At the first City Council meeting I attended, the most interesting part actually wasn’t the meeting. It was the study session before the meeting, during which the Council received results about a survey of Greenwood Village residents. The survey asked that certain things such as sense of safety, road quality, and traffic efficiency were rated on a 0 to 4 scale, with 0 being poor and 4 being excellent.
Unsurprisingly, residents thought that quality of life was mostly excellent in Greenwood Village, with scores of between 3 and 4 on every single category except one. The only one that scored below a 3 was traffic efficiency at rush hour, which still came in at a better-than-average 2.6.
Although I do not technically live in Greenwood Village, I do almost everything in Greenwood Village and live just one neighborhood over from the Greenwood Village-Englewood border. I go to Cherry Creek High School and shop at a King Soopers in Greenwood Village, among most of my other activities, so I feel that I can speak as a de facto resident and say that I by-and-large agree with the sentiments of the residents in the survey. Having lived in two different states and four different houses over the last two four years alone, I can attest in a comparative manner that Greenwood Village is one of the best places to live, and I’m glad that I’ve had the chance to grow up here.
Alec Camhi
My name is Alec Camhi, and I'm a junior at Cherry Creek High School.
I have been deeply involved in politics for as long as I can remember: back in Connecticut, where I grew up, my grandmother was a member of the city board of education for twelve years, the chairwoman of the Democratic City Committee for twenty-eight years, a member of the state board of education for the final three years of her life, and a DNC super delegate for about three decades.
Unsurprisingly, I have thus grown up with politics and government around me for my whole life, and I have a great deal of admiration for those who serve us in the government everyday. I have been raised to understand the value and importance of every level of government - not just the ones that are constantly in the spotlight - because I have always been so deeply involved with local races and news. The workings and activities of municipal and other local governments are often overlooked, but they often have at least as an important impact on the daily lives of those under its jurisdiction.
I am excited to carry the tradition of local involvement with which I grew up in Connecticut out to Colorado!
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