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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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Thanks to TABOR, which the current state legislature wants to destroy, your Colorado Springs mill levy for property tax was reduced.
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This week in Sanctuary City news, a busload of migrants was dropped off at the State Capitol building in Denver. These migrants were shipped there after crossing into Texas illegally. If you advertise sanctuary, don’t be surprised when people take you seriously.
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The Executive Director of Denver’s Housing Stability Department wants to foist some of the cost of Denver’s homeless problem off on communities outside of Denver because the homeless people sometimes wander over Denver city boundaries. Classic.
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Denver has opened up a hotel for the homeless on Quebec Street, near the Central Park neighborhood.
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The city of Aurora, Colorado, is looking at dissolving the public defender’s office and privatizing this function.
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Colorado Springs has kicked off an Urban Trail Rangers program to help monitor trails around the city. Can you guess why trails need to be monitored for safety? This will cost taxpayers around $450,000 and is yet another cost to taxpayers of allowing drug-addled criminals to camp anywhere they want.
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The Pikes Peak Library District used taxpayer funds to pay $1.5 million in advance on their lease, all to allow the Manitou Library to renovate their building.
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The El Paso County Commissioners unanimously passed an ordinance to punish those who misuse stormwater infrastructure.
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El Paso County is spending taxpayer money on coffee and barbecue. Additionally, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum are beneficiaries of taxpayer money, to the tune of around $250,000 collectively. As usual, we were ahead of the curve and reported on this waste of taxpayer money before.
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One recent analysis shows you need $15,000 per year more to live in Colorado than in 2021. Didn’t Polis say he was going to save us money somewhere during the campaign season?
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The federal government will provide taxpayer money, in the form of grants, to the Front Range Rail project.
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A commission has formed in the Colorado Legislature to address the property tax issue they attempted to use to push Prop HH, which would have stolen your TABOR refunds forever. It will surprise no one to learn that some of those appointed to this commission were sponsors and creators of the Prop HH scam.
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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, December 11, 10:00 a.m.
Colorado Springs City Council Work Session
107 N. Nevada, 3rd floor
Live stream link here
Agenda
Tuesday, December 12, 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, December 12, 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, December 19, 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
No meetings currently posted
Miscellaneous Meetings of Interest
No meetings currently posted
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 social media at 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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