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1/8July 2010

INSIDE THIS ISSUE . . .

Just who is in charge here? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 1

Presidents Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 2

Red-tailed Hawk Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 4

49 Mills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 6

Message from the Assessors Office . . . . . . . . . . . Page 6

Strategic Planning Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 7

Next Board Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 8

Just who is in charge here? orGETCHYOUR PROGRAM, GETCHYOUR

SOUVINEER PROGRAM HERE,YOU CANT TELL THE PLAYERS WITHOUT A PROGRAMOK, the biannual metro board elections are over and the new? guys

ave four year terms to look forward to and the old guys have two yearsefore their May 2012 election. In the past, we have shared with you thatBMA#2 has no full time staff and substantially all the services and pro-rams are managed by the Board Members. But who is doing what andow are those duties distributed to the Board members. The leadershipf your district resolved to tie duties to titles and at our May election of

officers made all the titles descriptiveof the areas of responsibility as-signed to each officer.

So the results of electionof officers are:

President: Tom Coker

Senior Vice President and Vice Pres-ident of Landscape Operations:

George Arellano

Vice President of Communications,Editor EBMD#2 Newsletter, and Assistant Treasurer:

Ron Meyer

Vice President of Water Enterprises and Assistant Secretary:

Richard Rexroat

Secretary and Treasurer: Larry Geiger

So hang on to this program and when you have future questions, yoknow who to contact with your thoughts and concerns in each of our ice areas.

Larry


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PRESIDENTS COMMENTSGENERAL COMMENTS:t is always interesting to see the response of the District Constituentsuring an election cycle. Short and long term questions abound. Ishe Strategic Plan working for the Community? Is the Board commu-icating and responding to their expectations? So many questions thatnly an election can resolve. The Board Members that were up for re-lection offered to serve again for four years and ran unopposed in thelection. It will be a pleasure to serve with them over the coming years.he District developed a Strategic Plan in March 2009 that pursues theision and mission statement that has been developed by the Commu-ity and the Board of Directors. A portion of each Newsletter is gen-rally dedicated to informing the community as to the Districtsrogress.

ANDSCAPING:Water is continuing to become a scarce commodity in the Western States.

olorado is no exception. The District has been working with the Cityf Aurora (COA) and the HOAs within the District to pursue water sav-ng opportunities. The concern today for water suppliers, is not onlyervicing the water assets, but the economics of buying and transport-ng the water assets to the end user. One way to lower this cost dy-amic is to simply reduce the water usage by the end user. Xeriscape

s one of the resources that can assist in this process. Upgrading andeveloping new irrigation systems is another. To the extent the entities

within the District boundaries have an interest in working toward re-ucing their water usage for landscaping and irrigation systems, the

District is interested in working with them.

Creekside HOA The District, COA and Creekside are currently pursuing a cost sharing arrangement to pursuexeriscape along S. Aurora Parkway. No plans have beenfinalized to this date.

Ridgeview HOA The District and Ridgeview have developeda cost share plan to improve the landscaping and irrigationsystem in the highly visible dog run area on their common

grounds. Heritage Eagle Bend HOA The District is in the beginning

phases of discussing xeriscape projects in highly visible impactareas along Gartrell and S. Aurora Parkway.

City of Aurora COA and the District are working on anagreement where the District will completethe landscaping and irrigation on the cen-ter median on S. Aurora Parkway just east ofGartrell Road.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY / STATE LEGISLATION / LOCAL GOVERNMEIt is important to understand the relationship that the District hasthe various, local, county and state entities. The District continues tcourage Board Members to participate on various committees with entities and hopefully develop strong working relationships withmembers and elected officials.

Currently, several District Board Members serve or haveappointed to committees with the COA and County.

The District continues to pursue relationships with the comercial area representatives, HOAs and interest groupsin and close to District Boundaries.

Over the past year the District has been fortunate to havNancy Doty (Arapahoe County Clerk), Corbin Sakdol (CoAssessor) and various COA Staff Members attend the moMetro Board Meetings to exchange ideas and informatio

State Legislator Nancy Spence will be attending the Jun

Metro Board Meeting to bring the Community and Distrup to date on the most recent State legislative session. are a number of very important ballot issues that will bing up in the next election. Some of these issues may daffect Metro District and local governments.

ASSESSED VALUATION:The importance of assessed valuations to local governments, schootricts, etc., has been discussed in previous newsletters. At the May ming, Corbin Sakdol (Arapahoe County Assessor) discussed at lengt

current Countys process for establishing homeowner and commevalues. Since the District has approximately $63,000,000 in currensessed valuation, his presentation was extremely important to thetricts planning process. The District hopes to set up a future mefor him to meet with homeowners and Realtors.

WATER ASSETS:A great deal of the winter planning process was spent on upgradinexisting water irrigation and supply system to be constructed this mer throughout the District Boundaries. A number of these pro

are:

A more independent water system for irrigation along tGartrell and S. Aurora Parkway center medians and comareas. It is planned that most of these projects will becompleted by the early fall.

Currently developing a secured Wireless System (WFI) tomonitor and operated operate water flow from a remotlocation for the two water wells and the East Cherry CreValley Pipeline that are owned or controlled by the Dist

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This resource can supply in excess of 1,200,000 gallons ofwater per day to the HEB Golf Course. Several years ago,the District only had the capacity of 500,000 gallons of waterper day.

The water from these systems is piped into the water storagelake on the fourth golf hole. Monitors and probes are beingplaced in the lake. This will allow the operator to know waterlevels and water supply needs from the various water assetsto more effectively and efficiently manage and operate thesystem.

An independent water operator has been retained as aconsultant to manage the daily water asset and system.

The District has developed a more efficient Board Memberstructure to accommodate this new process and has developedmore detailed operating guidelines.

WEBSITE AND COMMUNICATIONS:

Part of the new structure for the Metro District Board involved a newommunications Officer position. In the ever expanding communica-ons explosion, a stronger website presence for the District is beingonsidered. It is imperative that the District continues to focus on com-

munications with constituents.

UMMARY:his coming year should be an ex-remely challenging time! The Dis-rict has worked diligently to

evelop and execute a strategic planwhich contains exciting new ideas

nd concepts in order to enhanceonstituents life styles and values.

Tom Coker, President

IN HONORABLE MEMORY

We regret to inform you of the passing of Ken Vosika, a recentMetro District Board Member. Ken was enjoyable to work with,had a great presence and wit and will be greatly missed.


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Red-tailed Hawk Park located at 23701 East Hinsdale Way, is Aurorasewest community park. Located near the intersection of South Aurora

Parkway and East Hinsdale Way, Red-tailed Hawk Park Phase I is com-

lete. Park users for Phase I will find a playground for younger andlder children, large turf field, a beautiful wetland boardwalk, andlenty of parking, restroom facilities and a connection to the expan-ive Piney Creek Regional Trail system.

Phase II, is currently under construction which will include an outdoorquatic sprayground with interactive spray features. In addition, there

will be six full sized, competition bocce ball courts, six horseshoe pits,nd an area for sand volleyball, shade shelters with picnic tables, vaultestroom facilities and regional trail connections.

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Phase II construction is scheduled through fall of 2010.

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orado Trust Fund (GOCO) which awarded a $200,000 grant. Thi

a very competitive grant in which Colorado and the City of Aurora the successful recipients.

Another $250,000 for the park construction came from ArapCounty Open Space and Trails Grant, which was also a competgrant, with Aurora Parks, Recreation and Open Space being the rient.

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A major funding source is from Arapahoe County Open Space TaxShareback Dollars based on a per capita. The cost of construction forPhase I was 1.1 million and the cost for Phase II is approximately 1.3

million.

t is important to point out that the funding for the park was paid forwith no City tax dollars through the General Fund which at the presentime is experiencing significant cutbacks due to the economy.

Golden Triangle Con-struction, a general con-tractor was awarded thecontract for the the parkproject and Mark Sef-covic (photo) is the Su-perintendent on site.

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Eagle Bend Metropolitan District #2

NEXT DISTRICT BOARD MEETING MEETINGWednesday, July 28, 2010

at10:00 a.m.

at theHeritage Eagle Bend Clubhouse.

23155 East Heritage ParkwayAurora, Colorado 80016

VISIT US ON THE WEB AT :www.eaglebendmetro.com

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