Colorado Springs council members advanced proposed 2027 budget changes at their October 29 markup session, according to a November 5 city release. The package included an additional 1% in compensation for sworn police and fire personnel.
Council also proposed buying fire-department cardiac monitors outright rather than using lease-purchase financing. The city said that approach would avoid financing costs over eight years.
Parks amendments proposed $469,000 for staffing, graffiti-removal equipment and Deerfield Hills Sprayground repairs. Another proposal would spend about $163,000 on two sales-tax enforcement positions that the city expected to generate $1.5 million in added revenue the following year.
The release scheduled budget readings for November 10 and 24. These were proposed amendments and revenue projections at the time of that notice, not a claim that final adoption or the forecast collections had already occurred.
