Five Colorado cities, each with its own budget pages

Five cities, each with its own budget

Five Colorado cities now have their own pages: Denver, Aurora, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and Lakewood.

Each one shows the city budget its council adopted. It shows how the city splits its money, its capital projects, and the budget in more detail.

A city budget belongs to a separate government. It is not part of the State budget. We never add the two together, because some state money reaches each city, and a sum would count it twice.

Open any of the five from the Cities band on the Colorado dashboard, or from the More menu.

Each city has its own week in this brief

This brief can now show one city at a time. Add ?locale= and the city to the end of its address, for example ?locale=denver or ?locale=fort-collins.

The city view shows changes in the city records only. It also narrows the State items to the counties that the city is in. The two are not added together.

Four more projects with pacing pages

A pacing page compares two figures for each construction contract. One is the share of the contract value that is paid. The other is the share of the contract time that is used. Both come from the monthly dashboards that CDOT publishes.

Four more CDOT projects now have one: I-270 Critical Bridges, CO 119, US 6 Elk Creek and Vasquez Boulevard.

Each of the four has one monthly dashboard so far, so there is no line to draw yet. Each new month adds a point to the chart.

Some numbers on a CDOT dashboard do not add up. The I-270 page lists them as CDOT printed them, with a label.

What CDOT paid in August

CDOT paid its vendors $240.8M in August 2026, in 15,107 payments. The month before, it paid $158.8M.

These are the totals of the payments that CDOT publishes, one month at a time. Ask WB shows each month.

Crime counts were revised

The FBI and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation revised their crime counts for the years 2017 to 2024. Most of the changes are small. We now show the revised figures.

For example, the FBI now gives the 2024 aggravated assault rate for Colorado as 354 for each 100,000 residents. Ask WB shows each year.

A publisher revised these figures, and we did not make an error. Thus, they are not in the corrections log.

Corrections

The corrections log has four new entries since the last brief.

Two fix the Projects page. Sixteen CDOT projects showed one end of a cost range as if it were the CDOT figure. Each range now shows in full. Three CDOT projects with their own monthly dashboards were not on the page. They are now: CO 119, US 6 Elk Creek and Vasquez Boulevard.

Two say what we count about visits. Our own test tools are now left out of the count. We now also count which social site, if any, sent a visit, as one word from a fixed list.

The legislature is not in session

The General Assembly is between sessions. The next session starts on 11 January 2027.

The General Assembly recorded no votes between 2 October 2026 and 8 October 2026. Its most recent recorded vote was on 13 May 2026.

Every recorded vote since 2016 is at Before It's Law.

Where these figures come from

Every figure above is one of two kinds, and this is which. FACT means a publisher printed the figure and we read it there. CALC means we worked it out from figures a publisher printed, and the arithmetic is on the methodology page. Nothing here is estimated.

• FACT CDOT payments cleared, by month · 2026-07 and 2026-08 · Colorado Department of Transportation (via data.colorado.gov), CDOT Expenses (n5ku-eixc), weekly archived snapshots Back to the sentence
• FACT CDOT payment transactions, by month · 2026-08 · Colorado Department of Transportation (via data.colorado.gov), CDOT Expenses (n5ku-eixc), weekly archived snapshots Back to the sentence
• CALC Colorado aggravated assault rate per 100k (FBI) · 2024 · FBI Crime Data Explorer, CDE summarized offense API (state + national, with populations and coverage) Back to the sentence