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EEK OF ECEMBER24, 1, 2022 TW UESDAY , NDOVEMBER 2020
New COVID-19 prohibit indoor dining, personal gatherings GOODrestrictions DAY FOR will A GOOD CAUSE Affordable
housing initiative could face rocky future Proposition 123 was approved by Colorado voters BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Few issues affect Coloradans as much as rising housing prices. The state will take a step toward addressing the problem — to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year — as officials implement Proposition 123 approved by voters in November. In just 12 years, the median cost of a single-family home in the Denver area Food Bank of the Rockies volunteer Imani Mafe hands out boxes of food Nov. 19 at Adams County Sheriff’s Operation jumped from about $200,000 to three Freebird. Organizers said they were prepared to hand out the ingredients for Thanksgiving meals – including gift PHOTO BY SCOTT TAYLOR certificates for free Butterball turkeys – for 2,500 families. times that amount, according to the latest report by the Colorado Association of Realtors. The trend was similar statewide. Under Proposition 123, state officials are required to set money aside for more affordable housing and programs to help Coloradans acquire homes and stay housed. Though the measure didn’t raise tax rates to fund those ing the district. The school Together Colorado, a multiBY STEVE SMITH programs, it will, eventually, reduce the closure isn’t on the table any faith community organizaSSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, longer, but reorganization is. tion, combined to put on the refunds thatisColoradans receive county required to follow based— onby the By Ellis Arnold The state board sent the ofrally. A press statement called The next the A long line ofinstallment cars outsideofthe city ofArms Brighton’s rapid testing site at $86 per taxpayer for 2024, for example. severity of a county’s local virus spread. ficial reorganization notice Media to Around Adams 14 “a Colorado Community dispute between Adams Yet voters November also sought Riverdale Regional the Park. The site hasnew had to close early campaign many days in recent The dialin grew out of the state’s safer-at- to the district in October Adams community 14 School District and the reduce their taxes and, taken together, 14, Mapleton Public Schools, to stop the reorganization weeks due to high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test positivityofrate As Denver metro counties continue to home order — the policy that came after Colorado board of education the changes couldstay-at-home lead to diffi cultthis Adams 12closer FivetoStar Schools Adams 14 and shift the Department. narrainch local stay-at-home orders the statewide order was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health was in the form of a Nov. 19 decisions down the road, said Scott and 27J Schools will be part of tives around the district.” under Colorado’s system of coronavirusspring and allowed numerous types of Brighton and Commerce City’s test positivity rates were both higher than rally outside Adams City High Wasserman, who leads the nonprofit the process. All told the state Earlier attempts to bring related restrictions, the state announced businesses to reopen. 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have School. Bell Policy Center, which advocates for boarda reorganizing “will fail.” indoor the district’s test scores up to new level of rules that prohibits The state recently switched to color About teachers and some died from30 COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread of COVID-19, economic mobility for Coloradans. He In an October statement, speed either didn’t work or dining and personal gatherings — a identifiers — levels blue, yellow and“bitstate legislators gathered to called the passage of the measure at least 15 counties moved to tighter were restrictions that prohibits indoor and the district said the notice cut off early, including protest the board’s decision to a contract with an outside change thaton applies thestaff majority oftersweet.” the orange rather than numbered levels — to personal gatherings. has no impact jobstoor reorganize the district after Denvernor metro areaitand many counties in avoidwhat confusion. Until 17, is level red “I think makes it Nov. bitter that members, does change management firm earlier this years of low test scores. They it passed in aconjunction withNow, Proposiother14’s regions. meant stay-at-home order. level “Adams commitment to year. waved signs and cheered as tion 121,” a measure voters approved Theastate’s COVID-19 dial, which has red — “severe risk” — is the secondstable and secure In March, the district recom- providing passing motorists honked Photo by Belen Ward beenenvironment in effect since September, learning for all is the set mended closing Adams City their horns in protest. of ourofstudents.” High School and reorganizdifferent levels of restrictions that each SEE HOUSING, P2 The teachers union and Please see RESTRICTIONS, Page 2
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