Broomfield Mayor

 Randy Ahrens (i Mayor)

With 22 years of experience as owner of Frontier Components, Randy Ahrens has a strong grasp on how to attract business to Broomfield, which for him means balancing residential, commercial and retail. With experience also as an oil engineer, he has a unique understanding of fracking. Ahrens agrees with the MOU, but wants to see stricter setbacks and reporting of the chemicals used. He served for eight years on the city council and also on the Committee to Make Broomfield a city and county, which helped residents have better access to health and human services. “After that, we did a survey and found a 20 percent increase in use of health and human services of people that were getting services that hadn’t before.” The current mayor pro tem hopes to also alleviate some of the congestion in Broomfield, saying of the many ways he would do that would be to get a reduced rate on Northwest Parkway for residents and people working in Broomfield to take that to work instead of 144th Avenue.

 Denny McCloskey 

After two terms serving as a councilman in Ward 2, Denny McCloskey says that Broomfield is a challenge, but “also an opportunity.” He touts getting the 112th Ave. bridge and the Wadsworth Bridge over U.S. 36 replaced as a victory of his time in city council. On the topic of the MOU, he feels “extremely strong” and was actually surprised when Sovereign gas agreed to all the limitations the city council outlined. If elected, McCloskey, who has experience serving on the Broomfield Chamber, the MetroNorth Chamber and the Realtor Action Center, plans to work hard on the “right kind” of development along Highway 7. The realtor and former high school teacher and coach believes that attracting developers along Highway 7 is “really the key to Broomfield’s stainability and future.”

YS votes Yes for: Randy Ahrens