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Pueblo City Council (Regular) — key approvals, budget transfers, RFQs, and ordinance actions (Sept. 8, 2025)

PuebloSep 8, 20254 min read

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Council met Sept. 8, 2025. The agenda and prior meeting minutes were approved. Consent items including street and concrete improvement contracts and fund transfers were approved. Council approved multiple small sponsorship payments from Council Contingencies and authorized RFQs for marketing and economic development. A roofing contract for the Wastewater Reclamation Facility was postponed to Oct. 14, 2025. Final ordinances were approved to carry over private activity bond allocation and to authorize an employment/land-sale agreement with Trussworks (including a $1,462,000 transfer). The Ice Arena roof ordinance was postponed to Oct. 14, 2025. Council accepted a DOLA grant for a Police Towing and Impound Relief Program. A “Creek Week 2025” proclamation was presented and several members of the public spoke during the forum.

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Approved agenda as distributed (Roll call 7-0).
Approved Minutes of the Regular Meeting dated August 25, 2025 (7-0).
Approved Consent Agenda items including fund transfers and construction contracts for street resurfacing and concrete improvements (examples: Project No. 25-075 awarded to Doug Vaughn, LLC.; Project No. 25-078 awarded to Balance Concrete, LLC.).
Postponed Resolution awarding $617,492 roofing contract for various roofs at the Wastewater Reclamation Facility to the Regular City Council Meeting on October 14, 2025 (motion passed 5-2).
Approved Council Contingencies payments: $1,000 to Servicios de la Raza for Joven Noble; $1,000 to Pueblo County Historical Society for Living History; $750 to Garcia Foundation (Garcia Futures Project) for The Place (each approved 7-0).
Approved issuing an RFQ for marketing activities to promote the City (Resolution passed 6-1).
Approved issuing an RFQ for economic development activities (Resolution passed 5-2).
Approved Ordinance carrying over $7,334,977 in private activity bond allocation and authorizing preliminary mayoral actions (Ordinance 11031) (7-0).
Approved Ordinance authorizing employment agreement and real estate sale with Trussworks Operations, LLC and transferring $1,462,000 from the Sales & Use Tax Capital Improvement Projects Fund (Ordinance 11032) (7-0).
Postponed Ice Arena roof retrofit ordinance (Project No. 25-019) to the October 14, 2025 Regular Meeting (motion passed 4-3).
Approved Ordinance accepting a $165,759 grant from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) for the Pueblo Police Department Towing and Impound Relief Program and established Project PS2510 (Ordinance 11033) (6-1).
Presented a proclamation for 'Creek Week 2025' (Fountain Creek Watershed District representatives).

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