Niwot Together

Niwot, ColoradoEst. 1875Vote Yes · Tuesday, November 3

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The roads

  • Campaign poster. Two road workers in hi-vis vests and hard hats stand with their backs to the camera looking down a cracked, patched Niwot residential street lined with autumn trees, the Front Range beyond. One says “Think $15 million is expensive?”; the other, gesturing at the pavement, answers “Give it fourteen years.” Beneath, $15 MILLION TODAY. $33 MILLION BY 2040. DON’T WAIT FOR DOUBLE. Vote Yes on incorporation. We’ll fix the roads. NiwotTogether.org. Niwot deserves to be a town. Paid for by Niwot Together.
  • Campaign poster reading WAIT… NIWOT ISN’T A TOWN? in large red and navy type against a blue sky, answered beneath in smaller type: Oh. That explains the roads. Below it a photograph shot at pavement level down a tree-lined Niwot residential street in autumn — a split-rail fence and mailbox at the left, a white fence at the right, the Front Range in the distance, and the road surface in the foreground cracked and broken across its full width. Along the bottom, VOTE YES. NiwotTogether.org. Paid for by Niwot Together.
  • Campaign poster reading Mayberry, after 31 years without repaving, in script across a blue sky. Beneath it a photograph looking down a tree-lined Niwot residential street in autumn: a man walking a golden retriever beside a boy, two children ahead of them on bicycles, a flag on a porch, a NIWOT lamp-post banner, and the snow-topped Front Range in the distance — the road surface in the foreground visibly cracked and patched. Along the bottom, Mayberry doesn’t maintain itself. Vote Yes on incorporation, niwottogether.org.
  • Satirical campaign poster styled as a civic welcome sign: WELCOME TO NIWOT, COMMUNITY OF THE FUTURE — SOLAR-POWERED SNOW REMOVAL, with icons for powered by the sun, zero fuel and zero emissions, and smart, simple, sustainable. Over a photograph of an unplowed snow-covered residential street in bright sun, a wooden fence, mailboxes, a flag on a porch, bare winter trees and the snow-capped Front Range behind: zero emissions, zero plows, and electric all-wheel drive recommended while the solar snow-removal system is operating. An electric SUV drives away down the unplowed lane leaving the only tracks, past a NIWOT RD sign. Vote Yes on incorporation — we’ll use real plows. November 3.
  • Campaign poster reading GOT CRACK? over a photograph shot at pavement level down a residential Niwot street: a long crack runs away from the camera down the center of the road with grass growing out of it, houses and evergreens either side, a 25 mph speed limit sign at the curb and the Front Range under a clouded sunset ahead. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.
  • Campaign poster reading GOT WEED? over a photograph of weeds growing through cracked pavement on a Niwot street. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.
  • Campaign poster reading GOT POT? over a photograph of a water-filled pothole on a Niwot street at dusk, with the railroad crossing and the Front Range behind it. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.

The wage fight

  • Campaign poster styled as a vintage advertisement, headed THE NIWOT RESTAURANT EMERGENCY KIT over the line “Every Niwot restaurant needs one.” An open red metal case is divided into three compartments: FIRE, holding a fire extinguisher; CUTS & BURNS, holding a first aid tin, bandages and a gauze roll; and SURPRISE BOULDER COUNTY POLICY CHANGE, holding a thick volume titled COMMUNITY ORGANIZING GUIDE with tabs reading meetings, petitions, emails, public comment, outreach and etc. Beneath: RUNNING A RESTAURANT IS HARD ENOUGH. You shouldn’t need a degree in community organizing, too. Vote Yes on incorporation, niwottogether.org.
  • Campaign poster headed NIWOT DESERVES TO BE A TOWN and A LESSON IN WINNING, split into two columns. On the left, WINNING: LONGMONT, A TOWN, over a photograph of a sunny Longmont main street with sidewalk diners under umbrellas: sets its own policy, didn’t have to fight, $15.16 an hour. On the right, NOT WINNING: NIWOT, UNINCORPORATED, over a photograph of a woman speaking at a microphone to three seated Boulder County commissioners: subject to county policy, fought for a year, still pays more, $16.82 an hour. Beneath both, TOWNS DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES. NIWOT GETS DECIDED FOR. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3, niwottogether.org.
  • Campaign poster in two halves. Above, a Boulder County commissioner shrugging at the dais with a speech bubble reading “We’ve decided Niwot needs higher labor costs,” beside a torn-paper panel: NOVEMBER 2023, Niwot business revenue $32.2 million, 2022 inflation-adjusted, with a caption noting the Boulder County minimum wage was adopted 2 November 2023, effective 1 January 2024. Below, TWO YEARS LATER over a photograph of an empty Second Avenue in Niwot, and a second panel: Niwot business revenue $24.8 million, 2025 inflation-adjusted, down 23 percent. Beneath, Maybe Niwot should decide for itself. Vote Yes on incorporation, niwottogether.org.
  • Campaign poster reading CONGRATULATIONS, NIWOT! You fought for a year, and we won — over an illustration of neighbors cheering behind an oversized novelty check made out to Niwot, the prize being $1.66 more an hour than Longmont, annotated Still not a town and signed Boulder County. Longmont didn’t have to fight. Funny what a town can do. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.
  • Campaign poster in the style of a wartime recruitment bill, Uncle Sam pointing at the reader, reading BOULDER COUNTY WANTS YOU to pay $1.66 more an hour, beside a table giving Niwot $16.82 and Longmont $15.16 — three miles apart, big difference. Niwot fought for a year to stop the county’s wage increases; Longmont didn’t have to, it’s a town. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.
  • Campaign poster in the style of a vintage roadside billboard series reading DRIVE 3 MILES… SAVE $1.66 AN HOUR, with successive signs for drive 3 miles, save $1.66 an hour, same county, different government, beside an illustration of a 1950s car on an open road below the Front Range. Funny what a town can do. Niwot fought for a year to stop the county’s wage increases; Longmont didn’t have to, it’s a town. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.

Who decides

  • Campaign poster headed GRAND OPENING! A chef in a striped apron holding oversized red scissors stands at a ribbon across a Niwot storefront, a woman in a headband beside him looking alarmed. A smiling man in a suit, wearing a Niwot Business Association pin, hands him a thick red book titled THE NIWOT COMMUNITY ORGANIZING GUIDE and says “Better start reading. You never know what Boulder County will do next!” A NIWOT EST. 1875 sign and the Front Range stand behind. Beneath: Running a restaurant is hard enough. You shouldn’t need a degree in community organizing, too. Vote Yes on incorporation. niwottogether.org.
  • Campaign poster headed WHEN TOWN HALL IS DOWN THE STREET… A chef in a white jacket and striped apron sits at a coffee-shop counter with a mug, beside a smiling man in a dark suit and red tie holding a mug marked NIWOT MAYOR. The mayor says “They gave you a community organizing guide?” A chalkboard menu lists coffee, americano, latte, cappuccino, cold brew and pie; through the window are a main street and the Front Range. Beneath: …you shouldn’t have to organize the community to be heard. Vote Yes on incorporation. niwottogether.org.
  • Illustrated poster of six people seated around a meeting-room table, their place cards reading Boulder, Longmont, Niwot, Jamestown, Nederland and Lyons, the Front Range through the windows behind them and Colorado and United States flags in the corner. Every hand at the table is raised in a vote except Niwot’s, whose representative sits with hands folded. A county map spread on the table marks CO 119 in red. We have a seat. We don’t have a vote: Niwot is part of the Consortium of Cities, but we don’t get a vote on decisions like CO 119. Vote Yes on Niwot incorporation, November 3.
  • Poster headed A LESSON IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Q: who should run Niwot? A: Niwot. That’s local government. Beside it, neighbors seated around a table face a whiteboard headed Our Town listing roads, minimum wage, land use, utilities, regional projects and getting work done, a man writing on it. Vote Yes on Niwot incorporation, November 3.
  • Campaign poster headed MEANWHILE, IN NIWOT… over a photograph of a single-story house with a surveyor's tape measure stretched across its full width, above a red panel with an illustrated workman and the line EVERY HOUSE ACCORDING TO ITS NEIGHBORS and a box reading HOME SIZE LIMIT, 125% to 100% of neighborhood median. Planning Commission: 8–0 against. County Commissioners: did it anyway. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.
  • Poster over a painting of a founding-era signing, reading 1776 self-government, 2026 still a pretty good idea. Vote Yes on Niwot incorporation, November 3.

When things stop working

  • Campaign poster reading POWER’S OUT AGAIN — are candles considered renewable? — over a photograph of a kitchen counter at night lit by a single candle in a dish, with a Niwot stoneware crock of wooden spoons, a dark Niwot mug and a bowl of fruit beside it. Through the window, a neighboring house has its windows lit against a deep blue winter sky and bare trees. Niwot has no town government representing our community to Xcel or at the PUC. A town does. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.
  • Satirical campaign poster in the style of a vehicle advertisement introducing the Niwot Utility Vehicle — for when your road, power, internet and cell service all have other plans — an off-road pickup fitted with a snow plow, roof solar panels and a satellite dish, annotated with a satellite internet option, solar and backup power, a Niwot road package of all-terrain tires and a three-inch lift for neighborhood streets, and a snow package because apparently you are the plow now. Starting at $120,000, or more. Or we could just become a town. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.
  • Campaign poster reading THE WI-FI WENT OUT, so I switched to my hotspot — but we’re in Niwot, over a photograph of a home desk with a laptop, a mug reading GOOD IDEAS CAN WAIT, a notepad reading Still Offline and a phone showing No Service. Internet goes down, cell service barely works; who represents Niwot when communications infrastructure is not good enough? A town can. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.

What it costs

  • Campaign poster headed WHY PAY TRIPLE? over a sunlit Niwot streetscape with the Front Range behind it and a Niwot Tribune storefront at the right. A grinning man in shirtsleeves gestures at two sandwich boards, a speech bubble beside him reading “About a third of the price — and you get the whole town.” The left board, Niwot Incorporation, reads $63 a month with ticks against fix the roads, control land use and wages, a voice on utilities, a vote on regional projects, and your town. The right board, Neighborhood PID, reads about $192 a month with a tick against fix the roads and crosses against land use and wages, utilities, regional projects, and still not a town. Beneath: Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3, niwottogether.org. A footnote states both are illustrative monthly estimates for a typical Niwot home that vary by property value and neighborhood, incorporation at about 4 mills plus 2.5% sales tax and the district at about 33 mills of property tax only, and the card carries a paid-for-by Niwot Together disclaimer.

Why Niwot

  • Illustrated campaign poster of Second Avenue in summer under a blue sky, the Front Range behind it: people walking a golden retriever, a cyclist, a red Bronco and a white Porsche parked along the curb, diners outside the Niwot Tribune building, flower baskets on the lamp posts and a NIWOT banner. Across the sky in large type, COLORADO — EST. 1875 — NIWOT, and beneath it NIWOT DESERVES TO BE A TOWN. Vote Yes, November 3, niwottogether.org.
  • Poster in the style of a wartime we-can-do-it illustration: a woman in a red bandana and denim work shirt flexing her arm before the Front Range, asking whether Niwot can run a town and answering of course we can — 186 Colorado towns smaller than Niwot already do. Vote Yes on Niwot incorporation, November 3.
  • Poster over a photograph of downtown Niwot listing 4,300+ residents, a downtown, local businesses and 151 years together, asking whether it is time to define the relationship. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.

Rock & Rails

  • Campaign poster of a vintage jukebox glowing red and gold, its marquee reading NIWOT and its selection panels listing the six issues — roads, minimum wage, land use, utilities, regional projects and getting work done — with NOW PLAYING: NIWOT in the center window, MAKE YOUR SELECTION at one side and COINS MAKE IT HAPPEN at the other. Headed you can’t always get what you want, and closing: but when you’re a town, you get what you need. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.
  • Poster of a vintage record sleeve titled NIWOT, More Than a Feeling, its cover an illustration of an empty small-town main street under a midday sky, the building at left lettered NIWOT HALL, and the record half drawn out beside it. The label lists side A, the problems: roads, minimum wage, land use, utilities, regional projects. A card on the sleeve reads FLIP IT OVER — side B, what a town can do: fix the roads, make local decisions, plan our land use, represent Niwot, get a vote. It’s a town. Let’s make it official. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.
  • Poster over the faceplate of a black-and-brass amplifier carrying a Niwot script logo, its volume knob turned past 10 to 11, reading: Sometimes you need a little extra. Vote for incorporation, November 3.
  • Poster of a brass cowbell stamped NIWOT on a stage beside a vintage microphone and a drum kit, reading: I got a fever, and the only prescription is more Niwot. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.
  • Poster of a road splitting between a gray cracked unincorporated side and a bright paved incorporated side, reading Break On Through To The Incorporated Side. Vote Yes on incorporation, November 3.

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