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Englewood advisory committee reviews 2024 spending of voter-approved sales and use tax
Summary
The Budget Advisory Committee reviewed how Englewood’s 0.3% voter-approved sales and use tax was spent in 2024, hearing Public Works and Police Department presentations on street repairs, ADA ramp work, pavement assessment and alternative policing programs funded by the measure.
The Budget Advisory Committee of Englewood City on June 24 reviewed 2024 expenditures funded by the voter-approved 0.3% dedicated sales and use tax and heard Public Works and Police Department updates on how the money has been spent.
Committee members were told the dedicated sales and use tax revenue for 2024 came in “just a hair above 2,200,000.0,” and that total pavement- and street-related spending that used those dollars plus other public-improvement funds was about $2.8 million, Public Works staff reported.
The presentation gave line-item detail showing a $1.9 million mill-and-overlay program in 2024 (with a $26,000 final invoice from 2023 recorded in 2024), approximately $172,000 for crack sealing (slurry seal work was limited to crack seal in 2024), concrete and ADA ramp upgrades of about $568,000, and a citywide pavement assessment completed for roughly $116,000. Director of Public Works Victor Rochelle said the pavement assessment is intended to track the citywide pavement condition index (PCI) over time and that staff plan to present the full assessment to City Council in the coming weeks.
Rochelle explained some 2024 alley repairs used asphalt millings and that the per-street cost breakdown in the packet is reported per square yard (accounting for width and length variations). He said some streets required ancillary work such as deep patching or additional concrete work where the underlying pavement condition required it. He also noted the Department of Justice’s requirements governing ADA ramps when milling is performed: “we go in and we approve the ramps around where we're milling, and that's to make sure we're in ADA compliance and we're following the Department of Justice's requirements when we modify the street, which milling qualifies as modifying.”
Committee members asked how the pavement assessment informs future spending. Rochelle said the assessment provides a snapshot of current conditions, allows comparison with prior assessments to validate progress, and helps prioritize the worst streets first so the PCI rises quickly as repairs are completed.
The Police Department described how part of the dedicated funds supports alternative policing and quality-of-life work. Police Chief Dave Jackson and staff summarized programs including co-responders provided through the All Health network, zone policing teams, a case manager position, a school resource officer and a parking enforcement officer. Chief Jackson said All Health co-responders and the department together responded to 760 incidents in 2024 and that the City’s contract cost for the co-responders was “about what we pay approximately $147,000 a year.” He also said state behavioral-health grant funding subsidized that work in 2024 and that, starting in July, the grant funds will be routed directly to the Police Department and the co-responder function will be brought in-house.
Jackson described how co-responders operate alongside police officers (they do not always respond alone on calls for service) and said two patrol vehicles are currently dedicated to this work. He also presented department-level metrics: Englewood had about 55,000 calls for service in 2024 (roughly 162 calls per day) and logged increases in certain categories in 2024 — the Police Department’s “crimes against society” category rose substantially, driven largely by drug-offense reports, and arrests for drug offenses increased compared with the prior year. Jackson attributed the increases to a rise in proactive, officer-initiated enforcement and investigative activity and said the department expects to continue tracking those trends.
Committee members asked for additional detail for the committee’s forthcoming report to City Council. The group agreed to assemble a written report that will include the sales and use tax review, reserve-policy discussion and capital improvement budget notes; members assigned drafting tasks and set internal draft deadlines, aiming to have draft sections completed in mid-July and the assembled report ready for the Committee to forward toward City Council in August.
Votes at a glance A procedural motion to approve the Committee’s May 27, 2025 meeting minutes was moved and seconded during the meeting and recorded as approved with the committee voice vote of “Aye.”
