Photo Credit: Auburn Examiner Ballots are now hitting mailboxes throughout El Paso County. We appreciate that you, the SpringsTaxpayers.com readers, do your homework at election time. Several of you have contacted us about Amendment B —the repeal of the Gallagher Amendment. A bipartisan group of legislators came up with the repeal idea, and referred it […]
Photo Credit: Sam the Shovel Leaner Municipal ballots will be arriving in mailboxes between October13th and October 18th. One of the Colorado Springs ballot questions asks whether voters want to continue to be additionally taxed for road repairs and improvements for 5 more years. In 2015, the original 2C was passed. We wrote a blog […]
Whoa. What just happened? Last week, the Colorado Springs City Council gave the public less than 24 hours’ notice that they intended to vote on an ordinance, allowing the giveaway of your City sales tax dollars to new businesses that plan to move to Colorado Springs. The primary reason behind the new ordinance? City Council […]
On 6 December 2018, Colorado Springs District 2 City Councilman David Geislinger held a townhall to discuss a possible change to the Briargate Special Improvement Maintenance District (SIMD). The videos to this meeting and the August meeting are posted at the end of this blog. At the helm for direction of this meeting was a […]