This information has been provided by the City of Castle Pines North

It has and continues to be City Council’s strong desire for the City and the Metro District to move expediently to cooperatively integrate the services of both entities in a manner that honors its fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers of the City and the District.

The City continues to request the cooperation and assurance from the Metro District’s Board of Directors that it will proceed in good faith toward the full integration of City and District services.

In mid January, the City outlined to the Metro District’s Board of Directors four conditions that would have prevented the City from moving
forward with a dissolution petition. The
conditions were:

City to be designated at the approving authority of the District

Transfer of stormwater management functions to the City

City and Metro District to mutually consent to renewable water purchases

Each body to appoint two elected representatives and one staff member to work toward completing a viable integration plan.

With the Metro District’s unanimous rejection of these conditions, the City of Castle Pines North filed an Application for Dissolution with the Castle Pines North Metro District on February 5, 2010. This was followed by the Metro District filing a Request for Continuance, in essence requesting the Court to delay action on the petition until further progress has been made by the District in completing its plan for dissolution. The District requested an initial continuance of six months.

On April 15, the City filed a response with the Court objecting to the Metro District’s six month continuance request. The City’s response requested that the Court grant a three month continuance on the following conditions:

The City designate two members of City Council and that the District designate two members of the Board of Directors of the District to function as the parties’ respective designated representatives, who shall be required to meet to discuss the dissolution proceeding and work toward completing the intergovernmental agreement required by state law, and that each party notify the Court in writing, within ten days following the date on which the Court enters its Order Granting Continuance (the “Continuance Order”), of such designations.

The Court order that the parties’ designated representatives meet, at a minimum, on a semi-monthly (two times per month) basis following the entry of the Continuance Order, with the dates and times of such mandatory meetings to be agreed upon by the parties.

The District be required to file monthly status reports with the Court, with the first status report to be due thirty days following the Court’s entry of the Continuance Order.

That each status report be required to contain: (a) detailed information regarding the District’s progress in finalizing its plan for dissolution, and (b) a timetable listing steps that the District intends on completing during the next ensuing thirty day reporting period.

The goal and objective of the City’s conditions, as stated in the response, are to maintain consistent and open dialogue between the two entities, while seeking to minimize costs to the taxpayers through a cooperative integration effort.