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Finance director says city has no legal obligation to pay $1.4M in alleged overruns; councilors call for further review
Summary
Finance Director Danny Nunn told the council that invoices totalling about $1.4 million tied to tenant improvements at 200 Greenhorn are not contractually payable absent a council action because contracts required PDF to absorb overruns; Councilor Gomez, a PDF board member, disputed the handling and requested more documentation and a special meeting.
Danny Nunn, Pueblo’s director of finance, briefed the city council on Dec. 22 about a dispute over invoices the Pueblo Development Foundation (PDF) has submitted totaling about $1.4 million related to tenant-improvement work at 200 Greenhorn.
Nunn traced the project history: in 2020 the council appropriated $5 million from half-cent sales tax for project ED2005 to construct a shell building; PDF purchased land and completed the shell, which was deeded to the city in April 2022. The final shell construction costs were reported at about $3.84 million, under the $5 million appropriation. In 2023 the city approved a…
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