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Pueblo council member hospitalized after heart attack during meeting PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) -- Pueblo City Council member Ray Aguilera is currently recovering at Parkview Medical Center after experiencing a heart attack during a city council meeting Monday night. Family members tell KRDO his condition is improving and they hope he’ll be discharged soon. Aguilera has been a familiar face for the Bessemer neighborhood of Pueblo for his entire life. The 78-year old first served as a city council member in 2003. He is currently in the middle of his fourth and final term as a council member. In ...

Pueblo Police Chief Troy Davenport presented the fee increase to Pueblo City Council on Monday night. Since 2009, the city of Pueblo has received 70 cents each month from phones linked to Pueblo, collected by the state Department of Revenue. Council's change raises the emergency 911 surcharge to $1.72 for each phone per month. The maximum rate for emergency telephone charges is set by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, which raised it to $1.72 in July last year due to the rate of inflation and increased statewide costs of providing service. All phone lines in Colorado are impacted, ...

The first Pueblo City Council meeting of the year on Monday resulted in new officers within the body.  Dennis Flores, who first took a seat on council in 2014 thanks to an appointment to a vacated seat, was not given a second round as council president. He ran for his first elected term in 2017, and that term expires Dec. 31. Council member Larry Atencio was unanimously elected council president. He was nominated by council Member Ray Aguilera. Atencio was elected to be District 2 representative with his term beginning Jan. 1. Member Lori Winner nominated Mark Aliff, but she withdrew the me...

Editor’s note: The Pueblo Chieftain is able to provide exclusive local news thanks in part to the support of its subscribers. Now through Jan. 4, new subscribers can receive a year of news from the Chieftain for as little as $39. Support local news today at Chieftain.com/subscribe now. Pueblo City Council received an update Monday as to how the city’s $6.5 million in CARES Act funding was spent. Head of grant and resource development for the city of Pueblo Shelly Dunham, Pueblo City Chief of Staff Laura Solano and Mayor Nick Gradisar gave a presentation to council members during the wo...

The committee will certify those businesses that qualify for the state's "5-star" rating program. "Hopefully it will be an online process where they will file an application and file their safety plan," Pueblo Mayor Nick Gradisar said during a press conference held Tuesday outside the Pueblo County Courthouse. "We've worked on a template for them to prepare a safety plan to say, 'these are the things we are going to do to make sure that it is as safe as it possibly can' (be) for inside activities at that particular business." Mesa County developed the Variance Protection Program, also known ...