Voices for Wellington

06/26/2024

Update: evacuation lifted

Wellington and NoCo friends. Heads up.

05/03/2024

This allegation is one that we have taken time to find screenshots of where publicly Trustee Tietz has engaged in behavior that is contradictory to the expectations and guidelines set out in CIRSA training that all trustees must attend.

On March 6, 2024 Trustee Tietz, via her personal page on the Let’s Talk Wellington page. This post attacks a current trustee, Rebekka Dailey, and alluded that Trustee Dailey is lying regarding a book banning.

Further in the comments Trustee Tietz states “Rebekka Dailey, Wellington Trustee please stop pretending to be a good person. The truth is out there. It will slowly start coming out.

You are a mean hearted, manipulative human. That CAN NOT be trusted.”

As shared my Mrs. Karen Eiffert shared on April 28, 2024. (edited to Mrs. upon her request)

“l attended the CIRSA training at the Leeper Center for the Board of Trustees. The man who spoke talked about how all Trustees need to set the example. He said if anyone of them were under attack, the other Trustees should speak up in defense of each other and relay that attacking any Trustee is not the way to handle discrepancies.

Here is your chance current Board of Trustees! Mayor Calar Lawrence Chaussee Mayor Pro Temp Mason, Rebekka Dailey, Wellington Trustee, Trustee Ed Cannon, and Trustee Lowrey Moyer. Trustee David Wiegand is the only Trustee to have spoke up for Shirrell Tietz Wellington Trustee and not against her.”

Trustees are expected to not tear one another down. Trustees are expected to uplift one another. Trustee Tietz calling a fellow Trustee a mean hearted person who is not to be trusted is the antithesis of this expectation.

Further, on January 23, 2024 former Mayor Pro Tem Ashley MacDonald shared her sentiments of being bullied by Trustee Tietz. At the 2:43 mark in this video. https://youtu.be/jS5vKV_izrg?si=ul_2fHmuWto9-2rE&t=9863

These actions are two direct incidents in which Trustee Tiets has violated the expectations of a
trustee in relation to ethical conduct and behavior.

As mentioned in our previous post, this is a second time where Trustee Tietz alludes that she has a recording, to date, no recording with the audio of that meeting has been produced by Trustee Tietz.

Finally, Per CIRSA's ethics handbook, Social Media posts and comments of elected officials are arguably considered to be public records within the meaning of the Colorado Open Records Act. The term "public records" is defined to include “the correspondence of elected officials,” subject to certain exceptions.

And public records are open for public inspection and copying. By deleting and/or editing social media posts and comments, she hid and destroyed public records that are subject to CORA regulations.
https://www.cirsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/EthicsLiabilityBestPracticesHandbookForElectedOfficials.pdf

05/01/2024

Hello Folks!

The folks leading the petition efforts have been asked to pull together receipts of the allegations outlined in our initial petition.

We’re taking the time to break this down into a few distinct different areas.

We are currently working on clarification from town and state staff regarding the need to report the finances related to the open forum. It appears that the regulations surrounding this are clear as mud and we’re doing our own due diligence to clarify.

First - the allegations regarding a lie that the town staff did indeed have a recording.

On February 29, 2024 Trustee Tietz commented that the Town Administrator (assumed to be Patti Garcia) announced there was a recording of the meeting during the meeting. However, on February 29, Trustee Tietz received communication from Dan Sapienza, town attorney that a recording currently could not be found, but Patti was looking. This was again confirmed by Patti in an email with Justin Schwendeman-Curtis on 3/1/24 that no such recording exists.

Trustee Tietz has since shared she may have personally recorded the meeting via her Go-Pro. To date, no such recording has been produced.

Utilizing town staff and resources to gain credibility with the public, while knowing these items did not exist damages the credibility of the Board of Trustees as a whole. Trustee Tietz also voted to approve minutes from the meeting in question and could/should have stated objections when minutes were voted upon.

Further, this statement/resolution was being done in an attempt to squander freedom of speech of those who were present in the meeting and who engaged in the hard conversations around potential banning of books in our town. This also would not align with the public statement that the trustees made stating they would not squander freedom of speech or place bans on books. A resolution that Trustee Tietz voted in favor of. Why would Trustee Tietz sign a resolution to state the town would not ban books if a discussion around banning books never happened in the first place?

Additionally, in the BOT Packet from August 9, 2022 a quarterly report was included that detailed the CORA reports from April - August of 2022 (https://www.wellingtoncolorado.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/505). Included in this are CORA requests from Christine Gaiter related to the purchasing or circulation of books such as “Speak by Anderson, Laurie Halse Juliet Takes a Breath, by Rivera, Gabby Lo**ta, by Nabokov, Vladimir Lawn Boy, by Paulsen, Gary Lucky, by Sebold, Alice Bluest Eye, by Morrison, Toni A Court of Mist and Fury, by Maas, Sarah J. The Testaments, by Atwood, Margaret The Glass Castle, by Walls, Jeannette This One Summer, by Tamaki Looking for Alaska, by Green Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Chbosky Drama by Tegemeier, Raina Fifty Shades of Grey by James, E.L.”. Christine Gaiter is the individual who commented publicly
We have more on this allegation in our next post, so stay tuned for that to come.

04/29/2024

04/21/2024

Voices for Wellington is also a petitioner now for the Tietz Recall. Please reach out if you live in the town limits and would like to sign the recall but haven't yet.

04/15/2024

Voices for Wellington will be working with the recall effort.

03/30/2024

Come on, Wellington. Vote! Your voice matters!

03/18/2024

Three great candidates! And this time with the correct surname for one of them!!!!

03/17/2024

Don't forget - you can vote for 3! Here are our pics.

02/13/2024

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