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Here are some of the stories we are following this week. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for up-to-the-minute news.
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Some fiber optic installation contractors in Colorado Springs are being fined for wrecking over 750 service lines, including gas, water, and electric lines. For their information, we have a ratepayer-funded utility locator service they can use to prevent this kind of thing.
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We recorded this week’s Colorado Springs City Council State of the Community Townhall for you. Check it out!
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Charter schools are under attack by Governor Jared Polis. Why is our individual liberty constantly under attack from our own government?
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While they attack your right to choose a better school for your child, they want to promote injecting illegal narcotic drugs in taxpayer-funded drug shooting galleries. Yes, you are seeing what you are seeing.
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Legislators in Colorado are using the tax on unemployment benefits to start a new enterprise to cost you even more. Unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats are being enriched with your tax dollars, without your say.
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The EPA is going to make our lives incredibly expensive in the coming years. They have released their new vehicle emissions standards, and they are advertised as, “the strongest ever.”
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Governor Jared Polis will stop at nothing to get his 19th-century choo-choo train, so they are using their “taxes disguised as fees” trick for rental moving trucks. If you plan to move and rent a truck to do it, you’ll pay more now so Polis can fund Front Range Rail.
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Proving once again that their “sanctuary city” virtue signaling was just big talk for seal claps from other leftists, one high-ranking Denver public servant was caught on camera offering to buy illegal immigrants bus tickets out of town. The problem? The illegal immigrants are becoming quite comfortable with all the taxpayer-funded freebies, and don’t want to leave. Denver officials are encouraging the illegal immigrants to go to Chicago or New York.
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In related news, Denver officials have only a vague idea of how much they’ve spent funding homelessness. When you can steal money from people without end, who really cares how much you spend, right? As a reminder, the President and CEO of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless makes nearly $400,000 per year. The average yearly compensation for the top 10 executives at this nonprofit makes an average of $259,939.
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The “Click it or Ticket” government revenue generation project has started in Colorado. This runs through April 14.
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The Colorado Springs Police Department is expressing confidence in having a fully-staffed officer force by the end of 2024.
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Recent budget documents for the City of Colorado Springs show the city is spending more than it takes in. If we do this in our private lives, we encounter problems. When the city does it, we taxpayers also encounter problems. Will they curtail some spending to better align with revenue?
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Once again, TABOR is a good thing. TABOR limits what greedy, malicious actors in government can do to us, and that’s never wrong.
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Colorado is using your tax money to rebate purchases of expensive electric bicycles. Some shops are concerned that if they don’t participate in the rebate program, they will lose business to shops that do participate. The heavy-handed bureaucrats in government are, once again, picking winners and losers.
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The homeless union in Colorado Springs has demands for the city to provide more services. How is public vagrancy a career choice that now has an organized union? How did we get here? Also, what does a strike look like if they don’t get their way?
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The wolf introduction in Colorado is, as expected, leading to dead cattle in Grand County.
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Here are some upcoming meetings in the area. We hope you can attend one or more! If there are other public meetings you’d like to see announced here, please drop us a line. We are happy to include them in an upcoming newsletter. These might be government-related, candidate, or elected official meetings. Thanks!
Colorado Springs City Council Meetings
Monday, April 8, 10:00 a.m.
Colorado Springs City Council Work Session
107 N. Nevada, 3rd floor
Live stream link here
Agenda
Tuesday, April 9, 10:00 a.m.
Colorado Springs City Council
107 N. Nevada, 3rd floor
Live stream link here
Agenda
El Paso County Board of County Commissioner Meetings
Tuesday, April 2, 9:00 a.m.
El Paso County Board of County Commissioners
Centennial Hall
200 S. Cascade
Live stream link here
Agenda not yet posted
Tuesday, April 16, 9:00 a.m.
El Paso County Board of County Commissioners
Centennial Hall
200 S. Cascade
Live stream link here
Agenda not yet posted
Colorado Springs Utilities Board of Directors
Wednesday, April 17, 1:00 p.m.
Utilities Board of Directors
Blue River Board Room
Plaza of the Rockies, South Tower, 5th Floor
Live stream link here
Agenda not yet posted
Miscellaneous Meetings of Interest
Monday, April 1, 6:00 p.m.
Law Enforcement Transparency and Advisory Committee
City Hall
107 S. Nevada Avenue, Suite 200
Also, online via Microsoft Teams
Information and Agenda
Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 5:30 p.m.
Colorado Springs City Council State of the Community Townhall
Red Leg Brewing Company
2323 Garden of the Gods Road
Information and Agenda
Thursday, April 13, 2024, 5:30 p.m.
Colorado Springs City Council State of the Community Townhall
Location TBD
Information and Agenda
View the full Colorado Springs City Council meeting schedule here to see upcoming meetings.
View the full Board of El Paso County Commissioners meeting schedule here to see upcoming meetings.
View the full Colorado Springs Utilities Board meeting schedule here to see upcoming meetings. Please also follow CSU on their Facebook Page and on Twitter.
Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel. Since most of the City and County board and commission meetings are not televised or recorded, we are trying to remedy that. We now have a camera and tripod for volunteers to check out for future meetings.
If you have a tip about a story in the Pikes Peak region that you aren’t seeing reported, let us know. We will see what we can find out.
How to Contact City and County Officials:
City Hall
107 N. Nevada Avenue
Colorado Springs CO 80903
(719) 385-5986
Contact City Council
Mayor's Office
30 S Nevada Avenue, Suite 601
Colorado Springs, CO 80901
(719) 385-5900
Contact Mayors Office
County Commissioners
200 South Cascade Avenue, Suite 100
Colorado Springs, CO 80903-2202
Phone: (719) 520-7276
https://www.elpasoco.com/contact-us/
Thank you!
Rebecca
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