Jon Mallo News Today

By a vote of 3 to 2, five members of Loveland City Council agreed on Tuesday to consider a future budget appropriation covering the legal expenses incurred by four other members during a recent special counsel investigation.

Initial planning is underway for a Front Range Rail station in Loveland, the city's Transporation Advisory Board learned on Monday.

After Tuesday’s presentation on an “austerity” budget for 2025,  several members asked the City Manager’s office to draft language for such a measure and bring it back for discussion later this summer.

A Loveland residents is asking for public support in his effort to stop the legal battle between the two factions of the City Council.

The five councilors present for the special meeting voted unanimously to hire former city of Boulder attorney Kathy Haddock as special prosecutor.

Loveland City Council voted on Friday to hire a special prosecutor to take on a case involving four Loveland City councilors accused of violating the charter guidelines on open meetings.

Saying “public policy should not be decided behind closed doors,” attorney Christopher Gregory told Loveland City Council on Tuesday that there is sufficient evidence to support a misdemeanor criminal prosecution of four current and three former members for violations of state open meeting law.

Loveland City Council voted to approve separation agreements with City Attorney Moses Garcia and Municipal Judge Geri Joneson on Tuesday, though one discussion was much friendlier than the other.

‘Who’s who in Loveland’ turns out on Thursday for the official kick-off of renovation work on the historic Pulliam Community Building on Cleveland Avenue.

The Loveland City Council Tuesday will consider an amicable separation package proposed by embattled Loveland City Attorney Moses Garcia that totals more than $341,000. That figure, largely to be paid through the city’s general fund, is just short of three times the more than $127,000 Garcia would have received under the normal termination provisions in his contract. “The city attorney is a neutral adviser to (the) City Council on the law with the goal of protecting the city,” Garcia wrote...