Angela Dougan
The Colorado Springs Utilities Board is expected to make a decision Wednesday about the Martin Drake Power Plant downtown.
But at least one member of the board — City Councilwoman Angela Dougan — didn’t know anything about it.
“I was going to walk in blind tomorrow,” she said.
The Gazette is calling other members of the City Council to find out whether they were kept in the dark, too. The council doubles at the Utilities Board and oversees the $1.1 billion city-owned enterprise.
According to the revised Utilities Board agenda, the board is expected to make a decision regarding the “Drake Retirement Analysis.”
The agenda doesn’t include any supporting documentation.
The board and members of the community, including Mayor Steve Bach and his supporters, have been debating whether or not to conduct a decommissioning study on Drake this year or next.
Dougan said the agenda packet she received Friday didn’t include any decision on Drake. In fact, she said, the last agenda item was scheduled for 3:30 p.m., and according to the revised agenda, the board will consider the Drake decision at 4 p.m.
“Ours goes to 3:30 p.m.,” Dougan said, referring to the agenda she received Friday.
“Nobody has talked to me about it, so I’m very concerned about a decision being made at this point in time,” she said. “How can we make a decision when we don’t even have documentation 24 hours out?”
Based upon recent history, this CANNOT be good:
“Council-persons-Gone-Wild 2″?!?
Dougan stays in the dark and only knows what her keeper; Herr Bach wants her to know. If a professional person doesn’t get needed read ahead documents on Friday, she doesn’t cry to the press on Tuesday. She gets with staff and gets the documents. Then again it is easier to say you were not told then to do your homework and make an honest decision. She is a hack
Does Angela Dougan ever know whats happening? Darryl Glen and Mayor Bach arent doing their job telling her what to say. Someone give her a clue.
Everytime Ms. Angela opens her mouth, someone should stick a sock in it. Lord help us.
Angela Dougan is a flat out liar. First off she does not have the intelligence to take the time to read the information that is given to her. Now in her defense maybe that is because she is just plain not educated to understand what she is given. However, the bottomline is Angela is just playing politics. She has been endorsed by Bach which is a huge red flag and is our for her own political gain. She has zero interest in what is best for the people. The people living in her district need to organize to ensure she is not re-elected. How many of you utility employees live in her district? It is clear she is not your or your families friend.
Oh now come on Louis…. It’s not that she lacks the intelligence…. It’s that she doesn’t care! I do agree that Angela is only concerned with what her political future has in store for her. Considering her boss is trying to dupe the community into a development debacle so that he and a few of those that funded his rise to mayor will make a ton of money and leave us holding the bag. I’m sure she smells the money and that’s her motivation to blindly walk around being Bach’s puppet. I can assure you that although she’s my district representative, she doesn’t have my interests at heart. She sure isn’t a friend of the city or it’s enterprises in fact, she has family members that work for the city and that smell of money allows her to even roll on them…. Wonder what promise Bach made to her?
RealIy?? Not enough info? Where have you been, Angela? Interesting that in another article about the “leaked” email between Bernie Herpin and Bob Balink that Mr. Herpin writes, “Dougan often states she doesn’t have enough info to make a decision, but she won’t attend things like this and other CSU training sessions.” Maybe if she attended, she would be caught by surprise. I would think repeatedly stating that she doesn’t have enough info would eventually make her look unintelligent and/or uninterested and affect her standing with her consituents.
*wouldn’t* be caught by surprise
Guess she doesn’t read the Gazette!