Remarks by Ken Casey
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“So you won't have any further, there's no further money transfer or shared services?”
“okay i'm just still um maybe it's more of a question for city but you know we said we don't have a process for this but i'm normally changes of this magnitude to a metro district normally go to the voters of the electors of the metro district so i'm just curious why this would not go to the you know how do we know the the you know the homeowners residents there want to do this”
“Because those services are coming from Metro District 1.”
“Thank you, Madam President. Kevin, just in my neighborhood, Flying Horse, we had the separation between the master and the two child metrodiscs. Same thing, Charles Wolfelsberger, same person doing it. Once they negotiated an agreement, you're calling a separation agreement, but it was an IGA. It was put before the voters to approve that. And so that's why I was asking that question, because I've seen this before. Same person advising it, same kind of setup. same kind of thing separate you know completely separate all the administrative services now handled by the homeowner run metro…”
“Thank you, Madam President. Yeah, just one last question or just one last clarification. So you're a community that is a combined, basically don't have an HOA, your metro district functions in the HOA metro district kind of thing. And so you don't have the option of doing a special assessment and those sorts of things. So that's why you're creating your mill levy at a certain level to build a fund reserves. I think someone referenced there. So that is a difference too in this sort of model. when you do when you you just can't do a special assessment and tax everybody essentially like an hoa…”
“Thank you. Just a couple updates. On September 29th, I joined several of my fellow council members on a tour of Pikes Peak State College Medical Simulation Center in Council District 2, where we saw the state-of-the-art simulation rooms being used to equip and prepare the next generation of health science professionals. And it's really impressive. If you haven't been up there, I would encourage you to do so. on october 6 i participated in the day-long fire ops event hosted by local five members in colorado springs fire department and i had the opportunity to learn firsthand about a wide range…”