CENTENNIAL COUNCIL OF NEIGHBORHOODS
May 24, 2010: 6:48; 19 neighborhoods in
attendance
6:45 – 7:45 Guest Comments
Arapahoe County Sheriff, Chief Bruce Williamson
- The medical marijuana bills (109 and 1284) are waiting
for Governor’s signature. They tighten up care providers. There will be
a summit of local leaders planning how to mitigate it (law enforcement,
planning officials, health dept. officials, BOCC, attorneys, emergency
services, etc.)
- In Centennial, a neighbor complained about a marijuana
grow house (mother & son growing their legitimate number). ACSO no
longer confiscates plants, law states they would have to keep them alive
until all trials are completed.
- Sheriff Robinson has been reappointed to the Governor’s
Commission on Juvenile Justice.
- Doerr: Can growing be limited? Williamson: Yes, home rule
cities have some op-tions.
- Reed: ACSO sponsored a successful Shred-a-Thon.
Williamson: JeffCo shredded more than ArapCo.
Arapahoe Library District, Eloise May, Executive Director
http://www.arapahoelibraries.org
- Aurora and Arapahoe Libraries formed the Aurora Task
Force. Smoky Hill Library interfaces directly with Aurora. There is
currently a statewide agreement allowing all libraries to accept each
other’s library cards anywhere. This was enacted when fund-ing was
good; money is now really tight in some areas (e.g., Aurora). They’ve
work-ed for three months on how to service Aurora’s people close to
Arapahoe libraries, how to separate libraries from Aurora’s city
budget. They asked if Aurora could be part of Arapahoe Library
District. After reviewing the assessed valuation of Aurora, Arap. Lib.
mill levy wouldn’t meet the money needed. There was a workshop in
May on how to form a library district and some Aurora folks attended.
Arapahoe can't bar anyone from using the library, but can limit what
they can take out, can charge. The task force wants to study the
problem for at least 6 months to see if any patterns emerge, before
they look for solutions.
- The library district will see a huge decrease in
property tax in 2012 and is making plans for maintaining services.
Arapahoe Park & Rec. District, Delos Searle
http://www.aprd.org
- It’s time to start summer programming in the district.
- A sewer backed up into the creek at Pioneer Park.
Tri-County Health and ECCV were involved in the clean-up.
- APRD has contracted with ArapCo for West Nile virus
remediation.
- Native mowing has started, four times per year. We try
for five but it depends on the weather.
- Coming up are youth speed & conditioning classes,
golf classes, cultural art classes, Red Cross health and safety courses.
Scheduling is available on their website.
- On 6/11 we’ll have our Summer Celebration, 10 am
(Battle of the Bands, 1 pm), races, obstacle courses, bouncy castle
Fire Districts, Chief John Mullin, Littleton Fire
http://www.southmetro.org,
http://www.littletongov.org/fire/,
http://www.cfpd.org/
- In our recent storms there have been some downed
power poles, fences, a roof taken off.
- EMS week just finished. It was sponsored by Friends
of Air Life, which was formed shortly after the 1997 Air Life
helicopter crash. A Silver Falcon Award to EMS pro-vider who has a
lifetime of achievements in the field of emergency medical services
went to a Littleton Chief.
- In South Metro, Jim Olmstead, Rich Sokol, and Dave
Jackson were elected to the Board and Sokol and Jackson were appointed
to the Authority Board.
- The fire departments have an Automatic Aid agreement;
the departments can call each other for help without special
permission.
Cherry Creek Schools; none http://www.cherrycreekschools.org
South Suburban Park & Rec. District, Jean Ray
http://www.ssprd.org
- Their May election saw 22,000 voters, the most ever and
it passed the mill levy by 67%.
- John Ostermiller, Mike Anderson, Pam Eller were elected
to the Board and Kay Geitner has been elected chair, with Sue Rosser, Vice
Chair. (Geitner has started a process to see how the public perceives
SSPRD.)
- The district has 3700 volunteers.
- At Euclid MS on 6/4, free: Hersey’s Track & Field
meet, 9-noon, ages 9-14
- In Cherry Knolls Park on 6/12, free: Rockies Baseball
Challenge, 9-noon, ages 6-13
- The traveling Theater in the Park program begins. A
children’s presentation of Red Riding Hood travels across the district,
10am, 6/15-19
- Summer passes: $110, unlimited pass, ages 2-17, starts
5/29 - 9/6; adults $165, household of 5, $375. See the website for more
information
City of Centennial
http://www.centennialcolorado.com
- Mayor Noon briefly discussed the code enforcement items
that will be discussed by City Council over the coming year. Obstructions
in the rights-of-way and noise dogs ordinances are coming up (6/7).
Parking of RVs, boats and trailers on your property is scheduled for 7/19.
- Lifetime Fitness is up & running
- The City Council meetings are now streamed live and
archived on the city website.
- The city is beginning a Transportation Master Planning
process. One public comments meeting was held at Smoky Hills HS and the
next one is Wed. at Southglenn Library.
- The dangerous buildings ordinance is coming back before
City Council.
- Parker Jordan Metro District has purchased 107 acres of
Vermillion land along Cherry Creek (at Parker Rd., south of Broncos Pky.).
The city will pay 50-50 ($1.6M). Parker Jordan will do stream
stabilization, maintenance, and build the Cherry Creek Trail. (There may
be archeological remains on site.). This is a huge regional project to get
the Cherry Creek Trail completed from Castlewood to Cherry Creek State
Parks.
- A save the date for ArapCo seniors: on 10/8, the Arapahoe
County Council on Aging will be sponsoring Pathways to Wisdom at Buck Rec.
Center. There will be work-shops and lots of booths and some
entertainment.
- Tri -County Heath is giving free shingles shots at 6th
& Delmar, 6/15, 7:30 - 10 am.
- The Mayor has formed a Senior Commission Task Force to
work on what a Senior Commission in Centennial would look like, to prepare
for next year's budget (Gail Wells suggested that the look at the
Albuquerque Senior Commission.)
- City Councilmembers in Lone Tree, Greenwood Village,
Littleton and Centennial got together in a canning project for charity at
the Mormon canning facility. They canned 30 cases of carrots.
- The Civic Center Park is going out to bid for the whole
thing. With construction being much less expensive right now, it’s a
good idea to price it out and then decide what they want to build, The
project has been budgeted. (Parker/Arap was expected to be $26M, came in
at $16M)
- The Mayor is holding "Noon Hour" on Wed., 11 am
– 1 pm, as office hours for folks to visit and talk with her. Make an
appointment if you know you’re coming. (Think "Pye and
Coffee".)
- Keith Gardner, District 2 Councilman spoke briefly
about the Littleton School Board meeting on 5/27 that was looking at a
mill levy increase.
7:40 Community Graphics, Randy Gentry & Penny
Anderson
- This is a design company that does neighborhood
newsletters (Southglenn & Heritage Place use them). There is no cost
to the association; the only cost would be for delivery. They need about
2 weeks lead time, advertising is never more than 50%. They are also a
full service printing business as well (up to 4 color).
8:10 CenCON Business
Minutes. Andrea Suhaka
- A motion was made, seconded and passed unanimously to
approve the minutes of the 5/24 meeting as posted. (Paul Schauer/Dorothy
Mauro)
- CenCON still needs a Secretary. Andrea Suhaka is taking
minutes tonight.
- Schauer asked what the deadline for the CenCON survey
was. Cummins answered 15 June.
Treasurer’s Report, Do Strickland
- Don Strickland presented the report.
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Checking
Previous Balance: |
$
694.03 |
Savings
Previous Balance: |
$ 2190.22 |
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Income: |
660.00 |
Income (Interest): |
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Raab check returned |
75.00 |
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Expenses: |
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Closing Balance: |
$ 1429.03 |
Closing Balance: |
$ 2190.22
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1st Vice President, Andrea Suhaka
- CenCON currently has 37 members. Suhaka has been
emailing information forms that she needs returned ASAP to keep CenCON
rosters current.
2nd Vice President, C.J. Whelan
- Whelan had no report. There were no development plans
to review this past month.
- He wanted to remind us to keep our eyes on
Propositions 60, 61 and 101 on November’s ballot as they will very
seriously affect the economic health of the City and all special
districts. CenCON is planning to have a presentation on them in June.
President, Gerry Cummins
- On 6/8, Bob Widner, City Attorney and Wayne Reed,
Director of Planning & Devel-opment, will be discussing medical
marijuana at the Nob Hill/Ridgeview Hills South CA Annual Meeting,
7pm, Salvation Army on the SW corner of Colorado & Arapa-hoe.
Anyone is welcome to attend.
- Cummins is working on our July meeting field trip.
Consideration of proposed changes to Bylaws:
- There were not enough people at the last meeting to vote
on amending the Bylaws. The electronic ballot did not get enough votes. By
our current Bylaws, we can hold a vote at the next meeting (tonight) and
only need half the number required. We have just that many people present
tonight.
- A motion was made, seconded and passed unanimously to
pass the Bylaws as emailed. (Lynn Leader/Paul Schauer)
8:45 Plans TBD: none
Meeting adjourned at 8:55 pm.
Minutes respectfully submitted by Andrea Suhaka.
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