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Elizabeth voters will rule on lodging fee April 3 election to include question despite current lack of hotels or motels BY TOM MUNDS TMUNDS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
and then at Aspen Academy school in Greenwood Village. He came out of retirement in 2014 to teach math at Elizabeth High School in 2014. Later that year, at the request of 30 students, he started an afterschool film club that two years later became the audio-visual class. In start of the 2016-17 academic year it was certified as a career technical education program that is state-approved, so the students receive college credit for the class through Pikes Peak Community College. Programs by all three of his audio-visual programs have won state awards. The Elizabeth High School program won a 2016
When Elizabeth residents vote in the April 3 municipal election, in addition to choosing a mayor and two members of the town board of trustees, they will be deciding whether a proposed hotel/motel room fee becomes law. Grace Erickson, town public information officer, said the members of the board of trustees voted unanimously Jan. 23 to place the room fee issue on the April ballot. “We know of no plans to build a hotel or motel in our city at this time, but the trustees want the room fee in place when it does happen,” she said. “A similar measure was on the ballot in 2016 and failed. We believe it wasn’t well received because we didn’t do a good job of getting out the word about why the trustees wanted this law passed.” The final 2016 vote count showed 435 residents voted no while 255 voted to approve the measure. Rachael Welch, Elizabeth mayor pro tem, said the proposal is a measure to look ahead to the future, which has been discussed by the trustees for several years. “Just about every community has a room fee in place. So we feel public lodging will be built in Elizabeth in the future and we would like to have voter approval for the room fee provision in advance of that construction,” she said. “We want to stress this is not a tax residents will be required to pay. It will be paid by those who stay in the rooms of the hotel or motel when one is built in our city.” She said Elizabeth is not a home rule mu-
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EZTV anchors Alyssa Beeve, left, and Chris Dolan check over the script before the Jan. 25 taping of their introduction to the features on the “TV Tuesday” program that was aired on all Elizabeth High School classroom whiteboards on Jan. 30. Everything included in that and other “TV Tuesday” broadcasts is created by the students in the Audio Visual III class. TOM MUNDS
`TV Tuesdays’ is a hit at school
Students create program that runs in classrooms every other week BY TOM MUNDS TMUNDS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Every other week the studentcreated, award-winning “TV Tuesdays” program is aired to the whiteboards in every Elizabeth High School classroom. Hundreds of student hours of planning, preparation, shooting videos and production culminate in the 10-minute program about school and community activities
and events. Dan Marcus, who teaches the audio-video classes at EHS, said that ever part of each program’s work is done by students. “Students begin by deciding on the subjects for each broadcast, planning the work flows shooting the video, editing it and producing the program. I am there to advise them on techniques but they do all the work,” Marcus said. “The broadcast of the program launches the beginning of two weeks’ preparation for the next program.” The Castle Rock resident taught math for most of his 44-year career. He began teaching audio-visual programs in 2005, first at LewisPalmer High School in Monument
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