Dr. Claudia Folska was elected to the RTD Board in November 2012 and was installed in January, 2013 as the RTD Board of Director representing District E, centrally located and representing portions of western Aurora, north-central Centennial, southern Denver, and Greenwood Village east of I-25 and portions of unincorporated Arapahoe County.
Claudia Folska began to go blind at the age of five but she refused to accept her visual impairment as an impasse. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.A. in Psychology and received her MBA at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. After beginning a dual doctorate in Architecture and Design at the University of Colorado, Denver in 2004 and cognitive science at University of Colorado, Boulder , she completed her dual Ph.D. in 2012.
Claudia and her now teenaged daughter relies primarily on public transportation. Claudia is passionate about public transit and is committed to improving the transit system so that it is more accessible to everyone.
Claudia is the author of a book “Making ¢ of Pedestrian Oriented Developments-Feet on the Street”in which she examines and rethinks current auto-centered design paradigms for pedestrian-oriented developments. Claudia believes that if she can affect designs that are more accessible for the visually impaired, then she has indeed made it more accessible for all
Please look at where you can help. On the left is a list of KidSight events. Click on the event to see the details. You can sign up online by clicking the event and them the Member Registration button. When you complete the registration Fletcher will receive an email that you have signed up and you will receive a confirmation reminder. There are a number of KidSight events in February. We really need help.
In the last week two of our Lions, BG McKinzie and Rod Wicklund, fell and broke some bones. They are both on the mend and in rehab. A therapeutic card, call or visit would be great.
Lion Rod is at PowerBack RehabilitationPowerBack Rehabilitation, 7395 West Eastman Place, Lakewood, CO 80227 Phone 303.730,8000
Lion BG is at Amberwood Court Care Center, 4686 E Asbury Cir, Denver, CO 80222, Phone:(303) 756-1566 BG Cell 303-549-6426
Doug Brown introduced speaker Charlie Brown of Colorado Futures Center and Economic Consulting Firm.
Charlie spoke to us about the Tabor Law: The Tax Payers Bill of Rights.
TABOR is a way of limiting the growth of government. It is a provision requiring that increases in overall tax revenue be tied to inflation and population increases unless larger increases are approved by referendum. Charlie said Colorado continues to face a structural imbalance. "Prior to TABOR, the property tax burden on households for schools was much more equal, a provision in the Public School Finance Act of 1988 created that “uniform” mill levy -- a tax of one-thousandth of a dollar for each dollar of the assessed value of property."
"The idea was that no matter where you lived or where your school district was or what its tax wealth was, everybody would levy the same amount of mills to support their local public schools and then, whatever that uniform rate would not generate, the state would backfill with state support,” Brown said. But after TABOR became law, some districts paid virtually nothing and others faced significant burdens." In essence, Colorado taxpayers are subsidizing extremely low levies in a small sample of districts, many of which are quite wealthy, a study conducted by Brown.
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