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Loveland wants to create street outreach program with opioid settlement funds
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Loveland wants to create street outreach program with opioid settlement funds

By Veronica Acosta | Denver 7 News To date, Colorado is on track to receive more than $750 million in opioid settlement funds from different pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors. The City of Loveland will receive $1.8 million after it opted into the settlement funds in 2021. The city hopes to create a street outreach program with part of the $340,000 it's already received. "It's really not enough money to be able to do something like build housing for people to go to recover, but it is enough money to start a street outreach program," said Alison Hade, the Community Partnership Office manager for the City of Loveland. READ THE FULL STORY AT DENVER 7 NEWS
Loveland voters to be asked whether to change charter on rules to fire city manager, attorney
Approved, BizWest, Local

Loveland voters to be asked whether to change charter on rules to fire city manager, attorney

By BizWest Staff Voters in Loveland will get to decide in November whether it should take five or six votes on the nine-member City Council to fire the city manager or city attorney. According to the Loveland Reporter-Herald, the council voted 5-4 on Tuesday to direct the city attorney’s office to draft the ballot language. Council member Troy Krenning, who introduced the motion, said such a change from a five-vote to a six-vote threshold could have prevented the large severance payments the city had to make to former City Manager Steve Adams and former City Attorney Moses Garcia, since just five council members, not a “super-majority” of six, wanted to see them fired. The four dissenting members contended that Garcia’s and Adams’ departure proves the five-vote requirement wo...
‘If we don’t police ourselves, who will?’: Four accused of violating Loveland city charter
Approved, Loveland Reporter-Herald, Northern Colorado

‘If we don’t police ourselves, who will?’: Four accused of violating Loveland city charter

By JOCELYN ROWLEY  | Loveland Reporter-Herald After three hours of discussion, tearful comments from the public and threat of further litigation from a new character in the drama, the Loveland City Council voted on Friday to hire a special prosecutor in the case of four members accused of violating the city charter. “I consider this what we’re doing tonight to be probably the gravest of things that we may be called upon to do, and that’s to police ourselves,” Councilor Troy Krenning said in support of the hire. “And if we don’t police ourselves, who will? And the answer is nobody.” The five councilors present for the unusual weekday special meeting voted unanimously to hire former city of Boulder attorney Kathy Haddock for the job, but did not put an end date or a dollar amount on...