Alamosa Daily Digest Thursday, September 03, 2026
Ty's Take
Budget season always feels like the moment when a town has to answer its own hardest questions, and Alamosa's got three of them stacked up right now. The city's calling a budget session just as Adams State is posting better numbers, which is the kind of good timing that can either help or complicate things depending on how you look at it. Then there's the street tax extension heading to November voters, and that one cuts to something deeper than dollars: it's asking whether people here believe the infrastructure work is worth paying for, or whether they've run out of patience with the tab. You can already feel the conversations starting in the coffee shops and at the university gates. This is when you find out what people actually think their town needs.
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Alamosa schedules budget session
City of Alamosa officials will present a proposed 2027 operating budget during a public meeting on Thursday, Sept. 10. Community members are encouraged to participate, ask questions and provide input during the session. Sales tax revenues and revenue from property tax collections are two main...
ASD shows steady performance improvement
Alamosa School District and its K-12 campuses gained points in their overall academic performance ratings released Tuesday by the Colorado Department of Education. Alamosa is an accredited school district working through an “improvement plan” under the state’s performance framework and in that...
Alamosa street tax extension on November ballot
In November, Alamosa voters will be asked to extend the current half-cent sales tax dedicated to street improvements for another 10 years following the city council’s adoption of a resolution on Aug. 19 that submits the ballot question to voters. The half-cent sales tax was first approved in...
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