Lakewood Informer

Lakewood City Council Member Jeslin Shahrezaei joined us on January 6, 2023, to discuss a variety of issues. Starting with her views on the Moms Demand Action meetings, meeting disruptions, and how the process should work. Thank you, Councilor, for continuing through an especially bumbly interview - I won't quit my day job. Council Member...

Council Member Charley Able joined us on December 29 to discuss the meetings regarding incentives for the Lakewood City Manager. Those meetings resulted in first, a denial of executive session on December 5th, followed by a public meeting wherein members accuse Lakewood Mayor Paul of muting their microphones. (a second attempt to reach Mayor Paul...

LakewoodInformer reached out to Mayor Paul for comment on muting. It was (still is) the holidays so we gave it a few days but wanted to report that as of now, there is no comment from the mayor of Lakewood, Colorado. We will always take comment from those involved in our stories. Email sent: Dear...

After the Moms Demand Action came to a Lakewood City Council meeting, a rumor started that they were invited by City Council Member Jeslin Shahrezaei. I asked Councilor Shahrezaei herself and she denies that she invitated them. A CORA (Colorado Open Records Act) request on correspondence regarding that meeting and the documents support her claim....

Council Member Rich Olver graciously sat down with us on December 22, to talk about the recent meeting where he was muted during discussions regarding incentives for the Lakewood City Manager. I have cut the video into a couple parts for viewability. Both contain information and news for Lakewood, Colorado Part 1: How the job...

Authored by Jeffrey A. Roberts via Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition Three Lakewood City Council members are raising free-speech concerns after Mayor Adam Paul muted two of their microphones while they spoke during a Monday meeting on Zoom convened to consider changes to the city manager’s contract. “You did not mute the other councilors who...

Produced by Brother Jeff via Jeff Fard Brother Jeff interviews Lakewood City Council Member Anita Springsteen: "Muting Council Members, First Amendment Rights, Contract Approvals, Death Threat and the City of Lakewood Update. 30 Minutes with Anita Springsteen." https://www.facebook.com/jeff.fard/videos/607644554464150 (interview starts after intro music video)

Guest post from Lenore Herskovitz On December 5, the Council was scheduled to go into executive session for the purpose of discussing personnel matters pertaining to re-incentivizing City Manager,  Kathy Hodgson’s employment agreement. Unfortunately, before the meeting was to begin no written materials about the topic were provided by Mayor Adam Paul or Mayor Pro...

On December 19, there was a special meeting for the sole purpose of discussing a resolution to amend the City Manager's Employment Agreement. At issue is re-incentivizing the contract, which was first discussed in executive session in May 2022. Kathy Hodgson has been the city manager for 13 years. City survey data from before her...

You may have noticed the increased security measures taken by local retail stores over the past couple of years. The King Soopers at Union and Alameda had to hire private security due to the high number of thefts. They also stopped selling some electronic items and put others in less accessible places. This month, you...