At SpringsTaxpayers.com, we have been bringing you news on a package of tax incentives and other goodies that have been provided to (or offered to) Scheels, to entice them to open a store in Colorado Springs. You can catch up on the back-story here, here, and here. Now Tim Leonard, a representative for some of […]
Another story of waste and abuse of taxpayer money in Colorado Springs, Recently, a concerned citizen contacted the Gazette’s Woodmen Edition and asked them to look into why the City of Colorado Springs had repaved the roads of a newer 44-home subdivision called “Estates at Rockrimmon”, while roads in other areas of the City were in […]
Photo credit: Scheels.com At SpringsTaxpayers, we have been reporting since February on the ‘sweetheart Scheels deal’ that will allow Scheels to charge its customers a 1% Public Improvement Fee (PIF) instead of a 1% sales tax, but then pocket that the estimated $16,000,000 they collect from shoppers. We reported that this is unfair to the other […]
Photo Credit: KRDO In December 2018, KRDO reported that a 2-year road project, known as the Westside Avenue Action Plan (WAAP), wouldn’t be completed as scheduled, and the cost projections had increased from $31 million to $41 million. This area is also referred to as “no-man’s land.” According to that December article, planners were estimating […]
Waste and Abuse of Citizens’ Taxes by Colorado Springs City Government