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Polis vetoes bill requiring EV chargers

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Governor says measure would have added to costs of building

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Edgar Briseno at the scene where the tree fell over and Mike Kunzman backing in his truck.

PHOTO BY MIKE KUNZMAN

Bees rescued find a new home Beekeeper claims broken trunk of cottonwood tree to keep hive whole

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

When the wind toppled the old cottonwood over the Fulton Irrigation Ditch near 144th and Sable June 7, ditch company employees Orlando Ruiz and Edgar Briseno were called to chop it into sections and move it.

What they found, however, was more than just wood from an aging tree. This was a living community, home to a growing hive

of honey bees.

“We wanted to find a beekeeper to make sure to take care of the bees, they are important for our farmers and community,” Ruiz said.

Their search for a beekeeper led them to Fort Lupton resident Sue Hubert, whose son Mike Kunzman had been a beekeeper, and he is a disabled U.S. Army Veteran. And Kunzman was more than happy to respond. He’d recently lost part of his hive to a Varroa Mite infestation.

“I was on my way to work from Henderson, and my mom called me since I was a beekeeper for 10-years until I lost my bees to those mites,” Kunzman said. “I bought some used equipment, and it had mites.

I had five separate boxes of bees. I was bummed. I was close to 144th &

Sable, so I drove right over.”

After consulting with Ruiz and Briseno, Kunzman decided it was best to leave the bees in the tree and take an eight-foot-long section of the five-foot-wide tree home with him.

“Some people use a shop vacuum to retrieve bees. We did not want to do that,” Kunzman said. “We covered the holes with a sheet I brought along, and I pulled up my truck and backed it in, and my tailgate barely went underneath part of the tree, so we cut and shoved it into my truck.”

The bees didn’t bother the three as they worked, but they wore protective suits anyway.

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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on June 7 vetoed a bill that would have forced developers of new large commercial and multifamily residential buildings to set aside a portion of parking spaces to serve as electric vehicle charging stations.

“I fully understand that with current technology, installing EV charging up front can be less expensive over the long run than subsequent adaptation,” the Democrat wrote in a letter announcing his veto decision. “However, requiring EV installation up front also leads to greater costs now, at the very time that Coloradans are struggling with increased housing costs.”

Polis said House Bill 1218, which passed with almost no Republican support, had “inflexible mandates” and could be premature as electric vehicle technology rapidly advances. He also noted the other steps he and the legislature have taken to increase electric-vehicle usage in Colorado and combat climate change.

The veto is notable because it’s an example of Polis trying to balance his clean-energy ambitions with his election-year push to try to rein in SEE POLIS, P19

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Arturo Herrera

October 19, 1948 - June 7, 2022

Arturo was born in El Paso, Texas to Manuel Herrera and Carmen Barbosa Herrera on October 19, 1948. Arturo has an older sister, Alicia and a younger brother, Alfredo who live in El Paso.

Art, known as Mongoose to his friends, graduated from El Paso High School in 1967 where he was the Student Body President. He was the recipient of the El Paso Lions Club’s Golden Scroll award for the most outstanding scholar and athlete in all El Paso. Art starred in football, baseball, track, and basketball for the Tigers.

Art accepted a football scholarship at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

He was All Conference and voted the most outstanding offensive lineman for the Rams. He graduated in 1972 with a degree in Physical Education, and briefly played professionally in the Canadian Football League. He went back to school in 1981 for a master’s in educational administration.

Art met Jan, his future wife, in 1973 when they were both first year teachers at Highland High School in Ault, Colorado. Art taught P.E., health, and science while coaching football, girls basketball, wrestling and track.

He was a class sponsor. In 1979, he became the athletic director and assistant principal.

to his role as athletic director, he filled in coaching several sports to ensure students had as many opportunities to participate as possible. In 2000, the Herrera family moved from Northglenn to Brighton, so that his boys could attend BHS, since Art believed so much in the school. He also lovingly coached his sons’ little league baseball, football, and basketball teams.

In 2006, Art retired from BHS, and he went on to Frontier Airlines, where he worked part time as a Scout, helping customers navigate through DIA. Through his work with the airline, he was able to attend every single one of his son’s college football games across the country. He and Jan frequently traveled for pleasure and to be a part of family special events. Art was dedicated to umpiring baseball and softball. He pursued his hobbies of stamp and coin collecting, and loved playing bridge and dancing with Jan. If there ever was a construction project that needed work, he would be the first person to call. One of Art’s greatest joys was cooking great meals for his family and friends. He was happiest when his family was all together, and he cherished time spent with his six grandchildren.

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Art is survived by his sister, Alicia; brother, Alfredo; wife, Jan; sons Jacob and Joseph; Daughters in Law, Sherikera and Nicole; n 1979, Art married Janell Beth Carlile in Grandchildren; Theodore, Christian, Lucy, Fort Collins. Their first son Adam Joseph Henry, Cadence and Otis. He is preceded in Elliot was born in 1982 and passed away the same year. Jacob Carlile was born in 1983 and death by his mother, Carmen; son, Adam; and grandchildren; Gabriel and Gabriella.

Joseph Aaron was born in 1985.

In 1984, Art moved to Brighton High School where he was the Assistant Principal and Athletic director for 22 years. In addition BACA

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Elvira Margaret Baca

October 19, 1928 - June 1, 2022

Elvira Margaret Baca passed away on June 1, 2022, at the age of 93. She was a beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who was always there when we needed her. She loved living in Fort Lupton and was a member of the St. Williams Catholic Church.

She enjoyed playing Bridge, Pinochle, and getting together at the Fort Lupton Rec Center with her friends. Her passion for

dogs was evident as she provided loving homes for the dogs she rescued throughout her life. Ellie was preceded in death by the children’s father Willis Calcote, second husband, Robert Baca, and daughter, Sheila Mannlein. Ellie is survived by her daughters Sherry (Tony) Dionisi, Debbie Calcote, Denise (Scott) Bussell, son-in-law Terrance Mannlein, six grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren.

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Weld United Way hires donor engagement specialist

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

United Way of Weld County has picked Emily V. Tilton as the new senior manager of donor engagement.

“We are very excited to have Emily join our United Way of Weld County professional staff,” said Patty Gates, United Way’s vice president of donor Tilton engagement in a written statement. “She brings strong experience in community engagement and relationship development. Emily understands the importance of vision, strategy and passion as we continue to build on United Way’s substantial foundation of community support.”

Tilton has over 20 years of experience with community engagement.

According to officials, she also volunteered in numerous community and nonprofit organizations.

Tilton lives in Greeley with her husband Drew of 30 years. Tilton is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado.

She previously worked at Aims Community College and the Greeley Tribune on sales, marking projects and community outreach.

The American Association for Women has recognized Tilton. She also has recognitions from the Community Colleges Leaders Institute, National Council for Marketing and Public Relations, Public Relations Society of America and Swift Enterprise Manager College. Swift has also received the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Community Tourism Initiative.

“I have always thought that the work of United Way is critical,” Tilton said. “I believe in the positive power of community when strengths are matched to opportunities; to give what you can, where you can, when you can. I am honored to professionally contribute to United Way. I look forward to advocating for its impactful work while listening to and growing with community investors.”

Butterfly Pavilion move, expansion set for 2024 Focus now raising money for campus twice the size of Westminster location

BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Butterfly Pavilion is in a good position to break ground on its new facility in 2024. So far in 2022, they secured $2 million in committed funds.

“We are going really strong with a hope of getting into schematic design either late this year or early next year, and then being able to break ground in 2024 with an opening in mid-2025,” said Janet McFarland Burlile, vice president of donor relations for the pavilion.

The Pavilion announced in 2017 that it would be leaving Westminster. After the pavilion became accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, they began a master planning process and came to the conclusion the current facility was not going to accommodate their long-term goals.

The pavilion is the first Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) accredited, stand-alone, non-profit invertebrate zoo in the world “First and foremost, we’re running out of space to serve the public as well as we would like to,” said McFarland Burlile.

“We’re usually full to capacity and really want to make sure that we’re giving our guests the best experiences.”

She also said their push for more research and conservation efforts also serves as a reason for the move.

Some projects they are currently undertaking are restoring urban prairies to be more hospitable to pollinators, creating pollinator districts for more pollinator-friendly habitats and working with oil and gas companies to restore places they’ve worked.

Internationally, the pavilion has projects in Sumatra, Tanzania, Saudi Arabia and Mongolia.

With the projects and attendance, the building needed to be expanded. They found a new home at the intersection of I25 and Highway 7 in the Baseline development.

McFarland Burlile said the development gifted the pavilion eight acres of land. The site is next to an Adams 12 Five Star Schools and a K through 12 STEM school.

“That became very attractive to us because that would link us directly to the school and in working in partnership with them,” she said. “We’re envisioning a facility where those kids are coming back and forth to a Butterfly Pavilion on a regular basis. They’re working with us on research and conservation

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Many biomes under one roof In total, the price tag of the project will be $55 million. As of May 23, the pavilion has secured or identified $24 million.

The size of the building will more than double the 30,000 square feet current home. The new 81,000 square feet space will feature an ocean biome, desert biome, rainforest biome, labs, classrooms, event spaces and more.

The new building will also feature an exhibit similar to Wings of the Tropics, where butterflies are flying about. That exhibit is currently only about 1.5 stories high, the new one will be five stories with a treehouse-like structure to be able to get a new perspective and have more species than just butterflies.

“We want this to be very immersive,” McFarland Burlile said.

Not only inside, but outside the new site will feature gardens and natural areas for kids to play and explore.

“We have a little ways to go to get grants broken but we’re making some great headway so far this year,” she said.

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Pollinator districts could help pollen-carrying critters

BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A state program will be a step towards finding and tracking plantpollinating insects and animals, possibly helping Colorado’s agriculture industry be more efficient.

Governor Jared Polis signed bill SB22-199 on May 27 at the Butterfly Pavilion that would require a study on the challenges associated with native pollinating populations.

The study would be spearheaded by the executive director of the department of natural resources. The results of the study would be submitted to Colorado’s general assembly and the governor, equipped with recommendations on how to solve the problems.

Amy Yarger, horticulture director at the Butterfly Pavilion, said it’s an important bill because there is little information on the status of local pollinator populations.

“Pollinators are so important, but there’s so little research out there,” she said.

A pollinator is an animal or insect that is carrying pollen from one plant to another, Yarger said.

“Animals, like pollinators, are helping plants be more productive and efficient and about three-quarters of our plants rely on these animals to do this service for them and that includes a lot of our agricultural crops,” she said.

Signing the bill at the Pavilion was fitting because they already have their footing in pollinator conservation. In 2019, they started the Pollinator District program that creates better habitats for pollinators in communities.

A pollinator district is a community that makes a commitment to have more pollinator habitats, Yarger explained.

“We actually want to see a demonstrable increase in habitat and in pollinators,” she said. “It’s really about the community and all the different parts of the community coming together to make a commitment to conserve pollinators.”

That increase relies on team players that work together in communities to either renovate or create new habitats for pollinators.

Those habitats will be specific to the area.

“Depending on where the pollinator district is, that’s going to determine the plants for that site, because as you know, you can be in a different part of Colorado and see completely different plants around, completely different climate conditions,” Yarger said. “If you’re up higher, you’re going to have a shorter season. If you’re out west, it’s going to be hotter and drier.”

Native pollinators prefer native plants to Colorado, she explained, so much of that habitat should be native. However, pollinators need mul-

Governor Jared Polis signs bill SB22-199 with Rep. Kathy Kipp, left, and Sen. Sonya COURTESY PHOTO Jaquez, right.

tiple plants to support the multiple parts of the life cycle.

For example, butterflies need flowering plants to harvest nectar. They also need specific host plants to lay their eggs on at the beginning of the life cycle.

A pollinator district can also manifest in many different ways. It could be a garden on the side of a warehouse, Milkweed in a road median, a habitat between apartment buildings or pockets of plants in people’s

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A rendering of Baseline pollinator district.

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“We were all protected and they did not dive-bomb us once- I usually get stung once or twice- they were calm,” Kunzman said.

Kunzman was inspired to become a beekeeper when he found orphaned bees buzzing into his workplace. He began researching insects and the hobby and knew he wanted to become a beekeeper.

Kunzman said it’s normal for healthy bee hives to split off into swarms at this time of the year.

When the new queens are born, the existing queen leaves the hive, taking

yards.

Those habitats, though, should be connected through corridors.

Some pollinators cannot fly very far from plant to plant, so making short pathways is a critical goal of the pavilion.

“Our essential goal is to have enough communities that we’re working with that we can establish some major flyways throughout the

half of the bees with her.

“The existing queen lays eggs, and it’s how colonies grow. When the hive is healthy, the sophisticated working bees raise the new queen,” Kunzman said.

“When the old queen has to leave the hive, they decide who is going with her, which is half the hive carrying as much honey as they can to find another place to live such as someone’s roof or a porch.

Kunzman said bees and butterflies are essential to our environment.

“When mowing, don’t knock out the dandelions because the nectar is good for the butterflies, bees, and other flying insects,” he said. “If bees are gone. We have a short time-

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line, and all life on the planet could cease to exist without those bees doing all their hard work.”

Kunzman took the tree home and stabilized it upright in his yard. He hopes to transfer them over to his existing beehive box, leaving the lid open.

“The bees will think maybe this is our new home,” Kunzman said. “I will take good care of them and I’m glad they have faith in us. I hope they make some honey but I want to make sure I do enough for them to survive the winter.”

If you see a swarm to be rescued, call the Brighton Bee Club 303-552-9841 or contact Mike Kunzman 720-215-7887.

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June 16, 2022

Weld public health noting month for men’s health

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Weld County’s public health officials are reminding men to take health concerns seriously.

June is men’s health month to raise awareness to prevent health problems, early detection, and treatment for diseases that impact men, according to a news release Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment.

According to menhealthmonth. org, men often die five years earlier than women because they are more averse to seeing a doctor. Men must listen to their bodies, receive regular checkups, and prioritize health.

Here are some tips for men according to the Weld Department of Public Health and Environment.

General health: It’s essential to see your doctor for annual exams and checkup even if you don’t feel sick.

Medications: Always inform doctors about your medications, take them as directed, and keep a de-

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state,” Yarger said.

So far, those communities include the Baseline development in Broomfield, Manitou Springs, a community in Elizabeth called Independence, Boulder and a few projects in Denver.

Benefits of urban pollinators With more and more local agriculture happening in suburban and urban areas, pollinators are becoming crucial to supporting those endeavors, Yarger explained.

“I was in Arvada and there are so many properties that didn’t use to be farms that are now farms, and they’re very small, usually organic, local farms that are growing a lot of the produce that then ends up in our farmers’ markets,” she said. “From a local food perspective, it’s really important to have pollinators in those places where we’re getting our local food.”

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pollinators to the rural areas with farms.

“In many cases, those rivers that are going through cities, thinking about the rivers that go through Golden or through Denver, those are connectors so we need pollinator habitat along those corridors that connect the rural areas, just so the population can be healthy across their entire range,” she said.

Additionally, Yarger said the increase in flooding and fires and healthy pollinator environments in highly populated areas have made the study become even more important.

“Supporting healthy water and healthy soil and fire mitigation, all of those things, can be supported through (native habitats) and pollinators,” she said. “I think for our cities to be safe and resilient (to climate change) we need to rethink how we treat the land in urban and suburban areas and be thinking more about how we can make sure that biodiversity is there to support all the functions that we need to keep our people safe.”

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Many retirees like to keep their distribution rate below 3% in order to keep from tapping into principal during a low interest rate environment. When the stock market is down and interest rates are low, it

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Reinterpreting the Colorado River Compact for the 21st century

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n late May, I stood on the lip of Glen Canyon Dam, peering over the concrete edge to study the receding waters of Lake Powell.

The reservoir was 75% empty.

Below I saw what appeared to be railroad tracks in a bench along the canyon wall. Acting dam manager Gus Levy said they were remnants of a concrete batch plant created to construct the dam in the early 1960s.

They had emerged in February, the first time in nearly 60 years they had been above water.

The 21st century drought, now long and still deepening, coupled with aridification, has exposed problems in the compact governing allocations among the seven states in the Colorado River Basin. One clause in the Colorado River Compact would seem to saddle headwater states with taking up all the slack for reduced flows caused by climate change.

Now comes an important voice counseling a new view. Bruce Babbitt, the two-time governor of Arizona and then secretary of the interior in the Clinton administration, says it’s time to revisit this obligation.

“While I once thought that these aridification scenarios were kind of abstract and way out in the future, I don’t think that anymore,” Babbitt said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

“It’s absolutely urgent that we start thinking now, while there’s

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time, about how we adjust the compact, the regulations, the necessary reductions, in the most careful way so that we limit the damage, which can really be extreme.”

“Huge,” tweeted Eric Kuhn, former manager of the Glenwood SpringsAllen Best based Colorado River District, after Babbitt’s remarks were published.

At the Getches-Wikinson Center at the law school in Boulder next week, a conference subtitled “Hard Conversations about Really Complex Issues” will take up just what will constitute the thoughtful approach that Babbitt advises. The river and its tributaries provide water for up to 40 million people and some of its most productive farms across seven states.

Delegates from the basin states who gathered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1922 assumed the river would deliver roughly 20 million acre-feet annually. That was unjustifiably optimistic. Evidence already existed of climate swings. The 20th century mostly failed those expectations, and the 21st century has been even stingier, delivering 17% less.

Jeff Lukas, a climatologist based in Lafayette who will speak at the

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conference, warns that even less water should be expected in coming decades.

“If forced to pick numbers right now, I’d go with 7%-25% lower by midcentury and 13%-33% less by the 2080s,” Lukas said.

End of natural drought might improve water flows, he adds, but only so much. Multiple studies attribute roughly half of the declined flows to human-caused greenhouse gases.

“But you don’t need a dire view of the future to know that the compact’s hydrologic assumptions and subsequent allocations are unworkable going forward,” he says. “I think the last 22 years alone have demonstrated that pretty clearly.”

Since 2007, the basin states have been patching up the compact with new agreements. A new sense of cooperation and shared sacrifice has become evident. Still untouched is that heart-burning stipulation that Colorado and the three other upper-basin states “will not cause the flow of the river at Lees Ferry to be depleted about an average of 75 million acre-feet for any period of 10 consecutive years …”

Lees Ferry is located in Arizona, above the Grand Canyon. Upstream 15 miles is Glen Canyon Dam, which generates hydroelectric power consumed in Basalt and Edwards as well as many other towns and farms in Colorado. However, the reservoir allows upper basin states to reliably

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Brad Udall of Colorado State University’s Water Institute says the compact must be reinterpreted, not renegotiated. He believes delegates from upper-basin states who helped draft the compact a century ago would never have agreed to a fixed obligation in a changed climate. To assume so now also violates common sense.

The 19th century thinking was rooted in winners and losers, he says. Today, the intertwined economies of Southwestern states need solutions that maximize certainty even if the volume of water declines.

“The only thing that makes sense to me is that the two basins share this fundamental risk of declining flows, and I think that is a key part of a 21st century reinterpretation of the compact.”

Runoff from last winter’s snowstorms, if once again below average, has likely once again inundated those tracks I saw at Glen Canyon in May. They won’t stay submerged.

Colorado River forecasters expect Powell’s resumed decline later this year. By January, it will be 80% empty.

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Thirteen metro Denver school superintendents are pushing back against a decision by the State Board of Education ordering a district north of Denver to reorganize. The June 7 letter to the board is the first salvo in what could become a heated battle over how much control local school districts have over their destinies.

The state school board’s order forcing the Adams 14 school district to begin a process of reorganizing is the first time an improvement order could result in a Colorado school district being dissolved or absorbed by surrounding districts.

“Your action demeans every student, parent, and staff member in the school district,” superintendents wrote in the letter.

The district chiefs, including superintendents from Denver, Aurora, Cherry Creek, Littleton and 27J in Brighton, are members of the Denver Area School Superintendents Council. They wrote they were surprised and “deeply disappointed” by the state’s board’s May 24 order.

The vote was one of the most extreme options the

state board could take under the state’s accountability law. Colorado relies on a system of locally controlled school boards. But state law allows the board to direct improvement plans after a school or district has had low ratings for more than five years. Adams 14 had posted nine years of low ratings on the state’s accountability clock.

In their letter, the superintendents ask the board to rescind the order and allow Adams 14 officials to be in control of its improvement process. Some of those superintendents are supposed to be participating in drawing up a new plan for the Commerce City district.

“We believe collectively in locally elected school boards of education and their Colorado constitutional right to the local control of the instruction of their students,” the letter states.

Adams 14 leaders were hopeful that they could contract with a partial outside manager for a new improvement plan after the school board ordered just that in April. But the state board switched direction after hearing the details of Adams 14’s plan and voted 4-3 for the district to begin a process that could potentially see

the tight-knit working class district dissolved, annexed or consolidated.

The superintendents also expressed support for Adams 14 Superintendent Karla Loria, who didn’t gain control of the district until February after severing ties with the old outside manager MGT Consulting. The letter noted that Loria has increased student achievement in highly impacted schools in Nevada, Texas, Colorado, California and North Carolina.

“She has the experience and skills necessary to lead the changes all of you, and all of us, know are necessary for the students and families in Adams 14,” the letter said.

The letter also said that the order to reorganize – which could take years and involves voters in affected districts approving a plan – makes the job of turning the district around in the meantime much more difficult, “as you have moved from one Sword of Damocles to another.”

State board chair’s opinion piece ruffles feathers The superintendents’ letter came just after the publication of an opinion editorial in The Denver Post written

by State Board of Education chair Angelika Schroeder,

in which she defends the board’s 4-3 decision to reorganize the district. She said the district has performed poorly for so long it is failing the children and families it is supposed to serve. She said the unprecedented step of initiating a reorganization process was a bold step, “but it was not taken lightly.”

“The district’s inability to dramatically improve left no alternative. After nearly a decade of working with the district to rectify its systemic failures, the state board ran out of options.”

Schroeder said the outside manager hired in 2018, MGT Consulting, was just starting to have a positive effect when Adams 14 fired the firm. She said the current leadership “never seemed to give it a chance.”

The district took umbrage with the opinion piece. Joe Salazar, an attorney with the district, said the article failed to note evidence, which the district supplied months ago to the state Department of Education, “that the outside firm was engaging in some rather egregious conduct that led to what we believe as a breach of contract or concerns about fiscal management.”

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“Based on this article… are you able to operate impartially in this hearing?” district legal counsel Joe Salazar asked Schroeder at the meeting on Wednesday.

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The state board approved the plan for Central Elementary.

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Off to college, adulthood and sports

BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Many of us have been down that road - adjusting to college courses, life in college, becoming a young adult.

If you’re an athlete adjusting to those things, there are factors that don’t come with a campus brochure: Practice time is longer, practices are more intense.

The competition for playing time is more intense.

But for college athletes, there is another adjustment, handling the business side of college athletics and discovering what help is available for studentathletes.

College athletics and a business “Both high school and college should be treated as business if you have aspirations of making it far,” said Dakota Pruitt, who is playing college baseball at Otero Junior College. “But it’s definitely a different animal in college. They basically pay you with schooling to ensure you’re playing your best. If you aren’t, then - as if it were a job - you’ll lose it.”

Former Frederick basketball player Izayah Elize, who played college ball at Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington, Wyoming, left no doubt. College sports is a business.

“But it feels like any other team,” he said. “However, you’re taken care of very well and differently than high school.”

His former classmate, Ryan Chacon, who runs cross country at Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas, said college athletics can feel like a business.

Sometimes.

“If you’re not fast enough to score points or compete at a high level, then you will be pushed to the bottom of the depth chart,” he said.

Gerardo Caldera, the former Adams City multi-sport athlete (he chose to play football at Waldorf University in Forest City, Iowa) took the same approach as Chacon.

“College is like a business in a way,” he said. “One wrong move or one missed assignment can cost you your spot as a starter or, possibly, on the rotation.”

Former BHS football Eli Bowman, who’s playing collegiately at the South Dakota School of Mines, agreed.

“It’s different seeing your coaches actively recruit guys at your position that could either be your replacements or steal your spot,” he said. “It’s just like in the workplace. We also basically get paid to play football, so it doesn’t feel like I’m voluntarily playing football sometimes.”

Stargate School alum Emma Kulbida, who swam for Legacy High School and now swims for Carnegie Mellon, said the world of college athletics feels more serious to her.

“College athletics has felt a little bit more like a business because of the structure and requirements,” she said. “Practices and meets are mandatory in college. Although I attended as much as I could in high school, this inflexible structure has been harder to manage.”

“I would say that professionalism is highlighted more in collegiate athletics,” said Madison Roecker, who is a cheerleader at Nebraska Wesleyan. “However, no, I wouldn’t describe it as a business” Former Brighton High School running back Vershon Brooks, who goes to school at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, said he could feel the business side of college sports.

“It didn’t really shock me,” he said. “I knew about it coming in.”

In Chase Prestwich’s case, it didn’t affect him at all.

“No, not really,” said the former Brighton and Frederick high school pitcher who’s toiling for Northwestern State University in Louisiana. “I’m doing something I enjoy.”

Stargate School alum Erica Derby, who played soccer at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska, described being a college athlete as “a job.”

“I am up at college for one reason: to get a degree,” she said. “I am lucky I am able to play soccer on top of that, so I take both my education and soccer very seriously. If I am not playing soccer, I am studying, doing homework or something school-related. I put my focus into school and soccer because if I don’t have good grades, I can’t play soccer.

So school comes first and then soccer.”

Former Brighton High School swimmer Jespyn Bishop, who played water polo at McKendree University in Lebanon, Illinois, didn’t think college athletics amounted to a business.

“It just kind of feels like a professional sports team to me,” he said. “There is just more of a serious aspect to it. You have to be a professional in and out of the water. It’s not like a highschool sport where anyone can try out. Everyone was recruited to be here, and we have to show that we deserve to be here. I’m not trying to make it sound all that bad though because it’s not. You just have to take it seriously while still having a good time.”

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form of academic help. In some cases, it’s mandatory.

“Academically the team does meetings with coaches and does grade and organization checks,” Brooks said. “For organization, our coaches have us fill out a chart of upcoming assignments and their due dates.”

Ex-Brighton and Frederick high school pitcher Chase Prestwich said athletes at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, have access to their own study halls rooms and computers.

“We can request tutoring whenever we want,” he said. “The athletes also have academic coordinators who manage the study hall times, check our grades regularly, help us schedule classes, advise us when our grades are not good and just overall give us whatever support we need.”

Stargate grad Kulbida said upper-classmen at her school are a great resource.

“Everyone is so willing to help you out. If you are

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taking a class, there are probably 10 other people on the team who have taken the course and who can help you out with concepts and homework,” she said.

“They’re all super encouraging and recommend other resources that they found useful throughout their time at CMU.” Former Brighton football player Bowman said South Dakota School of Mines “is great” about supporting student-athletes.

“Academics is the No. 1 priority for all of us, and they know that,” Bowman said. “There’s always tutors for every class at any time, so it’s easy to find help in school.”

Adams City grad Caldera said his team at Waldorf University in Iowa has a study hall for anyone with a grade point average of less than 3.0 must attend.

Anyone with a higher GPA is welcome to attend, too.

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Denver Broncos enter into purchase agreement with Walton-Penner family The purchase price was expected to be more than $4 billion

BY STAFF REPORT THE COLORADO SUN

The Walton family has won the bidding to purchase the Denver Broncos in the

most expensive deal for a sports franchise anywhere in the world.

The Broncos announced June 7 they had entered into a sale agreement with the Walton-Penner ownership group led by Walmart heir Rob Walton, his daughter, Carrie Walton Penner, and her husband, Greg Penner.

Mellody Hobson, CEO of Ariel Investments, and chair

of the board of Starbucks Corporation, is also a part of what will be the team’s ownership group.

Hobson is Black. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has made minority ownership a point of emphasis in the league.

“Having lived and worked in Colorado, we’ve always admired the Broncos,” Rob Walton, who was the

chairman of Walmart from 1992 to 2015, said in a written statement. “When the necessary approval procedures are met, our family is excited to share more with Broncos fans, the organization and the community.”

The purchase price was expected to be about $4.5 billion, which would be the most expensive deal in sports history. It would sur-

pass the $3.1 billion sale last month of Chelsea F.C., one of European soccer’s blueribbon teams, to an American-led consortium fronted

by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly.

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“In the academic portion of the school, we need to push each other and hold each other accountable,” the former Frederick cross country and two-time state track champion Chacon said. “If we don’t do that, some relays may not be a full power.

And some points may be missed.”

Stargate School alum Erica Derby said athletes at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska

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sale, likely in July, of the team that’s been in the Bowlen family for nearly four decades. The NFL’s approval is considered a formality.

The Pat Bowlen Trust has run the franchise for several years and last year put the club up for sale after Hall of Famer Pat Bowlen’s children couldn’t concur on a successor to their father.

Bowlen died in 2019 after a long

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have to attend a certain amount of study hours each week.

“These hours allow us to get our homework done and study,” she said. “There are also tutors for certain subjects. So if you need help, our coach will help set us up with a tutor. Our coach always tells us school comes before soccer.”

High School basketball player Elize said his team at Eastern Wyoming College didn’t have academic issues this season.

“Everyone on our team is required to go to class, and there are always tutors available for our

team,” he said.

“Our team has really strong chemistry and we all just hound each other if we are struggling,” said former Riverdale Ridge athlete Dakota Pruitt. He’s playing baseball at Otero Junior College in Colorado. “It is nice to have someone who keeps you honest and makes sure you’re on your stuff.”

Nebraska Wesleyan Madison cheerleader Roecker credited her coach for some academic structure.

“My coach reminds us to prioritize our academics and encourages us to excel in school,” Roecker said.

“I think that my high-school experience of being involved in sports and clubs, academics, having a job, and other responsibilities helped to prepare me to manage my schedule now in college.”

“My coaches get grade reports every so often,” said former Brighton High School swimmer Jespyn Bishop. “And if your grades aren’t the best, then they schedule a meeting with you to talk about and see if they can help you or get some help for you from a on campus tutor. We also have weekly study halls that are mandatory to attend.”

battle with Alzheimer’s, a month shy of his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Joe Ellis, the Broncos president and CEO, said the purchase agreements “marks a significant step on the path to an exciting new chapter in Broncos’ history.”

The Waltons are already active in Colorado’s civic sphere.

First-year coach Nathaniel Hackett demurred when asked Monday during offseason workouts if he’s kept up with the sale process.

“My job is to get the team ready and teach systems and teach them

to come together as a team and get them better at football,” Hackett said. “I know that’s obviously a huge, huge deal. But for us it’s about winning no matter who is going to own the team, so I’m excited.”

After a first round of bids, five finalists were invited to tour the team’s facilities and take a deeper dive into the franchise’s finances.

Hackett said he met with most of the billionaire bidders.

“After talking with everybody, I think they all have an amazing passion and want to be part of this league, and they want to be part of a

team — and I think that’s something that’s really beautiful,” Hackett said.

“They want to come to win, and they want to do something great here. And so, wherever it is, I think we’re going to be very grateful.”

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Event to include first-ever sober section, ‘over the top’ entertainment

BY JESSICA GIBBS SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

The 2022 Denver PrideFest takes place June 25 and 26. The Denver Pride Parade will take place beginning at 9:30 a.m. June SHUTTERSTOCK 26. It will span 14 blocks on Colfax Avenue from Cheesman Park to Civic Center Park.

The 2022 Denver PrideFest takes place June 25 and 26 with a variety of entertainment at Civic Center Park,

101 W. 14th Ave., in Denver. Other main events include the Pride 5K on June 25, and the Denver Pride Parade will take

place beginning at 9:30 a.m. June 26.

It will span 14 blocks on Colfax Avenue from Cheesman Park to Civic Center

This year marks the first fully in-person Denver PrideFest since 2019, and organizers are cooking up a “truly over the top” celebration to mark the occasion.

The festival went virtual in 2020 and became a hybrid event in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The last fully in-person PrideFest, which is produced by The Center on Colfax, had an estimated attendance of more than 525,000 people.

Denver PrideFest will take over Civic Center Park on June 25 and 26. The lineup boasts pop singer Betty Who, the headliner on Sunday, as well as stars from RuPaul’s Drag Race — Kylie Sonique Love, Yvie Oddly and Silky Nutmeg Ganache.

The Center’s CEO Rex Fuller said it’s difficult to predict turnout, but Pride events elsewhere are indicating this year could be big.

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Park. For more information on this year’s Denver PrideFest, including bios of this year’s headliners, visit denverpride.org.

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out for Denver’s festival, just surpassing 250, and vendor slots are nearly filled.

“People really want to get out and they really want to be with each other and be in-person,” Fuller said.

‘Over the top’ DeMarcio Slaughter, the festival’s emcee of two decades, said he and the main stage team have three years of pent-up ideas and acts ready to dazzle the crowds.

For Slaughter emceeing will include 16 custom costumes from his longtime design partner Darlene C. Ritz, and onstage costume changes.

He is particularly excited for the “jukebox” sing-along he leads with the crowd, which will raise thousands of voices into belting everything from pop anthems to rock classics.

“It’s an incredible, incredible thing,” Slaughter said.

The sing-along used to be on Sunday only, but this year Slaughter will lead it both days of the festival. Slaughter is also working up a version of the singalong for Saturday that will acknowledge hardships people experienced during the pandemic and lives lost.

But it will also take a tongue and cheek approach by including sing-along songs that make light of some COVID-19 experiences, like running out of toilet paper.

“Let’s not pretend that craziness did not happen, but let’s also acknowledge that we’re here today and ready to move forward,” Slaughter said.

With a front-row view of the thousands who attend, Slaughter said he knows the Denver audience to turn out for a celebration of individual diversity and having “pride of who you are within.”

“I expect to see good positive energy, smiling faces, dancing. I expect to see gladness,” Slaughter said. “I think the mood is going to be over the top.”

Creating a more inclusive festival This year’s PrideFest will feature its first-ever sober section. Debbie Scheer has been involved with the festival for almost seven years.

She has previously co-emceed the main stage and the parade, but this year is excited to both co-emcee the parade and help run the sober section.

People might choose sobriety because they are overcoming addiction or because it’s a health-driven decision that a makes them feel better, Scheer said. Scheer, who chose to become sober roughly four years ago, said navigating Pride as a sober person “can be a little bit tricky.”

She’s excited to see society becoming more embracing of sober lifestyles and that this year’s PrideFest will offer “a safe space” for people who do not want to drink.

“Hopefully our community is ready to embrace and support this kind of a space at PrideFest,” Scheer said.

The section is located down the

This photo from 1977 shows a group of people gathering for the opening of the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Colorado, PHOTO CREDIT: HISTORY COLORADO; 10052686 which today is known as the nonprofit organization called The Center on Colfax, 1301 E. Colfax Ave.

festival’s main aisle and will have a clear view of the main stage.

Scheer said the section is very visible, and that’s important to her.

“I think it sends a message that says, ‘you are an important part of our community and we’re going to create a space that sends a message of that,’” she said.

A sober section expands who is able to participate, Fuller said.

While some people come to PrideFest and enjoy a beer, “that can be very difficult for people who are in recovery.”

“One of the points that we have put in our strategic plan for The Center is addressing issues of addiction and substance use in the LGBTQ community,” Fuller said.

“It’s something we’ve had calls for before.”

The national climate Fuller said a dramatic uptick in anti-LGBT legislation across the country and the controversy regarding overturning Roe v. Wade could influence this year’s events, “because of how that may indicate a rollback of LGBT rights to follow.”

“There is a lot of importance of being out and being visible in the community, just because many people who are not part of the community suddenly realize that their friends and neighbors are affected by this legislation,” Fuller said.

The festivals started in the 1970s to protest police harassment. Focus shifted in the 1980s toward addressing the AIDS crisis and calls for LGBTQ civil rights ramped up in the 1990s and 2000s, Fuller said.

“Throughout the history of Pride events, there have always been

some sort of pressure on people,” Fuller said.

Slaughter said grassroots advocates will be able to highlight legislative accomplishments, particularly within the festival’s messaging as the weekend draws closer.

“Because in addition to having years of built-up energy and songs, there’s a message to the community,” he said.

The festival will celebrate a return to a new normal, and areas where there have been gains in support for transgender communities, young people and women, Slaughter said.

“As we take back to the stage, we are celebrating not only this return to in-person, but the education that the world has allowed itself to go through,” Slaughter said. “There’s a new-found awareness and accountability.”

A growing event A version of Denver’s Pride festival has been running for 46 years.

The Center on Colfax started producing the festival in 1990, and it remains the organization’s biggest fundraiser of the year.

Proceeds help The Center function year-round, run adult programming, youth programming and providing mental health support for the LGBTQ community.

“I feel blessed to have watched the LGBTQ movement” evolve into what it is today, Slaughter said, adding that what started as an event lasting a few hours on a Sunday is now a two-day extravaganza in Denver.

“Twenty years ago, when I started it was one of those things where I covertly asked for time off

‘There is a lot of importance of being out and being visible in the community, just because many people who are not part of the community suddenly realize that their friends and neighbors are affected by this legislation.’

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work to work for this,” he said.

Now Slaughter’s office jokes about not bothering him the entire week, because employees know how important the week of PrideFest is to him.

“It just makes my heart smile,” Slaughter said.

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Gap grows between white, black homeowners U.S. is short about 3.8 million housing units relative to demand, making one of the toughest real estate markets in history

BY TATIANA FLOWERS THE COLORADO SUN

Michael Diaz-Rivera hoped $25,000 in savings and a good credit score would give him enough leverage to buy a home. But his low teacher’s salary made that nearly impossible.

“The prices in Denver were just a little too steep for me and the market was just too high,” he said in late April. “Every time that I would find a house, while I was still thinking about whether I wanted to put the money down, somebody else is coming in and they’re just buying it all out with cash. It was wild.”

It took a year, but Diaz-Rivera was finally able to purchase a home with some help from a community land trust, one of a handful of programs working to make homeownership more accessible to low and moderate-income Coloradans.

“To look at my kids and know we don’t have to worry about redoing a lease, knowing that everybody’s prices are going up and that we’ve got a stable house, is just something that I’m working for,” said Diaz-Rivera, who identifies as Black. “Now, I can say my kids have a house to grow up in, something I never really had.”

Homeownership is the primary means of accumulating wealth for the average family, housing advocates said, and closing the homeownership gap is the most effective way to close the racial wealth gap.

About 48% of white residents can afford to buy the typical home in Colorado, compared with 30% of Black residents and 32% of Latino people.

In the last decade, the gaps between Black and white homeownership have widened. In 1970, the homeownership gap between Black and white households was 19 percentage points and it has grown every decade since to 32 percentage points in 2020. In 2020, 73% of white Coloradans owned their own home, compared with 41% of Black Coloradans, new Census Bureau data says.

The news is better for Latino Coloradans. In 2020, the homeownership gap between Colorado’s white and Latino households narrowed for the first time in 50 years.

Home ownership rates among Latinos are highest now in the Adams County suburbs of Commerce City and Thornton.

“It’s encouraging that we see some closing of that gap among Hispanic homeowners and it is dispiriting to look at how wide the gap still is with Black homeowners,” said Mike Johnston, president and CEO of Gary Community Ventures, a nonprofit running a new down payment assistance fund for first-time Black homeowners. “When you look at a scenario where in Colorado the homeownership rates are almost

‘There’s this huge trend and desire within both the Black and brown communities to increase homeownership, and it’s a huge desire, especially with young Latino adults.’

Jonathan Cappelli, executive director of the Neighborhood Development Collaborative

twice as high for white families as for Black families, I think that is a major crisis.”

Nationwide, 63% of white Americans can afford to buy the typical home, compared with 43% of Black Americans and 54% of Hispanics, according to the National Association of Realtors.

In partnership with the Colorado News Collaborative and news organizations across the state, The Colorado Sun examined gaps in homeownership rates for “Chasing Progress,” an in-depth reporting project on the social, economic and health equity of Black and Latino Coloradans.

The U.S. is short about 3.8 million housing units relative to demand, making one of the toughest real estate markets in history even more difficult for middle and low wage earners trying to rent and buy homes.

The market has been further complicated by institutional investors buying single-family homes that might otherwise have gone to firsttime homebuyers. Rising interest rates have made it even harder for the many buyers to afford homes as prices continue to rise.

Buying a home is a considerable feat for anyone. But the challenge is steepest for Black and Latino homebuyers, especially first-timers, who are still facing racial discrimination, income inequality, and the reverberating effects of predatory lending and exclusionary zoning practices.

Diaz-Rivera, who now owns a cannabis delivery company, was able to buy with some help from the Denver-based Elevation Community Land Trust, which made the house in his north Aurora neighborhood more affordable by retaining ownership of the land it sits on. Under the agreement with the nonprofit, if he sells the home, he will retain 25% of the equity that has built up. The remaining 75% remains with the home, which will make it affordable to the next buyer who will be selected from applicants who earn less than 80% of the area median income.

Diaz-Rivera moved into the three-bedroom house in February 2021 understanding that it won’t be a “forever home.” He wants total ownership one day and said his new home is a step toward financial

stability.

The white/Latino homeownership gap The homeownership gap between white and Latino Coloradans grew from 7 percentage points in 1970 to 21 percentage points in 2010, but then narrowed to 18 percentage points in 2020. It’s difficult for housing experts to explain the narrowing gap, but they said, a number of conflicting factors could help explain the trend.

“There’s this huge trend and desire within both the Black and brown communities to increase homeownership, and it’s a huge desire, especially with young Latino adults,” said Jonathan Cappelli, executive director of the Neighborhood Development Collaborative, which works to create equitable and sustainable development in Colorado and across the country.

“But there’s a dampening effect that’s countering that because of existing systemic racism and also direct racism and discrimination,” Cappelli said.

Latinos are 81% more likely to be denied financing for a conventional loan when compared to their nonLatino counterparts. Generational wealth disparities also play a role in the homeownership gap. Median white households have more than five times the wealth of median Latino households, helping them come up with all-cash offers or qualify for pre-approval in Colorado’s fastselling market, according to the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals’ 2021 State of Hispanic Homeownership report.

Home appraisers are more likely to undervalue homes in majority Black and Latino neighborhoods relative to majority-white areas, leading to lower rates of homeownership for those two groups of color, according to a 2021 study by Freddie Mac. Data from more than 12 million appraisals from Jan. 1, 2015, to Dec. 31, 2020, shows 12.5% of properties in Black census tracts were appraised at values lower than the contract price, compared with 7.4% of homes in white census tracts and 15.4% in Latino census tracts, according to Freddie Mac. People hoping to buy homes in these majority Black and Latino areas are applying for loans that are based on the value set by the

Chasing Progress is a Colorado News Collaborative-led multinewsroom reporting project examining the social, economic and health equity of Black and Latino Coloradans over the last decade. The project builds off 2013’s “Losing Ground,” an I-News/RMPBS series that tracked similar measures from 1960-2010. We welcome stories of your experiences last decade as well as suggestions for future Chasing Progress stories at chasingprogress@colabnews.co

appraiser. If the appraiser is biased or intentionally discriminatory and sets a lower appraised value, the buyer will be approved for loan that may not be commensurate with the actual price of the home, Cappelli said.

Black and Latino people selling homes in those communities will also face wealth-building obstacles because a low appraisal would cause them to sell for less than their home is worth, he said.

Rachel Chaparro, a Colorado real estate broker who specializes in working with first-time buyers, said one of her Latino clients who had a 640 credit score, which is considered fair, was deemed high-risk and denied a conventional mortgage loan, while white clients with lower credit scores and more debt were approved.

Most people who are turned down for a conventional loan try for a mortgage backed by the Federal Housing Administration. While the FHA is willing to loan to those who might be a higher credit risk, its loans come at a higher cost, including mortgage insurance, which must be paid for the life of the loan if the recipient makes the minimum 3.5% down payment.

Now, Chaparro’s client is paying almost $400 per month for mortgage insurance, on top of his mortgage payment.

Latinos are twice as likely to purchase a home with an FHA loan than white homebuyers, according to the Hispanic Homeownership report.

Thornton and Commerce City The Colorado Housing and Finance Authority conducted focus groups in 2017 and 2018 with Latino residents and housing professionals to gauge the gaps, opportunities and barriers to homeownership. Since then, the portion of households CHFA has served that are Hispanic/ Latino has grown to 40% in 2021 from 28% in 2016. “This has contributed to the 3.6% increase in the overall Latino homeownership rate in Colorado,” Cappelli said.

Some of the highest homeownership rates among Latinos in Colorado are now in Commerce City, where 68% of Latinos owned their homes in 2020, and Thornton, where 61% of Latinos owned a home that year.

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“The biggest thing with Thornton and Commerce City is just affordability,” Chaparro said.

Census data shows that homeownership rates are high in both cities for people of Hispanic origin between the ages of 25 and 44 as far back as 2010.

“That really points to the uniqueness of both markets in terms of both affordability and amenities that they offer to Hispanic homebuyers,” said Avilia Bueno, a labor economist and associate at Root Policy in Denver, which conducts economic and housing research.

Historically, Latinos have also been more likely to live in multigenerational households, compared to other demographics, according to the Hispanic Homeownership report.

“Once a relative buys in a neighborhood, maybe the son or daughter might want to buy in a close-by location. I think if they could afford it, they would buy two homes close together, and those may be markets where you can actually do that,” Bueno said of Thornton and Commerce City.

Latinos were also more willing than any other demographic to choose a house that was farther from shopping and entertainment and were more willing to endure a longer work commute, according to the Hispanic Homeownership report. Since the pandemic, they have increasingly moved to suburbs for more outdoor space and to accommodate live-in family members, and have been more likely to rent space in their homes to others to help pay the mortgage.

After the Great Recession in 2008, there was a significant decline in homebuilding, which created a shortage of housing that never caught up. Homeownership rates among Latino households was at 49% in 2008 and dipped to 45% in 2014, but by 2021, the rate was at 48%.

“Basically, they’ve (almost) reobtained pre-recession rates, so they’ve gone back to the same homeownership rates that they had before the recession, or right when the recession hit,” Cappelli said.

“It’s not like this is an increase, historically speaking.”

The Black/white homeownership gap Explaining the gap in homeownership between Black and white Coloradans appears more straightforward.

Redlining and other exclusionary housing policies, income inequality, discriminatory lending and appraisal practices have sidelined Black people in the past, and the reverberations of those inequities are affecting their children’s ability to buy a home today, Chaparro said.

Redlining, a policy in which banks determined whether to lend based on the racial composition of a neighborhood, kept Black people, other people of color, and others with low incomes from accessing mortgage loan, creating long-term and wide-ranging health, environmental and income disparities.

“Over time, those have accumulated to make it next to impossible to build wealth, particularly because

one of the ways that you do it is in buying homes,” said Johnston of Gary Community Ventures.

The median white household has at least 10 times the wealth of the median Black household, according to the Brookings Institution. The racial wealth gap has continued to grow over the past 30 years. More than half of Black households lack any savings for retirement, according to Zillow.

The biggest obstacle for Black families is the ability to afford a down payment. About 93% of Black families with the credit scores and income to qualify for a home loan do not move on to purchase a home because they lack the cash for a down payment, according to an analysis

by Gary Community Ventures.

The organization is offering up to $40,000 in down payment assistance to at least 500 Black families in metro Denver, over the next 10 years, through its new Dearfield Fund for Black Wealth.

Bias in lending and appraising Prejudice in the lending and appraisal system is still occurring, according to three housing professionals interviewed for this story.

In Colorado, Black mortgage applicants were turned down almost twice as often as white applicants.

According to a Zillow analysis, 15% of Black mortgage applicants in Colorado were denied in 2020, compared with 9% of white applicants.

Owner-occupied homes in Black neighborhoods are undervalued by $48,000 per home, on average, which amounts to $156 billion in losses nationwide. When half of the residents in a neighborhood are Black, the homes are valued at roughly half the price of homes in neighborhoods with very few or no Black residents, according to Brookings.

April Denmon, a real estate broker, said she has had clients who, after seeking loans from five or six lenders, have come to her, frustrated and in need of help.

“Some lenders out there may discriminate a little bit, or may not want to work with you, so they may make it a little bit harder, or make your terms harder, whereas if you go to another lender that maybe looks like you or this person is supporting you, you may get a better rate, or they may give you a higher approval amount,” Denmon said.

“If you’re a seller and you see the name ‘Martinez’ versus ‘Smith,’ and Martinez has an FHA loan, and Smith has a conventional loan, there’s just inherent biases that people have, whether they’re intentional or not,” Chaparro said.

On the appraisal side, Denmon pointed to two experiences where homes she was helping to sell for two Black clients were significantly undervalued. In both cases, the appraisers knew the sellers were Black. Denmon disputed the appraisal for one of those clients, by finding other homes in the area that were comparable, and provided the information to the appraiser. After the challenge, the appraiser raised the price of that home by more than $50,000, Denmon said.

Many Black people are told by their real estate agents to take down any personal belongings that would indicate their race, Denmon said.

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The story behind the Ukrainian artwork about to be sold in Denver Selling the work, Ukrainians say, will help refocus attention on Russia’s war in Ukraine

BY TATIANA FLOWERS THE COLORADO SUN

Maria Manuilenko was carrying lots of cash — and 10 suitcases filled with expensive artwork — when she got stranded at the Ukraine-Poland border.

She had spent weeks collecting paintings made by Ukrainian artists, and had plans to bring them back to the United States, where they would be sold to support the artists and people fighting on the frontlines.

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went to go and put my home on the market, I was asked to take down personal items, but when I walked into people’s homes I was looking at buying, I walked into a person’s home who had a Trump flag flying,” said Jice Johnson, founder and chief visionary officer of The Black Business Initiative, who purchased her home in Aurora, in 2021.

Solutions To help close the gap, the government should institute a loan program specifically for Black Americans that would reduce the risk to banks and allow them to relax their policies to help close the homeownership and racial wealth gaps, Johnson said. She pointed to VA-backed loans, where the Department of Veterans Affairs guarantees a portion of the loan that a veteran (and their surviving spouse) gets from a private lender.

If their VA-backed home goes into foreclosure, the guarantee allows the lender to recover some or all of their losses. Since there’s less risk for the lender, they’re more likely to give the veteran or their spouse

But a customs enforcement officer was skeptical of Manuilenko, and would not allow her across the border, before he sent her back to Lviv to have her paperwork reviewed.

When she arrived at 2 a.m., past curfew, the area was vacant. Luckily, a man driving by saw Manuilenko standing alone at a train station and offered to take her to another checkpoint where a different customs officer let her through.

“It was just some random guy that she had never seen before,” said Maria Oleynikova, Manuilenko’s friend of 25 years. “There were two options: Option 1, she would get through the border with the paintings and be fine. Option 2, she might not come back … This brave woman got in this van wit the paintings and made it through the border.”

Manuilenko landed in the United

States on June 4, with the art, ready to display the work at an exhibit Saturday from 4 to 9 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel in Denver.

All of the works were rescued by the Ukrainian artists who created them and other volunteers who retrieved them from cities where heavy shelling has continued since the war began more than 100 days ago. Many of those volunteers, including Manuilenko, put themselves in harm’s way to keep the artwork from being destroyed.

Showing the work, the exhibit organizers say, will help refocus attention on Russia’s war on Ukraine at a time when many people are becoming desensitized to the death and destruction occurring there.

Money raised by the exhibit will help to keep attention on the war, increase empathy for those affected

the loan under better terms. Nearly 90% of all VA-backed home loans are made without a downpayment, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website.

The department’s Native American Direct Loan program also often has better terms than a home loan from a private lender, such as a private bank, mortgage company, or credit union.

“They made it specific to veterans,” said Johnson, a U.S. Army veteran. “They can create a program and make it specific to the Black community, in which they’ve caused harm.”

Latinos are more ready to become homeowners than ever before, and are the youngest of any ethnic or racial demographic, and in their prime home-buying years. They’re expected to make up 70% of homeownership growth over the next two decades. But that future growth is threatened by barriers in the housing market today, which could affect the nation’s productivity and economic wellbeing, according to the 2021 report.

Increasing the number of Latino real estate professionals could be one of the most effective strategies at increasing the number of Latino homeowners because they could create a “multiplier effect” that

accelerates homeownership among their own friends and family, according to the report.

“It would help to make the name and race blind in all real estate transactions,” Chaparro said.

“From loan applications to buyer offers and appraisals, not seeing the first and last name could help prevent intentional and unintentional discrimination.”

A glimmer of hope Metro Denver has been a seller’s market since 2012, the year that the recreational sale and use of cannabis became legal. The COVID-19 pandemic cemented the market conditions, Realtor Denmon said.

In January 2021, there were only 912 houses and 1,119 condos on the market in metro Denver, which includes Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties. Many people began bidding on those houses, creating an appraisal gap on almost every home, which occurs when a buyer’s offer is higher than the appraised value of the property.

It complicates the home-buying process, especially for low-wealth, first-time homebuyers.

“That was in January of last year.

If you look at January of this year, it’s even worse,” Denmon said.

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i “Now we only have 712 houses, and f a we have 436 condos.”

For comparison, in 2007, there were 35,000 houses on the market a in metro Denver. In 1973, a person s could buy a house in metro Denver t for $20,000. In April, the median sin-M gle family home sale was $600,000 b in Colorado and $660,000 in metro g Denver, according to the Colorado w Association of Realtors. Both me- g dians were up about $100,000 from a o April 2021. s “These prices are not going to stop,” she said. “They’re going to b keep going up.”

Some of Denmon’s Black buyers f won’t budge on the size, amenities a or location of their home. But she b advises that they be more flexible h and get into the market as quickly o p as possible.

Normally homes appreciate at 6% r a year. However, homes in the last D s year in metro Denver have been appreciating at just over 20% per s year. So, if a person buys a house a for $500,000, and the home appreci- p ates at 20%, they will make $100,000 s in equity in one year. i “So I tell everybody, ‘If you’re on the fence, or if you’re waiting, a r jump in now, buy now and don’t wait,”’ Denmon said. “Homeowner- n ship is possible. I can’t stress that a s enough.”

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Though some of the art work has been sold online, many pieces will be available to purchase at the gala Saturday. The artists will receive a share of the proceeds, and the remaining money will be sent back to Ukraine to help pay for items needed by local people such as medical equipment, drones, protective goggles, tactical gloves, clothing and other costly supplies.

Tickets cost $65 for admission and the art range in price, from $400 to just over $5,000.

“We need as many U.S. people locally here, not just the Ukrainian community, to come and experience this,” said Oleynikova, a co-organizer of the event. “At the event, it’s not just going to be the art. I’m having a film presentation. There’s going to be drinks and hors d’oeuvres. It’s going to be a really awesome fun event for people to come to – but also for an awesome cause.”

Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts is one of the oldest art institutions in Ukraine and one of the top design schools in the country.

Most of the artists whose works will be featured at the exhibition, have graduated from that institution, are well-known across Europe and have galleries in Los Angeles, New York and Amsterdam, for example. Many of the artists are now refugees, spread out across Europe and neighboring countries, Manuilenko said.

Many artists were forced to flee from their homes during the war, and left most of their art work behind, but some of the paintings have been saved, and are often cut off from the subframes and exported out of Ukraine by twisted rolls. Cherry Creek Framing in Denver has offered to professionally stretch all of the paintings for free, so that they can be neatly framed, at the exhibit on Saturday. About 40 paintings will be featured, alongside statues and masks.

Some of the artists whose work is in the show have saved money and are now living in other parts of Europe. Some are so distraught they’re not able to paint at all, while others are creating art but have refused to sell their work because it documents

a historical event: everyday life during the war.

Artist Kostyantyn Lyzogub, has joined the Ukrainian armed forces.

He splits his time between creating artwork for a few days, followed by a few more days fighting in the war.

He created a painting that is currently featured on marketing flyers for the event. That painting will be sold at a silent auction at the event.

Painter Polina Kuznetsova could not sleep the first night of the war, and began walking around familiar streets in Kharkiv, taking photographs on empty streets. “Somehow, I was internally saying goodbye to my city,” she said in a short film that will be screened during the event.

The effort to help people under threat in Ukraine will not stop after the art exhibit, Overchuk said. Ukraine Aid Fund and other informal groups of Ukrainians in Colorado will continue sending money and items that are requested by people in the war zone.

“We are connected with a lot of volunteers on the ground. We are sending suitcases with stuff that people need. And the more we’re doing it, the more people hear about it, and the more requests we’re getting,” said Oleynikova, who lives in Colorado, but is originally from Kharkiv.

Ukraine Aid Fund has not been receiving the same level of donations and funding support as it did when the war began and Overchuk attributes that to “diminishing interest” as the war drags on. His organization and other volunteers have had to turn down some requests because they simply don’t have the money, or the bandwidth, to address every request. The organization is now working to increase its current number of volunteers (about 14) and grow its list of donors and subscribers, Overchuk said.

Manuilenko left her home in Kharkiv on the first day of the war, stopping in two other parts of Ukraine before reaching her final destination in Poland one month later. Back in Kharkiv, her neighbor’s home was recently bombed and so he’s now living in her apartment.

As an art curator, Manuilenko has organized art exhibitions all over the world. Rescuing paintings and bringing them to the U.S. was a difficult and unfamiliar task since all airports in Ukraine remain closed.

Iryna Kalyuzhna is one of several Ukrainian artists whose work will be featured and hopefully sold during a fundraising event on Saturday, June 11, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Denver. Kalyuzhna’s sister Daria is pictured here holding up a sample of COURTESY OF MARIYA OLEYNIKOVA Kalyuzhna’s artwork.

When asked to help develop the most-recent fundraising idea, it was Manuilenko who suggested showcasing art with a focus on pieces from Kharkiv, her hometown.

Manuilenko, now a refugee, said she wants to help other Ukrainians in any way possible, because she understands what it means to flee her home.

“Every day I read the news and I can’t live normal because I know that my people are in Ukraine. It’s a very difficult situation,” she said, as she began to cry during an interview earlier this week. Manuilenko has tried to keep her mind off the war by staying focused on planning for Saturday’s event.

She’s hoping to return to Ukraine with her 10 suitcases filled with

medical supplies, such as blood stopping medical gauze, tourniquets and defibrillators. She and event organizers are asking medical organizations and other members of the public to donate medical items ahead of her return on June 20.

Those interested in donating can contact organizers through the Ukraine Aid Fund website or email contact@ukraineaidfund.org.

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FORT LUPTON POLICE BLOTTER

Here are the police reports for May 21 to May 26 to the Fort Lupton Police Department. Not every call made to the police is not listed on this report.

Police arrested a Fort Lupton man, 21, for throwing missiles in the 100 block of McKinley Avenue. He was released on a personal recognizance bond.

C a May 26 h Police issued a summons to a Fort Lupton c man, 51 for causing a careless driving traffic ac- w cident at U.S. Highway 85 and Highway 52. s A Northglenn woman, 29, was arrested for c DUI, protection order violation, possession of

BY BELEN WARD drugs paraphernalia and careless driving acR BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM cident at U.S. Highway 85 and State Highway 52. c May 21 She was held on bond at the Weld County Jail. m A Fort Lupton man, 42, reported his catalytic Police issued a summons to a 17-year-old male P E stolen in the 100 block of Fourth Street. The for causing a careless driving accident in the theft is being investigated.

1000 block of Highway 52. a A Firestone man, 30, was issued a summon for causing a careless driving accident at State t May 22 c Highway 52 and Weld County Road 23.

Police issued a summons to a Corona, CaliforPolice arrested a Greeley woman, 29, for DUI “ nia man, 57, for speeding over 25 mph over the s and careless driving after a traffic accident at limit, weaving, and an open container in the g U.S. Highway 85 at Mile Marker 240. She was 1500 block of North Denver Avenue.

May 26 held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

Police arrested a Fort Lupton man, 51, for a s Police issued a summons to a Westminster An Arvada man, 57, reported his white 2007 domestic violence-related harassment charge in man, 66, at U.S. Highway 52 and Weld County Ford F550 stolen in the 1800 block of North Den- f the 100 block of Birch Avenue. He was held on Road 23 for causing a careless driving accident. ver Avenue. The case was under investigation. H bond at the Weld County Jail. c b BRIEFS w ventional cardiologist at Brighton region’s only Ninja Warrior Course, Each includes a shirt/swag bag Summer Camp with Platte Valley HisHeart and Vascular Institute. guaranteed with entry by Sept. 14. w water slides, a bounce house obstatorical Society This is a walking program for Packets will be available for cle course, a bouncy boxing arena, a Platte Valley Historical Society everyone interested in taking steps h pickup at 4201 E. 72nd Ave. from 3 tractor people mover, face painting, will be offering historical camps the for a healthier lifestyle. After a to 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30. Proceeds m food trucks, shaved ice-cream cones one-room Independence School for benefit a nonprofit that supports law few minutes to learn about a cura and a live concert. students through the eighth grade. rent health topic from the doctor, enforcement and first responders. o The fireworks show at Coyote The society is offering two sesspend the rest of the hour enjoying t For more information, email traCreek Golf Course, courtesy of the sions. Session one runs June 27a healthy walk and a fun conversa- i Fort Lupton Fire Department, starts cykilgore71@gmail.com.

29 and session two from July 11-13. tion. It’s a great way to get out, get t at dusk.

Camps run each week on Monday, Vendor, volunteer and sponsorship ONGOING Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. active and enjoy all the benefits that c c opportunities are available. Call 720till 3 p.m. The program costs $60 per come from walking.

Hours change at historical park 2 928-4071 for more information. week, but tuition help is available.

The South Platte Valley Historical Blessings in a Bag w Eligible students must have Park will be open for public visitaNational Night Out completed 1st through 8th grade. The Fort Lupton’s Backpack Program tion the first weekend of the month Fort Lupton’s observance of school house is located at 2001 Hishelps school children in need with from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and a backpack of healthy food. It’s an National Night Out will be at 4 p.m. toric Parkway, Fort Lupton.

Sundays.

Tuesday, Aug. 2, at Koshio Park, Go to www,spvhs.org and click all-volunteer program and is in Individual tours outside of the 131 McKinley Ave. It’s a chance to on Annual Events, Independence need of volunteers. If interested in first weekend of the month are meet police officers in an informal School for flyer and registration volunteering or donating, call 303available by contacting the society setting. It’s also an opportunity to form or contact LaVon 720-273-3609 718-4440. Mail donations to Blessings at lancaster.lupton@spvhs.org or enjoy hot dogs and hamburgers hot in a Bag, 306 Park Ave., Fort Lupton calling 303-857-9360 and leaving a from the grill. There will be bounce Sign up for Fort Lupton’s summer camp 80621. message. houses, games and a tug-o-war.

2022 is now open.

Camp is for kindergarteners Drop-in child care Splash pad Gummball 5K through fifth-graders. Visit https:// The Fort Lupton Recreation CenThe city of Fort Lupton is searchThe fifth annual Gummball Rally www.fortlupton.org/347/Summerter offers drop-in child care from ing for comments about and sponwill be Saturday, Oct. 1, at Adams Day-Camp for more information.

8:30 to 11 a.m. Mondays and Wednessorships for a new splash pad.

County Regional Park, 9755 Henderdays or Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Sponsor funds will be used for the son Road, Brighton. The 5K walk/ July 4 party is July 2 Call 303-857-4200. splash park and amenities. Call 303run is in honor of former Adams Fort Lupton’s Independence Day 857-6694 County sheriff’s deputy Heath celebration is two days early this Committee openings Gumm, who died in the line of duty year, Saturday, July 2, at the city’s Fort Lupton has openings for Donation time in 2018. recreation center, 203 S. Harrison several of its citizen advisory comThe Fort Lupton Food & ClothThe cost is $30 for racers 13 and Ave. mittees. Visit https://www.fortluping Bank is asking for donations of older and $10 for 12 and younger.

The ingredients didn’t change. tonco.gov/966/I-Want-To-Apply-forcanned fruits and nuts, varieties of Those 12 and younger get in free.

There will be food, fireworks, the a-Committee. dry pasta and pasta dinners, peanut butter and canned meat such as Boards/committees’ openings tuna (including the pouches).

The city of Fort Lupton is lookOther potential donations could ing for volunteers for its historic include chicken, Vienna sausages, preservation board, the Fort Lupton spam and salmon. The bank also Urban Renewal Authority, FLURA needs personal items, such as toiletbusiness representative (a five-year ries and baby needs. term), FLURA alternate member Drop off donations at the food and (term expires March 5, 2023) and clothing bank’s back door, 421 Denlibrary board trustee (term expires ver Ave., weekdays between 9 a.m.

December 2024). and 4:30 p.m. Call 303-857-1096.

Call Alyssa Knutson at 720-466-6128.

May 24 A Johnstown woman, 39 reported the theft of auto parts in the 500 block of 4th Street. The theft is being investigated.

A 17-year-old female was arrested in the 100 block of McKinley Avenue on a Weld County failure to appear warrant for a prior charge of possession of alcohol by a minor. She was released on a personal recognizance bond.

Police arrested an Aurora woman, 28, in the 100 block of South McKinley Avenue on a Weld County warrant for failure to appear on a traffic charge.

She was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

A transient, 26, was arrested in the 800 block of First Street on a Canon City warrant for failure to appear on a traffic offense and a warrant for criminal mischief out of Montgomery, Texas. He was held at the Weld County Jail.

Police took a Greeley man, 27, into custody in the 500 block of South Rollie Avenue on a Fort Collins warrant for failure to appear on a traffic offense.

He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

Teen hangout Teens can stop by the Fort Lupton Pubic & School Library Wednesdays to play crafts, video games and hang out with friends after school.

Walk with a doc Platte Valley Medical Center’s cardiac rehab team and Walk With A Doc will host monthly walks with Dr. Christopher Cannon, an inter-

Fort Lupton senior lunches Senior lunches are available at noon Mondays at the Fort Lupton Recreation Center, 203 S. Harrison Ave. Sign up by noon the previous Thursday. Call 303-857-4200, ext. 6166.

Coffee group Fort Lupton’s weekly coffee group sessions are at 8 a.m. Wednesdays.

Call 303-857-4200.

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June 16, 2022

POLIS FROM PAGE 1

Coloradans’ cost of living. It’s also an example of how the governor has clashed at times with Democrats in the legislature, some of whom have tried to be more aggressive in their approach to addressing climate change.

House Bill 1218 was sponsored by Rep. Alex Valdez, a Denver Democrat, and Sen. Faith Winter, a Westminster Democrat, and Sen. Kevin Priola, a Henderson Republican and EV evangelist.

“I think sometimes when you get a veto it shows that you are really trying to push policy that’s trying to change the paradigm,” Valdez said.

“I generally think it was just pressure from special interests on the governor that got us the veto.”

Valdez said the legislation was simply trying to prepare Colorado for the electric vehicle transition.

He said people who want an electric car in his district can’t buy one because they don’t live in a building where they can charge it.

“This bill is just about getting wires to parking spaces,” he said.

Specifically, the measure would have required developers of new multifamily-housing buildings with at least three units to set aside 20% of the structure’s parking spaces to double as electric-vehicle charging stations and 50% of the spaces to be wired to some day serve as charging stations. Developers of commercial buildings with at least 25,000 square feet of floor space would have been required to set

Governor Jared Polis addresses the State of the Region for Adams County.

aside 10% of parking spaces to double as electric-vehicle charging stations and 25% of spaces to be wired to someday serve as charging stations.

Large, mixed-use buildings — where there are both homes and commercial space — would have also been subject to the rules for commercial buildings. Existing buildings that fit under the bill’s parameters for which renovations were being made to more than 50% of the structure would also have fallen under the requirements.

Single-family homebuilders are already required under a 2020 law to offer electric-vehicle charging stations as part of new construction.

The bill was supported by Tesla, the electric car company, as well as environmental groups, including Colorado Communities for Climate

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Action and the Sierra Club. It was opposed by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, Xcel Energy, the Colorado Association of Home Builders and the Colorado Apartment Association.

Polis said in his veto letter that he wants to work with the legislature on a “future variation of this bill that would provide more flexibility for changing technologies and that we could be clear with research would save people money.”

Priola, one of the bill’s sponsors, found the governor’s words reassuring.

“While I disagree with the governor’s veto, I look forward to addressing any and all concerns and following through with the governor’s commitment to bring back the concept next session,” he said in a statement to The Sun.

PHOTO BY LUKE ZARZECKI

The governor has vetoed at least four bills that passed the legislature this year, though House Bill 1218 is the most substantial measure he has rejected thus far. The other bills he vetoed this year dealt with homeowner’s associations reserve funds, a mental health program for county coroners and mortuary workers, and regulations around music therapists.

Colorado Sun staff writer Michael Booth contributed to this report.

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Misc. Private Legals Public Notice BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO

GOVERN OPERATIONS FOR THE NIOBRARA FORMATION, WATTENBERG FIELD, WELD COUNTY, COLORADO CAUSE NO. 1 DOCKET NO. 220500095 TYPE: GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICE OF HEARING

H&A Mineral Holdings, LLC (“H&A”) and South Weld Holdings, LLC (“South Weld”) (“Applicants”) filed an Application with the Commission pursuant to Rule 503.g.(10) for an order to deny nine Form 2, Applications for Permit to Drill (Form 2) for nine horizontal wells, filed by Verdad Resources LLC (Operator No. 10651) (“Verdad”), to be drilled from an existing location in a drilling and spacing unit established by Order No. 407-2473, on lands identified below. This Notice was sent to you because the Applicant believes you may own oil or gas (“mineral”) interests within the unit.

APPLICATION LANDS Township 1 North, Range 65 West, 6th P.M. Section 29: S½ Section 32: All DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION OF HEARING (Subject to change) The assigned Hearing Officer will hold a hearing only on the above referenced docket number at the following date, time, and location:

Date: August 3, 2022 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Place: Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission The Chancery Building 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 801 Denver, CO 80203 PETITIONS DEADLINE FOR PETITIONS BY AFFECTED PERSONS: July 5, 2022

Any interested party who wishes to participate formally must file a written petition with the Commission no later than the deadline provided above.

Please see Commission Rule 507 at https:// cogcc.state.co.us, under “Regulation,” then select “Rules.” Please note that, under Commission Rule 510.l, the deadline for petitions may only be continued for good cause, even if the hearing is continued beyond the date that is stated above.

Pursuant to Commission Rule 507, if you do not file a proper petition, the Hearing Officer will not know that you wish to formally participate in this matter and the date and time of the hearing may change without additional notice to you. Parties wishing to file a petition must register online at https://oitco.hylandcloud.com/DNRCOGExternalAccess/Account/Login.aspx and select “Request Access to Site.” Please refer to our “eFiling Users Guidebook” at http://cogcc/documents/reg/Hearings/External_ Efiling_System_Handbook_December_2021_Final.pdf for more information. Under Commission Rule 508, if no petition is filed, the Application may be approved administratively without a formal hearing.

Any Affected Person who files a petition must be able to participate in a prehearing conference during the week of July 5, 2022, if a prehearing conference is requested by the Applicant or by any person who has filed a petition.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information, you may review the Application, which was sent to you with this Notice.

You may also contact the Applicant at the phone number or email address listed below.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if any party requires special accommodations as a result of a disability for this hearing, please contact Margaret Humecki at Cogcc.

Hearings_Unit@state.co.us, prior to the hearing and arrangements will be made.

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO By: Mimi C. Larsen, Commission Secretary Dated: May 24, 2022 H&A Mineral Holdings, LLC South Weld Holdings, LLC c/o Steven Louis-Prescott Morgan L. Simpson Hamre, Rodriguez, Ostrander, & Dingess, P.C. 3600 S. Yosemite Street, Suite 500 Denver, CO 80211 303-779-0200 sprescott@hrodlaw.com msimpson@hrodlaw.com Legal Notice No. FLP645 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: July 14, 2022 Publisher: Fort Lupton Press

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