On Dec. 16, the Pagosa Springs Town Council passed an ordinance setting the time and place for the council’s regular meetings for 2026.
The time and place for the regular meetings will go unchanged from 2025, with the meetings being held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 5 p.m.
At the meetings, held at Town Hall, located at 551 Hot Springs Blvd., “the Council will conduct regular meeting business for the Town and any other matters of business that may come before the Council,” the ordinance states.
The meetings are open to the public, and whenever possible will be broadcast online via the Zoom platform.
However, the ordinance states, “Remote attendance is at the risk of the attendee as the public meeting will continue in person regardless of the Town’s broadcast capability.”
It adds, “The Town does not and cannot guarantee internet service or online broadcasting.”
Notices of regular and special meetings, as well as agenda briefs for the meetings, will be posted at pagosaspringsco.portal.civicclerk.com.
Meetings of the town’s advisory boards and commissions will also be posted at the above website in accordance with the Colorado Open Meetings Law, and “meeting notices will be posted at the location identified above not less than 24 hours before the commencement of the posted meeting,” the ordinance states.
The online public noticing of the meetings is in accordance with Colorado House Bill 19-1087, which the Colorado Legislature passed with the intent for local governments to transition from posting physical notices to posting notices on a website “to the greatest extent practical,” states an agenda document on the matter.
“Agendas can also be posted at the Town Hall, where those without internet access can find the meeting information,” the document states.
The council passed the ordinance setting the time and place unanimously.
2025 budget amendment
At the same meeting, the council also approved a 2025 budget amendment, reflecting what Town Clerk April Hessman called “the great success of the Festival of Trees event,” in which the generous donations made by the community put the total tree sales $50,000 above what was budgeted.
She explained that this means “we have to amend the trust fund budget.”
“This along with a few other revenues from the plastic bag program and interest brings the revenues from $113,500 to $184,000,” an agenda document states.
The effect changed the end-of-year carryover in the Capital Reserves Fund to $21,535 more than what was budgeted, from $1,041,036 to $1,062,571.
The budget amendment resolution was approved unanimously by the council.
derek@pagosasun.com
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