Author: Bill Hudson

At this point, I have no information about the potential prices for the numerous buildings under consideration, nor where the Town of Pagosa Springs would find the money to purchase any of these properties…

The update is being required by a new Colorado law. But it provides an opportunity for the community to seriously re-think its development patterns…

While walking through the festival in Tennyson Sculpture Park, I happened to strike up a conversation with a poet named Grace Turgeon…

“Children will have repaired schools. Students will have affordable college tuition. Low-income Coloradans will have access to improved health care…”

PSMC is currently raising funds to add a downtown ambulance station in the former San Juan Ranger’s building on San Juan Street, to provide more timely service to the eastern side of the county…

“The second benefit is less obvious but more critical: governing boards rarely spend tax windfalls wisely…”

The core of Dr. Webb’s message regarded — not staffing or housing — but TABOR. The Taxpayer Bill of Rights, added to the Colorado Constitution by the state’s voters in 1992…

Typically, government boards do not make final decisions during work sessions, but are more likely to “direct staff” to bring forward additional information at a future business meeting…

Historically, Archuleta County voters have been adverse to higher property taxes to fund shiny new buildings…

While researching some historical background on education trends for this article, I pulled out one of my favorite books on the subject of American public education…

“The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing…”

Typically, projects on the BEST ‘waitlist’ have a good chance of getting funded if they reapply in future years…

Is that the best place to spend $750,000 taxpayer dollars? We do not currently have a well-documented plan that supports such an assumption…

“The Oak Fire, broadly speaking, was about $2 million in suppression. And that lasted three days. $660,000 was spent on the first Sunday afternoon…”

“Based on the highest figures we’re looking at, and that’s in cooperation with the Forest Service… it puts it at about a $750,000 project…”

“We did have an assessment done, and there’s about $720 million worth of property in that area. And that’s only about 1/3 of the PLPOA area…”

“The PAWSD 2026 budget was already thin, leaving little room for any budget shortfalls. The impact of the CIF revenue miss directly erodes our DSCR…”

Mr. Dossett suggests that this “revenue miss” is not merely a seasonal fluctuation.  Perhaps, it reflects a structural change in the Pagosa Springs economy…