The priorities neighbors keep bringing to City Hall.

Listen. Inform. Act.

• Listen. Start with what residents actually say, at the microphone, in letters, at their doors, and in the City’s own surveys.

• Inform. Share plain facts about what the City has decided, what it costs, and what comes next, with the source documents close at hand.

• Act. Use the mayor’s role to make sure City Council hears and weighs what citizens want before it votes.

What neighbors keep raising

• Traffic and safe streets. Cut-through traffic around Colorado Boulevard, Mansfield, Hampden, and Quincy, and safety at Franklin & Belleview. Traffic is the topic raised most often in public comment at City meetings since 2022.

• Cell coverage. Calling 911, reaching doctors and family, and working from home, plus strong opposition to the 2024 plan for 100-foot towers in City parks. The busiest public-comment night since 2022, on July 16, 2024, was about cell towers.

• Village character and local control. Low-density, semi-rural neighborhoods, fair land-use hearings, and decisions made here instead of at the State Capitol, including Ballot Question 2C.

• Parks, trails, and Quincy Farm. Open space kept natural and protected, Quincy Farm’s neighbors consulted first, and trail rules talked through in public.

• Public safety. Speeding, e-motos on trails and sidewalks, and a police department with what it needs.

• Budgets and taxes. Strong reserves, the proposed 2027 property tax holiday, and spending residents can follow.

• Every stage of life. Safe routes to school, support for neighbors who want to age in place, and one Village that works for all of us.

Jennifer A. Miller’s first 100 days

1. Week one. Publish a one-page “Where things stand” on traffic, cell coverage, trail rules, and Quincy Farm, using the City’s own documents.

2. First Council meeting. Propose a standing Resident Follow-Up list, so items raised during Audience Participation get a staff answer and a date they come back.

3. First 30 days. Ask staff for a public update on the Franklin & Belleview options reviewed with CDOT, and invite neighbors from both sides of Belleview, including Greenwood Village, to hear it.

4. First 60 days. Ask Council to make cell coverage a priority, with a public review of every proposal and option, a schedule for resident feedback, and a date for a vote.

5. Before Council’s next annual retreat. Put independent, school-day traffic counts for the busiest corridors on the retreat agenda.

6. Ongoing. Recruit residents of every age and neighborhood to fill open board and commission seats.

7. Every budget season. A plain-English budget summary in the Village Crier.

How a Cherry Hills Village mayor gets things done

Cherry Hills Village has a council-manager government. City Council, made up of the mayor and six members, sets policy, and the City Manager runs daily operations. The mayor presides at Council meetings, reviews the proposed agenda and may modify it, and votes only to break a tie. I won’t promise what the office can’t deliver. Here is how I will use the role.

• Listen. Run fair, prepared meetings where every speaker is heard, and hold neighborhood conversations before big decisions, not after.

• Inform. Push for packets posted early, plain-English summaries, and a monthly mayor’s update so no one has to guess what happened.

• Act. Use the agenda so issues residents raise come back to Council with answers, and bring CDOT, Greenwood Village, the carriers, our schools, our clubs, and neighbors to the same table.

• Build a majority. A mayor gets results by working with every councilmember, not by issuing orders.

• Recruit volunteers. Encourage residents of every age and neighborhood to serve on boards and commissions.

• Speak for the Village. At the Capitol, at the county, and with regional partners.