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Posted by Jan Wondra | Mar 5, 2021
While it may feel to many as if we haven’t recovered from the last, national election, it is time to begin planning for the 2021 Coordinated Election. Chaffee County Clerk and Recorder Lori Mitchell has just issued the organization plan for this year’s elections. The 2021 Coordinated Election will be held on Tuesday, November 2, 2021.
Entities that most commonly participate in odd-year elections include:
City of Salida- the mayor and council races
Salida School District directors contests
Buena Vista School District directors contests
The county
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As the county prepares for the off-year election, it might be good for county voters to remember that in this country, every county runs its own election. There are 64 counties in Colorado: meaning 64 election processes are being prepared.
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How one Colorado county prioritized in-person learning in the face of COVID-19, while protecting its tourism-based economy.
Over the past year, Chaffee County, Colorado has managed to do something few outlying counties across this state or this country– have done: support in-person learning for its two school districts. As February fades into March, the roughly 2,246 children ages K-12 of this county, with only a few blips, have been educated in-person for the entire school year. How this county has accomplished this may be a lesson for all counties, no matter their size.
“We prioritized in-person learning; we made it our top priority,” said Chaffee County Director of Public Health Andrea Carlstrom. “After last spring, when everything shut down, we realized that getting our kids back in regular classrooms was critical. So as a county, and as a leadership roundtable, we worked together to get kids back to in-person classes in Au