Voters on Tuesday were set to elect new mayors for two of Colorado’s largest cities, bringing to an end to eight-year runs at the top of Lakewood’s and Arvada’s municipal power st…
Traffic safety officer Mark Kubic, of the Brighton Police Department, front, works on a street near Foundations Academy to provide safety in Brighton, Colorado, on Thursday, October 19, 2023. The city of Brighton is seeking a sales tax increase from voters to support police operations. Voters on Tuesday were set to elect new mayors for two of Colorado’s largest cities, bringing to an end eight-year runs at the top of Lakewood’s and Arvada’s municipal power structures.
The winner in Lakewood will replace Mayor Adam Paul, who has served 16 years in total on the City Council, while Mayor Marc Williams, who has been on Arvada’s council for nearly 25 years, will make way for Tuesday’s top mayoral vote-getter.In a mayor’s race in Thornton, which lands between Lakewood and Arvada in size with nearly 145,000 residents, incumbent Jan Kulmann was leading opponent Julia Marvin by more than 1,000 votes out of 20,000 ballots counted.
Tax measures on the ballot in metro Denver included funding requests for police and fire services, sidewalks, open space acquisition and affordable housing. In Brighton, a measure seeking $2 million annually to buttress the city’s police department operations through an increase in the sales tax was trailing in early results Tuesday evening, by a margin of 63.9% against and 36.1% for.
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