CORE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Jack and Ellen Sweet Co-Directors 7450 Krameria Drive Commerce City, CO 80022 303-288-5066 Sally Mc Intosh Co-Director 7560 Magnolia Street Commerce City, CO 80022 303-288-0895 Larry Quintana-Bilingual Communications Director 7780 Magnolia St. Commerce City, CO 80022 303-955-7758 |
| This photo was taken of the area around Monaco Elementary School before the renovation of the Monaco community started. The children attending Monaco walked along the streets often dodging vehicles to get to school as only a few streets had curb, gutters or sidewalks. The Monaco Neighborhood Improvement Committee was instrumental in getting this change after a 12 year, $17,000,000.00 campaign. Below is as the same area appears now, you can see sidewalks and paved streets. |
| Children would have to walk down Monaco Street on their way to school on dirt paths along the roadway, at times they had less then a 2 foot pathway from the road. |
| The photo on the left was how many a street looked like even after a minor rain storm. On the right you see the same street after the renovation of the Monaco neighborhood |
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| Picture 1 appears to be a nice country scene perhaps with a river or stream running by, it was actually one of our street corners after a rain storm. Pictures 2, 3 and 4 show that same corner after the Monaco project, picture 3 is now an alley way for traffic to flow safely out of this neighborhood. Pictures 5 and 6 show the access street to this neighborhood, you will see the home owners have a bit of new landscaping to beautiful their street. |
| MONACO NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE (MNIC) LA VEDINDAD DE MONACO |
| MOVING TOWARDS A NEW TOMORROW Monaco neighborhood a few years back - pictures of our community then and now The Monaco Neighborhood Group as it was called at the time of it's inception was formed by a group of neighbors concerned about the safety of their children. Sally and Robert Mc Intosh, Jack and Ellen Sweet, Bob and Cathy Jaramillo and Pete Sophales started with a neighborhood watch program. Their trade mark was an open white hand in the windows of their neighbors indicating a safe place for children to run to if confronted by strangers. Their projects got bigger and they began to lobby governments at all levels for sidewalks and paved streets or to at least fix the many potholes on their streets. A project that took a period of 12 years and $17,000,000.00 is what residences now see in their community. Community pride is now taking place as home owners are cleaning and fixing their properties. Graffiti is being cleaned up in a timely manner as they have joined up with the United Neighborhoods Graffiti Task Force. With the advent of a new community park, the efforts of the Rotary Club and some city officials we now have a place to hold community picnics and BBQ's. This is a great effort for a community that contains homes dating back 50 or 60 years perhaps longer. |
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