Rep. Gagliardi Helps with Understanding Options and Strategies for Foreclosure Prevention

When:
Saturday, March 1st
10:30-noon

Where:
Susan M Duncan YMCA
6350 Eldrige St, Arvada

Sponsor:
Representative Sara Gagliardi, HD 27

What:
Community members are invited to join Rep. Gagliardi for a panel discussion on foreclosure counseling and prevention, the foreclosure process, and how local officials and real estate professionals can help. Foreclosure counselors will be present for those seeking assistance.

Panel discussion:
What can be done about the high foreclosure rate?

Brothers Redevelopment, Inc.
Colorado Division of Housing
Colorado Housing and Finance Authority
State Housing Board
Department of Regulatory Agencies

Who’s Invited:
Homeowners, borrowers facing foreclosure, real estate professionals, and anyone seeking information on the foreclosure process and foreclosure prevention.

For more foreclosure information: www.coloradoforeclosurehotline.org

Below is the full text of the Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff’s opening day remarks:

Let me begin by congratulating our newest members, Representatives Mark Ferrandino and Christine Scanlan. We look forward to serving with each of you.

I would also like you to welcome my mother to the chamber.

Thank you for allowing me to share some thoughts with you on this occasion. This is the fifth year I’ve had the privilege – it’s also the last.

Representatives Borodkin, Garcia, Hodge, Jahn, Madden, Marshall, Stafford, White and I came in together – and we’re going out together. Congratulations to each of you.

Today I want to tell you a story. It’s not a story with a lot of characters in it. We’re going to have plenty of those stories in the months ahead. We’ll be talking about the 12,000 students who drop out of Colorado’s high schools each year, the 107,000 Coloradans who don’t have jobs, the 792,000 who don’t have health insurance.

This morning I want to focus on just one person. A child, to be specific. A baby.

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Today, the opening day of the 2008 state legislative session, the Colorado Senate elected as its president Senator Peter Groff (SD-33, Denver). Groff is the first African-American in Colorado’s history to serve as Senate President and the third in the history of the United States.

Below is the full text of President Groff’s opening day remarks.

Please stand and join me in observing a moment of silence to honor the men and women who have given their lives defending our country - including Major Andrew Olmstead of Colorado Springs who was killed last week in Iraq - and to the active duty members and veterans of the United States Armed Forces and their families. Thank you.

Let us also take a moment to acknowledge Colonel Steve Ward from Senate District 26 and Lt. Colonel Joe Rice from House District 38, the two sitting members of the Colorado General Assembly who are currently serving us on active duty in Iraq. We will keep the light burning until Sen. Ward returns home.

Mister Majority Leader, Mister Minority Leader, Senate colleagues, distinguished guests, friends and my family. Let me begin by thanking the Senate for my election as the 47th President of this great body. I thank both sides of the aisle for your support and I pledge to continue to work collaboratively with all of you to build and invest in a better Colorado.

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