This page will list all currently serving board members, including their contact information, date of election, and date their term expires.
Notes about District Board Members:
District Board Members are elected by the residents and owners (“electors”) of the metropolitan district. the definition of “electors” is rather convoluted, and can be found in CRS 32-1-103, Section 5. In a nutshell, if you reside in the district, or own property in the district, you are an elector — there are other provisions, but the majority of electors will fall into one of those two categories.
District board members are elected to 4-year terms, and are paid up to $1,200 $1,600 per year, not to exceed $75.00 $100.00 per meeting. (see CRS 32-1-902(3)(a)(II) )
Board members are term-limited by the Colorado State Constitution (Article XVIII, Section 11) to two consecutive 4-year terms.
Employees of the district (such as Larry Bishop and Eddie Avedikian) are not district board members (indeed, cannot be by CRS 32-1-902(b) ) and do not sit on the district board, nor can they vote as board members.
Board President
Jan Pizzi (President@woodmenhills.info)
Year Elected: 2008
Term Expires: 2012
Resident of Woodmen Hills since 2003
Board Vice President
Keith Moulton (DirectorMoulton@whmd.org)
Year Appointed: 2008
Term Expires: Must stand for election May 2010
Resident of Woodmen Hills since 2006
Board Secretary
Debra Wright (DirectorWright@whmd.org)
Year Appointed: 2008
Term Expires: Must stand for election May 2010
Resident of Woodmen Hills since 2000
Board Treasurer
Marge Vaga(DirectorVaga@whmd.org)
Year Appointed: 2008
Term Expires: Must stand for election May 2010
Resident of Woodmen Hills since 2004
Director
Jennifer Barber (DirectorBarber@whmd.org)
Year Elected: 2002
Term Expires: 2010 (may not run again)
Resident of Woodmen Hills since 1998
I believe that there needs to be a new election to pick the officers of the board. Jan Pizzi nominated Jennifer Barber and Jennifer Barber nominated Jan Pizzi. They both seconed the motion and both voted for the nomination. Smells like rotten fish to me. To make it fair, reopen the nomination process for the board positions and at the same time require the board members to sign a conflict of interest statement. If they are not affraid to do so.
Jamesar1–
While I understand your sentiment, there are very specific procedures that need to be followed for that to happen.
A board member could resign…but in that case, the remaining board members would appoint a replacement. If the entire board were to resign, then an election would be scheduled…but elections are expensive, by and large.
If the residents are truly dissatisfied with the board, they can do a recall…however, you cannot recall a director that has been in office for less than 6 months, so the only members you could recall are Jan Pizzi or Jen Barber until June. At that time, all directors are subject to recall…however, by then you are less than a year out from the regular election (May 2010).
As far as Jan and Jennifer appointing themselves, that’s not correct. Both of them were elected, so they did not need to appoint themselves to the board–they were already on the board. The only appointments that were done were for the 3 new board members.