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Northglenn names new city manager Former Commerce City deputy John Hayes wants to foster growth in return to Northglenn Staff report Former Commerce City staffer John Hayes, who served a variety of roles in Northglenn through 2011, is returning as the new city manager. Hayes will take over for John Pick, who resigned in July 2015. After a unanimous appointment at the March 14 city council meeting, the former deputy city manager of Commerce City will assume his new duties April 18. His salary is $158,400. “I am honored and exHayes cited ...,” said Hayes, who was Northglenn’s director of Planning and Development from Hayes continues on Page 7
Good sportsmanship abounds for the start of the Project Unify tournament as Mountain Range Project Unify co-coach Amy Smith visits at center court with Horizon’s Andrea Cisneros March 18 following the Mustang’s 41-35 victory over the visiting Hawks. Project Unify is a two-week, round-robin basketball tournament between Adams 12 Five Star Schools and is part of the 2016 Special Olympics’ Unified Sports program, which promotes social inclusion between people with and without intellectual disabilities through shared sports training and competition. Read more on PAGE 22. Photo by Stefan Brodsky
Popular local state senator County approves inmate Affordable housing will not seek care, renewable energy takes center stage second term Meanwhile, oil and gas discussions are due to return as end to moratorium on new development nears
Westminster, Thornton legislators lament property costs in light of population boom
By Gene Sears Special to Colorado Community Media
By Gene Sears Special to Colorado Community Media
Discussions on inmate care and renewable energy topped the Adams County Commissioners March 15 meeting along with a brief mention of oil and gas, as the end of a six-week moratorium on new drilling development looms. Suzanne Cabral of the North Metro Neighbors for Safe Energy expressed frustration over the commission’s failure to respond to research materials she said she provided over the past several months, including documents, emails and videos to each board member. “When I started this, I was under the impression that once our elected officials had this information, things would move, that the information would be
regarded,” Cabral said. “I know that we have a difference of opinion — mine is based on science.” Commissioners thanked Cabral for her comments but did not respond otherwise. Commissioners were expected to announce a decision at their regular meeting March 22, after this publication went to print, on whether to end the moratorium on new oil and gas permitting and development. Commissioner Eva Henry said about halfway through the moratorium that progress was being made toward a compromise and she didn’t foresee the halt to production continuing. At that same time, Adams County’s public information director Jim Siedlecki said no County continues on Page 3
Being recently ranked in a national survey as having some of the best places in the country to live comes with a cost: That distinction — bestowed upon Denver and Colorado Springs — has created some of the fastest-rising housing costs in the nation. Addressing the issue at a Town Hall meeting March 19 at Ciancio’s restaurant in Westminster were senators Jessie Ulibarri (D-21) and Beth Martinez-Humenik (D24), who along with constituents focused discussion on Housing continues on Page 3
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Affordable housing is no longer low-income housing. That’s just not the case in Colorado anymore.”
Sara Reynolds, Housing Colorado
Adams County District 21 representative and Thornton grad Ulibarri to join national nonprofit organization By Jeremy Johnson jjohnson@coloradocommunitymedia.com A popular state senator representing the area where he grew up announced last week he will not seek a second term this November despite winning in 2013 by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Rep. Jessie Ulibarri (D-21) announced March 18 in a letter sent out by email and posted on his Facebook page that he will not seek re-election Ulibarri for a second term in the Colorado State Senate. “I want you to know that I did not come to the decision lightly,” Ulibarri wrote. “My four years in the Senate have been the most rewarding and the most
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Ulibarri continues on Page 10