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Letter To The Editor

South Suburban changes needed I want to express my thanks and appreciation to reporter Nina Joss and editor elma Grimes for their reporting and opinion of South Suburban Parks & Rec. I too would like more transparency and forthright communications from this special district board. I also want to see changes in their election processes, including all registered voter residents automatically receiving a ballot.

With an annual budget of $128M I think they should prioritize the expense to involve as many citizens as possible. ey also need to

ERIN ADDENBROOKE Marketing Consultant eaddenbrooke@coloradocommunitymedia.com he was very comfortable running 5K and 10K races, and usually placed well. She often thought about stretching herself to run a half marathon and then one day, a full marathon. As her dreams about training harder and running longer races took shape, she found herself returning to her comfortable training regime and settled once again for training to run inthose 5K and 10K races. en one day, she decided to go for it. She made a commitment to break free from her comfort zone and train harder and run farther. She woke up earlier and each day that she ran, she pushed herself just a little bit farther until she could comfortably nish a half marathon. And after that, she left that comfort zone and began training even harder to compete in a full marathon, and last year successfully ran in the NYC Marathon.

When asked if she had plans on returning to her former routines of

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improve the in-person voting and ballot drop-o options. e past few elections have had a dismal turnout, but as I am unable to nd the exact numbers my best guess is less than 1% participation.

Lastly, as stated by Ms. Grimes, “Do you need to be reminded that you are a board that can increase property taxes at will without a special election?” is is a concern as property taxes are reported to increase by as much as 40%. e 2023 amended budget lists property tax revenue as almost $27.8 million. A

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