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Town manager presents January operations report; highlights grants, airport work and staffing challenges
Summary
Town staff summarized January operations, including small-business grant payments, gross receipts tax collections, airport activities (including a Feb. 19 groundbreaking), solid‑waste and landfill tonnages, staffing shortages in police, and ongoing IT and facilities projects.
Town Manager Martinez and Deputy Manager Flores presented a multi-department report for January during the Feb. 11 council meeting, reviewing finance, grants, public safety, facilities, IT, parks and public works activities.
Key figures and highlights mentioned in the report include: - Small-business grants: staff reported issuing about 27 payments totaling $175,500. - Gross receipts tax: staff said January GRT collections were about $1,600,000 and that year‑to‑date totals are roughly in line with last year; figures in the spoken report referenced prior-year comparators and a narrow revenue window for midyear adjustments. - Lodgers tax: January collections were reported at $138,000, with fiscal‑year-to-date lodgers tax revenue of $892,000. - Police: total incidents for January were reported as 756 with 29 arrests; staff noted a shortage of approximately six full‑time officers and ongoing efforts to improve recruitment and retention. - Fire: total calls for January were 86; staff administered an oath to a newly appointed Firefighter II during the meeting. - Airport: staff reported 17 hangar leases and eight land leases completed in January, noted coordination with FAA and the State Aviation Division on an AWOS system, and announced a regional airport groundbreaking scheduled for Feb. 19. - Landfill/solid waste: staff reported solid-waste tonnages (1,900 tons total solid waste; 469 tons of construction and demolition waste) and various diversion statistics; the town is coordinating landfill permitting and design work. - IT and records modernization: staff reported ongoing cloud and data migrations, an ENCODE Pro data migration with an April 2025 go‑live, and near-completed scanning of records.
Staff also noted the pause on T2 parking kiosks while road construction proceeds, though council asked whether monthly fees for the paused system must still be paid. Several capital and facilities projects were in design or bidding phases (Civic Plaza parking lot, Kit Carson Park restroom assessments, Bridal building renovations at 115 Civic Plaza Drive) and staff reported ongoing grant work including LEADS and CDBG items.
Why it matters: the monthly operational report compiles revenue, staffing and progress on capital projects that inform council’s midyear budget and project prioritization. Manager Martinez emphasized the breadth of work across departments and thanked staff for winter operations and snow removal efforts.
No council motion or vote was taken on these reports at the Feb. 11 meeting; staff presented the report for information and future follow-up.
