Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District

Today is election day across the country including here in Colorado, where polls close at 7:00 this evening; the Montezuma-Cortez School Board also called an emergency meeting on Tuesday.

A committee helping Colorado lawmakers decide how to spend four hundred million dollars of federal coronavirus relief money on affordable housing programs has released a draft of its recommendations; Students in the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District will once again be allowed to participate in off-campus extracurricular activities after in-person classes and extracurriculars were cancelled earlier in the week.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser was in Fort Collins Wednesday, hosting a conversation about resilience in the face of crisis; The Dolores County Courthouse was put on lockdown on Thursday due to credible threats made against local elected officials, but a suspect has since been arrested and there is no longer an active threat; The Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District is providing at-home meals for students after district schools moved online this week due to spiking COVID-19 infections.

The Colorado Secretary of State’s office says less than eleven percent of voters have returned their ballots with about a week left in this year’s election; The Attorney General’s Office in Utah is looking for help in suing the Biden administration over its decision to restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.

Classes at Kemper Elementary School in Cortez are being moved online due to an outbreak of COVID-19 throughout the school; The U.S. Senate’s energy subcommittee on water and power held a hearing in Washington DC on Wednesday about ongoing drought conditions.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis has ended an executive order that aided Coloradans to avoid being evicted during the pandemic; The Montezuma-Cortez School Board held a special meeting on Tuesday.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox announced a new incentive for state employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 last week; The Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District will be holding an emergency board meeting Tuesday at noon.

The Montezuma-Cortez School Board held a virtual emergency meeting on Friday to consider providing the Superintendent authority to move schools into remote learning.

Colorado is one big step closer to having new congressional districts after a politically diverse committee agreed on a new district map late Tuesday night; The Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District has rescheduled its open house event for the public to meet the candidates running for school board.

There were at least 40 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District over the weekend; A lawsuit filed last week in Colorado aims to remove a statewide ballot question from the upcoming November election.