing training on stress management, personal space and boundaries.

“We’ve always said in NFB that we’re a cross section of society, and now society is making these adjustments in how we view sexual misconduct,” Burke said. “People are speaking out, and we’re just part of that, I guess. We’re committed to a change in society. It’s going to get better, but the process to get there is difficult.”

Deden reiterated to Colorado Community Media that she would not comment on any specific allegations pending the outcome of NFB’s investigations, but said she felt she has always done the best she can for students.

“I have always wanted to ensure that our students come first, no matter what,” Deden said.

Deden said the center has long held internal anti-sexual harassment and abuse training, and cited the center’s self-defense classes as a boon to students wary of sexual misconduct.

Several former students said they would like to see Deden step down.

“I’m sorry they feel that way,” Deden said. “I don’t have a lot more to say than that. I don’t have plans to step down.”

“It’s really sad” that some students say they have left the center traumatized, Burke said. “It makes us feel sad when someone leaves less confident. We’re not setting out to do that by any stretch. So many people experienced these things,

but people keep coming. We need to acknowledge if we’ve made mistakes, and address those.”

Generally, even people angered

by CCB’s handling of the sexual abuse complaints do not want to see it shut down. Several told Colorado Community Media they remain grateful for the skills they learned at the center. But they say it’s time that NFB cleans house.

Hugen called their promises of support “platitudes.”

“Every organization deals with sexual misconduct,” she said. “If perpetrators and those who protected them were truly being held accountable, they would be gone for good.”

‘Keep the wolves away from the chicken coop’ One high-profile Florida attorney said NFB’s response so far seems to be falling short of the magnitude of the allegations.

Mark O’Mara said he plans to sue NFB on behalf of a half-dozen plaintiffs, mostly former students of the organization’s training centers.

“What does it take to refer some of these cases to prosecution?”

O’Mara said. “Why suspensions?

My fear is this process is tamping down the true nature and extent of these problems.”

O’Mara said he’s concerned the true purpose of NFB’s investigations is to keep the offenses quiet.

But NFB spokesman Chris Danielsen said the organization is dedicated to making sure people are heard.

“We are working hard on a trauma-informed, survivor-centered approach,” Danielsen told The Sun. At this summer’s national convention, NFB announced the creation of a $250,000 fund to cover the cost of counseling and therapy for survivors.

“We’re committed as an organization to not tolerating this behavior,” he said. “We don’t want to just technically do the right thing, but to help survivors heal from past traumas.”

Salazar, the woman who reported being raped by her roommate, still is wrestling with what happened to her.

She came to the Colorado Center for the Blind from California in 2019 after learning of the training program from a friend who said it was a place where blind people thrived and flourished. At times she felt like one of them, finding joy and confidence in the new skills she acquired in the year of training.

But her experience last fall, she said, left her racked with despair and she recently attempted suicide.

The Colorado Center for the Blind changed her life for better and worse, but pushing for accountability could mean prodding the center to finally meet its promise to students.

“Colorado did something for me,” Salazar said. She gained independence as she honed her skills at navigating new places, using public transit and shopping by herself.

She was particularly impressed

by Batron, the former school director who is married and has five children.

“I’d never seen a blind person who had a life,” she said. “Someone who had kids and a job.”

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School district, county get closer to park deal Process moves forward for district to sell Toepfer, Sweetwater sites

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The county’s efforts to buy Toepfer and Sweetwater parks from the Douglas County School District took a step forward Nov. 9 when the school board officially approved a resolution to continue negotiations.

After a year of discussions, the school district appears to be ready to sale the two properties at what is referred to in the resolution as a “discounted” price. The school

board approved two letters of intent, giving school administrators permission to complete negotiations.

While not a done deal, the board’s approval will move the process forward in allowing Douglas County to purchase Toepfer Park, located in Highlands Ranch, and Sweetwater Park, adjacent to Lone Tree, for just over $1.2 million.

With no set timeline to negotiate a final deal, the process is now in the hands of Douglas County commissioners. County spokesperson Wendy Holmes said commissioners will discuss the details at a future work session that has not yet been scheduled.

The school district gained ownership of the properties in question when past housing developers

donated the parks to be used as future school sites. Last year, the school district announced that neither park would be needed for schools, opting to sell the land.

Citizens became alarmed at the prospect that the school district could potentially sell the two parks to housing developers. Citizens spoke out at school board meetings and to the Douglas County commissioners.

Agreeing the land is better suited to remain open space, the commissioners gave county staff permission to negotiate an agreement with the school district to allow the county to purchase the properties.

In moving the process forward, the school board approved selling the 10-acre Toepfer Park for

$675,000. The board approved selling the 31-acre Sweetwater Park for just over $555,000.

The main point of contention as negotiations have continued has been what the land is worth. The county had appraisals done based on the current zoning of both properties. The school district’s appraisals were based on what the land could be developed into.

Since the sites are currently zoned open space, prospective developers would have to go through Douglas County to get he land rezoned.

Douglas County commissioners have said they agree with citizen concerns and would rather the land remain open space instead of being developed commercially or residentially.

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Emails obtained by Colorado Community Media through a public records request show that before the county’s opt-out order was approved Oct. 8, Tri-County told the new Dougco health board that these measures would make it difficult for Tri-County to continue providing COVID-related services.

“Removing nearly all mitigation measures to control COVID-19 transmission in schools is greatly concerning and with decades of public health experiences and expertise, TCHD cannot support this action,” Jennifer Ludwig, the deputy director for Tri-County, wrote to the county board of health president, Doug Benevento, according to the records obtained by CCM. Tri-County Health continues to provide all other public health services but halted their COVID-19 work as a result of the county’s public health order.

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This is a friend and former colleague whom I hold in very high regard.

Michael Norton As I reviewed the resume and cover letter, I was a bit taken aback as neither document spoke about the person that I have known for years. The information and accomplishments were understated to say the least.

The poor resume wasn’t what was really bothering me, it was more than that. This was someone whom I respected, loved, and appreciated.

My next step was to call them and schedule a time for an immediate

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Health board is political Follow-up from the 11/10 Douglas County Health Department’s Board of Health meeting ... is there a COVID pandemic?

The new DougCo Board of Health has now conducted at least three scheduled public meetings. The board has spent considerable agenda energy passing and now defending its Oct. 8 public health order related to dropping masking and quarantining mandates. It’s obvious the board is interested in satisfying its political base.

During today’s 11/10 session, the board made sure residents are aware that “no incremental County funds are being used to support the transfer of COVID services from Tri-County Health Department to DCHD.” On the other hand, the board wasn’t transparent about Douglas County residents footing the bill for expensive out-of-town Miami, Florida lawyers to defend DCHD’s first and only public order in federal court.

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video call. I wanted to be able to see them, their eyes, face, and posture as I knew something wasn’t right.

When we began our conversation and got past the pleasantries, they asked me what I thought about their resume. Instead of answering, I asked if I could ask a quick question first. I asked them this, “What happened to the person I have known for the past 10 years?” They were a bit confused and a little shaken.

I said, “Look, as I read your resume and cover letter, I didn’t see anything exciting or noteworthy, there were no mentions of the three massive projects that reshaped the business trajectory of your company, nothing about the team’s achievements, and I was shocked that any reference to your thought leadership was also absent.”

They had let me know that the past 20 months had finally gotten the better of them. Early on it was losing people because they had to make cuts. Then it was being burnt out and overworked, and then it was losing people because they had better options or just didn’t want to come to an office any longer. My

unparalleled wisdom and knowledge, someone who loves people, intentionality of purpose, courage, and we see the most hopeful person we know, the person who stood by each of us when we were down. We see the winner in you.”

This week my friend was hired into a bigger role than they had ever had before.

The moral of this story is that each one of us has someone in our life that may be struggling right now. And maybe what they need more than anything else is to be reminded to look at themselves the way that we see them, through the lens of accomplishment, and with the eyes of renewed hope. Do you know anyone like that? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ tramazing.com, and when we can help people to see in themselves what we all see, it really will be a better than good year.

friend took all of this very personally. Finally, the executive team placed the blame squarely on their shoulders for the lack of people and lack of productivity. The pressure was just too much.

As my good friend and coach Tom Ziglar says, this was a perfect, “Are you kidding me?” moment. That means after I ask, “Are you kidding me?” I follow that up with questions and comments about all their past accomplishment and successes. I reminded my friend that what they had achieved was nothing short of extraordinary. So, I asked one more question, “When you look in the mirror, what do you see?”

The response included words such as tired, worried, afraid, mad, and a disappointment. I responded as if looking into the same mirror with others who knew them too.

“Yes, we see someone who is like so many others out there in the world right now, we see tired, worried, and afraid. Do you know what else we see? We see someone who needs a different mirror. We see someone who needs to see what the rest of us see, eyes with reignited passion,

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.

Retirement costs of helping adult children

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any families are still working through the negative impact that COVID-19 had on their pocketbook. One of the biggest challenges is helping other family members, namely parents FINANCIAL and adult children.

STRATEGIES If you are part of the sandwich generation where you may be supporting three generations, then hard economic times may impact you three times harder than some.

As far as adult chil- Patricia Kummer dren who may have been out of the house before COVID took away jobs or housing, they may now be back bunking with you. Even if they are living in their own place, if you continue to pay for cell phones, car insurance and health insurance, it could greatly rob you of your own retirement plans.

It is common for many families to keep kids on the family cell phone package and car insurance coverage.

Many families are also torn about replacing health insurance if their kids lost a job or their benefits were

reduced.

According to a recent poll, 79% of parents admit to helping their adult children to pay living expenses or reduce debt.¹ Some parents paid off student loans, helped with rent and cars as well as helped to reduce their adult child’s other debts.

Small expenses also add up, and you may not realize how much. Paying a cell phone bill of $60 a month for five years could cost you over $14,000 in retirement savings based on a 6% annual rate and being 22 years from retirement.² Larger expenses, such as paying rent for three years, could slash your nest egg by almost $50,000, assuming a monthly rental assistance of $400.² Big-ticket items can be devastating if you need to help cover expenses for five years and even borrow money for college. This could hit you for $227,000 in retirement savings over time, according to Today’s Families Consumer Survey.

This becomes a vicious cycle as more parents could become a burden to their child later on, especially if they had to fork out savings just prior to retirement. Half of parents financially helping their adult children say it is putting retirement savings at risk,

according to Bankrate. This could reduce funds set aside for retirement or even reduce the ability to continue to save at the same rate. The closer the parents are to retirement age, when they can’t replenish savings with earnings, the more difficult it is to n recover. t Lack of health care is one of the o major contributors to unforeseen ex- r penses and even bankruptcy. While t it is impossible to plan for a situar tion with job loss, housing shortages f and skyrocketing health care again, h any proper financial planning could s improve planning for emergencies. e First work on keeping expenses within 80% of your income. This will help cushion those unexpected expenses and hopefully keep you on track for your own goals. Next, meet with your financial advisor and devise a plan to help family members without annihilating your own retirement.

1.Creditcards.com 2. Nerdwallet.com Patricia Kummer has been a Certified Financial Planner professional and a fiduciary for over 35 years and is Managing Director for Mariner Wealth Advisors, an SEC Registered Investment Adviser.

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Election results: Castle Pines city government STAFF REPORT

Here are unofficial results of Castle Rock city government races, updated Nov. 12.

MAYOR • Tracy Engerman: 1,751 votes, 34.15% • Tera Radloff: 1,729 votes, 33.72% • David McEntire: 1,648 votes, 32.14% Total votes cast: 5,128

1,054 votes, 100% CITY COUNCIL, DISTRICT 2 • Ben Price: 883 votes, 56.03% • Chuck Lowen: 693 votes, 43.97% Total votes cast: 1,576 CITY COUNCIL, DISTRICT 3 • Roger Hudson: 1,280 votes, 71.07% • Merri L. Sheh: 521 votes, 28.93% Total votes cast: 1,801

CITY COUNCIL, DISTRICT 1 • Chris Eubanks (unopposed):

Source: Douglas County clerk and recorder’s office

MAYOR

tle Pines for thoughtfully considering our 7-Point Plan. We knew from the outset that taking on city hall incumbents would be an uphill battle. We gave it our best shot. The people have spoken. We honor the will of the people and intend to be as gracious in defeat as we otherwise would have been in victory.”

In District 2, incumbent Councilmember Ben Price defeated Lowen.

“Serving on the council in Castle Pines these last five years has been such an honor,” Price said. “We have a great town here and we are right in the middle of doing a lot of really important work to make it even better. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to continue to serve and to work on finishing what we’ve started.”

In District 3, incumbent Coun-

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the council will either vote to appoint someone to finish her term or vote to hold a special election.

McEntire said he called Engerman to congratulate her on her victory.

McEntire, running as a team with Chuck Lowen, who ran in District 2, provided a combined statement.

“Chuck and I sincerely thank our volunteers, supporters, and, most importantly, our families for their unwavering support throughout the campaign,” said the statement provided by McEntire.

“Though we came up short, we are deeply grateful to the people of Cas-

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not obvious is the board’s relative level of interest or awareness of current trends in very high regional COVID cases and hospitalizations, or flagging vaccination rates and other key indicators. In fact, none of these important items has received even one minute of specific agenda discussion, consideration and decision-making from

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working for the county will include two epidemiologists, one project manager, five case investigators and 15 contact tracers, according to the contract.

Under the contract, Jogan’s work will begin Nov. 22 and will expire at the end of 2022.

The company describes itself as providing “turn-key vaccinations, testing, monoclonal antibody and surge medical staffing programs in multiple states,” according to its website.

The website also lists four other associated companies outside of Jogan Health Solutions, including Jogan Traffic, Jogan Security and Jogan 5G. Each of these was created in the past two years, according to the Secretary of State’s office.

During public comment at the meeting, one resident raised con-

the board during the first three meetings.

The Board’s lack of public attention to these matters is another indication of the true political nature of this new endeavor. Maybe a board public discussion of COVID trends would be unwise politically. After all, on May 11, Abe Laydon stated, “the pandemic is over.”

Let’s hope somebody is watching the numbers and doing something to stop COVID. Lloyd Guthrie Roxborough Park

cerns about the county spending more money to build a new health department than to have remained with Tri-County.

In response, Commissioner Lora Thomas said Douglas County will have additional costs up front.

“We’re going to be running two parallel health departments, we’re setting up our own and continuing with Tri-County Health, so there are going to be additional costs up front,” she said. “I stand by my statement that in the end, this is not going to cost us additional funds once we get this set up and running because of the federal and state grants that support Tri-County Health that will be able to support the efforts in Douglas County.”

Commissioner Abe Laydon emphasized that these services will be completely reimbursed by the state and that the county actually plans to reduce taxes.

“We intend to tax no one for this,” he said. “There will be no increase in taxes.”

cilmember Roger Hudson easily defeated challenger Merri Sheh.

“I’m grateful to District 3 voters for their faith and support in re-electing me to a second term,” he said. “I promise to continue to fight for limited government at a low cost to taxpayers, managed growth, conservation of wildlife and open spaces and common sense public policy.”

Newly-elected Councilmember

Chris Eubanks will be joining the council. Eubanks ran unopposed in District 1 after incumbent Mayor Pro Tem Melissa Coudeyra opted not to seek reelection.

In Castle Pines, councilmembers and the mayor serve four-year terms.

An audit and result certification of the 2021 election results will take place Nov. 19. The new city council will be sworn in on Jan. 11, 2022.

OBITUARIES BRANDEBERY

Kent Brandebery

November 17, 1935 - November 7, 2021

Kent Brandebery, longtime Douglas County Kent became interested in history of Music educator, historian and rancher, passed Douglas County after meeting the families away on November 7, 2021. who had settled the county. He served as vice Kent is survived by his wife of 61 years, Mary president for the D.C. Preservation Board and the President of D.C. Historical Society and Lou Brandebery (Matthews), his sister Lineta started the Castle Rock Band in 1999 after Bacon (John) and three nephews Kenneth, researching the town band that existed in the Robert and Allan Bacon and two great 1900s. He supported local historians Lionel nephews Andrew and Alexander. Kents son and Starr Oberlin in setting up the Castle David Brandebery, and half brother Maurice Rock Museum and donated many items to F. Lane proceeded him in death. the collection.

Kent was born November 17, 1935 nine Kent had many interests and passions. miles outside Sundance Wyoming to Victor He restored a Model T and he and Mary and Emma Brandebery. His father ranched Lou enjoyed many outings with the Model and his his mother taught in school that was T Club. Kent found pleasure in collecting five miles from their rustic cabin. Emma unusual brass instruments and rare frontier would ride the horse Sunny Boy to get to military equipment. For many years Kent had work. Sometimes two-year old Ken would ride with his mother on the trail to school and a saddlery and leather repair business. After retirement, Kent spent time teaching at the Emma would secure him on the saddle and Lakota and Sioux school in Mission, South Sunny Boy would take him home. Kent was Dakota. sometimes cared for by a local Sioux woman.

When Kent was two, his father gave up ranching due to drought and a grasshopper invasion, the family moved south to Colorado.

Kent was an elementary student during World War II. His family lived by the Littleton Cemetery and Kent befriended the men who worked there. The cemetery superintendent knew Kent played trumpet and asked him to play taps at military funerals. Because Kent was only in the fourth grade, the superintendent stationed Kent is a large grove of evergreens where his horn could be heard but he was hidden. Kent played at many military funerals.

After graduation from Littleton High School in 1953, Kent decided to attend the University on Northern Colorado as a music major. He packed up his light green Mercery Coupe and headed to Greeley where he joined the band. After graduation, Kent had the opportunity to travel and perform with a group entertaining soldiers in Korea and Japan. Kent received his masters from CU in 1967. In 1958 Kent began his career as the only music educator in Douglas County, where at various times he taught both elementary and high school. Ken retired from teaching in 1990.

Kent was involved with many organizations over the years including the Elks Club of Victor CO. where they had a summer house, and the Castle Rock Lions Club, the Citizens for American Military Past (former Western States Division President) and Kent was also 60 year Mason, Kent has been honored by the community as one of “20 Who Made a Difference”, was a recipient of the Vision Cornerstone Tribute recognizing his contribution to the character the Town of Castle Rock in 2009. He served on the board of Friends of Historic Fort Logan.

Kent loved animals especially his Basset hound Elvis and Beagle Susie. He and Mary Lou adopted many strays at their country home over the years.

Of all his achievements, Kent was most proud of his many students who went on to become music teachers and professional musicians.

Contributions in his honor can be made to Castle Rock Band P.O. Box 1632, Castle Rock CO 80104 and Castle Rock Museum 420 Elbert St. Castle Rock CO 80104.

Service to honor Kent will be held Dec. 6th at 10:00AM at First Methodist Church in Castle Rock.

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Giving thanks

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November 18, 2021

Area residents talk about their gratitude for their families, friends, school — and simply being alive Clockwise from top left: seniors at STEM School Highlands Ranch, third graders at King-Murphy Elementary School in Clear Creek County, Scott Shields and Katherine Lawson at Family Tree nonprofit based in Wheat Ridge, students and principal Wendy Noel at Two Roads charter school in Arvada, workers and guests at the Golden Visitors Center and residents at Elk Run Assisted PHOTOS BY DEB HURLEY BROBST Living in Evergreen.

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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hether it’s simply giving thanks or the Thanksgiving holiday, gratitude has special meaning this time

of year.

No matter what their age, area residents are thankful for everything from family and friends to having a roof over their heads to enjoying life.

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

Eckhart Tolle Gratitude is important for everyone, according to Heather Aberg of Evergreen, the founder of Resilience1220, an organization that provides counseling to teens.

“I would encourage people in our world today to make that a real cornerstone of their focus,” Aberg said.

“Gratitude allows us to grow, adapt and change.”

She noted that people, especially during the pandemic, focused on the negative, when there are things to be thankful for. It’s important to count blessings in life, she said.

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

It turns what we have into enough and more.”

Melody Beattie No one knows more about gratitude than those living at Elk Run Assisted Living in Evergreen, where residents happily talk about the good things in their lives. They sat in the lobby to discuss what they were thankful for, and it had nothing to do with possession and everything to do

with family and friends — and still being alive.

“I thank God every day that I’m on this side of dirt,” said Bettie Lynn Walden, who believes in making others laugh every day, “and I have a place to live on this side of dirt.”

Her friends laughed and agreed with her sentiment.

Resident Steve Kurland added that he was thankful for having a place like Elk Run to live and having family close by who visit. Several residents added that they were thankful for their families, especially their grandchildren.

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”

Oprah Winfrey At the West Metro Chamber of Commerce based in Lakewood, Erin Acheson was optimistic that small businesses and nonprofits were recovering after closures during the pandemic, and personally, she was thankful for her new job as the chamber’s director of member engagement. She called the position a new opportunity both personally and professionally after months during the pandemic when she didn’t work.

Volunteers and patrons at the Golden Visitors Center said they were grateful for their health, the beautiful fall weather and the opportunity to live in a wonderful place like Golden.

“I love working here,” said Ron Bettinger, who is a Golden native. “I get to meet all kinds of people from all over the county and the world.”

Charlene Pazar, a 55-year Golden resident, is thankful for dance, even when dance groups have met while

wearing masks and practicing social distancing.

At the Wheat Ridge headquarters of Family Tree, a nonprofit that helps combat homelessness, child abuse and domestic violence, both the executive director and chief development officer were thankful to serve the community and grateful for the support they have received to achieve Family Tree’s mission.

“I’ve had the privilege to serve in this role and in the community,” Executive Director Scott Shields said, with Chief Development Officer Katherine Lawson adding that the volunteers, donors and the community have been phenomenal in helping the nonprofit’s clients.

“This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.”

Maya Angelou Third graders at King-Murphy Elementary School in Clear Creek County agreed they were thankful for typical things such as family, friends and pets. Third grader Edith said she was thankful for her home, food and all the things her family has, while Alice added that she is grateful for everything her family does for her, plus her house and Halloween.

Some of the students were thankful for something not-so-typical: being back in school with their friends.

Drew and Paityn were happy they were no longer learning remotely.

Likewise, middle schoolers at Two Roads Charter School in Arvada were especially thankful for their school, where they said the teachers took a special interest in them and where extracurricular programs including sports were available.

“This school really inspires me,”

said seventh grader Devon Fallis.

“There are a lot of nice people here.”

Seventh grader Leila Evanetich said she felt she has help in both her education and mental health, making her feel like she’s not alone.

In addition, high school students at STEM School Highlands Ranch were thankful for the community at the school, helping them navigate their education and prepare for college.

Senior Isabelle McCall said she was grateful for the teachers who put so much effort into classes and extracurricular activities, working to make students feel safe so they can learn.

Senior Sarah Braunschweig added that her amazing friends have supported her through school, college selection and her life.

“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.”

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Twins Mischa and Zoe Dvoretsky, both STEM School juniors, said in unison that they were grateful for each other. They also are thankful for their family and friends who have been strong support groups.

“If it wasn’t for my friends and family, I wouldn’t be the person I am today,” Zoe said.

Mischa was more philosophical, noting that people should appreciate that they get up every day, and they have the ability to do what may seem like mundane activities.

“Not everyone gets that opportunity,” she said. “People should realize what they have. They get to breathe fresh air and enjoy every day with the people they love.”

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Country music to enliven weekend

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imothy P. and the Rocky Mountain Stocking Stuffers, a 10-piece band, will perform country music at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison ParkSONYA’S way, at 2 p.m. and SAMPLER 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 4 and 2 p.m. on Dec. 5. Included: Jon Chandler, Ernie Martinez, Mary Huckins. Tickets start at $22. 303987-7845, lakewood. org/LCCPresents.

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‘A Hudson Christmas’ Hudson Gardens, 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, presents acres of dazzle after a two-year hiatus. A family of giant glowing snowmen are new this year. Doors open at 5 p.m. Last call for entry is 9 p.m. with curfew at 9:30 p.m. Tickets: $15 for dated tickets, $12 for ages 4-12, free 3 and under. $20, $17 for undated tickets (nifty holiday gift).

Nixon’s Coffee House will be open to

‘American Son’ at Curious, ‘Winter Wonderettes’ at Littleton Town Hall are both engaging

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SoSu Collective The SoSu Collective, a group of South Suburban art teachers, will hold two Holiday Art Markets this year at Streets of Southglenn, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Unit 306, Centenial. Reception: Nov. 26, 5-8 p.m.; market hours: Nov. 27, 10 a.m. to 5

New at Littleton Museum “The Secret Life of Clothes,” through November, and “Own An Original,” through Dec. 31 at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton. Admission free. tinyurl. com/4mn8dwf6, 303-795-3950.

Magic show at Holiday Theatre Colorado Stars of Magic: Shane Cohen, Jeff Jenson, Brad Montgomery, Max Davidson, Richard Kwesell, Dave Elstun, Scott McCray will perform a family show at 7 p.m. on Nov. 27 at the Holiday Theatre, 2644 W. 32nd Ave., Denver, CO, 80211.

Tickets, $32, coloradostarsofmagic. com, 720-680-0729.

Englewood Arts Presents Hampden Hall, 1000 Englewood Parkway, level 2: Nov. 20, 2 p.m. Seogoen Min, cello and Hisao-Ling Lin, piano. Tickets: $10-$30. Music by Debussy, Martinu and Mendelssohn.

December 18: cellist Silver Ainomae and Friends, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Tickets: $10, $20, $30. Eric Bertoluzzi, 303-8068196, englewoodarts.org.

Guitars at Denver Museum “Guitar: The Instrument that Rocked the World” opens Nov. 19 at Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., featuring 60 instruments and exploring the cultural and physical history of the guitar. Strum the world’s largest playable guitar — 43.5 feet long. dmns.org/guitars.

‘Potter’ at DU’s Newman Center “Potted Potter — the Unauthorized Harry Experience — a Parody

by Dan and Jeff” will play Jan. 4 to 9 at the Newman Center at the University of Denver. Combines all seven books in 70 minutes! newmancenterpresents.com or 303-871-7720. Tickets start at $36.99.

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, public events frequently are canceled or rescheduled. Check with organizers before you go.

need to wait for their time in court, an American flag, county insignia in a frame, a clock, harsh lighting — and space to pace. The stage set’s blandness sets off the tense story well.

“It is a play that gives us a glimpse into the fears and concerns that almost every parent of a Black male child in this country faces on a regular basis, especially in interactions with police,” wrote director Jada Suzanne Dixon, who also performs the role of Kendra Ellis-Connor, a Black mother, whose son is missing as lights go up on the Curious stage.

(He’s a mild-mannered kid who once burst into tears over “Puff the Magic Dragon,” she says.)

“There’s been an incident,” says tense young white Officer Paul Larkin (Sean Scrutchins), in reply to her questioning. He stalls about more information, while she presses, growing increasingly frantic over her son’s whereabouts.

Her white husband, Scott (Josh Robinson), an FBI agent, arrives —

sputtering and aggressive — “He’s going to West Point, went to private schools — I won’t put up with him regressing,” Scott says. “Obviously something happened.” (We learn that Scott has walked out on mother and son recently.)

“He was driving around with two other black males in the car,” the officer tells him — which he hadn’t told the mother.

What transpires is predictable, but the tension is with us until the end of this well-crafted piece.

Abner Genece, forceful as Lt. John Stokes, is the fourth character, who enters the one-act late.

“American Son” keeps the audience engaged and the cast is strong.

Chip Walton, Curious founder, said he and Dixon had both seen the play in New York and compared notes, agreeing that it was a good fit for Curious.

Given the skills of the cast, crew and director involved, (all member of Actors Equity) — I’d hope to see some exploration of material that

was not quite so predictably “a good fit” for Curious. They have created works that stretched talents further afield in the past.

“American Son” plays through Dec. 11 at Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, curioustheatre.org.

“Winter Wonderettes” finds this singing group of young women, whom we have met before at Town Hall, six years later in Springfield, performing at the Harper’s Hardware Holiday Party ... Bob Wells directed the well-blended voices of Missy (Rebekah Ortiz) Cindy Lou (Abby McInerney), Suzy (Cara Lippitt) and Betty Jean (Caitlin Hilzer) into a program of seasonal music, mostly familiar, with live accompaniment (always a plus) by Donna Kolpan Debreceni on the keyboard; Scott Alan Smith on bass and Larry Ziehl on percussion.

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p.m.; Nov. 28: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Dec. 4: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Dec. 5: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Live stage shows go different directions

Area theaters are opening again and I happily attended two performances on the weekend of Nov. 6-7 — very different, but both engaging: “American Son” by Christopher Demos-Brown at Curious Theatre in Denver and “Winter Wonderettes”

by Roger Bean at Littleton Town Hall Arts Center.

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Congressman Ken Buck, at left, presents the Medal of Honor to family members of the late Private Robert Henry.

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Lost Medal of Honor awarded again to family of fallen soldier Highlands Ranch ceremony focuses on veteran appreciation

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Seeking to mitigate a sad event, U.S. Rep. Ken Buck presented the family of a fallen World War II soldier with the Medal of Honor on Nov. 11 as part of a special Veterans Day ceremony in Highlands Ranch.

Buck presented the medal to the family of Pvt. Robert T. Henry.

This was the second time the medal has been awarded on behalf of Henry. Henry first received the honor, posthumously, in 1945. It was first presented to his mother after he died in combat in December 1944.

Years later, the medal was lost in a house fire. Buck and the Henry family campaigned over the years to replace the medal. A week before Veterans Day, the family got their wish, allowing Buck to present the honor to Henry’s living family members, which included his nieces and nephews.

In the short presentation at the Highlands Ranch branch of the Douglas County Library, Buck said it is important that the medal be restored to his family because Henry, knowing in 1944 that he would die, ran willingly into battle to save lives.

“He charged knowing he was going to die and went anyway,” Buck said. “The Medal of Honor is the highest medal for valor you can receive in combat.”

According to a biography provided at the ceremony, on Dec. 3, 1944, Henry single-handedly charged a German machine gun bunker that

Members of the Highlands Ranch American Legion retire the colors to end the night’s ceremony.

had pinned down his platoon.

According to eyewitness accounts, Henry, by his gallantry and intrepidity and disregard for his own life in the charge where he was killed, enabled his company to reach its objective, capturing this key defense and 70 German prisoners.

Earlier in the Veterans Day ceremony, Army Sgt. 1st Class James Copeland talked about the importance of thanking veterans for the service they have provided to this country.

Copeland, now an Army recruiter who has served for 21 years, said he knew at the age of 10 that he wanted to serve in the military. Copeland, serving 21 years, has been in combat and earned numerous honors for his service.

“I get the privilege of wearing this uniform every single day,” he said.

“I love my job.”

While some may hate war, Copeland said wars have ended slavery,

stopped genocides and slowed terrorist organizations.

“Whatever view of history you want to take, America would not be what it is without veterans,” Copeland said. “Plain and simple. We should thank veterans every single day.”

Also speaking to the full audience at the Douglas County Library was local Highlands Ranch veteran Sam Calkins.

The retired Army colonel used humor to talk about how he landed in the Army after watching the movie “Top Gun” and wanting to enter the Air Force.

No matter what branch of the military someone serves, Calkins said, they learn discipline, the value of teamwork and the need to use military training throughout life.

Calkins now works for Centennial Water, which provides water and wastewater services in Highlands Ranch.

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Zillow went on a Front Range home-buying binge The real estate giant bought 500+ homes in 10 counties

BY JASON BLEVINS THE COLORADO SUN

The collapse of online real estate giant Zillow’s venture into home buying and selling, announced Nov. 2, can be traced, in one small part, back to its over eagerness to invest in Colorado’s red-hot real estate market.

The company bought hundreds of homes in the Front Range this summer, mostly in August and September, often paying more than what sellers were asking.

Now the company, as it folds its ill-fated Zillow Offers business of flipping homes with a promise to investors to unload roughly 18,000 homes across the country, is selling more than 500 homes in 10 Front Range counties, and more homes it purchased in October are hitting the market every day.

Zillow is slashing prices for those homes. Nearly all the properties are priced well below what the company paid only a few months — or even weeks — ago.

“It’s pretty crazy to watch, isn’t it?” said Michael DelPrete, who teaches a class on real estate technology at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.

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‘It’s like we won a mini lottery’ Kyle Barnes listed the Castle Rock home he and his wife purchased in 2013 for sale in early August. They also submitted their home to Zillow Offers, as well as instant-buying market leader Opendoor Technologies Inc. After a detailed in-person inspection by Zillow, a remote inspection

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than the Barnes’ asking price.

Opendoor offered $546,500. Both those included fees of around 5%.

Zillow’s offer came in at $626,000, with only a 1% fee.

Barnes accepted the Zillow offer and a couple days before they were scheduled to close, the company announced it was abandoning its nascent home buying and selling flipping business.

“Our fear was that Zillow would not close. We were freaking out,” said Barnes, who was closing on a house his family was building the day after closing the sale of their Castle Rock home.

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The money landed in his bank on Nov. 4, just as scheduled.

“It felt like this was a rare gold rush moment where we just got fortunate,” Barnes said. “It’s like we won a mini lottery.”

Barnes said he’s chatted with agents and friends about Zillow’s strategy in buying his home for so much more than what he was asking — and even more than the company’s own “zestimate” value.

“I thought either they are so much smarter than I am and they have this magic formula and they are forecasting the market. I mean, maybe Zillow can afford to sit on a home and wait. Maybe they know something is going to happen,” Barnes said. “Or the alternative is that they were making mistakes.”

‘Unintentionally’ paying higher prices It turns out, Zillow was making mistakes.

In the three months preceding Sept. 30, Zillow spent $1.2 billion on 3,032 homes, which compared to $186 million for 583 homes in the same period of 2020. With a Zillow Offers loss of $245 million for the third quarter of 2021, the company estimates it lost about $81,000 on every one of those 3,032 homes. (The company reported a net loss of $328 million for the second quarter.)

The company has 1,956 homes in Florida, 1,543 homes in Texas and 1,309 homes in California. Nearly

5,000 more homes across the country make up 49% of its remaining properties.

The company says it is under contract to buy another 9,000 homes in the final months of 2021 and expects to sell about 5,000 homes by year’s end, generating up to $2.1 billion in revenue but losing up to $365 million in the final quarter of this year.

That will put Zillow’s losses from its home buying and selling business at close to $600 million in the final half of 2021, roughly $10 million a month.

Zillow paid big for those homes, often paying more than listing price.

In a Nov. 2 letter to shareholders, the company said “unintentionally purchasing homes at higher prices” led to the failure of its Zillow Offers, which was launched in 2017 with plans to become a heavyweight in the world of home buying and selling.

The company began buying homes in Denver in 2018 and expanded to Fort Collins and Colorado Springs in 2019.

“We have determined that this large scale would require too much equity capital, create too much volatility in our earnings and balance sheet, and ultimately result in far lower return on equity than we imagined,” reads Zillow’s letter to investors announcing the end of its home buying and selling business.

“We have been unable to accurately forecast future home prices at different times in both directions by much more than we modeled,” reads the letter, describing the challenges of global pandemic and the “supplydemand imbalance” that spiked

home prices in recent months.

Wall Street is not pleased. Zillow’s stock is trading around $64 a share, down from around $103 a share before the Nov. 2 earnings statement.

‘Like Christmas,’ but not for buyers For those few lucky sellers, Zillow made it “feel like Christmas,” said Brian Anzur, the president of the board for the South Metro Denver Realtors Association.

But buyers don’t see Zillow as Santa.

Anzur would walk home-hunting clients through a Zillow-owned home and they would be amazed, he said. And not with the house.

“They’re going ‘How much are they asking?’” Anzur said. “The market is crazy in Colorado compared to other places in the country, but it’s not stupid. It can see value.

If you bring a property to the market that is simply priced too high, the market tends to ignore it.”

Which is what is happening to Zillow as the company steadily decreases asking prices for hundreds of homes it overpaid for across the Front Range.

Anzur recently brought clients to a Zillow-owned home in the south metro area that was priced about $75,000 over similar properties in the neighborhood. The property next door, he said, was blighted; no grass, peeling paint and rusting barbecues in the dirt.

“Zillow could not see that. They see beds, baths, square footage and locations,” Anzur said. “Their algorithm really fell short in evaluating other things that are important to purchasers.”

For many years, real estate brokers have had to educate sellers and buyers who click over to Zillow’s zestimate tool that provides oftenincorrect values.

“Now we have the company behind the zestimate saying ‘We just didn’t get it right,’” Anzur said.

‘Not great for consumers’ Milford Adams, the chair of the Denver Metro Association of Realtors board of directors, said he is unaware of a real estate investment trust or other corporation ever releasing hundreds of homes into the Denver market in a matter of months.

Adams said it was hard to determine if Zillow was influencing prices by paying above-listing prices for homes because just about every recent home sale in metro Denver has been above asking price “for a while.”

“So Zillow is certainly not the only buyer paying above asking,” Adams said.

And Zillow was diverse in its acquisitions. Its portfolio of more than 500 homes on the Front Range is spread across many neighborhoods.

So selling those, even in bulk, will not likely impact a regional, or even neighborhood market, Anzur said.

DelPrete, with CU’s Leeds School, expects Zillow’s exit from flipping homes to lure institutional investors eager to secure a swath of hot-market housing — either for renting or selling — in a single deal.

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Littleton commemorates those who’ve served Residents, decorated Army members gather at Veterans Day event

BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A current of cool air blew through the crowd as they gathered at the Littleton World War II memorial on Veterans Day. Some looked upwards, just below the bright late morning sun, to see the American flag flapping in the wind.

Soon they put their right hand over their heart for a moment of silence to remember those who served, and died, in the U.S. armed forces.

Residents from across Littleton turned out the morning of Nov. 11 to commemorate veterans. Attendees in everyday clothes stood side by side with decorated members of the U.S. Marines, Air Force and Navy as they joined in celebration of military lives.

The event was sponsored by the Veterans Of Foreign Wars’ Pat Hannon Post in Littleton.

“On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War I was brought to an end. On Armistice Day, or as we know it, Veterans Day, the people of the United States pay honor to the brave men and women who have served our armed forces,” said Littleton Mayor Jerry Valdes, a keynote speaker during the event. “To the veterans of the United States of America, thank you for your service.”

Al Rodriguez, commander of the executive board for the American Legion, said Veterans Day is also an opportunity to celebrate the diversity of the military.

“As I look out into the audience, I see people of various races, various colors, male and female,” he said.

“I’m reminded that the military is one of the most diverse organizations in the country and the military has taken every one of us to make this country who we are.”

Rodriguez reminded the crowd of the service of people of color throughout the military’s history.

That includes Native Americans, who have served with distinction in every major conflict for the

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Community members clap for veterans in attendance at the event.

The El Jebel Shrine Pipe Band performs “Amazing Grace” as flowers are placed.

past 200 years as well as JapaneseAmericans who proved integral to the U.S.’s efforts during World War II, he said.

“I could go on,” Rodriguez said.

“But my point … is every honor-

ably discharged veteran has played an important role in this country’s history and to the freedoms that we all have today, regardless of rank, branch, ethnicity or gender. You are all important veterans.”

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Report details pandemic’s impact on metro-Denver arts Cultural organizations lost a decade of growth

BY KYLE COOKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

The nonprofit Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA) has released a study detailing the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on art and cultural institutions and many of the findings paint a bleak image.

The data for the study were selfreported by close to 300 arts, culture and science organizations that receive funding from the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).

The CBCA study, released Nov. 4, concluded that the Denver area’s arts sector “lost a decade of growth in 2020.”

“Arts, culture and scientific organizations are the backbone of a vibrant, resilient and inclusive society. CBCA’s 2021 Economic Activity Study of Metro Denver Culture illustrates years of record-breaking cultural growth, which hit an alltime high in 2019, and conversely in 2020, how a community responds to drastic and disruptive circumstances,” CBCA’s executive director Christin Crampton Day said in a news release.

2019 was a banner year for the arts, with $2.3 billion in economic activity (defined by the CBCA as “direct and indirect spending from

operations, audiences and capital projects”). That figure is an all-time high.

But. of course, the COVID-19 pandemic was right around the corner in 2020, and with the combination of the deadly virus and pandemicrelated closures of places like museums and concert venues, economic activity decreased by 34% compared to 2019.

The CBCA said the economic activity in 2020 was comparable to the levels of the Great Recession in 2008.

Not surprisingly, attendance to arts events was nearly halved.

Job loss was another problem.

In 2019, the cultural sector had a record number of full-time, parttime and contract workers at 13,392 according to the CBCA’s study. “If the entire cultural nonprofit sector was one single employer in 2019, it would have been the largest private employer in the metro region,” the CBCA wrote.

But in 2020, the number of workers plummeted nearly 30%, down to just 9,688.

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Lone Tree-based Canvas Credit Union to merge Deal marks Canvas expansion to Western Slope

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Canvas Credit Union, a Front Range-focused financial company based in Lone Tree, announced Nov. 15 that its merger with a Western Slope credit union has been approved by regulators and the two organizations’ boards.

Canvas currently has about 30 branches across metro Denver and in the Fort Collins-GreeleyLoveland area, so the merger with Grand Junction-based Western Rockies Federal Credit Union marks an expansion into western Colorado.

Under the deal, Canvas will add more than 40 employees of Western Rockies FCU to its workforce, and Western Rockies FCU’s Grand Junction, Rifle and Fruita branches will remain open, Canvas said in a statement. Western Rockies member accounts will transition to Canvas.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“Canvas also plans to explore opportunities to open more branches along the Western Slope,” the statement said.

Grand Junction-based Western Rockies FCU has $150 million in assets and 14,000 members.

The statement said the combination had been approved by the state of Colorado and the National Credit Union Administration, the industry’s federal regulator.

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Unless, of course, Zillow plans to sell each of the homes to individual buyers. The company has reduced the price for just about every home it is selling in the Front Range.

“But that’s not what Zillow has talked about,” DelPrete said. “They have talked in public about selling to those institutional investors. Those large investors, they are in a position of power here. They are in the business of buying homes and renting them out and they’ve been doing that for years and they do it profitably. They are not going to overpay for these homes.”

On Nov. 10, the Wall Street Journal reported that Zillow had reached a deal to sell 2,000 homes in 20 markets to Pretium Partners, a New York hedge fund that planned to offer the properties for rent. The report said Zillow received “market price for the properties.”

Institutional investment in real estate is common in Colorado.

The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or Nareit, shows 128 REITs owning 8,734 properties in Colorado. Those properties include nearly 3,200 billboards, 1,200 communication towers and a mix of shops, health care facilities, storage facilities, apartment buildings, resorts and office buildings.

REITs own 3,139 single-family homes in Colorado, the trade group said.

November 18, 2021 ‘Catastrophic pricing failure’ DelPrete, who studies the online iBuying phenomenon that Zillow hoped to tap with Zillow Offers, said the online company’s high-priced purchases of homes this summer marks “a catastrophic pricing failure.”

“They made a systemic mistake,” he said, noting that Zillow bought more homes in the third quarter of 2021 than it had purchased in the previous three quarters combined.

Other instant buying companies, like market-leader Opendoor Technologies Inc. and its smaller rival Offerpad Solutions Inc., saw the market cooling in July and began reeling in the prices they paid for homes, DelPrete said. Zillow kept buying at a record clip, paying prices well above listing.

“It was like brake lights on the highway, but Zillow was in the passing lane going 80 mph and they didn’t see the brake lights or simply ignored them,” DelPrete said.

Both Opendoor and Offerpad, which offer online tools and programs for swift home buying and selling, last week reported record revenue in the third quarter. Both publicly traded companies are active in the Front Range, with Opendoor owning more than 350 homes in 10 counties and Offerpad owning roughly 20 in the region.

Most of Opendoor’s and Offerpad’s purchases in the Front Range, unlike Zillow, were from last year or early 2021.

Offerpad, which launched in 2015, told investors on Nov. 10 it was expanding into new markets after

buying 2,753 homes and selling 1,673 homes in the three months ending Sept. 30. The company’s thirdquarter revenue grew 190% over the same period in 2020, reaching $540 million.

Opendoor, which launched in 2014 and is the largest iBuying company, with nearly 18,000 homes in 44 markets, told investors on Wednesday it had purchased 15,181 homes and sold 5,988 homes in the third quarter of 2021, with revenue for the three months reaching $2.3 billion, up 91% from the previous quarter.

DelPrete warns against reading the collapse of Zillow’s home-flipping business as a sign that instant buying is a failed enterprise. He’s not quite ready to say Amazonstyled click-to-buy home purchasing is the future though.

“It’s still too early to tell. iBuying is new … and the path to profitability and sustainability is uncertain,” he said. “But just because Zillow can’t, doesn’t mean it can’t happen.”

‘What is the game plan?’

Patrick Muldoon, whose Muldoon Associates brokerage works in both Colorado Springs and Pueblo, remembers seeing Zillow buying homes in his region this summer and fall.

“They were making offers on properties locally where I was saying ‘What is the game plan here?’ They were in neighborhoods where everything was $475,000 to $490,000 and they come in at $520,000 to $530,000.

It just didn’t make a lot of sense,” said Muldoon. “We thought maybe it was just here but, obviously, they

were doing that everywhere.”

Muldoon, like DelPrete, doubts Zillow will be negotiating thousands of individual deals for the properties it hopes to sell, and even if it does, it is unlikely to have an impact on the Front Range real estate market.

“We have far higher demand than we have properties for sale so I wonder if even several hundred homes hitting the market is enough property to even make a blip on the housing shortage we have been dealing with for years now on the Front Range,” Muldoon said.

There are a lot of factors clouding the Colorado real estate market right now as demand peaks, prices soar and the inventory of for-sale homes reaches record lows. Inflation, which hit a 30-year high in October, could pinch homebuyer budgets. Interest rates could climb as the Fed maneuvers around that inflation.

If interest rates climb, Zillow might look pretty smart having shed thousands of for-sale homes from its portfolio.

“Sure, maybe Zillow lost money and maybe they made bad decisions, but did the company get out when the getting out was good?” Muldoon said. “We could be six months from now looking back and saying ‘Wow, did they see this coming?”

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Arapahoe High School’s defense stepped up in a second-round Class 5A playoff football game against ThunderRidge High of Highlands Ranch and sparked a 23-16 victory at Littleton Public Schools Stadium Nov. 12.

Except for a couple pass plays, the Arapahoe Warriors’ defense contained the ThunderRidge Grizzlies offense and helped stake Centennialbased Arapahoe to a 16-0 in the third quarter before ThunderRidge finally made a couple long pass completions.

“Yeah, the defense played well,”said Arapahoe coach Joe Nuu. “There are some things we have to clean up. We messed up on a couple coverages but hand it to ThunderRidge for really fighting.

“Our defense played well. The offense started slow and we hopefully can score more. It was a great win for our team and community.”

Arapahoe (9-2) moves into the quarterfinals and will face Parker’s Legend (10-1).

It was the second win this season for Arapahoe over ThunderRidge (9-3). The Warriors topped the Grizzlies, 38-17, in a Sept. 17 contest.

Arapahoe running back DJ Montoya did not play in the earlier game against ThunderRidge but he was main ball carrier for the Warriors and scored on a five-yard run. He helped keep the chains moving as the Grizzlies rushed for 159 yards in the game.

“He is just workhorse,” added Nuu. “He’s done the job all year long.”

Arapahoe got a safety, Pyresse Miller had a seven-yard TD run and quarterback Cole Hansen scored on a quarterback sneak for the Warriors.

Chase Thompson was the key player for ThunderRidge. He ran down the sidelines on an 80-yard flat pass from Seth Frasier for a touch-

Arapahoe’s workhorse running back DJ Montoya (24) eludes a tackle by ThunderRidge’s Derek Pacheco (8) during the Oct. 12 Class PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON 5A playoff game at Littleton Public Schools Stadium. Arapahoe won, 23-16.

down and had a seven-yard TD run late in the game.

In other Class 5A second round games, top seed Valor Christian of Highlands Ranch romped to a 52-2 win over Fort Collins. Cherry Creek eliminated Mountain Vista of Highlands Ranch, 34-0 and Legend knocked off Rock Canyon of Highlands Ranch, 28-14. Regis Jesuit edged Pomona of Arvada, 28-21, Columbine beat Arvada West 38-14 and Grandview downed Mullen, 42-21.

In the quarterfinals, besides the Arapahoe-Legend contest, Regis Jesuit (8-3) faces two-time defending state champion Cherry Creek (9-2), Columbine (9-3) tests undefeated Valor Christian (11-0) and Ralston Valley (9-2) plays Grandview (9-2).

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ThunderRidge quarterback Seth Frasier (3) scrambles out of trouble during the Oct. 12 Class 5A playoff game against Arapahoe. The Warriors won, 23-16.

Creek takes 5A state championship Greenwood Village school wins title for the first time in 13 years

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Cherry Creek High School’s volleyball team concluded three days of tough matches by taking home the Class 5A state championship trophy on Nov. 13 at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs.

The Cherry Creek Bruins of

Greenwood Village, the top-seeded 5A team in the CHSAA state volleyball tournament, downed Centennial League rival Grandview of Aurora 3-1 to capture Creek’s sixth state volleyball title and the first in 13 years.

It was the second consecutive runner-up state tournament finish for the Grandview Wolves.

Cherry Creek finished the season with a 26-2 record while Grandview was 24-5.

Both teams were undefeated going into the semifinal matches on Nov. 13 in the tournament, which used a double-elimination Olympic cross-

over bracket.

“We had some tough matches.

There was nothing easy,” said Creek coach Steve Huntingdale. “It was high-level volleyball. I know Cherry Creek and Grandview wanted another chance to get after it. We made a few more plays than they did.”

Grandview defeated Cherry Creek 3-1 in an earlier Centennial League showdown but the Bruins were the better team in the state finals.

Creek won the first set, 27-25, but lost the second, 26-28. Then the Bruins prevailed in the third and fourth sets, winning 25-17 and 25-14.

“The first two sets were really tight,” said Grandview coach Rob Graham, who is the former coach at Parker-area Ponderosa and guided the Mustangs to the 2009 state title.

“They were just a little bit too good for us. It was a battle and a long three days. There was high level volleyball on the 5A level.”

Carter Booth, a 6-7 senior who is the daughter of Nuggets general manager Calvin Booth, was the leader for the Bruins and she got front line support from Ryan Pollard, Anna Van Wyk, Kaegan SEE CREEK, P29

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Wherry and Campbell Kreider. Natalia Landry and Riley Warner handled the defensive chores in the backcourt.

“She is maybe the most brilliant, smartest player I know,” said Huntingdale about Booth. “Her teammates trust what she says and that added to their confidence.”

Booth is going to play next season at the University of Minnesota.

“It feels great to win,” she said. “It’s just surreal. We worked so hard. There was definitely pressure coming into the tournament being seeded first. We played for each other.

“It was sweet and now I can go into the next chapter.

It was a battle. We knew each team we played wanted it just as bad as we did. Each time I came out I would go fight, fight because it was a battle and we couldn’t let up.”

Haley Glunz was a force at the net for the Wolves.

Cherry Creek was tested in the semifinals with a match against second-seeded Chaparral of the Parker area, which defeated Ralston Valley of Arvada 3-1 to advance to the semis. Creek downed Chap 3-2 and won the decisive fifth set 15-9.

Grandview eliminated Mountain Vista of Highlands Ranch 3-1 to move into the semifinals. Vista’s Golden Eagles had swept Parker-area Legend 3-0 earlier in the day.

Cherry Creek wins the Class 5A state volleyball championship trophy.

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Rob Graham was a former volleyball coach at Ponderosa and is now the head coach at Grandview. The Wolves lost the state championship match to Centennial League rival Cherry Creek, 3-1, on Nov. 13. It was the second straight year than Grandview was the state runner-up.

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DU’s Newman Center returns as community hub New season offers 16 shows by creative greats

BY CLARKE READER SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

For so many communities, arts centers are hubs of connection and creativity — places where people can go for entertainment and education. Which made the COVID-19 pandemic especially damaging, since so many arts centers were shut down to keep performers, staff and audiences safe.

That’s the story with the University of Denver’s Robert and Judi Newman Center, 2344 E. Iliff Ave. in Denver, which went quiet for the bulk of the pandemic. But the center is returning to life, and by launching its 2021-22 season, is signaling it’s ready to be a hub for the community again.

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Putting seasons together take months — even years — of effort, so many of the performers who are part of this year’s program were scheduled during the pandemic shut down, and now are finally getting the chance to connect with audiences.

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NEWMAN CENTER’S 2021-22 SEASON

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Student Matinee Series and Musical Explorers.

“When the pandemic started, we were working on reshaping the model of what we offered, and we were able to do what we could with things like virtual curriculum models,” said Luke Wachter, associate director of educational initiatives.

“The direction we want to try to go in is to create really meaningful community partnerships. In the past, we existed as our own organization and entity, but we want to move our programing out-of-building and into the community.”

As these efforts move forward, one of the key areas of focus is increasing equity and access for all those who want to participate. For Wachter, that means diversifying the center’s offerings, establishing new relationships and partnerships and reshaping its programs into more engaging forms.

“A fundamental part of any education is providing a window into the world, and it’s equally as important for children to see themselves and their community

The University of Denver’s Robert and Judi Newman Center went quiet for the bulk of the pandemic, but is now returning to its place in the community and will be PHOTO BY WAYNE ARMSTRONG/NEWMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER hosting events again.

that chance again at the Newman Center.

“The same way people showed up for restaurants, they should show up for the arts,” she said.

“Take a chance, buy yourself a ticket, take a partner out on a date night. When people do give us a chance, they come back over and over again.”

reflected on the stage,” Wachter said. “Pairing windows and mirrors together make for a really equitable education.”

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Building Landscape Design 2nd Quarter 2021 Economic Report Mill Levy Distribution Purchased Services Professional Services

13,373.50 3,360.00 45.00 4,029.68 136.80 833.26 6,400.38 10,250.00 85.45 132.38 1,424.57 2,500.00 101,973.48 1,475.79

Security Services Professional Services/Booking Fees Process Service Fees Project Review Fees Travel Expense Repair & Maintenance Service Repair & Maintenance Supplies Purchased Services Travel Expense Travel Expense Instructor Travel Escrow Payable Entertainment District Trail Business Personal Property Tax Rebate Instructor Travel Dust Suppressant Software/Hardware Support Natural Resource Site Review Natural Resource Site Review Software/Hardware Support Operating Supplies Repair & Maintenance Service Operating Supplies Postage & Delivery Service Road-Street Drainage-Engineering Repair & Maintenance Service Prairie Canyon Repair & Maintenance Service Repair & Maintenance Service Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Business Personal Property Tax Rebate Carpet Replacement Sheriff’s Office Stair Tread Replacement Park Meadows Office Travel Expense Conference, Seminar, Training Fees Travel Expense County Fair Service/Fair Administration Medical, Dental & Vet Services Travel Expense Travel Expense Escrow Payable Conference, Seminar, Training Fees School Clock/School Flasher Upgrades Travel Expense Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Clothing & Uniforms Security Deposit Refund-Fairground Travel Expense Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder County Fair Service/Fair Rodeo Ticket Surcharge Escrow Payable Dust Suppressant Professional Services Ecological Consulting Services Insurance Claims-Liability Construction Inspection Services Software/Hardware Subscription Fair Judges/Referees Fees Firearm Accessories Travel Expense Travel Expense Interpreting Services Repair & Maintenance Supplies Waste Disposal Services Pine Drive Project C-470 Trail Project Havana/Meridian/Lincoln Design US 85 Corridor Improvements Mental Health Services

CONTINENTAL PARTITION SYSTEMS INC 3,324.00 CONTINUUM OF COLORADO 3,306.00 CONTRERAS, YANETH 79.00 CONVERGEONE INC 1,325.52 COOK STREET CONSULTING INC 12,500.00 COOK, BETH 173.55 CORE & MAIN LP 15,494.64 CORE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE 142,277.89 CORVIN-WIEN, ANDREA & CHRISTOPHER 2,500.00 COSTAR REALTY INFORMATION INC 6,635.92 CPI GUARDIAN - CLEARWATER PACKAGING INC 1,323.52 CREDITRON CORPORATION 12,951.49 CRISIS CENTER 33,750.00 DALYTE-AIA INDUSTRIES LLC DAVID EVANS & ASSOCIATES INC DAWN B HOLMES INC DEBORD, DOUG DENOVO VENTURES LLC DENVER HEALTH & HOSPITAL AUTHORITY DESIGN CONCEPTS COMMUNITY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS INC DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH PARTNERS INC DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS INC DIGISTREAM DENVER INC DNA DIAGNOSTICS CENTER INC DOUGLAS COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF’S ASSOCIATION DOUGLAS COUNTY INMATE WELFARE ACCOUNT DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF DOUGLAS LAND CONSERVANCY DRAKE, BARBARA DRC CONSTRUCTION SERVICES INC DUBOIS CHEMICALS INC DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE DYCK, DAINNA J DYER-JONES, LARA EAN SERVICES LLC ELEVATION HOMES ELITE INDUSTRIES INC ELKHART PLASTICS INC EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL DENVER ENVIROTECH SERVICES INC ENVISION IT PARTNERS ERO RESOURCES CORPORATION ERO RESOURCES CORPORATION ESKER SOFTWARE INC FACILITY SOLUTIONS GROUP FALCONE REFRIGERATION INC FASTENAL COMPANY FEDEX FELSBURG, HOLT AND ULLEVIG FIRE ALARM SERVICES INC FIRESIDE MASONRY & CONSTRUCTION

1,057.00 34,762.78 2,488.00 2,580.50 545.75 817.00 448.63 805.00 756.33 11.11 37,922.29 4,645.00 14,798.82

FIRST RESPONDER COMMUNICATIONS FISHER, CHARLES KENNON FLEET AUTO TAG AND TITLE SERVICE FLEXENTIAL COLORADO CORPORATION

472.50 73.22 2,913.11 82,564.30

FLOORZ LLLP

15,469.17

FLOORZ LLLP

10,265.00

FLYNT, DARLENE FORCE SCIENCE INSTITUTE LTD FOREMAN, JOEL FOREVER YOURS STUDIO FRANKTOWN ANIMAL CLINIC FREEMAN, ALEXANDRA FRENCH, JA’DAE FUNK DEVELOPMENT & CONSTRUCTION GABEL, JACOB GADES SALES COMPANY INC GADZIALA, CAMILLE GALENZA, GARRY GALLS LLC GARCIA, ANDREA & MARIA CORTEZ GAUGHAN, JENNIFER GLENN, JOHANNA GLOBAL PAYMENTS DIRECT GMC CONSTRUCTION GMCO CORPORATION GOODBEE & ASSOCIATES GREAT ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTS GROSS, JOSH GROUND ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS INC GUARDIAN TRACKING LLC HADDON, PATTI HALEY STRATEGIC PARTNERS LLC HANSON, TOMMY HARBOUR, RICHARD HAUCK, CHERI M HAY CO LLC HBS HC PECK & ASSOCIATES INC HDR ENGINEERING INC HDR ENGINEERING INC HDR ENGINEERING INC HEALTH MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES

Other Professional Services Due to State-Marriage License Due to State - MV Due to State - eRecording State-CDOT Repair & Maintenance Supplies Professional Services Due to State-Family Friendly Court Facilities Use Fees Due to State-Voter Confidentiality Janitorial Supplies Fencing at Devils Head Tower Telephone/Communications Contract Work POSSE Upgrade & Software/ Hardware Support Elections Remodel Partitions Developmental Disabilities Grant Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Software/Hardware Support Consulting Services Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Construction Materials Utilities/Electric Escrow Payable Software/Hardware Support Operating Supplies Annual Software Maintenance Reimbursement for Community Services Skylight Replacement ITS Infrastructure Study Medical, Dental & Vet Services Travel Expense Software/Hardware Support Medical, Dental & Vet Services

12.55 1,980.00 32.28 225.00 2,578.69 352.36 180.88 2,500.00 72.50 204,488.75 197.79 96.62 20,816.00 100.00 204.40 50.25 2.00 2,500.00 64,965.00 2,882.84 6,050.50 1,033.03 38,223.98 3,086.25 100.00 1,629.01 217.90 62.72 160.00 1,379.00 184.00 1,534.47 559.00 49,438.91 134,829.20 23,787.50

HEALTHCARE MEDICAL WASTE SERVICES LLC HELENA AGRI-ENTERPRISES, LLC HELP & HOPE CENTER

294.00 Biohazard Waste Removal 1,241.60 Operating Supplies 1,765.50 Reimbursement for Community Services HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY 10,000.00 Parks & Recreation Improvement HIGHLANDS RANCH METRO DISTRICTS 10,917.80 Water & Sewer HILL, ASHLEY 65.00 Conference, Seminar, Training Fees HIRERIGHT LLC 2,037.07 Recruitment Costs HOFFMAN, DARCY 650.00 Veteran Affairs Stipend HOKE, SARAH E 344.18 Travel Expense HOLDEN, MARK P 194.78 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder HOLMES, WENDY 136.80 Travel Expense HOME CARE ASSISTANCE OF DOUGLAS COUNTY 2,363.75 Senior Services Grant HOPSKIPDRIVE INC 7,757.97 Student Transportation HR GREEN FIBER & BROADBAND LLC 6,121.00 Broadband Service Study HR GREEN INC 555.00 Professional Services HUDICK EXCAVATING INC 161,907.74 Happy Canyon Project HUDICK EXCAVATING INC 352,750.68 Waterton Road Extension Phase 2 HUERTA, JENNIFER M 268.97 Travel Expense HUMANE SOCIETY OF PIKES PEAK 35,706.25 Animal Control Services HUNDLEY LLC 2,400.00 County Fair Service/Fair Rodeo IAFE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FAIRS & EXPOSITIONS 738.00 Conference, Seminar, Training Fees INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR INC 100,152.33 Software/Hardware Subscription/ Supplies INTOXIMETERS 70.00 Operating Supplies INWARD BOUND LLC 120.00 Professional Services J & A TRAFFIC PRODUCTS 5,030.00 Sign Parts & Supplies J BROWER PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES & CONSULTING 270.00 Mental Health Services J P MORGAN CHASE BANK 684,419.68 PCard Purchases 09/05/21-10/04/21 JABLONSKI BUILDING CONSERVATION INC 45,703.00 Rock Ridge Cemetery Conservation JEFFERSON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES 6,983.84 Foster Care Collaborative JHL CONSTRUCTORS INC 2,190.00 Escrow Payable JOB STORE INC, THE 454.95 Contract Work JOHN ELWAY CHEVROLET 156,300.00 Purchase of 6 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe’s JON P DICKEY LLC 8,570.00 Roofing Inspections JONES, MARK 148.09 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder JORDAN, JEFFREY 292.22 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder JP NIXON CONSULTING 6,413.44 Instructor Fee and Travel K & C GROUP LLC 6,260.00 Professional Services KALIHER, MEGHAN 487.82 Travel Expense KANE, MICHELLE 176.02 Travel Expense KEN CARYL GLASS INC 6,560.00 Repairs and Maintenance KENNEDY, MICHELE A 44.00 Travel Expense KESNER, LAURA 727.10 Travel Expense KIEWIT INFRASTRUCTURE COMPANY 24,246.24 Asphalt & Asphalt Filler KING SOOPERS/CITY MARKET 6,531.25 Client Assistance KNOTH III, JOHN F 110.00 Purchased Services Reimbursement KUBL GROUP LLC 825.00 Repairs and Maintenance KUTAK ROCK LLP 10,617.00 Legal Services LANDMARK LINCOLN MERCURY 1,443.90 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder LARSON, LARRY EVERETTE 107.17 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder LASKEY, RICHARD H 970.34 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder LEARY, LAURA 859.96 Travel Expense LEE, MICHAEL 254.73 Travel Expense LEPLATT, COURTNEY GAYLE 100.00 Fair Judges/Referees Fees LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS 11,363.04 Telephone/Communications LIVING CENTER LLC 520.00 Medical, Dental & Vet Services LOCLYZ MEDIA SERVICES 20,562.50 Digital Media Services LONG, PAT 1,983.49 Travel Expense LOOK DDS, KIM M 300.00 Medical, Dental & Vet Services LYLES, CELESTENE (TENA) 307.44 Travel Expense MAES, CHRIS D 650.00 Veteran Affairs Stipend MANNA RESOURCE CENTER 276,391.39 Emergency Rent Assistance Funding MAPLE STAR COLORADO INC 6,793.00 Other Professional Services MARQUEZ, MARIO L 57.28 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder MARQUEZ, RYAN J 216.10 Travel Expense MARSHALL, MARTHA 136.80 Travel Expense MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS INC 728,447.66 Asphalt Overlay MAURER, ALLYSON 245.17 Travel Expense MCCORD, JOHN T 359.82 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder MCINTOSH, MICHAEL 83.60 Travel Expense MCMORRIS, KIRA 301.78 Travel Expense MERIDIAN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT 877.85 Water & Sewer METRO DENVER BUSINESS FORMS 3,635.59 Printing/Copying/Reports MILDREN, JODI B 701.68 Travel Expense MILLER WENHOLD CAPITOL 9,166.66 Lobbying Services MOBILE RECORD SHREDDERS 3,324.00 Waste Disposal Services MONTGOMERY, MICHAEL 2,500.00 Escrow Payable MOUNTAIN MOBILE TELEVISION LLC 21,690.88 Business Personal Property Tax Rebate MOUNTAIN VIEW ELECTRIC INC 645.72 Utilities/Electric MOYERS, ANN 192.64 Travel Expense MTM RECOGNITION 2,940.02 Recognition Programs MULLER ENGINEERING COMPANY INC 16,182.75 Perry Park Project MUSCO SPORTS LIGHTING LLC 9,500.00 Repair & Maintenance Service NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION INC 2,610.00 Electrical Installation/Repairs NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BUREAU LLC 1,723.00 Instructor Fee and Travel NATIONAL WOMAN’S MARCH 60.00 Security Deposit Refund-Fairground NEW ERA TRAINING AND CONSULTING LLC 1,859.87 Instructor Fee and Travel NEXT PHASE ENGINEERING LLC 4,025.00 General Engineering Services NMS LABS 4,993.00 Forensic Testing NORTH LINE GIS LLC 360.00 Wildfire Mapping NYSTROM, SCOTT 103.63 Travel Expense O J WATSON COMPANY INC 8,500.00 Machinery and Equipment OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CENTERS OF THE SOUTHWEST 3,835.00 Recruitment Costs O’CONNELL, LETA 102.26 Travel Expense OLDCASTLE INFRASTRUCTURE 7,600.00 Construction/Maintenance Materials OPEX CORPORATION 72,684.30 Mail and Ballot Rapid Extraction Desks ORACLE AMERICA INC 5,073.21 Software/Hardware Support ORMSBEE, SONIA 664.86 Conference, Seminar, Training Fees ORR, LORI 100.30 Travel Expense OSBURN ASSOCIATES INC 4,622.70 Sign Parts & Supplies PACIFIC OFFICE AUTOMATION INC 6,576.32 Copier Charges PANORAMA WELLNESS AND SPORTS INSTITUTE 11,000.00 Training Services PARKER CORE KNOWLEDGE CHARTER SCHOOL 3,100.00 School Safety PARKER WATER & SANITATION DISTRICT 2,726.42 Water & Sewer PAWNEE BUTTES SEED INC 1,487.00 Operating Supplies PAWS 4 PRODUCTIVITY LLC 450.00 Human Services Puppy Visit PEAK OFFICE FURNITURE INC 20,427.63 Furniture/Office Systems PERSON, MARK 2,500.00 Escrow Payable PHILLIPS, GEOFFREY J 756.02 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder PHOENIX SUPPLY LLC 4,766.00 Prisoner Maintenance Supplies PINERY WATER DISTRICT 9,133.07 Water & Sewer PINKARD CONSTRUCTION 5,000.00 Escrow Payable PIONEER TECHNOLOGY GROUP LLC 11,407.00 Software Maintenance Renewal PMAM CORPORATION 9,631.66 Alarm Administration Expenses POO CREW LLC, THE 500.00 Pet Waste Removal PRECISION FIRE PROTECTION INC 3,700.00 Fire Sprinkler Coverage Continued to Next Page 940111

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Public Notices Legals Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2021-0024 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/8/2021 12:43:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: Mary Maybee Original Beneficiary: Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee for Cascade Funding Mortgage Trust HB4 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/24/2013 Recording Date of DOT: 7/1/2013 Reception No. of DOT: 2013054843 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $513,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $216,183.30 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to timely pay property charges such as tax and insurance payments under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 58, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 100L, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 8701 Mallard Place, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 5, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. 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.

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secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

Dated: 9/8/2021 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 12, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. 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.

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: HOLLY SHILLIDAY Colorado Registration #: 24423 7700 E. ARAPAHOE ROAD, SUITE 230, CENTENNIAL, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (877) 369-6122 Fax #: Attorney File #: CO-21-893373-LL *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2021-0024 First Publication: 11/11/2021 Last Publication: 12/9/2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2021-0026 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/15/2021 2:59:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: Peter T. Stratton Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation, Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/3/2018 Recording Date of DOT: 8/3/2018 Reception No. of DOT: 2018047166 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $331,247.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $324,794.53

First Publication: 11/18/2021 Last Publication: 12/16/2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 9/16/2021 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ILENE DELL'ACQUA Colorado Registration #: 31755 7700 E. ARAPAHOE ROAD, SUITE 230 , CENTENNIAL, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (877) 369-6122 Fax #: Attorney File #: CO-19-875074-LL *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2021-0026 First Publication: 11/18/2021 Last Publication: 12/16/2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2021-0025

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.

To Whom It May Concern: On 9/15/2021 2:57:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Original Grantor: HOWARD D. REEVES AND MADONNA L. REEVES Original Beneficiary: BOKF, NA dba Colorado State Bank and Trust Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BOKF NA DBA BOK FINANCIAL Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 2/27/2016 Recording Date of DOT: 3/7/2016 Reception No. of DOT: 2016013345 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $45,056.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $43,098.23

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 11, BLOCK 1, THE MEADOWS FILING NO. 1, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED JULY 29, 1987 AT RECEPTION NO. 8721780 AND REPLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 25, 1987 AT RECEPTION NO. 873397, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 3164 W Sugarbowl Court, Castle Rock, CO 80109 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt

Continued From Last Page No. 940111: Page 2 of 2 PREP-RITE COATINGS & CONTRACTING LLC 4,065.00 PRO COM - PRO COMPLIANCE 2,100.00 PROFESSIONAL RODEO COWBOY’S ASSOCIATION 2,860.00 PROVOKE SOLUTIONS LLC 21,032.00 PUBLIC TRUST ADVISORS LLC 5,833.33 PVP COMMUNICATIONS 2,270.13 Q-MATIC CORPORATION 23,647.60 QUADIENT INC 385.00 QUANTIX CONSULTING INC 13,832.00 RAO, DAVID A 22.60 RAPID7 LLC 155,922.75 RASCON, RYAN 422.79 RATCLIFF, SARA J 597.00 REDDING, TAYLOR 943.27 REMY CORPORATION 6,480.00 REPORTS NOW INC 18,000.00 RESPEC CONSULTING & SERVICES 5,585.00 RICE, YVETTE M 329.60 RICHMOND AMERICAN HOMES 5,000.00 RIGHT ON LEARNING 25,150.00 RME LTD LLC ELITE SURFACE INFRASTRUCTURE 3,984.00 RME LTD LLC ELITE SURFACE INFRASTRUCTURE 38,421.50 RMS RECOVERY MONITORING SOLUTIONS 1,545.00 ROADSAFE TRAFFIC SYSTEMS 1,812.06 ROBENSTEIN, BRAD 56.90 ROBERTS, DANIEL 259.93 ROCK PARTS COMPANY, THE 9,743.31 ROCKSOL CONSULTING GROUP INC 7,035.20 ROCKY MOUNTAIN AIR SOLUTIONS 40.14 ROCKY MOUNTAIN MAIL SERVICES 1,624.54 ROCKY MOUNTAIN PAVEMENT 38,962.75 ROXBOROUGH WATER & SANITATION DISTRICT 713.05 ROYAL PROCESS SERVING & PARALEGAL SERVICES 360.00 RUNBECK ELECTION SERVICES INC 74,656.20 RUTKOWITZ, CHRISTA 151.59 RYDERS PUBLIC SAFETY LLC 24,021.00 SANDOVAL ELEVATOR COMPANY LLC 2,490.00 SATHER, ELIZABETH L PSY D 2,000.00 SAVIO HOUSE 117.37 SCHRAMM, VERITY 320.00 SCHWAB, GREG 16,595.50 SCHWEIZER EMBLEM COMPANY 4,234.40 SEDALIA LANDFILL 1,165.57 SEDALIA WATER & SANITATION 205.90 SEDAM, PENNY 405.86 SHILOH HOUSE 699.60 SHUMS CODA ASSOCIATES 4,150.00 SILL-TERHAR MOTORS INC 115,445.00 SKY CLIFF CENTER 1,125.00

Pursuant to C.R.S. §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 of the terms thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 11, BLOCK 7, CLARKE FARMS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 4A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 17041 Hastings Ave, Parker, CO 80134 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 12, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. 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.

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Repairs and Maintenance Medical, Dental & Vet Services Fair Judges/Referees Fees Software Subscription Renewal Accounting & Financial Services Clothing & Uniforms Software Subscription Renewal Purchased Services Contract Work Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Managed Detection Service Renewal Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Medical, Dental & Vet Services Travel Expense Contract Work Software Annual Maintenance Renewal Professional Services Instructor Travel Escrow Payable Tutoring Services Lowell Ranch CALF Partnership Project Pinery Storm Sewer Improvement UA Testing Equipment & Motor Vehicle Parts Travel Expense Travel Expense Equipment & Motor Vehicle Parts Happy Canyon Project Operating Supplies Postage & Delivery Service Asphalt Patching Water & Sewer Delivery Service Printing/Copying/Reports Travel Expense Clothing & Uniforms Service Contracts Other Training Services Other Professional Services Contract Work Other Repair & Maintenance Service Clothing & Uniforms Waste Disposal Services Water & Sewer Professional Services Child Welfare Services Elevator Inspections & Testing Purchase of 3 2021 Ford F-150’s Developmental Disabilities Grant

SKY RIDGE MEDICAL CENTER

SKYVIEW WEATHER SLATE COMMUNICATIONS SMH WEST LLC SOURCE OFFICE PRODUCTS SOUTH METRO FIRE RESCUE AUTHORITY SOUTHEAST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SPRADLIN PRINTING INC SQUARE I TECHNOLOGIES SSU PROCESS SERVING INVESTIGATIONS STATE OF COLORADO STATE OF COLORADO STELLAR CARE AND SERVICES LLC STERLING RANCH COMMUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD STOCKTON, LAUREN STOLFUS & ASSOCIATES STONEGATE VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT SUMMIT PATHOLOGY SUMMIT TRAFFIC SOLUTIONS SUPER SEER CORPORATION SWARCO REFLEX LLC SWARTZ, RICHARD S T4S PARTNERS INC T4S PARTNERS INC

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JENNIFER C. ROGERS Colorado Registration #: 34682 4100 E. MISSISSIPPI AVE., STE. 420 , DENVER, COLORADO 80246 Phone #: 877-353-2146 Fax #: Attorney File #: 48013519

TACTICAL & SURVIVAL SPECIALTIES INC TACTICAL MEDICAL SOLUTIONS TALAMANTES, CRYSTAL TASMAN GEOSCIENCES INC TAYLOR MORRISON OF COLORADO TEAL, GEORGE THIN LINE THREADS LLC THOMAS, LORA L THOMSEN, MICHAEL W THOMSON REUTERS WEST TIGER CORRECTIONAL SERVICES TO THE RESCUE TORPY, TRACY D TOUCH PHRASE DEVELOPMENT LLC TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK MILLER ACTIVITY TOWN OF LARKSPUR TOWN OF LARKSPUR TOWN OF PARKER TOWN OF PARKER TPM STAFFING SERVICES TRANS AERO LIMITED TRANSWEST TRUCK TRAILER RV TRAVELING GNOMES TRINDLE, MICHAEL A

ARTICLE 1 – AUTHORITY The City of Lone Tree (the “City”) is a home rule municipality operating under a Charter adopted May 5, 1998. Pursuant to the Charter, the Lone Tree Municipal Code (the “Code”) and the authority given to home rule cities, the City may adopt and amend Ordinances.

ARTICLE 2 – DECLARATIONS OF POLICY A. The City may only levy and collect a tax when such tax has been approved by the majority of the electors of the City voting thereon pursuant to Article X, Section 20 of the Colorado Constitution, the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), and Article XII, Section 4 of the City Charter.

B. The City Council submitted a ballot issue to the electorate of the City at the November 2, 2021 regular election, in conformity with TABOR and the City Charter, for the purpose of maintaining vital City services.

C. At the November 2, 2021 City election, qualified and registered electors of the City voted to approve Ballot Issue 2E to temporarily increase the City’s sales and use tax for ten years for the purpose of maintaining vital City services as more fully set forth in Ballot Issue 2E, a copy of which is attached to this Ordinance as Exhibit A.

ARTICLE 3 – ADOPTION The Code is amended as follows: A. Section 4-3-110. Sales tax. Section 4-3-110 (a) and (b) is hereby deleted and replaced by the following: (a) There is hereby levied and there shall be collected and paid a sales tax of one and one-half percent (1.5%), together with:

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2021-0025 First Publication: 11/18/2021 Last Publication: 12/16/2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

(1) An additional sales tax of three-sixteenths of one percent (0.1875%) to finance the cultural facilities authorized in Ballot Issue 2A, as approved by the registered electors of the City at an election held May 6, 2008 (the “Cultural Facilities Sales Tax”); and (2) An additional sales tax of two-sixteenths of one percent (0.125%) to finance the park and recreation facilities authorized in Ballot Issue 2B, as approved by the registered electors of the City at an election held May 6, 2008 (the “Park and Recreation Facilities Sales Tax”); and

City and County PUBLIC NOTICE This Ordinance and any changes thereto shall be considered at a public hearing and second reading for final adoption by the Lone Tree City Council. The hearing will be located at 8527 Lone Tree Pkwy, Lone Tree, CO 80124, at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 7, 2021. The Ordinance may also be postponed at said meeting.

ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LONE TREE Ordinance No. 21-12

45,553.06 Business Personal Property Tax Rebate 11,500.00 Weather Forecasting 2,789.00 Public Affairs 12,865.68 Baldwin Dam Project 1,913.35 Office Supplies 601.52 Building/Land Lease/Rent 6,300.00 School Safety 427.00 County Fair Printing/Copy 19,000.00 Offero Implementation 50.00 Process Service Fees 10,491.03 Postage & Delivery Service 2,818.35 Sales Tax Payable 100.00 Security Deposit Refund-Fairground 69,659.80 Escrow Payable 19.54 Travel Expense 3,835.00 Traffic Signal Warrant Study 15,106.08 Water & Sewer 210.00 Forensic Testing 4,375.00 Traffic Signal Parts 607.00 Clothing & Uniforms 22,000.00 Paint & Road Striping 951.98 Mounted Patrol Reimbursement 30,715.00 Mill Levy Consulting 14,150.00 Tax Roll Processing Application Phase 2 21,508.30 Clothing & Uniforms 4,864.54 First Aid Supplies 7.56 Travel Expense 9,437.50 Repairs and Maintenance 2,500.00 Escrow Payable 654.49 Travel Expense 238.00 Clothing & Uniforms 2,062.60 Travel Expense 650.00 Veteran Affairs Stipend 1,062.51 Software/Hardware Subscription 19,821.44 Inmate Meals 3,226.00 Transportation Services Grant 945.00 Tuition Reimbursement 6,800.00 Software/Hardware Support 953,793.87 Due to Castle Rock-MV License 399,769.16 Intergovernmental-Castle Rock 3,048.39 Sales Tax Payable 2,100.00 Employee Program Costs 122.00 Due to Larkspur-MV License 20,264.82 Intergovernmental-Larkspur 507,156.13 Due to Parker - MV License 348,675.54 Intergovernmental-Parker 2,112.74 Contract Work 123,400.00 Helicopter Services 39,164.83 Insurance Claims 7,000.00 Developmental Disabilities Grant 44.00 Travel Expense

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LONE TREE, COLORADO:

D. The City Council, by and through this ordinance, desires to effectuate the will of its citizens, as expressed by the November 2, 2021 election, and temporarily increase sales and use taxes for ten years for the purpose of maintaining vital City services.

Dated: 9/16/2021 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

Douglas County Warrants

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 4-3110 AND 4-3-120 OF THE CITY OF LONE TREE MUNICIPAL CODE TO CODIFY A TEMPORARY SALES AND USE TAX INCREASE AS APPROVED BY THE REGISTERED ELECTORS OF THE CITY AT THE NOVEMBER 2, 2021 ELECTION

(3) An additional sales tax of one percent (1%) to be used to maintain vital city services including repairing, maintaining, and improving City streets and aging infrastructure, maintaining service and response times for public safety and maintaining and improving parks, trails, and open space as authorized in Ballot Issue 2E, as approved by the registered electors of the City at an election held November 2, 2021 (the “Vital City Services Sales Tax”). (b) The Cultural Facilities Sales Tax shall expire

TW CABLE LLC TYLER TECHNOLOGIES INC UCHEALTH UMB BANK UNCC UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY UNITED RENTALS UNITED REPROGRAPHIC SUPPLY INC UNITED SITE SERVICES URBAN DRAINAGE & FLOOD CONTROL VAN WINKLE, CHERI A VISITING ANGELS OF DENVER WAGNER EQUIPMENT COMPANY WAGNER RPR, LISA A WAGNER, JEREMY WAL-MART STORES WARNER, CAITLIN WATERWAY CARWASH WEAR PARTS & EQUIPMENT CO INC WEBOLUTIONS INC WEIS, KEITH WELLS FARGO BANK WES TEST

3,800.00 82,211.00 2,118.88 509.38 1,425.60 16,000.00 12,845.15 613.22 4,900.00 1,264,667.00 112.56 3,929.88 193,187.00 36.00 114.24 6,875.00 74.09 117.00 25,117.02 14,687.00 2,839.92 1,548.48 27,325.20

Traffic Signal Parts Software Licenses Medical, Dental & Vet Services Banking Service Fees Utility Locating Services US 85 Corridor Improvements Emergency Response Supplies Operating Supplies Waste Disposal Services Willow Creek Upstream of Rampart Range Road Travel Expense Senior Services Grant Caterpillar Pneumatic Roller Printing/Copying/Reports Travel Expense Client Assistance Travel Expense Fleet Outside Repairs Equipment & Motor Vehicle Parts Software/Hardware Support Professional Services Banking Service Fees Materials Testing Construction Inspection

WESTERN DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION OF COLORADO 310.00 Security Deposit Refund-Fairground WESTERN PAPER DISTRIBUTORS INC 3,636.90 Janitorial Supplies WESTON LANDSCAPE & DESIGN 2,360.00 Escrow Payable WESTSIDE TOWING INC 450.00 Vehicle Tow Services WILSON & COMPANY INC 15,330.06 Roads, Street, Drainage Engineering WILSON, LYNNE 255.64 Metro Area Meeting Expense WIZ-QUIZ DRUG SCREENING SERVICE 35.00 UA Testing WORLD COMPASS ACADEMY 2,080.00 School Safety WYOMING OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 134.54 Conference Hosting Expenses XCEL ENERGY 30,459.84 Utilities/Electric & Gas YOGASHIELD YOGA FOR FIRST RESPONDERS 750.00 Medical, Dental & Vet Services ZION, LASIE 277.80 Travel Expense TOTAL AMOUNT OF DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2021

$21,949,274.70

THE ABOVE AND FOREGOING IS A CONDENSED STATEMENT OF THE BILLS APPROVED FOR PAYMENT DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2021

BY THE DOUGLAS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS UNDER WHOSE DIRECTION THIS NOTICE IS PUBLISHED. N. ANDREW COPLAND, CPA DIRECTOR OF FINANCE. Legal Notice No.: 940111 First Publication: November 18, 2021

Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Public Notices on December 31, 2023, or after the full payment of the debt authorized by Ballot Issue 2A, whichever comes first. The Park and Recreation Facilities Sales Tax shall expire on December 31, 2023, or after the full payment of the debt authorized by Ballot Issue 2B, whichever comes first. The Vital City Services Sales Tax shall expire on December 31, 2031.

B. Section 4-3-120. Use tax. Section 4-3-120 (a) and (b) is hereby deleted and replaced by the following: (a) There is hereby levied and there shall be collected and paid a use tax of one and one-half percent (1.5%), together with: (1) An additional use tax of three-sixteenths of one percent (0.1875%) to finance the cultural facilities authorized in Ballot Issue 2A, as approved by the registered electors of the City at an election held May 6, 2008 (the “Cultural Facilities Use Tax”), and (2) An additional use tax of two-sixteenths of one percent (0.125%) to finance the park and recreation facilities authorized in Ballot Issue 2B, as approved by the registered electors of the City at an election held May 6, 2008 (the “Park and Recreation Facilities Use Tax”).

(3) An additional use tax of one percent (1%) to be used to maintain vital city services including repairing, maintaining, and improving City streets and aging infrastructure, maintaining service and response times for public safety and maintaining and improving parks, trails and open space as authorized in Ballot Issue 2E, as approved by the registered electors of the City at an election held November 2, 2021 (the “Vital City Services Use Tax”). (b) The Cultural Facilities Use Tax shall expire on December 31, 2023, or after the full payment of the debt authorized by Ballot Issue 2A, whichever comes first. The Park and Recreation Facilities Use Tax shall expire on December 31, 2023, or after the full payment of the debt authorized by Ballot Issue 2B, whichever comes first. The Vital City Services Use Tax shall expire on December 31, 2031.

ARTICLE 4 – APPLICABILITY The provisions of Article 3 of this Ordinance shall go into effect on January 1, 2022.

ARTICLE 5 – PROVISIONS REMAIN EFFECTIVE Except as expressly amended in Article 3 above, all other provisions of Chapter 4, Article III shall, and do hereby, remain in full force and effect.

ARTICLE 6 - SEVERABILITY If any part or provision of this Ordinance, or its application to any person or circumstance is adjudged to be invalid or unenforceable, the invalidity or unenforceability of such part, provision or application shall not affect any of the remaining parts, provisions or applications of this Ordinance which can be given the effect without the invalid provision, part or application, and to this end the provisions and parts of this Ordinance are declared to be severable.

ARTICLE 7 - EFFECTIVE DATE This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days following publication after the first reading if no changes are made on second reading, or twenty (20) days after publication following second reading if changes are made upon second reading.

INTRODUCED READ AND ORDERED PUBLISHED ON NOVEMBER 16, 2021.

EXHIBIT A CITY OF LONE TREE BALLOT ISSUE 2E: SHALL CITY OF LONE TREE TAXES BE INCREASED NOT MORE THAN $15,563,749 ANNUALLY BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2022 AND BY SUCH AMOUNTS AS ARE RAISED ANNUALLY THEREAFTER FOR A PERIOD OF TEN YEARS, BY AN ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY SALES AND USE TAX OF ONE PERCENT, EXCLUDING THE SALE OF FOOD FOR HOME CONSUMPTION AND MOTOR VEHICLES WHICH SHALL REMAIN EXEMPT FROM CITY TAXATION, TO BE USED TO MAINTAIN VITAL CITY SERVICES FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS INCLUDING: REPAIRING, MAINTAINING, AND IMPROVING CITY STREETS AND AGING INFRASTRUCTURE; • MAINTAINING SERVICE AND RESPONSE TIMES FOR PUBLIC SAFETY; AND • MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING PARKS, TRAILS, AND OPEN SPACE •

WITH ALL SPENDING OF SUCH REVENUES REPORTED IN THE CITY’S ANNUAL INDEPENDENT AUDIT PUBLISHED ON THE CITY’S WEB SITE AND REVIEWED BY A CITIZEN COMMITTEE, AND SHALL THE RESULTING REVENUE AND INVESTMENT EARNINGS THEREON BE ALLOWED TO BE COLLECTED, RETAINED AND SPENT BY THE CITY NOTWITHSTANDING THE LIMITS OF ARTICLE X, SECTION 20 OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION OR ANY OTHER LAW? Yes _______

No ______

Legal Notice No. 940105 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE FOR THE KIME RANCH PROPERTY’S ANNEXATION Notice is hereby given that the Town Council of the Town of Parker, Colorado, has by resolution set a public hearing regarding the Kime Ranch Property Annexation on December 6, 2021, at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as this matter can be heard, in the Town of Parker Town Hall, 20120 E. Mainstreet, Parker Colorado 80138. The purpose of the public hearing is to determine if the petition for annexation for the property described in this public notice complies with Article II, Section 30 of the Colorado Constitution and meets the applicable requirements of C.R.S. §§ 31-12-104 and 31-12-105. The Town Council Resolution No. 21-042, Series of 2021, reads as follows:

RESOLUTION NO. 21-043, Series of 2021 TITLE: A RESOLUTION FINDING SUBSTANTIAL COMPLIANCE OF THE KIME RANCH PROPERTY’S ANNEXATION PETITION WITH C.R.S. § 31-12-107 AND SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING ON DECEMBER 6, 2021, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSIDERING SAID ANNEXATION WHEREAS, the Petitioner owns certain real property in Douglas County commonly known as the Kime Ranch Property, which is described on attached Exhibit A (the “Real Property”); WHEREAS, the Petitioner submitted to the Town a Petition for Annexation (the “Annexation Petition”) concerning the Real Property; WHEREAS, pursuant to C.R.S. § 31-12-107, this Town Council, sitting as the governing body of the Town, shall determine whether the Annexation Petition is in substantial compliance with the requirements of C.R.S. § 31-12-107(1); and WHEREAS, the Town Council of the Town of Parker, Colorado (the “Town”), has satisfied itself concerning the compliance for the Annexation Petition with the requirements of C.R.S. § 3112-107(1) and must now proceed to consider the proposed annexation of the Real Property to and by the Town.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF PARKER, COLORADO, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The Annexation Petition for the proposed annexation of the Real Property into the Town substantially complies with the requirements of C.R.S. § 31-12-107(1).

Section 2. A public hearing on the eligibility of the Real Property to be annexed into the Town will be conducted on December 6, 2021, at the Town of Parker Town Hall, which is located at 20120 East Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado, 80138, to determine if the proposed annexation complies with C.R.S. §§ 31-12-104 and 31-12-105 or such part thereof as may be required to establish eligibility under the terms of Colorado Revised Statutes, Title 31, Article 12, Part 1, as amended, known as the Municipal Annexation Act of 1965, and the Constitution of the State of Colorado, Article II, Section 30, as amended.

Section 3. Any person may appear at such hearing and present evidence upon any matter to be determined by the Town Council.

RESOLVED AND PASSED this 25th day of October, 2021.

TOWN OF PARKER, COLORADO Jeff Toborg, Mayor ATTEST: Chris Vanderpool, Town Clerk EXHIBIT A Legal Description of Parcel 2 A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 23, TOWNSHIP 6 SOUTH, RANGE 66 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BASIS OF BEARINGS: THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 23, TOWNSHIP 6 SOUTH, RANGE 66 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., MONUMENTED AT NORTHEAST CORNER OF SECTION 23

BY A 3" BRASS CAP STAMPED "2690", AND AT THE NORTH QUARTER OF SECTION 23

BY A 1-1/2" BRASS CAP, SAID LINE BEARS N89°31'03"E. BEGINNING AT THE EAST SIXTEENTH CORNER OF SECTION 23 AND SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 6 SOUTH, RANGE 66 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M. THENCE ON THE WEST LINE OF THE EAST HALF OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 23, S00°21'26"E A DISTANCE OF 488.30 FEET, TO A POINT ON THE EXISTING BOUNDARY OF THE TOWN OF PARKER AS ANNEXED IN WILLOW POINTE ANNEXATION, RECORDED UNDER RECEPTION NO. 320260, IN THE RECORDS OF THE DOUGLAS COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER; THENCE ON SAID EXISTING BOUNDARY, S89°31'03"W A DISTANCE OF 669.29 FEET, TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF DALTON SUBDIVISION 3RD AMENDMENT, RECORDED UNDER RECEPTION NO. 2016082720, IN THE RECORDS OF THE DOUGLAS COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER; THENCE ON SAID EAST LINE, N00°20'45"W A DISTANCE OF 488.30 FEET, TO A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 23; THENCE ON SAID NORTH LINE N89°31'03"E A DISTANCE OF 669.19 FEET, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; CONTAINING A CALCULATED AREA OF 326,789 SQUARE FEET OR 7.5021 ACRES. Legal Notice No. 940012 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING A public hearing will be held on December 6, 2021, at 6:00 p.m., before the Douglas County Planning Commission, and on December 14, 2021, at 2:30 p.m., before the Board of County Commissioners in the Commissioner’s Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, CO, for a proposed amendment to the Douglas County Zoning Resolution. A zone map change is proposed to rezone a parcel of land located at 9191 E. State Highway 86, Franktown, CO. The parcel is currently zoned Rural Residential (RR) and Agricultural One (A-1). The parcel will be rezoned to Agricultural One (A-1).

For more information call Douglas County Plan-

ning, 303-660-7460. File No. DR2021-009.

Legal Notice No. 940072 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE Alexander Way Annexation NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Petition for Annexation has been presented to the Town Council of the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado.

The Town Council adopted Resolution No. 2021095 that found the petition to be in substantial compliance with Colorado law and set a public hearing to be held on December 7, 2021 at 6pm in the Town Hall, 100 N. Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado to determine if the Alexander Way Annexation, property described therein, is eligible for annexation under Colorado law. The public hearing may also be attended virtually via http://CRgov.com/CouncilMeeting and clicking on the Participate Live link.

RESOLUTION NO. 2021-095 A RESOLUTION FINDING THAT CERTAIN PROPERTY, WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF A PETITION FOR ANNEXATION SUBMITTED BY 455 ALEXANDER, LLC, AND TIERRA INVESTORS, LLC, IS IN SUBSTANTIAL COMPLIANCE WITH ARTICLE II, SECTION 30 OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION AND SECTION 31-12-107(1), C.R.S.; AND SETTING A DATE, TIME, AND PLACE FOR A HEARING TO DETERMINE IF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS ELIGIBLE FOR ANNEXATION UNDER ARTICLE II, SECTION 30 OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION AND SECTIONS 31-12-104 AND 31-12-105, C.R.S. (Alexander Way Annexation) WHEREAS, on September 16, 2021, a petition (the “Petition”) was filed with the Town Clerk of the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado (the “Town”) by 455 Alexander, LLC and Tierra Investors (the “Petitioner”) for the annexation of a 73.76-acre parcel of land located east of the Silver Heights subdivision, north of Alexander Place, and west of the Diamond Ridge Estates subdivision, as more particularly described in the attached Exhibit A (the “Property”); and WHEREAS, the Petition requests that the Town annex the Property; and WHEREAS, the Petition states that it is signed by persons: (i) comprising more than fifty percent of the landowners in the area to be annexed and (ii) owning more than fifty percent of the area to be annexed, excluding public streets, and alleys and any land owned by the Town, as required

by Article II, Section 30(1)(b) of the Colorado Constitution; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 31-12-107(1)(f), C.R.S., the Town Council, without undue delay, is required to determine if the Petition is in substantial compliance with the requirements set forth in Article II, Section 30(1) (b) of the Colorado Constitution and Section 3112-107(1), C.R.S.; and WHEREAS, upon such determination, the Town Council is required to set a date, time, and place for a hearing to determine whether the Property is eligible for annexation to the Town in accordance with the requirements of Article II, Section 30 of the Colorado Constitution and Sections 31-12-104 and 31-12-105, C.R.S. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, COLORADO AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Findings. The Town Council finds and determines that: A. The Petition requests that the Town annex the Property; B. The Petition is signed by persons: (i) comprising more than fifty percent (50%) of the landowners of the Property and (ii) owning more than fifty percent (50%) of the Property, excluding public streets and alleys, and any land owned by the Town; C. The Petition substantially complies with the requirements of Section 30(1)(b) of Article II of the Colorado Constitution and Section 31-12-107(1), C.R.S; D. The Petition is accompanied by a map containing the information required by Section 31-12-107(1)(d), C.R.S.; and.

E. No signature on the Petition is dated more than 180 days prior to the date of filing of the Petition with the Town Clerk.

Section 2. Public Hearing. Pursuant to Section 31-12-108, C.R.S., a public hearing is scheduled before the Town Council on December 7, 2021, at 6:00 P.M., at the Castle Rock Town Hall, 100 N. Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, for the purpose of enabling the Town Council to determine whether: A. The Property is eligible for annexation to the Town in accordance with the requirements of Article II, Section 30 of the Colorado Constitution and Sections 31-12-104 and 31-12-105, C.R.S.; B. Whether an election of the landowners and registered electors in the area to be annexed is required under Article II, Section 30(1)(a) of the Colorado Constitution and Section 31-12-107(2), C.R.S.; and C. Whether additional terms and conditions are to be imposed upon the proposed annexation.

ATTEST: Lisa Anderson, Town Clerk TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK Jason Gray, Mayor Approved as to form: Michael J. Hyman, Town Attorney Approved as to Content: Tara Vargish, Director of Development Services EXHIBIT A Legal Description of Property to be Annexed A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTH HALF OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 7 SOUTH, RANGE 67 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO, BEING DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 26, AS MONUMENTED BY A 3 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP, MARKED: “1993 LS 13485”, AND CONSIDERING THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26 TO BEAR SOUTH 89°23’27” EAST TO THE NORTH QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 26, AS REFERENCED BY A WITNESS CORNER, LOCATED 25.0 FEET SOUTH OF SAID NORTH QUARTER CORNER, AND MONUMENTED BY A 2.5 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP, MARKED: “25’ WC LS 13155”; THENCE ALONG SAID NORTH LINE, SOUTH 89°23’27” EAST, 1292.65 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION WITH THE EAST LINE OF BLOCK 5 OF THE AMENDED MAP OF SILVER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT RECORDED AT RECEPTION NO. 103535 AND THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THIS DESCRIPTION; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG SAID NORTH LINE, SOUTH 89°23’27” EAST, 913.25 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF TRACT A OF DIAMOND RIDGE ESTATES FILING TWO, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF; THENCE ALONG THE WESTERLY LIMITS OF SAID TRACT A THE FOLLOWING TWO COURSES; 1) SOUTH 00°31’06” WEST, 475.23 FEET; 2) SOUTH 53°29’05” EAST, 1424.51 FEET TO THE SOUTHWESTERLY CORNER OF SAID TRACT A, AND THE INTERSECTION WITH A LINE THAT RUNS BETWEEN THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER, OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26, AS MONUMENTED BY A 2.5 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP, MARKED: “1993 LS 6935” AND THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID BLOCK 5 OF THE AMENDED MAP OF SILVER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, AS MONUMENTED BY A 2 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP MARKED: “LS 27011”; THENCE ALONG SAID INTERSECTED LINE, SOUTH 89°11’37” EAST, 359.30 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THAT PARCEL DESCRIBED IN THE DEED RECORDED AT RECEPTION NO. 2020114077; THENCE ALONG THE EASTERLY LIMITS OF SAID PARCEL THE FOLLOWING TWO COURSES; 1) SOUTH 39°44’05” EAST, 253.32 FEET; 2) SOUTH 25°03’40” EAST, 528.12 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID PARCEL; THENCE ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID PARCEL, SOUTH 89°41’25” WEST, 2392.48 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID PARCEL; THENCE ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID PARCEL, NORTH 00°04’19” EAST, 714.39 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID PARCEL AND THE INTERSECTION OF SAID LINE THAT RUNS BETWEEN SAID NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER, OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26, AND SAID SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID BLOCK 5 OF THE AMENDED MAP OF SILVER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION; THENCE ALONG SAID INTERSECTED LINE, NORTH 89°11’37” WEST, 418.14 FEET TO SAID SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BLOCK 5; THENCE ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID BLOCK 5, NORTH 00°31’36” EAST, 1303.54 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THIS DESCRIPTION, CONTAINING 73.76 ACRES, MORE OR LESS. THIS LEGAL DESCRIPTION WAS PREPARED BY, OR UNDER THE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF, MICHAEL C. CREGGER, PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR, COLORADO REGISTRATION NO. 22564 FOR AND ON BEHALF OF IMEG CORP ON JULY 12, 2021.

PETITION FOR ANNEXATION ALEXANDER WAY TO THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, COLORADO The undersigned (collectively, “Petitioner”), in accordance with Section 30(1)(b) of Article II of the Constitution of the State of Colorado (the “State Constitution”) and the Municipal Annexation Act of 1965 as set forth in Article 12, Title 31, Colorado Revised Statutes, as amended and as in effect on the submission date set forth below (the “Annexation Act”), hereby petitions the Town Council (the “Council”) of the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado (the “Town”) to annex to the Town the unincorporated territory located in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, which property is more particularly described in Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference (the “Annexation Property”). In support of this petition (“Petition”), Petitioner alleges that: 1. It is desirable and necessary that the Annexation Property be annexed to the Town.

2. The requirements of Section 30(1)(b) of Article II of the State Constitution and Sections 31-12-104 and 31-12-105 of the Annexation Act exist or have been met.

3. The Petitioner comprises more than fifty percent (50%) of the landowners in the area of the Annexation Property and owns more than fifty percent (50%) of the Annexation Property, excluding public streets and alleys and any land owned by the Town.

Section 3. Notice of Hearing. The Town Clerk shall give notice of said hearing in the manner prescribed by Section 31-12-108(2), C.R.S.

4. The signer of this Petition is the owner of one hundred percent (l00%) of the area of the Annexation Property exclusive of public streets and alleys and any land owned by the Town.

Section 4. Effective Date. This Resolution shall become effective on the date and at the time of its adoption.

5. Not less than one-sixth (1/6) of the perimeter of the Annexation Property is contiguous with the Town’s current municipal boundaries.

PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 19th day of October, 2021, by the Town Council of the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado on first and final reading by a vote of 7 for and 0 against.

6. A community of interest exists between the Annexation Property and the Town.

7. The Annexation Property is urban or will be urbanized in the near future.

8. The Annexation Property is integrated with or is capable of being integrated with the Town.

9. The Annexation Property is not presently a part of any incorporated city, city and county, or town; nor have any proceedings been commenced for annexation of part or all of the Annexation Property to any other municipality; nor has any election for annexation of the Annexation Property or substantially the same territory to the Town been held within the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the filing of this Petition.

10. The proposed annexation will not result in the detachment of area from any school district and attachment of the same to another school district.

11. Except to the extent necessary to avoid dividing parcels within the Annexation Property held in identical ownership, at least fifty percent (50%) of which are within the three (3) mile limit, the proposed annexation will not extend the municipal boundary of the Town more than three (3) miles in any direction from any point of the current municipal boundary in one (1) year.

12. In establishing the boundaries of the Annexation Property, if a portion of a platted street or alley is annexed, the entire width of said street or alley shall be included within the area annexed; and, reasonable access shall not be denied to landowners, owners of easements, or the owners of franchises, adjoining any platted street or alley to be annexed that will not be bounded on both sides by the Town.

13. In establishing the boundaries of the Annexation Property, no land which is held in identical ownership, whether consisting of a single tract or parcel of real estate or two or more contiguous tracts or parcels of real estate: (a) is being divided into separate parts or parcels without the written consent of the landowner thereof unless such tracts or parcels are separated by a dedicated street, road or other public way; or (b) comprising twenty (20) acres or more (which, together with buildings and improvements situate thereon having a valuation for assessment in excess of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for ad valorem tax purposes for the year next preceding the proposed annexation) is included in the Annexation Property without the written consent of the landowner.

14. The legal description of the lands owned by the signer of this Petition is set forth underneath the name of such Petitioner on Exhibit B, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

15. The Petitioner signed this Petition no more than one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the date of filing.

16. Attached to this Petition as Exhibit C is the Affidavit of Circulator of this Petition that the signature hereon is the signature of the person whose name it purports to be.

17. This Petition is accompanied by four (4) prints of an annexation map containing, among other things, the following information: (a) a written legal description of the boundaries of the Annexation Property; (b) a map showing the boundaries of the Annexation Property (c) within the annexation map, a showing of the location of each ownership tract in unplatted land and, if part or all of the area is platted, the boundaries and the plat numbers of the plots or of lots and blocks; and (d) next to the boundary of the Annexation Property, a drawing of the contiguous boundary of the Town and the contiguous boundary of any other municipality abutting the Annexation Property, if any.

18. In connection with the processing of this Petition, the Petitioner requests that the Town: (a) institute the process to establish planned development (“PD”) zoning for the Annexation Property in accordance with applicable provisions of the Town’s Municipal Code (the “Code”) and in accordance with any applicable provisions of Section 31-12-115 of the Annexation Act; and (b) approve and execute a development agreement acceptable to Petitioner and the Town (the “Development Agreement”) which establishes vested property rights for the Annexation Property for an agreed upon term, pursuant to Chapter 17.08 of the Code and Article 68, Title 24, Colorado Revised Statutes, and which, in conjunction with the PD zoning, will establish the development plan for the Annexation Property.

19. Petitioner has filed this Petition subject to the following conditions: (a) Unless otherwise agreed in writing by Petitioner, the annexation of the Annexation Property into the Town shall not be effective unless concurrently with the Council’s final approval of an ordinance annexing the Annexation Property into the Town, the Council gives its final approval to (A) zoning regulations for the Annexation Property in form and substance satisfactory to the Petitioner, and (B) the Development Agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Petitioner which among other things creates vested rights for the Annexation Property pursuant to existing Town ordinances or resolution and Section 24-68-101, C.R.S., et seq.; and (b) Petitioner hereby reserves the right to withdraw this Petition, and thereby prevent the Annexation Property from being annexed into the Town, by so notifying the Town Clerk in writing prior to the later to occur of: (i) the occurrence of the conditions to effectiveness of the annexation as set forth in Section 31-12-113(2)(b) of the Annexation Act; (ii) a later date, if any, set forth in the Development Agreement.

20. Upon the annexation of the Annexation Property becoming effective, and subject to the conditions set forth in this Petition, and to be set

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Public Notices forth in the Development Agreement and the documents constituting the terms of the PD zoning for the Annexation Property (the “PD Documents”), the Annexation Property shall be subject to the regulations of the Town, except as otherwise set forth in the Development Agreement and the PD Documents, and except for general taxation purposes in which case the annexation shall be deemed effective on January 1 of the next succeeding year following adoption of the annexation ordinance.

21. This Petition is filed on the condition that the zoning requested by Petitioner under paragraph 18 (a), above, is granted by the Town as provided in the Development Agreement, and the Town agrees that no filing of the annexation ordinance and annexation maps as provided under Section 31-12-113, subsection (2)(a)(II)(A) of the Annexation Act shall be made until, and unless the requested zoning is granted and no longer subject to appeal.

22. Except for the terms and conditions of this Petition, the Development Agreement and the PD Documents, which terms and conditions Petitioner has approved or shall expressly approve, and therefore do not constitute an imposition of additional terms and conditions within the meaning of Section 31-12-112(1) of the Annexation Act, Petitioner requests that no additional terms and conditions be imposed upon annexation of the Annexation Property to the Town.

THEREFORE, Petitioner requests that the Town Council of the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado, complete and approve the annexation of the Annexation Property pursuant and subject to the provisions of the Municipal Annexation Act of 1965, as amended, and the terms and conditions of this Petition.

Respectfully submitted this 13th day of August, 2021 Signature of Landowner/Petitioner 455 ALEXANDER LLC By: Jacques Machol Its: Co-Manager Date of Signature: August 13, 2021 Mailing Address: 700 17th Street, Suite 200 Denver, CO 80202 Signature of Landowner/Petitioner TIERRA INVESTORS, LLC By: Lenn Haffeman Its: Member Date of Signature: August 13, 2021

Mailing address: 851 South High Street Denver, CO 80209 EXHIBIT A TO PETITION FOR ANNEXATION Legal Description of Annexation Property A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTH HALF OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 7 SOUTH, RANGE 67 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO, BEING DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 26, AS MONUMENTED BY A 3 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP, MARKED: “1993 LS 13485”, AND CONSIDERING THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26 TO BEAR SOUTH 89°23’27”EAST TO THE NORTH QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 26, AS REFERENCED BY A WITNESS CORNER, LOCATED 25.0 FEET SOUTH OF SAID NORTH QUARTER CORNER, AND MONUMENTED BY A 2.5 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP, MARKED: “25’ WC LS 13155”; THENCE ALONG SAID NORTH LINE, SOUTH 89°23’27”EAST, 1292.65 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION WITH THE EAST LINE OF BLOCK 5 OF THE AMENDED MAP OF SILVER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT RECORDED AT RECEPTION NO. 103535 AND THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THIS DESCRIPTION; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG SAID NORTH LINE, SOUTH 89°23’27”EAST, 913.25 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF TRACT A OF DIAMOND RIDGE ESTATES FILING TWO, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF; THENCE ALONG THE WESTERLY LIMITS OF SAID TRACT A THE FOLLOWING TWO COURSES; 1) SOUTH 00°31’06”WEST, 475.23 FEET; 2) SOUTH 53°29’05”EAST, 1424.51 FEET TO THE SOUTHWESTERLY CORNER OF SAID TRACT A, AND THE INTERSECTION WITH A LINE THAT RUNS BETWEEN THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER, OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26, AS MONUMENTED BY A 2.5 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP, MARKED: “1993 LS 6935” AND THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID BLOCK 5 OF THE AMENDED MAP OF SILVER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, AS MONUMENTED

BY A 2 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP MARKED: “LS 27011”; THENCE ALONG SAID INTERSECTED LINE, SOUTH 89°11’37”EAST, 359.30 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THAT PARCEL DESCRIBED IN THE DEED

RECORDED AT RECEPTION NO. 2020114077; THENCE ALONG THE EASTERLY LIMITS OF SAID PARCEL THE FOLLOWING TWO COURSES; 1) SOUTH 39°44’05”EAST, 253.32 FEET; 2) SOUTH 25°03’40”EAST, 528.12 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID PARCEL; THENCE ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID PARCEL, SOUTH 89°41’25”WEST, 2392.48 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID PARCEL; THENCE ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID PARCEL, NORTH 00°04’19”EAST, 714.39 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID PARCEL AND THE INTERSECTION OF SAID LINE THAT RUNS BETWEEN SAID NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER, OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26, AND SAID SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID BLOCK 5 OF THE AMENDED MAP OF SILVER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION; THENCE ALONG SAID INTERSECTED LINE, NORTH 89°11’37”WEST, 418.14 FEET TO SAID SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BLOCK 5; THENCE ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID BLOCK 5, NORTH 00°31’36”EAST, 1303.54 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THIS DESCRIPTION, CONTAINING 73.76 ACRES, MORE OR LESS. THIS LEGAL DESCRIPTION WAS PREPARED BY, OR UNDER THE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF, MICHAEL C. CREGGER, PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR, COLORADO REGISTRATION NO. 22564 FOR AND ON BEHALF OF IMEG CORP ON JULY 12, 2021.

EXHIBIT B TO PETITION FOR ANNEXATION LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF LAND OWNED BY 455 ALEXANDER LLC Name of Owner: 455 Alexander LLC Address of Owner: 700 17th Street, Ste 200 Denver, CO 80202 Legal description and address of land owned by 455 Alexander LLC in area proposed for annexation: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTH HALF OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 7 SOUTH, RANGE 67 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO, BEING DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 26, AS MONUMENTED BY A 3 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP, MARKED

“1993 LS 13485”, AND CONSIDERING THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26 TO BEAR SOUTH 89°23’27” EAST TO THE NORTH QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 26, AS REFERENCED BY A WITNESS CORNER, LOCATED 25.0 FEET SOUTH OF SAID NORTH QUARTER CORNER, AND MONUMENTED BY A 2.5 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP, MARKED “25’ WC LS 13155”; THENCE ALONG SAID NORTH LINE, SOUTH 89°23’27” EAST, 1292.65 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION WITH THE EAST LINE OF BLOCK 5 OF THE AMENDED MAP OF SILVER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT RECORDED AT RECEPTION NO. 103535 AND THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THIS DESCRIPTION; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG SAID NORTH LINE, SOUTH 89°23’27” EAST, 913.25 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF TRACT A OF DIAMOND RIDGE ESTATES FILING TWO, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF; THENCE ALONG THE WESTERLY LIMITS OF SAID TRACT A THE FOLLOWING TWO COURSES; 1) SOUTH 00°31’06” WEST, 475.23 FEET; 2) SOUTH 53°29’05” EAST, 1424.51 FEET TO THE SOUTHWESTERLY CORNER OF SAID TRACT A, AND THE INTERSECTION WITH A LINE THAT RUNS BETWEEN THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER, OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26, AS MONUMENTED BY A 2.5 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP, MARKED: “1993 LS 6935” AND THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID BLOCK 5 OF THE AMENDED MAP OF SILVER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, AS MONUMENTED BY A 2 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM, CAP MARKED “LS 27011”; THENCE ALONG SAID INTERSECTED LINE, SOUTH 89°11’37” EAST, 359.30 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THAT PARCEL DESCRIBED IN THE DEED RECORDED AT RECEPTION NO. 2020114077; THENCE ALONG THE EASTERLY LIMITS OF SAID PARCEL THE FOLLOWING TWO COURSES; 1) SOUTH 39°44’05” EAST, 253.32 FEET; 2) SOUTH 25°03’40” EAST, 528.12 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID PARCEL; THENCE ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID PARCEL, SOUTH 89°41’25” WEST, 2392.48 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID PARCEL; THENCE ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID PARCEL, NORTH 00°04’19” EAST, 714.39 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID PARCEL AND THE INTERSECTION OF SAID LINE THAT RUNS BETWEEN SAID NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER, OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26, AND SAID SOUTHEAST

Water Court Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO

are entitled to withdraw from the aquifers underlying the Applicants’ Property. G. Owner of Land Upon Which Wells are to Be Located. The land and underlying groundwater upon which the wells are located is owned by the Applicant. IV. Application for Approval of Plan for Augmentation. A. Structure to be Augmented. The structure to be augmented is the Rutten Well No. 1 as is currently constructed to the Dawson aquifer underlying the Applicants’ Property, and as will be re-permitted pursuant to this Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applica- plan for augmentation as requested and described herein, along with any replacement or additional tions and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of OCTOBER 2021 wells associated therewith. B. Water Rights to be Used for Augmentation. The water rights to be used for each County affected. for augmentation during pumping are the return flows resulting from the pumping of the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer from the Rutten Well No. 1, together with water rights from the nontributary 21CW3187 APPLICATION FOR ADJUDICATION OF DENVER BASIN GROUNDWATER AND Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer for any injurious post pumping depletions. C. Statement of Plan for AugPLAN FOR AUGMENTATION IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. I. Name and Address of Applicants: Cindi mentation. Applicants wish to provide for the augmentation of stream depletions caused by pumping L. Rutten and Michael D. Rutten, 10991 Spruce Mountain Rd., Larkspur, CO 80118, Name and of the not-nontributary groundwater by one well described herein. Water use criteria and their conAddress of Attorneys: Ryan W. Farr, #39394, Emilie B. Polley, #51296, MONSON, CUMMINS & sumptive use component for replacement of actual depletions for the lots are estimated as follows: 1.

SHOHET, LLC, 13511 Northgate Estates Dr., Ste. 250, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80921, (719) Use. The Rutten Well No. 1, will pump a maximum total of 1.88 acre-feet of water from the Dawson 471-1212, E-mail: rwf@cowaterlaw.com; ebp@cowaterlaw.com. aquifer annually. Such use shall be a combination of household use, irrigation of lawn and garden, and the watering of horses or equivalent livestock. An example breakdown of this combination of use II. Summary of Application. Cindi L. Rutten and Michael D. Rutten (“Applicants”) seek to quantify the is household use at 0.26 acre-feet, plus a guest house at 0.15 acre-feet, and outdoor use including Denver Basin groundwater underlying their approximately 15.586-acre property in Douglas County, irrigation and the watering of up to 10 horses or equivalent livestock with a water use of 0.11 acre-feet Colorado, and to obtain a plan for augmentation for the use of a not-nontributary Dawson aquifer well per year (10 gallons/day/head or 0.011 annual acre feet per head); and irrigation of lawn and garden thereon. III. Application for Underground Water Rights. A. Legal Description of Well. 1. Property of 1.35 acre-feet per year (0.05 annual acre feet per 1000 sq. ft.). 2. Depletions. It is estimated that Description. The Applicants’ approximately 15.586-acre property (“Applicants’ Property”) is located maximum stream depletions over the 100-year pumping period for the Dawson aquifer amounts to in the SW1/4 SW1/4 of Section 3, Township 10 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., more specifi- approximately 19.52% of pumping. Maximum annual depletions for total residential pumping are cally described as 10991 Spruce Mountain Rd., Larkspur, CO 80118 in Douglas County, Colorado therefore 0.367 acre-feet in year 100. Should Applicants’ pumping be less than the 1.88 acre-feet and depicted on the Exhibit A map. 2. Existing Well. There is an existing well on the Property. Well described herein, resulting depletions will be correspondingly reduced. 3. Augmentation of Depletions with Permit No. 82709 (“Rutten Well No. 1”), attached as Exhibit B, and is located approximately During Pumping. Pursuant to C.R.S. §37-90-137(9)(c.5), Applicants are required to replace actual 400 feet from the west section line, and 500 feet from the south section line, and is constructed stream depletions attributable to pumping of augmented wells to the Dawson aquifer. Depletions to the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer. Applicants intend for the well to be re-permitted for non- during pumping will be effectively replaced by residential return flows from non-evaporative septic exempt uses upon entry of a decree approving the plan for augmentation requested herein. B. Water systems, and depletions from irrigation will be adequately replaced by irrigation return flows. The Source. 1. Not-Nontributary. The ground water to be withdrawn from the Dawson aquifer underlying annual consumptive use for non-evaporative septic systems is 10% per year per residence. At an the Applicants’ Property is not-nontributary. Pursuant to C.R.S. §37-90-137(9)(c.5), the augmen- indoor use rate of 0.41 acre-feet per year, 0.369 acre-feet is replaced to the stream system per year, tation requirements for wells in the Dawson aquifer will require the replacement of actual stream assuming the use of non-evaporative septic systems. Thus, during pumping, stream depletions will depletions. 2. Nontributary. The groundwater that will be withdrawn from the Denver, Arapahoe, and be adequately augmented. 4. Augmentation for Post Pumping Depletions. For the replacement of Laramie-Fox Hills aquifers underlying the Applicants’ Property is nontributary. C. Estimated Rates of any injurious post-pumping depletions which may be associated with the use of the Rutten Well No. Withdrawal and Ground Water Available. 1. Estimated Rates of Withdrawal. Pumping from the well 1, Applicants will reserve water from the nontributary Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer, less the amount of will not exceed 100 g.p.m. The actual pumping rates for each well will vary according to aquifer condi- actual stream depletions replaced during the plan pumping period. The Applicants also reserve the tions and well production capabilities. The Applicants request the right to withdraw ground water at right to substitute other legally available augmentation sources for such post pumping depletions rates of flow necessary to withdraw the entire decreed amounts. The actual depth of any well to be upon further approval of the Court under its retained jurisdiction. Even though this reservation is constructed within the respective aquifers will be determined by topography and actual aquifer condi- made, under the Court’s retained jurisdiction, the Applicants reserve the right in the future to prove tions. 2. Estimated Average Annual Amounts of Ground Water Available. Applicants request a vested that post pumping depletions will be noninjurious. The reserved nontributary Laramie-Fox Hills right for the withdrawal of all legally available ground water in the Denver Basin aquifers underlying groundwater will be used to replace any injurious post-pumping depletions. Upon entry of a decree the Applicants’ Property. Said amounts may be withdrawn over the 100-year aquifer life pursuant to in this case, the Applicants will be entitled to apply for and receive a new well permit for the Rutten C.R.S. §37-90-137(4). Applicants estimate that the following values and average annual amounts Well No. 1, for the uses in accordance with this Application and otherwise in compliance with C.R.S. §37-90-137. V. Remarks. A. The Applicants request a finding that they have complied with C.R.S. are representative of the Denver Basin aquifers underlying Applicants’ Property: §37-90-137(4), and that the ground water requested herein is legally available for withdrawal by the requested not-nontributary wells upon the entry of a decree approving an augmentation plan pursuGroundwater Quantification ant to C.R.S. §37-90-137(9)(c.5). B. The term of this augmentation plan is for 100 years, however the SW1/4 SW1/4 Sec 3 T10S R67W 6th length of the plan for a particular well may be extended beyond such time provided the total plan pumping allocated thereto is not exceeded. Post pumping stream depletions accrue to a particular Acres: 15.586 P.M. well only to the extent related to that well’s actual pumping. C. The Court will retain jurisdiction over Net 100 this matter to provide for the adjustment of the annual amount of ground water withdrawals to be alSand Total Denver Year lowed in order to conform to actual local aquifer characteristics from adequate information obtained Basin Aquifer (ft) (AF) (AF) from well drilling or test holes. D. The Applicants request a finding that vested water rights of others will not be materially injured by the withdrawals of ground water and the proposed plan for augmentaUpper Dawson (NNT) 192.3 599.44 5.99 tion. E. The well shall be installed and metered as reasonably required by the State Engineer. The Denver (NT) 506.1 1340.97 13.41 well will be equipped with a totalizing flow meter and the Applicants shall submit diversion records to Upper Arapahoe (NT) 370.4 981.42 9.81 the Division Engineer on an annual basis or as otherwise requested by the Division Engineer. The Applicants shall also provide accountings to the Division Engineer and Water Commissioner as reLaramie Fox Hills quired by them to demonstrate compliance under this plan of augmentation. F. The Applicants intend (NT) 193.2 451.68 4.52 to waive the 600 feet well spacing requirement for any wells to be located upon the Applicants’ PropDecreed amounts may vary based upon the State’s Determination of Facts. Pursuant to C.R.S. §37- erty. G. All record owners of the Subject Property not listed as Applicants herein, and every person Decreed amounts vary based upon the State’s Determination Facts. Pursuant C.R.S. §37-9292-305(11), themay Applicants further request that the Court retain of jurisdiction to finallytodetermine the who has a lien or mortgage on, or deed of trust to, Applicant’s Property, will be notified of the filing of amount water available appropriation and withdrawal from each aquifer.determine D. Requested Uses. ofthis Application by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, no later than 14 days after the 05(11), theofApplicants furtherforrequest that the Court retain jurisdiction to finally the amount Theavailable Applicants the right use the ground wateraquifer. for beneficial uses upon Applicants’ water for request appropriation andtowithdrawal from each D. Requested Uses.theThe Applicantsfiling of this Applicant pursuant to C.R.S. §37-92-302(2)(b) and §37-90-137(4)(b.5)(I).

Property consisting of domestic, irrigation, stock water, recreation, wildlife, fire protection, and also for of equest the right to use the ground water for beneficial uses upon the Applicants’ Property consisting storage and augmentation purposes associated with such uses. The Applicants also request that the WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED omestic, irrigation, stock water, recreation, wildlife, fire protection, and also for storage and augmentation nontributary water may be used, reused, and successively used to extinction, both on and off the BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND urposes associated withsubject, such uses.

The Applicants also request that the§37-90-137(9)(b), nontributary water may used,OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED Applicants’ Property however, to the requirement of C.R.S. that no be more than and 98%successively of the amount withdrawn annually be consumed.

Applicants may use such however, water by toBY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. eused, used to extinction, bothshall on and off the Applicants’ Property subject, immediate application or by storage and subsequent application to the beneficial uses and purposes he requirement of C.R.S. §37-90-137(9)(b), that no more than 98% of the amount withdrawn annually stated herein. Provided, however, Applicants shall be entitled to use water theand not-nontribhall be consumed.

Applicants may use such water by only immediate application or by from storage subsequentYOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended utary Dawson aquifer pursuant to a decreed augmentation plan entered by this Court, covering the application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement pplication to thestream beneficial uses andcaused purposes herein.

Provided, however,aquifer Applicants shall only beof Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should out-of-priority depletions by stated the use of such not-nontributary in accordance ntitled to use water from the not-nontributary aquifer pursuant to a they decreed augmentation planbe granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the with C.R.S. §37-90-137(9)(c.5).

E. Well Field.Dawson The Applicants request that be permitted to produce by the this full legal entitlement Denver Basin aquifers underlying Applicants’ ntered Court, coveringfrom the the out-of-priority stream depletions caused by theProperty use of through such not-last day of DECEMBER 2021 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and any combination The Applicants request that these wells treated as The a well field. F. Averontributary aquifer of in wells. accordance with C.R.S. §37-90-137(9)(c.5).

E.be Well Field.

Applicants requestmust be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition Applicants request they be from entitled withdraw an amount ground must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such hataging they of beWithdrawals. permitted toThe produce the full legal that entitlement thetoDenver Basin aquifersofunderlying water in excess of the average annual amount decreed to the aquifers beneath the Applicants’ Prop- service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Applicants’ Property through of wells. that these wells beoftreated erty, so long as the sum ofany thecombination total withdrawals fromThe theApplicants well does request not exceed the product the s anumber well field.

F. Averaging of Withdrawals.

Applicants request that be entitled of years since the date of issuance The of the original well permit or they the date of entrytoofwithdraw a decree anLegal Notice No.: 940077 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 herein, comes multiplied the average volume of water the Applicants mount of whichever ground water in first, excess of the by average annualannual amount decreed to thewhich aquifers beneath theFirst Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press OCTOBER 2021 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1

Applicants’ Property, so long as the sum of the total withdrawals from the well does not exceed the product f the number of years since the date of issuance of the original well permit or the date of entry of a decree

CORNER OF SAID BLOCK 5 OF THE AMENDED MAP OF SILVER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION; THENCE ALONG SAID INTERSECTED LINE, NORTH 89°11’37” WEST, 418.14 FEET TO SAID SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BLOCK 5; THENCE ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID BLOCK 5, NORTH 00°31’36” EAST, 1303.54 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. Percentage owned by 455 Alexander LLC: 48% EXHIBIT B TO PETITION FOR ANNEXATION LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF LAND OWNED BY TIERRA INVESTORS, LLC Name of Owner: Tierra Investors, LLC Address of Owner: 851 S. High St., Denver, CO 80209 Legal description and address of land owned

by Tierra Investors, LLC in area proposed for annexation: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTH HALF OF THE NORTH HALF OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 7 SOUTH, RANGE 67 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO, BEING DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 26, AS MONUMENTED BY A 3 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP, MARKED: “1993 LS 13485”, AND CONSIDERING THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26 TO BEAR SOUTH 89°23’27” EAST TO THE NORTH QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 26, AS REFERENCED BY A WITNESS CORNER, LOCATED 25.0 FEET SOUTH OF SAID NORTH QUARTER CORNER, AND MONUMENTED BY A 2.5 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP, MARKED: “25’ WC LS 13155”; THENCE ALONG SAID NORTH LINE, SOUTH 89°23’27”EAST, 1292.65 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION WITH THE EAST LINE OF BLOCK 5 OF THE AMENDED MAP OF SILVER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT RECORDED AT RECEPTION NO. 103535 AND THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THIS DESCRIPTION; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG SAID NORTH LINE, SOUTH 89°23’27” EAST, 913.25 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF TRACT A OF DIAMOND RIDGE ESTATES FILING TWO, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF; THENCE ALONG THE WESTERLY LIMITS OF SAID TRACT A THE FOLLOWING TWO COURSES; 1) SOUTH 00°31’06”WEST, 475.23 FEET; 2) SOUTH 53°29’05”EAST, 1424.51 FEET TO THE SOUTHWESTERLY CORNER OF SAID TRACT A, AND THE INTERSECTION WITH A LINE THAT RUNS BETWEEN THE NORTHEAST 1/16TH CORNER OF SAID SECTION 26, AS MONUMENTED BY A 2.5 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP, MARKED: “1993 LS 6935” AND THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID BLOCK 5 OF THE AMENDED MAP OF SILVER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, AS MONUMENTED BY A 2 INCH DIAMETER ALUMINUM CAP MARKED: “LS 27011”; THENCE ALONG SAID INTERSECTED LINE, NORTH 89°11’37” WEST, 2065.95 FEET TO SAID SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BLOCK 5; THENCE ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID BLOCK 5, NORTH 00°31’06”EAST, 1303.54 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THIS DESCRIPTION, CONTAINING 38.364 ACRES, MORE OR LESS. THIS LEGAL DESCRIPTION WAS PREPARED BY, OR UNDER THE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF, MICHAEL C. CREGGER, PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR, COLORADO REGISTRATION NO. 22564 FOR AND ON BEHALF OF IMEG CORP ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2020.

Percentage owned by Tierra Investors, LLC: 52% EXHIBIT C TO PETITION FOR ANNEXATION AFFIDAVIT OF CIRCULATOR STATE OF COLORADO COUNTY OF DENVER

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The undersigned, Lenn Haffeman, being duly sworn upon his oath, deposes and states: 1. That the affiant circulated the Petition for Annexation of lands known as Alexander Way to the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado, for the purpose of obtaining the signature of the petitioners.

2. That the signatures thereon are the signatures of the persons or parties whose names they purport to be. /s/ Lenn Hoffman Date: August 13, 2021 Subscribed and sworn before me this 13th day of August, 2021.

My commission expires Sept. 20, 2021 Karen Z. Henry, Notary Public WITNESS my hand and official seal.

Legal Notice No. 939975 Publication Dates: November 4, 2021, Second Publication: November 11, 2021, Third Publicaton: November 18, 2021, Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF LONE TREE NOTICE AS TO THE PROPOSED 2022 CITY BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed budget has been submitted to the City of Lone Tree City Council for the ensuing year of 2022 (the “proposed City budget”). A copy of the proposed City budget has been filed with the Office of the City Clerk at 9220 Kimmer Drive, Suite 100, Lone Tree, Colorado 80124 where the document is open for public inspection during normal hours of operation. This proposed budget is also available for inspection at: cityoflonetree.com/departments/finance/budget/ A public hearing on the 2022 proposed City budget will be held on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. at the Lone Tree Civic Center, 8527 Lone Tree Pkwy, Lone Tree, CO 80124.

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Public Notices The 2022 proposed City budget will be considered for final adoption at a regular meeting of the Lone Tree City Council on December 21, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. at the Lone Tree Civic Center, 8527 Lone Tree Pkwy, Lone Tree, CO 80124.

Any elector of the City of Lone Tree may register any objections at any time, prior to final adoption of the proposed City budget, to the Office of the City Clerk at 9220 Kimmer Drive, Suite 100 or at: information@cityoflonetree.com Legal Notice No. 940104 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF PROPOSED ORDINANCE Pursuant to Section 7-3 of the Town of Castle Rock Home Rule Charter and 31-16-203 C.R.S., notice is hereby given that the Town Council will consider adoption of the following named and described ordinance during its Regular meetings on December 7 and December 21, 2021 at 6:00 P.M. at the Town of Castle Rock, Town Hall, 100 North Wilcox, Castle Rock, CO 80104.

Title of Proposed Ordinance: An Ordinance Approving a Franchise Agreement Between the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado, and Black Hills Colorado Gas, Inc. Subject Matter Summary: The proposed ordinance renews the Town’s franchise agreement with Black Hills Colorado Gas, Inc. for a period of ten years.

The entire text of the proposed ordinance is available for public inspection at the office of the Town Clerk, 100 North Wilcox, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104 during normal business hours, 8:00 - 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No. 940085 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 16, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Metropolitan Districts Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON RATES AND FEES

NOTICE IS HERBY GIVEN that a proposed change in the water and sewer service and usage fees for Cottonwood Water and Sanitation District customers will be considered at a special scheduled meeting of the Board of Directors of the Cottonwood Water and Sanitation District that will be conducted on Friday, December 10, 2021 at 6:00 pm. This meeting will be held at the District meeting house located at 8334 Sandreed Circle, Parker, CO and is open to the public. The Board will consider an increase in the water service usage rates; the sewer service usage rates to be effective January 1, 2022. Details are available for review on the website at www.cottonwoodwater. org and in the office of the District at 188 Inverness Drive West, Suite 150, Englewood, CO 80112.

Final action will be taken on these proposed fee changes at this time.

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the District. A copy of the Amended Budget and the Proposed Budget are on file in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 E. Crescent Pkwy.

Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where the same are open for public inspection.

Any interested elector of the District may file any objections to the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget at any time prior to final adoption of the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget by the Board. This meeting is open to the public and the agenda for any meeting may be obtained by calling (303) 858-1800.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: COTTONWOOD HIGHLANDS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1 /s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law Legal Notice No. 840032 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

By: /s/ William Thomas Secretary, Board of Directors Legal Notice No. 940108 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Metro Districts Budget Hearings

Public Notice

Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AMENDED 2021 BUDGET AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET AND 2021 BUDGET AMENDMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the COTTONWOOD HIGHLANDS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1 (the “District”), will hold a meeting via teleconference on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 2:00 P.M., for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Board including a public hearing on the 2021 amended budget (the “Amended Budget”) and 2022 proposed budget (the “Proposed Budget”). This meeting can be joined using the following teleconference information: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetupjoin/19%3ameeting_NWFjMzNhYmMtZGE2O S00Y2Q2LTg5NWEtYzRlMTYwOTcyYTkx%4 0thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a% 224aaa468e-93ba-4ee3-ab9f-6a247aa3ade0 %22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%225b9f6fa2-e9dd42cc-bfd8-f7dd2ed196a6%22%7d or by calling 720-547-5281; Conference ID: 166 644 689#.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Amended Budget and Proposed Budget have been submitted to

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that proposed budgets for the ensuing year of 2022 have been submitted to the Boards of Directors of the Southgate Water District and Southgate Sanitation District (collectively, the Districts). Such proposed budgets will be considered at a public hearing during the combined regular meeting of the Boards of Directors of the Districts to be held at the Southgate offices, 3722 East Orchard Road, Centennial, Colorado 80121, at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, the 14th day of December, 2021.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that amendments to the 2021 budgets of the Districts may also be considered at the above-referenced meeting and public hearing of the Boards of Directors of the Districts. Copies of the proposed 2022 budgets and amended 2021 budgets, if required, are available for public inspection at the offices of the Districts, 3722 East Orchard Road, Centennial, Colorado 80121. Any interested elector within the Districts may, at any time prior to final adoption of the 2022 budgets and amended 2021 budgets, if required, file or register any objections thereto or

comments thereof.

Legal Notice No. 940030 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

SOUTHGATE WATER DISTRICT & SOUTHGATE SANITATION DISTRICT By: /s/ Mark Rosser, President

Public Notice

Legal Notice No. 940098 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

NOTICE OF JOINT HEARING ON PROPOSED 2022 BUDGETS AND 2021 BUDGET AMENDMENTS

Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AMENDED 2021 BUDGET AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the CASTLE PINES COMMERCIAL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1 (the “District”), will hold a meeting via teleconference on Monday, November 29, 2021 at 1:00 P.M., for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Board including a public hearing on the 2021 amended budget (the “Amended Budget”) and 2022 proposed budget (the “Proposed Budget”). This meeting can be joined using the following teleconference information: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86728754113?pwd=aj VkYU1lM0NwcktGUitFN2RxRzUxQT09, Meeting ID: 867 2875 4113, Passcode: 337219, Call-in number: 1-720-707-2699.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an Amended Budget and Proposed Budget have been submitted to the District. A copy of the Amended Budget and the Proposed Budget are on file in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 E. Crescent Pkwy., Ste. 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111, where the same are open for public inspection.

Any interested elector of the District may file any objections to the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget at any time prior to final adoption of the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget by the Board. This meeting is open to the public and the agenda for any meeting may be obtained by calling (303) 858-1800.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: CASTLE PINES COMMERCIAL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1 /s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law

FOXHILL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 & 2 By: /s/ Francis Gay, President Legal Notice No. 940088 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AS TO AMENDED 2021 BUDGET AND PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET

Public Notice

derlying the Applicants’ Property. G. Owner of Land Upon Which Wells are to Be Located. The land upon which the wells are to be located as well as the underlying groundwater is owned by the Applicants. IV. Application for Plan for Augmentation. A. Structures to be Augmented. The structure to be augmented is a Dawson aquifer well constructed on the Applicants’ Property, along with any replaceTO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 ment or additional wells as needed that are constructed to the Dawson aquifer underlying the AppliPursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applica- cants’ Property. B. Water Rights to be Used for Augmentation. The water rights to be used for augtions and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of OCTOBER mentation during pumping are the return flows resulting from the pumping of the not-nontributary 2021 for each County affected.

Dawson aquifer wells, together with water rights from the nontributary Denver aquifer for any injurious post-pumping depletions. C. Statement of Plan for Augmentation. Applicants wish to provide for the 21CW3189 APPLICATION FOR ADJUDICATION OF DENVER BASIN GROUNDWATER AND augmentation of stream depletions caused by pumping of the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer. 1.

FOR APPROVAL OF PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION, IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. I. Name, Address, Uses.

Pumping from the Dawson aquifer will be a maximum of 2.05 acre-feet of water per and Telephone Number of Applicant. Christine and Donald Pering (“Applicants”), 409 Pelican year. Such uses shall be for domestic, irrigation, commercial, stock water, recreation, wildlife, fire Circle, Chesapeake, Virginia 23322, (757) 679-9745. Name, Address, and Telephone Number protection, and also for storage and augmentation purposes associated with such uses. 2. Depleof Attorneys. Ryan W Farr, #39394, MONSON, CUMMINS & SHOHET, LLC, 13511 Northgate tions. Applicants’ consultant has determined that maximum stream depletions over the 100-year Estates Drive, Suite 250, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80921, (719) 471-1212. pumping period for the Dawson aquifer amounts to approximately 15.78% of pumping. Maximum annual depletions are therefore 0.324 acre-feet in year 100. Should Applicants’ pumping be less than II. Summary of Application. Applicants seek to quantify the Denver Basin groundwater underlying the 2.05 acre-feet total described herein, resulting depletions and required replacements will be corthe Applicants’ Property, as defined below, and approval of a plan for augmentation for the use of a respondingly reduced. 3. Augmentation of Depletions During Pumping. Applicants’ consultant has not-nontributary Dawson aquifer well for water provision to the Applicants’ Property. III. Application for determined that depletions during pumping will be effectively replaced by residential return flows from Underground Water Rights. A. Property Information. 1. Property Description. Applicants own an ap- a non-evaporative septic system. The annual consumptive use for a non-evaporative septic system proximately 4.85-acre property that is depicted on the attached Exhibit A map, located in the SE1/4 of is 10% per year. Therefore, at an in-house use rate of 0.26 acre-feet per year, replacement amounts the SE1/4 of Section 17, Township 10 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., specifically described as to 0.468 acre-feet to the stream system annually. Thus, during pumping, stream depletion replaceTact 13A Greenland Acres, County of Douglas, State of Colorado and referred to as 12778 Greenland ment requirements will be more than adequately met. 4. Augmentation for Post Pumping Depletions.

Acres Road, Larkspur, Colorado 80908 (“Applicants’ Property”). 2. Existing Wells. There is no current For the replacement of any injurious post pumping depletions which may be associated with the existing well on the Applicants’ Property. There is a Division of Water Resources Permit issued for pumping from the Dawson aquifer as set forth herein, Applicants will utilize non-evaporative septic the Applicants’ Property under Permit No. 321881. However, no well has yet been constructed and return flows and potentially irrigation return flows from the subsequent usage of the Denver aquifer the intent is to apply for a different well permit to operate pursuant to a decree issued in this case. underlying the Applicants’ Property. Additionally, Applicants may utilize water from the Arapahoe or B. Water Source. 1. Not-Nontributary. The groundwater to be withdrawn from the Dawson aquifer Laramie-Fox Hills aquifers as a replacement source if needed. Applicants also reserve the right to underlying Applicants’ Property is not-nontributary. Pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-90-137(9)(c.5), the aug- substitute other legally available augmentation sources for such post pumping depletions upon furmentation requirements for wells in the Dawson aquifer require the replacement of actual stream ther approval of the Court under its retained jurisdiction. Applicants reserve the right in the future depletions. 2. Nontributary. The groundwater that will be withdrawn from the Denver, Arapahoe, and under the Court’s retained jurisdiction to prove that post pumping depletions will be noninjurious.

Laramie-Fox Hills aquifers underlying the Applicants’ Property is nontributary. C. Estimated Rates Upon entry of a decree in this case, Applicants will be entitled to apply for and receive a new well of Withdrawal and Ground Water Available. 1. Estimated Rates of Withdrawal. Pumping from the permit for the uses in accordance with this Application and otherwise in compliance with C.R.S. § wells will not exceed 100 g.p.m. The actual pumping rates for the wells will vary according to aquifer 37-90-137. V. Remarks. A. The Application was filed in both Water Divisions 1 and 2 because deconditions and well production capabilities. Applicants request the right to withdraw ground water at pletions from the pumping of the Dawson aquifer may occur in both the South Platte and the Arkansas rates of flow necessary to withdraw the entire decreed amounts. The actual depth of any wells to be River systems. The return flows set forth herein will accrue to tributaries of the South Platte River constructed within the respective aquifers will be determined by topography and actual aquifer condi- system, where the majority of such depletions will occur, and it is Applicants’ intent to consolidate the tions. 2. Estimated Average Annual Amounts of Ground Water Available. Applicants request a vested instant matter with the pending Division 1 application in Water Division 1 upon completion of publicaright for the withdrawal of all legally available groundwater in the Denver Basin aquifers underlying tion. Applicants request that the total amount of depletions to both the South Platte River and the Applicants’ Property. Said amounts may be withdrawn over a 100-year life of the aquifers pursuant Arkansas River systems be replaced to the South Platte River as set forth herein, and for a finding to C.R.S. § 37-90-137(4). Applicants estimate that the following values and average annual amounts that those replacements are sufficient. B. Applicant requests a finding that they have complied with are representative of the Denver Basin aquifers underlying Applicants’ Property: C.R.S. § 37-90-137(4), and that the ground water requested herein is legally available for withdrawal by the requested not-nontributary wells upon the entry of a decree approving an augmentation plan pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-90-137(9)(c.5). C. The term of this augmentation plan is for 100 years, howAnnual Avg. ever the length of the plan for a particular well may be extended beyond such time provided the total NET SAND Withdrawal 100 AQUIFER Total Appropriation plan pumping allocated thereto is not exceeded. Post pumping stream depletions accrue to a par(Feet) Years ticular well or wells only to the extent related to that well’s actual pumping. D. The Court will retain (Acre Feet) (Acre Feet) jurisdiction over this matter to provide for the adjustment of the annual amount of ground water withDawson (NNT) 267 259 2.59 drawals to be allowed in order to conform to actual local aquifer characteristics from adequate information obtained from well drilling or test holes. E. The Applicant requests a finding that vested water Denver (NT) 445 367 3.67 rights of others will not be materially injured by the withdrawals of ground water and the proposed Arapahoe (NT) 371 306 3.06 plan for augmentation. F. All wells shall be installed and metered as reasonably required by the State Laramie Fox Hills Engineer. The well will be equipped with a totalizing flow meter and Applicants, or their successors 183 133 1.33 (NT) and assigns, shall submit diversion records to the Division Engineer on an annual basis or as otherwise requested by the Division Engineer. Applicants, or their successors and assigns, shall also Decreed amounts may vary from above conform withthe theState’s State’sDetermination DeterminationofofFacts.

Facts. Pursuant Pur- provide accountings to the Division Engineer and Water Commissioner as required by them to demDecreed amounts may vary from thethe above to to conform with suant to C.R.S. § 37-92-305(11), Applicant further requests that the Court retain jurisdiction to finally onstrate compliance under this plan of augmentation. G. Applicants intends to waive the 600 feet well to determine C.R.S. § 37-92-305(11), furtherfor requests that theand Court retain jurisdiction finally D. determine the amount ofApplicant water available appropriation withdrawal from eachtoaquifer.

Re- spacing requirement for any wells to be located upon the Applicants’ Property. H. Applicants will thequested amountUses. of water available for appropriation andthe withdrawal fromfor each aquifer.uses D. Requested Uses.comply with any lienholder notice provisions set forth in C.R.S. §37-92-302(2)(b) and §37-90-137(4) Applicant requests the right to use ground water beneficial upon the ApApplicant right toofuse the ground watercommercial, for beneficial useswater, uponrecreation, the Applicants’ Property plicants’requests Propertythe consisting domestic, irrigation, stock wildlife, fire (b.5)(I), and such notice will be sent within 14 days of the filing of this application. protection, and also for storage and augmentation purposes associated with such uses.

Applicants consisting of domestic, irrigation, commercial, stock water, recreation, wildlife, fire protection, and also for also request that the nontributary water may be such used,uses. reused, and successively storage and augmentation purposes associated with Applicants also requestused that to theextinction, nontributaryWATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED both on and off the Applicants’ Property subject, however, to the requirement of C.R.S. § 37-90- BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNwater may bethat used, and98% successively used to extinction, both on andbe offconsumed. the Applicants’ PropertyERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY 137(9)(b), no reused, more than of the amount withdrawn annually shall Applicants subject, however, to thebyrequirement of C.R.S. §or37-90-137(9)(b), no moreapplication than 98% to of the the benamountSTATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. may use such water immediate application by storage and that subsequent eficial uses and purposes herein.Applicants Provided,may however, that water Applicants shall onlyapplication be entitled to withdrawn annually shall be stated consumed. use such by immediate or by construct wells or useapplication water fromtothe Dawson aquifer pursuant a decreedhowever, aug- YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended storage and subsequent thenot-nontributary beneficial uses and purposes stated herein.to Provided, planshall entered Court,tocovering thewells out-of-priority stream depletions caused by theDawson use application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement thatmentation Applicants onlyby bethis entitled construct or use water from the not-nontributary of such not-nontributary aquifers in accordance with C.R.S. § 37-90-137(9)(c.5). E. Well Fields. Ap- of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should aquifer pursuant to that a decreed augmentation entered this Court, coveringfrom the out-of-priority streambe granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the plicants request they be permitted toplan produce thebyfull legal entitlement the Denver Basin depletions caused by Applicants’ the use of Property such not-nontributary aquifers inofaccordance with C.R.S. 37-90-last day of DECEMBER 2021 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and aquifers underlying through any combination wells. Applicants request§ that these wells treated as Applicants a well field.request F. Averaging of be Withdrawals.

Applicants request that entitlement they be must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition 137(9)(c.5).

E.be Well Fields. that they permitted to produce the full legal entitled to withdraw an aquifers amount ofunderlying ground water in excessProperty of the average amount decreed to must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such from the Denver Basin Applicants’ throughannual any combination of wells. the aquifers beneath the Applicants’ Property, so long as the sum of the total withdrawals from all the service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Applicants request that these wells be treated as a well field. F. Averaging of Withdrawals. Applicants wells in the aquifers does not exceed the product of the number of years since the date of issuance request they well be entitled anentry amount groundherein, water whichever in excess ofcomes the average annual amount of thethat original permit to or withdraw the date of of aof decree first, multiplied

by Legal Notice No.: 940078 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 decreed to the aquifers beneathofthe Applicants’ Property, are so long as the sum of thefrom totalthe withdrawals from the average annual volume water which Applicants entitled to withdraw aquifers unFirst Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

all the wells in the aquifers does not exceed the product of the number of years since the date of issuance of the original well permit or the date of entry of a decree herein, whichever comes first, multiplied by the average annual volume of water which Applicants are entitled to withdraw from the aquifers underlying

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that amendments to the 2021 budgets of the District may also be considered at the above-referenced joint meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District. Copies of the proposed 2022 budgets and the amended 2021 budgets, if required, are available for public inspection at the offices of Fromm & Company LLC. Due to concerns related to COVID-19 and certain visitor restrictions that may be in place, please contact Megan VanCamp by email at contact@frommco.us, or by telephone at (970) 875-7047 to make arrangements to inspect the budgets prior to visiting the foregoing office. Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to final adoption of the 2022 budgets, and the amended 2021 budgets, if required, file or register any objections thereto.

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DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO OCTOBER 2021 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that proposed budgets for the ensuing year of 2022 have been submitted to the Foxhill Metropolitan District Nos. 1 & 2 (collectively, "The District"). Such proposed budgets will be considered at a joint meeting and public hearing of the Boards of Directors of the District (collectively, “The Board”), at 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter, on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. In order to preserve the health, safety, and welfare of the public in light of the imminent threat caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this meeting and public hearing will be held by telephone. To attend and participate by telephone, dial (720) 386-9023 and enter passcode 126412. Further information regarding the special meeting and public hearing will be available at least 24 hours prior online, at www.frommco.us/client-fhmd.html, or may be obtained by contacting Megan VanCamp, by email at contact@frommco.us, or by telephone at (970) 875-7047.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed budget has been submitted to the LINCOLN PARK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT dba STONEGATE NORTH VILLAGES METROPOLITAN DISTRICT for the year 2022. If necessary, an amended 2021 budget will also be submitted to the District. A copy of such proposed 2022 budget and amended 2021 budget, if necessary, is on file in the office of the accountant, Marchetti & Weaver, LLC, 28 Second Street, Suite 213, Edwards, Colorado, where the same is open for public inspection. The proposed 2022 budget and amended 2021 budget will be considered at a regular meeting of the Lincoln Park Metropolitan District dba Stonegate North Villages Metropolitan District to be held Tuesday, November 23, 2021 at 5:30 p.m. Any interested elector of the Lincoln Park Metropolitan District dba Stonegate North Villages Metropolitan District may inspect the proposed and amended budgets and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the proposed 2022 budget and amended 2021 budget.

To reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Board of Directors encourages the Public and others to join the meeting via Zoom. To access meeting, visit www.zoom.us, click the Join Meeting link, and type in the follow Meeting ID and Passcode: Meeting ID: 871 1394 9681 Passcode: 693659 Or Dial In: 720-928-9299

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: LINCOLN PARK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT dba STONEGATE NORTH VILLAGES METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ SETER & VANDER WALL, P.C. Attorneys for the District Legal Notice No. 940102 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2022 BUDGETS AND AMENDMENT OF 2021 BUDGETS RAMPART RANGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Sections 29-1-108 and 109, C.R.S., that proposed budgets have been submitted to the Boards of Directors of the Rampart Range Metropolitan District Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (the “Districts”) for the ensuing year of 2022. The necessity may also arise for the amendment of the 2021 budgets of the Districts. Copies of the proposed 2022 budgets and 2021 amended budgets (if appropriate) are on file in the office of the Districts’ Accountant, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 E. Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where same are available for public inspection.

Such proposed 2022 budgets and 2021 amended budgets will be considered at a special meeting to be held on December 10, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. at Coventry Development, 9878 Schwab Way, Suite 415, Lone Tree, Colorado 80124. Any interested elector within the Districts may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2022 budgets or the 2021 amended budgets, inspect the 2022 budgets and the 2021 amended budgets and file or register any objections thereto.

RAMPART RANGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8

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Public Notices /s/ Elizabeth Matthews Secretary of the District Legal Notice No. 939902 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AMENDED 2021 BUDGET AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Boards of Directors (collectively, the “Boards”) of the PINERY COMMERCIAL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 & 2 (collectively, the “Districts”), will hold a meeting via teleconference on Friday, November 19, 2021 at 11:00 A.M., for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Boards including a public hearing on the 2021 amended budgets (the “Amended Budgets”) and 2022 proposed budgets (the “Proposed Budgets”).

This meeting can be joined using the following teleconference information: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89618373860 Meeting ID: 896 1837 3860 Call-In Number: 720-707-2699 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Amended Budgets and Proposed Budgets have been submitted to the Districts. A copy of the Amended Budgets and the Proposed Budgets are on file in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 E Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where the same are open for public inspection.

Any interested elector of the Districts may file any objections to the Amended Budgets and Proposed Budgets at any time prior to final adoption of the Amended Budgets and Proposed Budgets by the Boards. This meeting is open to the public and the agenda for any meeting may be obtained by calling (303) 858-1800.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS: PINERY COMMERCIAL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 & 2 /s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law Legal Notice No. 940109 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET AND 2021 BUDGET AMENDMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the proposed budget for the ensuing year of 2022 has been submitted to the Castle Rock Fire Protection District ("District"). Such proposed budget will be considered at a meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held at Ridgeline Community Church, 555 Heritage Ave., Castle Rock, Colorado 80104, at 4:00 p.m. on December 2, 2021.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an amendment to the 2021 budget of the District may also be considered at the above-referenced meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District. A copy of the proposed 2022 budget and the amended 2021 budget, if required, are available for public inspection at the offices of Spencer Fane LLP, 1700 Lincoln Street, Ste. 2000, Denver, Colorado 80203. Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to final adoption of the 2022 budget and the amended 2021 budget, file or register any objections thereto.

CASTLE ROCK FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT By: /s/ Board of Directors Legal Notice No. 940090 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice Notice is hereby given, that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Silver Heights Water and Sanitation District for the ensuing year of 2022. A copy of such budget has been filed in the office of Richard Rasmussen, 1172 Harvey Street, Castle Rock, Co 80108, where the same is open for public inspection. This proposed budget will be considered at a meeting of the Silver Heights Water and Sanitation District to be held at the Silver Heights Water and Sanitation District office, 1027 Harvey Street, Silver Heights, Castle Rock, Colorado on December 9, 2021 at 7:00 PM. Any interested elector within such Silver Heights Water and Sanitation District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections thereto at any time prior to the adoption of the budget.

Legal Notice No. 940084 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE CONCERNING PROPOSED BUDGET OF WEST DOUGLAS COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT NOTICE is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of West Douglas County Fire Protection District for the ensuing year of 2022; that a copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of the District at Station 4, 4037 Platte Avenue, Sedalia, CO 80135, Colorado, where the same is open for public inspection; and that such proposed budget will be considered at a public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held at Station 4, 4037 Platte Avenue, Sedalia, CO 80135, Colorado on December 8, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget, inspect the budget and file or register any objections thereto.

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WEST DOUGLAS COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT By:/s/ Whitney Vincent, Treasurer Legal Notice No. 940045 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET AND HEARING PINE BLUFFS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed budget has been submitted to the PINE BLUFFS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT for the ensuing year of 2022. A copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of Koelbel and Company, 5291 East Yale Avenue, Denver, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection. Such proposed budget will be considered at a hearing at the special meeting of the Pine Bluffs Metropolitan District to be held at 10:30 A.M. on Tuesday, November 30, 2021. The meeting will be held at 5291 East Yale Avenue, Denver, Colorado and via telephone at 1-425-535-9510, Access Code: 505-132-805. Any interested elector within the Pine Bluffs Metropolitan District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2022 budget.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: PINE BLUFFS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ ICENOGLE | SEAVER | POGUE A Professional Corporation Legal Notice No. 940110 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED BUDGET Notice is hereby given that the following has been submitted to the Board of Directors of Centennial Water and Sanitation District: • • •

2022 Proposed Budget Proposed increases to the water and wastewater rates for 2022 Proposed revisions to the current year of 2021

A copy of such proposed budget which includes detail on the proposed rate increases has been filed in the office of the District located at 62 W. Plaza Drive, Highlands Ranch, Colorado where same is open for public inspection and on the District’s official website www.centennialwater.org .

A public hearing on the proposed budget will be conducted at a regular meeting of the Board of Directors to be held at 62 W. Plaza Drive, Highlands Ranch, Colorado on November 29, 2021 at 6:30 P.M. or as soon thereafter as possible.

Any interested elector or customer within or served

by Centennial Water and Sanitation District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections thereto at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget.

Centennial Water and Sanitation District By: Stephanie Stanley, Secretary Legal Notice No. 940044 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2022 BUDGETS AND AMENDMENT OF 2021 BUDGETS SOUTH SANTA FE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 & 2 DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Sections 29-1-108 and 109, C.R.S., that proposed budgets have been submitted to the Board of Directors of the South Santa Fe Metropolitan District Nos. 1 & 2 (the “Districts”) for the ensuing year of 2022. The necessity may also arise for the amendment of the 2021 budgets of the Districts. Copies of the proposed 2022 budgets and 2021 amended budgets (if appropriate) are on file in the office of the Districts’ Accountant, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 E. Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111, where same are available for public inspection.

Such proposed 2022 budgets and 2021 amended budgets will be considered at a special meeting to be held on December 7, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. via Teams video/teleconference. Any interested elector within the Districts may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2022 budgets or the 2021 amended budgets, inspect the 2022 budgets and the 2021 amended budgets and file or register any objections thereto.

THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD BY TELEPHONIC MEANS WITHOUT ANY INDIVIDUALS (NEITHER DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES NOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC) ATTENDING IN PERSON. You can attend the meetings in any of the following ways: 1. To attend via Teams Videoconference, email sandy.brandenburger@claconnect.com to obtain a link to the videoconference.

2. To attend via telephone, dial 1-720-547-5281 and enter the following additional information: a. Phone Conference ID: 986 688 385# SOUTH SANTA FE METROPOLITAN DISTRICTS NOs. 1 & 2 CliftonLarsonAllen LLP Manager for the Districts Legal Notice No. 939986 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED BUDGET Notice is hereby given that the following has been submitted to the Board of Directors of Highlands Ranch Metropolitan District: • • •

2022 Proposed Budget Proposed increases to the pass-through water and wastewater rates from Centennial Water and Sanitation District for 2022 Proposed revisions to the current year of 2021

A copy of such proposed budget which includes detail on the proposed rate increases has been filed in the office of the District located at 62 W. Plaza Drive, Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection and on the District’s official website, www.highlandsranch.org A public hearing on the proposed budget will be conducted at a regular meeting of the Board of Directors to be held at 62 W. Plaza Drive, Highlands Ranch, Colorado, on November 30, 2021 at 6:00 P.M. or as soon thereafter as possible.

Any interested elector within Highlands Ranch Metropolitan District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections thereto at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget.

Highlands Ranch Metropolitan District By: Mike Renshaw, Secretary Legal Notice No. 940043 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET AND 2021 BUDGET AMENDMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the proposed budget for the ensuing year of 2022 has been submitted to the Timbers Metropolitan District ("District"). Such proposed budget will be considered at a meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held on December 1, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. at 7343 S. Alton Way, Ste. 100, Centennial, CO 80112.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that amendments to the 2021 budget of the District may also be considered at the above-referenced meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District. Copies of the proposed 2022 budget and the amended 2021 budget, if required, are available for public inspection at the offices of Spencer Fane LLP, 1700 Lincoln Street, Ste. 2000, Denver, CO; (303) 839-3800. Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to final adoption of the 2022 budget and the amended 2021 budget, if required, file or register any objections thereto.

TIMBERS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ Board of Directors Legal Notice No. 940091 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF BUDGET Notice is hereby given that: a proposed budget has been submitted to the Ute Pass Regional Health Service District (UPRHSD) Board of Directors for the ensuing year of 2022. A copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of UPRHSD, located at 1017A E US Hwy 24 in Woodland Park, where same is open for public inspection. Such proposed budget will be considered at the regular board meeting of UPRHSD to be held at the offices of the Ute Pass Regional Health Service District, 1017A E US Hwy 24, Woodland Park, Colorado, December 16, 2021, at 1:00 P.M. Any interested elector of UPRHSD may inspect the proposed budget at the offices of UPRHSD and file or register any objections thereto at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget.

Legal Notice No. 940103 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AMENDED 2021 BUDGET AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the CASTLE PINES COMMERCIAL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 4 (the “District”), will hold a meeting via teleconference on Monday, November 29, 2021 at 1:00 P.M., for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Board including a public hearing on the 2021 amended budget (the “Amended Budget”) and 2022 proposed budget (the “Proposed Budget”). This meeting can be joined using the following teleconference information:

CASTLE PINES COMMERCIAL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 4

Bidder shall hold or obtain such contractor's and business licenses, as may be required by applicable law.

/s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law

Before a Contract will be awarded for the work contemplated herein, the District will conduct such investigation as is necessary to determine the performance record and ability of the Bidder to perform the size and type of work specified under this Contract. Upon request, the Bidder shall submit such information as deemed necessary by the District to evaluate the Bidder's qualifications.

Legal Notice No. 940031 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE AS TO PUBLIC HEARING RE AMENDED 2021 BUDGET AND PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed 2022 budget hs been submitted to the NORTHERN DOUGLAS COUNTY WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT, for the fiscal year 2022. A copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of the accountant, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection. Such proposed budget will be considered at a regular meeting of the Northern Douglas County Water and Sanitation District to be held at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, November 23, 2021. If necessary, an amended 2021 budget will be filed in the office of the accountant and open for inspection for consideration at the regular meeting of the Board. The meeting will be held at 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado. To access meeting, visit the District’s website at www.ndcwater.org where the meeting notice with link information will be posted or contact the District’s legal counsel at svw@ svwpc.com for a link to be emailed to you. Any interested elector within the Northern Douglas Water and Sanitation District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the amended 2021 and proposed 2022 budgets.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: NORTHERN DOUGLAS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT By: /s/ SETER & VANDER WALL, P.C. Attorneys for the District Legal Notice No. 939997 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Bids and Settlements Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Town of Castle Rock, Colorado Date: November 2, 2021 Project Title: Hangmans Gulch Channel Improvements – Phase IV Contractor: Meridiam Partners, LLC 1001 W. Arizona Ave. Denver, CO 80223 Notice is hereby given that the Town of Castle Rock intends to start processing the Final Payment to the above-named contractor on November 30, 2021, provided no claims are received.

Any person or firm having debts against the Contractor must file a proper written notice with Barbara Horton, Stormwater Project Manager, Town of Castle Rock, 175 Kellogg Court, Castle Rock, Colorado 80109, on or before November 29, 2021.

TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK By: Barbara Horton, P.E. Stormwater Project Manager

The successful bidder shall be selected based on the bidder’s ability to successfully complete the project in a timely manner as well as the bidder’s total amount of bid and fee structure. The District reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any and all informalities and to negotiate contract terms with the Successful Bidder, and the right to disregard all non-conforming, nonresponsive or conditional Bids, and to postpone the award of the Contract for a period of time which, however, shall not extend beyond 60 days from the bid opening date unless a different period is set forth in the Contract Documents.

Dated this 8th day of November 2021.

COTTONWOOD WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT By: Luis Tovar, District Manager Legal Notice No. 940081 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on December 12, 2021, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and Kiewit Infrastructure Co. for the Palmer Divide Avenue Project, Douglas County Project Number CI 2021-017 in Douglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Kiewit Infrastructure Co. for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said December 12, 2021, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Board of County Commissioners, c/o Director of Public Works Engineering, with a copy to the Project Engineer Daniel Roberts, Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104.

Failure on the part of claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said County of Douglas from all and any liability for such claimant's claim.

The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Janet Herman, P.E., Director of Public Works Engineering.

Legal Notice No.940053 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Account Number: 2734 Public Notice REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Legal Notice No. 940054 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The Cottonwood Water and Sanitation District (The District) has issued a formal request for proposal “RFP” for the Water Advanced Metering Infrastructure Fixed Network System Phase II, Yr 2022. Sealed proposals addressed to the Cottonwood Water and Sanitation District, 188 Inverness Drive West, Suite 150, Englewood, Colorado 80112, shall be received by the District before 11 a.m. on December 9, 2021. Proposals will be evaluated by the District based upon criteria as specified in the RFP. Bidders will be contacted regarding the bid award as soon as the District has fully reviewed the bids and has contacted references. We expect bids to be awarded by December 23, 2021.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86728754113?pwd=aj VkYU1lM0NwcktGUitFN2RxRzUxQT09, Meeting ID: 867 2875 4113, Passcode: 337219, Call-in number: 1-720-707-2699.

The District is seeking an upgrade to its customer metering system to a “smart meter” system. The District is in the process of converting and/or replacing customer meters to establish a centralized meter reporting system, otherwise referred to as an AMI system in order to establish a centralized meter reporting system that economically and technologically meets the District’s goals for system operations and reporting. This RFP seeks to obtain costs for installation services for Districtsupplied residential and commercial water meters with integrated or separate AMI endpoints, to be determined after the due date for this proposal.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an Amended Budget and Proposed Budget have been submitted to the District. A copy of the Amended Budget and the Proposed Budget are on file in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 E. Crescent Pkwy., Ste. 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, 80111, where the same are open for public inspection.

RFP documents may be obtained from the District upon payment of $20.00 for an e-file transmittal. To request a set of the RFP documents, please email kelly@mulhernmre.com or ellen@mulhernmre.com. These documents will be available beginning Monday, November 8, 2021.

Fees for the RFP Documents are non-refundable.

Any interested elector of the District may file any objections to the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget at any time prior to final adoption of the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget by the Board. This meeting is open to the public and the agenda for any meeting may be obtained by calling (303) 858-1800.

The District will periodically compile lists of questions during the RFP process and respond in writing to all Bidders registered to have received the RFP Documents. The District’s preferred method of written communication is via electronic mail. If any major clarifications are needed, an addendum will be sent to all bidders.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

In order to perform public work, the successful

The Inverness Water and Sanitation District (The District) has issued a formal request for proposal “RFP” for the Water Advanced Metering Infrastructure Fixed Network System Yr 2022.

Sealed proposals addressed to the Inverness Water and Sanitation District, 188 Inverness Drive West, Suite 150, Englewood, Colorado 80112, shall be received by the District before 11 a.m. on November 23, 2021. Proposals will be evaluated by the District based upon criteria as specified in the RFP. Bidders will be contacted regarding the bid award as soon as the District has fully reviewed the bids and has contacted references. We expect bids to be awarded by December 7, 2021.

The District requests formal bids for a water advanced metering infrastructure “AMI” fixed network system to integrate with its existing residential and commercial metered accounts in order to establish a centralized meter reporting system that economically and technologically meets the District’s goals for system operations and reporting. This RFP seeks to obtain costs for installation services for District-supplied residential and commercial water meters with integrated or separate AMI endpoints, to be determined after the due date for this proposal.

RFP documents may be obtained from the District upon payment of $20.00 for an e-file transmittal. To request a set of the RFP documents, please email kelly@mulhernmre.com or ellen@mulhernmre.com. These documents will be available beginning Monday, November 8, 2021.

Fees for the RFP Documents are non-refundable.

The District will periodically compile lists of questions during the RFP process and respond in writing to all Bidders registered to have received the RFP Documents. The District’s preferred method of written communication is via electronic mail. If any major clarifications are needed, an addendum will be sent to all bidders.

In order to perform public work, the successful Bidder shall hold or obtain such contractor's and business licenses, as may be required by applicable law.

Before a Contract will be awarded for the work contemplated herein, the District will conduct such investigation as is necessary to determine the performance record and ability of the Bidder to perform the size and type of work specified

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Public Notices under this Contract. Upon request, the Bidder shall submit such information as deemed necessary by the District to evaluate the Bidder's qualifications.

The successful bidder shall be selected based on the bidder’s ability to successfully complete the project in a timely manner as well as the bidder’s total amount of bid and fee structure. The District reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any and all informalities and to negotiate contract terms with the Successful Bidder, and the right to disregard all non-conforming, nonresponsive or conditional Bids, and to postpone the award of the Contract for a period of time which, however, shall not extend beyond 60 days from the bid opening date unless a different period is set forth in the Contract Documents.

Dated this 8th day of November 2021.

INVERNESS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT By: Luis Tovar, District Manager Legal Notice No. 940082 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice Notice of Final Payment/Final Settlement Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board Notice is hereby given that at 2:00 p.m. on December 10, 2021, the STERLING RANCH COMMUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD shall make final payment and settlement to the following contractors in connection with all services rendered, materials furnished and for all labor performed in and for the referenced project: 1. Concrete Curb & Paving, Inc., in the amount of $52,343.64, pursuant to contract dated August 19, 2020 for work performed in Sterling Ranch Filing 3A. Any person, individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust estate, trust, limited liability company, partnership, association or other legal entity that has furnished labor, materials, sustenance, or other supplies used or consumed by a contractor or his or her subcontractor in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies laborers, rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractor or the subcontractor may, at any lime and up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted ID be done, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of the claim.

All such claims shall be filed with the Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board, 8155 Piney River Ave., Suite 150, Littleton, CO 80125, on or before the above-mentioned dale and time of final settlement.

Failure on the part at a claimant to timely file a verified statement of the amount due shall relieve the Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board from any and all liability for making payment to the claimant.

BY ORDER OF THE STERLING RANCH COMMUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD Legal Notice No. 940101 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Published in: The Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT TOWN OF PARKER STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO SECTION 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on the 25th day of November, 2021, final settlement will be made by the Town of Parker, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Town of Parker and Hudick Excavating, Inc. dba HEI Civil, for the completion of Jordan Road Underpass (CIP20-012), and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Hudick Excavating, Inc. dba HEI Civil for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said 25th day of November, 2021, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Town of Parker Council, c/o Director of Engineering/Public Works, 20120 E. Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado, 80138. Failure on the part of claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said Town of Parker from all and any liability for such claimant's claim. The Town of Parker Council, By: Tom Williams, Director of Engineering/Public Works.

Legal Notice No. 940058 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Second Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on the 13th day of DECEMBER 2021, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and ELITE INDUSTRIES for the 2021 ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT TRAIL PROJECT - INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #002-21 (PO #41197); and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said ELITE INDUSTRIES for or on account for the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any subcontractors in or about the performance

of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said 13th day of DECEMBER 2021, to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Douglas County Government, Board of County Commissioners, c/o Parks, Trails, & Building Grounds, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104.

Failure on the part of the claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said County of Douglas from all and any liability for such claimant’s claim. The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Carolyn S. Riggs, CPPB, Purchasing Supervisor, Douglas County Government.

Legal Notice No. 940065 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #029-21 LOGO SPORTSWEAR The Purchasing Division of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests bids from responsible qualified firms for the provision of the purchase of Logo Sportswear, as specified, for Douglas County employees. Logo Sportswear will be ordered as supplemental uniform items and for special events.

The IFB documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com.

IFB documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

While the IFB documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic bid responses.

Bid responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “IFB No. 029-21, Logo Sportswear” and mailed or hand-carried to the address shown below prior to the due date and time.

Electronic and/or faxed bid responses will not be accepted. Bids will be received until 2:00pm on Friday, December 10, 2021 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Bids will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any bids so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said bid and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so.

Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items/services with the successful bidder.

Please direct any questions concerning this IFB to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303-6607434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No. 940096 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Summons and Sheriff Sale Public Notice District Court, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2021CV30468, Division/ Courtroom # 6 SHERIFF’S SALE NO. 21001510 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY BLACKFEATHER CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff: v.

PENNY M PINK, et al., Defendant(s) Regarding: Condominium Unit 704, Building No. 7, Blackfeather -Phase VI, according to the Condominium Map of Blackfeather - Phase VI, recorded July 28, 2004 at Reception No. 2004078679, and as defined and described in the Condominium Declaration of Blackfeather, recorded October 7, 2002 at Reception No. 2002103111, Affidavit of Correction recorded November 13, 2003 at Reception No. 2003163441, recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Douglas County, Colorado. Together with the Exclusive right to use Parking Spaces 704 and 704A, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.; also known as: 457 Black Feather Loop, #704, Castle Rock, CO 80104 (the “Property”) Under a Judgement and Decree of Foreclosure entered on October 7, 2021, relating to Transcripts of Judgments recorded in the Douglas County public records the undersigned is ordered to sell certain real property set forth and described above.

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice: You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Division of the Sheriff's Office of Douglas County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 13th day January 2022, at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2213, Castle Rock, CO 80109, phone number 303-660-7527. At which sale, the above-described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale. All bidders will be required to have in their possession cash or certified funds at least equal to the amount of the judgment creditor’s bid. Please telephone 303-660-7527 prior to the sale to ascertain the amount of this bid. The highest and best bidder will have two hours following the sale to tender the

full amount of their bid, or they will be deemed to have withdrawn their bid.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE INITIAL BID AT THE TIME OF SALE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JUDGMENTS BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Recorded Transcripts of Judgement are in the amount of $10,652.05 All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 303-660-7527. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above-described lien is ALTITUDE COMMUNITY LAW 555 ZANG St SUITE 100 LAKEWOOD, CO ,303-432-9999 Dated 11/18/2021, Castle Rock, CO Tony Spurlock Sheriff of Douglas County, Colorado Jennifer Rose, Deputy Douglas County, Colorado Legal Notice No. 940018 First Publication: 11/18/2021 Last Publication: 12/16/2021 Published In: Douglas County News Press Public Notice SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION DISTRICT COURT, DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO 4000 Justice Way Castle Rock, Colorado 80109 In re the Marriage of: JOYCE N. CLARK, Petitioner, and ERIC J. BRINK, Respondent.

Attorneys for the petitioner: OPFER | CAMPBELL | BECK P.C. Ashley M. Opfer, Reg. No. 45098 Ashleigh N. Beck, Reg. No. 49624 Brittany J. Shultz, Reg. No. 55322 Parker Station 19751 East Mainstreet, Suite 215 Parker, Colorado 80138 Telephone Number: (303) 791-0995 Email: ashley@ocblawgroup.com Email: ashleigh@ocblawgroup.com Email: bshultz@ocblawgroup.com Case Number: 2021DR30672 Division: 2 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT(S): You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you.

Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage, Case Information Sheet, Case Management Order, and Notice of Initial Status Conference may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Petition of Dissolution of Marriage in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage without further notice.

This is an action: Dissolution of Marriage pursuant to Section 14-10-106, C.R.S. Dated: October 19, 2021 /s/ Brittany J. Shultz Attorney for Plaintiff(s)/Petitioner(s) Legal Notice No. 939928 First Publication: October 28, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice District Court, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2020CV30779, Division/ Courtroom # 5 SHERIFF’S SALE NO. 21001372 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY THE ESTATE AT LONE TREE HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION, INC. D/B/A HERITAGE ESTATES HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff: v.

BRIDGET BARTELDS et al.

Defendant(s) Regarding: LOT 141, LONE TREE FILING NO. 16-D, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as 8746 Crooked Stick Place, Lone Tree, Colorado 80124 (the "Property").; also known as: 8746 Crooked Stick Pl Lone Tree, CO 80124 (the “Property”) Under a Judgement and Decree of Foreclosure entered on July 31, 2021, relating to Transcripts of Judgments recorded in the Douglas County public records the undersigned is ordered to sell certain real property set forth and described above.

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice: You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Division of the Sheriff's Office of Douglas County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 16th day December, 2021, at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2213, Castle Rock, CO 80109, phone number 303-660-7527. At which sale, the above-described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession,

or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale. All bidders will be required to have in their possession cash or certified funds at least equal to the amount of the judgment creditor’s bid. Please telephone 303-660-7527 prior to the sale to ascertain the amount of this bid. The highest and best bidder will have two hours following the sale to tender the full amount of their bid, or they will be deemed to have withdrawn their bid.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE INITIAL BID AT THE TIME OF SALE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JUDGMENTS BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Recorded Transcripts of Judgement are in the amount of $23,518.31 All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 303-660-7527. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above-described lien is Joshua Meyers, Atty. Reg. No. 53309, MOELLER GRAF ATTORNEYS AT LAW 385 INVERNESS PKWY 200 ENGLEWOOD, CO 80113, (877) 279-4499.

Dated 10/21/2021, Castle Rock, CO Tony Spurlock Sheriff of Douglas County, Colorado Tommy Barrella, Deputy Douglas County, Colorado Legal Notice No. 939839 First Publication: 10/21/2021 Last Publication: 11/18/2021 Published In: Douglas County News Press

Public Notice District Court, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2020CV30278, Division/ Courtroom # 6 SHERIFF’S SALE NO. 21001388 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY 76 AND 88 LLC, Plaintiff: v.

QUADRUPLE D TRUST, Defendant(s)

Legal Notice No. 940080 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 9, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF TORRANCE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT NO. D-722-CV-2021-00042 7th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Torrance County 10/6/2021 3:51 PM SUSAN ROSSIGNOL, CLERK OF THE COURT SANDIA LABORATORY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, v.

DAVID MCCLURE, Defendant.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO THE FOLLOWING NAMED OR DESIGNATED DEFENDANT: David McClure GREETINGS DEFENDANT: You are hereby notified that Sandia Laboratory Federal Credit Union, as Plaintiff, has filed an action in the Seventh Judicial District Court of Torrance County, New Mexico, and wherein the said Plaintiff seeks to obtain constructive service of process upon you.

The general object of said action is: Civil Complaint for Deficiency Balance Due You are further notified that unless you serve a pleading or motion in response to the complaint in said cause on or before thirty (30) days after the last publication date, judgment will be entered against you.

The name and post office address of the Attorneys for the Plaintiff is as follows: Aldridge, Hammar & Wexler, P.A.., 1212 Pennsylvania, NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110.

WITNESS the Honorable Mercedes C. Murphy, District Judge of the Seventh Judicial District Court of the State of New Mexico, and the seal of the District Court of Torrance County on October 6, 2021.

SUSAN ROSSIGNOL CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By:/s/ Erica Valentine, Deputy

Regarding: 10450 Dunsford Drive, Littleton, Colorado 80124 and more particularly described as Lot 77, Carriage Club Estates Filing No. 1, County of Douglas, State of Colorado (the Property").; also known as: 10450 Dunsford Dr Littleton, CO 80124 (the “Property”) Under a Judgement and Decree of Foreclosure entered on June 25, 2021, relating to Transcripts of Judgments recorded in the Douglas County public records the undersigned is ordered to sell certain real property set forth and described above.

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice: You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Division of the Sheriff's Office of Douglas County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 16th day December, 2021, at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2213, Castle Rock, CO 80109, phone number 303-660-7527. At which sale, the above-described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale. All bidders will be required to have in their possession cash or certified funds at least equal to the amount of the judgment creditor’s bid. Please telephone 303-660-7527 prior to the sale to ascertain the amount of this bid. The highest and best bidder will have two hours following the sale to tender the full amount of their bid, or they will be deemed to have withdrawn their bid.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE INITIAL BID AT THE TIME OF SALE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JUDGMENTS BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Recorded Transcripts of Judgement are in the amount of $76,677.27 All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 303-660-7527. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is MILLS-HALSTEAD-ZALOUDEK ATTORNEYS AT LAW 600 17TH St Suite 2800 Denver, CO 80202 303-226-5861.

Dated 10/21/2021, Castle Rock, CO Tony Spurlock Sheriff of Douglas County, Colorado Tommy Barrella, Deputy Douglas County, Colorado Legal Notice No. 939847 First Publication: 10/21/2021 Last Publication: 11/18/2021 Published In: Douglas County News Press

Legal Notice No. 939959 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Telecommunications Public Notice DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for Unincorporated Areas of Douglas County, Colorado, Case No. 21-08-0569P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community.

These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. The FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. For more information on the proposed flood hazard determinations and information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/BFE_Status/bfe_main.asp, or call the FEMA Map Information eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877-FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627).

Legal Notice No. 940022 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice: Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to build a 30-foot tall light pole tower at the approx. vicinity of Foothills Dr., Castle Rock, Douglas County, Colorado 80109.

Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Abigail Ritter, a.ritter@trileaf.com, 1515 Des Peres Road, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63131, 314-997-6111.

Legal Notice No. 940106 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Public Notice This is a legal notice of record. If you have been a patient of Dickason Chiropractic between the dates of 1-1-2013 - 1-1-2014 and would like to obtain your chiropractic records from our office you may call our office to arrange pick up. These records will be destroyed as of 12-15-2021.

303-688-2300 140 S Wilcox Street Unit D Castle Rock, CO 80104.

DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO OCTOBER 2021 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right

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Public Notices applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of OCTOBER 2021 for each County affected.

21CW3183 CENTENNIAL WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT, c/o General Manager, 62 Plaza Drive, Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80129.

Please send all pleadings and correspondence to P. Fritz Holleman and Bradley N. Kershaw, Bushong & Holleman PC, 1525 Spruce Street, Suite 200, Boulder, Colorado 80302. APPLICATION FOR FINDING OF DILIGENCE AND TO MAKE CONDITIONAL WATER RIGHT PARTIALLY ABSOLUTE, in ARAPAHOE, DOUGLAS AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. 2. Names of structures: Chatfield Reservoir and South Platte Reservoir. 3. Description of conditional water right: A. Date of Original Decree, Case No. and Court: June 16, 1987, entered in Case No. 84CW411, by the District Court, Water Division 1.

B. Date of change decree: August 27, 1997, entered in Case No. 93CW82, by the District Court, Water Division 1. Among other things, the decree in Case No. 93CW82 approved South Platte Reservoir as an alternate place of storage for the subject water right. C. Decrees awarding findings of diligence: Decrees finding reasonable diligence and/or making portions of the subject conditional water right absolute were entered in Case No. 93CW81 on June 9, 1995; in Case No. 01CW101 on December 10, 2008; and in Case No. 14CW3155 on October 22, 2015, all by the District Court, Water Division 1. D. Legal Description: (1) Chatfield Reservoir: The reservoir formed by the Chatfield Dam, an existing structure located in Sections 6 and 7, Township 6 South, Range 68 West, of the 6th P.M. and in Section 1, Township 6 South, Range 69 West, of the 6th P.M. (2) South Platte Reservoir (formerly known as South Platte Lake): Located in portions of the W 1/2 and the SE 1/4 of Section 31, Township 5 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., and in the E 1/2 of the SE 1/4 and the SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 36, Township 5 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M. E. Source: South Platte River and tributaries thereto, including Plum Creek and its tributaries. F. Appropriation Date: September 7, 1984. Amount: 6,000 acre-feet, CONDITIONAL. G. Uses: Municipal, domestic, industrial, commercial, irrigation, stockwatering, recreational, fish and wildlife propagation and maintenance and other beneficial purposes within the South Platte River drainage in Water Division 1. Said water may be also used for exchange purposes, for replacement of depletions resulting from use of water from other sources, for augmentation purposes, and for artificial recharge of the Denver Basin aquifers underlying Highlands Ranch for all of the beneficial uses Outline described in this paragraph 3.G. 4. of what has been done toward completion of the appropriation and application of water to a beneficial use as conditionally decreed, including expenditures: Centennial has engaged in numerous activities during the relevant diligence period that demonstrate diligence toward application of the subject water right to the beneficially decreed uses. Centennial’s efforts include, but are not limited to, the following: A. The subject water right and its associated structures and sources are part of the unified water supply system for Highlands Ranch. Highlands Ranch is a development consisting of approximately 22,000 acres in Douglas County, including the community of Highlands Ranch. Centennial is responsible for providing a municipal water supply to Highlands Ranch. Centennial spent approximately $146.5 million on system-wide improvements not otherwise described below to develop its municipal water and wastewater systems, including but not limited to the following approximate expenses: raw water storage facilities, approximately $66.4 million; wastewater treatment facilities, approximately $51.5 million; booster pump stations, approximately $9.3 million; water infrastructure, approximately $8.8 million; and wastewater infrastructure, approximately $6.6 million, in addition to lesser expenditures. B. Centennial continued to engage in efforts to obtain, and successfully obtained the reallocation of storage space in Chatfield Reservoir from flood control to multipurpose use, including municipal use (“Chatfield Reallocation Project”). Centennial continues to be involved in mitigation activities related to the Chatfield Reallocation Project. In October 2015, by signing the Water Provider Agreement with the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Centennial obtained a permanent right to use storage space in Chatfield Reservoir when and if the necessary mitigation activities were approved by the Corp of Engineers. C. Centennial is one of the original members of the Chatfield Reservoir Mitigation Company, formed in October 2015 to oversee the design, construction, and implementation of mitigation measures required for federal approval of the Chatfield Reallocation Project.

Centennial has contributed approximately $2.4 million to the Chatfield Reservoir Mitigation Company. Centennial was also involved in the negotiation of the Chatfield Reservoir Management Agreement, finalized in October 2015. After a multitude of project mitigation compliance activities in which Centennial was actively involved, the United States Army Corps of Engineers approved the mitigation compliance activities for the Chatfield Reallocation Project and began allowing the initiation of storage in Chatfield Reservoir in May 2020. Centennial’s total expenditures related to the Chatfield Reallocation Project during the diligence period are in excess of $50 million. D. Centennial contributed significant staff and funding efforts to the successful defense of the federal approval for the Chatfield Reallocation Project in litigation involving a challenge brought by the Audubon Society of Greater Denver. E. Centennial developed accounting procedures for implementing its storage and use of the subject water right, and such accounting was approved by the Water Commissioner. F. Centennial has expended approximately $200,000 to operate and maintain the South Platte Reservoir during the diligence period, including, but not limited to, data collection and water quality studies. G. Centennial incurred significant legal and engineering fees and costs associated with participating as an objector in various Water Court cases to protect its water rights, including the subject water right, from injury due to claims of other water users.

Centennial continues to rely upon the subject water right and has no intention to abandon same.

H. A claim to make an additional amount of the subject water right absolute is included herewith.

Such diversion, storage, and use of water in amounts greater than the amounts previously decreed absolute is evidence of reasonable diligence in the development of Centennial’s unified

water supply system, including the subject conditional water right. 5. Claim to make absolute – water applied to beneficial use: A. Date and Amount: During water year 2019, Centennial stored 1,369 acre feet of water under the subject water right in South Platte Reservoir. Diversions were made at the following maximum rates: (1) from Last Chance Ditch at the rate of 27.62 cfs, diverted on April 23, 2019; and (2) from the South Platte Wellfield No. 2, at the rate of 1.40 cfs, diverted on April 14, 2019. The water diverted and stored under this right was subsequently delivered into Centennial’s water treatment and distribution system for beneficial use within Centennial’s service area. Use: All decreed uses. B. Description of place of use where water is applied to beneficial use: Within Centennial’s service area. 6. Names and addresses of owners or reputed owners of the land upon which any new diversion structure or storage structure, or modification to an existing diversion or storage structure is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored, including any modification to the existing storage pool: No new diversion structures are or will be constructed and no modifications to existing diversion structures are or will be constructed. Centennial owns the land on which South Platte Reservoir is located. The land on which Chatfield Reservoir is located is owned by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, whose address is 9307 South Wadsworth Blvd., Littleton, Colorado 80128. WHEREFORE, Centennial requests the Court to enter a decree finding that (1) Centennial has proceeded with reasonable diligence toward the completion of the appropriation of the subject conditional water right; (2) finding that Centennial has made the subject conditional water right absolute in the amounts and for the uses claimed in paragraph 5 above; and (3) continuing the remaining conditional portion of the subject conditional water right in full force and effect for an additional diligence period.

(6 pages).

WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of DECEMBER 2021 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Legal Notice No. 940073 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO OCTOBER 2021 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of OCTOBER 2021 for each County affected.

21CW3184 SWAN TRUST c/o Camille Courtney, 6213 Lake Gulch Road, Castle Rock, CO, 80104. James J. Petrock, Eric K. Trout, Hayes Poznanovic Korver LLC, 1999 Broadway, Suite 3200, Denver, CO, 80202.

APPLICATION FOR UNDERGROUND WATER RIGHTS FROM NONTRIBUTARY AND NOT NONTRIBUTARY SOURCES, IN THE NONTRIBUTARY LOWER DAWSON, DENVER, ARAPAHOE, AND LARAMIE-FOX HILLS AQUIFERS AND THE NOT-NONTRIBUTARY UPPER DAWSON AQUIFER IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. Subject Property: 40 acres located in the NW1/4 SE1/4, Section 15, Township 9 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., also known as 6213 Lake Gulch Road, Castle Rock, Elbert, Douglas County, 80104, State of Colorado, as shown on Exhibit A (“Subject Property”). Applicant is the sole owner of the Subject Property and has provided notice to all mortgage and lien holders as required under C.R.S. § 37-92-302(2)(b). Well Permits: There is one existing domestic well on the Subject Property under Well Permit Number 221764. This well will continue to operate under its existing permit.

Additional well permits will be applied for prior to construction of additional wells. Source of Water Rights: The Upper Dawson Aquifer is not-nontributary as defined in C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.7), and the Lower Dawson, Denver, Arapahoe, and Laramie-Fox Hills aquifers are nontributary as defined in C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.5). Estimated Amounts: Applicants estimate the following annual amounts may be available for withdrawal: Aquifer Upper Dawson (NNT) Lower Dawson (NT) Denver (NT) Arapahoe (NT) Laramie-Fox Hills (NT)

Annual Amount (acre-feet) 10.3* 9.8 21.4 27.0 11.3

*The total estimated amount of Upper Dawson Aquifer water is 14.3 acre-feet annually. 4 acrefeet is being withheld from this adjudication for use by existing Well Permit Number 221764, and any future exempt purposes.

Proposed Use: Use, reuse, and successive use for domestic, commercial, irrigation, domestic livestock watering, fire protection, and augmentation purposes, including storage, both on and off the Subject Property. Jurisdiction: The Water Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this application pursuant to C.R.S. §§ 37-90-137(6), 37-92-203(1), 37-92-302(2). Remarks: Applicant

claims the right to withdraw more than the average annual amounts estimated in Paragraph 5 above pursuant to Rule 8A of the Statewide Rules, 2 C.C.R. 402-7. Applicant requests the right to revise the estimates upward or downward, based on better or revised data, without the necessity of amending this application or republishing the same. Applicant requests the court approve the above underground water right, find that Applicant has complied with C.R.S. § 37-90-137(4) and water is legally available for withdrawal, find there will be no material injury to the owners of or person entitled to use water under any vested water right or decreed conditional water right, and grant other and further relief as is appropriate. 3 Pages WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of DECEMBER 2021 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Legal Notice No. 940074 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO OCTOBER 2021 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of OCTOBER 2021 for each County affected.

21CW3197 (13CW3184 & 01CW284), UPPER CHERRY CREEK WATER ASSOCIATION, CONSISTING OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY WATER AND WASTEWATER AUTHORITY; CITY OF AURORA, ACTING BY AND THROUGH ITS UTILITY ENTERPRISE; STATE OF COLORADO, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, DIVISION OF PARKS AND WILDLIFE AND PARKS AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION; COTTONWOOD WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT; AND EAST CHERRY CREEK VALLEY WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT, c/o Attorneys John M. Dingess, Esq., and Teri L. Petitt, Esq., Hamre, Rodriguez, Ostrander & Dingess, P.C., 3600 S. Yosemite Street, Suite 500, Denver, CO 80237-1829, 303-779-0200.

APPLICATION TO MAKE CONDITIONAL WATER RIGHTS ABSOLUTE, FOR A FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE, AND TO CONTINUE CONDITIONAL WATER RIGHTS in ADAMS, ARAPAHOE, DENVER, DOUGLAS, AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. Applicants Upper Cherry Creek Water Association and its member entities, by and through the undersigned counsel, hereby submit the following application to make a portion of its conditional water rights absolute, for a finding of reasonable diligence, and to continue its conditional water rights initially decreed in Water Division 1, Case No. 01CW284. 1. Name, address and telephone number of Applicant. The Upper Cherry Creek Water Association (“UCCWA” or “Applicant”) consists of the following Members: 1.1. Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority (“ACWWA”), 13031 East Caley Avenue, Englewood, Colorado 80111, Telephone: 303.790.4830. 1.2. City of Aurora, Colorado, a municipal corporation of the Counties of Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas, acting by and through its Utility Enterprise (“Aurora”), 15151 East Alameda Parkway, Suite 3600, Aurora, Colorado 80012, Telephone: 303.739.7030. 1.3. Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife (“CPW”), 6060 Broadway, D e n v e r, C o l o r a d o 8 0 2 1 6 , Te l e p h o n e : 303.291.7261. 1.4. Cottonwood Water and Sanitation District (“CWSD”), 188 Inverness Drive West, #150, Englewood, Colorado 80112, Telephone: 303.649.9857. 1.5. East Cherry Creek Valley Water and Sanitation District (“ECCV”), 6201 South Gun Club Road, Aurora, Colorado 80015, Telephone: 303.693.3800. For the purposes of this case, ACWWA, Aurora, CPW, CWSD, and ECCV are acting together as Members of the Upper Cherry Creek Water Association established by the Establishing Contract dated December 17, 2001. ACWWA, Aurora, CPW, CWSD, and ECCV are collectively referred to as “UCCWA” or “Applicant” and individually referred to as “Members.” 2. Description of conditional water rights. The water rights which are the subject of this application involve one conditional water storage right and one conditional appropriative right of exchange with several exchange to and exchange from points. See Appendix 1, attached hereto. 2.1. Description of Conditional Water Storage Right, Cherry Creek Augmentation Pool. 2.1.1. Original Decree. The original decree was entered in Case No. 01CW284, District Court, Water Division No. 1, on December 4, 2007 (the “01CW284 Decree”). 2.1.2. Subsequent Decree.

A subsequent decree was entered in Case No. 13CW3184, District Court, Water Division No. 1, on October 21, 2015 (the “13CW3184 Decree”) whereby 2,560 acre-feet of the conditional water storage right was made absolute and diligence was found on the remainder. 2.1.3. Cherry Creek Reservoir Augmentation Pool. In Case No. 01CW284, Member CPW was granted a conditional water storage right within the existing storage capacity of Cherry Creek Reservoir. CPW was also granted the right to fully consume water stored under this right. The details of this right are as follows: 2.1.3.1. Location. This right will be stored within the existing storage capacity of

Cherry Creek Reservoir, which is an on-channel reservoir located in Sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 23, and 24, T5S, R67W, 6th P.M.; Sections 31 and 32, T4S, R66W, 6th P.M.; and Sections 7, 18 and 19, T5S, R66W, 6th P.M., all in Arapahoe County, Colorado. The initial point of survey of the high water line of the reservoir is located at a point whence the Southwest Corner of Section 34, T4S, R67W, 6th P.M. bears North 54°54’ West a distance of 5,856.8 feet. The outlet works are located in the NW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 2, T5S, R67W, 6th P.M., with an approximate latitude of 39°39'08" North and approximate longitude of 104°51'20" West. 2.1.3.2. Source of Water.

Surface water in Cherry Creek, by direct flow in priority, by augmentation as described in Paragraphs 16-32 of Case No. 01CW284 or by exchange as described in Paragraphs 34-39 of Case No. 01CW284. 2.1.3.3. Date of Appropriation.

July 27, 2001. 2.1.3.4. Amount of Appropriation.

2,560 acre-feet ABSOLUTE and 10,245 acre-feet, CONDITIONAL, with the right to fill and refill this right successively as many times as the management purposes of the 01CW284 Decree allow.

2.1.3.4.1. Note: In the 13CW3184 Decree, UCCWA was awarded an absolute water right in the amount of 2,560 acre-feet for the above-described water storage right. This application applies to the 10,245 acre-feet of this water storage right which remains conditional. 2.1.3.5. Uses. Recreation, piscatorial and wildlife, augmentation (including augmentation of evaporation from Cherry Creek Reservoir), and exchange. 2.2.

Description of Conditional Appropriative Right of Exchange. 2.2.1. Original Decree. The 01CW284 Decree, described in paragraph 2.1.1. above.

2.2.2. Subsequent Decree. The 13CW3184 Decree, described in paragraph 2.1.2. above, found reasonable diligence by the Applicant in the development of the appropriative right of exchange which remains conditional. 2.2.3. Points of diversion or “exchange to” points. 2.2.3.1. ACWWA surface diversion structures. 2.2.3.1.1. Cottonwood Diversion Structure No. 1. 2.2.3.1.1.1.

Location. In the SE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 23, T5S, R67W, 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 50 feet from the East Section line and 1,450 feet from the North Section line of said Section 23. 2.2.3.1.1.2.

Original Decree. Case No. 90CW201 for 2.67 cfs, conditional, with an appropriation date of April 23, 1990. 2.2.3.1.2. Lone Tree Surface Diversion.

2.2.3.1.2.1. Location. In the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 24, T5S, R67W, 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 2,250 feet from the East Section line and 2,200 feet from the North Section line of said Section 24.

2.2.3.1.2.2. Original Decree. Case No. 90CW201 for 2.67 cfs, conditional, with an appropriation date of April 23, 1990. 2.2.3.1.3. Windmill Diversion Structure No. 1. 2.2.3.1.3.1. Location. In the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 30, T5S, R66W, 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 1,300 feet from the East Section line and 100 feet from the South Section line of said Section 30. 2.2.3.1.3.2. Original Decree.

Case No. 90CW201 for 2.67 cfs, conditional, with an appropriation date of April 23, 1990. 2.2.3.1.4.

Windmill Diversion Structure No. 2. 2.2.3.1.4.1.

Location. In the SE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 30, T5S, R66W, 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 1,850 feet from the East Section line and 2,100 feet from the North Section line of said Section 30. 2.2.3.1.4.2.

Original Decree. Case No. 90CW201 for 2.67 cfs, conditional, with an appropriation date of April 23, 1990. 2.2.3.2. Cherry Creek Reservoir, as more fully described in paragraph 2.1.3.1. above.

2.2.3.3. In addition to the specific upstream points of diversion (or “exchange to” points) described above, exchanges may be made directly to Members' wells (listed in Appendix 2 attached hereto) that are located within 100 feet of the stream or to the point on Cherry Creek where pumping depletes the stream, but no further upstream than the location of the U.S. Geological Survey stream gage below the Town of Parker, Colorado, which is located on Cherry Creek in the SE1/4 of the NW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 21, T6S, R66W, 6th P.M., Douglas County, Colorado, on the right bank 200 feet upstream from Main Street, 1,100 feet downstream from the mouth of Sulphur Gulch, and 0.8 miles West of the Town of Parker, Colorado. The approximate latitude of this point is 39°31’09” North and the approximate longitude is 104°46’45” West. 2.2.4. Points of substitute supply or “exchange from” points. 2.2.4.1. Confluence of Sand Creek and the South Platte River. The confluence is generally located in the SE1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 1, T3S, R68W, of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. 2.2.4.2. Confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River. This point is located on the South Platte River in the NE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 33, T3S, R68W, 6th P.M, Denver County, Colorado. 2.2.4.3. The Outfall of the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District. The outfall is located on the South Platte River in the SE1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 1, T3S, R68W, 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado.

2.2.4.4. Gardeners’ Ditch Headgate on the South Platte River. The decreed location is a point on the West bank of the South Platte River approximately 2° South, 15’ West, 2,167 feet from the corner of Sections 1, 2, 11 and 12 of T3S, R68W, 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. The point of diversion has been relocated approximately onehalf mile further upstream on the South Platte River. 2.2.4.5. Cherry Creek Reservoir Outlet Works. The outlet works are located in the NW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 2, T5S, R67W, 6th P.M., with an approximate latitude of 39°39'08" North and approximate longitude of 104°51'20" West.

2.2.5. Sources of Substitute Supply. 2.2.5.1.

Water Deliverable to the Confluence of Sand Creek and the South Platte River and the outfall of the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District Treatment Plant. 2.2.5.1.1. Water deliverable to the Aurora Sand Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Outfall and water deliverable to the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District Outfall from reusable sources owned by Aurora including transbasin and fully consumptive use waters, a portion of which is reusable nontributary groundwater derived from ECCV sources, as more specifically described in the 01CW284 Decree. 2.2.5.1.2.

Future Replacement Sources. Upon approval of the Division Engineer for Water Division 1, other transbasin sources, fully consumable in-basin water rights that are available for municipal use, and decreed nontributary sources that Aurora adjudicates, buys, leases or otherwise acquires in the future. 2.2.5.1.3. Contract Effluent or Reclaimed Wastewater. Contract effluent or reclaimed wastewater in excess of Aurora’s existing lease commitments for fully consumptive use water deliverable to the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District outfall available to Aurora pursu-

ant to its sewage transmission agreement with ECCV dated May 15, 1976. 2.2.5.1.4. Additional Contract Effluent or Reclaimed Wastewater. Additional contract effluent or reclaimed wastewater not subordinate to Aurora’s use thereof for exchange and/or augmentation purposes as provided in Case Nos. 86CW340, 89CW214 and 89CW215, and 99CW158, and not subordinate to Aurora’s lease commitments for fully consumptive use water deliverable to the outfall of the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District and/or Sand Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant existing on the date of entry of this Decree. 2.2.5.2. Water that will be delivered to the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River. 2.2.5.2.1.

Member CPW’s Deer Creek Rights, as decreed in Case No. Case No. 1678, District Court, Park County, and subsequently changed in Case No. 84CW566, Water Division 1, as more fully described in paragraph 28.2 of the 01CW284 Decree. 2.2.5.2.2. Aurora’s reusable water stored in Strontia Springs Reservoir. 2.2.5.3. Water that will be delivered to the Gardeners’ Ditch headgate.

CPW’s Gardeners’ Ditch water right, as decreed in Case No. 37275, District Court, City and County of Denver, and changed in Case No. 98CW462, Water Division 1, and which is more fully described in paragraph 28.3 of the 01CW284 Decree. The appropriative right of exchange for the Gardeners’ Ditch water right is more fully described in Case No. 98CW462. 2.2.5.4. Water that will be released from the Cherry Creek Reservoir Augmentation Pool, as more fully described in paragraph 2.1.3. above and in the 01CW284 Decree. 2.2.6. Exchange Appropriation Information. 2.2.6.1. Date of Appropriation. June 25, 1996. 2.2.6.2. Amount.

70.3 cfs, CONDITIONAL; 29.7 cfs, ABSOLUTE. 2.2.6.2.1. Note: In the 01CW284 Decree, UCCWA was awarded an absolute water right in the amount of 29.7 cfs for the above-described exchange. This application for a finding of reasonable diligence applies only to the 70.3 cfs amount of this exchange which remains conditional.

2.2.6.3. Decreed Uses. All beneficial uses presently decreed or claimed for the structures described in Appendix 2 attached hereto, inclusive, and the conditional storage water right for the Cherry Creek Reservoir Augmentation Pool granted to CPW in the 01CW284 Decree, including aesthetic, augmentation, commercial, domestic, fire protection, fish and wildlife propagation, industrial, irrigation, municipal, recreational, and storage. 3. Integrated Water Supply System. The conditionally decreed water rights described above each constitute a feature of an integrated water system. “When a project or integrated system is comprised of several features, work on one feature of the project or system shall be considered in finding that reasonable diligence has been shown in the development of water rights for all features of the entire project or system.”

C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4)(b). 4. Detailed outline of what has been done toward completion or for completion of the appropriation and application of water to a beneficial use as conditionally decreed, including expenditures, during the previous diligence period: During this diligence period, Applicant and its members undertook the following work in furtherance of these conditional water rights, including the following: 4.1. UCCWA. 4.1.1. UCCWA has actively protected the subject conditional water rights from potential injury by performing monthly reviews of the Water Division 1 water court resume to determine whether the filing of statements of opposition was necessary to protect its water rights in Water Division 1, including these conditional water rights. UCCWA has filed statements of opposition in several cases to protect its water rights during this diligence period. Additionally, UCCWA’s counsel has continued to participate in pending legal actions to protect these conditional water rights during this diligence period. During the subject diligence period, UCCWA expended approximately $55,000 on the aforementioned protection of these conditional water rights. 4.1.2. UCCWA has engaged in engineering activities related to the use and development of the conditional rights. During the subject diligence period, UCCWA expended approximately $13,000 on the aforementioned engineering. 4.1.3. UCCWA has engaged in systemwide diligence activities in order to more efficiently manage its water resources, thus increasing the opportunity to store additional amounts of water under the subject conditional water storage right and to exchange additional amounts of water under the subject conditional appropriative right of exchange. This work includes engineering analyses and legal consultation regarding the operation of UCCWA’s water resources. UCCWA has also performed periodic updates to the “Gain Equation” as required by the decree in Case No. 01CW284. During this diligence period, UCCWA has expended approximately $60,000 on legal expenses and $60,000 on engineering expenses for these system-wide diligence activities. 4.1.4.

UCCWA in cooperation with the Cherry Creek Basin Water Quality Authority is working to complete installation of an improved weather monitoring station, with telemetry, adjacent to the Cherry Creek Reservoir. This station will provide local weather information useful in the calculations required for the operation of the conditional rights.

During this diligence period, UCCWA has expended approximately $900 on this activity. 4.2.

Aurora. During this diligence period, Aurora performed work on other parts of its integrated water supply system that is either necessary for the successful operation of the subject water rights or in furtherance of those rights, including the following: 4.2.1. South Platte River Basin. 4.2.1.1.

Prairie Waters Project. The Prairie Waters Project is a large comprehensive water supply, storage and treatment project in which return flows to the South Platte River from Aurora’s water sources, including the water that is the subject of the exchange herein, may be rediverted for subsequent reuse. To facilitate this project Aurora obtained various decrees in Case Nos. 06CW104, 03CW414 and 03CW415, Water Division 1. This project allows further reuse of much of the water decreed to Aurora. Before and during the diligence period, Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 13CW3088, WD-1, finding reasonable diligence for the water rights decreed conditionally in 03CW414 (decreed April 22, 2014), Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 14CW3065, WD-1, finding reasonable diligence for the water rights decreed conditionally in 03CW415 (decreed March 2, 2015), and Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 15CW3064, finding reasonable diligence for the water rights decreed conditionally in Case No. 06CW104 (decreed December 1, 2017). Aurora has expended significant sums on several elements of the Prairie Waters Project during this diligence period. 4.2.1.2. Metro Waste-

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Public Notices water Reclamation District Charges. Aurora has expended significant sums during this diligence period for fees for wastewater treatment of its water at the Metro Wastewater Reclamation facility. Such treatment is necessary for reuse of the water that is the subject of the exchanges herein within the South Platte River Basin and to comply with water reuse requirements. 4.2.1.3. Sand Creek Water Reuse Plant Improvements. Aurora operates the Sand Creek Water Reuse Plant, a 5-million-gallon per day facility, which provides treated water used for irrigation throughout the City and for discharge into Sand Creek for use as a replacement source for the exchanges herein.

Aurora expended significant sums for improvements to this facility and for operating costs during this diligence period. This work is necessary for reuse within the South Platte River Basin of the water that is the subject of the exchange herein and also to comply with water reuse requirements.

4.2.1.4. Lawn Irrigation Return Flows (LIRFs) Credits. Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 02CW341, Water Division 1, on September 25, 2008, quantifying LIRFs from its municipal system (and subsequent requantifications as required by the Decree in 02CW341), generated as a result of use of transmountain water rights, fully consumable in-basin water rights, decreed and permitted non-tributary sources and any other fully consumable water available to Aurora. Aurora also installed seventeen new monitoring wells and expends manpower to monitor these wells every three months. Water that is transported under the exchanges herein and used in Aurora’s service area can be reused under the decree in Case No. 02CW341. During this diligence period, Aurora has expended significant sums for engineering and legal costs required to requantify the LIRFs adjudicated in Case No. 02CW341 available for reuse. 4.2.1.5. Reuse Water System Master Plan.

In December 2008, Aurora completed its Reuse Water System Master Plan. The goal of this study was to explore options for optimization of Aurora’s reuse water system, and to develop a capital improvement program outlining expansion of the reuse water system in several phases. This reusable water includes several sources of substitute supply for the subject exchange. During the diligence period, Aurora spent approximately $349,000 on this plan. 4.2.1.6. Case No. 15CW3092. On July 5, 2016, Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 15CW3092, Water Division 1, granting a finding of reasonable diligence and making absolute portions of its Strontia Springs Dam and Reservoir Diversion Facility water rights which rights are a source of substitute supply for the subject exchange. 4.2.1.7. Case No. 16CW3098. On November 27, 2017, Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 16CW3098, Water Division 1, granting a finding of reasonable diligence on several conditional exchanges on Cherry Creek. These water rights may be used as a source of substitute supply for the subject exchange. 4.2.1.8. Case No. 17CW3127. On April 27, 2018, Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 17CW3127, Water Division 1, granting a finding of reasonable diligence on conditional exchange rights. These water rights allow Aurora to exchange its reusable water from Sand Creek Waste Water Treatment Plant and Metro District Outfall to Strontia Springs Reservoir, and to exchange from Strontia Springs Reservoir and the confluence of Tarryall Creek and the South Platte River to Spinney Mountain Reservoir, where it can be released as a source of substitute supply for the subject exchange. 4.2.1.9. Griswold Water Treatment Plant Renovations. This facility treats a portion of the raw water exchanged under the Original Decree before it is delivered to Aurora’s customers. More than $29,085,000 was spent by Aurora for improvements to this facility necessary to accommodate the water that is the subject of the exchange herein. This includes expenditures directly by Aurora for renovation of the facility.

4.2.1.10. Wemlinger Water Treatment Plant Improvements. Aurora spent more than $63,303,000 for improvements to the Wemlinger Water Treatment Plant during the diligence period. This facility treats a portion of the raw water exchanged under the Original Decree before it is delivered to Aurora’s customers. 4.2.1.11. Binney Water Purification Facility. This state-of-the-art water purification and recycling plant owned and operated

by Aurora treats water for use throughout the City.

Over $17,458,000 was spent by Aurora during the diligence period for improvements to this facility.

4.2.1.12. Improvements to Extend and Improve Water Service in and to Aurora. Funds were spent

by Aurora during the diligence period for extension and upgrade of its water transmission system necessary to deliver the water that is the subject of this application to Aurora’s customers. 4.2.1.13.

Improvements to Sanitary Sewer System. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period for extension and upgrade of its sanitary sewer system necessary for wastewater treatment and reuse within the South Platte River Basin of the water that is the subject of this application.

4.2.1.14. Automated Meter Reading System.

Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period for updates to its automated utility reading system. This is needed for efficient operation of Aurora’s water supply and delivery system, including use of the water that is the subject of the exchange herein. 4.2.1.15. Aurora Know Your Flow Program. During the diligence period, Aurora Water Conservation developed its voluntary Know Your Flow Program designed to help customers understand how efficiently they are using water.

Through the program, Aurora Water Conservation estimates what a customer’s water use could be for a given billing cycle if the customer were using water efficiently. The customer receives a monthly e-mail from Aurora Water Conservation showing the property’s actual water use versus the customized recommended indoor and outdoor water use. Customers also receive weekly watering recommendations and tips during the irrigation season. The Know Your Flow Program was designed by Aurora to encourage more efficient use of the water that is the subject of this application.

4.2.1.16. Study of Aurora’s Water Needs. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period toward engineering and planning studies to assist in determining the City’s future water needs and a plan to meet those needs, including treatment and distribution studies, various conservation studies and developing its Non-Potable System Master Plan. This study will increase the overall efficiency of Aurora’s operations, including use of the water from the exchange herein.

4.2.1.17. Aurora Raw Water System Model.

Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period for consultant fees to develop and support a computer model of Aurora’s raw water system.

These costs are in addition to the modeling efforts included in the engineering and planning studies

identified in paragraph 4.2.1.16., above. 4.2.2.

Arkansas River Basin. 4.2.2.1. Case No. 15CW3029. During this diligence period, Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 15CW3029, Water Division 2, granting a finding of reasonable diligence and making absolute portions of certain conditional exchanges of water in the Arkansas River Basin upstream to the Otero Pipeline for conveyance to Aurora’s storages and diversion facilities within the South Platte River Basin. Once in the South Platte River Basin, these Arkansas River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. The decree in this case was granted on January 5, 2016. 4.2.2.2. Case Nos. 18CW3031 and 18CW3032. During this diligence period, Aurora obtained decrees in Case Nos. 18CW3031 and 18CW3032, Water Division 2, granting a finding of reasonable diligence and making absolute portions of certain conditional exchanges of water in the Arkansas River Basin for conveyance to Aurora’s storages and diversion facilities within the South Platte River Basin. Once in the South Platte River Basin, these Arkansas River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. Both decrees were granted on March 25, 2019. 4.2.2.3. Case No. 19CW3058.

During the diligence period, Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 19CW3058, Water Division 2, granting a finding of reasonable diligence and making absolute portions of conditional exchanges of water in the Arkansas River basin for conveyance to Aurora’s storage and diversion facilities within the South Platte River Basin. Once in the South Platte River Basin, these Arkansas River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. The decree was granted on January 28, 2021. 4.2.2.4. Payment for purchase and lease of Rocky Ford Ditch shares. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period for repayment of bonds and payments to note sellers, including principal and interest that were issued or refunded for the purchase of original Rocky Ford Ditch shares changed in Case No. 83CW18, that are a reusable source for the subject exchange. 4.2.2.5. Payments to Rocky Ford School District R-2. Aurora and the Rocky Ford School District R-2 entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement on February 7, 2005 under which Aurora agreed to make annual payments to the School District concerning the Rocky Ford Ditch shares that are a reusable source for the subject exchange. During this diligence period, Aurora made approximately $323,000 in annual payments. 4.2.2.6. Revegetation. During this diligence period, 100% completion of the revegetation of formerly irrigated lands required under the decree in Case No. 83CW18 and subsequent orders was achieved. This allows for the transfer and eventual use by Aurora of Rocky Ford Ditch water that is a reusable source for the subject exchange. Weed control of the revegetated lands is continuing. During this diligence period, Aurora has made expenditures for expert revegetation classifications and reports, actual revegetation and weed control costs, as well as farm equipment purchases, office overhead and personnel costs. 4.2.2.7. Payments to Otero County.

Aurora and Otero County entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement on February 22, 1994, and amended that Agreement on October 29, 2001 under which Amendment Aurora agreed to make annual payments to Otero County concerning the Rocky Ford Ditch shares that are a reusable source for the subject exchange. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period to make these annual payments. 4.2.2.8. Pueblo Reservoir Storage. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period for use of Pueblo Reservoir in the storage and exchange of Arkansas River Basin water upstream for transport and use by Aurora in the South Platte Basin. 4.2.2.9.

Intergovernmental Agreement with SECWCD. On October 3, 2003, Aurora entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District (“SECWCD”), replacing an agreement between the parties dated December 7, 2001. Aurora’s use of Fryingpan-Arkansas facilities for certain water rights is discussed under this IGA. Aurora made payments to SECWCD during the diligence period under this IGA. 4.2.2.10. Agreements for Use of the Holbrook System Facilities. On March 1, 2005, Aurora entered into two agreements pertaining to the use of the diversion, conveyance and storage facilities of the Holbrook Mutual Irrigating Company (“Holbrook”). These agreements implement a program to recapture and store yield from foregone diversions of senior water rights. Aurora completed structural modifications to the Holbrook system facilities and has filed a Substitute Water Supply Plan necessary to implement the program. Further, Aurora initiated a study to examine enlargement of the Holbrook Reservoir to further facilitate operations. During this diligence period, Aurora made payments to Holbrook under this agreement. 4.2.2.11. Gravel Pit Storage. Aurora is pursuing gravel pit storage options on the Arkansas River downstream from Pueblo Reservoir to allow storage of its water rights for eventual exchange to Pueblo Reservoir. These stored rights will facilitate Aurora’s Arkansas River Basin operation, including delivery of the reusable water for the subject exchange. During this diligence period, Aurora spent approximately $67,000 toward this effort. 4.2.2.12. Homestake Diversion Channel. Work was done on the Homestake Diversion Channel to reduce erosion, including riprap and installation of a new roadway culvert. Once water is transported over the continental divide through the Otero Pump Station and Homestake Pipeline, it is then transported by the Homestake Diversion Channel to Spinney Mountain Reservoir in the South Platte Basin. During this diligence period, Aurora spent approximately $899,000 toward this effort. 4.2.3. Colorado River Basin. 4.2.3.1. Case No. 16CW3022. During this diligence period, Aurora and the City of Colorado Springs, acting as the Homestake Partners, obtained a decree in Case No. 16CW3022, Water Division 5, granting a finding of reasonable diligence on water rights and exchanges of water in the Colorado River Basin.

After conveyance to the South Platte River Basin, these Colorado River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. The decree was granted on September 17, 2017. 4.2.3.2.

Case No. 16CW3131. During this diligence period, Aurora and the City of Colorado Springs, acting as the Homestake Partners, Vail Associates, Inc., Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority, Eagle River Water and Sanitation District, and the Colorado River Water Conservation District obtained a decree in Case No. 16CW3131, Water Division 5, granting a finding of reasonable diligence on water rights and exchanges of water in the Colorado River Basin. After conveyance to the South Platte River Basin, these Colorado

River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. The decree was granted on June 18, 2017. 4.2.3.3. Case No. 17CW3064.

During this diligence period, Aurora and the City of Colorado Springs, acting as the Homestake Partners, obtained a decree in Case No. 17CW3064, Water Division 5, granting a finding of reasonable diligence on water rights and exchanges of water in the Colorado River Basin.

After conveyance to the South Platte River Basin, these Colorado River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. The decree was granted on June 10, 2018. 4.2.3.4. Case No. 19CW3159. During this diligence period, Aurora filed an application in Case No. 19CW3159, Water Division 5, seeking two exchanges by which water from Grizzly Reservoir, available to Aurora via its share ownership in the Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company, will be placed into the Roaring Fork River and its tributaries and exchanged from the confluence of the Roaring Fork and Fryingpan Rivers upstream to Ruedi Reservoir and from Ruedi Reservoir upstream to Ivanhoe Reservoir for subsequent movement into Water Division No. 2. After conveyance to the South Platte River Basin, these Colorado River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. 4.2.3.5. Aurora continues to work toward the development of water as described in the 1998 Eagle River Memorandum of Understanding. 4.2.3.6. Aurora executed a Recovery Action Plan Participation Agreement with the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and a Ruedi Insurance Water Cost Participation Agreement with the City and County of Denver on November 1, 2013. The purpose of these agreements is to mitigate the impacts of transmountain diversions to Colorado’s front range in order to support the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin. During this diligence period, Aurora has spent approximately $5,000 on this effort. 4.2.4. Protection Efforts. During this diligence period, Aurora made expenditures for legal services for participation in Water Divisions 1, 2 and 5 cases to protect the rights and interests of Aurora with regard to its water supply system, including the subject exchange. 4.3. CPW. CPW has the right to use Cherry Creek Reservoir by virtue of a lease with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which owns the land on which the Reservoir is located. A detailed outline of what has been done toward completion or for completion of the appropriation and application of water to a beneficial use as conditionally decreed, including expenditures, during the diligence period follows.

This list is not intended to be exclusive and may be supplemented by additional evidence. 4.3.1.

CPW received a decree adjudicating the change of the Gardeners’ Ditch water rights and an appropriative right of exchange in Case No. 98CW462 on April 2, 2015. On April 23, 2021, CPW filed an application in Case No. 21CW3051 to make absolute or in the alternative for finding of reasonable diligence for the appropriative right of exchange decreed in Case No. 98CW462.

4.3.2. CPW retains a consultant to manage the operation of and accounting for the Gardeners’ Ditch Exchange and other CPW exchanges into Cherry Creek Reservoir and storage in and releases from Cherry Creek Reservoir. CPW has paid the consultant approximately $1,000.00 $2,000.00 per year during the diligence period.

4.3.3. CPW has remained an active member in the Upper Cherry Creek Water Association (“UCCWA”) during the diligence period. CPW has paid a yearly membership fee to UCCWA for management of various Cherry Creek water resources and storage in Cherry Creek Reservoir, including operation of and accounting for the plan for augmentation decreed in Case No. 01CW284, District Court, Water Division 1. The use of the Gardeners’ Ditch Exchange for augmentation purposes is pursuant to this plan for augmentation. The yearly membership dues paid by CPW to UCCWA are approximately $15,000.00. 4.3.4. A CPW staff member attends monthly UCCWA meetings about the coordination of the Cherry Creek water resources and Cherry Creek Reservoir. 4.3.5. CPW has performed monthly reviews of the Water Court resume to determine whether filing of statements of opposition is necessary to protect its water rights in Water Division 1, including the Gardeners’ Ditch Exchange and Cherry Creek Augmentation Pool. 4.4. ACWWA and CWSD. 4.4.1. Joint Water Purification Plant. During this diligence period, CWSD and ACWWA made improvements at the Joint Water Purification Plant (the “JWPP”), a water treatment facility which is co-owned by ACWWA, CWSD, and the Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Public Improvement District. The improvements included the replacement of reverse osmosis membranes and the design, construction, and commissioning of a new biological treatment system (“BTS”). The BTS treats the reverse osmosis concentrate produced by the JWPP prior to discharge. The JWPP was constructed specifically to fully use and reuse the alluvial water rights of ACWWA and CWSD. Nine of CWSD’s alluvial wells and several of ACWWA’s alluvial wells are specifically listed as exchange to points under the decree in 01CW284. Water which is exchanged up to the alluvial wells of ACWWA and CWSD is typically treated at the JWPP before delivery to customers.

Therefore, the improvements made at the JWPP increases and supports the ability of ACWWA and CWSD to use the subject exchange. CWSD expended approximately $9.0 million on the design and construction of the JWPP and related pipelines and facilities, within this diligence period.

ACWWA expended approximately $8,200,000 for the design and construction of the JWPP concentrate biological treatment system. 4.4.2. CWSD wastewater is treated at the Lone Tree Creek Water Reuse Facility (“WRF”). Reusable return flows discharged at the WRF are a source of substitute supply for several of CWSD’s exchanges. In May 2017, CWSD renewed its sewer service agreement with ACWWA and secured 1 MGD a year of wastewater treatment capacity on a perpetual basis. Additionally, CWSD constructed an additional 4,400 linear feet of an 18inch effluent water line that will be used to discharge WRF effluent return flows at additional locations on Cherry Creek for reuse by CWSD. 4.4.3. Integrated Water and WW System. CWSD operates an integrated municipal water supply and wastewater system within the meaning of C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4)(b), such that work on any feature of CWSD’s integrated system shall be considered in finding that reasonable diligence has been shown in the development of any and all water rights for that entire system. Since November 2015, CWSD has made the following expenditures on its integrated water system.

CWSD has incurred an average of $6.0 million

per year in overall costs and expenses to maintain, operate, protect, and expand its municipal supply system. This figure includes approximately $479,648 in attorney fees and $362,717 in engineering costs for work in support of its municipal system. An average of $18,000/year for participation in the Upper Cherry Creek Water Authority.

An additional $33,835 for contributions toward joint modeling of the Cherry Creek Basin (a total of $116,828 has been authorized by the CWSD Board, including the new C-CAMP 2.0 contract).

CWSD is also a member of the Cherry Creek Project Water Authority (“CCPWA”). During the Diligence Period, the CCPWA began work constructing Walker Reservoir. The Walker Reservoir is a 650 AF storage reservoir. Cottonwood’s ownership in the reservoir is 75 AF During the Diligence Period, Cottonwood spent a total of $772,030 on the development and operation of the CCPWA’s wells and facilities, planning activities, and towards the development and construction of the CCPWA’s Walker Reservoir. During the Diligence Period, CWSD has continued to obtain, develop, and operate additional water sources, including water available through the Water Infrastructure and Supply Efficiency system (“WISE”) and the Baja Water. The WISE water and the Baja Water are sources of substitute supply for several of CWSD’s exchanges. Cottonwood spent approximately $2.6 million in capital costs associated with the WISE water during the Diligence Period and began receiving WISE water in 2017. CWSD obtained its ownership interest to the contractual right of delivery of the Baja Water during the Diligence Period. 4.4.4.

Case No. 96CW1144. By the decree entered in Case No. 96CW1144 on May 19, 2016, the Court approved ACWWA’s plan for augmentation which resulted in additional augmentation supplies being available to support the use of the wells which are the subject of this case. The decree also adjudicated a conditional water storage right for Chambers Reservoir in Douglas County. The predominant use of Chambers Reservoir is expected to be as an element of ACWWA’s nonpotable water system and for management and release of augmentation water supplies. 4.4.5. Case No. 15CW3144. The decree entered on February 8, 2018 in Case No. 15CW3144 found that ACWWA had exercised reasonable diligence in the development of water rights and made absolute certain portions of those rights for the Race Well No. 1, Race Well No. 3, Ford Well No. 1, Ford Well No. 2, Murdock Well No. 2, Deem Well, Smith Well No. 1, Antonoff Well No. 1, Antonoff Well No. 2, Loyd Well No. 2, and the 1986 Exchange. 4.4.6.

During the diligence period, ACWWA has been an active objector in numerous Water Court cases involving Cherry Creek, in which it seeks to protect its decreed and vested water rights. 4.4.7. Chambers Reservoir. During the subject diligence period, the Division of Water Resources Dam Safety Branch performed a final construction inspection of the synthetic liner installation project at Chambers Reservoir Dam and approved the synthetic liner. This reservoir operation will increase the demand for ACWWA to operate the subject exchange. Additionally, releases from Chambers Reservoir are a source of augmentation water and may be exchanged to the upstream point of ACWWA’s depletions pursuant to the subject exchange. The Chambers Reservoir storage right was decreed in Case No. 96CW1144.

4.4.8. ACWWA Flow Project. In 2009 ACWWA contracted with United Water and Sanitation District (“United”) and ECCV to develop the ACWWA Flow Project. This project when fully developed will acquire, treat and deliver 4,400 acre feet of annual average yield water rights from ditch systems in the South Platte Basin to ECCV Water Treatment Plant for treatment, then to ACWWA for use. This water will be used for ACWWA’s customers and its return flows will be used in ACWWA’s augmentation plan which will use ACWWA’s alluvial wells to supply ACWWA additional potable and non-potable water supplies.

ACWWA has numerous wells that are listed as exchange points in this application. Water which is exchanged up to ACWWA’s alluvial wells can be stored Chambers for use. Therefore, the development of the ACWWA Flow Project increases and supports ACWWA’s ability to use the subject exchange. The total estimated cost of the Phase II infrastructure is $60 million for an additional 10 million gallons of pumping and treatment capacity. The Booster Pump Stations are approximately $25 million and the NWTP Expansion is approximately $35 million. ACWWA has purchased an additional 3 million gallons of capacity from these facilities, totaling about $18 million in capital expenditure for the following: Expansion of the Northern Water Treatment RO Plant (20182020); Expansion of the North and South Booster Pump Stations (2018-2019); and Construction of Deep Injection Well II (2018). 4.4.9. ACWWA’s 2015 Municipal Water Efficiency Plan. In 2015, ACWWA developed its Municipal Water Efficiency Plan update in accordance with the Water Conservation Act of 2004 and to meet the provisions of § 37-60-126, C.R.S. 4.4.10. 2019 Draft Integrated Master Plan. During this diligence period, ACWWA began updating its 2011 Master Plan.

The updated integrated master planning effort involves assessing the condition and performance of the existing systems including improvements that have occurred since the 2011 master plan, analyzing existing and future water storage needs, examining existing and future supply and demand/ load analysis, analyzing and assessing treatment plant and lift station capacity, identifying capital improvement projects, and proposing an overall phased capital improvement program. The plan fully relies on ACWWA’s alluvial water rights (including numerous wells that are listed as exchange points in 01CW284) and the augmentation of the use of those wells when not in priority to ensure ACWWA has an efficient system. Therefore, the development of this planning document increases and supports ACWWA’s ability to use the subject exchange. 4.5. ECCV. 4.5.1. Case No. 14CW3009. By the decree entered in Case No. 14CW3009 on February 24, 2017 ECCV made 3.19 cfs out of 6.68 cfs of the conditional rights decreed to District Alluvial Wells CC-10, CC-12, and CC-15 absolute, and continued as conditional portions of District Alluvial Well CC-10, in the amount of 1000 gpm, District Alluvial Well CC-12, in the amount of 1000 gpm, and District Alluvial Well CC-15, in the amount of 1000 gpm.

4.5.2. Reuse of Lawn Irrigation Return Flows.

During this diligence period, ECCV continued to prosecute Case No.03CW200 and 12CW200, Water Division 1, under which return flows from lawn irrigation use of the water are quantified to facilitate future reuse of this water. ECCV has performed studies of LIRFs throughout ECCV that included various analyses conducted to determine

the amount, timing, and location of LIRFs within several drainage basins within ECCV’s service area, including Toll Gate Creek and Sand Creek.

4.5.3. ECCV’s Northern Water Supply Project.

The Water Supply Project is designed to provide ECCV with a long-term, sustainable municipal water supply for its service area located in Arapahoe County, Colorado. In order to implement the ECCV Water Supply Project, ECCV, United Water and Sanitation District, and the Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Company entered into a Water Supply Agreement on December 18, 2003, that was amended in May 2007. The Water Supply Project is a multi-phase renewable water supply project.

Phase I secured approximately 6,000 acre-feet of water rights from the South Platte River and the construction of a 31-mile pipeline, storage tanks and two pump stations. This phase of the Project now delivers renewable water from the Beebe Draw, where water is stored from the South Platte River, and then is sent down through the pipeline to ECCV’s service area. On December 15, 2009, ACWWA, United, and ECCV entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement to provide for ACWWA’s participation with ECCV and United in the Water Supply Project. The return flows from the water delivered will be used in ECCV’s augmentation plan, Case No. 00CW217, which will use ECCV’s alluvial wells to supply ECCV with additional potable and non-potable water supplies.

During the diligence period, United, on behalf of ECCV and ACWWA, has developed and acquired infrastructure for Phase II of the Water Supply Project (“Phase II”), including but not limited to mining United Reservoir No. 3; acquiring Milliken Reservoir in August 2015; completing construction of 70 Ranch Reservoir in July 2019; acquiring Holton Lake in September 2019 and completing construction of Holton Lake in June 2021; commenced construction of the Serfer Augmentation Station in 2021; in and securing easement deeds and agreements for structures necessary to deliver water to ECCV and ACWWA. During this diligence period ECCV and ACWWA have also been working on Phase II, which will allow ECCV to deliver up to 14.75 million gallons of renewable water to customers each day and ACWWA to deliver up to 5.25 million gallons of renewable water to customers each day, whereby reducing dependency on non-renewable wells. Phase II also included expansion of the Northern Water Treatment RO Plant (2018-2020) and the North and South Booster Pump Stations (2018-2019), and construction of Deep Injection Well II (2018).

The total estimated cost of the Phase II infrastructure is $60 million for an additional 10 million gallons of pumping and treatment capacity. The Booster Pump Stations are approximately $25 million and the NWTP Expansion is approximately $35 million. ACWWA has purchased an additional 3 million gallons of capacity from these facilities, totaling about $18 million in capital expenditure. 4.5.4. During this diligence period, ECCV has performed maintenance work on its Cherry Creek wells, including, but not limited to, replacement and of the pump, PVC shroud, pup joint, and check valve in District Well CC-12 and recertification of well production meters. 4.5.5.

ECCV has actively protected its water rights from potential injury by performing monthly reviews of the Water Division 1 water court resume to determine whether the filing of Statements of Opposition was necessary to protect its water rights in Water Division 1. ECCV’s counsel has continued to participate in pending legal actions to protect ECCV’s water rights during this diligence period.

4.6. Other. UCCWA and its Members reserve the right to identify additional relevant efforts that may be later discovered or to make upward adjustments to amounts expended on certain projects.

UCCWA and its Members have extensive water rights portfolios, extensive and complex water supply, collection, treatment and reuse systems, and an extensive number of agreements, contracts, leases, etc. related to such facilities and the use, reuse and storage of their water rights.

The management, protection, and operation of the water rights and the facilities system involve numerous public departments and staff members throughout the state. UCCWA and its Members made diligent efforts with regard to this application to determine and quantify all efforts made by UCCWA and its Members toward completion of the appropriations and application of the water rights decreed in Case No. 01CW284 to beneficial use. However, it is reasonably possible that relevant efforts or expenditures may have been overlooked or need further upward adjustment. 5.

Claim to Make Absolute. Applicant has made absolute the following portions of the Cherry Creek Augmentation Pool (see Appendix 3 attached hereto): 5.1. Date Water Applied to Beneficial Use. March 18, 2018. 5.2. Amount. 10,245 AF (note 2,560 AF was made absolute in Case No. 13CW3184). 5.3. Uses. Recreation, piscatorial and wildlife, augmentation (including augmentation of evaporation from Cherry Creek Reservoir), and exchange. 6. Name and address of owner or reputed owners of the land upon which any new diversion or storage structure, or modification to any existing diversion or storage structure is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored, including any modification to the existing storage pool: 6.1. Omaha District, US Army Corps of Engineers, 1616 Capital Ave., Ste. 9000, Omaha, NE 68102. WHEREFORE, the Applicant respectfully requests this Court enter a decree (1) finding the Applicant has executed reasonable diligence in the development of the above-referenced conditional water rights, (2) awarding the above-described absolute water rights in the amounts described above, (3) continuing the remaining conditional water rights in full force as decreed, and for such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper. (25 pages) WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of DECEMBER 2021 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each State-

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Legal Notice No.940076 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO OCTOBER 2021 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of OCTOBER 2021 for each County affected.

21CW3185 TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, Attn: Mark Marlowe, Director of Castle Rock Water, 175 Kellogg Court, Castle Rock, CO 80109, (720)733-6000, mmarlowe@crgov.com. Serve all pleadings on: Madoline Wallace-Gross and Anthony J. Basile, Lyons Gaddis Kahn Hall Jeffers Dworak & Grant, P.C., P.O. Box 978, Longmont, CO 80502-0978, (303)776-9900 jkahn@ lyonsgaddis.com, mwg@lyonsgaddis.com.

APPLICATION FOR CONDITIONAL WATER STORAGE RIGHTS IN MORGAN, LOGAN, WASHINGTON AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES 2.

Background. Applicant seeks a conditional water storage right in Prewitt Reservoir via the Prewitt Inlet Canal and a conditional water storage right in Fremont Butte Reservoir via a pump and pipeline from the Prewitt Reservoir. A delivery pipeline from Prewitt Reservoir to Fremont Butte Reservoir will be used to convey water to storage in Fremont Butte Reservoir and to deliver water back to Prewitt Reservoir for delivery to a pipeline from Prewitt Reservoir to Rueter-Hess Reservoir for Applicant’s use. A map showing the location of the relevant structures is attached hereto as EXHIBIT A. CONDITIONAL STORAGE RIGHTS 3. Name of Structure: Prewitt Reservoir. A. Legal description of location of reservoir: Storage space within the existing off-channel Prewitt Reservoir which is located in all or parts of Sections 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 in Township 5 North, Range 54 West of the 6th P.M. and in parts of Sections 5, 6, and 7 in Township 5 North, Range 53 West of the 6th P.M., in Washington County, Colorado and in part of Section 31, Township 6 North, Range 53 West of the 6th P.M. and part of Section 36, Township 6 North, Range 54 West of the 6th P.M. in Logan County, Colorado. The center of the outlet works in the dam of Prewitt Reservoir is located at: SE 1/4 NE 1/4 Section 2, Township 5 North, Range 54 West of the 6th P.M. in Washington County, Colorado. B. Source: South Platte River. C. Name, capacity and point of diversion of ditch used to fill reservoir: Prewitt Inlet Canal, which has an intake in the SE 1/4 SW 1/4 Section 24, Township 5 North, Range 55 West of the 6th P.M. in Morgan County, Colorado, at a point approximately 1470 feet from the west line and 520 feet from the south line of said Section 24; the present capacity is estimated to be 695 cfs, but it may be capable of carrying 1,000 cfs. D. Date of Appropriation: January 17, 2017. E. How appropriation was initiated: Applicant initiated this appropriation by: investigating junior storage opportunities on the lower South Platte River for its long term renewable water supply; discussing joint junior storage projects with Parker Water and Sanitation District (“Parker”); passing of Resolution No. 2017-012, by Town Council, which accepted the 2016 Water Resources Strategic Master Plan wherein the Town described this project with Parker; including the estimated cost of the project in capital planning and rates and fees studies conducted since 2017; conducting engineering studies to support the appropriation of new water supplies; passing a director’s resolution evidencing the appropriation; and approving and filing the application. F. Date water applied to beneficial use: Not applicable. G. Volume claimed: 722 acre-feet, conditional, with the right to one refill, for storage and as a forebay for conveyance to and from storage in Fremont Butte Reservoir. H. Flow rate claimed: 111 cfs via the Prewitt Inlet Canal. This flow rate is cumulative for diversion to storage in Prewitt Reservoir and Fremont Butte Reservoir described in paragraph 4. I. Capacity and surface area of reservoir: 32,300 acre-feet, with a current restriction of approximately 28,600 acre-feet. J. Proposed Uses: All municipal purposes including augmentation, replacement and exchange, with the right to use, reuse and successively use the return flows to extinction within Applicant’s service area boundaries by direct use, after storage and by exchange.

K. Place of Use: Lands within Applicant’s water service area boundaries, as such boundaries currently exist or may exist in the future, and lands outside such boundaries by contract as of the filing of this application. A map of the Applicant’s current service area is attached hereto as EXHIBIT B. L. Reuse and Successive Use Operations: Applicant intends to fully consume water diverted pursuant to this storage right, and Applicant is appropriating the sewered and nonsewered return flows generated from the water right that accrues to Plum Creek and Cherry Creek and their respective tributaries. Sewered effluent attributable to this water right will be discharged at the Plum Creek Water Reclamation Authority Wastewater Treatment Plant Outfall located in the SW 1/4 SW 1/4 Section 21, Township 7, Range 67 West, 6th P.M., at a point 770 feet from the south section line and 100 feet from the west section line. The UTM coordinates are NAD 83, Zone 13, Easting 508185, Northing 4363729.

Sewered effluent attributable to this water right will also be discharged to Cherry Creek at the Pinery Wastewater Treatment Plant Outfall, located in the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 Section 10, Township 7 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M. at a point 200 feet from the north section line and 1,440 feet from the west section line of said Section 10, or any location where the discharge may be relocated in the future. The sewered effluent and non-sewered return flows will be used, reused and successively used by direct use and exchange on Plum Creek and Cherry Creek. M. Operations: Water stored in Prewitt Reservoir will be released,

delivered and/or transported via reservoirs (including Fremont Butte Reservoir), outlets, pumps and pipelines for ultimate delivery to storage in Rueter-Hess Reservoir, which intercepts Newlin Gulch at a point in the SE1/4 SW1/4 of Section 30, Township 6 South, Range 66 West, 6th PM in Douglas County Colorado. 4. Name of reservoir: Fremont Butte Reservoir. A. Legal description of location of dam centerline: An on-channel reservoir where the dam axis crosses the thread of an unnamed draw at a point located in the NW 1/4, Section 35, Township 4 North, Range 53 West, 6th P.M. on the northern section line of Section 35 and is 885 feet from the west section line, in Washington County, Colorado. The western abutment will be in the SE 1/4, Section 27, Township 4 North, Range 53 West, 6th P.M., approximately 2,200 ft. from the east line and 200 ft. from the south line; the eastern abutment will be in the NE 1/4 NE 1/4 of Section 35, Township 4 North, Range 53 West, 6th P.M., approximately 800 ft. from the east line and 700 ft. from the north line. Applicant anticipates that Fremont Butte Reservoir will be located in all or parts of Sections 27, 33, 34, and 35, Township 4 North, Range 53 West, 6th P.M. and Sections 2, 3, 4, 10, and 11, Township 3 North, Range 53 West, 6th P.M. B. Sources: South Platte River. C. Surface area of high-water line: 1,870 acres. D. Vertical height of dam: 105 feet.

E. Length of dam: Approximately 7,000 feet. F. Total capacity of reservoir: 72,000 acre-feet. Active capacity: 72,000 acre-feet. Dead storage: none (0 acre-feet). G. Volume claimed: 8,000 acre-feet, conditional, with the right to one refill.

H. Name, capacity and point of diversion of ditch used to fill reservoir: Prewitt Inlet Canal, described in paragraph 3.C. I. Flow Rate Claimed: 111 cfs.

This flow rate is cumulative for diversion to storage in Prewitt Reservoir and Fremont Butte Reservoir described in paragraph 3. J. Date of Appropriation: January 17, 2017. K. How appropriation was initiated: Applicant initiated this appropriation by: investigating junior storage opportunities on the lower South Platte River for its long term renewable water supply; discussing joint junior storage projects with Parker; passing of Resolution No. 2017-012, by Town Council, which accepted the 2016 Water Resources Strategic Master Plan wherein the Town described this project with Parker; including the estimated cost of the project in capital planning and rates and fees studies conducted since 2017; conducting engineering studies to support the appropriation of new water supplies; passing a director’s resolution evidencing the appropriation; and approving and filing the application. L. Date water applied to beneficial use: Not applicable. M. Proposed Uses: See paragraph 3.J. N. Place of Use: See paragraph 3.K. O. Reuse and Successive Use Operations: See paragraph 3.L. P. Operations: Water will be diverted at the Prewitt Inlet Canal on the South Platte River, delivered into space in Prewitt Reservoir, pumped at a rate of up to 250 cfs from Prewitt Reservoir (at the Fremont Butte Pumping Works and Pipeline), and delivered via pipeline to Fremont Butte Reservoir. 5. Integrated Water Supply Plan. The storage water rights described herein are components of Applicant’s integrated water supply system, which consists of underground water rights, storage water rights, appropriative rights of exchange, surface water rights, non-tributary groundwater rights and plans for augmentation. Pursuant to C.R.S. § 37- 92-301(4) (B), work on one feature of the integrated system shall be considered in finding that reasonable diligence has been shown for all features of the integrated system. 6. Owners of land upon which structures are or will be located. Names and addresses of owners or reputed owners of the land upon which any new diversion or storage structure, or modification to any existing diversion or storage structure is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored, including any modification to the existing storage pool. A. Prewitt Inlet Canal and Diversion Structure. State of Colorado, Dept. of Natural Resources, 122 E. Edison St., Brush, CO 80723 and Dixie Water LLC 400 Poydras St., Ste 2100, New Orleans, LA 70130, B. Prewitt Reservoir. Prewitt Reservoir Land Co. and/or Logan Irr. Dist., Iliff Irr. Dist., and Morgan-Prewitt Res. Co., PO Box 333, Sterling, CO 80751; and Patrick J. and Luann August Gebauer, c/o Luann August, 15488 Co. Rd. 57, Hillrose, CO 80733; Brundage Family Limited; Partnership RLLP, 7837 South Perry Park Road, Larkspur, CO 80118; Colorado Board of Land Commissioners, 1127 Sherman Street, Denver, CO 80203; Colorado Division Of Wildlife & Wildlife Commission, 6060 Broadway, Denver, CO 80216; DPG Farms, LLC, 3300 South Parker Road, Ste 300, Aurora, CO 80014; Fritzler Andrew S Sub Trust; Ua Dtd 2-5-16 Created Under Harold Fritzler Living Trust; 16126 County Road 59.5, Merino, CO 80741; Fritzler Brian Douglas Sub Trust; Ua Dtd 2-5-2016 Created Under Harold Fritzler Living Trust; 15998 County Road 59.5, Merino, CO 80741; Fritzler Donna, 43205 Co Rd AA, Akron, CO 80720;; Kaiser Hilde Gill &; Jerald R Kaiser, 11213 West Asbury Avenue, Lakewood, CO 80227, Thompson Jeanne Gill, 3623 East Geddes Drive, Centennial, CO 80122; and 22 Ranch, 15335 US Highway 6, Rt 1, Box 86G, Merino, CO 80741. C. Fremont Butte Reservoir.

Gary R. & Judith A. Anderson, 20750 Co. Rd. 46, Akron, CO 80720; Michael P. & Kendra A. Anderson, 46043 Co. Rd. Y, Akron, CO 80720; Vickie L. Armstrong, 678 W. 11th St., Akron, CO 80720; Arthur D. Cline, 46667 Co. Rd. AA, Akron, CO 80720; Colorado State Land Board, Department of Natural Resources, 1313 Sherman St., Rm. 620, Denver, CO 80203; Phyllis E. Covey, 15267 S. Co. Rd. 212, Blair, OK 73526; Fincher Land Company LLC, 45997 Co. Rd. U, Akron, CO 80720; David E. Garcia, 309 Bocage Drive, Cheyenne, WY 82009; Kory A. & Shanan Nicole Kessinger, 21250 Co. Rd. 50, Akron, CO 80720; Lila L. Kessinger, PO Box 414, Akron, CO 80720; and Ellen W. Stratton, c/o Jill Dreher, PO Box 248, Akron, CO 80720. WHEREFORE, Applicant respectfully requests the Court enter a decree approving Applicant’s conditional storage rights described herein. EXHIBIT LIST A. Map of structures B. Town of Castle Rock service area.

Number of pages in application: 8, excluding exhibits.

WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended

application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of DECEMBER 2021 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

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W. Douglas Hoak, Reg. #43148 Attorney to the Personal Representative ILLUMINE LEGAL LLC 7887 E. Belleview Avenue, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80111 Legal Notice No. 940087 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of FRED L. NUSS, also known as FRED LESLIE NUSS and FRED NUSS, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30506 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March 4, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Craig Scott Nuss, Personal Representative 6193 Puma Sands Littleton, CO 80124 Legal Notice No. 940011 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Helen M. Elliott, and Helen Mary Elliott, Deceased Case Number 21PR30505 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March 19, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Nadya Vecchiet-Lambert, Esq. on behalf of Barbara J. DeChant, Personal Representative 6855 S. Havana Street, Suite 370, Centennial, CO 80112 Legal Notice No. 940083 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Shawn Lanphear,

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March 11, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeffrey L. Hill, Jeffrey L. Hill, P.C. Attorney for the Personal Representative P.O. Box 1720 Parker, CO. 80134 Legal Notice No. 940050 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas, County, Colorado on or before March 24, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

W. Douglas Hoak, Reg. #43148 Attorney to the Personal Representative ILLUMINE LEGAL LLC 7887 E. Belleview Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80111 Legal Notice No. 940086 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MARVIN JAMES GELROTH, also known as MARVIN J. GELROTH and MARVIN GELROTH, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30508 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March 11, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Betty Margaret Gelroth Personal Representative 614 Front Street Castle Rock, Colorado 80104

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Diana L. Haggar, also known as Diana Lynn Haggar, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30413 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March 4, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Shaina B. Haggar, Personal Representative 144 Capulin Place Castle Rock, CO 80108

Legal Notice No. 940036 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Legal Notice No. 940002 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of SHERYL DIANE MACHENDRIE, a/k/a SHERYL MACHENDRIE, a/k/a SHERYL D. MACHENDRIE, a/k/a SHERYL DIANE HARBERT MACHENDRIE, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30519

DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO 4000 Justice Way Castle Rock, CO 80109

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March 11, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Donald G. MacHendrie, Personal Representative c/o Scarola Law, LLC, 115 Wilcox, Suite 218 Castle Rock, CO 80104 Legal Notice No. 940039 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of LOIS COLEEN ROTH, also known as LOIS C. ROTH, and LOIS ROTH, Deceased

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MICK WAYNE GARDNER, aka MICK W. GARDNER, aka MICK GARDNER, DECEASED Attorneys for Melody Gardner: Aaron L. Evans, #27270 Timothy D. Bounds, # 44180 Evans Case, LLP 1660 South Albion Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80222 Phone Number: 303-757-8300 E-Mail: Evans@evanscase.com; Bounds@evanscase.com Case Number: 2021PR030279 NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-10-401, C.R.S. TO: PHILLIP GARDNER, AND ANY AND ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS OF MICK WAYNE GARDNER. AKA MICK W. GARDNER, AKA MICK GARDNER, DECEASED LAST KNOWN ADDRESSES,

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11, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

A hearing without appearance on the Petition for Formal Appointment of Personal Representative will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued:

Nancy K. Kimber, Personal Representative 9960 S. Sylvestor Road Highlands Ranch, CO 80129

Date: December 27, 2021 Time: 8:00 a.m.

Address: 4000 Justice Way Castle Rock, CO 80109 Legal Notice No. 939965 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JENNIFER CARRIE FRIEDBERG, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR030449 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert Stout, Personal Representative c/o Evans Legal Group P.C. 11479 S. Pine Drive Parker, CO 80134 Legal Notice No.940107 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Christine Louise Reed Holroyd, aka Christine Louise Holroyd, aka Christine L. Holroyd, aka Christine Holroyd, aka Christine Louise Reed, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30494 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March 4, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ryan B. Scott, Atty. Reg.#36741 The Law Office of Ryan B. Scott, LLC 8089 S. Lincoln Street, Suite 201 Littleton, Colorado 80122 Attorney for the Personal Representative Legal Notice No. 939964 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of HAROLD R. McFARLAND, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30486 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March 4, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Allen “Scott” McFarland Personal Representative 2466 Marie Antonette Lane Tracy, CA 95377 Bette Heller, P.C., Attorney at Law 19671 E. Euclid Drive Centennial, CO 80016 phone: 303-690-7092 fax: 303-690-0757 email: BHellerEsq@comcast.net Legal Notice No. 939956 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Donna L. Hawk, a/k/a Donna Lee Hawk, and Donna Hawk, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30526 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March

Legal Notice No. 940042 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Donald G. Hanson, aka Donald Hanson, aka Donald Gene Hanson, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30509 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March 4, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

DEAN HANSON, Personal Representative 17946 Triple Crown Street, Parker, CO 80134 Legal Notice No. 939968 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press ____________________________________ Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MILDRED REPP EMERSON, aka MILDRED R EMERSON, aka MILDRED M. EMERSON, aka MILDRED EMERSON, Deceased Case Number: 21PR30523 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March 18, 2022 or the claims may be forever barred.

Personal Representative: Margaret Emerson-Smith c/o Witwer, Oldenburg, Barry & Groom, LLP John J. Barry 822 7th Street, Suite 760 Greeley, CO 80631 Legal Notice No. 940089 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of DEBRA JEAN EARL, aka DEBBI EARL, deceased Case Number: 2021PR030463 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before March 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Richard G. Mandel, Personal Representative 171 Stream Lane Guffey, CO 80820 Legal Notice No. 940115 First publication: November 18, 2021 Last publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on October 19, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Kayleigh Mane Seeman be changed to Kayleigh Mane Factor Case No.: 21 C 298 By: A Magistrate

First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME Public Notice is given on October 12, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Katie Elizabeth Howell be changed to Katie Elizabeth Dack CASE NUMBER: 2021C34004 By: Blake Clerk of Court/Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 939963 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on October 11, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Renee Lynn Kirchner be changed to Renee Lynn Schuster Case No.: 21 C 472

Public notice is given on October 15, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Patricia Jane Archer be changed to Jane Quinnley Archer Case No.: 21 C 501

In re the Parental Responsibilities concerning: Petitioner: Charlotte H. Robinson and Respondent: Robert A. Hicks

By: NLM, Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 939970 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on September 24 , 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Brianne Renae Bartlett be changed to Paige Renae Bartlett Case No.: 21 C 467 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 940079 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE

Legal Notice No. 939958 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public notice is given on October 12, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

Public notice is given on November 5, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Joe Michael Beane be changed to Michael Beane Case No.: 21 C 526 By: Magistrate Legal Notice No. 940112 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on October 15, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Scott Mackenzie Herbert be changed to Mackenzie Scott Archer Case No.: 21 C 502

The Petition requests that the name of Barbara Jean Belvoir be changed to Barbara Jean Fallis Case No.: 21 C 486

By Blake B., Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 939961 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public Notice is given on October 20, 2021 that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

By: Douglas County Court Clerk of the Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. DCNP 1 First publication: November 04, 2021 Last publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE

Legal Notice No. 939981 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public notice is given on November 3, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Michael Joseph Chapman be changed to Michael Joseph Svoboda Case No.: 21 C 524 By: Magistrate Legal Notice No. 940094 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

To the Respondent named above this Summons serves as a notice to appear in this case.

You may be required to pay a filing fee with your Response. The Response form (JDF 1420) can be found at www.courts.state.co.us by clicking on the “Self Help/Forms” tab.

The Petition requests that the Court enter a Order addressing issues involving the children such as, child support, allocation of parental responsibilities, (decision-making and parenting time), attorney fees, and costs to the extent the Court has jurisdiction.

Notice: Colorado Revised Statutes §14-10-123, provides that upon the filing of a Petition for Allocation of Parental Responsibilities by the Petitioner and Co-Petitioner, or upon personal service of the Petition and Summons on the Respondent, or upon waiver and acceptance of service by the Respondent, an automatic temporary injunction shall be in effect against both parties until the Final Order is entered, or the Petition is dismissed, or until further Order of the Court. Either party may apply to the Court for further temporary orders, an expanded automatic temporary injunction, or modification or revocation under §14-10-125, C.R.S. A request for genetic tests shall not prejudice the requesting party in matters concerning allocation of parental responsibilities pursuant to §14-10124(1.5), C.R.S. If genetic tests are not obtained prior to a legal establishment of paternity and submitted into evidence prior to the entry of the final order, the genetic tests may not be allowed into evidence at a later date.

The Petition requests that the name of Jason David Ford be changed to Jason Milo Ford.

Case No.:21C496

By: Blake, Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

SUMMONS FOR ALLOCATION OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES

If you were served outside of the State of Colorado or you were served by publication, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

PUBLIC NOTICE

Party Without Attorney: Charlotte H. Robinson 600 W. County Line Road 30-203 Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80129 Phone Number: 303-968-5890 E-mail: charlotteailife@gmail.com Case Number: 21DR30332 Division: 2 Courtroom: Virtual

If you were served in the State of Colorado, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 21 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

By: Donna Michelle Stewart, Magistrate

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

District Court Douglas County, Colorado 4000 Justice Way, Unit 2009 Castle Rock, Colorado 80109

Public notice is given on October 19, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Sara Lynn Quast be changed to Tillie Saralynn Mize Case No.: 21 C 507

Automatic Temporary Injunction – By Order of Colorado law, you and the other parties: 1. Are enjoined from molesting or disturbing the peace of the other party; and 2. Are restrained from removing the minor child(ren) from the state without the consent of all parties or an Order of the Court modifying the injunction; and 3. Are restrained, without at least 14 days advance notification and the written consent of all other parties or an Order of the Court, from cancelling, modifying, terminating, or allowing to lapse for nonpayment of premiums, any policy of health insurance or life insurance that provides coverage to the minor child(ren) as a beneficiary of a policy.

If you fail to file a Response in this case, any or all of the matters above, or any related matters which come before this Court, may be decided without further notice to you.

By. Blake Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 939971 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Date: November 3, 2021 Signature of the Clerk of Court/Deputy Legal Notice No. 940055 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: December 9, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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