October 13, 2020 – The El Paso County Board of Commissioners is seeking community-minded citizen volunteers to serve on the El Paso County Community Corrections Board. Applications for the open position are due by October 30, 2020. The Community Corrections Board determines which offenders can safely be placed in the community, who can operate a community…
October 9, 2020– The El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office has mailed nearly 427,000 ballots to all eligible, active registered voters for the 2020 General Election. The ballots should arrive in voters’ mailboxes by Friday of next week, October 16. “Coloradans are fortunate to have a mail ballot system considered to be the gold…
October 8, 2020 – An El Paso County construction project is currently underway, which will require intermittent closures of the playground, surrounding sidewalks, and a portion of the main parking lot within Widefield Community Park. This project includes: Replacing the sidewalk from the main parking lot to the restroom Construction of two new pavilions near…
October 7, 2020 – El Paso County’s Economic Development Department awarded $13,858,527 in grants to 864 local small businesses and nonprofits as part of the El Paso County Regional Business Relief Fund program, making it one of the largest COVID-19 relief programs in the nation led by a local County government. The program was initiated…
Friday, October 2, 2020 – Starting on October 6th, the traffic pattern at the Struthers Road/Gleneagle Drive Intersection will be altered. El Paso County Department of Public Works’ contractor, Olgoonik Enterprises, will close the outer lane south of the roundabout to work on extending the right turn lane accessing Gleneagle Gate View and addressing pedestrian…
September 30, 2020 – Beginning on Friday, October 2, Bradley Road will be closed to through traffic between Cody Drive and Hancock Expressway for work on the Security Drinking Water Mitigation System project. The project is being complete to mitigate groundwater contamination. Work is being conducted by Wildcat Construction Company under the direction of…
September 28, 2020– The Clerk and Recorder’s Office will conduct a public Logic and Accuracy (L&A) test on all ballot counting equipment that will be used for the 2020 General Election. This includes the Central Count Optical Scanners, and Voter Service and Polling Center ballot marking devices. The L&A test will begin at 10:00…
September 23, 2020 – On Wednesday, the Colorado Small Business Association honored the Pikes Peak Small Business Development Center with not one but two awards for their hard work during COVID-19 and beyond. The Pikes Peak Small Business Development Center was named the “Excellence and Innovation Center of the Year”. Pikes Peak SBDC was also…
El Paso County, CO, Tuesday, September 22, 2020 – Beginning Friday morning, El Paso County Department of Public Works will start the Hanover Road Paving Project. They have contracted with Martin Marietta Materials for the 2020 Asphalt Paving Contract. The contractor will begin road reconstruction and paving operations on Hanover Road from Meridian Rd east…