Lakewood Informer

Updated 1/30/23 with comments and call to action below January 23, 2023 Lakewood City Council meeting showed strong concern from residents around the Maple Grove reservoir. Consolidated Mutual is moving a fence around the reservoir, resulting in elimination of a wildlife corridor. The new fence itself is not compatible with wildlife. The damage has already...

Guest post by Joan from Lakewood My best friend Michelle came from Florida to spend Christmas with my family. It was the best present and made my Holiday. We were driving north on Union and at 4th I was pointing out the 59 acres of Federal land recently under contract and discussing a pending FOIA...

The 2022 City Manager Employment Agreement includes a new clause in Section 9: Benefits: “The Employee shall receive 20-days of Executive Leave Time which may be used in any manner desired with the intent of advancing leadership succession & organization development planning for the City by the Employee.” What does this mean? One interpretation is...

OVERVIEW On December 19, 2022, Lakewood City Council passed a new City Manager employment agreement after receiving incomplete information and having limited Council discussion. Some City Council Members seemed to equate a new agreement with the City Manager performance evaluation while others spoke of contract provisions. The result is an agreement for the City of...

Guest post by Lenore Herskovitz A Planning Commission Study Session was scheduled for January 18, 2023 but because of a failure to post in a timely manner, this meeting was canceled. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated occurrence. According to Resolution 2023-3 which designates the places for posting public meetings pursuant to C.R.S. 24-6-402, there...

Lakewood’s City Manager Employment Agreement is publicly available. A comparison below shows some of the employment agreement changes throughout the current City Manager’s tenure, along with some considerations that may be taken into account when evaluating a public servant contract. A quick glance at the chart below shows that the City Manager’s base salary has...

Guest post by Lenore Herskovitz On February 19, 2022 the  City held an “ in person only” Annual Planning Retreat. The attendees consisted mostly of Council members, the Mayor, the city manager and 4 members of the public. The only record of this meeting was a written summary provided by the facilitator Heather Bergman. This...

Lakewood City Council Member Jeslin Shahrezaei joined us on January 6, 2023, to discuss a variety of issues. Starting with her views on the Moms Demand Action meetings, meeting disruptions, and how the process should work. Thank you, Councilor, for continuing through an especially bumbly interview - I won't quit my day job. Council Member...

Council Member Charley Able joined us on December 29 to discuss the meetings regarding incentives for the Lakewood City Manager. Those meetings resulted in first, a denial of executive session on December 5th, followed by a public meeting wherein members accuse Lakewood Mayor Paul of muting their microphones. (a second attempt to reach Mayor Paul...

LakewoodInformer reached out to Mayor Paul for comment on muting. It was (still is) the holidays so we gave it a few days but wanted to report that as of now, there is no comment from the mayor of Lakewood, Colorado. We will always take comment from those involved in our stories. Email sent: Dear...