Rooney Valley News

  Here is an excerpt from a letter to the editor published in the Denver Post, today, January 24, 2020 from a gentleman in Commerce City:   “Sales of new bonds must be stopped until full accountability can be determined.”   “Every metro taxing district should be immediately audited and investigated to determine if the […]

The Denver Post reports numerous examples – likely just the tip of the iceberg – where developers are running scared that residents will stop the special district abuse. The developers are voting to pay themselves unaccounted for profits. The developers are voting to issue bonds to write themselves a huge check. In midnight votes. Just […]

  1. The meeting began with a brief statement about a lawsuit filed against District 1 by HEI, the contractor hired by Brookfield to expand McIntyre.  The contract was with Brookfield when they were District 1 and Brookfield just decided to stop paying. HEI sued District 1. Residents who opted in to District 1 should […]

  Well, not all the Board exactly.  There was absolutely no discussion.  There wasn’t even a vote.  Just an announcement by Waterman Monday night (January 13, 2020) that the Board was going to issue more bonds  – to write Brookfield a new check for – somewhere between 0 and $31 million.   So, during which […]

  Ms. Hageman asked how much did Brookfield actually spend to build the infrastructure for Solterra.   As Mr. Daubenmire politely explained, Brookfield won’t tell us.  I sat next to their attorney three years ago during Mayor Paul’s “mediation” to try to persuade us to drop the recall.  I asked her what the $29 million […]

  The Solterra Board has on the agenda for Monday night January 13, the proposal to hire a financial person to prepare to issue bonds this year up to $31 million.   Without a vote of the residents.   Which is why we must take back our right to put this to a vote of […]

One of the first events in the creation of  residential special districts is to eliminate the constitutional right of the future residents to vote on taxes and bond debt.  It is in every ballot issue I have seen after reviewing countless special district creation ballots over the past three years.   Brookfield did it to […]

Here is the full series by the Denver Post on Special Districts plus commentary articles and letters to the editor. Thank you Megan Shrader and David Migoya, your editors and the Denver Post. http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/DenverPost/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TDP%2F2020%2F03%2F08&entity=Ar00104&sk=53616BEC&mode=text         With Friday deadline looming, scores of metro district residents are running for board seats   Faced with […]

  Visions of Special District Christmas Past –   with huge brightly decorated boxes of unearned profits for developers and unaccounted for debt for residents carefully wrapped by special district attorneys for their ravenous developer clients, gleefully rubber-stamped for delivery by our elected city and county representatives carefully concealed from public view by all the […]

The next hearing on the Big Sky case against the Green Mountain Water and Sanitation District has been rescheduled to Monday, December 9, 2019 at 3:00 pm. It had been set for this Friday, November 29, 2019 at 10:00 but the courthouse will be closed for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Here are the most recent briefs.  Big […]