A look at property taxes supporting South Suburban Increases, costs examined

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On May 2, South Suburban Parks and Recreation district residents will elect two board members to the district’s fivemember board of directors.

As part of its responsibilities in governing the district, the board sets the annual budget, which includes setting mill levies.

South Suburban, which formed in 1959, is a regional provider of parks and recreation services.

Thirty-nine percent of the district’s funding comes from property taxes, communications manager Becky Grubb wrote in an email to Colorado Community Media.

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLOADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Within 15 minutes of opening on the morning of Friday, March 21, the Twin Dragon was bustling with

Any other week, the voices on the other end of the phone calls would have been ordering sesame chicken and crab rangoon for pickup, or giving sta a heads-up that they were coming in with a group later that night.

“Somebody calls me every day, crying,” Shiou said. She gestured to the front of the restaurant, where her son, Englewood Municipal Judge and former mayor Joe Je erson, was

Property taxes are used to fund capital projects, administration costs, operations and maintenance for parks, trails and open spaces and to subsidize nonfee-based programming, Grubb wrote.