Tag: homeless encampments
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Colorado Springs school to seek approval for 7-foot fence amid problems with vagrants
A “significant increase” in criminal activity largely by transients is forcing one Colorado Springs pre-kindergarten-12 campus to take what it’s calling expensive action. A rise in vandalism, theft of items from storage sheds, open drug use and school buses being broken into and trashed with garbage, spent needles, liquor bottles and cigarette butts prompted Colorado…
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Colorado Springs’ cleanup crews to move to Public Works
Colorado Springs’ Public Works department will be tasked with more cleanup work and personnel next year, but possibly not additional funding from plastic bag fees. The ‘neighborhood services’ division, which includes code enforcement officials and crews that clean up and remove homeless encampments, will move from the Planning to Public Works department in the proposed…