LAKEWOOD INFORMER

Guest Post from Lenore Herskovitz On Tuesday, July 30 at 5:30 p.m. the Budget and Audit Board is holding a meeting in the City Manager’s Office Cabinet Room (2nd floor above City Council Chambers). This meeting is significant because the board will be discussing the results of a recent community survey that focused on sundowning Tabor refunds permanently in Lakewood. The City had budgeted up to $74,000 for the survey conducted by Magellan Strategies. It appears that the City is using OUR money to find a creative way to word a ballot issue to take away OUR money. Although the public is not permitted to comment at this meeting, it is interesting to pull back the curtain (similar to exposing the Wizard in the Land of Oz) and see how voters are lulled into believing that giving up our Tabor refunds is for OUR greater good. This is an “in person only” meeting. The members of the board will be discussing their recommendations for City Council. If you have any interest in the future of your Tabor refunds, please attend this important meeting and let the board know we are watching.

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News Release from Anita M. Springsteen, Esq. UPCOMING PRESS CONFERENCE Topic: COVER UP OF CIRCUMSTANCES OF ELIJAH MCCLAIN’S DEATH BY THE STATE OF COLORADO GOVERNMENT When: 3:00 PM on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 (following Oral Argument before the Court of Appeals at 2:00 PM). Where: Front entrance at the Ralph L. Carr Judicial Center, 2 East 14th Avenue Denver, CO 80203. Civil Rights Attorney Anita Springsteen will be holding the press conference following Oral Argument to the Colorado Court of Appeals (in Case Number 2023 CA 1322, Sturgell v. CDPHE, et. al.) to address collusion by high level public officials, including the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, to conceal public records and protect bad actors responsible for the death of Elijah McClain (and for injuring thousands like him). This continues to put the public at risk today. The appeal addresses public rights under the Colorado Open Records Act and abuses of the system, such as unfair fees for public records and delay tactics, to conceal wrongdoing by government actors. It also addresses severe and ongoing consequences to public safety when records are illegally withheld, resulting in deaths and injuries. Although authorities would have the public believe that justice has been served in the Elijah McClain case and that legislation has resolved the ketamine issue – the real truth has not yet emerged. This appeal marks only the beginning. The underlying truth regarding death and injury to thousands of Coloradans (especially People...

News Release from Bowman Consulting Group Ltd July 12, 2024, Reston, VA – Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. (the “Company” or “Bowman”) (NASDAQ: BWMN), a national engineering services firm delivering infrastructure design solutions to customers who own, develop, and maintain the built environment, today announced the acquisition of Element Engineering LLC (“Element”), a civil, water and wastewater engineering services firm based in Lakewood, Colorado.    Element serves rural communities and specialty districts throughout the Rocky Mountain West and Midwest. The firm delivers a comprehensive suite of professional, innovative, and cost-effective engineering solutions to its clients. Working with primarily municipal clients, Element strives to meet each client’s unique assignment and specification. “Element adds additional depth to our growing national water-wastewater practice and extends our presence throughout Colorado,” said Gary Bowman, chairman and CEO of Bowman. “Nick and his team have built a thriving business by focusing on the details of building relationships and delivering unrivaled client service.  Their proximity to our Denver operations provides an attractive opportunity to leverage each other’s relationships and resources.  I am confident this will be a successful combination of cultures, customers and opportunities.” “We started Element to deliver civil, water and wastewater engineering to smaller water authorities and municipal customers who weren’t being served by larger firms,” said Nicholaus Marcotte, founder and president of Element. “With Bowman, we will be able to continue our commitment to underserved customers but with a bigger set of resources and a deeper suite of services.  We will also be exposed to a...

Editor’s Note: City Council held a workshop on July 8, 2024, for the “City Manager’s Update to Council”, that is not available online. The meeting was expected to be one of four quarterly meetings to hold the City Manager accountable for the projects and priorities set at the annual retreat. Holding the City Manager accountable is arguably the single most important function of the City Council, since the manager runs the city. The discussion was not held in a regular meeting, nor was it broadcast. A few dedicated residents watched, recorded and reported for the rest of us. Thank you! This article is a summary of that meeting that turned out to have no accountability measures at all. However, there was important information about the budget, school closures, Foothills Animal Shelter, and the unhoused. Guest post from Joan from Lakewood *Minor edits to content made 7/15/2024 I personally attended the workshop meeting that was a pilot meeting held without any video or hybrid capacity. This was an hour meeting held before the regular meeting of the Lakewood City Council. I believe this program was instigated because there are supposed to be quarterly reports by the City Manager as to what is happening in the city. The City Manager, Kathy Hodgson gave a report with a list of topics that she said were top of mind. She gave a preview of the budget, which will be approved in August. She addressed to city employee vacancies, a long time employee with the City...