Residents urge action on speeding, potholes, flooding and public safety during Commerce City public comment; Adams 14 asks council to sponsor scholarship gala

Multiple speakers used the public‑comment portion of the Commerce City Council meeting to raise neighborhood safety, road and drainage concerns and to request city support for local nonprofit education programs.

David Medish, captain with the South Adams County Fire Department, invited the council to a by‑invitation training event where high‑school students and contractors will demonstrate building trades and fire‑related demonstrations; he described a training structure the students had built and noted a burn demonstration planned for April (event date given by speaker as “April from roughly 10:00 until 1”).

Residents' concerns: Keith Rogers, a resident, called for early public warnings about fireworks, more drone enforcement and more traffic cameras in the southwest area of the city. Rogers described potholes and drainage problems along Colorado Boulevard and the 60th–Eighth corridor and said water is entering residents’ garages because of a raised road crown and filled drainage ditches. Council members noted…