Rooney Valley News

It is no coincidence that within 24 hours of posting my piece regarding Adam Paul and Ramey Johnson on Next Door, that the positive and informative public discourse regarding the most important ballot issue in our community was . . . Silenced.  Censored. Here is that piece again: 10 Reasons to Vote No on Adam […]

In case you haven’t’ seen it yet, here are the wonderful photographs of Rooney Valley. Rooney Valley Photography Contest 2019 Jim Kinney put this together and did a fabulous job in the organization and presentation of the contest.  Jim had the idea to celebrate and honor the jewel that is Rooney Valley–and had the smarts […]

The election for Mayor is probably the most important issue on the ballot for our community. The vote on 200 – Regaining Citizen control of high density development – was a warm up to this election. Adam Paul lost the vote on 200.  I hope he loses this vote as well.  Here is why. He […]

On September 17, 2019 the JeffCo Commissioners formally approved the revised settlement drafted by The Three Dinos and Brookfield (using the Solterra LLC name . . . Because I guess they don’t want people to know who they are). Here is the memo from the JeffCo Manager, prepared by the County Attorney, the Resolution approving […]

Solterra Board Packet 8-7

The 5 lawsuits against Green Mountain orchestrated by Big Sky to force Green Mountain to go along with creating Big Sky as the new “master meter” sanitation district for Rooney Valley are beginning to address some of the issues. Keep in mind Big Sky and the other developers have several ways to obtain sewer service […]

You will recall the recent discussion about Jeffco’s request that we, the voters, approve Jeffco keeping our excess tax revenue: Nov 5 Ballot – Will you Vote to Allow Jeffco to Keep the Excess Money Collected from Our Property Taxes Well, here is some more good news.  Last year about this time, Jefferson County Commissioners, […]

We learned for the first time during a hearing last week that Jefferson County Commissioners have scheduled a hearing Tuesday at 8:00 am on the settlement proposed by Brookfield to settle the loan issue. The agenda item simply says it will consider the resolution to approve the settlement agreement.  There is no draft resolution to […]

The Jefferson County Commissioners are now listening to the voters.  They have to under the Colorado Constitution.  They need your vote to keep your excess tax money. Here is the board packet that contains the proposed ballot question.  The staff memo, followed by the actual ballot question, begins at page 20: https://www.jeffco.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232019-807 Strangely, the list […]

No surprise here.  The special district abuse experienced by the folks in Solterra is typical of special districts created to fund the construction of homes throughout Colorado. In recent weeks I have met many folks in large Denver neighborhoods who are experiencing the same and different problems with special district abuse. Here is a letter […]