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November 11, 2021

ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO

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VOLUME 101 | ISSUE 39

Voters choose experience for Englewood council Ward, Woodward win; Wink, Nunnenkamp unopposed BY SHANNA MAXCY SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Englewood voters leaned toward experience in the election that ended Nov. 2, choosing Steve Ward and Jim Woodward in the two contested races for Englewood City Council. Ward has served on council atlarge since being appointed earlier this year and Woodward previously served on council from 2004 to 2013. Woodward served as mayor from 2007 to 2011. Councilmember Cheryl Wink ran unopposed for re-election to her at-large seat. First-time candidate Chelsea Nunnenkamp, a deputy political director at a political reform organization, ran unopposed in District 2 in northeastern Englewood. Moving into his first elected term SEE COUNCIL, P2

Voters had denied large sources of funding in 2020 BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

member she will address why so many students, around 30%, choose to transfer from Englewood to another district. Tucker is director of strategic procurement at the University of Colorado and previously served on the board. His second-place position will secure a board seat. Tucker said a crucial issue for him is to address students and staff who cannot live in Englewood and find ways to support them.

An effort to economically boost Englewood’s CityCenter, its traditional Broadway downtown and its cluster of hospitals and medical facilities took a step toward getting fully underway when voters in this year’s election agreed to let a government development agency take on debt of up to $70 million. In the 2020 election, property owners, downtown residents and business owners approved the creation of the Englewood Downtown Development Authority (EDDA), a body that will attempt to attract more economic activity to the district. But voters in that election turned down some of the tax and debt ballot questions that would have funded the body. But in In this year’s election, voters approved Ballot Issue 6D, authorizing the downtown development authority to incur debt of up to $70 million over a 30-year period. Only residents, property owners and business owners in the downtown area could vote on the measure. In unofficial results as of Nov. 5, 68 had voted in favor, with 45 voting against.

SEE SCHOOLS, P3

SEE DOWNTOWN, P13

Steve Ward, center, an incumbent councilmember at-large, speaks with voters during PHOTO BY ROBERT TANN a candidate meet and greet on Oct. 14.

Voters elect 4 candidates to Englewood school board Julie Hoag is top vote-getter in race for 3 contested seats Hoag

Tucker

Englewood downtown authority scores a finance win

BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Englewood voters decided the makeup of the Englewood Schools Board of Education in the election that ended Nov. 2. Voters were asked to select three of four candidates who

were running for four-year positions, with the three top vote-getters winning seats. Caty Husbands, who has been serving as the school board’s president, was unopposed in seeking a two-year seat. In unofficial returns as of Nov. 5, Julie Hoag, a parttime nurse at Swedish Medical Center, was leading the field for four-year seats with 32.4% of the vote, about 8-1/2 percentage points ahead of Duane Tucker, in second place with 23.9% of the total. Hoag said that as a board

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ACCESSING THE OUTDOORS

Colorado provides recreational opportunities for people with disabilities P14


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