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Recall petitions OK’d for circulation Referendum petition opposing multifamily development also being looked over BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
edge practices to meet our community’s healthcare needs.” ACC developed the proposal for their renovation project in 2017 and submitted it to the state legislature at the start of 2018, Fujii said. With an almost $8.4 million investment from the state and $3.5 million of ARPA funding from Arapahoe County, ACC is ready to set off on the first phase of its renovation project. The institution also received $1.1 million in in Higher Education Emergency Relief funds from the U.S. Department of Education for the project.
Four petitions aiming to recall a majority of the Englewood City Council have been approved by the city clerk to start getting signatures. On April 17, resident Kurt Suppes announced that a group of Englewood residents filed affidavits with the city clerk seeking to recall Mayor Othoniel Sierra and Councilmembers Joe Anderson, Chelsea Nunnenkamp and Cheryl Wink. Filing the recall affidavits is the first step in the recall process. The residents had until May 4 to submit recall petitions for each councilmember to the city clerk. On May 5, Englewood City Clerk Stephanie Carlile confirmed via email that four recall petitions had been submitted for approval. “Sandra Kettelhut and Jan Weipert submitted the petitions yesterday for authorization on behalf of each recall committee,” Carlile wrote. On May 8, Carlile said via email that the four recall petitions have been authorized for circulation,
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From left, Angie Paccione, Stephanie Fujii and Joe Garcia chat at the annex renovation celebration on May 4.
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Arapahoe Community College kicks off healthcare annex renovation BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Across the country, hospitals and other medical facilities are facing a healthcare worker shortage. Colorado is certainly feeling these effects, as it is projected to be lacking 64,000 nurses and “lower wage” health care workers by 2026, according to an analysis of the U.S. healthcare labor market by Mercer. With a focus on addressing this shortage, Arapahoe Community College is expanding its healthcare programming with the creation of the ACC Health Innovation Center, a renovation to their Annex build-
ing on its main campus in Littleton. On May 4, ACC community members gathered at a celebration to kick off the renovation project, which will officially begin on May 15. “Prior to the pandemic … we knew that demand for a robust, well-trained healthcare workforce was great, and COVID simply served to amplify and exacerbate it,” said ACC President Stephanie Fujii at the event. “As an educational institution which seeks to be innovative and responsive, we have chosen a planned strategic approach to this project that will allow us to be at the forefront of cutting-
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