Author: Eileen Welsome
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County takes step to stanch pension fund bleeding
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For the first time in 43 years, a retirement plan that covers county employees and other government workers is reducing benefits and increasing contribution amounts. The 2008 stock market crash, combined with increased payouts, prompted…
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County testing hired snow plows in Cimarron Hills
El Paso County is plowing new ground. The county is about to embark upon an experiment to see if private contractors can do a better job of removing snow from the streets than its own aging fleet. The ‘guinea pig’ will be Cimarron Hills, an unincorporated community east of Powers Boulevard and north of Highway…
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County takes step to stanch pension fund bleeding
For the first time in 43 years, a retirement plan that covers county employees and other government workers is reducing benefits and increasing contribution amounts. The 2008 stock market crash, combined with increased payouts, prompted the changes, said Howard Miller, executive director of the El Paso County Retirement Plan. The plan, which covers 3,667 people, …
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Graffiti-scarred Rainbow Falls under new management
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The family that has owned Rainbow Falls west of Manitou Springs for decades has agreed to donate the land to El Paso County, which represents the first major step toward restoring the trash-strewn, graffiti-covered landscape…
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Graffiti-scarred Rainbow Falls under new management
The family that has owned Rainbow Falls west of Manitou Springs for decades has agreed to donate the land to El Paso County, which represents the first major step toward restoring the trash-strewn, graffiti-covered landscape to its natural grandeur. “It made sense to let the county run with it,” said Brian Murphy, an attorney who…
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Myers Road improvements exceed $2 million
The tab for improvements on a two-lane road in eastern El Paso County continues to rise. In response to a public records act request, county officials confirmed that they spent nearly $770,000 in 2008 to gravel a 13 mile stretch of Myers Road. The cost includes $177,000 in county workers’ salaries, $336,000 for equipment and…
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County decries state raid on seniors’ rainy day fund
State officials are raiding the piggy banks of local organizations that provide a variety of services to older residents and sending the bulk of the funds to counties in the Denver metro area. In a memo delivered to fellow board members this week, Guy Dutra-Silveira, director of the Area Agency on Aging for the Pikes…
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County may be Pioneers Museum’s white knight
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save City and county officials are trying to come up with an interim plan that would keep the Pioneers Museum from closing, county spokesman Dave Rose said Thursday. “The county administrator and the city manager have…
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County may be Pioneers Museum’s white knight
City and county officials are trying to come up with an interim plan that would keep the Pioneers Museum from closing, county spokesman Dave Rose said Thursday. “The county administrator and the city manager have been discussing doing something along those lines,” Rose said. Nothing concrete has yet emerged, he added. Reeling from budget shortfalls,…
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County feeling left out by governor’s child abuse task force
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save El Paso County is feeling left out by a gubernatorial task force that is winding up an 18-month investigation into ways to better protect kids who are potential victims of child abuse or neglect. The…