The Fostering Community Engagement section highlights indicators that include voter turnout, public meeting attendance, quantity of neighborhood organizations, volunteerism rates, community giving and individual donations, citizen perceptions of community acceptance, and local leadership demographics. You will read that nearly 64% of voters turned out for the mayoral runoff in May 2011, that 93% of QLI survey respondents indicated fostering an accepting and welcoming community is somewhat to very important, and that our region has a 65% volunteer rate that’s nearly double the average for the state of Colorado.

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