Photo Credit: Adapted from American Government We recently posted a blog about El Paso County having money to give employee pay raises, but not adequately funding roads. A reader who works within the El Paso County government has jokingly asked us to stop picking on them. The person asked us to start picking on the […]
Photo Credit: KRDO By Ric Villa The question of who is on our school board is very important, since most of our property tax goes to public schools. The current school board members put a deceptively named question on the ballot —asking “without imposing any new tax,” can we borrow $350 million? How is that […]
Ballots are hitting mailboxes right now. El Paso County Commissioners are asking voter permission to keep up to $20 million of the money we overpaid in taxes. We’re solidly against giving them even one more dime. We wrote about the ballot issue here. We wrote about the recent taxpayer funded county employee events to the […]
During a recent Colorado Springs City Council meeting, City Councilmen Randy Helms and Mike O’Malley brought forward a resolution that caught our attention. We’ve been following the topic of this resolution for over 4 years. Hundreds of Colorado Springs homeowners have been charged for two separate fire protection districts for years. How did this happen? […]
Shows More Taxpayer-Funded Treats for County Employees Photo Credit: TCOG A few weeks back, we brought you the story about the $45,000 of taxpayer money that was spent on three separate zoo events. The events were designed to thank El Paso County employees for their hard work during the COVID shutdowns. In our initial Colorado […]
At yesterday’s regular meeting of the El Paso County Board of County Commissioners, the commissioners voted 3-2 in favor of referring a question to November’s ballot. This ballot question will ask the voters if El Paso County may keep the estimated $15-$20 million TABOR overage, and reset the TABOR limit, allowing the county to keep […]
Your friends at SpringsTaxpayers.com were copied on an email to the City Council, from a Colorado Springs citizen named Dorothy. It sure raised some eyebrows! Dorothy gave us permission to re-post it for our readers. Additionally, Dorothy emailed us directly with her research into the conduct standards for City of Colorado Springs employees. “You might […]
Don Wilson, Mayor, Town of Monument In light of a recent project, Conexus that has been the subject of many conversations in Monument, I would like to share some insight on how the development process works in our community. All land use development requests (sometimes referred to as entitlements) are required to go through a […]
One of the services we provide our loyal readers is keeping tabs on El Paso County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meetings. You never know what Commissioners or staff will mention in the meetings. Take a peek at this clip that prompted us to file a recent Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) request. It was […]
We recently received an anonymous tip about some School District 11 (D11) buses that were sold for scrap. Over the years, we’ve received complaints about the 2017 mil levy in D11 that increased business and property taxes for all who reside within the district . Businesses, especially, saw a big jump in their taxes to […]