🌱 Patch AM: How Jeffco’s $133M tax plan could hit Broomfield property owners.

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In today's newsletter:

• How Jeffco's $133M tax plan could hit Broomfield property owners.
• How a Broomfield priest's 21-day trek reshaped future Denver priests.
• How a new Front Range train could change trips through Broomfield

Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: A stray afternoon t-shower, with a high of 97 and low of 67 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Saturday: A stray afternoon t-shower, temps: high: 89, low: 64.
• Sunday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 91 and low of 64 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Jeffco school board to vote on $133M property tax package for November ballot (denver7.com) — Broomfield County property owners in Jeffco's boundaries could see taxes rise about $43 per $100,000 in home value if a $133 million mill levy package for schools makes November's ballot and passes. The proposal would boost teacher pay, expand career and technical education, and fund critical building repairs, with officials warning of deeper cuts and facility problems if new revenue isn't approved.
   

• To the Heights of Priesthood: Into the Wilderness with Denver's Seminarians (denvercatholic.org) — A priest serving at Nativity of Our Lord Parish in Broomfield shares how leading Denver seminarians on a 21-day backpacking retreat in Wyoming deepened their faith, leadership, and sense of spiritual fatherhood. His reflections connect back to his ministry in Broomfield, offering parishioners insight into how their future priests are being formed through demanding wilderness experiences and daily Eucharistic Adoration.
   

• Colorado Connector passenger rail could reach Boulder by 2029. Here's how the plan would work. (boulderreportinglab.org) — Broomfield is slated to be one of the stops on the proposed Colorado Connector passenger rail, which aims to launch starter service between Denver and Fort Collins by 2029 using existing RTD and BNSF tracks. The fully funded first phase would add a no-new-tax travel option that could ease US 36 congestion, cut emissions, and eventually bring station-area investment to nearby communities.
   

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Friday August 21
• Superior Business Builders Group - 2026
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  9:00 am
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  Beach Court Blacktop
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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Lost my husky.
  He is in the neighborhood I assume. If anyone has found him please contact me at +17206925153. His eyes are right blue, and left brown he is roughly… (Nextdoor Front Range)
• Update: Pet Reunited
  Lobita, a cat who went missing in Federal Heights, CO, has been safely reunited with their family after 2 hours, 48 minutes. Message from Owner: … (Nextdoor Northmoor Estates)

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🗞 Nearby News

Lafayette

• Lafayette's new land use code nears final vote as council weighs more amendments (coloradohometownweekly.com)
• Things to do in Erie, Lafayette, Louisville, Superior area for week of Aug. 19-25 (coloradohometownweekly.com)
• Lafayette is searching for 216 cemetery plot holders. 9NEWS found 1. (9news.com)

Westminster

• Vantor names new head of U.S. government business (spacenews.com)
• B-CU Fall 2026 Convocation (hbcuconnect.com)
• Colorado Graduated Tax Initiative Draws Major Support From Democratic Lawmaker's Nonprofit (rockymountainvoice.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A sponge (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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