Woodmen Hills Info

So why am I not commenting on things?

Dave Hightower — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:58:24 +0000

Many people have asked why I’m not getting involved in the district anymore…not attending the meetings, not running in this election, and generally not commenting. It’s simple — you don’t care. You don’t care enough to get involved. You don’t care enough to challenge the board decisions — even when they are blatantly illegal and self-serving. You don’t care [...]

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Yeah, I’m still here…

Dave Hightower — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:01:53 +0000

Just haven’t been very motivated to work on this site lately — it seems a waste of time, as the district seems to be controlled by…oh never mind. The only reason I brought the site back up was to meet a friend’s request. Anyhow, the only real point of interest lately seems to be the service [...]

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Point/Counterpoint

Dave Hightower — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:54:10 +0000

“Jane, you ignorant…” oh, never mind. Some of you may have read the article in the New Falcon Herald titled “Woodmen Hills covenant controversy“; if you haven’t had the experience, click on the title to read the artivle at the Herald’s website. Yesterday Chuck Warne met with the reporter who wrote the article to provide [...]

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An Update to Financials

Dave Hightower — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:48:11 +0000

I met with Al Kreps yesterday, for what turned out to be (in my opinion) a good meeting. Al, as you may know, is Senior Vice President of The State Bank, and has a keen eye for finances; he’s applied that experience to the district’s budget. In this post, I made reference to 1.2 million in new [...]

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Sanity Does Not Prevail

Dave Hightower — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:26:57 +0000

…unfortunately. It would seem the board is not interested in our opinions. I am referring to the last board meeting, where the board essentially said it doesn’t matter that almost 80% of responding residents did not want the district to take on covenant enforcement…they are going to try to do it anyhow. They have hired a covenant [...]

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Cherokee Metropolitan District Recall Results

Dave Hightower — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:07:36 +0000

Earlier I posted about a recall effort going on in Cherokee Metropolitan District; this is of interest to us as it concerned Robert Lovato, one of the new members of our district’s board of directors. The election was held yesterday; according to the El Paso County Elections page, the unofficial results are: 1613 Total number of votes cast 1325 To [...]

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Covenant Survey Results

Dave Hightower — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:36:11 +0000

If you recall, the district sent out a survey to those residents in filings 1-10, asking residents whether they wanted “covenants funded by fee and enforced by separate agency”. Oddly enough, the ‘residents’ of filing 7 (the commercial entities) did not get this survey…even though they pay into the district’s coffers. Well, the results are in (click [...]

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More Details Emerge about Service Delivery Plan….plans

Dave Hightower — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:55:28 +0000

By now you should have received a flyer in your water bill — it looks like this (click on the image for a larger version): Of interest in here is the section that states: There has been a lot of misinformation circulated in regards to the Service Plan Amendment; the following is actually what the amendment is [...]

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Covenants Conundrum Continues

Dave Hightower — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:54:22 +0000

Those of you living in filings 1 through 10 should have received the following survey (click on the image for a larger version): I applaud the district for at least asking the residents if they want covenants or not — it’s a step in the right direction. Chuck Warne came up with what I feel is [...]

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Ballot Issue 3C

Dave Hightower — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:23:12 +0000

Another of the issues you’ll be asked to vote for in this election is Ballot Issue 3C, which invovles Falcon School District 49: Shall Falcon school district 49 debt be increased $125 million, with a repayment cost of up to $257 million, and shall district taxes be increased by up to $15.7 million annually to finance [...]

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