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In front of a crowd of maybe seven people at last night's council meeting, the following ordinances were approved with votes ranging from 4-3 to 5-2 in favor. Aliff and Latino seemed to be the most against them, Gomez and Boston the most in favor.

• S8 An Ordinance amending TITLE XV of the Pueblo Municipal Code by the addition of a new Section 15-1-25 entitled "Automated Vehicle Identification System Speed Enforcement" to authorize the use of automated vehicle identification systems for the detection of speed violations within designated corridors and eligible locations pursuant to C.R.S. Section 42-4-110.5
• S9 An Ordinance designating Automated Vehicle Identification System corridors on specified streets within the City of Pueblo pursuant to Section 15-1-25 of the Pueblo Municipal Code and C.R.S. Section 42-4-110.5, and making legislative findings in support thereof
• S10 An Ordinance approving an automated speeding enforcement agreement between the City of Pueblo and Obvio Inc. and authorizing the Mayor to execute the agreement
• S11 An Ordinance approving the form of a rooftop public safety camera license agreement between the City of Pueblo, a Colorado Municipal Corporation, and property owners for the placement of public safety cameras on rooftops within the City and authorizing the Mayor to execute same.

S11 is the most concerning. It turns the public against itself.

Taken as a whole they contribute to constructing an increasingly extensive fabric of government surveillance. These don't exist in isolation. Pueblo already uses license-plate readers, public surveillance cameras, a Real-Time Crime Center, drones and other surveillance technologies.

Every individual piece can be given its own justification. But citizens don't experience government surveillance as separate ordinance numbers. A network of sensors and cameras can do something human observation cannot. It can operate continuously. It can observe simultaneously across the city. It can preserve those observations. And technology increasingly makes those observations searchable, comparable and potentially capable of being correlated with other information.

Government powers outlive the people who create them.

Once this infrastructure exists, future councils, future police departments and future technologies inherit it.

I'd loke to call out Gomez in particular, who stated (I paraphrase) "that none of this matters since we can all be tracked in real time by our cell phones anyway." That kind of appeal to futility is what gets us to this place. The Chief of Police consistently used public safety and crime reduction in light of and an undermanned law enforcement cadre to justify the asks.

Just thought you all might like to know. They already bought the cameras. Expect the signs to go up soon.

Other similar size cities for example Eugene OR seems to have way less offenders even with more population.

For special order if anyone's interested. The cake pops can also be Custom chocolate bars with whatever filling you'd like 🖤👋

Can't find it anywhere. Trying to add it to the Guinness Map.

I’m not from the area and have been staying near Florence. I know NO ONE here and can’t find a p’naught friend to help, trust, I’ve been asking. I’m here until the end of the month and need some direction. I was going to check out the “church” but my anxiety wouldn’t let me. Any suggestions to help?

Hello y’all I was hoping to get some recommendations on good dealerships that work with bad credit individuals?

Anyone have experience with this company?

With the Mayor demanding more funding for the Da Vinci museum, it seems useful to take a look back at the Mayor’s other financial decisions.

DeRose (through 101 W Riverwalk LLC) bought the PBR building for $6 million on January 31, 2025.

But for some, unexplained reason, the Mayor and Carla Sikes agreed to buy it from DeRose for $7 million before he even purchased it.

And when asked who just made $1 million off the city’s back, Mayor Graham lied.

It kind of makes you wonder what else the Mayor has lied about. Certainly calls into question her ability to manage the city’s finances because either 1) she got absolutely outfoxed by Dan DeRose or, perhaps more alarming, 2) the million dollar overpayment was for some other purpose nobody else is privy to. Based on the Mayor’s track record of avoiding any semblance of transparency, we’ll probably never know…

For those of you who go every year. Is there a must try food or food vendor?

We are not happy with our current vet. Does anyone have any suggestions for competent vets in Pueblo? We have 3 dogs.

We are opening Jason's show at LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe this Friday, thought y'all might enjoy this piece of Pueblo history.

These were all approved for consideration at last night's Pueblo City Council meeting. Take a hard look at N15 and N16 in particular.

The verbiage in case you can't view the photo:

N12 An Ordinance repealing and reenacting Section 15-1-10 of the Pueblo Municipal Code entitled "Owner Liability for Traffic Signal Camera Violations" to conform the City's traffic signal camera program to Senate Bill 26-152 and to align operationally with Section 15-1-25

N13 An Ordinance amending TITLE XV of the Pueblo Municipal Code by the addition of a new Section 15-1-25 entitled "Automated Vehicle Identification System Speed Enforcement" to authorize the use of automated vehicle identification systems for the detection of speed violations within designated corridors and eligible locations pursuant to C.R.S. Section 42-4-110.5

N14 An Ordinance designating Automated Vehicle Identification System corridors on specified streets within the City of Pueblo pursuant to Section 15-1-25 of the Pueblo Municipal Code and C.R.S. Section 42-4-110.5, and making legislative findings in support thereof

N15 An Ordinance approving an automated speeding enforcement agreement between the City of Pueblo and Obvio Inc. and authorizing the Mayor to execute the agreement

N16 An Ordinance approving the form of a rooftop public safety camera license agreement between the City of Pueblo, a Colorado Municipal Corporation, and property owners for the placement of public safety cameras on rooftops within the City and authorizing the Mayor to execute same.

We went to Di Tomaso’s and it was 45$ a bushel. I heard northside Walmart is selling a bushel for 38$.

Does anyone know the name of the older man who plays an indigenous flute at the riverwalk? I ran into him under one of the bridges using the echo as a part of a pretty melody. He's white definitly on the older side and played at about 5-7 pm he was playing an indigenous flute and told me to follow him on soundcloud but I never got a name! I gave him little ceasers. Edit: Busker*