Shots fired in road rage incident on Peak to Peak Highway

The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a reported shooting following a road-rage incident on Peak to Peak Highway on Thursday.

Boulder County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Carrie Haverfield said the caller reported that a person in a white pickup truck fired shots off into the air at about 2 p.m. on Colo. 72 outside Nederland.

No injuries or property damage were reported.

Boulder County agencies searched the Boulder Canyon Drive area for the truck, but were unable to locate it.

Haverfield said more details on what might have led to the road-rage incident is not available.

The vehicle was described as a white Dodge crew cab truck with a red Colorado license plate.

One entity is pondering passing around the funds to multiple projects. Another will kick around ideas after receiving applications. And a third is punting its decision to the public.

However, one thing that all three — Longmont, Boulder and Boulder County — have in common is that they’ve yet to spend a single penny of the money they’ve received from the sale of the Denver Broncos last year.

Combined, Longmont, Boulder and Boulder County received more than $3.2 million.

The one-time funding, which must be used on youth activity programs, has caused tension at times among the Longmont City Council.

Last week, Longmont city staff met with a representative from the Metropolitan Football Stadium District to clarify whether or not the $980,481 the city received can be spent on capital projects that benefit children.

“I think you can honestly get away with that saying … look it’s going to benefit the youth in some way, shape or form,” said Matt Sugar, Metropolitan Football Stadium District director of stadium affairs, on Thursday.

However, Sugar made clear that the stadium district prefers the 47 entities that received a check to spend it on youth activities, such as after school mentoring programs, sports, art and music.

“The legislation has no teeth to tell the specifics of how to spend that money,” Sugar said.

The Longmont City Council has talked about possibly allocating portions of the city’s nearly $1 million toward a multi-purpose dome, expanding the Children’s Gallery at the Longmont Museum and purchasing sporting equipment for underprivileged children.

Council, however, has not decided how to spend the money.

“What we don’t want to see is the money going into a road fund,” Sugar said.

In addition to Longmont, Boulder County received $309,220 from the stadium district.

Boulder County is in the process of forming a committee that will review applications from community organizations that are interested in receiving funding for youth activities.

The committee will make recommendations to the Boulder County Commissioners who will then make a final decision.

“How could we use this funding in an equitable way and provide opportunities for youth who otherwise would not have access to sports activities,” Commissioner Marta Loachamin said Thursday. “That’s the focus here from the county.”

When the Broncos organization sold for $4.65 billion last year, the deal triggered components of the original lease and management agreement between the Metropolitan Football Stadium District and PDB Sports LTD, requiring 2% of the net profit from the sale to go to the stadium district.

After all, taxpayers in the seven-county stadium district that includes Boulder County funded 75% of Empower Field at Mile High’s cost.

The agreement stipulated that counties, cities and towns must spend the one-time funding on youth activity programs.