Rooney Valley News

    Much has happened in the lawsuit filed by Big Sky and the group of Rooney Valley developers to force Green Mountain Water and Sanitation District to set up Big Sky as the new sanitation district for Rooney Valley.   The last update was in May: Big Sky, Cardel Homes, Three Dinos and Hank […]

    Here is the video of the meeting last night by the Lakewood City Development Dialogue Committee.  They discussed and voted on recommendations to be submitted to the full City Council.   The next step appears to be a study session by the entire City Council to consider the recommendations and draft a new […]

    Lakewood is moving closer to doing something about the significant metro district abuse.  Examples of metro district abuse include: 1.  eliminating the right of residents to vote on tax/bond debt, 2.  imposing debt to pay unaccounted for expenses by the developer (it turns out residents are actually charged twice for infrastructure costs) and […]

  Here is the board packet for the Monday night meeting, which includes the zoom address to attend the meeting:   Final_10.19.2020_Regular_Meeting_FRMD_1_3   Here are the budgets for each of the three districts:   2021 Preliminary Budget – FRMD #1 10.16.20   2021 PRELIMINARY Budget – FRMD#2   2021 PRELIMINARY Budget – FRMD#3   This […]

  In yet another anonymous “Solterra Update” issued two days ago,  the Solterra Board continues to mislead the residents about the amount of debt and their right to vote on issuing new debt – $10 million to Brookfield plus interest.   Here is a “fact check”, with reference to documents, on the “Solterra Update” issued […]

  Without a vote of the residents. Without an independent forensic financial audit. In the face of a research study that shows we don’t owe any money. Based solely upon a vote in 2006 of 8 Brookfield employees who had an expressed conflict of interest with the future residents and could never represent their interests. […]

  Much has been written recently about whether or not the Solterra Residents can do anything to stop the metro district abuse and in particular, stop paying Brookfield any more money without an independent forensic audit.   Here is a summary of the arguments, with reference to the Colorado Constitution, statutes, case law and documents. […]

    Two law review articles, one from the University of Chicago (2002) and a second from the University of California (2003) provide an in-depth analysis of “legislative entrenchment” which provides the common law and constitutional law founding principle that one legislature cannot bind a future legislature.   As summarized in the opening paragraph of […]

    Here is the original research report reporting data from the Jefferson County Assessor’s Office showing how much Solterra residents paid for the developed lots – including the cost of the infrastructure, cost of the land and profit to Brookfield – all before Brookfield charged “metro district advances”, allegedly for the cost of the […]

  For the first time in 4 years, the Solterra Board has begun to explain the basis for their proposal to issue new expensive bond debt for the purpose of paying Brookfield more money without establishing that we owe them more money.   Here is “In My Defense” by Board Member Ted Michelsen  – and […]