Citizen's for a Livable Ralston Community

by John Kiljan, 

Dear CLRC members and friends, 

We’re still catching up on neighborhood happenings.  Here are a few more.  

NEW PEDESTRIAN CROSSING AT ESTES STREET?

In late April we reported that the signalized pedestrian crossing recently removed from Ralston Road at Field Street would not be replaced after construction.  That’s still true, but City Traffic says it recognizes the need for at least one new pedestrian crossing between Garrison Street and Carr Street.

The location for a new crossing might not be chosen until after the new park at Garrison Street opens up late next year.  Right now, it’s unclear where young adults going from the new Wolff Park and the Arvada K-8 school to the reconstructed Garrison Street park will want to cross the road.  Sidewalks on the south side of the road are often icy in winter, and there are segments with no sidewalks at all along the north side of the Ralston Road.  It’s also uncertain how much pedestrian traffic will be attracted to the new (in 2013) safe-routes-to-school sidewalk along the west side of the Arvada Community Gardens.

Nevertheless, City Manager Mark Deven says it is highly likely that a new Ralston Road crossing will be installed at or near Estes Street.  That won’t be easy.  City traffic engineer Patty Lorence says design standards for safe pedestrian crossings have changed a lot since the old Field Street pedestrian crossing was built in the 1960′s.  There are now stricter spacing requirements for adjacent private driveways.  Private driveways are frequent along this part of Ralston Road.

The only practical way to meet those new requirements may be to build a fully signalized (and more expensive) intersection at Estes Street.  But Mr Deven says there is certainly a need for a safe crosswalk there, and the City can move quickly on construction once a decision has been made.  Estes Street is halfway between Carr and Garrison streets. 

HAZARDS AT THE CLOSED PARK

Unlike many construction sites, the park at Garrison Street can’t be completely fenced off during construction.  Gaps (and pull downs) in the orange plastic construction fencing are frequent.  This makes it tempting for nearby residents (or their kids) to wander in and have a look around after construction hours — or just to take a shortcut through the park at anytime.  Open postholes, scattered nails, broken sidewalks, asbestos, demolition debris, soft embankments and the like aren’t the only hazards on the construction site.  Even the orange fencing itself can give someone a nasty cut if they brush against it the wrong way.

There is another hazard, too:  You might get busted.  Contractors want a safe workplace and they expect the City police to help protect their work and equipment from vandalism when they are not there.  Here’s a short quote from a recent YourHub crime page that underscores the risk of trespass in the closed park:  “On April 19, an Arvada Police officer observed a man on a bike riding across the street at [Ralston Road] and Field Street.  The man then threw his bike over the top of an orange construction fence that was around a closed park and cut the fence so he could get through.  He was issued a summons for criminal mischief.”

OPEN HOUSE ON PARK RECONSTRUCTION

Despite a strong effort by the City to get information out to the public, many people have been surprised by the start of heavy construction at the Garrison Street park.  If you are one of them, or if, like me, you are just wondering what the impacts of construction will be on your own part of the neighborhood, you should mark your calendar for Tuesday June 5th, 6:00 pm to 8:00pm.   An open-house meeting is being held that evening by District 3 City Council member Shelley Cook.  City Staff will be there to provide information and to answer any questions about the park’s reconstruction and flood control work.  The meeting will be open to everyone and will be held in the ground floor Atrium inside City Hall.

And, while you are marking your calendars, make a note of the date of the next Citizens for a Livable Ralston Community‘s general meeting.  The CLRC’s annual meeting will be held from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm on Thursday July 19th at the old public library — now the Arvada Community Food Bank.  Look for additional CLRC articles on both of these meetings as information becomes available.

OLDE TOWN ROAD CLOSURES

Expect to see traffic patterns changing around Olde Town next month — as well as a few backups — as Olde Wadsworth is closed south of Grandview for about six weeks.  The utility work that is the beginning of construction for the Gold Line in Olde Town has already started on Vance Street and that work is expected to close a segment of Grandview next week.  Utility work will then move onto Olde Wadsworth soon after.  Both RTD and the City are expected to post frequent closure and construction information on their websites.  There’s more on that below.

Coming CLRC Notes:  Apex’s 2020 recreation plans, park project cost underruns, CLRC’s spring/summer meeting plans, parking developments in Olde Town, the condition of Memorial Park and more.

WHERE TO FIND OUT MORE

The new safe-routes-to-school sidewalk to be built from 57th Avenue down the hill to Ralston Road along the Garrison Street alignment was the subject of a previous CLRC Notes article at this link:

http://ralstoncommunity.org/2012/04/26/clrc-notes-neighborhood-updates-part-2-pedestrian-safety/

As with these notes, you should be able to enlarge any picture by simply clicking on it.

The City puts out updates on the park’s construction progress from time to time on this web page:

http://arvada.org/parks-and-recreation/garrison-street-north-jeffco-park-renovation

There is no Arvada.org web page just for Gold Line construction, but the City does put out periodic notices.  Here is a link to the most recent one I’ve seen concerning road closures in Olde Town:

http://arvada.org/about-arvada/commuter-rail-construction-is-coming/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cityofarvada-news+%28City+of+Arvada+Headlines%29&utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail 

RTD does have a website that has updates on FasTracks road construction closures.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t have anticipated reopening dates.  Still, this is a good link to bookmark:

http://www.rtd-fastracks.com/ep3_26

Or you can contact the contractor’s representative for the Gold Line and ask to be put on their email list for construction notices.  Email Tariana Navas-Nieves at Tariana.Navas@dtpjv.com or call her at 303-576-3352 or 720-775-9582 (cell).

The Citizens for a Livable Ralston Community has a website at http://www.ralstoncommunity.org/ with all of our past posts on these subjects.  You can also friend us on Facebook.  Our name is ‘Ralston Arvada.’

 John Kiljan, CLRC Notes: 303-423-9875 or jpkiljan@yahoo.com

by John Kiljan

In a close three-way race for two openings on the Apex Park and Recreation District Board of Directors, incumbents Lee Humrich and Jeff Glenn were reelected to four-year terms.  Candidate Carolyn Jacobs trailed Glenn by only four votes.  

The publicly supported Apex P&RD owns and manages most of the public recreational facilities in Arvada, including the buildings at Lutz/Stenger, the Apex Center itself, several swimming pools, the Indian Tree Golf Club and the Community Center on Wadsworth Boulevard.

Here’s the announcement from the ApexPRD.org website:

“Official results of the May 8 Apex Park and Recreation District Board of Directors election were announced on Wednesday, May 9. The top two vote-getters were Lee Humrich with 223 votes and Jeff Glenn with 207 votes. Carolyn J. Jacobs received 203 votes. Humrich and Glenn will be sworn in on Thursday, May 17 at the next regular board meeting, set for 6 pm at Indian Tree Golf Club, 7555 Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada.”

WHERE TO FIND OUT MORE

For more election information call Luann Levine, Apex’s designated election official, at 303-403-2518.

The Citizens for a Livable Ralston Community will post more information online on its website at www.RalstonCommunity.org as it becomes available.  You can also friend us on Facebook.  Our name is “Ralston Arvada.”

 John Kiljan, CLRC News: 303-423-9875 or jpkiljan@yahoo.com

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by John Kiljan

Dear CLRC members and friends, 

Your vote on Tuesday counts more than in most elections.  Votes from our neighborhoods count in two ways: 

Your vote helps decide who will represent us as the park and recreation district makes some very important decisions on its upcoming bond proposal.  But a high vote count from the neighborhoods around the central Ralston Road corridor also raises the profile of our neighborhoods and local recreational needs.  In the past Apex board elections have been won or lost by a small handful of votes. 

If you have not already applied for and received a main-ballot, you will have to go to one of two polling places in Arvada to vote in this election.  The polls will be open May 8th from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at these locations:

The Apex Center

13150 W 72nd Avenue

and at the

Community Recreation Center

(aka the Senior Center)

6842 Wadsworth Boulevard

There are two board openings and three candidates are running.  You can vote for one or two candidates from the list of three. 

Who to vote for?  The CLRC doesn’t endorse candidates.  You have to make that decision yourself, but to help out our members we interviewed each of the candidates running for the board.  You can read those interviews by going to our website at www.RalstonCommunity.org or you can click on the links below for each candidate.

Lee Humrich  http://wp.me/p1ecMV-8y

Jeff Glenn  http://wp.me/p1ecMV-8D

Carolyn Jacobs  http://wp.me/p1ecMV-8u

WHERE TO FIND OUT MORE

The Citizens for a Livable Ralston Community regularly posts information on its website at http://www.ralstoncommunity.org/ as it becomes available.  Or you can friend us on Facebook.  Our name is ‘Ralston Arvada.’

 John Kiljan, CLRC Notes: 303-423-9875 or jpkiljan@yahoo.com

by John Kiljan

Dear CLRC members and friends,  

There’s lots to catch up on in our neighborhoods.  Last week we covered some personnel changes.  This week we’ll go over pedestrian and cyclist happenings along the central Ralston Road corridor.

THE PARK IS NOW CLOSED

We had beautiful weather during the weekend as the Garrison Street park was left open for the last time for walking, cycling, games of frisbee catch, kite flying, gold panning and crawdad fishing.  The North Jeffco Community Park and Hoskinson Park are now closed to pedestrians and cyclists for the duration of heavy construction. 

Closed too is the north sidewalk along Ralston Road.  Both the pedestrian crossing at Field Street (more information on that below) and the north-side bus stop have been removed.  The plastic orange construction fencing closing off the construction site now runs from Holland Street to Carr Street, and Brooks Drive itself is the designated detour route for pedestrians and cyclists using the Ralston Creek Trail.

While it might be possible to reopen some of the park before construction is complete, users shouldn’t count on it.  Pedestrian safety seems to be the first concern for the City and even construction sites that are idle over the weekend are still a hazard for children and grownups.  The entire reconstruction project is now scheduled to be complete in October of 2013.

SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL (SRTS)

The fall of 2013 is also when a new bike and pedestrian trail is scheduled to be completed on the unpaved stretch of road on Garrison Street between Ralston Road and 57th Avenue.  The City was able to capture a $135 thousand SRTS grant from the federal government to replace the slippery dirt “beaver slide” that now runs down the hill next the Arvada Community Gardens. 

The dirt footpath is currently signed to prohibit bicycles, but kids and adults use it anyway.  Check your brakes first and try a run down the hill on your bike when the weather is dry.  It’s a hoot.  The new path will still have to deal with steep grades and have a separation rail next to the open Swadley Ditch, but it will be a lot safer for kids going to school when the project is done.  The new walkway should also be wheelchair (ADA) accessible when complete. 

TRAFFIC CALMING ON INDEPENDENCE

You may have noticed the electronic YOUR SPEED signs on both sides of Independence Street at about 53rd Avenue.  District 3 Councilor Shelley Cook reports that they are temporary installations intended to gauge how effective these smart signs are in reducing speeding in residential areas.  Wheat Ridge has adopted similar signs on 44th Avenue. 

Arvada has not yet finalized its own traffic calming policy.  The sticking point may be the required financial match from the local neighborhoods.  But City Traffic seems to be taking a proactive stance by gathering data now on which traffic calming methods work the best and which don’t.  In addition to telling you your speed, the signs flash a strobe light at you when you are speeding. 

The idea is to encourage voluntary compliance.  This type of speed detection system is not used to issue citations. 

When asked about the temporary signs, Traffic Engineer Patty Lorence issued this statement:

“The City is testing solar powered radar speed signs for use on streets with long-standing speeding problems such as Independence Street between W. 51st and W. 53rd Avenues.  The effectiveness of these signs is under evaluation.  Further application of these signs is in the development stage.  More information will be provided when it becomes available.”

There is growing concern about traffic on Independence Street generated by the construction of the new FasTracks commuter rail station and the nearby Arvada Ridge apartments being built just north of the Target shopping center.  Speeding is already a problem on Independence and there have been frequent hits on residential fencing from errant vehicles.  At a Council workshop held last month, Councilor Bob Dyer said he thought the City should consider providing direct access to the station from the Kipling Parkway to reduce the impacts of traffic on nearby residential streets such as Independence. 

FIELD STREET PED CROSSING NOT TO BE REPLACED

The City has recently decided that the Field Street pedestrian crossing on Ralston Road will not be replaced after construction.  The existing pedestrian crossing, which has been in place for decades, was permanently removed last week.  We don’t yet know whether the westbound bus stop will be reinstalled at its old location after construction.

Removing the crossing makes sense.  Leaving the crossing in place during the park’s reconstruction would not have been safe.  The City’s construction plans also call for removing the existing (and now closed) sidewalk along Ralston Road.  Those plans show a new sidewalk being built that will be set back from current walk and the arterial road.

But the decision not to replace the crossing after construction may come as a surprise to area residents who followed the development of the Ralston Road Corridor Plan last year.  That plan, which the Council did not approve, called for a significant increase in the number of pedestrian crossings along Ralston Road with a spacing of no more than 500 feet between them — and spaced as close as 330 feet in some locations.  Councilor Dyer quipped that even Boulder doesn’t put in that many pedestrian crossings.

Initially, the plan called for replacing the pedestrian crossing at Field Street with a crossing a little farther to the east — possibly at Estes Street.  Even if a replacement crossing were installed at Estes Street that would still leave a space of over a 1000 feet between a new pedestrian crossing at Estes Street and the signalized intersections at Garrison and Carr Streets.  Garrison and Carr are 2100 feet apart.

Moreover, there may be even more demand for a replacement crossing after 2013 than there was before construction started.  Originally, the Field Street ped crossing was put in to serve the Fisher Pool.  In addition to the normal attraction of a large central park, Apex has been predicting that the new splash pad to be installed in the park to replace the Fisher Pool will be a big draw for children of all ages.

Coming notes:  park construction and project cost underruns, CLRC’s spring/summer meeting plans, parking developments in Olde Town, next month’s Apex elections, the condition of Memorial Park and more.

WHERE TO FIND OUT MORE

The City has a web site with a link to its up-to-date schedule for the reconstruction of both the Garrison Street park and the new Wolff Park at Ralston Road and Carr Street.  Here’s the link to the web page 

http://arvada.org/about-arvada/garrison-street-project-update/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cityofarvada-news+%28City+of+Arvada+Headlines%29&utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail

 and here is the link to the static file that is now current:

 http://static.arvada.org/docs/1331134411Updated_timeline_Wolff_Park_and_Garrison_St._Project.pdf

 The City contact for the new Garrison Street ped/bike path is Anne Tully.  You can email her at atully@arvada.org and she can send you a copy of a PDF file that shows where the new trail will run.

The final draft of the Ralston Road Corridor Plan is still available online as part of a City Council packet for July 25, 2011.  You should be able to download it by clicking on this link:

http://www.arvadarecords.org/councilpacket/past_week/2011…..07-25-2011, Council Meeting Packet.pdf

The discussion on the pedestrian environment on Ralston Road begins on page 103 of the file (the report page is Page 51).

The Citizens for a Livable Ralston Community has a website at http://www.ralstoncommunity.org/ with all of our past posts.  Or you can friend us on Facebook.  Our name is ‘Ralston Arvada.’

 John Kiljan, CLRC Notes: 303-423-9875 or jpkiljan@yahoo.com

by John Kiljan

 Dear CLRC members and friends,  

 In addition to the start of construction in the new park, a lot of other things have been happening in the neighborhood in the last few months, and it’s time for a quick rundown on a few of them.  Let’s start with some job changes that may affect us.

Both of our veteran area reporters, Karen Groves with YourHub.com and Megan Quinn with the Arvada Press, are moving onto new assignments elsewhere in the metro area.  Each has covered Arvada for many years and both have been valuable assets for our neighborhoods.  Coverage of the community gardens, the reconstruction of the Garrison Street park, various community events, charitable activities and new businesses have helped tie our community together over that time.   

Karen will be covering Golden and is being replaced by Heather Sackett in Arvada.  Heather has been a YourHub reporter covering Douglas County.  She can be reached at 303-954-2457 or at hsackett@denverpost.com (@YHHeather on Twitter).  Megan is moving to an assignment in Broomfield and the paper has not yet decided on a replacement, but Arvada Press editor Mikkel Kelly will be the contact person for local news coverage until they do.  Mr Kelly can be reached at 279-5541 ext 232 or at mkelly@ourcoloradonews .

News coverage by the City of Arvada will be changing too.  The City will soon be hiring a new public information officer to replace Maria Vanderkolk who resigned last year.  Susan Medina of the Arvada Police Department has been filling in for her while still handling her duties as the Arvada PD’s spokesperson.  Despite stiff qualification requirements, the City received over a hundred applications to fill the vacancy.  Whomever we get should be pretty good.  Our new City public information officer is expected to be skilled in the use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter as well as the more traditional news outlets the City has such as the Arvada Report, the news bulletins that regularly pop up on Arvada.org and the City’s official press releases.

And that’s not the only important vacancy to be filled at City Hall.  When he started his job last year, the new Manager found that he had 14 employees on the City staff reporting directly to him.  A more usual number for an upper management position would be only five or six direct supervisions. 

Mr Deven plans to hire an additional Deputy City Manager to spread out the management responsibility and workload.  He’ll be using the vacancy created when long-time Director of Public Works, Jim Root, retired last year.  And, again, over a hundred applications to fill the new slot have been received in response to the job posting.

Things will be changing too at the Arvada Police Department.  Chief Don Wick plans to adopt a new management plan that pushes responsibility down to lower levels within the Arvada PD.  It’s called Sector Command.  It’s simply a community-based policing approach that relies less on the more traditional hierarchical and centralized command structure the Arvada PD and many other police departments have used over the years.  The new management plan is loaded with performance tracking measures so that the City and the public can see how well the Department is doing over time.  You can read more about the Sector Command structure by following the PowerPoint link at the bottom of these notes.

Coming notes:  pedestrian safety, park reconstruction, traffic calming on Independence, park reconstruction, CLRC meeting plans, changes to our website, parking developments in Olde Town, and more.

WHERE TO FIND OUT MORE

The Arvada Police Department’s Sector Command plan outline can be found at this link: 

http://arvada.org/DM/getDoc.php?doc=349823&title=01.A.+Discussion+of+Adoption+of+the+Police+Sector%2c+Area%2c+command+Model+by+the+Arvada+Police+Department 

The Citizens for a Livable Ralston Community has a website at http://www.ralstoncommunity.org/ with all of our past posts.  Or you can friend us on Facebook.  Our name is ‘Ralston Arvada.’

 John Kiljan, CLRC Notes: 303-423-9875 or jpkiljan@yahoo.com

by John Kiljan

Background:  The Apex Park and Recreation District (Apex P&RD) is having an election.  The Apex P&RD covers nearly the entire City of Arvada and a few areas in Jefferson County.  Its recreational activities are funded through a combination of your property taxes, user fees and public grants.

 This interview was held April 2nd and is one in a series of interviews with candidates for the Apex P&RD’s Board of Directors.  The Citizens for a Livable Ralston Community offered each of the candidates an opportunity to respond to local CLRC issues and concerns related to recreation and to comment on them in an informal discussion.  The interviewer was the CLRC’s T.O. Owens and this writer did the follow-up questions. 

There are three candidates for the two open positions on the Apex P&RD Board.  Terms are for four years.  The election is scheduled for May 8th, but those who have already requested a mail-in ballot from Apex will be able to vote as early as mid-April. 

Your vote counts more than in most elections for public office.  Apex P&RD elections are typically won by small margins with only a few hundred people voting.

The Candidate:  Jeff Glenn is a current Apex Board member completing his first four-year term with the District.  He is the Board’s Vice President.

Mr Glenn works as an independent furniture manufacturer’s representative.  He currently lives in the Candlelight Valley community west of Ward Road, but he grew up in Lake Arbor.  He’s lived in Arvada for the last 40 years and graduated from Pomona High School.  He and his wife, Amy, have two teen-aged children — a son and a daughter. 

Jeff runs a local youth football organization and is the President of the Jeffco Midget Football Association (JMFA).  He has a family member who has suffered from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and he volunteers for the Arthritis Foundation.   

INTERVIEW NOTES

On Recreational Opportunities Leaving the Central Ralston Road Community:  I do think we need to bring recreational facilities back into the areas near the central Ralston Road corridor.  Obviously Apex is working closely with the City of Arvada on the new replacement park at Garrison Street, and on the new park next to the Arvada K-8 Park (now called the Wolff Park).  The addition of the splash deck to the park at Garrison Street will be a great amenity.  We think we will even be adding back more playground features there than the park had before.  But, unfortunately, the voters in the District twice decided not to pass a bond issue to rebuild the old Fisher Pool.  I swam in the Fisher Pool as a kid and I thought it was a shame to see it go.  I wish we had the funding to do something about it. 

On Apex’s Vision 2020 Review Committee:  I would disagree with the assertion that the people most affected by the loss of local recreation are not represented on the Vision 2020 Review Committee.  Shelley Cook is on that committee as one of the City Council’s representatives and she represents your neighborhoods.  When the original 2020 committee was set up seven years ago, there was a public notice so that people could sign up for the committee.   It was our Executive Director’s decision that we should look back at that original group and take a cross section of folks from it to represent different areas within Apex and then invite some other people he thought would balance out the panel.  It wasn’t Mike Miles himself picking the panel members, but rather Mike and his staff recommending that approach to the Board of Directors.  

On Partnering with Other Agencies:  I absolutely believe there are opportunities to work with the City and with Arvada’s urban renewal authority (AURA) to bring recreational facilities back to your area.  As an example, Apex was an active participant in the public planning workshops (aka ‘charrettes’) held in late 2010 for the replacement facilities at the Garrison Street park.

Also, Apex won a ‘Collaboration Award’ from the Special District Association of Colorado at its annual conference held in Breckenridge last September. I’m particularly proud of that award, having worked on a coordinating committee with the Arvada City Council.    I think our relationship with the City and AURA is now as good as it has ever been.  We’ve worked with the City on the Garrison Street park and the new K-8 park.  And we continue to talk with them about future projects.

On the Upcoming Bond Proposal and the Possibility of Recreational Facilities Near the Triangle Area:  Apex has identified the need to go to the voters to renew its 1998 bonds that are set to expire in 2016.  We want to do that to facilitate what we feel is a desperate need for recreation on the east side of Arvada.  However, the phrase ‘east side’ has different meanings to different people.  Some think that means east of Oak Street and others see that as being east of Wadsworth Boulevard.  And what is the east side has changed as Arvada has grown westward, now all the way to Coal Creek Canyon.  I see the east side — geographically speaking, but not necessarily population-wise — as being anything east of Kipling. 

The Vision 2020 Review Committee will have a lot of impact on what projects we decide to include in the upcoming bond renewal proposal.  I believe it is a well-thought-out process and the committee is a well put together panel.  The Apex Board will pay a lot of attention to their recommendations.

On Funding Recreational Facilities:  I’ve heard that our Executive Director told the charrettes participants that the old Fisher Pool was running an operational deficit of $200,000 a year.  As far as setting up a separate taxing sub-district within Apex to support the operational cost of a replacement pool, yes, that’s something that I would definitely be interested in learning more about.  If the City of Arvada were to build, operate and maintain a replacement recreational facility for the area, that would be acceptable to me.

I know that our intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with Arvada doesn’t allow the City operate ‘active’ recreational facilities within Apex’s district.  But, yes, I would support changing the current IGA between the City and Apex to allow the City to operate and maintain its own home-owners-association-sized recreational facilities, with features such as a clubhouse, pool and meeting rooms, within the District.  But, have you considered setting up your own limited-liability partnership to run such a facility?  The Lake Arbor area also has this kind of potential.  The current Secrest location is not the only one being considered for new recreational facilities by the District.

Yes, I’m pretty certain that Apex will go for an extension of the current bond mill levies.  That will not happen this year, nor in 2013. But it could be as soon as 2014 or any year after that.  The 1998 bonds were to have expired in 2018, but we refinanced them to pay them off a little earlier to take advantage of lower market interest rates, so they now expire in 2016.

I can’t say I’m supportive of setting up an Apex sub-district to fund the incremental costs of operating and maintaining local recreational facilities in your neighborhood.  I’d have to get more information first.  Even if the sub-district were setup to fund maintenance and operations itself, it would depend upon what it would cost us to be a part of our District.  The incremental income from the sub-district might not cover the costs.  I wouldn’t necessarily oppose it, but the public has told us in survey after survey, and in round tables and the like, that we shouldn’t build anything we can’t maintain. 

Last Thoughts:  I appreciate the CLRC for helping get the word out about the election.  It’s much appreciated.  Also, I’ve been to your website — cool!

WHERE TO FIND OUT MORE

Jeff Glenn can be reached at 303-748-7762 (cell) or by email at

jeffg@apexprd.org

Currently, there is no website for his campaign and donations are not being accepted.

The Special District Association of Colorado, referenced above, has a website at

http://www.sdaco.org/

Here’s a link to the Apex Park and Recreation’s website on the election:

http://apexprd.org/apex-park-recreation-district-board-directors-election-8-2012

It has a link to request a mail-in ballot and who to call to get more information.

The polls will be open May 8th from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at two locations:

Apex Center

13150 W 72nd Avenue

and at the

Community Recreation Center

6842 Wadsworth Boulevard

Note:  In past Apex elections, most have chosen to vote by mail-in ballot.  However, even if you are already registered as a voter, you will not automatically receive a mail-in ballot.  Voters must apply for one directly to Apex, either in person or by mail, by the end of April.  Call Luanne Levine at Apex at 303-403-2518 for more information.

Carolyn Jacobs and Lee Humrich are also running for these Board vacancies.  The CLRC does not endorse candidates for elected office.  However, interviews for all three of the candidates for the Apex Board vacancies can be found by going to the Citizens for a Livable Ralston Community’s website at www.RalstonCommunity.org

 John Kiljan, CLRC News: 303-423-9875 or jpkiljan@yahoo.com

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