Nunnenkamp recall e orts move forward

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e petition to recall Englewood

Councilmember Chelsea Nunnenkamp has gotten enough valid signatures to move forward, meaning that a special election for District 2 is likely to happen and voters will decide whether to remove Nunnenkamp from the council, unless a valid protest to the petition is led. Nunnenkamp, who was elected to represent northeast Englewood’s District 2 in 2021, is among four councilmembers facing possible recall, along with Mayor Othoniel e recall e ort was largely driven by anger over the four members’ consideration of possibly allowing multifamily residences in singlefamily zoning, a proposal that has been shelved for now. e petition to recall Nunnenkamp, which needed 342 valid signatures, was submitted to the Englewood city clerk’s o ce on June 8, Clerk Stephanie Carlile said via email.

Sierra and Councilmembers Joe Anderson and Cheryl Wink.

“As of today, June 15, the recall petition is determined to be valid and su cient,” Carlile wrote. “I have sent the certi cation of su ciency to City Council and have noti ed the recall committee members and Council Member Nunnenkamp.” e deadline for the other three petitions is July 6.

No other recall petitions have been turned in as of June 15, Carlile said.

Carlile said via email that there is a 15-day protest period for the petition.

According to the City of Englewood’s Rules and Regulations for Recall Elections, any registered elector entitled to vote for a successor to

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According to the investigation summary, around 7:39 p.m. on July 24 last year, dispatch received a 911 call from Kimberly Mitchell who said her son, Phillip Blankenship, was drunk and shooting a gun inside the house, located at the intersection of Grove Street and Bellewood Drive in southwest Englewood. She also told police, according to the documentation of the call, that her other son, Matthew Mitchell, was, at that moment, in possession of the weapon.

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