North Range Concerned Citizens Overview

City Council Regular Meeting, plus URA and GID Meetings – Monday, Nov. 4
Post Date: 10/31/2024 4:47 PM
City Council is conducting a regular business meeting on Monday, Nov. 4 at 6 p.m.The evening’s agenda also includes brief meetings of the Urban Renewal Authority and the city’s General Improvement Districts (GIDs) later in the evening. Members of the public are invited to attend and participate in public comment in-person or remotely via Zoom. Watch meetings live at c3gov.com/Video or on CCTV Channel 8 (HD 881).
Register to comment live virtually via Zoom by noon on Nov. 4

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Visit c3gov.com/Meetings for full instructions on how to comment.
Live Spanish interpretation is available by phone. Call 720-386-9023 and enter conference code 104091*.
View the full meeting agenda, which includes:
* Public Comment
* Noticed Council Business on: Sparkling Kindness donation request
* Presentation of the monthly oil and gas update
* Consent Agenda (11 items)
* Public Hearings on:
* Adopting the 2025 city budget
* Approving the final plat for Second Creek Farm Filing No. 3 Amendment 3 at E. 92nd Avenue and Tower Road
* Resolution approving the transfer of city owned property located at 18250 E. 92nd Ave.
* Ordinance on First Reading (amending the budget):
* Recognizing $19,555.15 from the bulletproof vest program grant funds
* Recognizing $7,000 in Great Outdoors Colorado Generation Wild grant funds
* Ordinance on Second Reading amending the budget by appropriating nearly $1.3 million for use on the Adams Tower 6th floor lease and renovation
* Administrative Council Business on BEAD grant letter of support for Viaero Fiber Networks, LLC
* Recess to brief meetings of the following (approx. 8:45 p.m.):
* Urban Renewal Authority
* E-470 Commercial Area General Improvement District
* E-470 Residential Area General Improvement District
* Northern Infrastructure General Improvement District
* Reconvene City Council meeting (approx. 9:05 p.m.):
* Executive session to conduct the city manager’s annual performance evaluation and establish 2025 performance standards
* Formal action by the City Council following the executive session is anticipated and will occur in open session
Residents are encouraged to attend in-person or to watch live online at c3gov.com/Video or on CCTV Channel 8 (HD 881).

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Fresh Start Day
Date: 10/16/2024 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: Civic Center
7887 E. 60th Ave.
Commerce City, Colorado 80022

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People will have the opportunity to re-set their cases and have warrants vacated; for those who are eligible, a portion of their total fines owed may be waived or a new payment plan may be arranged to get cases back on track. There will also be the opportunity to inquire about sealing records (other than traffic). Many cases can be resolved and closed. Outstanding restitution cases are ineligible.

Register in Advance via Zoom:

Oct. 16 - 8:30 a.m. & 10 a.m.
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Oct. 16 - 1 p.m. & 1:15 p.m.
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Free Green Yard Waste Drop-Off Events - 2024
Residents can dispose of compostable yard waste (i.e. grass clippings, leaves, tree limbs and other plant debris) at these free events held four times per year. Collected green waste goes to a composting facility instead of the landfill. Proof of residency required, no businesses or contractors allowed.

Location: A1 Organics Commerce City, 9109 Monaco Street, Henderson, CO 80640

Green Waste Drop is located west of Brown Brothers off of Monaco St.

2024 event dates and times

Saturday, October 19 • 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
Saturday, November 9 • 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Our summer teen employees with Natural Areas and Trails got to wade through the cattails this summer! Natural Areas & Trails is required to eradicate List A noxious weeds (purple loosestrife and hairy willow herb) that grow in cattail patches. This is done by walking through the cattails looking for these plants. When found, the flower heads are cut and bagged and herbicide is applied to the rest of the plant. This is required by law and is one of the most important tasks our restoration specialist completes. Because the work takes place in the cattails, it often goes unnoticed by the public. Thank you to UNC professor Dannon Cox for getting drone footage of the crew completing these surveys!

Commerce City Council Update 📰
Highlights from the August 19th, 2024, Regular Council Meeting!

Video en español: youtu.be/VGRBUErKUPg

English: https://youtu.be/oCk2qyaprsQ

City Council Recap - August 19, 2024 Time to catch up with Council 📜Video en español: https://youtu.be/VGRBUErKUPgWatch the full meeting at c3gov.com/Video or catch a replay on CCTV Ch. 8.

Starting the week of Aug. 19, there will be various lane closures and lane shifts happening throughout the city that could cause traffic delays. Please stay alert when driving through cone zones, obey signage, and watch for workers and flaggers.

Projects include:

📍 Lane closure on Chambers Road at E. 117th Avenue
Utility work, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 3 a.m. Expected completion by early September.
Project Contact: Amber Gombos, 719-722-4686

📍 Lane closures and lane shifts on Potomac Street between E. 104th and E. 100th avenues
Road widening, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Expected completion by mid-September.
Project Contact: Scott Finn, 720-871-7252

Construction schedules are approximate and subject to change without notice. Stay alert and don't drive distracted when going through cone zones!

Final Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Day Saturday, August 3 for certain northern neighborhoods.
Post Date:07/30/2024 2:06 PM
The city’s trash and recycling program includes one free bulk item pickup per quarter, which you can schedule through Republic Services (additional items can be scheduled for $15 each). In addition to these four free pickups per year, Republic Services also schedules one Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Day per year for your entire neighborhood.

Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Days allow each household to place up to five items at the curb for free pickup once per year to help take those large, unwanted items off your hands. Any item that cannot fit in your curbside trash cart is considered a large item for pickup. Residential neighborhoods are divided into five areas for these events, with a different part of the city being serviced over five Saturdays between March and August. Areas of unincorporated Adams County and residents who do not receive the city’s regular trash service are not eligible to participate.

August 3: Subdivisions including Buckley Ranch, Buffalo Highlands, Buffalo Mesa, Reunion, Second Creek Farms, Settler’s Crossing, Prairie Farms

Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Day Guidelines

All items should be placed at the curb by 7 a.m. on the Saturday of your scheduled pick-up
Items stacked in the driveway, in the yard, or additional items beyond the five allowed items will not be removed
Items should be stacked neatly (no more than 4 feet wide, 8 feet long, and 4 feet high) and should not block the sidewalk
Large items only – bagged trash and other small waste will not be removed
Items that are too heavy for two workers to lift will not be removed
Items not removed by Republic for the reasons listed above should not be left at the curb for more than 24 hours after your assigned pick-up day
More guidelines on Materials that are accepted/not accepted are available at c3gov.com/Trash.

If you are unsure of your Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Days, want to check on a specific item’s eligibility, or have additional questions, please call Republic Services at 303-286-1200.

Learn more about the city’s trash program and other special waste disposal events at c3gov.com/Trash.

Fourth Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Day Saturday, July 13 for certain northern neighborhoods.
Post Date: 07/08/2024 3:00 PM
The city’s trash and recycling program includes one free bulk item pickup per quarter, which you can schedule through Republic Services (additional items can be scheduled for $15 each). In addition to these four free pickups per year, Republic Services also schedules one Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Day per year for your entire neighborhood.

Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Days allow each household to place up to five items at the curb for free pickup once per year to help take those large, unwanted items off your hands. Any item that cannot fit in your curbside trash cart is considered a large item for pickup. Residential neighborhoods are divided into five areas for these events, with a different part of the city being serviced over five Saturdays between March and August. Areas of unincorporated Adams County and residents who do not receive the city’s regular trash service are not eligible to participate.

July 13: Subdivisions including Eagle Creek, Foxton Village, Fronterra Village, Harvest Meadows, North Range Village, Potomac Farms, Reunion Ridge, Turnberry

Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Day Guidelines

All items should be placed at the curb by 7 a.m. on the Saturday of your scheduled pick-up
Items stacked in the driveway, in the yard, or additional items beyond the five allowed items will not be removed
Items should be stacked neatly (no more than 4 feet wide, 8 feet long, and 4 feet high) and should not block the sidewalk
Large items only – bagged trash and other small waste will not be removed
Items that are too heavy for two workers to lift will not be removed
Items not removed by Republic for the reasons listed above should not be left at the curb for more than 24 hours after your assigned pick-up day
More guidelines on Materials that are accepted/not accepted are available at c3gov.com/Trash.

If you are unsure of your Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Days, want to check on a specific item’s eligibility, or have additional questions, please call Republic Services at 303-286-1200.

Learn more about the city’s trash program and other special waste disposal events at c3gov.com/Trash.

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96,000,000 Black Balls Are On This Reservoir!!

Billions of people just felt the deadly intensity of climate-fueled heat waves

BY SARAH KAPLAN AND SCOTT DANCE

JUNE 22 AT 6:30 AM

Dozens of bodies were discovered in Delhi during a two-day stretch this week when even sundown brought no relief from sweltering heat and humidity. Tourists died or went missing as the mercury surged in Greece. Hundreds of pilgrims perished before they could reach Islam’s holiest site, struck down by temperatures as high as 125 degrees.

The scorching heat across five continents in recent days, scientists say, provided yet more proof that human-caused global warming has so raised the baseline of normal temperatures that once-unthinkable catastrophes have become commonplace.

The suffering came despite predictions that a year-long surge of global heat might soon begin to wane. Instead, in the past seven days alone, billions felt heat with climate change-fueled intensity that broke more than 1,000 temperature records around the globe. Hundreds fell in the United States, where tens of millions of people across the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard have been sweltering amid one of the worst early-season heat waves in memory.

“It should be obvious that dangerous climate change is already upon us,” said Michael Wehner, a climate scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “People will die because of global warming on this very day.”

That much of this week’s heat unfolded after the dissipation of the El Niño weather pattern — which typically boosts global temperatures — shows how greenhouse gas pollution has pushed the planet into frightening new territory, researchers say. Scientists had expected this summer might be somewhat cooler than 2023, which was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in at least 2,000 years.

But with summer 2024 just getting started, there are ominous signs that even more scorching conditions may still be on the horizon.

June is already all but sure to set a 13th-consecutive monthly global average temperature record, said Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist who works for the payments company Stripe. Next month, he added, the planet could approach or surpass the highest global averages ever measured.

Whether the unyielding trend of record heat will ease soon, with an expected transition from El Niño to its cooler counterpart, La Niña, isn’t yet clear, scientists said. Scientists are also still analyzing individual extreme weather events to determine how much climate change influenced them, if at all.

What is obvious: The way humans have caused baseline temperatures to surge.

“We’ve got the highest greenhouse gas concentrations in the last 3 million years. Carbon dioxide traps heat, so the temperature of the planet is rising,” said Michael McPhaden, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It’s real simple physics.”

‘Exceptional’ heat is arriving sooner and lasting longer

Though not all temperatures seen around the world this week were unprecedented, they were nonetheless evidence of how the climate has shifted in a way that makes hot weather more likely to arrive earlier and last longer.

For some 80 percent of the world’s population — 6.5 billion people — the heat of the past week was twice as likely to occur because humans started burning fossil fuels and releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, according to data provided to The Washington Post by the nonprofit Climate Central.

Nearly half that number experienced what Climate Central considers “exceptional heat” — conditions that would have been rare or even impossible in a world without climate change.

“What is really standing out is how many [heat waves] are happening at the same time,” said Andrew Pershing, the nonprofit’s director of climate science.

All week long, “exceptional” conditions could be found across much of Africa, the Middle East, southern Europe and southeast Asia. Surging air conditioning demand crippled power grids in Albania and Kuwait. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the past week has seen more than 1,400 high temperature records fall around the globe.

Since the start of the industrial era, human activities — mostly burning fossil fuels — have warmed the planet by about 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit). Earth’s temperature over the past 12 months has been even hotter, averaging about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels.

To assess how warming increases the likelihood of a given heat event, Climate Central uses multiple global climate models to calculate how often that temperature would have occurred in the preindustrial climate and how frequently it is reached today. The technique, which has been peer reviewed and published in an academic journal, underscores how warming has juiced the chance of temperatures at the edge of what people can tolerate.

The mercury in Hartford, Conn., on Thursday reached 98 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature ever recorded for that day. Climate Central’s analysis found those conditions are twice as likely under current levels of warming — and they will only occur more often as the world continues to heat up.

Peter Fousek, secretary-treasurer for the Connecticut Tenants’ Union, spent the last few days going door to door in overheated buildings to check on low-income residents who were unaccustomed to such prolonged and severe heat. He recalled one East Hartford man who came to the door dripping with sweat, while the aged air conditioner wheezing in the background did little to keep his apartment cool.

“It’s really kind of terrifying to watch the way these heat waves are happening in this increasingly volatile climate,” Fousek said.

Climate change isn’t just making high temperatures and other extreme events more likely, Wehner said. It also makes every disaster that does occur more intense.

Wehner’s research has found that heat waves like the one currently unfolding in the United States are now roughly 2 to 3 degrees Celsius (3 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter because of how humans have altered the planet. Strong hurricanes are at least 14 percent wetter because the warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. And storm surges are unfolding in oceans that are in some places more than a foot higher than they were half a century ago — allowing floodwaters to reach heights never seen before.

“We have been predicting for at least the past two decades that extreme weather would become yet more dangerous as the world warms,” Wehner said. “This is not a surprise.”

Early summer heat could hint at more global records

The global heat is to be expected after a historically strong El Niño pattern developed this winter and dissipated earlier this month, climate scientists said. The same thing happened in 2016, which had been the hottest year observed since at least the 1850s — until a surge of global heat began breaking those 8-year-old records a year ago.

But this time, eight more years of greenhouse gas emissions warming the planet means the otherwise natural boost in global warmth is pushing the planet even further into uncharted territory, McPhaden said. That is despite the fact that the latest El Niño was “not in the same league” as the supercharged pattern of 2015-2016.

“The impacts of this event were amplified by the warm background conditions,” McPhaden said. “What had been an intense El Niño rainfall became an extreme El Niño rainfall.”

El Niño, during which unusually warm Pacific waters rise to the surface and transfer vast amounts of heat into the atmosphere, has fingerprints around the globe, including heat across southern and eastern Asia and heavy rainfall in eastern Africa. Those fingerprints were especially pronounced not because this El Niño pattern was excessively strong, but because it developed in a world where greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, McPhaden said.

“Those effects we typically associate with a stronger El Niño event were much stronger simply because this El Niño occurred in a much warmer world,” he said. “It’s not just the temperature of the Pacific that matters anymore. It is, what’s the global temperature baseline on which El Niño is developing?”

Though El Niño is over, the echo of its warming influence appears increasingly likely to push 2024 average annual temperatures above the record set in 2023, Hausfather said.

For the month of June, global temperatures are likely to be slightly warmer than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, Hausfather said.

Last July brought the hottest average global temperatures scientists had ever seen — the hottest, they estimate, in more than 100,000 years. It’s possible the planet surpasses that milestone next month, Hausfather said, and it’s almost certain to come close to it.

Climate scientists have been predicting the end of El Niño will bring a global cooling trend, but they haven’t seen it arrive yet.

“If temperatures stay at current elevated levels, we’d roughly tie last July,” Hausfather said. “Either way, it’s super hot. It’s just a question if, is it hotter than we expected, or not?”

A month or so ago, Hausfather said he estimated relatively slim odds of the planet hitting another record high average temperature next month. The chances have more recently appeared to reach about 50/50, he said. And after seeing such shocking warmth over the past year, he said he is too “humbled” to bet against another record.

Third Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Day Saturday, June 8 for certain northern neighborhoods
Post Date: 06/04/2024 9:14 AM
The city’s trash and recycling program includes one free bulk item pickup per quarter, which you can schedule through Republic Services (additional items can be scheduled for $15 each). In addition to these four free pickups per year, Republic Services also schedules one Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Day per year for your entire neighborhood.

Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Days allow each household to place up to five items at the curb for free pickup once per year to help take those large, unwanted items off your hands. Any item that cannot fit in your curbside trash cart is considered a large item for pickup. Residential neighborhoods are divided into five areas for these events, with a different part of the city being serviced over five Saturdays between March and August. Areas of unincorporated Adams County and residents who do not receive the city’s regular trash service are not eligible to participate.

June 8: Subdivisions including Aberdeen, Belle Creek, Dunes Park, River Oaks, River Run, Outlook, Stillwater, Villages at Buffalo Run (East and West), The Pointe at Buffalo Run, Hills at Buffalo Run, Buckley Crossing

Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Day Guidelines

All items should be placed at the curb by 7 a.m. on the Saturday of your scheduled pick-up
Items stacked in the driveway, in the yard, or additional items beyond the five allowed items will not be removed
Items should be stacked neatly (no more than 4 feet wide, 8 feet long, and 4 feet high) and should not block the sidewalk
Large items only – bagged trash and other small waste will not be removed
Items that are too heavy for two workers to lift will not be removed
Items not removed by Republic for the reasons listed above should not be left at the curb for more than 24 hours after your assigned pick-up day
More guidelines on Materials that are accepted/not accepted are available at c3gov.com/Trash.

If you are unsure of your Neighborhood Curbside Cleanup Days, want to check on a specific item’s eligibility, or have additional questions, please call Republic Services at 303-286-1200.

Learn more about the city’s trash program and other special waste disposal events at c3gov.com/Trash.

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