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New COVID-19 restrictions prohibit indoor dining,spersonal gatherings Eagle Ridge eyeswill upcoming playoff

PUC responds to Polis’ call for utility relief Searching for answers BY JOSHUA PERRY THE COLORADO SUN

Eagle Ridge’s Hunter Hill finishes a first-half dunk against Kent Denver Feb. 9 in Brighton. See the story at https://commerccitysenPHOTO BY STEVE SMITH tinel.com online.

Commerce City hires new police chief Commerce City native Guadnola gets job

Police Department and most recently as a division chief for the Wheat Ridge Police Department. Guadnola led the city’s support services division, overseeing investigations, records, training and accreditation A long line of STAFF carsREPORT outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at and crime analysis. Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in and recent Commerce City picked former “I am humbled weeks due high demand. Adams County’s 14-daygrateful test positivity rate resident andtoWheat Ridge Police for the opoffi Darrel Guadnola as the city’s portunity serve this wascer 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health to Department. next chiefand of police. community as chief Brighton Commerce City’s test positivity rates were both higher than Guadnola is scheduled to take of police,” said Guad13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have over leadership of the Commerce nola in written statediedPolice from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread COVID-19, City Department on March ment fromofthe city. “As Guadnola 6, currentmoved interimto Chief former and futureand at replacing least 15 counties tighter restrictions thata prohibits indoor Richard Myers. resident of Commerce personalW. gatherings. A lifelong Coloradan who spent City, I look forward to strengthening part of his childhood in Commerce relationships between the commuCity, Guadnola has worked in law nity and the police department to enforcement for 27 years, first as an address public safety as Ward the Photo byneeds Belen officer in Brighton. city continues to grow. I am commitHe later joined Greenwood Village ted to serving in a manner reflective

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of the department values of Trust, Respect, Excellence, Leadership, and Restraint. I can’t wait to get to work.” Guadnola also served as an Byhas Ellis Arnold investigations commander who Colorado Community Media into routinely oversaw investigations officer involved shootings. He also As Denver metro continue to helped develop thecounties department’s inch closer program to local stay-at-home orders naloxone and a full-service computer forensic investigations lab. under Colorado’s system of coronavirusOther assignments in his Colorado related restrictions, the state announced law enforcement career include a new levelsergeant, of rules that prohibits indoor detective field training dining and personal gatherings — a officer sergeant, crisis negotiations change that applies to the majority of the team sergeant, investigator, firearms instructor, and negotiator. Denver metro area and many counties in “Thregions. is position garnered a highly other qualified and competitive candidate Theand state’s dial, which pool, weCOVID-19 were committed tohas a been in effect since September, is the set of different levelsSEEofCHIEF, restrictions that each P3

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Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission on Feb. 8 discussed addressing bill price hikes in response to Gov. Jared Polis’s utility cost-reduction directive, but it isn’t clear what the first steps will be. Chairman Eric Blank said that the PUC has been tasked with a wide range of objectives to ease an affordability crisis that made consumers’ utility bills 52% higher on average in December. Some consumers saw their bills double or even triple. “Among other things, the governor has asked us to identify ways to support customers in the most dire circumstances, improve access to and the capacity of the bill assistance program, find ways to incentivize utilities to reduce customer costs, analyze approaches for limiting bill spikes, and to expand public engagement on these issues before end PUC,” hebased said.on the county is the required to follow Blank he didn’t knowspread. how severity of said a county’s local virus the PUC would take action on this The dial grew out of the state’s safer-atdirective right now, but they would home order — the policy aff thatordability came after continue addressing the stay-at-home instatewide the coming weeks. order this One way the PUC can make spring and allowed numerous types of progress is driving down base businesses to reopen. rates, Commissioner Megan GilThe state to color man said.recently Under switched the current rules, identifiers — levels blue, yellow a utility seeking to add newand infraorange rathersuch than as numbered levels — to structure, transmission lines or a power plant, must first avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red convince PUC regulators that it is meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level necessary. If PUC agrees, it issues red — “severe — is the seconda certifi caterisk” of public convenience SEE RELIEF, P3

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