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Mayor Mobolade’s town hall tour met with mixed reviews across Colorado Springs

denvergazette.com, Approved, Local / June 6, 2025 / Affordable Housing Solutions, COLORADO SPRINGS, Community activation, Community Feedback, Economic vitality, Ford Amphitheater, Infrastructure, Mayor Yemi Mobolade, Public safety, Town Hall

Friday marks two years since Yemi Mobolade was sworn in as Colorado Springs’ 42nd mayor. His achievements so far have drawn mixed reactions from the city’s residents who attended the Report Out Community Tour events this week.

Mobolade launched the tour on May 23, holding a meeting in each of the six Colorado Springs City Council districts to hear how residents felt about the progress made on the goals. The largest turnout was Tuesday night, when several dozen people sat in the auditorium of The Classical Academy for the District 2 meeting.

The crowd was unhappy to find out that Mobolade would not be appearing. City staff and council members said he had attended Monday’s town hall while sick but had begun feeling worse. Mobolade was absent from the events Tuesday and Wednesday and the city rescheduled his telephone town hall to June 25.

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40% of Arapahoe roads rated poor—even after tax hike

CBS Colorado, Approved, Local / May 31, 2025 / Arapahoe County, Infrastructure, Road Conditions, TABOR, Taxpayer Impact

With years of deferred maintenance and not enough funding, some Arapahoe County roads are not getting the repairs they need and are quickly falling apart. County leaders say it’s in part due to a major shortfall with the overall county budget and inflation. However, the county hopes that additional revenue generated by the passage of a ballot measure last November might help make much-needed road improvements.

The county’s 2024 “Annual Report and Infrastructure Report Card” released this May shares more information about the status of the county’s roads.

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Denver Water’s 10-year, $700M project to replace lead pipes gains momentum

Approved, CBS Colorado, Local / October 30, 2024 / Denver, Infrastructure

Updating Denver Water’s pipes to meet new lead standards is a massive, multi-year project.

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Biden-Harris’ big-spending infrastructure bill produced little progress on key projects

Approved, National, Washington Examiner / September 23, 2024 / Elections, Infrastructure, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris

Democrats have touted the infrastructure bill Congress passed in 2021 as a signature accomplishment of the Biden-Harris administration, but some of its ambitious projects have fallen far short of expectations nearly three years after President Joe Biden signed it into law.

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