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CPNMD Board Meeting

Date: Monday, August 16, 2021
Time: 6:00 p.m.

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ALERT: We are receiving inquiries about discolored water. The discoloration is due to recent upgrades in our water treatment plant. As we flush water lines throughout the district, if you encounter discolored water, turn on all the cold faucets in your home for fifteen minutes to flush the lines. If the discoloration persists, then wait three hours and, again, turn on all the cold faucets in your home for another fifteen minutes to flush the lines. Though temporarily discolored, the water remains safe to drink. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.

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Water Conservation

The Castle Pines North Metro District provides clean, safe, reliable, on-demand drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, parks, trails, and open space services to the people of Castle Pines, west of I-25.

2021 Drinking Water Consumer Confidence Report

PLEASE NOTE: From October 1st through April 30th of each year, we rely on water stored in Chatfield Reservoir that travels through the Centennial Water & Sanitation District’s water-treatment system, through our existing interconnect pipeline, and into our water distribution system. From May 1st through September 30th of each year, we rely on our deep-water wells in the Denver Basin Aquifer System.

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xERISCAPING IN CASTLE PINES NORTH

A good landscape and garden begins with a good design. To learn how Xeriscaping can enhance your home and save you money on your water bill, read The 7 Principles of Xeriscape. You will also find information on water saving Bluegrass alternatives in this document.

Although the Front Range presents a special set of challenges for growing trees, the desire to have a large shade tree in your yard can be a reality. Learn more about caring for your trees in Castle Pines North.

Want to know the proper way to plant trees and shrubs? Our Tree and Shrub Planting Guidelines can get your plants off to the right start.

Full color guide to Xeriscape Plants

Craig's Corner

Board of Directors

David McEntire
President

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David McEntire is a Colorado native with over 38 years of home building experience. As a Western State Colorado University Business graduate, his career began in 1980 with North American Homes, a leading builder in Colorado. After nine years in Colorado, he expanded into the Las Vegas market as Mainland General Manager for Honvest Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honfed Federal Savings Bank of Hawaii. In 1993, David founded Amstar Homes. Over the years, he has built a sterling reputation for quality. His company's homes are nationally recognized for outstanding craftsmanship, design, and customer service, and routinely earn a five-star rating from J.D. Powers and Associates.

David learned the home building business from the ground up. He has been involved in every facet of the home-building process (i.e., proof of concept, design, finance, estimating, negotiating, purchasing, advertising, marketing, sales, quality control, and customer service). He is recognized as the ‘Qualified Person,’ certified and licensed to work with federal (U.S. Departments of Interior and Veterans Affairs), state (Colorado & Nevada), and local governments (building department councils and numerous boards).

David has served as director and officer on numerous boards including National Association of Home Builders, Home Builders Association of Colorado Springs, Southern Nevada Home Builders Association, Southern Colorado Community Association Institute, various HOA’s, the City of Colorado Springs & El Paso County Drainage Board, The Church at Las Vegas, Western State Colorado University Foundation, and the Ronald McDonald House.

He and his wife, Sarah, live in the Amber Ridge neighborhood; their daughter attends Timber Trail Elementary School.

In the context of pent-up voter frustration over excessive water rates, the imposition of non-voter-approved fees, and proposed new property taxes, water-rate increases, and debt load, the people of Castle Pines decisively elected David and his reform team to the Metro District Board in May 2018.

David believes that securing our renewable water future wisely and at less cost by potentially consolidating our community’s water and wastewater services with those of a larger, neighboring water district constitutes an efficient and economical option moving forward.

As a highly regarded homebuilder, David possesses an extraordinary depth and diversity of experience working with water districts and utilities companies. David’s knowledge of finance, construction, operations, maintenance, and financing of public infrastructure — combined with his rigidly methodical approach to evaluating less expensive renewable water alternatives to those that residents overwhelmingly rejected in both 2016 and 2018 — can result in a safe, reliable, less costly water future for the people of Castle Pines.

Immediately after his colleagues elected him as board president, David quietly immersed himself in leading the Metro District’s fact-based, data-driven, due diligence processes with an eye toward keeping his promise to the community.

“I am truly blessed and honored to serve on a team of fiscally conservative public servants that function, cohesively, as team of thoughtful stewards for our community’s services, assets, and tax dollars. Without their efforts, insights, and support — and without the many relationships that we resuscitated — I believe it is highly unlikely that we would be as well positioned as we are to finally securing our community’s water future wisely and at less cost,” said David.

Robert Merritt
Vice President

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Robert and his family have lived in the Stonecroft neighborhood of Castle Pines for the last 15 years. He is a pilot for a major airline company. Before his aviation career, Robert attended Ohio State University and earned a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Finance from Columbus State University in Georgia. After college, Rob worked at JB Hanauer, where he specialized in evaluating commercial securities and municipal bonds. This evaluation process entailed data collection and analysis of the offering statements, event notices, recent and historical annual reporting statements, and rating agencies.

When not flying, Robert prefers spending time with the love of his life, Christine, and their two daughters, all of whom are avid outdoor enthusiasts and enjoy hiking, sailing, skiing, biking, motorcycling, and fishing. Long before it was hip, Robert was barbecuing for family and friends on his Green Egg, making brisket, pizza, and everything between. The Merritts are also members of Journey Church, a non-denominational, Christian congregation in Castle Pines.

In addition to his passion for collecting and restoring classic cars, Robert is curating a vinyl record collection that spans classical, jazz, and classic-rock-music genres. Though never finished, he continues the process of building out the family’s music-listening room that features an array of audio components and acoustical panels.

Robert believes that the people of Castle Pines pay among the highest water rates in the Denver-metro region and that our Metro District is too small and possesses insufficient economies of scale to deliver competitively priced water. He is one of four Metro District-reform Directors, whose renewable water vision and platform the community voted overwhelmingly to approve in 2018.

Robert is using his time and position as a Director to usher in a new era of Metro District transparency while working diligently to secure our renewable water future wisely and at less cost. He has devoted himself to fast-tracking the responsible integration of our water and wastewater services with a larger water provider that delivers competitively priced water to its customers.

Denise Crew
Director

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As one of four reform-minded, fiscal conservatives elected as Director in May 2018, Denise staunchly supported — and is eagerly awaiting the result of — the soon to be completed Water & Wastewater Service Integration Study that CPNMD and the Parker Water & Sanitation District (PWSD) jointly launched in 2019. Denise recognizes that, when compared with large water providers in the metro region, CPNMD is too small to provide cost-competitive water and wastewater services to our residents and business community. Denise has long held that the answer to controlling costs in future years lies in thoroughly vetting the costs and benefits of possible service integration with one or more neighboring jurisdictions.

Denise wholeheartedly supported CPNMD Board RESOLUTION 2019-01 Clarifying Certain Privacy Fence Ownership, Maintenance, Replacement & Liability Responsibilities. She continues to push for the dissolution of the Master Association (a redundant layer of government) and the permanent elimination of the fees it assesses Castle Pines homeowners.

As the CPNMD board’s designated governing member on the Parks Authority Board of Directors, Denise worked to persuade Parks Authority’s president and governing body to sign off on a final Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) to dissolve the Parks Authority and transfer its remaining $719,000 fund balance to the City of Castle Pines Parks & Recreation Fund.

At the CPNMD board meeting during which she secured a unanimous vote in favor of Parks Authority dissolution, she said, “Colleagues, as you know, I have always believed that disbanding the Parks Authority was a first step toward making our community’s parks funding and governance structures more efficient, clear, and transparent,” said Director Denise Crew. “The terms of the dissolution require the City of Castle Pines to apply all existing principal and future interest on the $719,000 fund balance to existing or new parks, trails, and amenities, specifically within our established neighborhoods west of I-25, whose residents historically paid the Master Association’s annual assessment,” she said.

When asked what she planned to do now that the Parks Authority no longer exists, Crew responded, “On to our next parks-related challenge. Remember that if our Metro District and Parker Water, in some form or fashion, agree to merge our respective water and wastewater services, then I foresee collaborating with the City of Castle Pines to further consolidate parks funding and governance. Good stewardship of the community’s parks, simplifying the org chart, and eliminating excessive government bureaucracy are among our core objectives on this board,” she said. “The City is already on course to manage at least five parks and a huge new inventory of trails and open space east of I-25.”

Prior to her tenure as an elected Director on the Castle Pines North Metro District Board, Denise served as a Highlands Ranch Metro District (HRMD) Director, where her governance responsibilities encompassed infrastructure, fire, public safety, public rights-of-way, parks, trails, and open space.

Born and raised in a small Dutch community of northwest Iowa, Denise has lived in Douglas County since 1990 and is an 18-year resident of Castle Pines. She is mother of two adult girls, both of whom attended Timber Trail Elementary, Rocky Heights Middle School, and graduated from Rock Canyon High School.

Denise has worked in the mortgage lending industry for over 30 years. She is Vice President of Mortgage Lending at a large western-regional finance company, where she specializes in residential lending for homes and master-built communities throughout Colorado.

Though she prefers The West, Denise loves travel adventures throughout the country and is well on her way to exploring all fifty states. She is also passionate about her four-legged companions and is partial to walking them on trails and open spaces in Castle Pines and neighboring jurisdictions.

Chuck Lowen
Director

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Chuck owns and manages Lowen Commercial Real Estate, LLC, a successful commercial property management and brokerage company that he formed in 2006. Chuck has expertise in every facet of real estate property management, leasing, sales, brokerage, development, and consulting and has over 50-years of experience in commercial and residential property and asset management, construction management, and real estate brokerage. Chuck is the property manager and real-estate agent for Village Square at Castle Pines, which is home to many Castle Pines small businesses and community partners, including Duke’s Steakhouse, Pino’s Italian Kitchen, The Bundt Shoppe, Podiatry Associates, and Castle Pines Library.

Concerned about the cost of operating retail and commercial businesses in the Metro District, Chuck led Castle Pines’ business owners and operators in 2016 and 2018 to defeat two versions of Ballot Issue A, a water plan that proposed to saddle the 3,200 property owners in Castle Pines with $120 million and $103 million, respectively, in new property taxes, water rates, and fees.

A man of few words, Chuck quips, “I worked extremely hard to defeat ‘Ballot Issue A’ in the last two metro district elections. As a director on this board, I am using my life’s experiences as the basis for helping to propel our metro district toward a fiscally sustainable and secure water future for the benefit of all our residents and local businesses.”

From 1991 through 2005, Mr. Lowen was the Executive Vice President and Partner of Coldwell Banker Commercial R.E.S.I., where he oversaw the Corporation's eight million square feet of third-party contracted property management responsibilities including apartments, retail, office, industrial/warehouse, and Homeowner Associations.

From 1985 through 1991, Mr. Lowen was the Director of Property Management with Beta West, a wholly-owned national real estate development subsidiary of US West, responsible for all property management activities for a portfolio of over $1.8 billion worth of corporate-owned assets consisting of 54 properties in excess of 11.4 million square feet of office and retail space in eleven states.

From 1978 to 1985, Mr. Lowen was Vice President of L.C Fulenwider, Inc. a locally owned Colorado real estate company, where he headed up the property management department, developing a management portfolio of one million square feet of office space, 2000 condominium units, and 550 apartment units. He also served as the project manager for the development of Downtown Denver's first luxury, hi-rise, condominium project, Denver's first 236-FHA apartment project, and served as the property management consultant and building manager for a 450,000 square-foot downtown office tower.

Mr. Lowen served as the 1984 President of the Northern Colorado Chapter No. 17 of the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) and received the Certified Property Manager of the Year Award in 1989. He was a Governing Councilor for 12 years, served as Chair of the Continuing & General Education Committee and was the Vice Chair of the Education Forum Committee. Mr. Lowen also served as IREM National's Region No. 8 Vice President from 1986-88 and was a member of IREM's CPM Membership standards Committee and the Advance CPM Standards Subcommittee. Additionally, Mr. Lowen served IREM National as a member of the Ethics & Discipline Committee, on the Ethics Appeal Board, as Vice Chair of the Education Policy Committee, on the faculty Performance Committee, Curriculum & Publishing Committee, on the Course Content Committee and is a national instructor for all entry, mid-level (and some advanced) IREM courses. Chuck is a licensed Colorado real estate broker.

Fifty years ago, Chuck married the love of his life, fellow native, Judy. They live in The Hamlet neighborhood and have two grown children and five glorious grandchildren.

Christopher Lewis
Director

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Director Lewis’ brings a tremendous depth and diversity of relevant professional and military experiences to the Castle Pines North Metro District Board of Directors.

He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the New York Institute of Technology, an MBA from Ashland University, and a Command & Staff Graduate Diploma from the Naval War College in 2013. He is a decorated Commander in the US Navy Reserve and served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 1988 to 1996.

Professionally, Christopher Lewis is Director of Construction and Field Operations with Charter Communications, Inc., where oversees many aspects of systems integration, standards development, and business management, including business plan development, strategic planning, process improvement, program management, KPI and scorecard development, supply and contract management, and process and cycle reduction.

Before accepting his position with Charter Communications, Director Lewis worked for 20 years at CenturyLink Communications in various senior management roles in engineering, program and process management, finance, and PMO and integration management. His responsibilities included due-diligence evaluation, identification of synergy opportunities in HC and non-headcount areas, identification of essential process differences and redundancies, organization design, work plans development; drive integration management and change, tracking and executive reporting.

In all, Director Lewis has 29 years of experience in voice, data and video communication networks; fiber optic and DC power systems; mergers and acquisition integration; program management; project management; revenue assurance; crisis management; SEC 10-Q, 10-K reporting; controls management; supply chain management, procurement, cyber security, strategic planning; disaster support; mobility planning and contingency logistics.

Commander Christopher Lewis is a veteran of Desert Storm/Desert Shield and the Global War on Terrorism. His military awards include:

Joint Commendation Medal
Navy Commendation Medal (two awards)
Joint Achievement Medal
Navy Achievement Medal (two awards)
Selected Marine Corp Reserve Medal
Army Reserve Achievement Medal
Various service and unit awards

Having served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve from 1988 to 1996, Lewis commissioned through the Navy Direct Commissioning Program in December 2004. Upon completion of Navy Supply Corps School in Athens, Georgia, in September 2007, then Lieutenant Junior Grade Lewis reported for duty as the Assistant Supply Officer with Naval Mobil Construction Battalion Seventeen out of Fort Carson, Colorado. He mobilized in October 2007 and deployed to Iraq as the Assistant Supply Officer NMCB-17 and Assistant Officer in Charge of the Camp Fallujah Det, during which time he earned the Seabee Combat Warfare Device and the Fleet Marine Force Officer Qualification. Since returning from mobilization, he has held various assignments with increasing responsibilities. He currently serves as the Commanding Officer for DLA EDSU-JC out of San Jose, CA.

Christopher, his wife, Myrian, and their daughters have lived in Castle Pines’ Stonecroft neighborhood for the last 16 years, where he serves on two homeowner association boards.

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