“Long-term Five Points resident Candace kneels down with her daughter, Sparrow, to fill a trash bag with plastic bottles, cigarettes and other debris. She is part of a gathering at 8 a.m. on June 3, when over forty Five Points residents came out to clean up parks and streets in the neighborhood. “I think … [Read more…]
“City Council has spent an inordinate amount of time in the last two years discussing residential metro/special districts. Longmonters’ eyes glaze over. Why should the residents of Longmont care? What are special and metro residential districts anyhow? Colorado State Title 32 Special Districts allows the creation of a third form of state government (a … [Read more…]
“It has become clear to me, after careful study, that we face a day of reckoning over the unchecked proliferation of special taxing districts across Colorado. Local officials for years have been approving an unmanageable, crazy-quilt of these districts — quasi-governments that operate with little accountability over huge sums of money they collect and … [Read more…]
“Sophia Lawson will never forget the last conversation she had with Michael Alvarado. She’d known him for six months as an outreach worker for St. Francis Center, a homeless service agency in Denver, where Lawson spent her days walking, handing out socks and toothpaste as she built relationships and tried to help people get … [Read more…]
“Denver, like most American cities, has a lot of infrastructure debt that future generations, and urban dwellers in particular, are going to get stuck with the bill for maintaining and paying off. Perhaps more surprising, though, is just how many seemingly-wealthy suburban neighborhoods aren’t capable of covering the cost of their own infrastructure. By … [Read more…]
Update: 9 January 2019 The 2017 IRS tax information is not available. This page will be updated once the 990 Form is found. Below is information from weltoncorridor.com post 19 January 2018 Five Points Business District IRS 990 Tax Forms 2016 date: 10 January 2019 Contact: Internal Revenue Service source: GuideStar and Charity Navigator websites … [Read more…]
updated: 10 January 2019 Five Points Business District IRS 990 Tax Forms 2016 Contact: Internal Revenue Service source: GuideStar and Charity Navigator websites 10 January 2018. PDF Five Points Historic District, Inc 2016 IRS Form 990 “2016 Summary Contributions Grants $210,125 Investment Income $1 Total Revenue $231,406 Expenses $243,264 Net Assets $-11.858 Salaries $128,819 Tracy … [Read more…]
“ Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb is a huge supporter of Black History Month and lessons that introduce young people to the lives and work of national black innovators and leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. But he also believes people should learn about Barney Ford, an escaped slave who became a businessman … [Read more…]
“The multi-year fight at the Legislature over the diversion of tax money to aid cities’ revitalization opened a new chapter this past year that may not be over.” read the entire article Sealover, Ed. Denver Business Journal 9 June 2017.
“The South Metro Fire Rescue Fire Protection District is suing the town of Parker’s urban renewal authority, which was created to encourage development in blighted areas, accusing it of diverting hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from the fire district that should have been used for fire, rescue and emergency services. If the Parker … [Read more…]