Rooney Valley News

The   The Solterra Board anonymously published “Response to Questions from the August 17, 2020 Board Meeting”.   The Board’s  supporters emailed residents with a letter dated August 26, 2020, imploring their neighbors to forfeit their right to vote and oppose the recall campaign.   Both documents and other commentary on Next Door continue to […]

    A group of residents has published a new report that provides data and analysis which establishes that the Solterra residents do not owe Brookfield any more money.   The residents paid Brookfield for the Solterra land, they paid Brookfield for the Solterra infrastructure and they paid Brookfield a profit for developing the lots […]

    The Next Door debate about the recall petition to restore the residents’ right to vote on the proposed new bond debt has strayed away from the actual statutes and the actual documents.   A few residents don’t want to restore their right to vote and are working very hard to stop other residents […]

    The Court issued an Order early Friday evening August 21, denying the Solterra Board’s motion to strike Waterman, Dominic and Brown from the Recall Petition.   The Court also appointed Sue Blair, the Solterra Board District Manager as the designated election official.   The next step is for Ms. Blair to approve the […]

    The Bond counsel are paid a significant sum of money to accurately state the law in the bond prospectus – a critical document that investors rely upon when they spend millions of dollars.   In all the bonds issued by the Fossil Ridge Metro District 3 (Solterra), Brookfield, who controlled the Boards when […]

    In what has now become classic style for the Solterra Board, they opened the meeting Monday night with a carefully choreographed presentation of their position.   Each Board member had their script on a different topic.  Each took as much time as they wanted to present the particular subject.   And, again, consistent […]

  We just received a copy of a letter from Brookfield to our elected Board – dated November 7, 2019. This letter was not provided to the residents at any time.  It was only disclosed earlier today by the Board attorneys in response to a CORA request. (Why do we have to litigate (Residents paying […]

    In an anonymous statement emailed to Solterra Residents during the resident sponsored Town Hall Thursday evening, the Solterra Board responded to the work of residents pressing the case for the Board to return the right to vote on bond debt to the residents.   Here is a response (in bold type) to the […]

    There has been a little back  and forth about metro districts on next door revealing a knowledge gap.  Here are some of the basics with reference to the actual documents. For more in depth information here is a recent analysis prepared for the City of Lakewood (similar evaluations were prepared for Longmont and […]

    We worked so hard in the Spring and early Summer of 2017 to stop Brookfield from telling us what was in our best interests, taxing us to pay unearned and unaccounted for developer profits, and suppressing our right to vote on our own tax and bond debt.  We worked so hard.   26 […]