Council to get direction about retail marijuana
Colorado Springs City Council will start work on regulations needed for the retail marijuana industry at a work session Monday, May 13. City Attorney Kyle Sauer will brief the city council on state legislation regarding retail marijuana licensing and regulation. Council will give the city staff direction for a public process to evaluate options to [...]
The city’s ethics commission has decided to narrow its investigation of City Councilor Tim Leigh to three allegations related to actions he took regarding Neumann Systems Group. The commission, at the same time, said it could not investigate several other allegations — including those that said Leigh had made negative public statements, had interacted with [...]
Continue reading …Former Memorial Health System CEO Larry McEvoy will get to keep all of his $1.15 million severance package. After an hours-long closed session yesterday, City Council decided there was little it could do to alter the compensation package – which includes 18 months’ salary, a company car, $20,000 in outplacement services and cash in lieu [...]
Continue reading …The Colorado Springs City Council unanimously asked the entireMemorial Board of Trustees – minus Memorial Chief of Staff Karen Anthony – to resign by 5 p.m. tomorrow or face removal by the City Council.
Continue reading …Despite the calls for dissolving the Memorial Health System board and the outrage about CEO Larry McEvoy’s $1.15 million severance package. experts say it is not out of line with industry standards.
Continue reading …Memorial Health System’s board president challenged city council member Tim Leigh on every single point of his complaints about the hospital and the way it’s being run. Last week, Leigh sent a widely-dispersed email that said he’d been told about many issues with Memorial: some faulty real estate deals, some issues with doctors and some [...]
Continue reading …The Regional Leadership Forum should consider being more transparent, more open, said Colorado Springs City Council members. The remarks came at the end of a presentation by Pam Keller of Keller Homes, who is also an individual member of the forum. “Are the meetings open?” asked council member Brandy Williams. “Do people know when they [...]
Continue reading …City Councilman Tim Leigh has a lot of ideas. Some are wild — like getting Colorado Springs Utilities to build kayaking rapids in Fountain Creek. Some are big — like building a downtown, Olympic-themed sports arena. And some are just plain unconventional — like using money from the lease for Memorial hospital’s assets to pay [...]
Continue reading …The Colorado Springs City Council task force now charged with deciding the future of Memorial Health System has taken a turn – to leasing the assets of the hospital to a newly created, independent nonprofit system. The move is a compromise between keeping it under city control and a total transfer of the assets to [...]
Continue reading …At this afternoon’s specially called Colorado Springs City Council meeting, council members unanimously agreed to put the “strong mayor” initiative on the ballot. Actually, council members had no choice in the matter, once the City Clerk formally notified them that backers of the initiative had submitted petitions containing 25,591 valid signatures of registered Colorado Springs [...]
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