by Amy Gillentine Published: January 23,2012
The Ivywild revitalization project will receive final approval at Tuesday’s formal Colorado Springs City Council meeting. The project, which involves buying and renovating the Ivywild Elementary School, will be developed using tax increment financing from both property taxes and sales taxes. State law allows TIF to be used to finance projects in “blighted” areas. Mike Bristol, owner of [...] [...]
by Monica Mendoza Published: January 12,2012
Tags: City Council, Steve Bach
Mayor Steve Bach will meet monthly with the Colorado Springs City Council in what he is calling the “Mayor’s Counsel.” The idea, he said, is that the City Council might need some counseling from him and he might need some counseling from them. “We are peers, they are not my Council,” he said. The monthly meetings are fashioned [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: January 9,2012
Tags: City Council, Memorial Health System, University of Colorado Hospital
The proposal to allow University of Colorado Hospital to lease Memorial Health System is one step closer to reality after today’s informal City Council meeting. The council decided to vote on the issue during tomorrow’s formal meeting for an official vote, including a separate vote about setting up a committee for the lease negotiations. The decision came [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: December 14,2011
Tags: budget, City Council, Colorado Springs, Mayor Steve Bach, salary
The Colorado Springs City Council handed Mayor Steve Bach a rare defeat during yesterday’s formal council meeting when it voted down Bach’s request to deny stepped salary increases worth $749,000 for city employees. [...]
by Amanda Miller Published: October 20,2011
A new solar company that aims to make solar available to the masses will host a celebration of its City Council approval along with an informative question- and-answer session at City Rock, 21 North Nevada Avenue, this evening from 5:30 to 7 p.m. City Council members Brandy Williams and Jan Martin will be at the event. City [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: October 10,2011
Tags: Banner Health, City Council, Memorial Health System, RFP
Banner Health, which has four hospitals in Colorado, plans to bid to lease Memorial Health System. The hospital system operates in seven states, and has a graduate resident program at one of its locations in Phoenix, Ariz. Its Colorado holdings are smaller, with hospitals in Loveland, Greeley, Sterling and Brush. However, that presence makes the interest in [...] [...]
by Amanda Miller Published: September 28,2011
Tags: City Council, Colorado Springs Utilities, solar garden, SunShare
The Colorado Springs City Council unanimously approved regulations Tuesday that will allow a local start-up to build a community solar garden. Several community members showed up to voice their support for the initiative that will allow Colorado Springs Utilities customers to lease solar panels in a remote community solar garden and collect the credits for the [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: September 2,2011
Tags: City Council, Memorial Health System, Regional Leadership Forum
The Regional Leadership Forum made headlines last week when the Colorado Springs City Council tapped it to sort out requests to lease Memorial Health System. But what — and who — is the Regional Leadership Forum? It’s a private, volunteer group comprised of business and community representatives from the city’s most powerful organizations that has assigned itself [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: August 26,2011
Doctors who attended a City Council meeting this week had a message for city leadership: Turn Memorial Health System into a nonprofit. Oh, and hurry up. Speaking in favor of a ballot initiative this week that asks whether the city should end its 62-year obligation to levy taxes if Memorial Health System’s finances needed help, physician after [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: July 15,2011
Tags: City Council, Memorial Health System, parks
City Council member Tim Leigh has an idea about how to answer the question about what to do with Memorial Hospital and how to maintain the city’s parks system. He suggested that that the hospital system to take over at least two of the parks, possibly three – Memorial Park, Boulder Park and Monument Valley Park. The [...] [...]
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