Colorado Springs will choose a new mayor next spring, a fresh face to lead the city at a time when budgets are uncertain and the future even less sure. So who will it be? The Business Journal has identified a handful of likely and perhaps not so likely potential candidates for the job, identified their [...]
Vice Mayor Larry Small and Councilman Darryl Glenn are often on the opposite side of issues that come before City Council, but they’ve found some common ground.
Continue reading …Vice mayor’s plan would shift majority of city revenue from sales taxes to property taxes Vice Mayor Larry Small wants to restructure the way the city levies and collects taxes, shifting the burden from an all-too-often see-sawing sales tax to a more stable property tax. The essence of the proposal is simple: Small calls for [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs Vice Mayor Larry Small has notified the city attorney and other members of the City Council that he will no longer support closed sessions about the city’s dealings with the U.S. Olympic Committee. He told City Attorney Patricia Kelly that he appreciates her concern about discussing the current litigation in private. “But I [...]
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