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Volume 2 Issue 21
Glendale’s Beer Gets Orange..Workers and friends of Glendale's Bull & Bush Brewpub, in orange,
amuse attendees at the 2002 Great American Beer Festival Oct. 3. The annual tradition became legal this
year with its 21st festival. -Photo by JEFF FRANCIS
Council gives initial approval given
Inside the
to Glendale city budget for ‘03
The Glendale City Council, at its
GLENDALE October 15 meeting, approved on
first reading a budget of $21.2 mil-
lion to fund city services in the next
NEWS & calendar year. The same ordinance
appropriates $21.6 million in 2004.
A public hearing is set for
CENTRAL November 19 on this ordinance, as
well as one establishing the mill
DENVER levy at 8.420 mills. A mill levy is the
number of dollars a taxpayer owes
for every $1,000 of assessed valua-
DISPATCH tion on his or her property. A mill is
one-tenth of $.01 or $.001 (one
thousandth).
Glendale has not raised the mill
• Elvis’ Graceland in Colorado levy in several years, as the lion’s
page 10 share of revenues come from sales
tax collections rather than property
taxes.
• Meditation page 3 The Council also gave initial
approval to and set for public hear-
ing on November 19 a proposal to
• Restaurant & Bar Guide page 5 adjust the City’s 2002 budget to
take into account the purchase of
park land over and above budget
• Little Nicky’s review page 7 as originally set. That land is locat-
ed on East Kentucky Avenue
between Cedar Pointe and Cherry
• Rice returns page 10 Creek Pediatrics. The community
will be invited early next year to
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October 18, 2002
Regional Government
Council Relocates
to Glendale
After 20 years at the Diamond Hill Office
Complex just above downtown Denver, the
Denver Regional Council of Governments has
moved to a new home in Glendale.
The Denver Regional Council of Governments,
or DRCOG (pronounced Dr. Cog), is a voluntary
association of 51 county and municipal govern-
ments in the greater Denver, Colorado, area.
Through the organization, local governments
work together to address issues of regional con-
cern. Hot topics have included growth and devel-
opment, transportation, the environment and
analysis of economic and development trends.
The organization also works to coordinate and
provide services to the Front Range’s senior popu-
lation. By promoting regional cooperation and
coordination among local governments, the coun-
cil of governments resolves common problems,
performs regional planning and provides services
to its members.
The new DRCOG office are in the Cherry
Creek Corporate Plaza I at 4500 Cherry Creek
Drive South.
The council’s main meeting room, where the
board convenes and other large groups can expect
to meet, will be conveniently located on the 1st
floor of the new building. The council’s offices will
be located on the 8th floor.
please see COUNCIL on page 3
give input on the amenities they DRCOG Board of Directors in their
would like to see in the new park.
In other action, Council
new offices and presented a photo
of one of Glendale’s famous fire-
approved a “bereavement leave” works displays illuminating the
policy for City employees who cur-
rently must use sick leave or vaca-
Cherry Creek Corporate Center. A
brass plate on the reads: “DRCOG,
tion to attend a funeral of a family
or household member, and
appointed Mike Dunafon, Chair of
please see COUNCIL on page 3
the City’s Planning Commission, as
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Council members extended a
warm welcome to a new Glendale
business, the Denver Regional
Council of Governments (DRCOG).
DRCOG, a voluntary association of
51 county and municipal govern-
ments working together to address
issues of regional concern, recently
relocated to the Cherry Creek
Corporate Center from Denver’s
Diamond Hill where they had been
for more than a quarter of a centu-
ry. The organization also provides
information and tools to support
local decision-making by elected
officials.
Glendale, CO 80246
Glendale Mayor Joe Rice and
Council Member Larry Harte
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