Welcome to another issue of our weekly bulletin! Read below for more information about our meeting.
This Week in Rotary
Guests
Curtis Gardner - Candidate for Aurora City Council At-Large
Welcome Back - Gene
Member Gene Spanarella(pictured) has decided to come back to the club. Gene has been an integral part of the club as Secretary for too many years to count. Welcome back!
Reminder - It's A Party - Wolfe's
Member Art Wolfe will be having one last hurrah at his home.
1) Sunday 9/1 @ 5:30pm - Kelly Augustine
Suggested minimum donation of $25, 100% going to performers. Beverages, apps and treats provided @ 4:30pm. Please bring a blanket or chairs. RSVP to cowolfes@comcast.net or call 303.681.4025.
Fine Parking Special Rotary Rates
Member Linda Witulski provided members with a way to obtain speacial rates at Fine Parking @ DIA. How to save on parking:
Use the loyalty card on the app to enter and exit the facility
This is a manual process, please allow up to 24 hours for the discounts to be reflected in your account.
Use Toll Tag to Enter:
If you have a toll tag, you can attach that with a credit card to be able to enter and exit the facility without even needing to roll down your window. Simply enter the 7 digit number on the back of the tag to your profile with credit card.
Rates with the Discount:
You can park valet at Fine less than economy at DIA
Valet- $15.75 (vs $33 at DIA – 53% savings)
Indoor- $12 (vs $25 at DIA – 52% savings)
Outdoor- $7 (vs $16 at DIA – 56% savings)
Earn Free Parking and Details: Every Time you park at Fine, you earn personal points which can be redeemed for free parking or free details with our in-house certified detail shop.
South Metro Medical Equipment Closet - Open House Invitation
Open House to be held on Sept. 17 from 5-6 p.m. at our facility--6825 S. Dallas Ct, Greenwood Village, CO 80111. See directions below. We felt it important to invite all of the Rotary groups that have supported us to come and see for yourself what we do and how it all works. Light refreshments will be served and we would like you to meet some of our loyal volunteers. Directions: from I-25, go East on Arapahoe Road to Dayton St. Turn south (right) and go to the end of the street. The Greenwood Village post office will be on your right. Turn right on to Costilla, then immediately right again onto S. Dallas Ct. It looks like an alley or warehouse area. We are 2/3 of the way down the alley on the left. Our logo is on the door.
CASA Red Wagon Ball October 5th - Save the Date
CASA's annual fundraiser is coming up! Cocktails, silent auction, dinner, and dancing at the Hyatt Regency DTC. Contact Andrea Tagtow at 303.328.2357 to RSVP or learn more. You can also go to https://adv4children.org/redwagonball/ to purchase tickets, become a sponsor, or to learn more about this great event.
Ice Cream Social
Come join fellow members and a bowl of ice cream with all the fixins'. Member Bob Barrows' Barn @3pm on 9/22. Put on your calendar now.
Blue Badge Recipient - Congratulations to Aurora Ogg on receipt of your Blue Badge.
DRCOG - Denver Regional Council of Governments - Steve Cook
Steve Cook was our speaker this week Denver Regional Council of Governments(DRCOG). Steve is the Transportation Modeling and Operations Director for DRCOG's Transportation department. DRCOG covers a 10 county area with 58 members. DRCOG has served as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Denver region since 1977, acting as a forum for a collaborative transportation planning process. DRCOG has been involved in the region's transportation planning even longer – the organization's first official action after its 1955 founding endorsed the construction of I-70 West. As the federally-designated transportation planning agency for the Denver region, DRCOG develops the Metro Vision Regional Transportation Plan (MVRTP) to guide the region’s future multimodal transportation system. The current version of the 2040 MVRTP was adopted in May 2019. The 2040 MVRTP is integrated closely with and helps implement DRCOG’s Metro Vision plan. The 2040 MVRTP presents the region’s unconstrained vision for a multimodal transportation system needed to respond to future growth and demographic trends. It also presents a financially constrained perspective of the system. The 2040 Fiscally Constrained RTP (2040 FCRTP) defines transportation facilities and services to be provided based on reasonably expected revenues. The financial plan for the 2040 FCRTP is shown in Chapter 5. The revenues will fund construction of many types of projects, as well as fund operation and maintenance of the transportation system described in Chapter 6. The system includes roadway, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian facilities, as well as safety, transportation demand management, and other supporting services. The 2040 FCRTP identifies individual regionally significant (major) roadway capacity and rapid transit projects to be implemented over the next 25 years with reasonably expected revenues (Appendices 3 and 4). Finally, DRCOG also has to show that the 2040 FCRTP will not cause a violation of federal air quality conformity standards, which is shown in the companion air quality conformity determination documents.
The following are data for the Denver Metro area:
Expected 1.1M additional people in Denver metro by 2040.
25% of population will be 60+
15M person trips
2M pedestrian/bike
13M Motor vehicle trips
9M overall vehicle trips
250K of extra congestion in the metro area
Thanks Steve for joining us this week and providing the valuable insight.
