El Paso County Commissioner Peggy Littleton seems eager to work with Colorado Springs’ new City Council members – so eager, in fact, that she’s scheduled a town hall meeting and issued a special invitation for them to attend, before they are sworn into office.
Littleton, elected last November, announced at Tuesday’s commission meeting that she will hold her first town hall meeting from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on April 16 at Centennial Hall, 200 S. Cascade Ave.
Littleton said she is extending a special invitation to the six new council members and one incumbent who won in Tuesday’s municipal election. But they won’t be seated until they take the oath of office on April 19.
“My Commissioner District 5 sits squarely in the center of Colorado Springs, and many of these new council campaigned on a willingness to look seriously at ways to improve service and reduce costs through greater city-county collaboration,” Littleton said. “I really hope that this will be the informal start of a collegial discussion involving the county, the city and our citizens about shared services.”
Maybe, but maybe not before they start their new job.
At the meeting, Littleton plans to provide an overview of county services and give an update on the relocation of county offices. More than half of the county’s 2,000 employees are being reshuffled to different buildings to consolidate offices and create a service center with multiple county services in one place. Commissioners and top county staff will move to Centennial Hall later this year, as the Sheriff’s Office moves into the county administration building on Vermijo Avenue.
Citizens are invited to attend Littleton’s town hall and give input. Free parking will be available in the El Paso County juror parking lot directly south of Centennial Hall.
Geez….She is almost as bad as Seam Paige. Never miss an opportunity to get your name in the paper, never mind that silly swearing in thing.
not helpful, and certainly doesn’t address the use of our tax money very effectively…
Great concept. Wrong sponsor.
Another showboater who is already planning her election to the next higher office
We have had ‘shared resources’ kicked around as a political football by Clark for almost 18 months with few results.
The only way this will become a reality is for an outside consulting firm to be brought in to review and monitor the process.
The only way ‘shared resources’ works is that jobs get combined and people get laid off. Nobody at the county has the political will to do what is needed over that is expedient.
It can be done in a fair and equitable way through long term planning to accommodate some of these layoffs through attrition but the county has never shown this long-term planning capability.
The public is not yet ready to place their trust in this board. Any moves should come from the new council in that they have not earned the high level of distrust the commissioners have created and continue to create.
Hell, I would question who is looking out for my rights and tax dollars if they merged services. I live in the county and I at least have a say by voting out of office a commissioner that doesn’t do the best for me and mine. People who live in the city have a council person and a commissioner. There will always be a city vs. county vs. state vs. fed government issue.
They can all get together and smoke some pot and decide how the county and city can screw the taxpayers together.