Glenwood Springs council adopts budget amendment to spend renewed street/infrastructure tax on streets and water projects

Glenwood Springs — City staff described a set of 2025 projects funded by the recently renewed street-and-infrastructure sales tax and council approved a budget amendment to appropriate the revenue and expenditures.

City Manager Steve Boyd said the November tax renewal increased the tally available to the city and that those proceeds were not included in the originally submitted budget. Public Works Director Matt Langmore reviewed the package of projects staff proposes to advance in 2025, describing roughly $1.9 million allocated to water-and-sewer infrastructure items (pipe-lining, 23rd Street water/sewer replacement, Red Mountain North Phase 2) and multiple street projects including Blake Avenue Phase 2 (about $1.85M), Lincolnwood repairs, North Glenwood surveys, Wolfson/Midland roundabout design and resurfacing/overlay work.

Langmore explained staff’s strategy of investing in detailed survey and pre-design work this year so engineering deliverables can be bid and constructed more quickly and cost-effectively in subsequent years. He noted a streets condition report (PASER) will be updated for the first time since 2017 and described using a traffic-calming program and project signage to inform the public of tax-funded work.

Council discussed the traffic-calming program, signage for projects and timing; a public comment period produced one question seeking clarification about the meaning of an “overlay” for specific streets. The ordinance (budget amendment number 1 for 2025) passed on a roll call vote.

Staff said capital projects in 2025 will be prioritized using the new revenue; many line items were presented as program-level estimates in the council packet and staff invited council to review specifics in the packet and future project briefs.