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Who runs this

Works Better Corporation, a nonpartisan public benefit corporation, builds this site.

Independent public-records project, separate from the City of Colorado Springs and from every party and campaign.

Every number carries one of four labels (FACT, CALC, SAMPLE or PENDING) and a source you can open.
Colorado Springs · The fine print

The fine print

Two city data sources this site does not use, and what the Colorado Springs pages do not cover yet, said plainly.

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PENDING

Two city data sources this site does not use

Both are published by the city, and neither can check the budget total
  • The open-data budget extract cannot check the total. Its budget column is an amended basis that omits the Airport and Grant funds, so it can never reconcile to the printed all-funds total by construction. It is not used.
  • The Open Checkbook stopped updating in May 2019 while still looking healthy. The city’s transaction-level payments are not read here.

What these pages do not cover yet

  • The Colorado Springs City Council. These pages do not cover council votes or ordinances yet. The budget figures come from the city’s own 2026 Budget book.
  • The monthly sales-tax report. The city publishes sales tax by month. It has not been read into this site, and it is not a TOPS figure: that name belongs to the state’s own vocabulary on this site.