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Senate Journal-1St Day-January 4, 2019 Page 1 SENATE Senate Journal-1st Day-January 4, 2019 Page 1 SENATE JOURNAL 1 Seventy-second General Assembly 2 STATE OF COLORADO 3 First Regular Session 4 5 6 1st Legislative Day Friday, January 4, 2019 7 8 9 10 Prayer By the chaplain, Father Joseph Vigil, St. Joseph's Parish, Pueblo. 11 12 Presentation By the Pueblo Fire Department, IAFF Local 3. 13 of Colors Members: Ken Kilcullen, Jeff Aube, Joey Gutierrez, John Dorland, and Adam Haman. 14 Attending: Chief Shawn Shelton. 15 16 Pledge By Senator Garcia's sons, Jeremiah and Xan, and his nieces and nephews, Emmalyn, 17 of Allegiance Jacquline, Jasmine, Kourtney, Jake, and Logan. 18 19 Musical By The Sankey Sisters, Chelse Rollins and Chenia Sankey, from Pueblo. Performing 20 Presentation "The Star-Spangled Banner" and a medley "America the Beautiful/God Bless America". 21 22 Call to The hour of 10:00 a.m. having arrived, the Senate of the 72nd General Assembly of the 23 Order State of Colorado, pursuant to law, was called to order by Senator Kevin J. Grantham, 24 President of the Senate of the 71st General Assembly of the State of Colorado. 25 26 ____________ 27 28 29 LETTERS OF RESIGNATION 30 31 December 4, 2018 32 33 Effie Ameen, Secretary of the Senate 34 Max Majors, Assistant Secretary of the Senate 35 State Capitol Building 36 200 E. Colfax Avenue 37 Denver, Colorado 80203 38 39 RE: Resignation letter 40 41 This is to inform you that I am resigning my seat representing Senate District 17 in the 42 Colorado state legislature effective the end of the day on January 1, 2019. Representing 43 east Boulder County in the State Senate has been one of the highlights of my life and I am 44 honored to represent such wonderful, engaged and caring people. 45 46 Sincerely, 47 (signed) 48 Matt Jones 49 50 cc: Senate President-elect Leroy Garcia 51 Senate Minority Leader-elect Chris Holbert 52 Sharon Eubanks, Director of the Office of Legislative Legal Services 53 54 ____________ 55 56 December 5, 2018 57 58 Colorado Senate Secretary 59 200 E. Colfax, Room 271 60 Denver, CO 80203 61 62 Dear Madame Secretary, 63 64 I write this letter to formally resign from the Colorado State Senate as the SD-14 Senator, 65 effective at the close of business on January 2, 2019. Please consider this my official letter 66 of resignation pursuant to C.R.S. 1-12-203(4). 67 Page 2 Senate Journal-1st Day-January 4, 2019 I am deeply honored and humbled to have represented the people of Fort Collins and 1 Larimer County in the Colorado General Assembly - six years in the Senate and six years 2 in the House. These past 12 years have been an extraordinary journey that has granted me 3 the privilege and opportunity to serve the people. Public service and civic engagement are 4 hallmarks of a healthy and resilient representative democracy, and I've done my best to 5 walk the talk. I've worked hard to unite folks and find common ground to affect policies 6 that achieve systemic change in order to make meaningful differences in our communities 7 and in the lives of individuals and families. 8 9 I am grateful to have worked side by side with you and our non-partisan team members, as 10 well as the entire advocacy and political community - inside and outside the Capitol. 11 Legislative Council and Legal Services staff members are dedicated, brilliant, hard 12 working and very nice professionals - across the board. They exemplify - to the highest 13 degree - public servants who care that we do our jobs well and serve the people of 14 Colorado effectively. Honestly, I am going to miss you all, and I have a lot of mixed 15 emotions; guess I will focus on gratitude. 16 17 The Larimer County Democratic Vacancy Committee for SD-14 will convene after you 18 receive this letter and notices go out to committee members who will be charged with 19 selecting my replacement according to rules and state laws. and always with an eye 20 towards transparency and accountability. My goal is to have a qualified individual in place 21 on January 4, 2019 - opening day of the First Regular Session of the 72nd General 22 Assembly who will work hard and represent all the people of SD-14 with fairness, 23 honesty and integrity. Thank you for your tireless commitment to good governance and to 24 the people of Colorado. It has been one heck of a journey. 25 26 Sincerely, 27 (Signed) 28 John M. Kefalas 29 State Senator, Fort Collins (District 14) 30 ____________ 31 32 COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE 33 34 State of Colorado 35 Department of State 36 37 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ss. CERTIFICATE 38 STATE OF COLORADO 39 40 I, Wayne W. Williams, Secretary of State, certify that the attached is a true and exact copy 41 of the Nomination by Vacancy Committee as filed in this office on January 2, 2019 by the 42 Democratic 14th Senate District Vacancy Committee, appointing Joann Ginal to fill the 43 vacancy in the office of Colorado State Senate, District 14, caused by the resignation of 44 the honorable John Kefalas. 45 46 In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of 47 Colorado, at the City of Denver this fourth day of January 2019. 48 49 (signed) 50 Wayne W. Williams 51 Secretary of State 52 ____________ 53 54 State of Colorado 55 Department of State 56 57 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ss. CERTIFICATE 58 STATE OF COLORADO 59 60 I, Wayne W. Williams, Secretary of State, certify that the attached is a true and exact copy 61 of the Acceptance of Nomination by Vacancy Committee as filed in this office on January 62 2, 2019 by Joann Ginal, accepting the appointment of the Democratic 14th Senate District 63 Vacancy Committee to fill the vacancy in the office of Colorado State Senate, District 14, 64 caused by the resignation of the honorable John Kefalas. 65 66 In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of 67 Colorado, at the City of Denver this fourth day of January 2019. 68 69 (signed) 70 Wayne W. Williams 71 Secretary of State 72 Senate Journal-1st Day-January 4, 2019 Page 3 ____________ 1 2 State of Colorado 3 Department of State 4 5 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ss. CERTIFICATE 6 STATE OF COLORADO 7 8 I, Wayne W. Williams, Secretary of State, certify that the attached is a true and exact copy 9 of the Nomination by Vacancy Committee as filed in this office on January 2, 2019 by the 10 Democratic 17th Senate District Vacancy Committee, appointing Mike Foote to fill the 11 vacancy in the office of Colorado State Senate, District 17, caused by the resignation of 12 the honorable Matt Jones. 13 14 In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of 15 Colorado, at the City of Denver this fourth day of January 2019. 16 17 (signed) 18 Wayne W. Williams 19 Secretary of State 20 ____________ 21 22 State of Colorado 23 Department of State 24 25 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ss. CERTIFICATE 26 STATE OF COLORADO 27 28 I, Wayne W. Williams, Secretary of State, certify that the attached is a true and exact copy 29 of the Acceptance of Nomination by Vacancy Committee as filed in this office on January 30 2, 2019 by Mike Foote, accepting the appointment of the Democratic 17th Senate District 31 Vacancy Committee to fill the vacancy in the office of Colorado State Senate, District 17, 32 caused by the resignation of the honorable Matt Jones. 33 34 In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of 35 Colorado, at the City of Denver this fourth day of January 2019. 36 37 (signed) 38 Wayne W. Williams 39 Secretary of State 40 ____________ 41 42 Roll Call The roll call of holdover Senators was called with the following result: Present--Court, 43 Crowder, Fenberg, Fields, Gardner, Hill, Kagan, Marble, Moreno, Priola, Smallwood, 44 Tate, Todd, Williams, Zenzinger -- 15; Excused--Baumgardner -- 1; Total: 16. 45 ____________ 46 47 48 COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE (cont'd) 49 50 State of Colorado 51 Department of State 52 53 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ss. CERTIFICATE 54 STATE OF COLORADO 55 56 I, Wayne W. Williams, Secretary of State of the State of Colorado, certify that I have 57 canvassed the "Abstract of Votes Cast" submitted in the State of Colorado, and do state 58 that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the attached list represents the total votes 59 cast for the members of the Colorado State Senate for the 72nd General Assembly by the 60 qualified electors of the State of Colorado in the November 6, 2018 General Election. 61 62 In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of 63 Colorado, at the City of Denver this 11th day of December 2018. 64 65 (signed) 66 Wayne W. Williams 67 Secretary of State 68 69 Page 4 Senate Journal-1st Day-January 4, 2019 Colorado General Election Results 1 November 6, 2018 2 3 State Senator - District 1 4 5 Counties: CHEYENNE, ELBERT, KIT CARSON, LINCOLN, LOGAN, MORGAN, 6 PHILLIPS, SEDGWICK, WASHINGTON, WELD, YUMA 7 8 Vote Totals Percentage 9 Jerry Sonnenberg (REP) 52,311 79.01 % 10 Debra Gustafson (DEM) 13,894 20.99 % 11 12 13 State Senator - District 2 14 15 Counties: CLEAR CREEK, EL PASO, FREMONT, PARK, TELLER 16 17 Vote Totals Percentage 18 Beth "Hart" Harz (DEM) 22,583 34.68 % 19 Dennis Hisey (REP) 42,531 65.32 % 20 21 22 State Senator - District 3 23 24 Counties: PUEBLO 25 26 Vote Totals Percentage 27 Leroy M.
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