Given the recent concern about Carbondale city government cutting funding to social service programs, I found this article in the Denver Post enlightning regarding what's happening in Colorado Springs when the second largest city in Colorado found itself with a $27 million budget shortfall.
Parks are watered only every other week, pools and community centers are closing, a third of the city's streetlights were shut off on Feb 1 and municipal trash hauling has ended, replaced by signs from the city advising residents to haul their own garbage to the dump. Local businesses are advocating drastic cuts in city employee salaries, even as voters turned down a tripling of property taxes to fill the budget gap.
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