Public Input

Weld County residents were able to submit comments about the redistricting process at redistricting meetings or via the digital comment form. All comments submitted are public and are posted on this page for the public to view. 

Online Public Input Received Between 051425 and 052125

First Name Last Name City where you live County where you live Comments If you have a .pdf, .jpg, or .png file you would like to upload for the redistricting advisory committee, please do so below. This field is not required to be completed in order to submit your comments. Uploads will be posted, along with your comments and name, to the public input webpage as well as provided directly to the advisory committee.
Geoffrey Havens Greeley Weld Understanding all of the regulations set forth by the state and federal government must be followed, I would hope to see this process keep Greeley largely intact in a single district with inclusion of Evans and Garden City if feasible. If the city must be split, I would hope to see that process happen along logical lines- ie keep downtown in a single district, splitting the city by a logical main intersection geographically (say 71st Ave as an example), and not dividing up neighborhoods that have diverse populations to weaken the say of those county residents.

 

Online Public Input Received Between 052825 and 060425

First Name Last Name City where you live County where you live Comments If you have a .pdf, .jpg, or .png file you would like to upload for the redistricting advisory committee, please do so below. This field is not required to be completed in order to submit your comments. Uploads will be posted, along with your comments and name, to the public input webpage as well as provided directly to the advisory committee.
Pamela Nichols-Kretzer Hudson Weld I think things need to be left alone. You don’t listen to the people anyway. You allow horse racing in the county that attracts lots of people and now you are allowing Bandimere to come in to the same area do you not realize what this will do to Hudson you allowed a woman’s prison to be built that is closed. I think everyone one of you should be voted out. You don’t care about the people you supposedly represent.
William Adkins Greeley Weld Follow the Colorado law. This looks to be an attempt to Gerrymander the district and can have lasting consequences no matter which party is in control.
Danielle Chavez Greeley Weld Follow Colorado law
Donna Adkins Greeley Weld Why do the county commissioners have so much power? Are they taking away the voters rights to choose their candidate? Voters have the right to choose their own candidate! Stop the gerrymandering
Shirley Smithson Greeley Weld I strongly disagree with redistricting policies that unlawfully support the power of one political party over another, in this case your purposeful actions to have Republican voting wins. A fair, honest and lawful redistricting will balance the input of voting constituencies. As to your obvious bias, you now ask for a watch and review to make sure your actions are in line with the Colorado directives for fair elections.

 

Online Public Input Received Between 060525 and 061125

First Name Last Name City where you live County where you live Comments If you have a .pdf, .jpg, or .png file you would like to upload for the redistricting advisory committee, please do so below. This field is not required to be completed in order to submit your comments. Uploads will be posted, along with your comments and name, to the public input webpage as well as provided directly to the advisory committee.
Kathleen Milligan Greeley CO Because most of the population of Weld County resides in the Greeley area, I urge the Redistricting Advisory Committee to schedule a meeting for listening to public input in Greeley and publicize it adequately. As far as I am aware the committee actually has only two meetings scheduled (according to the Tribune). The Fort Lupton meeting on Monday, June 2, may not have actually occurred. It was neither pubicized nor made clear to those who wanted to attend as to where it would be held. Fourteen people showed up at AIMS Community College on June 2, not knowing that the meeting was held in Ft. Lupton at AIMS. In any case these scheduled meetings do not provide adequate access for input for Greeley residents. The importance of Greeley resident input is especially urgent because these listening sessions are the only opportunity for residents to see the maps and to impact decisions about them. After that, when the Advisory Committee presents the three maps to the Commissioners, there will probably not be opportunity to change them. Please schedule another listening session in the Greeley area. Thank you to the Advisory Committee for all of their work on the maps so far!
Jillaire McMillan Longmont (unincorporated, technically) Weld I live in unincorporated Weld County with a Longmont address. Sometimes it feels like we live a long way from Greeley, the population and political center of the county. When looking at the previous map, it looked like areas of SW Weld County were divided into different districts, diluting the voice of our communities which are united by geography as well as other communities. Mead, Firestone, Frederick, and Erie all belong to the St. Vrain Valley School District and occupy this distant part of the county. We feel united in some ways through the community created by our children's school boundaries. I know that the legal guidance is to keep cities in tact, but since I don't live in a city, it would be nice to have my other boundary-based community (schools--my kids are zoned for and attend Mead schools) taken into consideration. Being as far away from Greeley as we are, it would be nice to feel like those of us in SW Weld County are united in our political power by being in one commissioner district together.

 

Online Public Input Received from League of Women Voters of Greeley-Weld County

June 12, 2025, League of Women Voters of Greeley-Weld County letter to Weld County commissioners about redistricting(PDF, 138KB)

Online Public Input Received Between 061225 and 061825

First Name Last Name City where you live County where you live Comments If you have a .pdf, .jpg, or .png file you would like to upload for the redistricting advisory committee, please do so below. This field is not required to be completed in order to submit your comments. Uploads will be posted, along with your comments and name, to the public input webpage as well as provided directly to the advisory committee.
Frederick Mahe Windsor Weld To whom it may concern,
Weld County is very well represented by the commissioners who spend so much time and energy and serving their constituents. I understand there’s a movement from the left to redraw the lines in order to get more left leaning commissioners, elected. The people of Weld overwhelmingly voted for Republican candidates in the last election as well as President Trump. The commissioners politics are commiserate with the values that the people of Weld County hold. The results are clear.

Thank you.
Frederick Mahe

 

Online Public Input Received Between 061925 and 062525

 

First Name Last Name City where you live County where you live Comments If you have a .pdf, .jpg, or .png file you would like to upload for the redistricting advisory committee, please do so below. This field is not required to be completed in order to submit your comments. Uploads will be posted, along with your comments and name, to the public input webpage as well as provided directly to the advisory committee.
Laurie Camp Frederick Weld It is unnecessary and unethical to redistribute at this time. Redistributing in order to flip a county blue (or red for that matter) disrupts people who have purchased a home in an area where their neighbors, schools and communities share similar values. It results in neighbors fighting over politics, parents unable to send their children to local schools (options being homeschooling or private schools) and people considering moving out of state to avoid leftist policies infiltrating their daily lives. We have homeschooled for years and feel that Weld is the only reasonable county in northern Colorado. Flipping it blue when it is currently 70% republican will only serve to annoy 70% of the county. The libs have already ruined the schools and are trying to infiltrate local businesses as well. Please reconsider. Let the libs stay in the myriad blue counties that already exist. We need to protect the few conservative counties that remain.
LORENZA MESTAS MARTINEZ GILCREST WELD THE DISTRICTS SHOULD STAY THE SAME. WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR VALUES, OUR FAMILY VALUES FOR THE FUTURE. THIS COUNTY IS A FARMIING, BLUE COLLAR COMMUNITY AND TO HAVE PEOPLE NOT ALIGNED WITH THOSE VALUES COME AND CHANGE DISTRICT LINES FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT IS WRONG. PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTIES SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO COME INTO WELD AND CHANGE FARMING RULES OR REGULATIONS. THE FARMING AND BLUECOLLAR PEOPLE ARE JUST LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS WHO JUST WANT THE BEST FOR THEIR FAMILIES. WELD COUNTY JUST CAN'T ROLL OVER AND GO WITH THE "FLOW" OR GO WITH IDEAS THAT DON'T REPRESENT WELD COUNTY. NOTHING IS PERFECT, BUT CHANGING DISTRICT LINES IS NOT THE ANSWER. THANK YOU

 

Online Public Input Received Between 062625 and 070825

First Name Last Name City where you live County where you live Comments
Adam DeRito La Salle CO Esteemed Members of the Weld County Redistricting Advisory Committee,

My name is Adam DeRito, and I submit this statement to you not only as a concerned citizen, but as someone who has devoted his life to serving, working, and investing in the future of Weld County.
I am an Army officer who has worn our nation’s uniform in defense of the freedoms we all cherish. I am an oil and gas worker who knows firsthand how Weld’s energy industry sustains thousands of families and drives Colorado’s economy. I am a farmer who has seen our county’s fields feed our state and nation. As a substitute teacher, I dedicate time to the next generation, striving to instill in them the values that make our community strong.
Today, I am witnessing everything I love about Weld County slowly eroding under the weight of progressive urban ideology creeping into our rural home. Redistricting maps currently being advanced by Democrat activists threaten to flip our county blue, silencing the conservative voice that has guided Weld County for generations.
Consider the facts: Weld supports more than 13,000 oil and gas jobs, producing over 85% of Colorado’s oil — an industry directly threatened by restrictive policies pushed by politicians who do not value or understand our way of life. Our farmers generate more than $2 billion annually in crops and livestock, according to the Colorado Department of Agriculture, yet urban lawmakers — who have never stepped foot on our fields — propose burdensome regulations that jeopardize the survival of family farms. Nearly 20,000 veterans, myself included, call Weld home because of its respect for service and commitment to freedom — values that will erode if our county is gerrymandered into political irrelevance.
Redistricting should never serve as a tool to impose failed big-city policies on rural communities. It should reflect the will of the people who actually live and work here, honoring Weld County’s unique character, economic backbone, and deeply held conservative values.
I urge the members of this advisory committee to reject any map designed to dilute Weld County’s conservative majority or import the same destructive urban policies that have led to rising crime, crumbling infrastructure, and failing communities in cities like Denver and San Francisco. Committee members should stand with the oilfield worker, the farmer, the teacher, and the veteran who believe Weld’s best days are ahead — but only if we protect it now.
Thank you for your service to our county and for your commitment to fair representation that honors Weld County’s proud heritage and future.
Respectfully submitted,
Adam DeRito

16111 County Road 49
La Salle, CO 80645
973-617-0378
Adam DeRito La Salle Colorado Good morning, Redistricting Advisory Committee,

My name is Adam DeRito. I am a proud resident of Weld County, the National Vice Chairman of the America First Veterans Association, a member of the Board of Governors for the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, an oil and gas worker, a farmer, a substitute teacher, and an officer in the United States Army Reserve.

While many people of my generation are working or caring for their families at this hour, I stand here because this meeting is essential to preserving the constitutional republic we hold dear. Weld County’s future—and with it, the values we cherish—depends on participation like this.

Let’s set aside slogans and platitudes and focus on indisputable facts:
• First, redistricting county commissioner districts—absent explicit constitutional or federal Voting Rights Act violations—is a local matter. As a home-rule county, Weld has primary authority over its governmental organization. In Voss v. Lundvall Bros., the Colorado Supreme Court affirmed that local charters override conflicting state statutes on purely local concerns.
• Second, those invoking H.B. 21-1047 misinterpret its purpose. The legislative record shows the bill targets gerrymandering in state legislative redistricting—not county-level processes governed by home-rule charters. Its silence on home-rule counties was intentional, reflecting respect for local control.
• Third, Greeley’s division is a necessity, not gerrymandering. Due to the massive population growth from residents fleeing unlivable cities like Denver, Greeley exceeds the population size of a single commissioner district. The split was mathematically required to meet Reynolds v. Sims’s “one person, one vote” mandate. It was done using neutral, legal criteria: population equality, compactness, and contiguity. The Latino Coalition has offered no evidence of discriminatory intent or effect, as required by Thornburg v. Gingles.
• Fourth, there is zero proof of harm: no data show decreased Latino voter turnout, diminished representation, or diluted electoral power. Courts have consistently ruled that technical imperfections do not invalidate a process that results in fair and lawful representation.
In summary, Weld County’s home-rule charter grants it local redistricting authority; H.B. 21-1047 does not preempt that authority; and the county’s process—though not perfect—substantially complied with procedural requirements and preserved population equality. The absence of discriminatory intent or harm renders the claims of the League of Women Voters and Latino Coalition insufficient, and any remedy must be proportionate, not the wholesale invalidation of a fair map.

But let’s be candid about what’s really happening: powerful outside groups want to flip Weld County in 2026, erasing one of the last strongholds of commonsense conservatism in Colorado. They aim to unseat Republican representatives who defend our livelihoods in the oilfield, on our farms, and in our homes. They want to impose policies that drain our water to feed cities plagued by crime and addiction, raise our taxes to fund services for illegal immigrants, and push us deeper into unsustainable debt.

I moved to Weld County in 2017 to escape those failed policies and find peace, prosperity, and freedom. Those who support different ideologies are free to live in counties that reflect their beliefs, but their ideas are not welcome here in the county I love.
With firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we as Weld County conservatives pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor to defend our community and preserve our way of life.

Thank you for your service, and for keeping Weld County free.
Adam DeRito La Salle Colorado Good morning, Redistricting Advisory Committee,

My name is Adam DeRito. I am a proud resident of Weld County, the National Vice Chairman of the America First Veterans Association, a member of the Board of Governors for the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, an oil and gas worker, a farmer, a substitute teacher, and an officer in the United States Army Reserve.

While many people of my generation are working or caring for their families at this hour, I stand here because this meeting is essential to preserving the constitutional republic we hold dear. Weld County’s future—and with it, the values we cherish—depends on participation like this.

Let’s set aside slogans and platitudes and focus on indisputable facts:
• First, redistricting county commissioner districts—absent explicit constitutional or federal Voting Rights Act violations—is a local matter. As a home-rule county, Weld has primary authority over its governmental organization. In Voss v. Lundvall Bros., the Colorado Supreme Court affirmed that local charters override conflicting state statutes on purely local concerns.
• Second, those invoking H.B. 21-1047 misinterpret its purpose. The legislative record shows the bill targets gerrymandering in state legislative redistricting—not county-level processes governed by home-rule charters. Its silence on home-rule counties was intentional, reflecting respect for local control.
• Third, Greeley’s division is a necessity, not gerrymandering. Due to the massive population growth from residents fleeing unlivable cities like Denver, Greeley exceeds the population size of a single commissioner district. The split was mathematically required to meet Reynolds v. Sims’s “one person, one vote” mandate. It was done using neutral, legal criteria: population equality, compactness, and contiguity. The Latino Coalition has offered no evidence of discriminatory intent or effect, as required by Thornburg v. Gingles.
• Fourth, there is zero proof of harm: no data show decreased Latino voter turnout, diminished representation, or diluted electoral power. Courts have consistently ruled that technical imperfections do not invalidate a process that results in fair and lawful representation.
In summary, Weld County’s home-rule charter grants it local redistricting authority; H.B. 21-1047 does not preempt that authority; and the county’s process—though not perfect—substantially complied with procedural requirements and preserved population equality. The absence of discriminatory intent or harm renders the claims of the League of Women Voters and Latino Coalition insufficient, and any remedy must be proportionate, not the wholesale invalidation of a fair map.

But let’s be candid about what’s really happening: powerful outside groups want to flip Weld County in 2026, erasing one of the last strongholds of commonsense conservatism in Colorado. They aim to unseat Republican representatives who defend our livelihoods in the oilfield, on our farms, and in our homes. They want to impose policies that drain our water to feed cities plagued by crime and addiction, raise our taxes to fund services for illegal immigrants, and push us deeper into unsustainable debt.

I moved to Weld County in 2017 to escape those failed policies and find peace, prosperity, and freedom. Those who support different ideologies are free to live in counties that reflect their beliefs, but their ideas are not welcome here in the county I love.
With firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we as Weld County conservatives pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor to defend our community and preserve our way of life.

Thank you for your service, and for keeping Weld County free.

 

Online Public Input Received Between 070925 and 071525

First Name Last Name City where you live County where you live Comments If you have a .pdf, .jpg, or .png file you would like to upload for the redistricting advisory committee, please do so below. This field is not required to be completed in order to submit your comments. Uploads will be posted, along with your comments and name, to the public input webpage as well as provided directly to the advisory committee.
Bonnie Babcock Hudson Weld I feel the South Platte Plan ooks good because the population is closer to equal in number.

 

Online Public Input Received Between 071625 and 072225

First Name Last Name City where you live County where you live Comments If you have a .pdf, .jpg, or .png file you would like to upload for the redistricting advisory committee, please do so below. This field is not required to be completed in order to submit your comments. Uploads will be posted, along with your comments and name, to the public input webpage as well as provided directly to the advisory committee.
Nicole Riner Greeley Weld I attended the July 16 public hearing and was dismayed to hear the commissioners, in a conversation led by my district commissioner, Jason Maxey, consider rejecting the three proposed maps put forth by an independent committee in favor of ... something of their own devising, I guess? He also asked if we could just scrap the entire project and continue using the current map, which the county lawyer present had to explain was not legal. I hope our commissioners, who enjoy a remarkable amount of independent power compared to most counties in this state, do not intend to subvert the court's intention to equalize the districts of our growing county to continue stacking the deck in their favor. This project is an important part of regaining public trust.
Isaiah Cordova Eaton Weld All three of these maps--Poudre, South Platte, and Thompson, are still splitting Greeley. Greeley is a distinct community of interest and it is anti-democratic to try to continue your gerrymandering even after that court decision. I have attached a map that more accurately represents the communities of interest across Weld County, and this comes from my experience living here.
This is not the state government interceding in our affairs, it is the state government protecting us as voters in Weld County from your manipulation, and you need to do what is right.		 weld-commissioner-districts.png(PNG, 19KB)

 

Online Public Input Received Between 072325 and 072925

First Name Last Name City where you live County where you live Comments If you have a .pdf, .jpg, or .png file you would like to upload for the redistricting advisory committee, please do so below. This field is not required to be completed in order to submit your comments. Uploads will be posted, along with your comments and name, to the public input webpage as well as provided directly to the advisory committee.
Barbara Whinery Greeley Weld To the Weld County District Redistricting Commission:
After reviewing the Report to the County Redistricting Commission by the Weld County Redistricting Advisory Committee submitted on June 30, 2025 and examining the three proposed maps, I am recommending the South Platte map. Each of the three maps have a similar layout of each district by county regions, keeping relevant communities of interest together. I have supported this concept from the very beginning and appreciate the Redistricting Advisory Committee’s rationale for doing so. It is much more challenging to decide what is the best configuration for the dividing Greeley into each of the three proposed Districts. As much as I understand why some residents would like to have Greeley be included in one district, the argument to have each district be part of the Greeley makes sense to me at this time. I believe it is beneficial to have each district be part of Greeley support the proposed configuration in the South Platte map.
Since I live on the west side of Greeley, I understand and have full knowledge the communities around me and how they relate to each other, especially with transportation within Weld County and between counties. I believe it is important to keep the surrounding areas around HWY 34 and Business HWY 34 together in District 1 as much as possible all the way out to I-25. This would also be important if or when Cascadia comes to fruition.
My hope was that this process may result in a district that was politically competitive, however it was difficult for me to determine.
Thank you to the Weld County District Redistricting Commission and the Weld County Redistricting Advisory Committee for their efforts to keep the process on timeline and to work with each other and to enable the Weld County residents to be involved in open meetings and on-line through the Weld County website. The website was very helpful with redistricting information and provided opportunities to participate a variety of ways. The time, efforts and expertise by the Weld County Deputy Attorney, Matt Conroy and the Weld County Deputy Clerk, Rudy Santos was very appreciated.
Personally, I have learned more about Weld County and have appreciated being a part of this process!
Mary Koehler Windsor Weld I am a registered voter who vehemently opposes the consideration of redistricting maps provided by County Commissioners Jame and Maxey. Similar maps were already deemed non-compliant by Colorado Supreme Court. State Statute was established to prevent gerrymandering. Three maps have been established to consider, by a bipartisan committee and following state guidelines. Only those should be considered.
Kim Frederick-Law Greeley Weld The proposed maps are not compliant with Colorado State Statute and do away with maps created by a bipartisan committee that provided three fair and equitable maps that gave voting districts to communities of interest per State Law.
The new maps created by the Commissioners look similar to their original maps that were deemed not compliant by the Colorado Supreme Court. I reject the two new maps and want to instead use one of the three maps from the bipartisan committee.
Lisa Cummings Eaton Weld I would like the Commissioners to choose one of the three maps (South Platte, Poudre and Thompson) that were presented by the Redistricting Advisory Committee, and not the Beebe Draw or Lone Tree map. I appreciate that the Advisory Committee is nonpartisan, and many different points of view have lead to proposals that are preferred to ones presented by individual Commissioners. I believe these recommended maps do a better job of preserving communities of interest by incorporating the growing municipalities of Dacono, Frederick and Firestone into one district. The report by the Advisory Committee does a good job of explaining the need to divide Greeley and Evans, while preserving the Hispanic communities on the eastern side of these communities. The voters asked for non-partisan groups to propose redistricting maps. The Commissioners should honor the will of the voters and choose one of these maps.

 

Online Public Input Received Between 073025 and 080125

First Name Last Name City where you live County where you live Comments If you have a .pdf, .jpg, or .png file you would like to upload for the redistricting advisory committee, please do so below. This field is not required to be completed in order to submit your comments. Uploads will be posted, along with your comments and name, to the public input webpage as well as provided directly to the advisory committee.
Christine Talbot Greeley Weld It's a bit insulting that Commissioners Jame and Maxey want to sidestep Colorado law with maps very similar to ones already ruled non-compliant with the law by the Colorado Supreme Court. A bipartisan committee has already proposed three maps that do comply with state law for consideration. Moreover, voters asked for these non-partisan maps. Honor the will of the voters!
Chelsie Romulo Greeley Weld Please use one of the three fair and equitable maps by the bipartisan committee. Doing away with these and trying to sneak through maps that are noncompliant with state law is disrespectful to your constituents and insulting to the public service you are supposed to uphold. Shame on you.
Christina Kauffman Greeley Weld Prefer South Platte or Lone Tree maps
Cindy Furman Windsor Weld I am against the two new redistricting maps being presented by County Commissioners for Weld County.
Dr. Michael and M. Susan Carey Windsor CO Please follow Colorado law and choose one of the maps drawn up by the bi-partisan re-districting committee. Because this committee is bi-partisan, those maps will prevent biased elections.
Jared Keating Firestone Weld Do not redistrict. You are corrupted bought and paid for garbage of you do!
Tania Raugewitz Windsor Weld I do not support the proposed redistrict map. It has hardly changed from the previous- this is not a good faith effort to value a representative voice of the people.

 

 

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