Tag: city council meeting
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Colorado Springs City Council approves new city attorney, parks director
The Colorado Springs City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to approve two new hires to lead major city departments. Stefanie Boster was approved as the next city attorney and Skyler Rorabaugh as the director of the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department. Mayor Yemi Mobolade presented both nominees to the council and gave them the oath…
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City Council barely approves new Municipal Court fee to help fund police technology
Colorado Springs took a big step to implement a new municipal court fee to help cover a portion of the Colorado Springs Police Department’s technology costs. The police technology surcharge was barely passed 5-4 by the Colorado Springs City Council at the Monday morning meeting. Some of the Council’s fiscally conservative leaders opposed the fee…
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Tension boils over at Aurora Council meeting about public defenders, call for ceasefire
Tension boiled over at the Aurora City council meeting on Monday, when two items – a call for a “cease-fire” in Gaza and efforts to undo the request for proposals to examine the potential effects of privatizing the city’s public defender’s office – were removed from the agenda. Councilmember Alison Coombs, who had championed the “cease-fire”…