A nonprofit group has donated nearly $68,000, mostly in in-kind services, to citizen-led petition drives opposing issues related to the city-supported Catalyst and Cascadia projects on Greeley’s western edge.
We Are Greeley, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit registered to a Fort Lupton address, had given Greeley Deserves Better $3,000 in cash and a total of $34,800 worth of “in-kind services” for petition gathering, according to an amended campaign-finance disclosure submitted Sept. 22 to the office of Greeley City Clerk Heidi Leatherwood. But in a campaign-finance report filed last Wednesday from a second group, Greeley Demands Better, the nonprofit is reported to have given $30,000 more for providing that group with signature gathering.
We Are Greeley’s reported contributions so far to the two groups thus total $67,800.
Greeley Demands Better has until Thursday, 30 days after the Greeley City Council’s Sept. 16 vote to approve a planned unit development for more than 833 acres of the Cascadia project, to collect 4,586 valid signatures to place a new issue on the ballot that targets the PUD. That figure is 10% of the 45,858 registered Greeley voters who cast ballots in the last municipal election. The referendum would ask voters to repeal the council’s zoning approval, and differs from Greeley Deserves Better’s first ballot issue, an initiative that would have asked voters whether to repeal the financing plan for the project but was delayed by a court ruling.
Suzanne Taheri, attorney for both Greeley Deserves Better and Greeley Demands Better, had told BizWest that We Are Greeley “provides protection from retaliation for funders and supporters of the repeal effort,” adding that “this organization became necessary after numerous established business leaders and long-time community members expressed fears and instances of retaliation from city officials and project proponents for questioning the Cascadia financing arrangement. The organization allows concerned leaders to support the repeal effort without fear of the bullying that has become a hallmark of the project’s supporters.”
Supporters of the projects have countered that We Are Greeley, as well as California-based With Many Hands, represent “dark money” interests.
The Greeley City Council approved in May a financing plan for the entertainment district dubbed Catalyst on city-owned land near Weld County Road 17 and U.S. Highway 34. The plan authorized the use of $115 million worth of “certificates of participation” to lease several high-profile city facilities as collateral to pay for the plan, money that would be paid back through the revenue Catalyst would generate. Catalyst would include a hotel, water park and an ice arena that would house Lind’s Colorado Eagles minor-league hockey team, and would anchor Lind’s Cascadia residential and commercial development.
Calling the financing plan too risky, Greeley Deserves Better was formed and collected nearly 1,000 more verified signatures of registered Greeley voters than it needed to place its initial repeal initiative on the November ballot. However, four Greeley residents protested the validity of the petitions, triggering an Aug. 26 hearing before city-appointed arbiter Karen Goldman, who ruled five days later that ordinances such as the one passed by the City Council were administrative in nature, not legislative, and thus cannot be repealed by voters under state law. Greeley Deserves Better then asked Weld District Court to overturn Goldman’s ruling, but District Judge Allison J. Esser blocked the issue on the day before the Sept. 5 deadline for adding it to the Nov. 4 ballot, contending that the dispute needed further review.
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